The People’s List Top 200 Albums from the First 15 Years of Pitchfork Pitchfork has put their imprimatur on the best albums of the last 15 years. So many curious things about this list. Only about 10 of the artists are musicians we’ve played on Echoes, which on one hand, doesn’t mean much but on the other,…
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It’s An Eno World: Roxy Retro and Documentary
Some interesting news in the Eno World. They’ve just released a eluxe box set of all the Roxy Music studio CDS, The Complete Studio Recordings 1972 – 1982, which gives us a chance anew to hear how groundbreaking this group was, especially on the first two albums and Avalon. But cooler than that is the Brian…
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10 Greatest Rock Songs
Every year Echoes affiliate WXPN, 88.5FM has listeners vote on their list of the Best885 whatever, albums, road songs, artists, etc. And every year they ask hosts to submit their top ten choices. This year, they’ve made the impossible task of listing the 885 Greatest Rock Songs. I mean, come on! This list could go…
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New Albion Records Heads Out to Sea
People talk a lot about Indie labels and music these days, but back in the 1980s when Indie required a real commitment, New Albion Records sailed against the winds. Like its namesake, the ambiguous spot on the Pacific Coast where Sir Francis Drake landed in 1579, they found new musical lands, releasing avant-garde contemporary music…
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Sherman Hemsley-George Jefferson-Prog Rock Fan.
In Progressive Rock circles, it’s been known for years that Sherman Hemsley was a Prog Rock fan. But with the recent death of the actorbest loved for his role as the peripatetic George Jefferson in The Jeffersons and All In The Family, here’s a few glimpses into the George Jefferson no one might have expected,…
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Still Tangerine Dreaming
There is a nice review of Tangerine Dream’s show in NYC by Jon Pareles in the New York Times. Nice to see a balanced POV in the mainstream media. Apparently, while they had a bigger venue in New York than Philadelphia, they did not have a bigger audience. Only a few hundred according to reports.…
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Rainy Day, Tangerine Dream Away
Ever wonder what it was like to see Tangerine Dream back in 1971 when they were playing dingy basement clubs in West Berlin? You got a sense of that Friday night when they performed at the Underground Arts Theater, a dingy basement club in a desolate section of Philadelphia. Downsized from the 3000 seat Electric…
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THE BEST OF NEARFEST APOCALYPSE.
NEARfest shoots their final hoop, hitting nothing but class It was a great ending to probably the best and most highly regarded Progressive Rock festival in the country. It wasn’t the finest NEARfest, it wasn’t the worst and it wasn’t just average. But it was typical of what they have been doing for 14 years…
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NEARfest Sets Sail for the Grey Havens.
The North East Art Rock Festival, better known as NEARfest, comes to an end this weekend with the final edition, dubbed NEARfest Apocalypse. That kind of ostentation is so Progressive Rock. But that’s what Nearfest was all about. I went to my first Nearfest in 2005, expecting clones of Yes and bands past their prime. …
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Philadelphia Concerts Ahead
This is mostly for Philly area listeners for some Echoes related concerts coming up. RECOMMENDED THIS WEEK Van Der Graaf Generator. If you’re a progressive rock fan, you’ll be there. Check out A Summer of Progressive Rock GET YOUR TICKETS SIGUR ROS Coming July 29 & 30 *******DEAD CAN DANCE is Coming August 26. ********…