I am so happy to see good bud and legendary rock journalist Ira Robbins’ Trouser Press site back up and rocking. Even though there’s nothing new since ’96, I STILL use my Trouser Press Guide to 90s Rock ALMOST EVERY DAY to look some obscure band or record up, and …
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The Velvet Underground – It Began Here
The Velvet's first album is still ahead of its time.
Read More »Update For Writers and Writers to Be
Here is an update for writers. We are still open to new writers. Send me an email telling me who you are, your blog, your interests. Thanks.. What a tremendous success so far! In our first two days we’ve had over 14,000 hits and been linked by Slate, Slashdot, Daypop, …
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAWN OLSEN I love you, am very proud of you, and know how lucky I am to have you! xxxxoooo Eric
Read More »Rosenberg Reviews
Fellow blogger and Salon editor Scott Rosenberg reviews Motavalli’s “Bamboozled at the Revolution” and Weinberger’s “Small Pieces Loosely Joined.”: So we know who got bamboozled. But who did the bamboozling? There really are no culprits — aside from one sad account of software hustlers actually defrauding the folks at the …
Read More »Producers and Engineers Marching Together
Do what we say or we will record you poorly – Ha Haaa!: Issues surrounding the music industry are heating up, and most stories revolve around the record labels, musicians, congress, consumers, and music pirates. Often lost in the noise is the importance of another major player in the business: …
Read More »Classical Issues
Brad Hill comments on issues pertaining to classical music and the digital revolution: I’m a lifelong classical fan, and take a special interest in the digital distribution of this genre. Because of the length of its tracks, the demographics of its audience, and the relationship of orchestras to record labels, …
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How’s this for a European sensibility, although I would have hoped for better from the British: The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Eurythmics, Culture Club: What do they all have in common? They’re British and they all topped the American charts, mid-’60s to mid-’80s, mop-top pop to camp …
Read More »“It’s a Bird…”
Peculiar but interesting discussion of this site going on at Blogroots (see comments): people are having a hard time figuring out what we are. Are we a blog, a magazine, a community? I think we are all of the above. What do you think we are?
Read More »Splitting Up the Spoils
Pho’s Jim Griffin on the state of the biz: the worm is turning at record companies and their media parents everywhere, where financial statements and audits and following trails of money leads you to an industry swirling the drain and praying for the deus ex machinas of technology and government …
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