1000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die, By Tom Moon, Daily Post 2011, #22
I received the perfect book for an obsessive/compulsive music junkie like myself , 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die by Tom Moon. The book has been in print for 2 1/2 years now (August 2008)....
View ArticleSeattle & Pearl Jam Twenty Years On
Photograph by Dean Fox, Photolibrary Twenty years ago this summer I was working for Microsoft Corporation. I experienced Seattle, Washington as a beautiful sprawling metropolis for the first time in...
View ArticleThe Oxford American – Thirteenth Annual Music Issue
I made a great musical find last night browsing at my local Barnes & Noble book store. I saw out of the corner of my eye a copy of Oxford American magazine sitting by its lonesome. It was calling...
View ArticleSteven Wilson – Prog Rock
I thought it proper to continue the prog rock series with Steven Wilson. The intersection with yesterday’s King Crimson blog post underlies Steven Wilson’s passion for the technological expanse of...
View ArticleFive 2013 Blogging Projects
I love the time I get to spend between Christmas and New Year reflecting upon and renewing commitments to an ongoing pursuit of the arts. Its treasured down time from a perpetual teaching schedule that...
View ArticleThe Rewarding Influence of Richard Hell
Last month I wrote an extensive A-Z music journalist series. The tree of music journalism I planted continues to harvest fruit. I commenced InterWeb reading this morning with Robert Christgau’s Barnes...
View ArticleThe History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in 10 Songs – Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, then proceeds to dramatize how each embodies rock ’n’ roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out—a new...
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