Music Archives: 08/2020

Jimi Hendrix’s Japanese sunburst guitar has sold at auction for £165,000

Staggering

Aug 10, 2020

Martin Birch, the famed producer for Fleetwood Mac, Iron Maiden and more, has died aged 71

Martin Birch, the famed producer for Fleetwood Mac, Iron Maiden and more, has died aged 71

RIP.

Aug 10, 2020

The Streets have announced a huge Amsterdam weekender for 2021

Brilliant

Aug 10, 2020

Enjoy David Bowie and Mick Ronson’s cover of Bob Dylan’s iconic song ‘Like A Rolling Stone’

Stream, here.

Aug 9, 2020

CeeLo Green offers up lessons from the past for the kids of the future

“Music today is very unfortunate and disappointing”.

Aug 9, 2020

Listen to Grateful Dead perform ‘Box of Rain’ as their final encore before Jerry Garcia’s death

A sad moment

Aug 9, 2020

Revisit R.E.M’s beautiful cover of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Pale Blue Eyes’ from 1984

Amazing

Aug 9, 2020

Revisit a rare intimate performance of Tom Waits singing 'The Fall of Troy'

Revisit a rare intimate performance of Tom Waits singing ‘The Fall of Troy’

Dreamy.

Aug 9, 2020

Prince covers The Rolling Stones

Listen to Prince’s 1993 cover of The Rolling Stones’ ‘Honky Tonk Women’

Amazing

Aug 9, 2020

Paramore’s Hayley Williams unleashes debut solo album 'Petals for Armor'

Paramore’s Hayley Williams covers Radiohead song ‘Fake Plastic Trees’

Stream, here.

Aug 9, 2020

U2 frontman Bono writes a heartfelt fan letter to Patti Smith: "You are my drug of choice"

Revisiting Patti Smith’s heartfelt cover of Nirvana song ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

Wonderful.

Aug 8, 2020

See the letter Mick Jagger sent to Andy Warhol about the ‘Sticky Fingers’ album cover

“I leave it in your capable hands”

Aug 8, 2020