Recent Events Columns

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Friday, September 4 2009

Ride This Time Machine Down a Road Less Traveled

By Mark Reynolds

Jump into that ’59 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz with the maxed-out tailfins, contemplate what an original Barbie doll could fetch on eBay, and enjoy this roll call of Reasons Why Everything Changed in 1959.

(more Negritude 2.0)

Tuesday, February 3 2009

Concert Overload

By Ben Rubenstein

Free-for-all shows are like a "cool" parent trying to be your friend, instead of your authority figure. While it seems like a good situation at first -- no curfew, no rules -- you realize, eventually, that what it really needs is some structure.

(more Mixtape Confessions)

Tuesday, December 9 2008

CMAs and the End of Genre or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kid Rock

By Bob Proehl

This year's CMA winners point to a future where the only thing necessary to be classified as country is a desire to join in and sing.

(more Pickin' Down the Line)

Monday, November 10 2008

Forty-Nine Hours at T-Dot Town’s Annual Small World Music Festival

By Derek Beres

Today's global music is an extension of the culture that has been emerging over the last century, when airplanes and vinyl recordings made social exchanges possible to an extent previously undreamed.

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Tuesday, September 2 2008

Event Etiquette

By Ben Rubenstein

Enthusiasm at sporting events and concerts is great. But when your spirited dancing turns into a one-man mosh pit, it's a damned annoying distraction.

(more Mixtape Confessions)

Monday, July 28 2008

Gone Festin’

By Ben Rubenstein

Yes, communing with thousands of music fans at summer festivals is fun...for a while. But then it becomes a group of people whom you really didn't plan on spending your weekend with, unless you typically hang out with stoned 16-year olds.

(more Mixtape Confessions)

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