Remix Dub Colossus and win a Zeppelin!

The extraordinary Dub Colossus In A Town Called Addis is our new B&W Music Club album. If you rate your re-mixing skills you can click here to download the remix pack, upload your entry and win yourself a Zeppelin in the process. Read more

Do you agree with Peter Gabriel about digital music?

Peter Gabriel, 'sponsor' of B&W Music Club, is back in the news again, mostly to promote his new Big Blue Ball project with Real World. If you didn't realise how great a pioneer he is of digital music, then it's worth reading this article in the NY Times
One interesting quote from him is that
"I don’t believe in the death of the major record companies,” Mr. Gabriel says. “But as an artist, I’d love to see them reinvented as service companies.”

We'd love to know your thoughts on this. Read more

Hallelujah! The Man with the Golden Voice

Last month I went to see the golden-voiced Leonard Cohen at the O2 Arena. I’ve always been a staunch avoider of seeing musicians in large stadia, they lack atmosphere, intimacy and inevitably you end up watching a big screen. Arenas are for Van Halen not for legendary ‘60’s troubadours....
True to expectations, it’s the most soulless place imaginable (according to Wikipedia, the first American style multi-purpose arena in London which is even more reason not to go) and all my fears were confirmed as I struggled to find on the stage the suave-suited figure on the huge screens. I felt as if I were watching an episode of Jools Holland only with 20, 000 other people. And I hate Jools Holland.
But I had not counted on the astonishingly clear sound quality which, combined with Cohen’s redoubtable charisma, managed to shrink the arena - especially when you closed your eyes - to listening to Leonard in your living room. Reluctantly, I have to give them credit, the sound is amazing. Read more

Tell us what you think..

So we're three months and four albums in (including the extra Brett Anderson album) and we'd really like to know what you think. Tell us what you've liked or not liked, what you think of the sound quality and what you'd like to hear next Read more