March 19, 201412 yr Author comment_628278 Imagine, for a moment, football commentators who refuse to explain formations and plays. Or a TV cooking show that never mentions the ingredients. Or an expert on cars who refuses to look under the hood of an automobile. These examples may sound implausible, perhaps ridiculous. But something comparable is happening in the field of music journalism...http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/18/music-criticism-has-degenerated-into-lifestyle-reporting.html Edited March 19, 201412 yr by blessingx Report
March 22, 201412 yr Author comment_628860 Why Vinyl Is the Only Worthwhile Way to Own Music http://gizmodo.com/why-vinyl-is-the-only-worthwhile-way-to-own-music-1527750499 Report
March 23, 201412 yr Author comment_629020 Loving the Opera in HD http://prospect.org/article/loving-opera-hd?Src=longreads Report
March 29, 201412 yr Author comment_629582 Oh, the Unbelievable Shit You Get Writing About Music as a Woman http://jezebel.com/oh-the-unbelievable-shit-you-get-writing-about-music-a-1547444869 Report
May 21, 201412 yr Author comment_636917 The future of digital music may hinge on Elvis http://qz.com/210189/the-future-of-pandora-spotify-sirius-xm-may-hinge-on-elvis/ Report
June 3, 201412 yr Author comment_638846 In Defense of Schlock Musichttp://www.vulture.com/2014/05/jody-rosen-in-defense-of-schlock-music.html Report
June 8, 201412 yr comment_639862 WSJ series "Anatomy of a Song" does LZ's "Whole Lotta Love". Great comments from Page and Kramer. Be sure and check out the slide show for some nice studio pics and the video for a rough mix. http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-making-of-led-zeppelins-whole-lotta-love-1401390281 Report
June 21, 201412 yr Author comment_641793 "Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, first published in 2007, was a counterintuitive masterstroke. Wilson’s gamble—that even people who hate Céline Dion would be curious to read an entire book about why they hate her..." http://www.publicbooks.org/artmedia/love-factionally Report
July 3, 201412 yr comment_643561 Universal's Audible Watermarkhttp://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermark Nothing like adding crap to my copy of Take Five - Just like Mr Brubeck intended. Report
July 3, 201412 yr comment_643563 Nothing like adding crap to my copy of Take Five - Just like Mr Brubeck intended. Take 5.31221 Report
July 3, 201412 yr comment_643564 Universal's Audible Watermarkhttp://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermark Nothing like adding crap to my copy of Take Five - Just like Mr Brubeck intended. Fucking hell. Report
July 31, 201412 yr comment_647081 We Are All Glassholes now. http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/31/5955973/we-are-all-glassholes-now Report
August 2, 201412 yr Author comment_647240 Wax and Wane: The Tough Realities Behind Vinyl's Comeback http://t.co/IMxfT5XDAz Report
August 3, 201412 yr Author comment_647367 Jazz Age Slang http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm Report
August 5, 201412 yr Author comment_647550 Just what the NSA needs... Hear Conversations via Plants or Potato Chip Bags http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804 Edited August 5, 201412 yr by blessingx Report
August 6, 201412 yr Author comment_647701 The Many Battles of Nina Simone http://feedly.com/k/1qX5o7s Report
August 9, 201412 yr comment_648042 Distortion of Sound http://www.youtube.com/user/DistortionOfSound?v=mDZcz-V29_M Enjoy! Report
August 11, 201412 yr Author comment_648212 The Brazilian Bus Magnate Who’s Buying Up All the World’s Vinyl Records http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html Report
August 11, 201412 yr Author comment_648261 Next Bond villain (wreck the world economy by artificially inflating vinyl prices) Report
August 11, 201412 yr comment_648271 Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr Bond, I expect you to listen to every version of all the albums of Roberto Carlos! Report
August 15, 201412 yr Author comment_648715 Monk: The High Priest of Jazzhttp://reprints.longform.org/monk-lapham#chapter-117300 Report
November 3, 201411 yr Author comment_658979 What's With This Surge in Jazz Bashing? http://t.co/PCIolm911L Report
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