Monday 25 August 2008

News, Views and Music Issue 1 (Intro)




Welcome everyone to Alan’s Album Archives. The website is about to be launched any day now, with an exciting batch of 101 album reviews of scintillating music to muse over. I know every site says this next sentence at some point but we really mean it—please send us any feedback, we look forward to hearing all your comments whether you’re a music maestro or a rock rookie, a sophisticated web-surfer or a reluctant luddite, a literature-loving English specialist or a text-type loving teen. If you like music, we like your comments, whatever they are (I’ll even start liking the Spice Girls if you harass me enough) (No promises mind!) Meanwhile, here’s a quick look at news happening elsewhere in the land of AAA Artists this week…



CSN: According to Ceefax CSN are working with Rick Rubin, Johnny Cash’s producer, who helped the man in black re-ignite his career towards the end of his life, on an album of covers to be recorded and released some time next year. Added to the release of the film De Ja Vu in September (a Bush-baiting documentary about the super group’s anti-Iraq war world tour in 2006) this marks a rather busy period in the lives of CSN/Y!



Grateful Dead/Jefferson Airplane/ CSN: a new DVD ‘Go Ride The Music’ has just been released featuring an hour of rare early 70s Airplane and Quicksilver with cameos from the Grateful Dead and CSN and others…



Brian Wilson’s new album ‘That Lucky Old Sun’ has just been released and is gaining four-star/ five star reviews everywhere—it’s a new concept album based around a cover of the title song, which is especially intriguing bearing in mind that Brian hasn’t tackled a ‘concept’ album properly since the days of Smile (did I ever mention how much I liked that album?!?)… Alas I can’t offer a verdict as no one near me seems to be stocking it!



Oasis prepare for the release of their new album ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ in October with the first screening of their new promo film on channel four tonight. We’ll tell you how good it was next week…

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