Back Door

Back Door: Vienna Breakdown: The Recordings 1971-1976

Read "Vienna Breakdown: The Recordings 1971-1976" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
August 6, 2025

It was a whole different world back then, me lad. A person could not simply plug in a couple gizmos and record an album in their bedroom--well, not a very good-sounding one at any rate. It was fairly rare for an early-'70s combo to wing it on their own (or at least with a friendly venue owner's help) without company or label support. Those who know the name Back Door, though, know that their whole career was practically built on ...

Album Review

Back Door: BBC In Concert

Read "BBC In Concert" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
September 22, 2013

The Back Door story belongs to a brief but rather glorious time in British popular music. A time when a free-blowing jazz trio could emerge from the resident band of a northern cabaret club, a summer season in seaside variety theatre, afternoon jam sessions and the band of an iconic figure from the British blues boom. As BBC In Concert ably demonstrates, the band managed to blend these rather disparate experiences together to create some entertaining music.In 1968 ...

Music Industry

Spotify Starts Selling Your Fan Data Out Their Back Door [Chris Castle]

Source: HypeBot
July 29, 2016

Spotify recently announced that it plans to start selling its free users' identifiable information to major ad companies using pattern recognition and other data mining techniques to profile fans before packaging them for resale. Guest post by Chris Castle of Artist Rights Watch Spotify announced today that it is selling its [actually the artist’s] fans to several different “ad tech” companies. Here’s the Spotify press release: Today we have officially enabled programmatic buying across our audio ads globally. We’re partnering with ...
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