Here’s a taste of the new album Space Elevator II coming on May 25 from Space Elevator:
There’s a new mix on the new album of a track from their first album. As a preview, here is the frenetic new video for the song:
Why can’t the Duchess be the new Doctor Who? She’d be amazing…
In the first episode, she could travel back in time to get Genesis to sing a song about her on Duke.
A great comment from Pete Morgan (founder of Burning Shed). Very honored to have him post at progarchy. [Lee, we love you, too; but, you already knew this!]
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Thanks for the comments about us versus Amazon.
Firstly, no we’ll never be able to compete with them. That’s partly due to scale but also because, unlike Amazon, we pay all of our taxes on top of trying to pay our staff a decent wage. In that regard it is not a level playing field.
Nevertheless, we are often cheaper than them on new releases because the ‘free’ delivery is built into the cost of the item or the Amazon Prime fee (there’s no such thing as a free lunch after all).
Packages shipped from one side of the Atlantic to the other will by post always take a week or so. Other than sending everything by courier (at great cost) there’s not much we can do about that, sorry, but we do try to ship as far ahead of release date as possible.
I don’t agree that our postage charges are a ‘bit of a rip off’. International postage is expensive and we charge £3.08 for a CD in a card mailer which is less than Royal Mail’s standard Airmail tariff (£3.30) as we pass on our volume discount to customers.
We’re always looking for cheaper ways to send things though and if we can do it we will.
I hope you’ll continue to give us a go on those occasions where we have something Amazon don’t.
Cheers
Pete
Jerry Ewing’s greatest achievements in Wonderous Stories are to show conclusively that progressive rock never died and continues to thrive; and that it’s a vital and vibrant cultural expression, worthy of all due scholarly and cultural attention… 1,643 more words
via The Art and Delight of Progressive Rock — The Imaginative Conservative
Everyone’s First Lady of Prog, Alison Reijman, enters a whole new decade. We love you, Alison!
American progarchists, a few of you asked me how to order from Burning Shed from this side of the Atlantic.
For what it’s worth, I’ve been ordering from them for years, and I’ve never had a problem. In fact, I’ve found Burning Shed nothing but utterly professional.
You can pay with credit card or, much more easily, Pay Pal.
Calculating the exchange rate from dollars to pounds and the other way around is pretty easy.
Now, spend some dollars!
[p.s. I’ve also had great service from America’s Laser’s Edge. Always worth supporting them.]
A week and a half ago, Progarchy’s brilliant editor-in-chief wrote an editorial about music streaming services. I agree wholeheartedly with his reservations regarding streaming music. Brad attributed his luddite ways to being 50. Well, I’m 24 and I think streaming music is hogwash, so age has nothing to do with it.
For one, I like having a physical CD to look at. I like the artwork, and being able to read the lyrics is important to me. In comparing my own reviews with other writers out there on the internet or in magazines, I’ve noticed I focus on lyrics more than most, so that just goes to show the importance I place on reading the lyrics.
Continue reading “1984 Came and Went: Streaming as a New Form of Censorship”
According to Louder (formerly Teamrock), Big Big Train will be releasing a single as well as a live album on July 27 of this year. Interestingly, Tim Bowness will appear on one track as well.
Burning Shed and The Merch Desk are each offering pre-orders of the various BBT releases.
According to Burning Shed, the single (or EP), SWAN HUNTER, will feature the following songs:
The good folks of The American Conservative allowed me to indulge one of my greatest loves and write about the 2018 re-release of Marillion’s BRAVE, remixed by Steven Wilson. Whatever your politics, please head over there to check it out.
“The Cold War is done, but those bastards will find us another one.”
This cry might have come from any current reader of The American Conservative alive in the early 1990s—well, maybe without the bastard part. But still, an anguished expression from Russell Kirk or Pat Buchanan? Why not? After all, as TAC editor Bob Merry recently and wisely noted, so many so-called conservatives of the early 1990s “kicked Reagan to the curb” the moment they inherited the Republican Party. And it seems they kept kicking, mutating a military that came into existence solely to defeat the Soviets into a world peace-keeping force, a new Delian League. The bastards did find us another one.
And then: “They’re here to protect us, don’t you know. So get used to it. Get used to it.”
James Bovard or Virginia Postrel? Or some other grand libertarian of a quarter of a century ago? Why not?
Actually, the words are prog rock lyrics from Marillion’s album Brave (1994).
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/marillion-prog-rocks-bards-of-alienation/
REMARK’s second offering Keep Running is an affirmative new chapter in a book already filled with trials and tribulations. You only need to look at the striking album cover to gain a sense of what you’re in for – grunge that bounces from heavy to soft, to everything in between. You’re in for a ride.
Whilst you may typecast the realm of grunge to bands such as Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, from the outset, REMARK put a modern twist onto an already formidable genre to dip into. ‘Comeback’ opens with your stereotypically sexy distorted guitars, before plunging into elements of alternative rock that bring it bang up to date. The same can be said for its partner ‘Purple Haze’. Its emotionally thirsty in lyrical content, which is backed up by self-assured punk-like guitar tones.
Although the 1990s nostalgia is laid so bare it could slap you in the face, the EP’s lead lines and riffs are contemporary additions that create a positive genre bending journey.
REMARK have truly come up trumps with this record, with two closing songs — both covers by Tears for Fears and Alex Clare — supporting that statement. Keep Running is infinitely catchy and brings back a genre that the original greats still hold the crown to, but rethinking it in a way that makes it accessible to the masses.
Honest, compelling and obsessively alluring, Keep Running is a masterpiece in post-grunge. Head over to Bandcamp to stream / download the EP. REMARK are also on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.
I really was going to write about hearing Bill Bruford’s scintillating lecture “Give the Drummer Some: Distributed Creativity in Popular Music Performance” with a packed house at the University of Michigan’s School of Music. But stuff happened.
As previewed here, two days after the Bruford lecture I traveled to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall with the Grand Rapids Symphony & Chorus. (How’d it’d go? 15 seconds of singing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on The Today Show, 2300 in attendance on the night with multiple standing ovations, and a solid review from the New York Times — so it was cool.) This was followed, not just by the renewed demands of workday life, but also by ten days of the death flu (from which I’ve finally recovered).
With all this intervening, the best thing is for you to do is check out Dr. Bruford’s lecture, as delivered last year at Edinburgh Napier University. My impressions and photos will follow the jump:
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