Music and Culture

NYT June 1, 2009 Minuets, Sonatas and Politics in the West Bank By DANIEL J. WAKIN RAMALLAH, West Bank — The shy Palestinian teenager raised...

American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Com...

Popcrunch's ten most disturbing books list.

A simple graphic interface to create your own sound loops. amazing, fun, beautiful: check it out.

OFFBEAT I have been waiting for a good obit for Snooks. As always, Offbeat comes through: Snooks Eaglin 1936-2009 By Jeff Hannusch The gener...

The indispensable New Orleans Magazine OFFBEAT interviews James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, most famous for the song "Jock-a-mo,...

YAHOO The Tech Blog New Danger Mouse album to be released as CD-R -- blank CD-R Mon May 18, 2009 11:36AM EDT Nowhere in the world will you f...

A great April post by Gang Of Four's Dave Allen on Pampelmoose: excerpts: We live in an era of MP3 players, streaming internet radio, we...

Nice blog post on the Daily Dish : Universal Music Group, the world's largest recorded music company, is once again trying to adapt to t...

Not what you think

SI Former NBA veteran Tisdale dies at age 44 Wherever Wayman Tisdale went, whatever he was doing, chances were he was smiling. Tisdale was a...

NYT May 14, 2009 Travis Edmonson, Influential Folk Singer, Dies at 76 By BRUCE WEBER Travis Edmonson, who brought a Mexican flavor to the fe...

CMS Click to the original story for photos and sound samples. Simplified, accessible music notation lets their talent, not their needs, tak...

Worth1000.com is having a photoshop contest whereby entrees are to have a cartoon character inserted into traditional paintings. These two ...

AP Singers tell Congress: Money (That's What I Want) By RYAN NAKASHIMA, AP Business Writer Ryan Nakashima, Ap Business Writer – Sun May ...