March 19, 201412 yr Author 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
March 22, 201412 yr Author Why Vinyl Is the Only Worthwhile Way to Own Music http://gizmodo.com/why-vinyl-is-the-only-worthwhile-way-to-own-music-1527750499
March 23, 201412 yr Author Loving the Opera in HD http://prospect.org/article/loving-opera-hd?Src=longreads
March 29, 201412 yr Author 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
May 21, 201412 yr Author The future of digital music may hinge on Elvis http://qz.com/210189/the-future-of-pandora-spotify-sirius-xm-may-hinge-on-elvis/
June 3, 201412 yr Author In Defense of Schlock Musichttp://www.vulture.com/2014/05/jody-rosen-in-defense-of-schlock-music.html
June 8, 201412 yr 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
June 21, 201412 yr Author "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
July 3, 201411 yr 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.
July 3, 201411 yr Nothing like adding crap to my copy of Take Five - Just like Mr Brubeck intended. Take 5.31221
July 3, 201411 yr 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.
July 31, 201411 yr We Are All Glassholes now. http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/31/5955973/we-are-all-glassholes-now
August 2, 201411 yr Author Wax and Wane: The Tough Realities Behind Vinyl's Comeback http://t.co/IMxfT5XDAz
August 5, 201411 yr Author 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, 201411 yr by blessingx
August 9, 201411 yr Distortion of Sound http://www.youtube.com/user/DistortionOfSound?v=mDZcz-V29_M Enjoy!
August 11, 201411 yr Author 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
August 11, 201411 yr Author Next Bond villain (wreck the world economy by artificially inflating vinyl prices)
August 11, 201411 yr Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr Bond, I expect you to listen to every version of all the albums of Roberto Carlos!
August 15, 201411 yr Author Monk: The High Priest of Jazzhttp://reprints.longform.org/monk-lapham#chapter-117300
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