World renowned harpsichordist, Maggie Cole, formed Trio Goya with Kati Debretzni and Sebastian Comberti. They play classical music - primarily trios by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Storace and Schubert - on period instruments.
Though born in the US, Cole is resident in the UK and is best known through her numerous recitals on BBC Radio 3 and [...]

Read More...

Excellent graphic from NY Times on the sales life of the different music formats from 1973 to 2008.

Read More...

Last week, the PRS Foundation launched the third New Music Award.
The foundation is the UK’s only independent funder of new music across all genres and are continually launching schemes to promote, encourage and comission new works. It’s always worth checking their website for new funding options.
The winner of the previous New Music Award was the [...]

Read More...

Society of Sound artist, B&W office favourite and resident of Abilene, Texas,  Micah P.Hinson has kindly allowed us to preview four tracks exclusively from his new album of covers, All Dressed up and Smelling of Strangers, which is out on the 28th September on Full Time Hobby Records. Micah is currently touring Europe, you can [...]

Read More...

It’s been impossible to avoid the news of the Beatles remasters and much debate has ensued within the office. Primarily, why the mono boxset has less content, no DVD, but costs £30 pounds more than the stereo boxset and which individual albums would we be buying (White Album most popular so far, followed by Abbey [...]

Read More...

Nick Cave’s new novel, The Death of Bunny Munroe, is being released as an audiobook this week. Not so interesting as news in itself,  but it’s being released via Apple’s app store.
Clearly no ordinary audio book. As well as a soundtrack composed by Mr. Cave and his fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis, the audio  has [...]

Read More...