The Prog/Punk Divide
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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Three reasons to celebrate – a semi biased opinion on modern popular culture, Part 1.
Friends, fellow Musicians, countrymen, today we stand more securely in the knowledge that three unspeakable evils are either no more, or are at least soon to be no more. Tonight, we can sleep more comfortably feeling that perhaps humankind is not doomed to forever dwell in the long shadow cast by the vacuous, super mundane, [...]