Tag: Chuck Berry
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Mashed Up At The Sock Hop Vol 2
Oh hello…I am alive, as you can see from the latest podcast, but not many things bring me out of blog lurkdom, but a new volume of the Sock Hop Rock n’ Roll mashup compilation from iWillBattle will do it! As before, we have rock, and/or roll mashups of a pre-1960’s flavour, with an album…
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RIP Fats Domino
A class act from New Orleans, he was the soul of rock n’ roll. *salutes to the Captain* We owe him, along with Chuck Berry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Bo Diddly, everything. One of the Four Horsepersons of Rock n Roll 😉 And he stuck by it, he didn’t try and update the sound –…
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Reichhead
Following GlassShreds in the real world Steve Reich takes on Radiohead in Radio: Rewrite – and the results are most intriguing. I’d be more surprised if it was say Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga or Benga (actually I think Benga & Reich could bond over poly-rhythms…). Interesting reading about his approach to Radiohead, Berio and Stockhausen,…