We have recently put on-line the August edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine.
Our lead interview for this month is with the critically lauded late 80s/early 90s angular guitar outfit That Petrol Emotion, whose vocalist Steve Mack and guitarist Raymond Gorman talk about their band and its reformation after an absence of nearly fifteen years.
The other main interviews of this month are with the Australian indie pop group the Lucksmiths who have announced their decision to split after over fifteen years together; American musician Bill Callahan who has recently abandoned his Smog moniker to record material under his own name, and the Declining Winter, the new band of Leeds musician and Hood member Richard Adams.
There are also new interviews with Portland, Oregon band Richmond Fontaine, whose singer songwriter Willy Vlautin back for a fifth interview with us speaks about his group’s eighth album, 'We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River’; rapidly rising lush pop outfit the Leisure Society; Scottish musician Jo Hamilton about her debut album ‘Gown’, and lo-fi American act the Drugs Models Love.
We are also running interviews with Edition 59, a remarkable German label which limits each of its releases to just 59 copies ; American journalist David Rothman whose political thriller and debut novel ‘The Solomon Scandals’, is part inspired by Bob Dylan, and Rebekah Why, the editor of the Los Angeles-based Penny-Ante, an unusual annual publication which combines together music, journalism and art.
Other highlights include features on Daniel Johnston, the Average White Band, Damned guitarist Captain Sensible and the twentieth anniversary reissue of the Stone Roses' debut album. There are also new photo shoots from Matthew Williams of recent Jane’s Addiction and Nine Inch Nails shows, while in our regular ‘Soundtrack of Our Lives’ column Carl Bookstein writes about the revelation for him of discovering the music of The Band in his late teens.
In 'Rock Salt Row', Lisa Torem will be debating each month with a different Pennyblackmusic writer about a moment in rock history and its impact now. In its second instalment, she takes an Aldous Huxley quote which gave the Doors their name, and talks with Malcolm Carter about whether rock music can ever really change perceptions.
There are also 32 new album and single reviews.
We will have another album and singles reviews up-date in just under a fortnight and then another full edition in early August.
Thank you for reading the Pennyblackmusic magazine.
Monday, 17 August 2009
Monday, 22 June 2009
Pennyblackmusic Magazine June Edition On-Line
We have recently put on-line the June edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine.
Our lead interview this month is with sixties folk/protest singer Janis Ian who speaks about her forty years of making music, her more recent career as both a journalist and writer, and her continued regular touring.
Our other main interviews this month are with Slowdive and Mojave 3 frontman Neil Halstead, who recently released his second solo album, 'Oh, Mighty Engine !'; Roddy Woomble , the singer with Scottish rockers Idlewild , who will soon put out a fan-sponsored new album, and Bella Union label boss and ex-Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde.
There are new interviews too as well with New York experimental folk collective Akron/Family ; 60’s band Herman's Hermits ; Northern Irish pop punk trio In Case of Fire ; rising hardcore group Rolo Tomassi ; Edinburgh-based post-punks/surf act Isa and the Filthy Tongues ; bedroom act Banjo or Freakout? and London-based singer-songwriter Tallulah Rendell.
Other highlights include features on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, solo artist Anthony Phillips and 80’s psychedelic/drone experimentalists Loop. There are articles on the Grateful Dead’s 1970 album ‘Ameircan Beauty’, Leonard Cohen’s 1972 album ‘Songs of Love and Hate’ and the Drop Nineteens’1992 debut album ‘Delaware’. We have plenty of live, album and single reviews as well, and the start of a new regular column ‘This Metal Sky’ in which our writer Jeff Thiessen, in the belief that all music good and bad is personal, will be writing about the links in his own life with a new piece of music he hears each month. He begins by describing his reaction to hearing New Zealand country act Steve Abel and the Chrysalids' 'Flax Happy' .
We will have another album and singles reviews up-date at the weekend and then another full edition in early July.
Please check out as well the new pod of our long-term writers, Mark Rowland, Ben Howarth and Sarah Johnson, which they have been using as a forum to debate about some of the new music we are writing about on the site. There are three podcasts on-line already which can be found on most pages of the site, and Mark, Ben and Sarah will be doing another up-date shortly.
Thank you for reading the Pennyblackmusic magazine.
Our lead interview this month is with sixties folk/protest singer Janis Ian who speaks about her forty years of making music, her more recent career as both a journalist and writer, and her continued regular touring.
Our other main interviews this month are with Slowdive and Mojave 3 frontman Neil Halstead, who recently released his second solo album, 'Oh, Mighty Engine !'; Roddy Woomble , the singer with Scottish rockers Idlewild , who will soon put out a fan-sponsored new album, and Bella Union label boss and ex-Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde.
There are new interviews too as well with New York experimental folk collective Akron/Family ; 60’s band Herman's Hermits ; Northern Irish pop punk trio In Case of Fire ; rising hardcore group Rolo Tomassi ; Edinburgh-based post-punks/surf act Isa and the Filthy Tongues ; bedroom act Banjo or Freakout? and London-based singer-songwriter Tallulah Rendell.
Other highlights include features on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, solo artist Anthony Phillips and 80’s psychedelic/drone experimentalists Loop. There are articles on the Grateful Dead’s 1970 album ‘Ameircan Beauty’, Leonard Cohen’s 1972 album ‘Songs of Love and Hate’ and the Drop Nineteens’1992 debut album ‘Delaware’. We have plenty of live, album and single reviews as well, and the start of a new regular column ‘This Metal Sky’ in which our writer Jeff Thiessen, in the belief that all music good and bad is personal, will be writing about the links in his own life with a new piece of music he hears each month. He begins by describing his reaction to hearing New Zealand country act Steve Abel and the Chrysalids' 'Flax Happy' .
We will have another album and singles reviews up-date at the weekend and then another full edition in early July.
Please check out as well the new pod of our long-term writers, Mark Rowland, Ben Howarth and Sarah Johnson, which they have been using as a forum to debate about some of the new music we are writing about on the site. There are three podcasts on-line already which can be found on most pages of the site, and Mark, Ben and Sarah will be doing another up-date shortly.
Thank you for reading the Pennyblackmusic magazine.
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Test lauch
Test this, just click and see what happens.
PBM
The show is supposed to start while launching RealPlayer, when it's on your computer of course and just perhaps the Pennyblack Music homepage shows in that very same internet media browser. Probably not though.
On the top bar of RealPlayer, you may see the tab of WEB light up, click that. In my case, that brought on the Pennyblack Music page the way I intended.
PBM
The show is supposed to start while launching RealPlayer, when it's on your computer of course and just perhaps the Pennyblack Music homepage shows in that very same internet media browser. Probably not though.
On the top bar of RealPlayer, you may see the tab of WEB light up, click that. In my case, that brought on the Pennyblack Music page the way I intended.
Use Real Player as the browser for Pennyblack Music?
Thanks John!
I noticed the direct link to the magazine website is missing, here it goes:
http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk
I have been testing the good'ole webbrowser that is used by Real Player and whoopie, when you play a radio show in Real Player, in stand-alone mode, not embedded, the shows continue as they should whilst you can browse the website.
Try it. Here's the URL of a radio show, copy the link, open Real Player and open the file. Copy/past - Ctrl + O/Ctrl + V in Windowspeak. I don't speak Apple, you do, so please edit this.
http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/Radio/live2012.ram
Perhaps you only need to click the link above to start Real Player. It depends on personal settings on computers whether it would or would not work immediately.
If so, I would recommend to set the home page in the browser with Real Player to our website and Bob's your uncle. Then in future we will simply post here the link to any new show.
Once the radio show plays, you can again open (Ctrl + O) any webpage.
So, rather than embed the audio in a webpage, the webpage comes embedded while the radio plays as it were.
See for yourselves, whether you prefer this approach. I would not recommend Real Player as a web browser. Yet for the purpose of listening to our radio and going through our webpages at the same time without interrupting the radio, this is a very handy solution I feel.
I noticed the direct link to the magazine website is missing, here it goes:
http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk
I have been testing the good'ole webbrowser that is used by Real Player and whoopie, when you play a radio show in Real Player, in stand-alone mode, not embedded, the shows continue as they should whilst you can browse the website.
Try it. Here's the URL of a radio show, copy the link, open Real Player and open the file. Copy/past - Ctrl + O/Ctrl + V in Windowspeak. I don't speak Apple, you do, so please edit this.
http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/Radio/live2012.ram
Perhaps you only need to click the link above to start Real Player. It depends on personal settings on computers whether it would or would not work immediately.
If so, I would recommend to set the home page in the browser with Real Player to our website and Bob's your uncle. Then in future we will simply post here the link to any new show.
Once the radio show plays, you can again open (Ctrl + O) any webpage.
So, rather than embed the audio in a webpage, the webpage comes embedded while the radio plays as it were.
See for yourselves, whether you prefer this approach. I would not recommend Real Player as a web browser. Yet for the purpose of listening to our radio and going through our webpages at the same time without interrupting the radio, this is a very handy solution I feel.
Friday, 15 May 2009
Pennyblackmusic May Edition On-Line
We have recently put on-line the May edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine. Our lead interview this month is with Sylvian Sylvian, the guitarist and one of the two surviving members of seminal punk-precursors the New York Dolls, who speaks about his reformed group’s new album, ‘Cause I Sez So’, and its capacity for tragedy, but also survival against the odds.
Other main interviews include durable Northern Ireland guitar rock trio Therapy ? who recently released a career highlight with their thirteenth album ‘Crooked Timber’ ; Shetland-born singer-songwriter and former Goya Dress frontwoman Astrid Williamson whose risk-taking fourth album ‘Here Come the Vikings’ comes out in June and much praised rising pop/rock band Official Secrets Act.
There are also interviews with NYC shoegazing/psychedelic trio signings A Place to Bury Strangers ; Kurt Cobain’s favourite band the Vaselines ; Swedish post-rock outfit Jeniferever ; singer-songwriter and actress Abigail Hopkins ; ambient project Sleepingdog and Nathaniel Cramp, the owner of London-based shoegazing label and club night, Sonic Cathedral.
We have a two part interview as well with Simon Reynolds, the music journalist and the author of the critically acclaimed books on post punk, 'Rip It Up and Start Again' and 'Totally Wired'.
Other highlights include a profile of bestselling New York act the Yeah Yeah Yeahs ; reviews of music-oriented films ‘Awaydays’ and ‘Sounds Like Teen Spirit’, and classic records, The Replacements’ 1983 second album, ‘Hootenanny’ and 1988 debut EP, ‘Superfuzz Bigmuff’. We also have plenty of live, album and single reviews.
We will have another album and singles reviews up-date the week after next and then another full edition in June.
Please check out as well the new pod of our long-term writers, Mark Rowland, Ben Howarth and Sarah Johnson, which they have been using as a forum to debate about some of the new music we are writing about on the site. There are two podcasts on-line already which can be found on most pages of the site, and Mark, Ben and Sarah hope to be doing another up-date next week.
Thank you for reading the Pennyblackmusic magazine.
Other main interviews include durable Northern Ireland guitar rock trio Therapy ? who recently released a career highlight with their thirteenth album ‘Crooked Timber’ ; Shetland-born singer-songwriter and former Goya Dress frontwoman Astrid Williamson whose risk-taking fourth album ‘Here Come the Vikings’ comes out in June and much praised rising pop/rock band Official Secrets Act.
There are also interviews with NYC shoegazing/psychedelic trio signings A Place to Bury Strangers ; Kurt Cobain’s favourite band the Vaselines ; Swedish post-rock outfit Jeniferever ; singer-songwriter and actress Abigail Hopkins ; ambient project Sleepingdog and Nathaniel Cramp, the owner of London-based shoegazing label and club night, Sonic Cathedral.
We have a two part interview as well with Simon Reynolds, the music journalist and the author of the critically acclaimed books on post punk, 'Rip It Up and Start Again' and 'Totally Wired'.
Other highlights include a profile of bestselling New York act the Yeah Yeah Yeahs ; reviews of music-oriented films ‘Awaydays’ and ‘Sounds Like Teen Spirit’, and classic records, The Replacements’ 1983 second album, ‘Hootenanny’ and 1988 debut EP, ‘Superfuzz Bigmuff’. We also have plenty of live, album and single reviews.
We will have another album and singles reviews up-date the week after next and then another full edition in June.
Please check out as well the new pod of our long-term writers, Mark Rowland, Ben Howarth and Sarah Johnson, which they have been using as a forum to debate about some of the new music we are writing about on the site. There are two podcasts on-line already which can be found on most pages of the site, and Mark, Ben and Sarah hope to be doing another up-date next week.
Thank you for reading the Pennyblackmusic magazine.
Saturday, 18 April 2009
Pennyblackmusic April Magazine/New Pod
We have recently put on-line the April edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine. Our lead interview this month is with the former frontman with the Skids and one-time punk-turned-film-director Richard Jobson.
Other highlight interviews include ex-Cousteau singer Liam McKahey about his debut solo album 'Lonely Road' ; glam rock/punk star Wednesday 13 and Swedish psychedelic act Soundtrack of Our Lives.
There are also new interviews in what is a busy edition with Horse Feathers, Artery, Whirlpool Guest House, My Drug Hell and Ashley Reaks.We have spoken as well this month too with Stuart MacKay, the organiser of the Derbyshire-based Indietracks Festival which is now in its third year, and, in what was a very funny interview, Seeds frontman and 60s' survivor Sky Saxon.
There are also articles as well on Tori Amos' 'Little Earthquakes', Coil's 'The Ape of Naples' and Beth Orton's 'Trailer Park', while Ben Howarth in his regular 'Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll' column writes about searching for the perfect pop single. We also have lots of live, DVD, album and single reviews.
Ben has also recently started at Pennyblackmusic with two of our other long-term writers, Mark Rowland and Sarah Johnson a pod and they are using as a forum to debate about new music. For copyright reasons, they are only allowed to play thirty seconds from any one song, but that has proved enough for Mark, Sarah and Ben to get involved in some very lively, often funny and occasionally mildly chaotic discussion about some of the acts that we have been writing about elsewhere on the site such as Joe Gideon and the Shark, the Animal Collective, Bearsuit, the Early Years and the Grave Diggers. There are two podcasts on-line already which can be found on most pages of the site. Mark, Ben and Sarah hope to be doing similar up-dates with occasional guests once a month
We will have an album and singles reviews up-date towards the end of the week and then another full edition in May.
Other highlight interviews include ex-Cousteau singer Liam McKahey about his debut solo album 'Lonely Road' ; glam rock/punk star Wednesday 13 and Swedish psychedelic act Soundtrack of Our Lives.
There are also new interviews in what is a busy edition with Horse Feathers, Artery, Whirlpool Guest House, My Drug Hell and Ashley Reaks.We have spoken as well this month too with Stuart MacKay, the organiser of the Derbyshire-based Indietracks Festival which is now in its third year, and, in what was a very funny interview, Seeds frontman and 60s' survivor Sky Saxon.
There are also articles as well on Tori Amos' 'Little Earthquakes', Coil's 'The Ape of Naples' and Beth Orton's 'Trailer Park', while Ben Howarth in his regular 'Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll' column writes about searching for the perfect pop single. We also have lots of live, DVD, album and single reviews.
Ben has also recently started at Pennyblackmusic with two of our other long-term writers, Mark Rowland and Sarah Johnson a pod and they are using as a forum to debate about new music. For copyright reasons, they are only allowed to play thirty seconds from any one song, but that has proved enough for Mark, Sarah and Ben to get involved in some very lively, often funny and occasionally mildly chaotic discussion about some of the acts that we have been writing about elsewhere on the site such as Joe Gideon and the Shark, the Animal Collective, Bearsuit, the Early Years and the Grave Diggers. There are two podcasts on-line already which can be found on most pages of the site. Mark, Ben and Sarah hope to be doing similar up-dates with occasional guests once a month
We will have an album and singles reviews up-date towards the end of the week and then another full edition in May.
Monday, 16 February 2009
Radio plug-ins
When the BBC programmes can be heard on your computer, then you have the RealAudio plug-in we use on Pennyblack Music Radio installed correctly.
Use RealPlayer.
Excellent audio software, used in a slightly different package on the BBC website amongst others. When your computer displays all videos on the BBC websites, the following instructions are not meant for you.
Install v.10 on older systems. Install v.11 on flashy systems.
Make sure to set your preferences, disable cookies and check other known RealPlayer hazards such as the message center. Untick all boxes!!
Go to the Real Audio website and choose your version. Go to this overview for older versions.
You don't need to change the settings for your media files on your computer. But you need to install the real audio plug-in.
Use RealPlayer.
Excellent audio software, used in a slightly different package on the BBC website amongst others. When your computer displays all videos on the BBC websites, the following instructions are not meant for you.
Install v.10 on older systems. Install v.11 on flashy systems.
Make sure to set your preferences, disable cookies and check other known RealPlayer hazards such as the message center. Untick all boxes!!
Go to the Real Audio website and choose your version. Go to this overview for older versions.
You don't need to change the settings for your media files on your computer. But you need to install the real audio plug-in.
Sunday, 8 February 2009
New in Blogland
I accepted the invitation and now I'm in Blogland. At the moment there is nothing to add after the latest reviews went on-line. So I bid thee goodnight.
Alan McGee/Glissando
Welcome to the Pennyblackmusic blogspot, which we will be using to keep you informed between our twice monthly up-dates (a big up-date at the start of the month for interviews, features, live reviews, album and single reviews and a smaller up-date towards the middle of the month just for album and single reviews) of what is happening at Pennyblackmusic.
I have just received in tonight from Anthony Strutt an interview with former Creation label boss Alan McGee. As well as Creation, he talks about his bands the Laughing Apple and Biff Bang Pow. Always something of a fiery figure, McGee seems to have lost none of his anger or energy and comes across and curiously unsentimental or nostalgic about the past. We will be publishing that interview in our big up-date at the beginning of March.
I also interviewed on Friday night Richard Knox and Elly May Irving from the Leeds post rock group Glissando, who were in my home city of Edinburgh for the second last date of a British tour. A former couple, and two genuinely warm and lovely people, they talked about their outstanding debut album, 'With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea' which, released on Richard's own Gizeh Records label, they recorded very quickly after splitting up, and the DIY ethic which drives all their work. That interview too will be appearing in the March edition.
I have just received in tonight from Anthony Strutt an interview with former Creation label boss Alan McGee. As well as Creation, he talks about his bands the Laughing Apple and Biff Bang Pow. Always something of a fiery figure, McGee seems to have lost none of his anger or energy and comes across and curiously unsentimental or nostalgic about the past. We will be publishing that interview in our big up-date at the beginning of March.
I also interviewed on Friday night Richard Knox and Elly May Irving from the Leeds post rock group Glissando, who were in my home city of Edinburgh for the second last date of a British tour. A former couple, and two genuinely warm and lovely people, they talked about their outstanding debut album, 'With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea' which, released on Richard's own Gizeh Records label, they recorded very quickly after splitting up, and the DIY ethic which drives all their work. That interview too will be appearing in the March edition.
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