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Category Archives: Music
Denounced by the Lawyer for Rush
Now that doesn’t happen every day. Yesterday I was part of a panel on sampling and copyright called “Cramping My Sampling” at the Pop and Policy Conference. The panel was set up for each person to give a 5-7 minute spiel and then the panelists talked with one another, after which the floor was opened …
Blast from the Past (2)
In today’s New York Times, an article on obscene recordings from the 19th century (login may be required). In researching The Audible Past, I knew these existed, but they were not easy to come by, at least in the hallowed archives of the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian. But now, you can own them …
Midweek Update
Allofmp3.com, R.I.P. I think I still had $5 in my account there. Why 1967 wasn’t as awesome as boomers say it was.
Amon Tobin
We caught Amon Tobin and Ghislain Poirer at Metropolis last night during jazz fest. Yes, tickets were $40, but we got three solid hours of DJ entertainment. I hadn’t heard Poirer before and liked his stuff a lot — more conventional than Tobin but with a good feel, as he mixed DJing with a live …
Deep Purple in Space
Full disclosure: the last post came courtesy of Music Thing. This one comes courtesy of Emily Thompson. I rarely find this stuff on my own. If you scroll down through this article on the sonic characteristics of different atmospheres, you can hear a Deep Purple riff run through filters that model the atmospheres of Earth, …
Here Come the Leaping Lesbians
For each academic year since I’ve become a professor, the end of classes has been punctuated by a rock show. I have fond memories of sitting on the Carnegie-Mellon lawn in Pittsburgh, lazily watching a lukewarm set by Superchunk. Another year we drove to Cleveland to watch Shiner (one of my favorite bands at the …