quote [ Visiting a north Virginia thrift shop, Scheible happened upon a cassette recording of a multi-part audio love letter recorded by an unnamed woman. Her voice is an emotional mix of sincerity, loneliness and age. ]

quote [ piece of early-Fame young-girl melodic pop from Jackie, whom Kent speculate may be the early Fame back-up singer Jackie Weaver who had even earlier enjoyed one teeny style 45 for Chess (#1797) way back in 1961. ]

quote [ How the music industry?s TV-driven direct marketing strategies revived vintage hits, salvaged floundering careers, and brought us Zamfir?s epic pan flute. ]

quote [ The pedal steel guitar is, for many, inextricable from its roots in country music ? but its well runs much deeper than providing some smooth twang. ]

quote [ Music mogul Merck Mercuriadis raised hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the rights to hits by Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars. Is he? ]

quote [ Celebrating weird, wonderful, and somewhat less heralded holiday music as we continue our yuletide celebration. Bring headphones with a built-in Santa hat. ]

quote [ I'm gonna have my 6th graders perform it just like this for the concert. ]

quote [ Although the idea of crafting centralized and standardized metadata is daunting, many say it?s not something to give up on. Aside from cleaning up record-keeping errors, it would help prevent other musicians from ?dripping pennies,? and connect them with the money they?re due. ]

quote [ The rotten etymology of Punk - a word used to describe music for centuries ]

quote [ They bicker. They stay in separate hotels and record without ever being in the same room. But Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend can still conjure old magic.

Daltrey and Townshend have a new album, simply called Who. It?s only the second album from the band in 37 years. Through the magic of modern technology, Daltrey and Townshend recorded it earlier this year in London and Los Angeles without ever being in the same room. ]