The music industry is changing, and in some cases, as we know it, collapsing. Technology is at the crux of these changes, with artists successfully self-representing themselves with the aid of the internet, people downloading music rather than purchasing a tangible objects or packages, and digital recording, editing, and mastering becoming ridiculously affordable.Near the [...]
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Here is Springsteen doing a cover of Suicide’s Dream Baby Dream. Watching this makes me wonder how may steps he was away from playing at CBGB back when he was writing songs for Patti Smith and being managed by MC5′s former manager. Surely Little Steven would have been up for it. [...] Our culture is a slave to the clock. We are slaves to a mechanized experience of time that rules our lives more strictly than any Nurse Ratched ever could. It is maybe this aspect of our modern experience that has fostered our fascination with time. This fascination has many manifestations, from science fiction to [...] Memorial Day Weekend, historically wet and cool, came hot and humid late Saturday morning and melted in place until early Tuesday when we woke to a hot boiler and wide open house. We started feasting early with a trip to the lip smacking good Sweet Cakes Bakery where we had some of those fashionable [...] I am white. I am a white guy. There’s no shame in it, it’s just a fact is all. I will never be mistaken for being anything other than a white guy. Well, okay, maybe with my current beard set-up I might be mistaken for an Arab by some xenophobic doofus ready to make [...] In honor of my laptop being stolen hours ago when my house was broken into, I’m not posting today. If somebody wants to, run with it. If the sine wave continues to oscillate like this, next week will be freaking amazing. hi. i promised at least one of you faithful NAP posters that i would make efforts to post earlier in the day sunday so that other faithful NAP readers would have something fresh to read on sundays. well, i fully intended to write something last night, but then i decided that i wanted to [...] On May 24, 1844, Samuel F. B. Morse dispatched the first telegraphic message over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. – from the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may24.html Electromagnetism is a term which describes the interaction between electric currents and magnetic fields. This interaction was first noted in 1820 by the Danish physicist [...] This week I only went to two shows. Show number one was Radiohead at the Woodlands. I’ve seen Radiohead on every American tour they’ve done and this show may be their best. The lights were fantastic. They seemed to be having fun. They experimented with the songs (something they haven’t done in the past). [...] Today I’m going to recommend a couple of movies about music that you may or may not have watched. I hadn’t watched either until recently and I’m glad I did. Both are available in Netflix. The Great World of Sound I wanted to catch this at the theater to support local filmmaking in North [...] |
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