Jazz Night In America: The Playlist
A modern jazz survey at ground level, from stone classics to state-of-the-art jams.
music
She Remembers Everything by Rosanne Cash
She Remembers Everything by Rosanne Cash album reviews & Metacritic score: The 15th full-length release for the singer-songwriter features contributions from such artists as T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson, John Leve...
Elvis Costello’s List of 500 Albums That Will Improve Your Life
Photo by Victor Diaz Lamich, via Wikimedia Commons Ask a few friends to draw up sufficiently long lists of their favorite albums, and chances are that more than one of them will include Elvis Costello.
10 Country Albums Every Music Fan Should Own
There's absolutely no excuse for music fans to not know these groundbreaking albums by some of country's boldest names.
BrainStorm, Tchê!: Putumayo World Music [Discography for Download]
Putumayo World Music [Discography for Download] 125 CDs Putumayo Presents Collection (2Gb for free download) Fecha de Lanzamient...
Melinda Kathleen Reese impromptu performance "O come, O come, Emmanuel" at The Pantheon Church, Rome
91 votes, 10 comments. 1.3M subscribers in the awesome community. For everything that is awesome!
When “stan” became a verb
A brief history of the term’s evolution.
His Biggest Hit Sold More Copies Than Any of the Beatles’. So Why Haven’t You Heard of Him?
:extract_focal()/https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fpocket-syndicated-images%2Farticles%2F1138%2F1567207062_direct.jpg)
In a life bookended by tragedy, Prince Nico Mbarga poured joy into music, including the most popular song in African history. But his own story has never been told — until now.
The Story of Country Music’s Great Songwriting Duo
Before they released "Wichita Lineman," the greatest unfinished song of all time, Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb lived surprisingly parallel lives.
The 212: The Harlem Jazz Club Where the Spirit of Billie Holiday Lives On
Minton’s Playhouse, the birthplace of bebop, still rules over 118th Street.
Skip Rates: Why The First 30 Seconds Matter More Than Ever
With the album on the wane and attention spans shorter than ever, the first 30 seconds of of a song matter more than. Not only do they need to capture. Continue reading
Learning Synths
Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.
Hookpad Songwriting Software - Write The Song You Always Wished You Could.
In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music
More than 90 years ago, recordings in a hat warehouse in Bristol, Tenn., unleashed a quintessentially American musical form.
Just putting it out there: I still buy MP3s
In this column, “Just putting this out there…,” we write about the odd ways we engage with tech and the unpopular opinions we form about it. You can read the rest of the articles in this series here. One of my biggest sources of inner turmo
Brain Damage Saved His Music
:extract_focal()/http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.nautil.us%2F5017_0af787945872196b42c9f73ead2565c8.png)
After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back.
A History of Blue Note Records in 15 Albums (Published 2019)
The most storied label in jazz turns 80 this year. Hear the music that shaped its legacy.
The Pirates Strike Back
With so many video streaming services now, we need a unifier
Searching for The Sundays
When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.
Dr. John: The Joy and Mystery of a New Orleans Saint
Few embodied the spirit of New Orleans, or helped take its music to strange new places, the way the man born Mac Rebennack did.
Stay Around by J.J. Cale
Stay Around by J.J. Cale album reviews & Metacritic score: The 15-track release posthumous album of unreleased songs were compiled by his widow, Christine Lakeland Cale and manager Mike Kappus....
Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Breathes Life Into The Blues
The 20-year-old guitar phenom understands the blues as a lifeline, a malleable language, a way of being in the world.
Inside the Booming Business of Background Music - The Guardian - Pocket
Once derided, the successors to muzak have grown more sophisticated – and influential – than any of us realize.
Jazz’s Sisterhood: Regina Carter, Renee Rosnes, and More Women Transforming
For a century, jazz was a men’s club. Now a vanguard of women virtuosi—including these 16 standouts—are reshaping this most American of art forms.
Capturing The Undersung Blues People Of The Rural South
Tim Duffy started Music Maker Relief Foundation to support blues musicians lost to time and poverty. He's also photographed their portraits for a new book, compilation album and museum exhibition.
Karen O and Danger Mouse cover Lou Reed’s classic “Perfect Day”: Stream
Karen O and Danger Mouse covered Lou Reed's "Perfect Day", and it's streaming now. The two released their Lux Prima album in March.
An Introduction to the Life & Music of Fela Kuti: Radical Nigerian Bandlead
I cannot write about Nigerian bandleader, saxophonist, and founder of the Afrobeat sound, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, with any degree of objectivity, whatever that might mean.
Remembering Dr. John
Mac Rebennack devoted himself to New Orleans culture.
The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face - Facts So Roma
This theoretical physicist’s idea has an astounding legacy.
Antonio Salieri’s Revenge
He was falsely cast as Mozart’s murderer and music’s sorest loser. Now he’s getting a fresh hearing.
Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blue
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s have been digitized and made available online for free listening.
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
How the music of 1950’s Cuba revolutionized the sound of young Senegal
“Dakar was where everyone came to make music.”
The Impossibly Cool Album Covers of Blue Note Records: Meet the Creative Te
Blue Note release—whether or not you were a fan of jazz or had heard of the artist or even the label. “If you went to those record stores,” says Estelle Caswell in the Vox Earworm video above, “it probably wasn’t the sound of Blue Note that immediately caught your attention.
The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time
From Black Panther to Clueless, Dazed and Confused to Purple Rain, the music that has defined modern filmmaking
Is This the Greatest Photo in Jazz History?
A quiet Sunday night in 1953. The Dodgers had just won the pennant. J.F.K. and Jacqueline Bouvier had just married. And four titans of bebop came together in a dive bar for a rare jam session.
First Listen: Tedeschi Trucks Band, 'Signs'
Veteran blues-rock powerhouses Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks return with an impassioned new album, informed by the deaths of several mentors and family members.
Back to the Stratosphere: How the Rarest Music in the World Comes Back
Duster was a small, largely forgotten band from the late ’90s. Then their legend began to grow on sites like Discogs. Now, they’re the subject of a major reissue. The internet made it all possible.
‘The Island Always Brings You Back’: Finding a Caribbean Home (Published 2019)
A writer never knew her family’s house on St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, but discovering it, and her history, became an obsession.
Texas Monthly Recommends: Soaking Up the Sounds on Saturday Night with Joe
Plus, explosive photography from Austin, instrumentals from Billy Preston, and a podcast investigation of Anna Nicole Smith.
Culture Shock for French in Quebec: ‘We Smoke Cigarettes, They Smoke Pot’ (Published 2019)
Thousands of French people are coming to live in Quebec and discovering that a common language doesn’t necessarily mean a common culture.
This Picture Has No Red Pixels—So Why Do the Strawberries Still Look Red? -
Color constancy continues to confound us.
The Record Label of The Future is No Label At All
Spotify’s acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor signal ambitious plans to disintermediate the music industry.
This Yacht Influencer Has the Perfect Life. Don't You Feel Sorry for Him?
Seated at a table on the rear deck with Lindsay Lohan and her entourage, I spotted Alex Jimenez — a professional yacht influencer.
A Short History of Punk: From Late 50s Rockabilly and Garage Rock to The Ra
Seems there was a time when the dominant story of punk was the story of British punk. If you knew nothing else, you knew the name Sid Vicious, and that seemed to sum it up.
First Listen: Hayes Carll, 'What It Is'
On the Americana singer-songwriter's sixth album, Carll unburdens his mind about the volatility of our time so unassumingly, he never comes close to overburdening his songs.
Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy
Investigation finds officials ignored warnings for years before one of the deadliest crashes in decades.
The Origins of the “Amen Break,” The Most Sampled Piece of Recorded Music E
You may not find the reference easily in a Google search.
CBGB’s Heyday: Watch The Ramones, The Dead Boys, Bad Brains, Talking Heads
There are, I guess, still many things people can do these days to tap into the legacy of CBGB, but I wouldn’t recommend going near most of them.
Battle of the Ax Men: Who Really Built the First Electric Rock ‘n’ Roll Gui
[caption id="attachment_78757" align="alignnone" width="618"] George Fullerton (left) testing a Stratocaster in the Fender factory, sometime in the mid-to...