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Dario Buccino

His musical activity ranges over a wide variety of fields: beside his research as experimental composer and performer, Buccino also works for the cinema and the theatre as a composer, interpreter, musical consultant, as a rock, pop and jazz composer, arranger and guitarist, and as a singer-songwriter, busker and music journalist.

Dark metal

Many writers, including Ian Christe, music journalist Chuck Eddy, Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, Natalie J Purcell, Brian Reesman, Jeff Wagner, and Steven Wilson, find that there is a melancholy tone that distinguishes dark metal bands from their contemporaries.

Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South

Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South is a book by U.S. music journalist Mark Kemp that traces the evolution of southern rock between the years 1968 and 1992, and examines the music's social and psychological impact on young Southerners in the years following the civil rights movement.

Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop

The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop or Rock and Pop by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s.

Soul '69

Music journalist Stanley Booth wrote in Rolling Stone that Soul '69 was "quite possibly the best record to appear in the last five years", describing it as "excellent in ways in which pop music hasn't been since the Beatles spear-headed the renaissance of rock".

The Beatles: An Illustrated Record

The Beatles: An Illustrated Record is a 1975 book by music journalists Roy Carr and Tony Tyler, published by Harmony Books (ISBN 0-517-52045-1).


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Alana Patience

Alana has also danced with celebrity music journalist and Australian icon Molly Meldrum, horse racing identity Tom Waterhouse and ex Collingwood footballer Brodie Holland.

Before Too Long

The album was co-produced by Kelly with Alan Thorne (Hoodoo Gurus, The Stems) who, according to music journalist Robert Forster (former The Go-Betweens singer-songwriter), helped the band create "a sound that will not only influence future roots-rock bands but, through its directness, sparkle and dedication to the song, will also come to be seen as particularly Australian. Ultimately, it means the records these people made together are timeless".

Bus Station Loonies

Music journalist Mick Mercer's 1997 book The Hex Files: The Goth Bible, references The Bus Station Loonies for their 18-minute reggae rendition of The Sisters of Mercy composition, "Temple of Love".

Charles Cross

Charles R. Cross, rock music journalist and author based in Seattle

Christopher Hibbert

He was married to Susan Piggford with three children, his daughter and literary executor Kate Hibbert, television writer James Hibbert and music journalist Tom Hibbert.

Close Your Eyes: A Collection 1965–1986

As with all previous Castle Communications/Sanctuary Records Atomic Rooster CDs, it was compiled by music journalist Colin Harper, who also supplied a detailed biography.

Di-Dar

In October 2008, the Hong Kong magazine Ming Pao Weekly asked HK music journalist Fung Lai-Chee to name what he considered as the 40 classic Cantopop albums of the last 40 years.

Distort Entertainment

Formed by Greg Below, (concert promoter and owner of Distort Productions) and Mitch Joel, (music journalist and publicist) in early 2002, Distort began by producing New Jersey's Step Kings' third release, 3 The Hard Way.

Dixieland Delight

Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down Highway 11W, a Tennessee road in Rutledge, Tennessee.

Eleven: A Music Company

In the late 1980s Watson worked as a freelance music journalist while completing an honours degree in politics at the University of New South Wales.

Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

The selection committee consisted of Owe Petersell (Radio Elmar), Toomas Puna (Radio Sky Plus), Erik Morna (Radio 2), Iiris Vesik (musician), Valner Valme (music journalist from Postimees), Siim Nestor (music journalist from Eesti Ekspress), Henry Kõrvits (musician), Olavi Paide (producer from production company RUUT), Koit Raudsepp (Radio 2), Ingrid Kohtla (ETV).

Fire and Fame

Fire And Fame is a memoir co-written by Joerg Deisinger, former bassist and founding member of the German hard rock band Bonfire, and Carl Begai, a Canadian writer and music journalist.

Freakbeat

The term was invented in the 1980s by the music journalist Phil Smee to retroactively describe a music style that has been described as a missing link between the early-to-mid-1960s mod R&B scene and the psychedelic rock and progressive rock genres that emerged in the late 1960s with bands such as Pink Floyd.

Heaven Up Here

In his 2005 book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978–1984, British music journalist Simon Reynolds described the sound of Heaven Up Here as having been filled out with "guitar overdubs, keyboard glints, vocal multitracking and atmospheric vapours".

Hi, How Are You

Kurt Cobain was frequently photographed wearing a t-shirt featuring the album's cover image which music journalist Everett True gave him.

Hicks from the Sticks

The album was the brainchild of music journalist Nigel Burnham who wanted to showcase the best New Wave bands in the North of England.

Into Battle with the Art of Noise

The project was conceived, researched and compiled by music journalist (and Art of Noise aficionado) Ian Peel – sourced from the original masters – and restored the original version of "Beat Box" and features the 5:10 edit of "Moments in Love" from the cassette issue of the EP, neither track having been officially released on CD before.

Into My Arms

Music journalist and critic Toby Creswell included "Into My Arms" in his book 1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them, in which he attributed the song's melancholic lyrics to the break-up of Cave's long-term relationship with Viviane Carneiro and his subsequent brief relationship and break-up with English musician PJ Harvey.

Jack Marx

It was during his time as a music journalist that Marx went in search of his childhood rock and roll idol, Stevie Wright, of legendary Australian '60s band, The Easybeats. He found Wright allegedly living as a drug-addicted recluse in a small coastal town in southern New South Wales and Wright's life story, along with Marx's near-disastrous attempts to extract it from him, was documented in Sorry: The Wretched Tale of Little Stevie Wright (1999).

Kittenz and Thee Glitz

It was listed by noted music journalist Paul Morley in his book Words and Music, as one of his 100 albums to hear if you think Radiohead's Kid A is weird.

Larry Hayes

Larry Livermore (Lawrence Hayes, born 1947), American musician, record producer, music journalist and author

Like Punk Never Happened

Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop is a 1986 book about 1980s pop by music journalist Dave Rimmer.

March 16–20, 1992

Farrar's "Criminals" paraphrases a George H. W. Bush campaign speech and was considered by music journalist Greg Kot to be one of the band's "angriest songs".

Marek Niedźwiecki

Marek Wojciech Niedźwiecki (born March 24, 1954 in Sieradz, Poland) is a Polish music journalist and radio anchor.

Martin Anderson

Martin Anderson (music publisher), founder of Toccata Press and Toccata Classics, London, U.K.; music journalist, writer and critic

Monks of Mellonwah

The Monks' first music video which was for the song Swamp Groove won an award at Harold's Shorts Film Festival, being judged by Australian music journalist Glenn A. Baker.

My Big Iron Skillet

Music journalist, Robert K. Oermann and anthropologist, Mary A. Bufwack called this song, "threatening" since Jackson threatens to kill the song's antagonist with a kitchen skillet.

Nights with Alice Cooper

Nights with Alice Cooper is produced by music journalist and former Rockline producer Katherine Turman.

Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?

Despite being one of the lesser known tracks on the record, music journalist Martin Popoff said that the song was an example of the band's "fast thrashers" and an evidence why Megadeth were dubbed as the "fearless speed progenitors".

Saline Grace

In 2009 Saline Grace and Nobility Of Salt were included in Music To Die For, a book by British music journalist Mick Mercer (Melody Maker), which is an encyclopedia of the alternative and gothic scene with descriptions, interviews and discographies of the bands.

Secondhand Daylight

Music Journalist Nick Kent described songs like "Feed The Enemy" as "very Low-period Bowiesque", due to the "stray saxophone bleats and lulling synthesiser chords".

Silas House

House is also a music journalist and a contributing editor to No Depression magazine, for which he has written features on Lucinda Williams, Delbert McClinton and many others.

Slightly Odway

According to Australian music journalist, Ed Nimmervoll, "The album title Slightly Odway is a comment on the slightly odd way they feel they approach life as well as music".

Steven Wells

Music journalist Everett True described Wells as "a tastemaker. He informed people’s opinions, challenged them, led them, changed them…most of this by default, by sheer force of his personality and peerless ability to entertain.".

Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977–1991

Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977–1991 is a book about the Australian independent music scene from 1979 until 1991, as written by author and music journalist Clinton Walker.

Taite Music Prize

The prize is named after respected New Zealand music journalist and broadcaster Dylan Taite, who died in 2003.

Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine

Music journalist, Robert K. Oermann and anthropologist, Mary A. Bufwack called this song, among Jackson's other late 60s recordings, "self-assertive about women's issues".

The Henry Road

During this time they recruited a new guitarist: The Cohain (music journalist Steph Coole - reminiscent in style to Lester Bangs) and managed a handful of live dates.

The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music

It is written by Ivan March, a music journalist, consultant and former professional musician; Edward Greenfield, former music critic of The Guardian newspaper and Robert Layton, music writer and lecturer.

The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record

The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record is a 1976 book by music journalist Roy Carr, published by Harmony Books.

The Sell-In

The Sell-in: How the Music Business Seduced Alternative Rock is a book by Australian music journalist Craig Mathieson.

Unni Wilhelmsen

Her debut as singer was at Smuget in Oslo, where music journalist Finn Bjelke was present.

Zdzisław Beksiński

His wife, Zofia, died in 1998; a year later, on Christmas Eve 1999, his son Tomasz (a popular radio presenter, music journalist and movie translator) committed suicide.