Blog-O-Rama

 

WATCH: Beck & Friends Perform Song Reader Live in London

(Pitchfork Media)

Can A Language Make You More Musical?

(Slate)

One Big Reservoir: Kayaking with Mike Watt
(Bluefat)
 

Go, Thundercat, Go!

(Los Angeles Magazine)

Into A Cistern: Assessing the Constraints and Liberties of Unique Recording Spaces
(Perfect Sound Forever)

Meet the Guy Who Programs Music at 1400 Chipotle Restaurants
(Westword)
 

Give the Drummer Some: Remembering Devo's Alan Meyers

(Dangerous Minds)

Commentary: "Anthony Braxton is the Robert Pollard of Jazz..."
(NuVoid)

Tropicalia: Protest & Psychedelic Rock & Roll in 1960s Brazil
(VICE)

Allison Miller: How Ani DiFranco's Drummer Got Attention Beyond the Jazz World
(Los Angeles Times)
 

LIST: The 10 Most Bangable Members of the New York Philharmonic

(Sound of the City)

My Bill Evans Problem: Jaded Visions of Jazz and Race

(NewMusicBox)

Carrying the Note Forward: L.A.'s Legacy of Backup Singers

(KCET)

Dexter Story: A Journey Like Few Others

(The Revivalist)

ARCHIVE: Bob Mould Performs with Lou Barlow on MTV (1994)

(Slicing Up Eyeballs)

Cecile McLornin Salvant: A Star is Born

(NY Daily News)

Instrument Interviews #13: Nels Cline

(Sleepover Shows)

WATCH: No Age Play New Songs at Best Kept Secret Festival

(Stereogum)

The Out Door: The Legacy of Loren Connors

(Pitchfork Media)

Ben Goldberg Picks His 5 Fave Clarinetists

(NPR)

Progressive Rock/Regressive Thinking

(Running the Voodoo Down)

Photographer Pokes Fun at Absurd Rock Star Requests

(Slate)

Have You Heard of Eugene Chadbourne?
(Dummy)
 

ARCHIVE: Clare Fischer Conducts A Master Class

(Rifftides)

Seven Mosh Pit Techniques You Should Know

(West Coast Sound)

WATCH: MOCAtv's "Art of Punk" Web Series

(YouTube)

 

Kickstarter: Help Bring The Jazz Session Back To Life

(The Jazz Session)

The Folk Element Is Intact: Four Mulgrew Miller Solos
(Do the Math)
 

Q&A: Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese

(Something Else!)

Popcast: Sailing the Seas of Smooth Jazz

(New York Times)

Dayna Stephens: An Improviser Learns the Art of Patience

(A Blog Supreme)

Ligeti at the 50-Yard Line: The Fascinating "Modernist Drum Corps" Underground

(The Rest Is Noise)

Sonny Clark's Last Leap
(Indiana Public Media)
 

The 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time

(L.A. Weekly)

Steve Coleman: Stories Along the Path
(Point of Departure)

Dreamcatching: The Remarkable Story of Robert Rich and the Sleep Concerts
(Fact)

Beat Doctor: How Tom Moulton Changed Recorded Music

(Wax Poetics)

WATCH: Cecil Taylor in Paris (1968)
(Burning Ambulance)