Music

Required Listening: Hot Fives and Sevens

02.22.2012 Listening

I have never understood how people who claim to love rock or pop can also claim to hate jazz. Jazz and blues are the source of virtually all American popular music. And the source of all that is mostly contained in a little set of records called Hot Fives and Sevens. Louis Armstrong did not [...]

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Required Listening: Rush’s Hemispheres

02.08.2012 Music

This Required Listening guest post is by Andrew Marvin ——————————— Over the course of almost four decades, Rush has traversed several genres, including heavy metal, synth-driven pop, alternative, and modern rock. However, they are most fondly known by many as the high lords of progressive rock music. Progressive rock rose to prominence in the 1960s [...]

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Required Listening: And Now For Something Entirely Different: Animusic

02.01.2012 Music

This Required Listening contribution is from Penny Mattern. In today’s recommendation she make case for an original musical and visual work in what may become a significant future musical genre. ——————————— A friend of mine some years ago, a software engineer, told me about a video he had seen and had been mightily impressed by, [...]

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Wearing An iPod Nano As A Watch And Prototyping The Future

01.31.2012 Future

I am so predictable. When Apple released the 6th generation of the iPod Nano and Steve Jobs joked that people would start wearing them as watches, I instantly went on alert. It made perfect sense. And very soon many adapters/bands/cases became available to do just that. I’ll review one later this week. But I drew [...]

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Required Listening: Songs In The Key Of Life

01.25.2012 Music

Today we’re used to buying and listening to tracks, single songs. I’m old enough to remember the time of buying 45s, singles, too. But there were always albums, complete works by musicians. Sometimes, most of the time, they were just collections of songs, especially by pop music artists. But not always. For me, the first [...]

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