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Metacuratorship and the CD Revival
I just read A Future History of the CD Revival. Ten years from now, there are clubs based around burning music CDs. The physical discs aren’t just pleasingly shiny. Unlike today’s collaborative,...
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Changing Year: The Music Edition
Arcade Fire won the Grammy for album of the year (via HuffPo and lots of other places). Are they indie? Sort of. Did they deserve it? Well, it’s a very good album, and to criticize an album called The...
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Amazon Cloud Drive and Player
Amazon Cloud Drive is your hard drive in the cloud. You can use it, along with Amazon Cloud Player, as a music locker. There’s coverage all over the place. NPR is mainly positive, but points out that...
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Music Spotlight Turns From Spotify to Facebook
Facebook’s music plans involve Spotify, others, revealed Om Malik, thus setting the tone for this week’s conversation about online music. Last week’s conversation was more about Spotify itself, with...
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Spotify Arrives – By Flying Pig?
I was among those who thought that flying pigs would arrive in the USA before Spotify did. Well, Spotify has arrived. The pigs probably did too, when I was too distracted by Google+ and SpotifyUSA to...
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Smart People Disagreeing is Good
For example, Ian Rogers disagrees with Kurt Vonnegut. I’m glad that each of these smart people did the right thing for himself, and shared the rightness with others. Filed under: Web Tagged: iancr,...
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Google Music: Initially Underwhelmed, But…
Google Music launched to a rather lukewarm reception. Don’t Be Too Disappointed By Google Music’s Lackluster Debut was the advice from TechCrunch. Here’s How Google Music Plans to Compete So Late in...
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2011 Music
It’s mid-December, I think I have one review of the year post in me, and as you can see, that one review is of the year in music. So, on with remarks about music itself, and about how I access it these...
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NPR: It’s Not Just For Radio Any More
When I listen to the radio in the car here near DC, I’m usually tuned to WAMU on 88.5. That’s one of the local NPR stations. For readers outside the USA, NPR stands for National Public Radio. That may...
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There’s a Hole in My Spotify
I’m gradually putting together a Spotify playlist of 50 favorite tracks. I would be halfway through if every track I’ve tried to add was available on Spotify. But 5 of them are not. Here’s the missing...
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Thompson Family Album
My father is one of the greats to ever step on the stage My mother has the most beautiful voice in the world Those two lines open the album Family. The writer is Teddy Thompson, son of Richard and...
View ArticleCrazy Ex-Girlfriend: It’s Bad… in a Great Way
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (CXG) is my favorite current TV show. That might sound like much, given that we don’t have a TV, but please stay with me for a paragraph or two and perhaps a video. The CXG is...
View ArticleScott Hutchison RIP
Scott Hutchison was Frightened Rabbit. That was the nickname given to shy young Scott by his mother. That was the name under which he started making music. Frightened Rabbit became a duo when Scott was...
View ArticleAbout That Bass
What do I need to learn bass guitar? A bass, obviously. But what kind of bass? And what else? I asked myself those questions a month or two ago. How about an acoustic bass guitar? That would mean that...
View ArticleMusic 2018
Sorry, but I have to start with the death of Scott Hutchison, even though I posted about it at the time. There was no 2018 album that hit me like Midnight Organ Fight, the masterpiece from Scott’s...
View ArticleTwo Takes on Number Ones
Remember singles? I remember them as 7-inch vinyl discs, with a song on each side, usually bought for the “a-side”. Since then, they have taken many other forms: 12-inchers, cassingles, downloads,...
View ArticleSenior ELK Plays Bass on YouTube
My favorite YouTubers are ELKs: they are enthusiastic, likeable, and knowledgeable. Many of them are young, but youth is not necessary. Today’s ELK is even older than I am. Leland Sklar has been a...
View ArticleRick the Musical ELK
An ELK is a content creator who is enthusiastic, likeable, and knowledgeable. One such is Rick Beato: musician, teacher, and much more. Rick has just posted to his YouTube channel the 100th entry in...
View ArticleBeeswing: Richard Thompson’s Memoir
Richard Thompson is my favorite musician. Between 1967 to 1975 he was involved with some of my all-time favorite music. So I read his memoir, Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975, as...
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