Richard Thompson is one of the best acoustic guitar players in the world, in my opinion.
I know it’s a bit hard to tag someone as ‘one of the best’, especially in music, many players are good and has their own style, but it is my blog after all, and I’ll tag if I want to.
Thompson, aside from his killer acoustic style, is even a crueler killer when it comes to an electric guitar. He can produce a true fuzzy sound in the same method they did it in the past – Push it to the limit.
On the other hand, he’s one of those who can play entire Bach pieces, medieval, Leadbelly’s blues and Bert Jansch’s phrases. He might not able to play behind his back and his tongue might not be long as Gene Simmons and he can’t flex like Richard Simmons, but other than all that – he’s a guitar god. Read more…
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The Tel Aviv supergroup Eatliz, has already gained some serious attention, due to their award winning video of Hey (which won many festivals, and received a prize directly from Spike Lee himself), and Attractive, is now relasing a new EP. Hey was also selected to be screened before the blockbuster Avatar, in the Cinebarre cinema network in Carolina.
The Welsh power-post-punk band Los Campesinos has released a new album two weeks ago with the fantastic Arts&Crafts label.
The album, Romance Is Boringis their third release, after the superb debut album Hold On Youngster and it’s follower EP We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.
