Stuff That Got By Us: Summer Vay-Cay Edition

I Gotta Be Able To Counterattack: Rap and the Los Angeles Riots

(L.A. Review of Books, 5/03/12)

Watch: Andrew Hill's Final Concert
(Burning Ambulance, 7/11/12)

The (Even More) Experimental Side of Zappa Keyboardist Don Preston
(Chicago Reader, 7/31/12)

Cold Facts: Sasha Frere-Jones Interviews Searching for Sugarman Director Malik Bendjelloul

(The New Yorker, 8/03/12)

Red Kross: But We Were Sane
(L.A. Record, 8/07/12)

I Like Gamelan, Too: How Western Culture Absorbed the Music of Bali

(Perfect Sound Forever, Aug/Sept. 2012)

Yes, I Went to the Newport Jazz Festival

(Lament for a Straight Line, 8/12/12)

Diana Krall Goes Cheesecake: A Nation Reacts

(The Gig, 8/14/12)

Take Me Seriously: Why Pussy Riot Matter

(Pitchfork Media, 8/16/12)

Profile: Damión Reid's High-Tech Prog-Funk

(Heavy Metal Bebop, 8/16/12)

How To Play A Music Festival
(Consequence of Sound, 8/17/12)

Rant: Write A Song!

(Running the Voodoo Down, 8/19/12)

Podcast: The KZSU Fred Frith Tribute Hour

(Avant-jazz Radio, 8/20/12)

Down with Jazz: The Scene in...Ireland?

(Mostly Music, 8/21/12)

Gary Lewis: The Organ Monk
(The Revivalist, 8/21/12)
 

The Last Great Album?: Los Lobos' KIKO Turns 20

(Austin Chronicle, 8/22/12)

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands
(West Coast Sound, 8/23/12)

Disco Inferno: Jazz and Disco Crossovers of the '70s

(Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, 8/23/12)

Profile: Marcus Belgrave
(Detroit Free Press, 8/26/12)

The Groove Where Jazz and Dance Music Meet

(L.A. Times Pop & Hiss, 8/26/12)

How Many Dominant Sevenths Does It Take to Win a Monk Competition?

(Do The Math, 8/26/12)

 

A Living Diary of a Dying Industry: Interview with a Grumpy Record Store Clerk

(VICE, 8/29/12)

 
Ornette Coleman's Big Adventure
(The New Yorker, 8/29/12)
 

A Little Drop of Blood: Q & A with Swans' Michael Gira

(The Quietus, 8/29/12)

 

How John Cage Impacted Rock Music
(Via Chicago, 8/29/12)

Review: An Oral History of ESP-Disk
(L.A. Review of Books, 8/19/12)

The Unbearable Whiteness of Bumbershoot
(Seattle Weekly, 8/30/12)

In Defense of the Survival of Major Record Store Chains
(PopMatters Music, 8/30/12)