Joni Mitchell's latest release, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, represents the new direction her music has taken. On this recent album she replaces her previous folk guitar accompaniment with a full ensemble. Her style has developed into a sort of folk/jazz fusion with emphasis on the "folk."...
“We’ve been jamming on lots of new ideas — frameworks, so to speak. You know,James [Hetfield]is getting into working up melodies and experimenting on that level. But it’s really, like, kind of, you work out parts, a process of elimination, and then you...
"Imagine my surprise when I was notified that in spite of the rejected test pressing, albums had been stamped and delivered by a company under contract with our record label!" Scholz wrote. "While I've been very happy, and continue to be happy, with our current label [Frontiers Records],...