Pop Music Too Loud and All Sounds the Same: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/26/pop-music-too-loud_n_1705309.html

Get off my lawn.

The End of Jazz: How America’s most vibrant music became a relic http://buff.ly/ShlaqG

How to Sing, While Only Slightly Overthinking It http://m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/how-to-sing-while-only-slightly-overthinking-it/265879/

Hearing Music as Beautiful Is a Learned Trait http://m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/02/study-hearing-music-as-beautiful-is-a-learned-trait/273185/

The Winners History of Rock and Roll

A video, but still...
Digital Show & Tell 

Noise Kills: When Everyday Sound Becomes Torture http://www.buzzfeed.com/joycecohen/noise-kills-when-everyday-sound-becomes-torture

How Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan saved country music  http://buff.ly/11zYl5z

100 years on: Igor Stravinsky on The Rite of Spring http://feedly.com/k/13VtnoF "It is scarcely believable that The Rite of Spring, and before it The Firebird and Petrushka, were written by a composer still in his twenties, and that this was only slightly more than a decade after the death of Johannes Brahms."

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Huey Lewis's Old, Weird America

http://feedly.com/k/12nndK2

Wanted: Macho Men with Mustaches http://www.believermag.com/issues/201307/?read=article_pasulka

Brian Eno: Taking Manhattan (By Strategy)

Brian Eno: Taking Manhattan (By Strategy)

 

Thanks! An excellent read of a period I lived through via many of the albums mentioned. A nice fleshing-out of some of the music a 70's midwest kid with personality issues came to love.

Remembering Harry Nilsson: American Beatle, filthy drunk, and the great lost music genius of the 1970s http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9529179/the-legacy-harry-nilsson

Thanks for that Ric. Great read, the book is on my list now too

NP and if you haven't seen the recent doc "Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?" it's pretty great. On Netflix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoFpvG5fb-0

Sonny Rollins, the Colossus
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/sony-rollins-the-colossus-20130819

For one brief moment, Leif Garrett was the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and 98 Degrees all rolled into one pretty little toy boy...
http://www.laweekly.com/2000-07-27/news/leifland/full/

An Argument With Instruments: On Charles Mingus http://feedly.com/k/19rWiSI

For her first Rolling Stone cover story, Miley wanted to do something fun. "I thought about going to play laser tag," she says. "But laser tag sucks. And we could have gone bowling, but what are we, 90?" Naturally, the next idea was getting a tattoo.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/miley-cyrus-confessions-of-pops-wildest-child-20130924/?print=true#ixzz2fw9zxSA1

Shostakovich, Leningrad, and the greatest story ever played http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9110221/leningrad-siege-and-symphony-by-brian-moynahan-review/

Listening to Nirvana with a Two-Year-Old http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/01/nirvana-for-two-year-olds.html

Moe Tucker - Snapshots of the Velvet Underground
 

Richard Strauss was wooed, rejected and then hounded by the Nazis... http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/richard-strauss-reluctant-nazi-collaborator

The Complete Guide to Listening to Music at Work http://qz.com/185337/the-complete-guide-to-listening-to-music-at-work/