blessingx Posted March 19, 2014 Author Report Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted March 22, 2014 Author Report Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted March 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 Loving the Opera in HD http://prospect.org/article/loving-opera-hd?Src=longreads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted March 29, 2014 Author Report Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted May 21, 2014 Author Report Share 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/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted June 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2014 In Defense of Schlock Musichttp://www.vulture.com/2014/05/jody-rosen-in-defense-of-schlock-music.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironbut Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted June 21, 2014 Author Report Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymad Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullguise Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share Posted July 3, 2014 Nothing like adding crap to my copy of Take Five - Just like Mr Brubeck intended. Take 5.31221 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlSeibert Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share Posted July 3, 2014 Ditto. Fucking Hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted July 31, 2014 Report Share Posted July 31, 2014 We Are All Glassholes now. http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/31/5955973/we-are-all-glassholes-now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted August 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2014 Wax and Wane: The Tough Realities Behind Vinyl's Comeback http://t.co/IMxfT5XDAz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted August 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 Jazz Age Slang http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted August 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 The Many Battles of Nina Simone http://feedly.com/k/1qX5o7s 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnwmclean Posted August 9, 2014 Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 Distortion of Sound http://www.youtube.com/user/DistortionOfSound?v=mDZcz-V29_M Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironbut Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Good one Ric! Can you say Horder! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Next Bond villain (wreck the world economy by artificially inflating vinyl prices) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Can you say Horder! Hodor! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted August 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Monk: The High Priest of Jazzhttp://reprints.longform.org/monk-lapham#chapter-117300 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted November 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 What's With This Surge in Jazz Bashing? http://t.co/PCIolm911L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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