‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ Is Littered With Discarded Costumes and Thwarted Ambitions
Carrie Brownstein’s book is not really meant or ready for sharing. Not yet.
Elodie Roy
Elodie A. Roy has a doctorate from the International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS, Newcastle). Her work examines the material cultures of music in the twentieth-century and the relationship between cultural objects and memory in the wake of digitisation, with a focus on British independent record labels. She has published in the field of popular music and French literature (with a book chapter in Le Cœur dans tous ses Etats – Essais sur la Littérature et l’Art français, Peter Lang, 2013). Her forthcoming publications include a book chapter on Sarah Records in LitPop – Literature and Pop Music (Ashgate, forthcoming 2014), and an article on British contemporary record labels and nostalgia (Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies, forthcoming 2014). Her writings have also appeared in the French music paper Magic and the literary magazine La Femelle du Requin. She is the founder of a number of fanzines, including Applejack, and runs a small cd and tape label, EAR/Camera Shy records. She is the co-organiser, with Dr Richard Elliott, of the ‘Musical Materialities in the Digital Age’ Conference (Sussex University, 27-28 June 2014).
‘Paris at War’ Is a Definitive, Though Necessarily Incomplete, Monument
David Drake has revived the Nazi Occupation of France with an obsessive and impressive sense of detail.
The Day Sarah Records Died
I first loved and admired Sarah Records not because it had begun, but because it had ended. It seemed to me ending things took much more courage, strength and self-discipline than beginning them.
‘The Meaning of the Library’ Goes Beyond Mere Bricks and Mortar
Despite their apparent tidiness, libraries are also formidably entropic spaces, messy jungles, with their own undergrounds.
Ubiquitous Grooves: A Vinyl Obituary
Perhaps these days our real choice is not between buying vinyl or digital, but between listening and not listening.
The Curious Art of Wrapping Music
With the 'gratuity' of music fostered by digital ubiquity came a renewed, exacting demand for magic artefacts.
The Visual Enchantment of Music Photography
Sometimes photographs tell stories that music cannot fully articulate, carrying in their grain long-gone atmospheres.
The House of Love: Live at the Lexington 13.11.13
Live at the Lexington 13.11.13 documents a return and pulverizes a myth. This album proves that the band is terribly alive. But it shows at the same time how mortal they are.
Possessed by ‘Wild Palms’: How Far Will You Go to Feel Connected?
Have listeners of the Danish ambient electronic outfit, Croatian Amor, given more of themselves than the musician ever would?
What Embers Still Burn in the Beautiful Ruins of Riot Grrrls Past?
Riot grrrls wrote, recorded and produced a wealth of cultural objects. They left trails of scribbles, screams and lipstick traces in MP3 blogs and online archives, awaiting release.
Cassette Fever in the Age of Bandcamp
The cassette tape is a miniature monument to a lost age of music; a small casket in which to hide memories and last hopes.