At least once a year, I apologise for a lack of activity and here’s the first such apology for 2013! Last year I took on a new day job and things have ramped up of late, the upshot of which has seen me flying here, there and everywhere. America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. [...]

I doubt very much if many, if any, of you are aware that this blog incorporated some while back another blog of mine, ‘Field of Sound‘. I started it as a companion piece to ‘Failed Muso’ so that I could indulge in my passion for multi-channel music, but not wanting to concentrate on multiple blogs, [...]

Courtesy of the most excellent Highgreen Dawn web site [via Steven James], where you can find other humorous musings on being a musician, failed or otherwise

To celebrate the release of the latest version of the CMI App from Peter Vogel Instruments, which includes support for the increasingly popular Audiobus system on iOS, Peter and his cohorts have cooked up a competition where the winner can take away a cash prize of $1000 AUD!! Here’s the skinny… “To celebrate the release [...]

Announced today, iTunes are now streaming the whole of ‘The Next Day’ (the new David Bowie album, in case you’ve been indulging in a life on Mars), which will see a full release on March 11th 2013. The stream is available until the release day in your particular territory. Listen to what is being billed [...]

Out this week, the second single from the forthcoming, much talked about David Bowie “comeback” album, ‘The Next Day’. I’ll leave the amazing video to speak for itself…

I hope to review this album as soon as it lands on my doormat, but I had to share the quite remarkable lead single/title track as well as the stunning video that accompanies it. Steven Wilson is not a name you might hear that often, but in the world of ‘neo-prog rock’ and hi-res/multi-channel audio, [...]

Hot on the heels of their fabulous Vintage Legends collection, UVI officially released the latest in their ever increasing line of superbly recreated classic synths, this time taking a veritable gem of a keyboard and giving it the UVI treatment. The keyboard in question is a Roland JX-3P, considered by many to be an analogue [...]

Android Lust are/is just one person. One very talented, focused, driven and resourceful woman. Her name is Shikhee D’iordna and she has just released her fifth studio album, entitled Crater Vol.1. Bangladeshi by birth, growing up in England and the USA, Shikhee’s output under the Android Lust banner is a dark blend of gothic electronica, [...]

In what would be another strange turnaround of events, Morris Hayes, Prince’s principle keyboard player and leader of his NPG band, has alluded to the possibility of Prince finally releasing his sample collection to the general public. To give you a potted history, back in the 90′s, Prince was truly at the vanguard of the [...]