June 23, 20215 yr Author comment_858027 There are many recent wonderful articles on, or related to experiencing, Blue, but give the below a read. It’s a stand out. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/17/some-notes-on-attunement The first time I heard her I didn’t hear her at all. My parents did not prepare me. (The natural thing in these situations is to blame the parents.) She was nowhere to be found on their four-foot-tall wood-veneer hi-fi. Given the variety of voices you got to hear on that contraption, her absence was a little strange. Burning Spear and the Beatles; Marley, naturally, and Chaka Khan; Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and James Taylor; Luther Vandross, Anita Baker, Alexander O’Neal. And Dylan, always Dylan. Yet nothing of the Canadian with the open-tuned guitar. I don’t see how she could have been unknown to them—it was her peculiar curse to never really be unknown. Though maybe they had heard her and simply misunderstood... Edited June 23, 20215 yr by blessingx Report
August 12, 20215 yr Author comment_862023 Bowie, bed-hopping and the Blues: the wild times of Dana Gillespie https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/12/bowie-bed-hopping-and-the-blues-the-wild-times-of-dana-gillespie Report
August 17, 20215 yr Author comment_862480 Marc Ribot Makes the Case for Loud Music On the Necessary Pain and Pleasure of Deafening Amplification https://lithub.com/marc-ribot-makes-the-case-for-loud-music Report
August 23, 20215 yr Author comment_862950 “Maybe Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, space monkey, mafia is not the most poetic line that the Piano Man has ever penned.” A personal history of We Didn’t Start the Fire https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/arts/music/billy-joel-we-didnt-start-the-fire.html https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/we-didnt-start-the-first-covid-19-967692/ Report
September 23, 20214 yr Author comment_865111 A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle shines new light on the classic album https://thebaffler.com/latest/a-coltrane-surprise-ho-bynum Report
September 30, 20214 yr comment_865637 Turkey: 'Missing' man joins search party looking for himself Edited September 30, 20214 yr by robm321 Report
October 16, 20214 yr Author comment_866937 Beethoven's Unfinished 10th Symphony Brought to Life by Artificial Intelligence https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/beethovens-unfinished-10th-symphony-brought-to-life-by-artificial-intelligence/ Report
January 21, 20224 yr Author comment_873655 Sonny Rollins on jazz landmark The Bridge at 60 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/21/i-was-so-close-to-the-sky-it-was-spiritual-sonny-rollins-on-jazz-landmark-the-bridge-at-60 Report
February 12, 20224 yr comment_875454 What Your Favorite Sad Dad Band Says About You https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-sad-dad-band-says-about-you Report
February 12, 20224 yr comment_875480 I'm starting to think that I should be in the sad-grandad-band category Report
February 12, 20224 yr comment_875481 Me too... I thought the Pixies was closest to my kind of music in that list (and it's still not that close). Report
February 12, 20224 yr comment_875494 I like Death Cab for Cutie, and that could 99% be my life. That's really depressing. Report
March 24, 20224 yr Author comment_878586 You Should Listen to CDs https://www.wired.com/story/you-should-listen-to-cds/ Report
April 3, 20224 yr Author comment_879305 Steve Albini to Nirvana https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/nirvana Report
April 14, 20224 yr Author comment_880587 TV theme composers savage ‘skip intro’ https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/14/netflix-skip-intro-succession-great-tv-theme-tune-composers-nicholas-britell Report
April 22, 20224 yr comment_881374 Drugs, Planes, Bail: The Wild Story of George Jones’s Lost Recordings https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/arts/music/george-jones-lost-tapes.html Report
April 25, 20224 yr Author comment_881657 Seizing the Means of Audio Production In the 1980s the Egyptian government was determined to stop the spread of the “vulgar” cassette. Report
April 30, 20224 yr comment_882077 Mahler can test the attention span. https://slippedisc.com/2022/04/yannick-stops-mahler-twice-for-phone-flash-and-snoring/ Report
May 27, 20224 yr Author comment_884663 The rise and fall of taxi dance halls, where eager male customers paid their ballroom partners ten cents per song https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/the-dance-business-that-scandalized Report
June 9, 20224 yr Author comment_885799 Encrypting Secrets in Music Using a custom encryption scheme based on musical notation, US musicians smuggled information into and out of the USSR. https://www.wired.com/story/merryl-goldberg-music-encryption-ussr-phantom-orchestra/ Report
September 23, 20223 yr Author comment_894044 A Funny Mishap On A Famous Monk Recording https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/an-audible-and-funny-mishap-on-a Report
December 20, 20223 yr Author comment_900656 The World’s Most Important Musical About the World’s Most Important Band The director Alex Ross Perry workshops his musical “Slanted! Enchanted!,” about Pavement. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/26/the-worlds-most-important-musical-about-the-worlds-most-important-band https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/20/pavement-director-alex-ross-perry-to-make-ridiculous-real-fake-movie-about-us-indie-band Report
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