Recent Music Columns

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Wednesday, September 16 2009

Jazz Cellist Peggy Lee’s ‘Fever’

By Will Layman

Peggy Lee—the cellist, not the late singer—is nevertheless all about singing of a sort. She talks to PopMatters about creativity and collaboration in the beautiful city of Vancouver.

(more Jazz Today)

Wednesday, September 9 2009

Digital Downsizing: CD to MP3 the Hard Way

By Glenn McDonald

When paring down your music collection, is it OK to prune songs off classic albums? An aesthetic (and moral) dilemma...

(more PopShots)

Tuesday, September 8 2009

Louisiana Woman, Texas Troubadour

By Juli Thanki

Need more duets in your life? Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb are among country music's best partnerships.

(more Torch & Twang)

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)

Thursday, September 3 2009

Drunk and Driven

By Michael Brett

Delilah's on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago is everything The Rockist wants in a bar. Loud. Comfortable. Cheap.

(more The Rockist)

Buster Keaton: The Sound of His Obsession

By Michael Barrett

Bill Frisell's ambient, fuzzy, meandering guitar doodles sound like they're trying to approximate the sad stillness blowing through the corridors of Keaton's mind.

(more Canon Fodder)

Wednesday, September 2 2009

Just Eat It

By Ben Rubenstein

I'll take the wasabi potato croquettes that came with the lamb racks in the "Sheep in Wolf's Clothing" dish (inspired by TV on the Radio's "Wolf Like Me") over Hard Rock's seasoned fries any day.

(more Mixtape Confessions)

Monday, August 31 2009

The (Indie) Music Industry Is All Right

By Liz Colville

The media is too preoccupied with the funeral arrangements of the mainstream music industry to celebrate the life that is happening elsewhere.

(more Backslash)

Wednesday, August 26 2009

Tuva Meets Technology

By Derek Beres

From the ‘non-existent’ land of Siberia comes the long-existing sound of Tuvan drumming and throat singing.

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Tuesday, August 25 2009

Maxwell and the Soul of Neo Soul

By Roland Laird

If Dr. Martin Luther King composed songs they may very well sound like Maxwell at his best.

(more Write Black at You)

Friday, August 21 2009

Hip-Hop Marketing in the Digital Era

By Quentin B. Huff

In the Digital Age, music and information sit at our fingertips. How do rappers use tools, new and old, to distinguish themselves from the competition?

(more Busted Headphones)

Thursday, August 20 2009

Vinyl Dependent: The Needle and the Damage Done

By Michael Brett

The independent record store lives another day. But how long can the vinyl lifeline continue to keep them afloat?

(more The Rockist)

Hip-notized by a Male Billie Holiday

By Will Layman

Discovering the first collection of duets between popular singer Tony Bennett and jazz pianist Bill Evans popped my top and buttered my bread.

(more Jazz Today)

Wednesday, August 19 2009

Hockey Skatin’ Singing Cowgirls

By Juli Thanki

Country music ain’t the sole purview of the southern part of the northern hemisphere: Canada has its share of fireside soul(ful) singers, too.

(more Torch & Twang)

Tuesday, August 18 2009

Vinyl Spin Cycle

By Ben Rubenstein

Each time I sheepishly purchase another CD, I’m digging myself further into the technological hole, and falling farther behind the cool vinyl-playing crowd.

(more Mixtape Confessions)

Thursday, August 13 2009

Where Strides the Behemoth

By Adrien Begrand

Begrand talks with Darski of Behemoth, one of the most visually imposing and sonically punishing bands in all of metal, on the eve of the release of their new CD, Evangelion.

(more Blood and Thunder)

Friday, August 7 2009

On the Sixth Day God Created Man…chester: Part 2

By Iain Ellis

Punk-influenced performance poetry now thrives on both sides of the Atlantic, as open mics and poetry slams draw new generations of writers with combative tones, satirical perspectives, and rock-inspired rhythms in their lines.

(more Alternative Rock Cultures)

Thursday, August 6 2009

‘Green Onions’—The Greatest Single of All Time

By Michael Brett

Booker T. & the MGs found themselves together, in a city of segregation, in a time of severe racial tension, and recorded a progressive, utopian party song.

(more The Rockist)

They Killed John Henry but They Won’t Kill Me

By Andrew Gilstrap

In these days of economic turmoil, massive job losses, and corporate profiteering, you'd expect to hear more rewritings of the John Henry legend.

(more Field Studies)

Monday, August 3 2009

The Ghetto of Genre

By Bob Proehl

Proehl discovered the secret Supremes country album. Now all the genre-restricting straightjackets bounding country music are off.

(more Pickin' Down the Line)

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