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Peter Gabriel adds 2009 dates + wins Grammy

Posted on Wednesday, 25 February 2009    Comments (2)

Peter Gabriel has added more dates to his South American and Mexican tour in March - you can see a full list of dates so far here.
Narrowly pipped at the post for the Best Song Oscar by Slumdog Millionaire, Peter did win a Grammy for Best Song with Down To Earth and Best Instrumental Arrangement [...]

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Dub Colossus No.1 in World Music Charts

Posted on Wednesday, 25 February 2009    Comments (1)

B&W Music Club artists Dub Colossus are currently no.1 in the World Music Chart Europe with A Town Called Addis which was our August album.
Recorded originally in a shed in Addis Ababa and completed at Real World studios, Wiltshire, it is a unique attempt to mix traditional East African music with the most experimental reggae [...]

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Portico Quartet Top 10 favourite recordings

Posted on Wednesday, 18 February 2009    Comments (6)

We’ve been asking B&W Music Club artists and Fellows for 10 tracks that really stand out in terms of the way they’ve been recorded.Here’s a list from current B&W Music Club Artists Portico Quartet’s Jack Wyllie:(spot the obvious mistake..)
1 This must be the place (naïve melody) - Talking heads.A bit of classic pop. A [...]

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Julianna Raye live in London

Posted on Monday, 9 February 2009    Comments (0)

LA singer-songwriter, and sometime Rufus Wainwright band member, Julianna has announced three one-off dates in London in February to promote her Ethan Johns produced album ‘Dominoes’.
Both The Bedford and The Regal Room dates are free. The Cobden Club date is £5 and guests need to click on www.4stickslive.com, click on the guestlist/mailing list fill in [...]

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Steve Van Zandt’s Top 10

Posted on Thursday, 5 February 2009    Comments (0)

There is something very unappealing about recommendation technology. Amazon’s is almost patronising in its banality and does anyone find iTunes’ Genius feature useful? I would always take suggestions from friends and colleagues far more seriously than any generated by algorithms. If sites have to use music search engines they should at the very least be [...]

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Is there anything you’d like us to change?

Posted on Thursday, 5 February 2009    Comments (127)

As valued members of the B&W Music Club we’d like to know as much as we can about any issues you may have. Judging from some recent comments on our blog, a few people aren’t keen on our Download Manager.
This has been really useful feedback and we want to make downloading our albums as [...]

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