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The Prog/Punk Divide

In King Crimson, Prog Rock, music industry on 29 October 2009 with No Comments

A regular discussion point for us when beavering away in the studio is often that ludicrous notion that all music prior to the punk explosion in 1976/77 was crap, and in particular Prog. Amazingly, the “thank God for Punk” branch of journalism is still with us, but not in this podcast here:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/new-podcast-starring-freewheelin-danny-baker
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Joff’s playlist 24th October 2009

In Playlist on 24 October 2009 tagged bernard wagner, gill evans, hatfield and the north, john surman, mark feldman, nick price, Porcupine Tree, todd rundgren with No Comments

A healthy dose of Jazz this week. I think that there might be an ECM thing building here! Could turn into a slight listening obsession but we’ll see. Also been listening to some very small releases in the form of Bernard Wagner’s The Fourth Night which is available from Burning Shed and Nigel Price’s Fools [...]