Archive for October, 2009
WFMU Record + CD Fair this weekend
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Friday to Sunday October 23 to 25
125 West 18th NYC
All the details are here: WFMU Record + CD Fair Includes dealer list and .pdf of the table placements. Poopsters Zip and Greak will be at there own tables selling (and, no doubt, buying). Others are sure to want to join them.
Could it be that Bass Culture is in trouble?
Saturday, October 10th, 2009Wayne&Wax has several posts and discussions jumping off from this post: Mobile Music & Treble Culture. With the proliferation of bad sound on iPods and phones, can we see a march towards treble in the way we consume music? Here are parts twoand three of the string. It’s an interesting exercise, thinking about the ways in [...]
One nation under a Moog.
Saturday, October 10th, 2009Simon Reynolds in The Guardian on the development of synth pop (in the UK in particular) Takes in quite a bit for a mainstream pub: One nation under a Moog | Music | The Guardian (Reynolds often publishes the uncut version on his site later.
New Brisbane bridge named after Go-Betweens
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Not content with having critical success, these attention seeking songsmiths have finally been given the ultimate accolade, having a major civil engineering project named after them: New Brisbane bridge named after Go-Betweens
The White Album, Heard in 1968 and Pronounced Boring. And Now?
Friday, October 2nd, 2009This weeks NYT Popcast has a fascinating discussion between Ben Sisario and one of my favorite writers, Nik Cohn. Really good insights into how the times influenced Cohn’s review in The Times back in ‘68. I found myself nodding in agreement and saying “Yes! You put your finger on it!” The White Album, Heard in [...]
RIP Mister Magic
Friday, October 2nd, 2009He died this morning, apparently of a heart attack. A true hip hop pioneer, one whose show, “Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack“, I listened to religiously whenever I was close to the signal (and sometimes when I wasn’t). Somewhere in the stacks I have a beat up cassette tape of one of his mixes (this is not [...]