I hope UMG gets skewered over and over again.

The Untold Story of the White House’s Weirdly Hip Record Collection

Jimmy Carter’s grandson is unlocking its mysteries

https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/05/03/the-untold-story-of-the-white-houses-weirdly-hip-record-collection/ 

Vinyl-focused listening bars inspired by ones in Japan are opening across New York, attracting audiophiles and city dwellers looking for a respite from the cacophony outside their doors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/style/vinyl-listening-bars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE4.DoPV.rDeIpFwipn7h&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=on. (gift article) 

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/nvidias-mini-desktop-supercomputer-is-1-000-times-more-powerful-than-your-laptop-and-can-fit-in-your-pocket

...and it's only $3K.

Kind of a big deal or na?

Edited January 8, 20251 yr by robm321

hmmm ^ that link is this v link for me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/movies/jerry-lewis-day-the-clown-cried.html

Maybe he meant these?

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/nvidias-mini-desktop-supercomputer-is-1-000-times-more-powerful-than-your-laptop-and-can-fit-in-your-pocket

 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/nvidias-project-digits-is-a-personal-ai-computer

 

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/

 

Whoa, sorry for that link, Thanks Grahame.

CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music
https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/

🙃

I thought it was a joke.

Great read… 

Jazz Off the Record

In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve never heard.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/slugs-jazz-ethan-iverson/ 

Ex. ‘More than Davis and perhaps even more than Coltrane, Tyner is the true architect of what followed. His signature harmonic device, the fourth chord, was disseminated on Coltrane’s hit recording of “My Favorite Things” in 1961 and widely adopted overnight. Lacking the note that would make a chord either major or minor, fourth chords have a mysterious stasis, refusing to commit to the system of tonality that defined European art music. The effect was both ancient and contemporary: a circle of stones, lit by fire, right next to a jet plane.’

https://theonion.com/pitchfork-gives-music-6-8-1819569318/

Carol Kaye Is Being Honored by the Rock Hall. She Doesn’t Care. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/arts/music/carol-kaye-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok8.jc_B.uWHtQAZ4VieQ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare (gift article) 

The first time Paul McCartney played the Beach Boys’ 1966 album “Pet Sounds,” he was struck by the grand ambition of the music as well the intricacies of tracks like “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.”

“And as I was a bass player,” McCartney noted in a recent interview, “I listened closely to the bass parts.”

Like most people, McCartney assumed the song’s melodically affecting rhythms were the work of Brian Wilson. “Then later I looked at the credits,” he said, “and I saw it wasn’t Brian on bass, it was this girl, Carol — Carol Kaye. That was quite a shock to me. I started looking into what else Carol played on, and she was on everything.”

Do other people hear those McCartney quotes in a bad impression of his voice, or is it just me?

Thurston Moore's (and Neneh Cherry, Joe McPhee, Bryan Coley, and Mats Gustafsson) new book on free jazz.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/28/free-jazz-history-most-maligned-music 

The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/arts/music/iron-mountain-audio-tape-preservation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5U8.T2jL.WEmPfaX9fX5G&smid=nytcore-ios-share (Gift article) 

I found another article covering the tape degradation: https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/11/worlds-important-master-tapes-lost-experts-warn/

Yeah, I was just going to mention, I remember all the stories from Steve Hoffman about having to cook the tapes so they could at least be run through the player. Movies also have all their own issues. 

Frank Gehry’s Buildings Sound as Marvelous as They Look 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/arts/music/frank-gehry-concert-halls-classical-music.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k8.gYMU.3NklH7ScE0v-&smid=nytcore-ios-share (Gift article) 

We caught up with one of the kids who sang on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' He's 72 now.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/19/nx-s1-5640171/a-charlie-brown-christmas-christmastime-is-here-peanuts-schulz 

 

‘I’d never heard anything like it’: the prepared piano revelations of jazz star Jessica Williams

Dave Brubeck called her a great and Mary Lou Williams gave her advice. But the prodigy grew frustrated with jazz, quit and started dismantling her instrument. A superb new reissue showcases her findings

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/05/jessica-williams-jazz-prepared-piano-blue-abstraction

‘We get a lot of requests for it be used in sex scenes’: how Goldfrapp made Ooh La La

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/26/sex-scenes-how-goldfrapp-made-ooh-la-la-baudelaire

Clifford Brown, Trumpeter Whose Brief Life Left a Lasting Mark

He was one of the most talked-about jazz musicians in the 1950s. After he died in a car accident at 25, his influence grew.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/obituaries/clifford-brown-overlooked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MVA.U-8R.KeqzVnsWHn7_&smid=nytcore-ios-share (gift article)

Excellent article on the Michael Jackson estate’s efforts to monetize his complicated legacy.

Jackson’s estate, Reed says, has “very good lawyers, they’ve got infinite money and they have a vast, valuable asset that they need to protect.” They are “monetizing it very capably,” he says. “They’re on a roll.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/magazine/michael-jackson-biopic-estate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bFA.tqzz.Mht9E4SWOcGO&smid=url-share

A Fake Angine De Poitrine Has Been Playing Live In Russia 
https://www.theprp.com/2026/06/08/news/a-fake-angine-de-poitrine-has-been-playing-live-in-russia-they-dont-even-say-its-not-a-real-band/ 

Bill Evans, Nardis, and Broken Time

https://www.thebeliever.net/broken-time/