David Gilmour performs at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, Calif. on Oct. 25, 2024. Derek Tobias/STAFF. LOS ANGELES — The house went dark just after 7:50 p.m. and the thousands of fans in attendance focused their collective attention on the stage at Intuit Dome. Then, from out of the…

David Gilmour, “Luck and Strange.” It’s been a decade since the final Pink Floyd album, the largely instrumental The Endless River, and almost that long since the last solo studio album by David Gilmour, Rattle That Lock. Much like Randy Newman, to whom he bears little artistic resemblance, Gilmour…

Eminem First, as a follow-up to last week’s column of “Eurovision” favorites, an update: The final isn’t until noon on May 11, but of our top 10, only eight countries are still in it. Iceland and San Marino won’t be there. San Marino was easily my second-favorite, but its…

Roger Waters, “The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux.” Remasters are common, but most of the time, aside from the mixing, you really can’t tell the difference from the original. But Dark Side of the Moon Redux by Roger Waters is not that. The Dark Side of the Moon Redux…

Pink Floyd, “Dark Side of the Moon” 50th anniversary box set. In the 1960s, communication theorist Marshall Mcluhan famously declared “the medium is the message.” Mcluhan’s point was that the means by which an idea or piece of “content” is transmitted is at least as important as the content…

Roger Waters performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2022. Derek Tobias/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Near the conclusion of the first of two concerts at Chase Center, rock and roll legend Roger Waters told a story about how he wrote the following song, “Two Suns in…

Pink Floyd, “Animals” (2018 Remix). One of the hills I am prepared to die on is that Animals is the best album by Pink Floyd. Animals [2018 Remix] Pink Floyd Legacy Recordings, Sept. 16 10/10 My relationship with the 1977 album stretches back more than 30 years, and I know…

Dolly Parton performs at the UK Country Music Festival in an undated photo. Andrew Putler/Redferns. In two of the last three years I’ve attempted, with minimal success, to do an Easter column. (I apparently ignored it completely in 2020. There was other stuff going on in April of 2020…

Pink Floyd, courtesy. Last week I half-joking proposed some songs to use to jam Russian military radios. Half-joking because, well, seriously, that would be amazing, but I didn’t actually think it would help all that much. Since then, however, it’s been revealed that Russian troops did some really horrible…

Many of us know a “record nerd,” a subset of aficionados with encyclopedic knowledge of and acerbic opinions about some musical niche or other. Record nerds wax poetically on the merits of the recording console at Sunset Sound, or the natural reverb in Abbey Road’s studio two. But many…