MANUEL GÖTTSCHING – Concert at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie in June 2018
Live performances of Manuel Göttsching are rare. In summer 2018, after a long time, it is the Northern part of Germany that has the pleasure to see “The Göttfather”, as The Guardian named him, play live. Those who live in Düsseldorf and around were able to witness a solo performance of “E2-E4″ on November 16, at the Tonhalle.
With this composition being named after (more…)
Matthews Southern Comfort: New studio album titled “Like A Radio” due in February 2018
Never let it be said that Iain Matthews is one to dwell on past successes. With the new edition of MSC, Iain Matthews is getting back a piece of his own past taking it into the here and now. But maybe this time was necessary until Matthews was ready to continue his musical journey with MSC.
He looked for fresh musicians and formed the (more…)
New DVD/CD-Boxset with a memorable 1978 Rockpalast concert of Muddy Waters
On January 26, 2018, MIG Music starts the new year with a sensational Rockpalast recording of blues heavyweight Muddy Waters. In December 1978, at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, the “Hoochie Coochie Man” was still at the height of his creative power. Nobody would have foreseen that only five years after, he would meet his maker. On that evening McKinley Morganfield, so his (more…)
Marius Tilly: New year, new album “Words From The Wilderness”
Marius Tilly - Back On Track (Official Video)
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GINGERPIG split up
Sad but true: Boudewijn Bonebakker, mastermind of Gingerpig, announced the end of the successful Dutch retro rockers. From him, we received the following statement: “After eight years, three released albums and a fourth in the making, Gingerpig has decided to park the band. Agendas, personal life in general and managing the band, couldn’t be matched with the creative flow anymore. We’ve lost the (more…)
ELOY: The Vision, the Sword and the Pyre – Now on vinyl
“ELOY is back,” states Audio, one of Germany’s main magazines for Hi-fi equipment – and the German media is impressed about the comeback. We are talking about the CD “The Vision, the Sword and the Pyre” which was released in August this year. “The new album is the opus magnum of the German art rock legend”, writes Rocks magazine. ELOY, the flagship of German progressive rock (more…)
HEAVEN’S SAPPHIRE – New concept album “Welcome To Wonderworld”
Fantastic topics are trending these days. MIG Music as well is getting a colourful and lush sci-fi fantasy adventure off to a start, the concept album entitled “Welcome To Wonderworld” by HEAVEN’S SAPPHIRE.
The masterminds behind the project HEAVEN’S SAPPHIRE are Sven Bergmann and Oliver Bartkowski who present their first album collaboration with own compositions. The music is a fine synthesis from rock and pop with classical and jazzy elements (more…)
Richard Thompson Band – Double fun: Live at Rockpalast Hamburg and Cannes
With our new Rockpalast release we dive deeper into the realm of folk rock: RICHARD THOMPSON, top-class guitarist and songwriter extraordinaire, awarded and honored many times, defined the English version of the term folk rock with FAIRPORT CONVENTION before he went on a solo path. Quite a few of his songs like “Down Where The Drunkards Roll” or “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” are regarded as (more…)
50 years of VANILLA FUDGE – “Live at Sweden Rock 2016″
1967 – 2017: VANILLA FUDGE celebrate their 50th anniversary in style – with another musical rock monument: the album „Live At Sweden Rock 2016“ (to be released November 3, 2017).
What began in April 1967 in the Ultrasonic Studios in Hempstead/ N.Y., does still possess the same charisma a good 50 years later in the rather quiet Swedish town of Norje near Sölvesborg (more…)