Harry's Place Arts

Fans of the more innovative and experimental sounds emerging from the contemporary drum & bass scene will find much to enjoy in Doc Scott’s ongoing ‘Future Beats’ series, which can be streamed or downloaded via Soundcloud. February 2011′s installment includes the fantastic ‘Nine Times‘ by Amit featuring Rani and the purpose of this post is [...]

This is a guest post by Ben Cohen “Happy Pay-sack.” Mick Jones’s opening greeting at New York’s Roseland Ballroom, reliably delivered in his South London brogue, won roars of approval from the assembled crowd, many of whom were skipping the second Passover seder to see the original line-up of Big Audio Dynamite in the flesh. [...]

The great boogie-woogie artist is dead at 97. Here he is performing at the youthful age of 91 at the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas. “I remember the days when I played at chicken fights and your only pay was the dead chicken,” he once told the New York Times. “But now I can’t [...]

1925-2011

A piece of trivia: The Doors used it on Alabama Song… and the Fleet Foxes use it on their new album.

Friedrich Nietzsche remains a complex and contradictory character. His writings are unquestionably deeply anti-democratic and anti-egalitarian, yet at the same time his penetrating analyses of the nature and origins of morality provide much food for thought, and offer a radical challenge to comfortable and comforting notions that humanistic ideas are somehow inherent or essential to [...]

Charlie Louvin, the surviving half of the songwriting and singing duo the Louvin Brothers, has died at 83. Here are Charlie and his brother Ira performing their wonderful song “If I Could Only Win Your Love.” Emmylou Harris also does a great version of it. Sorry, I just have to sing along.

I was asked recently what advice I might give to a young gigging musician starting out today. Since GarageBand and Propellerhead Reason have made my Fostex 4-track production super-skills redundant and my connoisseur’s eye for chrome tape meaningless, I restricted it to more timeless lessons I’ve learned. Not everyone will agree with all of them, [...]

The liberal elitists at National Public Radio did a nice tribute to the awesome voice of country singer George Jones, part of their 50 Great Voices series.

Dead at 81.