How to start your own record label:
A step-by-step guide
You may dream of being the manager of a great rock band – well, since the music industry is so down, you’ll have to do it on our own. Start your own record…
Bootlegging: Music industry scourge or saving grace?
According to the leading lights of the music business, the practice of bootlegging (traditionally the production and distribution of unofficial releases on vinyl, CD and video in the form of recordings of live…
“Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares” and 4AD Label
The Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares project (“The Magic of Bulgarian Voices”) represented the chance meeting of unlikely worlds, generations and individuals from disparate parts of the European continent. What was initially a…
Spirituals on Vinyl
The darkest chapters of a people’s history sometimes evince the size of their spirit. More so when the chapters are recorded not in prose but in verse and song. The spirituals accrued by…
Contemporary Protest Music in the United States of America: A Critical View
Pick any demonstration in New York City and there will be a group of bedraggled old men with boom boxes, playing The Clash and The Sex Pistols as loud as they can. There…
The RAH Band Re-edited
The RAH Band were a studio group put together by the English producer Richard Anthony Hewson. Now 67 years old, Hewson drew dubious inspiration from his initials and formed the band in 1977,…
