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Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

Shelved: Dr. Dre’s Detox

by Tom Maxwell March 16, 2021October 19, 2022

Killer beats, huge hype, and failure to follow through.

Posted inStory

Shelved: Yoko Ono

by Tom Maxwell January 21, 2021October 18, 2022

On Yoko Ono’s 1974 album “A Story,” and stepping out from behind the ever-present shadow of John Lennon.

Posted inNonfiction

Shelved: Pink Floyd’s Household Objects

by Tom Maxwell September 3, 2020November 4, 2022

On Syd Barrett’s time with Pink Floyd and making an album with household objects and found sounds.

Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List

Cryin’, Dyin’, or Goin’ Somewhere: A Country Music Reading List

by Aaron Gilbreath July 29, 2020October 19, 2022

Although the sound of the music has changed, country’s themes have endured.

Posted inNonfiction

Removing Beethoven’s Wig: A Classical Music Reading List

by Aaron Gilbreath July 15, 2020November 25, 2022

Classical music is more than dead Europeans in wigs, starched collars, and stuffy concert halls.
What classical music is, where it’s going, and what it still can be.

Posted inReading List

Tangled Up in Bob Stories: A Dylan Reading List

by Aaron Gilbreath June 24, 2020November 25, 2022

Few musicians have generated as much music and as much study as this Nobel Prize winning singer-songwriter. Dylanology will last hundreds of years.

Posted inNonfiction

Shelved: The Misfits’ 12 Hits From Hell

by Tom Maxwell May 19, 2020December 9, 2022

For a bunch of rock ‘n’ rollers creating the horror punk genre, the Misfits sure were sensitive.

Posted inFeatured

Funk Lessons in Sonic Solitude

by Longreads April 27, 2020December 9, 2022

“Joi’s recorded performances embodied all the funkiness my little soul had been waiting for.”

Posted inNonfiction

On Watching Boys Play Music

by Eryn Loeb April 7, 2020December 9, 2022

“With a drink in my hand and earplugs responsibly in place, I’m very aware that I’ve spent more than half my life essentially standing in the same spot: off to one side of the stage (close but not too close), eyes forward, shifting weight from foot to foot.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Shout Out to Myspace

by Aaron Gilbreath April 6, 2020October 19, 2022

The site that revolutionized how people released and listened to music has died multiple deaths since its 2003 debut, but it finally gets the eulogy it deserves.

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