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Library of Congress expands National Recording Registry

Every year, the Library of Congress adds to the National Recording Registry. They select 25 recordings that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” to preserve for all time.
Here’s the list of recordings the NRPB, the Library’s National Recording Preservation Board, selected for the 2007 National Recording Registry. It’s great to see [...]

Grammys 50th is Solid Gold

Events like the Grammys are great learning moments. There’s so much more to most of these artists than their “hit songs.” Once you dig into their catalog and their roots, you find all kinds of things you may not have known before. But one thing’s for sure. This year’s [...]

Lil Wayne licks Grammy competition

Never mind that Coldplay’s new album is the Brit-pop band’s weakest effort yet. Or that rapper Lil Wayne is a better salesman than musician. Or that the Jonas Brothers pen power-pop like third-graders fill in Mad Libs. They are all smart, swaggering and popular, style-over-substance qualities that helped them Wednesday when nominations were announced for the 51st annual Grammy Awards. Lil Wayne led the pack with eight nominations. His 2008 album, "Tha Carter III," sold more than a million copi

arnaud rebotini (blackstrobe): playlist and interview

Black Strobe’s Arnaud Rebotini took out his vintage analog synths and drum machines again and started jamming with them the old school way. He had so much fun that he ended up with a new album “Music Components”, and it’s out now on Citizen Records. Listen to his top 5 analog tracks and his album minimix now. Bonus interview below. What’s you playlis mix about? I provided Fairtilizer with a mini mix of the album, it’s fun and easy because all the tracks are in the same tone (c minor) so all t

More Proof That Herbie Hancock Is The Only Guy Ever To Look Badass Playing The Keytar

After all the strange keytar pictures we included in the post Proof That Herbie Hancock Is The Only Guy Ever To Look Cool Playing The Keytar, I thought we’d be able to take a break from that for a while. There’s been a healthy debate over our original theory, but, unfortunately for guys everywhere, no solid evidence has been dug up to disprove it. Larhule did note that the band The Human Aftertaste has a keytarist, saying that “perpatron is the child-molesting robot keytarist for a band call

Sign your Herbie Hancock on the dotted line

I think this is the same one that Robert Higgs penciled in the other day: Via Clusterstock.

Grammy predictions, Britney goes on tour with “Circus” and more

From today’s b, the paper The 2009 Grammy Awards are set for Feb. 8 and the nominations will be announced at 9 p.m. tonight. But before some musicians take a victory lap and even more have their hopes dashed, we made our predictions for the best of 2008. The field for best new artist is one of the most confusing. Grammy rules say an artist need not be “new,” only that the release has “established the public identity” of the artist. Last year Taylor Swift was the only artist who was actual

Question of the day: Haunted

Question of the Day What episode from your past are you afraid will come back to bite you?0 comments log in | register user: pass: Forgot your password? Advertisement Recently Added Videos Advertisement Recently Added Photos The SquidFire way Anti-mall clothing duo is thread hot read more | 2 comments Fantasy Fodder Joy to the world! The fantasy playoffs have come read more (0 comments) The other side of tragedy Chri

Stephen Colbert Has Full Intentions Of Humbling Kanye West

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2009 Grammy Hall of Fame inductees revealed

In the run-up to Wednesday night’s and Thursday morning’s announcements of next year’s Grammy nominations (my money’s on Coldplay to be one of the leading nod-getters), the next batch of recordings to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame were revealed today. I’m probably alone in this, but I find myself increasingly looking forward to this annual list of the (usually) deserving and the (sometimes) overrated. I often find it more interesting than the typically obvious choices that fill up a

How To Mod a Piano: The Hauschka Interview

Here's the full interview we conducted recently with Hauschka's Volker Bertelman, a pianist who modifies his instruments with tacks, tape, felt, plastic wrap and other materials to alter its sound for his compositions, attracting fans from indie rock and classical circles alike. As this interview reveals, Haushka arrived at the idea of modifying pianos on his own, occasionally has his equipment thrown in the trashcan by overzealous cleaning staffs, and plans to do to the orchestra what he

GENERAL @ ECLECTIC presents "STRANGE PARTNERS"

GENERAL @ ECLECTICpresentsSTRANGE PARTNERS....................................... ANOTHER WEIRD MUSICAL MIS-MATCHED GROOVEFEST JOINT DJ HYPE v ALEX REECE - PULP FICTIONFATBOY SLIM v WREXX in EFFECT - RUMP SHAKERLAYO & BUSHWACKA v DEVO - SKOL BEATZJANE FONDA v MOUSSE T - HORNYSEX PISTOLS v SALT n' PEPA - NO PUSHIN'TOMOYASU HOTEI v SPINJUNKIES - KILL BILLKRAFTWERK v SPEED THUMPERS - TOUR de FRANCENOUVELLE VAGUE v JAYNE COUNTY - TOO DRUNK......HERBIE HANCOCK v DST - ROCKITDJ NRGiZE v NATURAL

Concerts in Athens december 08 - 2009.

Φτωχα τα συναυλιακα για την ωρα. Φημες θελουν τον Bruce Springsteen, να ερχεται τον Φεβρουαριο. Για την ωρα ...3/12 AYO (Αθηνων αρενα)4/12 LAIBACH (Gagarin 205)12,13/12 MONSTER MAGNET (Gagarin 205)13/12 FRONT 242 (Fuzz club)20/12 ANNE CLARK (Gagarin 205)22/12 GOTAN PROJECT (Αθηνων Αρενα)25/12 HERBIE HANCOCK (Μεγαρο μουσικης Αθηνων)31/1 CALEXICO (Fuzz club)6/2 KREATOR (Κεντρο Πολιτισμου Ελληνικος κοσμος)21/2 TINDERSTICKS (θεατρο Badminton)21/3 AMON DUUL II (Gagarin 205)28/3 CALLISTO (Gagarin 205)

World AIDS Day: Remembering Sylvester—The Queen of Disco

On this World AIDS Day, I am pleased to join other activists in celebrating the accomplishments of one of our own, Sylvester James, in an effort to acknowledge the courage he demonstrated as a person living with AIDS who never compromised himself or what he believed in. Who Is Sylvester James? Know as the “Queen of Disco,” Sylvester James was a recording artist and drag performer who often collaborated with Patrick Cowley. Sylvester was born in Los Angeles, California into a middle-cla

Costello’s `Spectacle’ a different look at music

During an interview with Elton John for the debut of his new Sundance Channel show “Spectacle,” Elvis Costello didn’t ask about stage costumes, boyfriends or “Island Girl.” Instead, the conversation turned to Laura Nyro, Leon Russell and David Ackles. The two men closed the show, which airs Wednesday at 9 p.m., performing the obscure singer-songwriter Ackles’ “Down River.” “For all of (Elton John’s) successes, people don’t realize that he’s a great fan of music,” Costello told The Associat

Leap Before You Look

On Saturday night the New Beverly Cinema had their “Vanity Insanity” triple bill, which consisted of three movies--NEVER TOO YOUNG TO DIE, ACTION JACKSON and THE LAST DRAGON--that starred the one and only Vanity. It seemed like it was a lot of fun if you stayed around for the whole thing, but the truth is that I showed up to see just the film that was running in the middle of the evening. For reasons that I cannot explain, I had never seen ACTION JACKSON, in spite of the fact that it came out in

Podthoughts by Colin Marshall: "The Vinyl Morpher Show"

Nothing quite complements Thanksgiving like a marathon. No, not the challenging kind — a cultural marathon. Clunky holiday movies and such would be go-to marathon constituents, and some public radio stations have proven goodly enough to air This American Life marathons, but for this Podthinker, making Thanksgiving Thanksgiving meant going all the way to another country — to a country that doesn't even celebrate the holiday — for more than a little bit of that which really and truly merits thank

When TV Advances Music

The new music-minded talk show, "Spectacle" Elvis Costello With..." won't premiere on Sundance Channel until Wednesday. But already it's had an effect in the recording world. His session with Jenny Lewis ended up with him in the studio on a track on her new album "Acid Tongue" and brought him into his own studio to perform a quickie album "Momofuko" (on which Lewis also appears). Charlie Haden was on an episode of the new show featuring Bill Clinton and heard Costello sing Hank Williams "Y

Steve Allen Show

Steve, sitting with Burt Lancaster, introduces the 1964 Miles Davis Quintet with Wayne Shorter (on one of his first gigs with the band), Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams. Steve introduces a young Frank Zappa: From the same Miles Davis broadcast. I just cannot get over this video, as many times as I've seen it - just sends shivers up my spine: It's sad that this one is cut off. The other solos, Wayne's in particular, are worth searching out, but the audio/video quality of these cl

Talent and friends get singer John Forte out of jail

Talent and friends get singer John Forte out of jail by Lisa Rose/The Star-Ledger Sunday November 30, 2008, 7:35 AM Words usually flow for John Forte, a hip-hop singer-songwriter who has released two solo albums and worked with such eclectic collaborators as the Fugees, Herbie Hancock and Carly Simon. Yet it's taking days for him to refine his latest writing project -- not a piece of music but a thank-you note. He is composing a letter of gratitude to President Bush.

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