John Coltrane - Giant Stepsthis iconic 1960 album saw coltrane reinvent the popular jazz style & break through to a mainstream audience, the laser beam focus of his tenor solos at the centre of the recordings. he wastes no time as the disc's title track immediately indicates a progression from which there would be no looking back. line upon line of highly cerebral improvisation snake between the melody & solos, practically fusing the two. the resolute intensity of 'countdown'

White Light/White Heat is easily the least accessible of The Velvet Underground's studio albums

‰ÛÏDizzying psychedelia

'Glass Boys' while a more personal work in terms of subject matter

she a shard of glass tapped through a solid wall

band photos

droning bass-lines

‰۝ tells drummer Matthew Correia

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Monk and Coleman

despite creating more than 40 songs in the process of writing the album (‰ÛÏSome of the song melodies and ideas on this may have even been written when I was 21 to be honest

in which they collaborated with THV ENT and DiS Magazine to create a basketball-themed installation

unafraid of change