blessingx Posted March 19, 2014 Author Report Posted March 19, 2014 (edited) 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, 2014 by blessingx
blessingx Posted March 22, 2014 Author Report Posted March 22, 2014 Why Vinyl Is the Only Worthwhile Way to Own Music http://gizmodo.com/why-vinyl-is-the-only-worthwhile-way-to-own-music-1527750499
blessingx Posted March 23, 2014 Author Report Posted March 23, 2014 Loving the Opera in HD http://prospect.org/article/loving-opera-hd?Src=longreads
blessingx Posted March 29, 2014 Author Report Posted March 29, 2014 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
blessingx Posted May 21, 2014 Author Report Posted May 21, 2014 The future of digital music may hinge on Elvis http://qz.com/210189/the-future-of-pandora-spotify-sirius-xm-may-hinge-on-elvis/
blessingx Posted June 3, 2014 Author Report Posted June 3, 2014 In Defense of Schlock Musichttp://www.vulture.com/2014/05/jody-rosen-in-defense-of-schlock-music.html
ironbut Posted June 8, 2014 Report Posted June 8, 2014 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 1
blessingx Posted June 21, 2014 Author Report Posted June 21, 2014 "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
mikeymad Posted July 3, 2014 Report Posted July 3, 2014 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.
skullguise Posted July 3, 2014 Report Posted July 3, 2014 Nothing like adding crap to my copy of Take Five - Just like Mr Brubeck intended. Take 5.31221
Dusty Chalk Posted July 3, 2014 Report Posted July 3, 2014 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.
Grahame Posted July 31, 2014 Report Posted July 31, 2014 We Are All Glassholes now. http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/31/5955973/we-are-all-glassholes-now
blessingx Posted August 2, 2014 Author Report Posted August 2, 2014 Wax and Wane: The Tough Realities Behind Vinyl's Comeback http://t.co/IMxfT5XDAz
blessingx Posted August 3, 2014 Author Report Posted August 3, 2014 Jazz Age Slang http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm
blessingx Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Posted August 5, 2014 (edited) 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, 2014 by blessingx
blessingx Posted August 6, 2014 Author Report Posted August 6, 2014 The Many Battles of Nina Simone http://feedly.com/k/1qX5o7s 1
johnwmclean Posted August 9, 2014 Report Posted August 9, 2014 Distortion of Sound http://www.youtube.com/user/DistortionOfSound?v=mDZcz-V29_M Enjoy!
blessingx Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Posted August 11, 2014 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
blessingx Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Posted August 11, 2014 Next Bond villain (wreck the world economy by artificially inflating vinyl prices)
Grahame Posted August 11, 2014 Report Posted August 11, 2014 Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr Bond, I expect you to listen to every version of all the albums of Roberto Carlos! 3
blessingx Posted August 15, 2014 Author Report Posted August 15, 2014 Monk: The High Priest of Jazzhttp://reprints.longform.org/monk-lapham#chapter-117300 1
blessingx Posted November 3, 2014 Author Report Posted November 3, 2014 What's With This Surge in Jazz Bashing? http://t.co/PCIolm911L
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