tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113500972012-01-30T02:28:07.754-08:00Music and CultureA repository for articles on all aspects of music and culture (and a few musings)Kevinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13731100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-44123398876121514102012-01-28T15:04:00.000-08:002012-01-28T15:04:31.872-08:00Changuito timbale solo 1985I saw this on a VHS copy of a copy that circulated back in the 1980s. Poor audio but absolutely stunning solo:
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-89428738909859728142012-01-28T14:53:00.000-08:002012-01-28T14:53:24.183-08:00Que Suena La Timba (Documentary)Documentary about Cuban timba music;
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-62381849297094831412012-01-26T19:52:00.001-08:002012-01-26T19:54:11.282-08:00Corneta China[click to enlarge]Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-55415226811191762422012-01-13T08:49:00.001-08:002012-01-13T08:49:45.027-08:00New beauty product revealedFotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-59352169185399499922012-01-08T23:11:00.000-08:002012-01-08T23:11:05.230-08:00David Bowie performs "Young Americans" in 1974His voice is pretty hoarse, the microphones are poor and the the levels out of balance in places, but he kills it live on the Dick Cavett Show in 1974. The chorus is fantastic, and if I'm not mistaken that's Luther Vandross singing.
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-13756202674112583182012-01-05T23:50:00.000-08:002012-01-05T23:50:07.954-08:00Video of the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de CubaKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-53224793159571446622012-01-05T21:33:00.000-08:002012-01-05T21:49:18.598-08:00Harold Land (1928-2001)Photo by Francis Wolf
Been doing a little reading on jazz saxophonist Harold Land, who passed away in 2001. Here's the NYT obituary:
Harold Land, 73, Saxophonist Who Made a Splash in the Bop Era
By BEN RATLIFF
Published: July 30, 2001
Harold Land, a West Coast tenor saxophonist who had a brush with the jazz pantheon through a brief tenure with the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet in the mid-Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-64026374602739538922012-01-05T21:12:00.000-08:002012-01-05T21:13:15.915-08:00Zurkhaneh - Film about Iranian Ancient Martial Art by Federico SpinettiZurkhaneh: House of Strength
View this movie at cultureunplugged.comKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-63317691121892583912012-01-03T23:51:00.000-08:002012-01-03T23:51:29.289-08:00Jazz Great Charles McPherson InterviewSound is bad in places, but McPherson is a great player with a lot of experience and wisdom.
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-84209159631477716092012-01-03T15:42:00.000-08:002012-01-03T15:43:17.245-08:00Home Video CommentariesTwo brothers (comedian John Ramsey and his filmmaker brother Richard Ramsey) watch old home videos and decide to add DVD commentaries; a deadpan gem ensues:
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-19410446716615453562012-01-03T09:35:00.001-08:002012-01-03T09:35:49.745-08:00Should You Play Mustang Sally?Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-76170078314512281272011-12-29T14:13:00.001-08:002011-12-29T14:13:05.157-08:00Dreaming in DubstepKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-82122952609328707792011-12-23T11:10:00.000-08:002011-12-23T11:10:55.097-08:00Finale of the Legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday specialThis was broadcast once in late November 1978 and then buried ever since.
Already weakened by the 1977 music tracks "Disco Duck" and "Star Wars Disco" and a bloated, lyric-forgetting drug-addicted Elvis' 1977 TV special, this broadcast almost tore the fabric of space-time and opened a black hole. It was like a cultural Cuban Missile Crisis; we came that close.
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-16259721426510997042011-12-22T12:43:00.000-08:002011-12-22T12:43:06.340-08:00Donald Fagan talks about Steely Dan's "Peg"Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-45458569322703409812011-12-12T21:32:00.000-08:002011-12-12T21:32:43.729-08:00Great NYT Essay on New Music Scene: Club Kids Are Storming Music MuseumsRead it HERE in the New York Times
December 9, 2011
Club Kids Are Storming Music Museums
By ALLAN KOZINN
WE critics have long argued vehemently that if major musical institutions hope to be regarded as vital, modern institutions, they must keep their listeners (and performers) in touch with the ideas, trendy or otherwise, that excite the composers of their time. But truth be told, we are a Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-86256913370385179792011-12-12T21:19:00.001-08:002011-12-12T21:19:16.021-08:00Guitar from BotswanaKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-51610535463804672522011-12-12T08:47:00.000-08:002012-01-26T20:02:55.709-08:00"Vocal Fry" Creeping into US SpeechArticle in Science magazine, including an audio sample of this glottalization (a creaky sound that you've heard before). Check out the article and sample HERE.
Doesn't sound very new to me.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-41810239114209765962011-12-12T08:01:00.000-08:002011-12-12T08:01:39.956-08:00Alternative Greeting Cards for New MothersCheck out all ten at ScaryMommy.com
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-76316568189545299602011-12-11T22:30:00.000-08:002011-12-11T22:37:21.816-08:00The Buddy Rich Bus TapesFor many years these were an underground secret, secretly recorded in the early 80s (1983?) on the band bus while Buddy Rich chewed them out.
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-65816736458936471832011-12-11T11:25:00.000-08:002011-12-11T11:25:36.752-08:00Sexist AdsFrom Made Man
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-79623594957510732092011-12-10T17:26:00.001-08:002011-12-10T17:26:57.859-08:00Oboe MuteKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-59196407482065533282011-12-10T10:47:00.000-08:002011-12-10T10:47:41.197-08:00Graduate School Barbie
A funny post from THIS BLOG.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-69445007335435977792011-11-23T23:42:00.001-08:002011-11-23T23:42:32.624-08:00Husky Dog and Baby DuetKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-13190355600350796902011-11-20T21:51:00.000-08:002011-11-23T00:08:27.734-08:00Sunday in the Park with the UC Davis Riot Police
He's clearly surrounded.
And here are a bunch more along those lines:
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-32575215867118615332011-11-19T22:15:00.001-08:002011-11-19T22:17:49.859-08:00Evolution of Western Dance Music (Animated Graphic)A very cool animated time-lapse graphic HERE.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-82584027230664345982011-11-02T09:03:00.000-07:002011-11-02T09:03:39.159-07:00Incredible Steampunk Desk
Check out multiple detail photos HERE at The Steampunk Workshop.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-61148262005222264862011-10-29T22:20:00.000-07:002011-10-29T22:20:56.945-07:00The Last Master of a Sikh Martial Art
BBC
29 October 2011 Last updated at 19:16 ET
The only living master of a dying martial art
By Stephanie Hegarty BBC World Service
A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be the last living master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shastar vidya. The father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for a successor.
The basis of shastar vidya, the "science of weapons" Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-28527493884167035972011-10-27T15:07:00.001-07:002011-10-27T15:07:23.469-07:00The Bamboo Room (San Onofre Beach Music Tradition)From the LA Times
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-88138300516008609212011-10-26T23:09:00.000-07:002011-12-28T22:18:26.119-08:00Misspelled Tattoos 6: Tattooing the Wrong WordYep, straight from the Fail Blog family of sites comes yet another of my periodic tributes to people stupid enough to have misspellings inked into their skin. This post is a slight twist on that theme: tattoos that use incorrect words. So even if life did come with a spellchecker, it still wouldn't catch using the wrong word.
Thine Own
...and another
Accept (not except)
His Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-88678462167180182752011-10-26T22:51:00.000-07:002011-10-26T22:51:28.797-07:00China Preparing to Crack Down on Microblogs and Cultural ExpressionNYT
October 26, 2011
China Cracks Down on Bloggers and ‘Excessive’ Entertainment
By SHARON LAFRANIERE, MICHAEL WINES and EDWARD WONG
BEIJING — Political censorship in this authoritarian state has long been heavy-handed. But for years, the Communist Party has tolerated a creeping liberalization in popular culture, tacitly allowing everything from popular knockoffs of “American Idol”-style talent Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-17137876689835981992011-10-26T12:37:00.000-07:002011-10-26T12:37:37.096-07:00Zooey Deschanel's Performance of the National Anthem at the World Series10/23/11I was traveling and didn't see it live, but I was surprised that certain right-wing pundits were criticizing her performance as being not "triumphant" enough. When there are too many melismas people criticize the anthem, and now this very moving and understated version apparently isn't the musical equivalent of a big foam "We're #1" hand. I think it is nice and really gets to the ethos of the Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-30763392490953363342011-10-25T09:51:00.001-07:002011-10-25T09:51:42.048-07:00CNN: Tim Gunn on Star Trek Fashion and GenderKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-25953577849977470532011-10-25T09:44:00.001-07:002011-10-25T09:44:51.111-07:00Updated Ayn Rand Book TitleKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-67223968660132215582011-10-17T23:53:00.001-07:002011-10-17T23:53:44.198-07:00Dance in CinemaKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-85198952802233181482011-10-11T00:07:00.001-07:002011-10-11T00:07:44.284-07:00Rock n Roll: the Second TemptationKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-41309414890807782132011-10-09T23:37:00.000-07:002011-10-09T23:37:42.264-07:00Daughter of ‘Dirty War,’ Raised by Man Who Killed Her ParentsOne of the many horrible stories of Argentina's "Dirty War."
NYT
October 8, 2011
Daughter of ‘Dirty War,’ Raised by Man Who Killed Her Parents
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
BUENOS AIRES — Victoria Montenegro recalls a childhood filled with chilling dinnertime discussions. Lt. Col. Hernán Tetzlaff, the head of the family, would recount military operations he had taken part in where “subversives” had Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-26309273442734546122011-10-09T10:36:00.000-07:002011-10-09T10:36:25.240-07:00Things Rick Astley Will Never DoKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-52680237652778855562011-10-09T10:34:00.000-07:002011-10-09T10:34:29.340-07:002011 Hong Kong Opera Censored By Beijing? Opera Canceled Three Weeks Before DebutSLATE via the Financial Times
Nixing In China
A Hong Kong opera faces censorship from Beijing.
Posted Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011, at 9:32 AM ET
For months, public structures in Hong Kong have been draped with dreary sepia-coloured banners, some as large as a small building, publicising a new opera about Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Chinese Republic, the architect of the revolution of 1911 that Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-63324332338526880342011-10-06T10:28:00.000-07:002011-10-06T10:28:18.914-07:00Music Professor Stephen Shearson Critiques Ken Burns' Use of Music in his 2011 Prohibition DocumentaryThe following is an excellent letter Prof. Stephen Shearson faxed to Ken Burns' production company after viewing Burns' new Prohibition documentary. Thanks to Prof. Shearson for permission to repost this, which originally appeared on the Society for American music listserv.
Mr. Ken Burns
Florentine Films
Walpole, NH 03608
fax: (603) 756-4389
Dear Mr. Burns,
Last night I (along with many others,Kevinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-70412160625481522622011-10-05T21:16:00.000-07:002011-12-28T22:08:59.200-08:00Misspelled Tattoos 5: To/TooOh yes, time for another installment of poor souls who have permanently inked spelling errors into their skins. This post is dedicated to the common error of confusing the words "to" and "too." No big deal in a blog or email, but the skin... well, that's another matter.
[I should mention that the file name on this next photo is "too dumb to spell"]
Another two from Ugliest Tattoos
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-74458605107833979692011-10-05T20:26:00.000-07:002011-10-05T20:26:00.336-07:00Vaguely Homoerotic Navy Recruitment PostersAn interesting blog post titled The Gayest Generation: Navy Recruiting Posters from World Wars I & II. Check it out HERE.
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-67746481837428625552011-10-03T22:48:00.000-07:002011-10-06T10:30:23.201-07:00Angie Dickinson Performs Steve Reich's "Clapping Music" While Beating Up Lee MarvinGreat editing (nerds only)!
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-21388325354588101922011-09-30T12:40:00.000-07:002011-09-30T12:40:09.218-07:0029-year-old Deaf Woman Receives Hearing Implant (video)Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-12537366928494223632011-09-30T08:27:00.000-07:002011-09-30T08:27:18.268-07:00Editing Our Online SelvesNow if they just substituted Goldfish Crackers for the Cheetos this would be dead-on:
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-7677064107149433872011-09-29T19:51:00.001-07:002011-09-30T08:28:03.606-07:00Film Scenes: Brooks in Shawshank Redemption
Great writing and acting. The look on James Whitmore's face while he rides the bus and Morgan Freeman's face after hearing the end of his letter, perfection; it's acting that looks and feels like real life.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-51369911666507281542011-09-27T23:47:00.000-07:002011-10-02T20:59:53.134-07:00Jimi Hendrix Reference for the WinKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-64364876974016221082011-09-25T14:43:00.000-07:002011-09-25T14:43:27.706-07:00Funk legend Sly Stone now homeless and living out of a van in LANY Post says he's living in a van in Los Angeles;
Funk legend Sly Stone now homeless and living out of a van in LA
By WILLEM ALKEMA and REED TUCKER
Last Updated: 5:33 AM, September 25, 2011
Posted: 2:05 AM, September 25, 2011
In his heyday, he lived at 783 Bel Air Road, a four-bedroom, 5,432-square-foot Beverly Hills mansion that once belonged to John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas.
The Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-70288026441627992842011-09-25T13:42:00.001-07:002011-09-25T13:42:40.260-07:00Steven Colbert on the USA as a "Christian Nation"Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-67903354391344580082011-09-23T22:24:00.000-07:002011-09-23T22:24:11.537-07:00Misspelled Tattoos 4: Believe/BeliefOkay, yet another round of misspelled tattoos, this one dedicated to misspellings of the words believe and belief. As always, visit the incredible site that documents the huge variety of bad tattoos, Ugliest Tattoos, part of the Failblog network. Now on to the examples of these poor souls who permanently inked misspelled words onto their bodies. How can you or the tattoo artist not know this? I Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-61674050290855730052011-09-21T21:07:00.001-07:002011-09-21T21:07:54.547-07:00Music From a Dry CleanerDiego Stocco - Music From A Dry Cleaner from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-51370256873587174362011-09-16T15:41:00.000-07:002011-09-16T15:41:17.171-07:00Orthodox Jewish "Facebook" Separates SexesCNN
September 12th, 2011
08:34 PM ET
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish 'Facebook' separates the sexes
By Jessica Ravitz, CNN
(CNN) - Showing that modernity might, just might, find its place even in a world predisposed to the most traditional of customs, in walks FaceGlat: an ultra-Orthodox Jewish answer, at least for some, to Facebook.
Among the most conservative of Orthodox Jews, often referred to as Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-87162498447364083272011-09-16T14:37:00.000-07:002011-10-06T10:31:34.949-07:00Darth Vader in LoveKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-3089581076376831362011-09-15T22:58:00.000-07:002011-09-15T22:58:27.050-07:00Japanese Syncronized Walking Performance TeamI don't know what to call it. If you're short of time, jump to 1:35 for the most impressive part.
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-3173005612017704512011-09-14T10:23:00.000-07:002011-09-14T10:23:48.087-07:00Cherokee Want to Oust Black ClaimantsReuters
Cherokee Indians: We are free to oust blacks
US government wants second-largest Indian tribe to recognize as citizens 2,800 descendants of slaves that were held by Cherokees
updated 9/14/2011 9:00:20 AM ET
The nation's second-largest Indian tribe said on Tuesday that it would not be dictated to by the U.S. government over its move to banish 2,800 African Americans from its citizenship Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-24182837801382728912011-09-12T23:23:00.000-07:002011-09-12T23:23:34.426-07:00Japan's "Corpse Hotels"Reuters
updated 9/12/2011 4:38:55 PM ET
TOKYO — Across from a noodle shop in a Yokohama suburb, Hisayoshi Teramura's inn looks much like any other small lodging that dots the port city. Occasionally, it's even mistaken for a love hotel by couples hankering for some time beneath the sheets.
But Teramura's place is neither a love nest nor a pit stop for tired travelers. The white and grey tiled Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-4898576225425600592011-09-11T13:40:00.001-07:002011-09-11T13:40:41.131-07:00Badass Kabuki Robot PerformanceI think it's the Sony robot, but I can't tell:
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-59924520984400185382011-09-11T11:45:00.000-07:002011-09-11T11:45:54.005-07:00Musicologist Christopher Small (1927-2011)NYT
September 10, 2011
Christopher Small, Cultural Musicologist, Is Dead at 84
By BEN RATLIFF
Christopher Small, a New Zealand-born writer and musicologist who argued that music is above all an active ritual involving those who play and listen to it and only secondarily a matter of “black dots,” as he once called written music, died on Wednesday in Sitges, Spain. He was 84.
His death was Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-50009586696912655872011-09-09T21:46:00.000-07:002011-09-09T21:49:44.112-07:00My 9/11 SlideshowThese are some photos I find especially powerful regarding the 9/11/01 attack on the World Trade Center. They are somewhat in chronological order and do not include images from the Pentagon attack site or United 93 crash site. Some of these photos are very well known; I do not have copyright on these images but collect them here under fair use terms. There are other slideshows like this on the Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-20115476365404024952011-09-09T15:33:00.001-07:002011-09-09T15:34:49.954-07:00Dance and Stop Motion w/Martin StarrKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-69266574102883681062011-09-06T23:40:00.001-07:002011-09-06T23:40:34.459-07:00Guide to RockingKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-37428841455046195752011-09-04T17:53:00.000-07:002011-09-04T17:53:21.748-07:00Clara Rockmore Youtube Theramin BlowoutKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-48032674717369245332011-09-01T18:22:00.000-07:002011-09-01T18:22:15.586-07:00Formerly Imprisoned Artist Ai Weiwei: The City: BeijingThe City: Beijing
Ai Weiwei finds China’s capital is a prison where people go mad.
by Ai Weiwei | August 28, 2011 10:0 AM EDT
Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is one of desperation. I see people on public buses, and I see their eyes, and I see they hold no hope. They can’t even imagine that they’Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-42218552906612673802011-08-26T00:05:00.001-07:002011-08-26T00:05:57.884-07:00Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement SpeechKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-76066140891076293502011-08-24T07:58:00.001-07:002011-08-24T07:58:56.342-07:00The Gameleste (gamelan+celeste) , Built for BjorkThe Gameleste - a custom instrument for Björk from Andy McCreeth on Vimeo.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-80144194305312622402011-08-20T22:18:00.000-07:002011-08-20T22:18:36.459-07:00The Vulcan Soul of SpockA short film tribute to the character of Spock.
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-57051465659964703512011-08-19T08:13:00.000-07:002011-09-09T19:59:31.569-07:00Tina Fey, DealbreakerDeal Breaker - watch more funny videos Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-24698029821889134242011-08-04T18:07:00.000-07:002011-08-04T18:09:55.840-07:00Planet of the Apes Dance MixCharlton Heston, Roddy McDowell, Kim Hunter, glow sticks, disco ball, turntables, DJ...you know you want to watch:
Directed, Edited, Concept by Brad Hasse (www.bradhasse.com)
Visual Effects and Design by EP*Vision (www.epvision.tv)
East Pleasant Pictures (www.eastpleasant.com)Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-61546564353049267292011-08-01T16:37:00.000-07:002011-08-01T16:37:28.029-07:00Four Reasons It Pays for Songwriters To Be Patient (BMI)July 29, 2011
Four Reasons It Pays for Songwriters To Be Patient
As long as you’re not planning on being a songwriter for this week only, take a deep breath, work on your songs and your career a little every day and enjoy the ride. You’ll be amazed in a few years when you look back and see how far you’ve come.
By Cliff Goldmacher
Looking back on 20-plus years of writing songs, it’s a lot easierKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-45385363019095512942011-07-31T20:15:00.000-07:002011-07-31T20:15:51.140-07:00Burt Bacharach Story and InterviewSD-UT
Burt Bacharach's non-stop musical journey
Written by
George Varga
6 a.m., July 30, 2011
Updated 9:06 a.m.
Burt Bacharach is very likely the hippest and most eclectic 83-year-old legend in pop music, as befits a pioneering maverick whose collaborators in recent years include Elvis Costello, Jamie Cullum and Dr. Dre. Bacharach, who performs a Summer Pops concert here next Sunday with the Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-69733882581810196182011-07-30T13:51:00.000-07:002011-07-30T13:51:19.590-07:00Syrian Pianist Performs in Washington, Syrian Police Beat His Parents in SyriaCNN
Syrian musician blames security forces for his parents' beating
By Tom Watkins, CNN
July 30, 2011 7:53 a.m. EDT
(CNN) -- Malek Jandali, a pianist who performed last week at a rally in Washington in support of the Syrian opposition, blamed his work for what he said was an attack Thursday night by government security forces on his parents.
The father, Dr. Mamoun Jandali, 73, was carrying Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-72793562315894357122011-07-29T18:02:00.000-07:002011-07-29T18:02:19.824-07:00Cameroon's breast ironing traditionBreast ironing tradition targeted in Cameroon
From Nkepile Mabuse, CNN
(CNN) -- Every morning before school, nine-year-old Terisia Techu would undergo a painful procedure. Her mother would take a burning hot pestle straight out of a fire and use it to press her breasts.
With tears in her eyes as she recalls what it was like, Terisia tells CNN that one day the pestle was so hot, it burned her, Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-4124782446144260392011-07-28T00:15:00.000-07:002011-07-28T00:15:12.642-07:00Techno Mashup of Adele and Robin SKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-22840464926926811332011-07-25T23:15:00.000-07:002011-07-25T23:23:53.104-07:00NYT: The Master's Is the New Bachelor'sJuly 22, 2011
The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s
By LAURA PAPPANO
.....
Call it credential inflation. Once derided as the consolation prize for failing to finish a Ph.D. or just a way to kill time waiting out economic downturns, the master’s is now the fastest-growing degree. The number awarded, about 657,000 in 2009, has more than doubled since the 1980s, and the rate of increase has quickenedKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-52434733199170361522011-07-23T14:35:00.000-07:002011-07-23T15:42:18.788-07:00The turntable-in-car sound systemIn the mid-to late 1950s there was a minor attempt to get turntables in cars, marketed as a high-end option and a way to hear your favorite music that either wasn't on the radio or when you were out of range. Not surprisingly, these systems didn't really take off but they do look similar to the compact disc systems that emerged decades later.
This post was inspired by photos from a couple of Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-76099191373100714842011-07-20T23:34:00.000-07:002011-12-28T22:14:57.470-08:00Even More Misspelled and Wrong-Word TattoosAll these come from Ugliest Tattoo, a site you should visit right now [CLICK HERE].
Okay, on to the permanent misspellings these geniuses had inked into their skin, because life does not come with a spellchecker.
Special prize for this one: Failure and Always
Consequence
Where
Reckless
Speech
Truth
Strong
Country
Existence
This one takes the prize, because she caught the spelling Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-72809451886293567182011-07-20T23:14:00.000-07:002011-12-28T22:10:58.240-08:00Your/You're Misspelled Tattoos from Ugliest TattoosA couple of years ago I posted some funny misspelled tattoos. My best source was Failblog, which has since created its own spin-off site called Ugliest Tattoos: The Gallery of Regrets. It's really quite remarkable how many godawful tattoos exist out there, but some of the most pathetic ones consist of misspelled words permanently tattooed into one's skin. This post is dedicated to the misspellingKevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-84898883259334266462011-07-12T23:28:00.000-07:002011-07-12T23:28:45.977-07:00Jay Swafford on Contemporary Music: Spectralism, Aesthetic Brutalism, and the New NicenessA Grand Tour of Contemporary Music
All the new noise explained.
By Jan Swafford
Posted Monday, July 11, 2011, at 6:55 AM ET
........
There's nothing new under the sun, and that's as true in the arts as everywhere else. It has been opined that due to modern media that indiscriminately preserve everything, contemporary culture is stuck on an endless round of recycling ideas, fashions, and just Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-82989354996198440022011-07-10T08:37:00.000-07:002011-07-10T08:37:06.136-07:00Jesus and Mo at Open Mic Night
Jesus and Mo is a comic strip by an unknown writer who features Jesus, Mohammed, and occasionally Moses in cartoon form. Jesus and Mo can be viewed HERE.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-91222364437234100382011-07-07T19:57:00.000-07:002011-07-07T19:59:11.126-07:00Cover Version of the Month: The Bad Plus does a jazz version of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-85351937227431542682011-07-06T14:43:00.000-07:002011-07-06T14:43:49.675-07:00Music Business HaikuHundred-pound bass amp
Basement gig thirty steps down
Testes tectonics.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-84923984454027343452011-07-06T14:38:00.001-07:002011-07-06T14:38:27.674-07:00South Park on Chipotle BurritosDead CelebritiesTags: SOUTHPARKmore...Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-67165713277215499942011-07-06T09:47:00.000-07:002011-07-06T09:47:12.675-07:00"Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston on acting and fidelity to character“Physically, to create Walter White, I use my dad,” he said one night over dinner. “My dad is 87 years old. I’m not going to dodder, but Walter is always a little hunched over, never erect. The message to the audience is that the weight of the world is on this man’s shoulders.”
Cranston is from the total-commitment school of acting, and he once famously did a scene in “Malcolm in the Middle” Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-43245711508467713722011-07-05T08:50:00.000-07:002011-07-05T08:50:00.677-07:00Bob Marley Rises From the Grave to Free Frat Boys From Bonds of OppressionAnother great one form The Onion:
10.05.05
WILLIAMSBURG, VA—In an unprecedented effort to fight injustice, reggae music legend Bob Marley, dead since 1981, rose from his grave in Jamaica early Sunday to free his most devoted followers, American college fraternity members, "from the bonds of oppression."
Read the full original http://mobile.theonion.com/articles/Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-72242145976184971512011-06-30T20:17:00.000-07:002011-06-30T20:17:37.854-07:00NPR on the cost of making Rhianna's hit songNPR
How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song?
03:58 pm
June 30, 2011
by Zoe Chace
Getting a song on the pop charts takes big money.
Def Jam started paying for Rihanna's recent single, "Man Down," more than a year ago. In March of 2010, the label held a writing camp in L.A. to create the songs for Rihanna's album, Loud.
At a writing camp, a record label hires the best music writers in the Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-66889643099832958532011-06-28T01:03:00.000-07:002011-06-28T01:07:26.457-07:00Music Business HaikuTime for the ballad
Soulful lines sketch poignant thoughts
The drink blender roars.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-5917171044953842202011-06-25T19:48:00.000-07:002011-06-26T21:43:06.711-07:00Deductive Reasoning with Black DynamiteFrom the 2008 Blaxploitation homage/parody Black Dynamite. Using deductive reasoning (sorta!) Black Dynamite connects the dots to uncover the devious truth behind The Man pushing Anaconda malt liquor in the ghetto (NSFW language but without the "reveal" scene whereupon they discover their pal Gunsmoke has consumed too many Anacondas):
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-32547601377791584102011-06-25T16:26:00.001-07:002011-09-09T17:14:25.526-07:00Great video Mashup of 36 cover versions of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android"Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-87131719027898538012011-06-25T13:33:00.000-07:002011-06-26T21:30:08.832-07:00What Will Happen If Gay Marriage Becomes Legal? (Chart)
Congrats, NY. Cali should have done it ahead of you but could not pull it off.
From Sunday's NYC Pride March (owned, California):
Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-34111362793027323612011-06-10T21:28:00.000-07:002011-06-10T21:28:55.722-07:00Mexico's Narco Polo Shirt Fashion Craze
AP/MSNBC
By MARK STEVENSON
updated 54 minutes ago
MEXICO CITY — "Narco Polo" is the new fashion trend sweeping lower-class neighborhoods in Mexico, inspired by seven high-ranking drug traffickers who were arrested over a three-month stretch wearing open-neck, short-sleeved jerseys with the familiar horseman-with-a-stick emblem.
The polo shirts are becoming ubiquitous in street vendors' stalls Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-72718888649500018122011-06-08T23:56:00.000-07:002011-06-08T23:56:15.462-07:00Music Business HaikuTourist samba gig
Tiny umbrellas in drinks
My defeated soul.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-55800194221302180472011-06-07T21:32:00.000-07:002011-06-07T21:33:16.154-07:00Political haiku - Anthony Weiner Sex Scandal editionWeiner's politics
I didn't need a screenshot
To know he leans left.
[punchline stolen from a Jon Stewart joke]Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-23652172947030025242011-06-05T22:04:00.000-07:002011-06-06T04:20:34.167-07:00Does the Anti-Jewish Foreskin Man Comic Cover Contain Neo-Nazi Code?The Anti-Defamation League has a post HERE regarding the anti-Jewish/racist comic book published by supporters of the anti-circumcision ballot initiative in San Francisco. (There is also a move to get it on the ballot in Santa Monica.) For background on the ballot initiative, check some of the major California newspaper sites. What I want to talk about is a comic book put out in support of this Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-35018553207039673632011-05-31T22:44:00.000-07:002011-05-31T22:44:20.724-07:00Supreme Court Case on Scholars' Rights and Public domainChronicle of Higher Education
May 29, 2011
Supreme Court Takes Up Scholars' Rights
By Marc Parry
Denver
When Lawrence Golan picks up his baton here at the University of Denver, the musicians in his student orchestra see a genial conductor who corrects their mistakes without raising his voice in frustration.
Yet Mr. Golan is frustrated, not with the musicians, but with a copyright law that Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-88827727800417253962011-05-27T20:24:00.000-07:002011-05-27T20:24:38.955-07:00Gil Scott Heron (1949-2011)Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-67020536252723666702011-05-26T22:35:00.000-07:002011-05-26T22:35:32.912-07:00Wire: Collateral Damage (effects of filesharing)WIRE
Collateral Damage
* Issue #328 (Jun 11) | Essays
Responding to Kenneth Goldsmith’s epiphany on filesharing last month, Henry Cow founder and ReR label boss Chris Cutler counts the cost of free music to those who make and distribute it
“Epiphany No 4: As a result, just like you, I stopped buying music”
Kenneth Goldsmith, The Wire 327
And where’s the harm? Surely uploading is just an Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-9967437259624692772011-05-24T14:39:00.000-07:002011-05-24T14:39:16.870-07:00Bob Dylan's The times They Are a-Changin' on his 70th BirthdayDylan composed and recorded this in 1963 when he was twenty-two years old. Some of his commentary on the song makes sound as if he was working on intuition, not really getting what it was about to some degree. It's simple musically, though I dig the rhyme scheme. But man, for all its stark simplicity Dylan instinctively nailed the sea change that was in the air and coming.
Come gather 'round Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-22591924977079276622011-05-23T21:29:00.000-07:002011-05-23T21:29:42.775-07:00NYT: Music on Virginia's Crooked RoadNYT
May 20, 2011
On Virginia’s Crooked Road, Mountain Music Lights the Way
By SARAH WILDMAN
IT starts with a well-worn fiddle, held in equally well-worn hands above a tapping black cowboy boot. Then in comes the banjo, plucked with steel finger picks, followed by the autoharp, the mandolin, the percussive beat of an upright bass. Another banjo grabs the melody, and suddenly the room is bursting Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-90751096192905304632011-05-23T16:21:00.000-07:002011-05-23T16:21:46.336-07:00SLATE: Is Pop Bringing Back the Sax for Nostalgia's Sake?Bringing Saxy Back
The sax solo returns to pop music.
By Jonah WeinerUpdated Monday, May 23, 2011, at 6:50 AM ET
For 36 years, Saturday Night Live has provided sanctuary to a species of musical wildlife that today sits on the endangered list: the saxophone solo. In 1975, jazz whiz David Sanborn's note-gobbling, register-vaulting altissimo ushered in the show's premiere episode, setting the Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-54692778446703949712011-05-23T16:04:00.000-07:002011-05-23T16:04:31.123-07:00Remembering Actor J.C. Quinn, Plus a Scene from Vision QuestFor some reason I thought of this guy today, actor J.C. Quinn. In the 1990s he used to come listen to my Latin jazz sextet, an ideal audience member nursing a drink and really listening through the surrounding din. He introduced himself as "J.C., you know, like John Coltrane." He always wanted to talk music on breaks while I wanted to ask him about cinema. He had great stories, and thinking back Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-68494275788919017312011-05-22T16:53:00.000-07:002011-05-22T16:53:11.127-07:00Childhood Music Lessons May Provide Lifelong Boost in Brain FunctioningScience Daily
Childhood Music Lessons May Provide Lifelong Boost in Brain Functioning
ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2011) — Those childhood music lessons could pay off decades later -- even for those who no longer play an instrument -- by keeping the mind sharper as people age, according to a preliminary study published by the American Psychological Association.
The study recruited 70 healthy adults Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0