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Stream of Montreal – “Feminine Effects”

Record Store Day is just a few short weeks away and so everyone's getting all worked up and saving their hard earned cash in order to support their local vinyl dealer. There's even a smart...

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hit and run: “Emboldened Orchestras are Embracing the New”

From Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times. Executive summary: Classical music audiences seem more curious than ever, and performers have been emboldened over the past decade or so to take more chances. Composers from...

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“I just started coughing”

From Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times. Executive summary: Classical music audiences seem more curious than ever, and performers have been emboldened over the past decade or so to take more chances. Composers from...

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Jon Stewart Interviews Grohl, Novoslec and Vig

This weekend was Nirvana mania on SiriusXM's Lithium channel. 24 hours a day is being devoted to nothing but Nirvana. Studio tracks, rarities, b-sides, live shows, you name it and they're playing it. The whole...

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“Made me learn a little bit faster, made my skin a little bit thicker, makes me that much smarter”

(email|facebook|twitter) In an interview by More Than The Music, Her Name Is Calla's Sophie Green answers a handful of questions about gender and music. As always, she beguiles. Some highlights: --- There are few things more...

Let's start with Ferraby, shall we?

Well, hi.  It’s me, the new voice. If I may, I'd like to start off by saying that it took me...

Lies, damn lies, and statistics

by Fred From Tyler Cowen:The dirty secret of the Billboard classical charts is that album sales figures are so low, the...

"Ou Marye" by Wyclef Jean

by Fred That track tops Tyler Cowen's "Introduction to Haitian Music." Read the rest, and follow the links, here.

Most definitely not guilty as charged

American men have a naughty little secret. Sometimes, they like to relax with a little Céline Dion. Professed classical music...

"So we sit, wearing headphones and frozen grins, and continue denying that guilty, nagging feeling that actually, in some ways, when you think about it…Radiohead kinda blow."

Few, save for Liam or Noel Gallagher, dare speak this heresy aloud, instead couching it in longings for a "back-to-basics"...

Ahem (cough) tell us what you really think.

College attendance, in my view, is usually a drain on our economy and society. Encouraging talented people to spend many...

"No. End of discussion."

As for the question that prompts such an answer? "Is the internet stifling new music?" Via BBC no less. The article...

The history of music in 100 words or less.

The entire history of man has been told in 110 words (don't bother clicking, it's gone now), so I figure...

High infidelity

So, it feels like cheating, but during my ride (yeah, I'm thinking about the freakin' riddle 24-7 now) I came...

Overcoming bias

Although I have no data or expertise on the matter, I still can't get past the idea that true music...

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