After a 30-year recording hiatus, Sly Stone’s much-anticipated new album really couldn’t be more disappointing. … Family and Friends is an embarrassing re-hash of classic songs that it is sacrilegious to rerecord.
Back on the Monkey Hustle , with it’s bass-riff heavier than a Geoff Capes, Giant Haystacks, John Candy monk cluster. Don’t know what a monk cluster is?
The Pickmaster Plectrum Punch is an ingenious device that creates guitar picks from plastic or cardboard. If only somebody could design a similar device that creates usable saxophone reeds, I’d be a happy man indeed.
I can’t stop listening to Chic , whether it’s their own material or the sublime offerings produced by The Chic Organization. Good Times indeed, for all The Family !
Bossa Nova – a compilation of the best bossa nova record sleeves (well, the best according to Giles Peterson and Stuart Baker). If there’s any justice in this world, Marcos Valle’s Provisao do Tempo will feature prominently.