blessingx Posted June 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2021 (edited) 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, 2021 by blessingx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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blessingx Posted August 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted August 17, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted August 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 “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/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted September 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2021 A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle shines new light on the classic album https://thebaffler.com/latest/a-coltrane-surprise-ho-bynum 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robm321 Posted September 30, 2021 Report Share Posted September 30, 2021 (edited) Turkey: 'Missing' man joins search party looking for himself Edited September 30, 2021 by robm321 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted October 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 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/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted January 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2022 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavitsk Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 What Your Favorite Sad Dad Band Says About You https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-sad-dad-band-says-about-you 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpedo Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 I'm starting to think that I should be in the sad-grandad-band category 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 Me too... I thought the Pixies was closest to my kind of music in that list (and it's still not that close). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beefy Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 I like Death Cab for Cutie, and that could 99% be my life. That's really depressing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted March 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2022 You Should Listen to CDs https://www.wired.com/story/you-should-listen-to-cds/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted April 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2022 Steve Albini to Nirvana https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/nirvana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted April 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavitsk Posted April 22, 2022 Report Share Posted April 22, 2022 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted April 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2022 Seizing the Means of Audio Production In the 1980s the Egyptian government was determined to stop the spread of the “vulgar” cassette. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavitsk Posted April 28, 2022 Report Share Posted April 28, 2022 For classical music fans (click for the whole thread 🧵) ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robm321 Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 Mahler can test the attention span. https://slippedisc.com/2022/04/yannick-stops-mahler-twice-for-phone-flash-and-snoring/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted May 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2022 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 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted June 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 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/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted September 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 A Funny Mishap On A Famous Monk Recording https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/an-audible-and-funny-mishap-on-a 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted December 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2022 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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