Pink Floyd

Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock 

“F#ck Off To The Bar”: Roger Waters Returns To Boston

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Dark Side of the Moon, Have A Cigar, Israel, Palestine, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Syd Barrett, The Wall, This Is Not A Drill, Tour, Wish You Were Here

The former Pink Floyd bassist goes big on the fourth stop of his This Is Not A Drill tour

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Progressive Rock Rock 

Alan Parsons: New World Man

July 1, 2022 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Alan Parsons, David Pack, From The New World, Joe Bonamossa, Pink Floyd, The Alan Parsons Project, The Beatles, Tommy Shaw

Realistic tales of the past, present and future with the English prog rock legend

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Music Journalism Radio 

The Best Sequences in Album Rock and Beyond

April 30, 2022May 1, 2022 Jim Sullivan 7 Comments Blue Oyster Cult, Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen, Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, The Clash, The Kinks, The Wall, The Who

Honoring the art of the mix with Springsteen, the Stones, Prince and more

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Heavy Metal Progressive Rock 

ALBUMS: Voivod’s Synchronized Anarchy

March 28, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2022, Century Media, Heavy Metal, Nothingface, Pink Floyd, Synchro Anarchy, Voivod

This late career masterpiece oozes with passion, meaning and tension

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Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock 

Raving and Drooling: Animals at 45

January 22, 2022April 3, 2022 Kara Tucker 1 Comment 1977, 45th Anniversary, Animals, David Gilmour, Dogs, Nick Mason, Pigs, Pigs on the Wing, Pink Floyd, Richard Wright, Roger Waters, Sheep

On their best album for Columbia, Pink Floyd give George Orwell a Rock ‘n’ Roll makeover

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Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock 

Pink Floyd Surprise Drop Twelve Post-It Notes

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Tim Sommer 2 Comments Amsterdamse Bos Free Concert 26 June 1971 (Live), Copenhagen Live 23 Sept 1971, Copenhagen Vol II Live 23 Sept 1971, David Gilmour, Embryo San Diego Live 17 Oct 1971, KB Hallen, Live 5 June 1971; Live Lyon 12 June 1971, Live at Grosser Saal, Live in Montreux 18 & 19 Sept 1971; KB Hallen, Live in Rome Palaeur 20 June 1971, Mauerspechte Berlin Sportpalast, Musikhalle Hamburg West Germany 25 Feb 1971, Nick Mason, Over Bradford Pigs on the Groove Bradford University Live 10 Oct 1971, Pink Floyd, Quebec City 1971, Richard Barrett, Roger Waters, The Screaming Abdabs, They Came in Peace Live Leeds University 1970 Washington University 1971, Tokyo 16 March 1972

We listened to all of ‘em so you don’t have to

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Heavy Metal Progressive Rock 

Rat Or Angel?

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 Nathan Carson 1 Comment 1991, Angel Rat, Canada, Denis “Piggy” D’Amour, Heavy Metal, Jean-Yvez “Blacky” Theriault, Nothingface, Pink Floyd, Quebec, Rush, The Beatles, Voivod

30 years of grappling with Voivod’s disasterpiece Angel Rat

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Hard Rock Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock 

The Hawk Is Still Howling: Dave Brock at 80

August 20, 2021August 21, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 80th birthday, Dave Brock, ELO, ELP, Hawkwind, King Crimson, Lemmy, Motörhead, Pink Floyd, Status Quo, Yes

Even as a geezer, the enigmatic Hawkwind frontman is still fearlessly in search of rock’s final frontier

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. 18: April 2021

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Black Francis, Charles Thompson IV, Daniel Lanois, David Gilmour, Famous Quotes, Frank Black, Jim Sullivan, John Lurie, Les Claypool, Pink Floyd, Primus, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, the Lounge Lizards, The Pixies

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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Progressive Rock Rock 

David Gilmour at 75

March 6, 2021March 6, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, About Face, Bad Company, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, The Dark Side Of The Moon, The Endless River, The Final Cut

Jim Sullivan recounts his conversation with the Pink Floyd guitarist while he was promoting his vastly underrated second solo album About Face

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Art Pop Electronics Pop Psychedelics Remembrance Rock 

Set The Controls For The Heart Of Pink Floyd

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 1997, Broken China, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Richard Wright, Rick Wright, Roger Waters, Sinead O'Connor, Syd Barrett, Wet Dream

Read a 1997 interview from the late Richard Wright

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Remembrance Soundtracks and Film Scores 

The 5 Best Musical Moments in the Alan Parker Filmography

August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Alan Parker, Birdy, Bob Geldof, Bobby Eaton, Dennis Condrey, Giorgio Moroder, Glen Hansard, Jim Cornette, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd -- The Wall, RIP, The Commitments, The Midnight Express

Remembering the life of the visionary director, gone at 76

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Pop Rock 

“Bono, Meet Perdomo…”

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Beck, Bono, Brian Wilson, Cat Power, Fernando Perdomo, Jakob Dylan, Let Your Love Be Known, Netflix, Norah Jones, Pink Floyd, Regina Spektor, U2

In an age of isolation, the U2 frontman’s solo performance is given a powerful postscript

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Records 

Young Men Take A Look At Your Lives

March 6, 2020March 9, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Elvis Costello, Free Four, Help the Aged, Neil Young, Old & In The Way, Old Man, Picture Book, Pink Floyd, Pulp, She's So Cold, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Magnetic Fields, The Rolling Stones, When I'm Sixty Four, When You're Old and Lonely

10 songs about aging in rock ‘n’ roll from legendary acts in the prime of their youth

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Progressive Rock 

Prepare Yourself: Porcupine Tree’s ‘The Sky Moves Sideways’ at 25

March 2, 2020March 3, 2020 Bill Kopp 0 Comments 1995, Dark Side of the Moon, David Gilmour, Delirium Records, Fear of a Blank Planet, Japan, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Richard Barbieri, Steven Wilson, The Incident, The Orb, The Sky Moves Sideways

In 1995, the band released its third official album, an exemplar of the kind of ethereal space rock that would win over fans of Pink Floyd’s post-Syd Barrett and pre-The Dark Side of the Moon period

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