June 23, 20215 yr Author 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
August 12, 20214 yr Author 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
August 17, 20214 yr Author 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
August 23, 20214 yr Author “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/
September 23, 20214 yr Author A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle shines new light on the classic album https://thebaffler.com/latest/a-coltrane-surprise-ho-bynum
September 30, 20214 yr Turkey: 'Missing' man joins search party looking for himself Edited September 30, 20214 yr by robm321
October 16, 20214 yr Author 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/
January 21, 20224 yr Author 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
February 12, 20224 yr What Your Favorite Sad Dad Band Says About You https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-sad-dad-band-says-about-you
February 12, 20224 yr Me too... I thought the Pixies was closest to my kind of music in that list (and it's still not that close).
February 12, 20224 yr I like Death Cab for Cutie, and that could 99% be my life. That's really depressing.
March 24, 20224 yr Author You Should Listen to CDs https://www.wired.com/story/you-should-listen-to-cds/
April 14, 20224 yr Author 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
April 22, 20224 yr 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
April 25, 20224 yr Author Seizing the Means of Audio Production In the 1980s the Egyptian government was determined to stop the spread of the “vulgar” cassette.
April 30, 20224 yr Mahler can test the attention span. https://slippedisc.com/2022/04/yannick-stops-mahler-twice-for-phone-flash-and-snoring/
May 27, 20224 yr Author 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
June 9, 20224 yr Author 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/
September 23, 20223 yr Author A Funny Mishap On A Famous Monk Recording https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/an-audible-and-funny-mishap-on-a
December 20, 20223 yr Author 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
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