A Testament of Hope -
The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Thursday, 18 July 2019
quote [ In the USSR during the cold war era, the music people could listen to was ruthlessly controlled by the State. But a secret underground subculture of music lovers and bootleggers defied the censor. Incredibly, they built their own recording machines and used an extraordinary means of copying forbidden jazz, rock 'n' roll and banned Russian music to risk making their own records. ]
Bootleggers secretly cut forbidden music onto discarded x-rays.
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Sunday, 7 July 2019
quote [ When Rob Loonhouse (born Robin Yeatman) started rubbing shoulders and banging heads with bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, he was gainfully employed as a wedding photographer. The photographer-by-day had a not-so-secret life which made him somewhat of a minor celebrity, or at least oddity. ]
I played air guitar and the place shook
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Sunday, 30 June 2019
quote [ It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business ? and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire. ]
I follow the music industry fairly closely, particularly the technology and business of studio recording, and I was not aware of the impact of the fire described in the NY Times. The loss of so many master recordings makes me sad.
Link is to a summary article on the Vice website - a link to the original longer article in the New York Times is in the first sentence of the Vice article.
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Friday, 28 June 2019
quote [ For all their anti-conformity politics, says Ngo, the punks ?didn?t recognize the ways that their racism, their orientalism, were going into how they imagined her character and her policies. They were somehow astonished that if they came in and destroyed her restaurant, she might not want them back.? ]
Parallel societies or deeply tolerant? Probably neither, eh?
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Thursday, 27 June 2019
quote [ Think the Clash were rebels? National Wake's multiracial lineup set them on a collision course with the South African establishment in the late 1970s and early 80s ]
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Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few -
Robert B. Reich presents a paradigm-shifting, clear-eyed examination of a political and economic status quo that no longer serves the people.
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Wednesday, 12 June 2019
Celebrating a world of heavy metal.
Thumb is the song "Wolf Totem" by the band The HU. A blend of traditional Mongolian throat-singing and metal. Come with me, brothers and sisters, let us drown the world in blood and fire together. More in extended.
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Monday, 10 June 2019
quote [ The two musicians talk Motown, drum machines, and Marvin Gaye ]
Some musical emotions.
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Thursday, 23 May 2019
quote [ The enduring role of the contests in the novelty songwriting world?a phenomenon that started with Dr. Demento and today reflects one of its late, great icons. ]
It?s not a song that the label will push
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Sunday, 19 May 2019
quote [ Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies. Carmel Raz on the Scottish artist's original, idiosyncratic, and occasionally bewildering aesthetics. ]
You might think I'm crazy, but I don't even care
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Thursday, 16 May 2019
quote [ Pondering the way that gaps in Billboard?s music charts have, for decades, created opportunities for bands and artists to maximize their exposure. ]
Billboard charts they want that number one spot
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This Is an Uprising -
How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
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