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Samuel Barber, one of the leading American composers of the twentieth century, is best known for his Adagio for Strings, but he created a large number of works in a variety of genres that are beloved by performers and audiences. For the celebration of the centenary of his birth, Stephen Eddins examines Barber's legacy and offers samples of some of his most memorable music.
A rare live bootleg recording of Led Zeppelin was purchased at a recent car boot sale in England. The item -- purchased for just "two or three pounds" -- features full-length audio of the legendary rock group's 1971 gig at St. Matthew's Baths Hall in Ipswich. The concert was never officially released and only a few partial recordings are known to exist. [NME.com]Reggae singer Eddie Grant has accused Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn of ripping off his 1981 song "Time Warp" for "Stylo," a track off the latest Gorillaz album. Grant even goes so far as to say he thinks Albarn consulted with a musicologist to determine any similarities between the songs, so as to avoid having to ask Grant's permission. [Stereogum.com]
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Think back to 1990, the year before the first Lollapalooza, the year hip-hop went pop via MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice -- a year where classic rockers still had such a stranglehold on the mainstream that Paul Simon could appear on Billboard's Modern Rock Singles chart. It could be said that this was a year of transitions, with rap's golden age starting to slowly wind down and alt-rock beginning to boil over, but looking back 20 years on, 1990 sure delivers a number of stone-cold classics, whether it's the Bomb Squad in full flight on Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet, the pristine pure pop of the La's, the shimmer and roar of Ride's Nowhere, Neil Young lumbering with Crazy Horse on Ragged Glory, the Breeders' glorious Pod, or Digital Underground's inspired funk fantasia Sex Packets -- and that's just a list of albums! AllMusic celebrates all this and much, much more in the 1990 edition of AllMusic Loves.
