STACK Magazine December Issue 122

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Jeff Jenkins, Emily Kelly, Simon Lukic, Chris
Murray, Denise Hylands, Michael Dwyer, Billy
Pinnell, Dan Rule, Doug Wallen, Simon Winkler, and
Melbourne’s public transport system for creating
enough delays that pages could be proofed and laid
out at all hours of the morning and evening.
Contributors
pg 10 The Music
Our verdict on the Foo Fighters Sonic Highways,
plus we sit down with Jack Ladder.
pg 12 Cover Story
Nickelback return with a new album,
No Fixed Address.
pg 14 Artist of Note
Paul Kelly gathers his friends, from Vika and
Linda Bull, Dan Sultan and Kira Pura and others,
for a soulful session to capture his new songs.
pg 18 STACK Music Reviews
New releases from TV on the Radio, Trust
Punks, Christine Anu, Cannibal Corpse, Anthrax,
Smashing Pumpkins, The Bennies, Black Cab, The
Wu-Tang Clan, Dels, RL Grime, Aretha Franklin,
Neil Young, Duke Robillard, Shane Nicholson.
pg 24 Reissues
Michael Dwyer on Dylan’s fabled Basement
Tapes, KISS and Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons.
STACK MUSIC
DECEMBER 2014
DECEMBER 2014 JB Hi-Fi
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Red Hot and
Arthur Russell
A tribute to one of the
most original and
innovative musicians of the
last 50 years from Red Hot: everyone from
Jose Gonzalez to Hot Chip, Phosphorescent
to Sufjan Stephens.
The Rolling
Stones
Live at Hampton
Coliseum 1981
(DVD)
A DVD gem from
their early ’80s
purple patch: great
post-tour viewing.
THIS MONTH
TOM SAYS!
You know what I love? The
CD players in a car. When
you put the CD right up by
the slot, it actually takes
it out of your hand, like
it’s hungry. You feel like it
wants more silver discs.”
Headline to go here....
On My Speakers...
The cover of STACK Music is a promotion for Nickelback’s
new album No Fixed Address by Universal Music.
Another Year
of Change...
S o another year of changes, and another
year is over.This year we’ve seen
streaming increasingly begin to
dominate the music landscape, although
the dear old physical CD is holding its
own. What’s been far more surprising
in the last two years has been a
resurgence in vinyl – on page 14 of
this issue we speak to Paul Kelly
(who I was amazed to learn has
never owned a turntable). He’s
released his new album Merri Soul
Sessions as a series of vinyl singles
and as a full length vinyl album.
Speaking to Kelly, he alluded more to
the tactile nature of the format than
the sound quality. In this oh-so-virtual
world, it seems the physically tangible
remains an increasing novelty. Meanwhile,
JB Hi-Fi keeps all the bases covered: the
streaming service available at JB Hi-Fi NOW has
gone from strength to strength this year with an
ever-deepening catalogue representing very strong value for music lovers. Similarly, the demand for
vinyl has been met with stores, with key locations creating specific vinyl sections with really diverse
ranges (see our profile of JB Hi-Fi Adelaide on page 14).Thanks for reading STACK in 2014: we’ve
grown out of the limitations of physical space as never before this year. I hope you’ve checked
out our re-jigged website at , liked us on Facebook and downloaded the
STACK app where you can listen to music via JB Hi-FI NOW as you read. We’ve busted very
delicate parts of our bodies making STACK this year, so we hope you dug it. See you in 2015!
Jonathan Alley, Music Editor
Smith St
Band
Throw Me In the
River
More great stories
put to more incisive and fiery
accompaniment – listen and you’ll
be a part of it.
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