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LATEST ARTICLES ( 126 )

• Black Plastic Testimonials

  

  Two of our contributors here are intrepid crate-diggers, as avid fans of the music of past eras tend to be. Your host was such a person once but that was a... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• CONCERT REVIEW: Huun-Huur-Tu in Toronto, November 20, 2014

  

  by Allister Thompson I have a thing for Central Asian music, which I wrote about in this piece, so I won’t recap here why it’s so appealing to me. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Post-Rock Pioneers: Disco Inferno

  

  I am pleased to add another contributor to the site, Matthew Sweeney. Some avid music fans will have come across his fine blog, Foreign Accents. I’m pleased to... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• CONCERT REVIEW: Wishbone Ash in Glasgow, November 13, 2014

  

  It appears intrepid contributor Thomas, led by his personal prog-siren Colin, is going to attend a show in Glasgow every other day for the duration,... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Fall 2014 Netaudio Revue 2

  

  Got a very big but high-quality roundup for you this November, 2014. Talk about an overflowing cornucopia of electronic delights. Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Music (and Streaming) for Money: A Real-World Perspective

  

  by Allister Thompson Normally this site’s content is reserved for one thing: writing nice things about music we like. And it will stay that way. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Five Classic Albums by Female Solo Artists That Deserve Your Attention

  

  by Simon Slator A few months ago, while collecting my son from his swimming lesson, I found myself walking along the school’s corridors and looking at photos... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• CONCERT REVIEW: Pendragon in Glasgow, November 6, 2014

  

  by Thomas Mathie There haven’t been many concert reviews yet on Make Your Own Taste, but our intrepid contributor Thomas is quickly rectifying that with this... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• CONCERT REVIEW: Steve Rothery in Glasgow, November 5, 2014

  

  by Thomas Mathie “Even Richard Dawkins knows that Steve Rothery is God” … this was the statement that confronted me last night. It was printed on the back of th... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Two-year Reflections

  

  Well, I made it through another year of bloggin’. Every week at least one lengthy post goes up, and that’s something to be proud of. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• 10 Great Rock Albums from the Desolate 1990s

  

  Time for a list because as all observers of the Internet well know, if you make an article into a list, far more people will read it. But I do try to make mine... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Music of Middle-Earth, Part 2

  

  by Thomas Mathie About a month back I wrote of my love of music connected with the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien. I finished the article by stating my intention of... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• THE CHURCH – Further/Deeper (2014) Neo-psych’s Masters Recharged

  

  I almost didn’t review this album. Make no mistake, I completed my purchase with an eagerness I reserve for very few musical acts. Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• PHILLIP WILKERSON – Wondrous Encounters (2014)

  

  Sometimes you just vibe with a certain person’s music; you don’t really know why, you just experience a more profound reaction than you do to the music of other... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Fall 2014 Netaudio Revue 1

  

  Make Your Own Taste’s submissions processes went into full crisis mode during the summer of 2014; success is hard to handle sometimes, and this site getting ont... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Marc Stapleford – Eight Dreams (2014)

  

  It’s about time I reviewed something from Happy Puppy Records. It’s a true netlabel pioneer; it’s Canadian, like moi; and its proprietor is a fine gentleman. Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• QUIET FRIENDS: A 30th Anniversary Tribute to Steve Roach’s Structures from...

  

  by Allister Thompson Tribute albums suck. Yep, and they were really big in the nineties, weren’t they? For every act from the sixties and seventies you could pa... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• TESS SAID SO – I Did That Tomorrow (2014)

  

  Preserved Sound is a label filling an important role in the online music world. There are myriad labels putting out electronic or “experimental” music, and let’... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The GENESIS Top-5 Album Panel Convenes

  

  Genesis is one of the most popular progressive rock bands of all time. Actually, one of the most popular bands, period. The band released a lot of albums in ver... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Recomposed by MAX RICHTER: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2014)

  

  by Allister Thompson The worlds of classical and electronic music are strange and uneasy bedfellows with a long history going back to the days of the first... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC