We get a lot of music in here with titles like “Music for Massage,” “Music for Yoga,” “Music for Meditation.” They almost never make it onto the show, but every now and then we get one that has a little bit more going for it, than pretty sounds and contemplative moods. That’s the case with…
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Program Highlights
The Art of the Cover Tune – Echoes Undercover – Weds, May 29th
On the next Echoes we go Undercover. It’s an entire show of cover tunes from Pink Floyd to Led Zeppelin, King Crimson to New Order and more. Songs you know by artists who aren’t known for playing them. The best cover tunes reinvent a song and my standard for that will always be Jimi…
Reviews & Commentary
Ten 1967 Pop Songs that Shaped Prog-Rock.
There’s a fun article in Pop Matters called Ten Songs From 1967 That Shaped Prog-Rock. Writer Sean Murphy knocks out his reasons for songs you might not expect to have any bearing on Progressive Rock, like The Beach Boys’ “Heroes & Villains,” which he put at number one. I agree with his choice, although he…
Reviews & Commentary
These are the 100 Greatest Guitarists?
M.I.A from The Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists 100 Best Whatever-lists are designed to engender debate and outrage and 100 Greatest Guitarists is likely to create even more of a firestorm than usual. Of the millions who followed the Byrds’ dictum to “get an electric guitar and learn how to play,” many are bound to be…