75 HOT LINKS (w/ Dirty Rice & Sausage Gravy)

Mmmff, this should keep us all full for awhile...

THE MUSIC FOODIES: How Jazz Became an Artisan's Movement (SALON)

How NYC's Loft Jazz Scene Inspired A New Underground Restaurant (NPR)

SON OF DETROIT: The Oral History of J. Dilla (WAX POETICS)

Which Rock Star Will Future Historians Remember? (NY TIMES MAGAZINE)

Listening to West Sumatra's Musical Megaliths (AURAL ARCHIPELAGO)

Bill Bratton's Strange, Old-School Linkage of "Thugs" with Rap

(THE ATLANTIC)

CROWD-SOURCED: The AACM Revisited (POINT OF DEPARTURE)

SIGN THE PETITION: Save The Smell, L.A.'s Flagship DIY Music Venue (iPETITION)

HEAR YOU BREATHING: Jazz's Funniest Musicians (JAZZ TIMES)

The 10 Weirdest Indie Rock-TV Crossovers of the Nineties (STEREOGUM)

HOOK LINE SINK: Revisiting John Lurie's Strange and Wonderful Fishing Show (STEREOGUM)

MUCH ADO ABOUT MUCHNESS: The Man Who Introduced China to Rock 'n' Roll (LARB)

Meet the Composer Who Made the Eiffel Tower Sing (NPR CLASSICAL)

The Dark Art of Mastering Music (PITCHFORK MEDIA)

Edward Snowden: Unlikely Techno Star (VICE MUSIC)

RANT: A Great Black Actor Makes Miles Davis Look Like A Fool (THE STRANGER)

The Rediscovered Jazz Artistry of Forrest Westbrook (OFF RAMP)

"PUSHERS OF PIRACY": An Open Letter to YouTube (MUSIC-TECH-POLICY)

This Is Congress' Chance to Be Fair to Musicians (THE NEW YORKER)

EXCERPT: Nels Cline Interviews Sean Lennon and Les Claypool (MAGNET)

Aquarius Records Release Fanzine of 50 Favorite Records Since 1996 (THE WIRE)

Armenian DJs Are Bringing Traditional Sounds into Underground Dance Music (LA WEEKLY)

QUIZ: Are You A Big Jazz Boy or a Little Jazz Boy? (CLICKHOLE)

How Living Colour, Bad Brains and Fishbone Fought Gentrification (AFROPUNK)

REBELS WITH BOWS: Why Cellists Are the Crankiest Musicians (SLATE)

The Trombone Comes Home (NY TIMES)

The Current Face of the Bass (MOSTLY MUSIC)

SLIDESHOW: Sun Ra Arkestra, Pharaoh Sanders + Kamasi Washington in A Night of Spiritual Jazz (POPMATTERS)

Recently Discovered! The Only Known Video of Louis Armstrong in a Recording Studio (LAMAG)

THE INFILTRATION OF BLACK RAP: The Untold Story of Hip Hop's Early Entrepreneurs (CUEPOINT)

JAZZ FOR THE THRILL OF IT: Chris Becker Interviews Grace Kelly (LARB)

The Greatest Electronic Albums of the '50s and '60s (THE VINYL FACTORY)

PHOTOLOG: Amazing Images from the San Francisco Punk Scene, 1977-82

(DANGEROUS MINDS)

An Open Letter to 17-Year-Old Boys Who Just Discovered the Doors (MCSWEENEY'S)

Read the Very First Issue of Billboard, Dated 11/1/1894 (BROWBEAT)

Why Jazz Will Always Be Relevant (THE FADER)

HOME THEATER: Warne Marsh: An Improvised Life (SEED & SPARK)

BLOOD AND ECHOES: The Story Behind Steve Reich's Civil Rights Era Masterpiece (PITCHFORK MEDIA)

ARCHIVES: Watch An Entire Black Flag Concert from 1982 (YOUTUBE)

HOW WE MADE IT: Laurie Anderson's "O Superman" (THE GUARDIAN)

Carla Bley: First Lady of the Avant-Garde (KEYBOARD)

How Jazz Saved Hip-Hop (Again) (PLAYBOY)

The One-Man Band That Almost Made Punk Uncool (Again) (NOISEY)

?uestlove on Why Prince is Hip-Hop (WAX POETICS)

KIND OF PURPLE: Jazz Musicians on Prince (ALL ABOUT JAZZ)

SCANDAL, SLEAZE + PUNK ROCK: Inside the Tropicana Motel (ANOTHERMAG)

The Ramones & Rap: A Shared History? (PRIMEMIND)

INFOGRAPHIC: The Miles Davis Universe. Visualized (THE JAZZ CHILL CORNER)

WATCH: A 2000 Documentary on David S. Ware (BLOG THE HUM)

A Guide to the Work of Diamanda Galás (RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY)

T-Bone Burnett's Stirring Speech About Music and the American Story (MEDIUM)

Kamasi Washington on the Pressures of Being Called "Jazz's Savior" (ESQUIRE)

WATCH: Wendy Carlos, Vangelis & Giorgio Moroder Do Battle as "The Lords of Synth" (ADULT SWIM)

16 Pieces of Protest Jazz for 2016 (REVIVE MUSIC)

Man Actually Tries to Find Jazz at a Jazz Fest (NEUTRAL GROUND NEWS)

ATOMIC CAFE: The Long Lost Little Punk Haven of L.A.'s Little Tokyo (OFF RAMP)

ASK A SCIENTIST: How to Pick Music for People on LSD (MOTHERBOARD)

Q&A: Ethan Iverson Interviews Wayne Shorter (DO THE MATH)

FROM THE TIME-LOCK VAULT: The Infamous "Dangers of Punk Rock" Episode of Quincy

(THE A.V. CLUB)

DOCUMENT UNDER GLASS: John Coltrane's Handwritten Outline for A Love Supreme

(OPEN CULTURE)

Meet the Innovative Jazz Drummer Praised By Stravinsky (and Ignored by Everyone Else)
(THE STRANGER)

A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON: Les Blank's Unreleased Film About Leon Russell

(UNDER THE RADAR)

A SPACE FOR MUSIC: An Interview with Rocco Somazzi (WENDTWRITINGS)

YOU DIG?: A Dive Into Jazz Slang (A BLOG SUPREME)

Communal Experimentalism in the Sixties: The Pulsa Group (NEWMUSICBOX)

THIRTEEN PRAYERS: Kamasi Washington's Favorite Albums (THE QUIETUS)

CHECKING IN: George Clinton on Sun Ra, Kendrick Lamar, Prince, Jimi Hendrix & more (NUVO)

Disappointing Prince Vaults Found to Contain 37000 Hours of Billy Joel Covers (THE ONION)

"IS THE WATER WARM ENOUGH?": Cartoonist Depicts Wendy + Lisa's Contribution to Prince's Legacy (THE WIRE)

Inside Miles Davis' Prince Obsession (THE PITCH)

JAZZ HOME THEATER: Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Case of the Three-Sided Dream (VIMEO)

Breaking Down the Orchestration of Radiohead's "Burn the Witch" (FLYPAPER)

ARCHITECTURE + EXPLOSION: Cecil Taylor, The Composer (DARK FORCES SWING BLIND PUNCHES)

NYC IS KILLING ME: Albert Ayler's Life and Death in the Jazz Capital (PITCHFORK JAZZ ISSUE)

FROGTOWN: Anthony Wilson Tackles Love, Loss and Lyrics (KPCC)

Our Cruelest Month (of Links)

8 Things All Band Geeks Know to be True

(CLICKHOLE)

BEYOND OBJECTS, BEYOND SCORES: Aditi Sriram Interviews Vijay Iyer

(GUERNICA)

A Guide to 1980s Miles Davis

(PITCHFORK MEDIA)

Hear the Very First Drum Machine from 1931

(OPEN CULTURE)

25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music is Going
(NYT INTERACTIVE)

NO MAG: Entire Print Run of Seminal L.A. Art Punk 'Zine Now Online

(DANGEROUS MINDS)

How to Listen to Music

(THE ATLANTIC)

ELECTION 2016: The Complete Guide to the Candidates' Favorite Music

(ROLLING STONE)

AUTHORITARIAN HOLD MUSIC: How Donald Trump's Banal (and Dangerous) Playlist

(WASHINGTON POST)

Jazz Musician Inspired by Campaign Rhetoric on New EP

(SCPR)

Q&A: George Clinton Interviews Kendrick Lamar

(PIGEONS & PLANES)

How A Historic Black Queer Disco Became the Epicenter of L.A.'s Industrial Scene

(THUMP)

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Nina Simone's Face

(THE ATLANTIC)

Why Nina Simone's Skin is as Important as Her Voice

(THE PITCH)

The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks
(OPEN CULTURE)

FUNK, FUZZ & FELA: Fela and the Birth of Afro Rock

(CUEPOINT)

(Re)discovering the Culture and Nostalgia of L.A.'s Record Stores

(LA WEEKLY)

How To Turn Your Cremated Remains Into a Vinyl Record

(MNN)

RITES OF SPRING REDUX: Watch "Noisy Dissent" Disrupt A Harpsichord Recital
(SLIPPED DISC)

Larry Young's Self-Questioning Jazz

(THE NEW YORKER)

Tom Marcello Photographs NYC's Loft Jazz Scene

(BLOG THE HUM)

KONSPIRACY KORNER: Does A Supertramp Album Cover Predict 9/11?

(DANGEROUS MINDS)

Esperanza Spaulding: Insubordinate by Nature

(PITCHFORK INTERVIEWS)

WATCH: Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" Played on a Gayageum

(YOUTUBE)

Fishbone Bassist Norwood Fisher on Being L.A.'s Only Funk-Punk-Ska Band
(KCET)

How Ahmad Jamal's The Awakening Became A Sampling Goldmine

(THE VINYL FACTORY)

Sonny Sharrock on Improvisation

(PREPARED GUITAR)

MYSTIC NIGHTS: The Making of Dylan's Blonde on Blonde

(THE OXFORD-AMERICAN)

A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters

(KCRW)

ARCHIVE SUPERCUT: Every Single Tom Waits TV Appearance

(YOUTUBE)

10 Things Never Say to a DJ

(CLICKHOLE)

Bern After Reading

SOUND COLLECTIVE: Inside the L.A. Scene that is Bringing Back Jazz 

and Transforming Hip-Hop

(CALIFORNIA SUNDAY MAGAZINE)

THE BARNYARD: One of the Last Remaining Juke Joints in South Central

(KCRW)

The Geography of '80s Punk Rock L.A.
(NILESGUIDE)

BOY HOWDY: New Documentary on CREEM Magazine in the Works

(DETROIT METRO TIMES)

How HBO's Vinyl and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo Created A Fictional Punk Band
(PITCHFORK MEDIA)

The Real Story Behind the Collapse of the Mercer Arts Center
(NARRATIVELY)

9 Artists Up from Grammys Like Van Halen Didn't Already Write "Panama"
(STARWIPE)

READ THIS: A Haunting Little Comic About A Mysterious Radio Station
(THE A.V. CLUB)

Frank Zappa's Famous Studio is Now an Art Gallery
(HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

The Invention of Ambient Music

(THE NEW YORKER)

ARCHIVE: Angela Davis Interviews Ice Cube (1991)
(DANGEROUS MINDS)

The Science of Air Guitar and Car Karaoke
(SALON)

10 Things Sun Ra Can Teach You About Band Leadership
(SONICBIDS)

Meet the Latino Engineer Behind Afrika Bambaataa and Sonic Youth

(REMEZCLA)

BEYOND FELA: A Guide to Early African Electronic Music

(ELECTRONIC BEATS)

SAHEL SOUNDS: Music From 21st Century West Africa
(PITCHFORK MEDIA)

TWO TURNTABLES + A KEYTAR: The Night Herbie Hancock Rocked the Grammys

(NEW YORK TIMES)

WATCH: Sonic Outlaws Documentary (1995)

(YOUTUBE)

FROM JOHN CAGE TO KOOL HERC: A Brief History of Turntablism
(THE VINYL FACTORY)

Some Helpful Maniac Has Created an Archive of MTV's 120 Minutes
(TYLERC)

BEHOLD: The Charming Record Stores of Southern California

(SLATE)

Hear the Experimental Music of the Dada Movement:

Avant-Garde Sounds from a Century Ago

(OPEN CULTURE)

WATCH: What's in My Bag? w/ Flea & Amy Jo Albany

(YOUTUBE)

TIME IS A GHOST: Vijay Iyer's Jazz Vision
(THE NEW YORKER)

Brian Eno and David Byrne's Cultural Appropriation:
35 Years of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
(GETINTOTHIS)

New Ways Into the Brain's "Music Room"
(NEW YORK TIMES)

ARCHIVE: Complete Set of John Coltrane's Last Newport Performance (7/2/66)
(YOUTUBE)

The 14 Synthesizers That Shaped Modern Music
(THE VINYL FACTORY)

Will Streaming Music Kill Songwriting?
(THE NEW YORKER)

WATCH: Wrecking Crew Legend Carol Kaye Teach Gene Simmons Bass
(YOUTUBE)

Data Dumptruck

The Jazz and Avant-Garde Underpinnings of Bowie's Blackstar

(WALL ST. JOURNAL)

Guess What Audio Product Dominated Amazon This Xmas?

(SISTER FROM ANOTHER PLANET)

The Dividing Lines of the Vinyl Resurgence

(URB)

2015: A Turbulent Year In Music

(NEW YORK TIMES)

The Best TV Pop-Music Cues of 2015

(SALON)

The Not-So-Hateful Eight: Quentin Tarantino's Greatest Music Cues
(WEST COAST SOUND)

IN MEMORIAM: Pierre Boulez, 1925-2016

(PREPARED GUITAR)

Legendary NYC Club's Massive Live Archives Now Online
(ROLLING STONE)

What Does Protest Music Look Like Today?

(NOISEY)

Woody Guthrie's Time on L.A.'s Skid Row
(KCET)

ORNETTE @ PRINCE STREET: A Glimpse from the Archives

(POINT OF DEPARTURE)

PICTURES OF INFINITY: Kamasi Washington and the Cosmic Jazz Connection
(THE WIRE)

Sign The Petition to Name A Heavy-Metal Element "Lemmy"

(DANGEROUS MINDS)

Sunday, Lemmy and Me
(BIG HAIR PLASTIC GRASS)

Classic Rock Without All the Talk. Impossible, Right? Wrong.
(CLICKHOLE)

THE SOUTH STOLE AMERICANA: On America's Untended Musical Roots
(L.A. REVIEW OF BOOKS)

10 Buildings With Extraordinary Acoustics

(THE SPACE)

Listening To Star Wars

(THE NEW YORKER)

The Record NASA Sent to Aliens Now on Soundcloud

(CHART ATTACK)

LISTEN: All 10 Albums From Brian Eno's Obscure Records

(BOINGBOING)

REVIEW: Weather Report: The Legendary Live Tapes, 1979-1981

(POPMATTERS)

Curator Launches Huge Online Index of Innovative Female Composers/Musicians

(THE STRANGER)

ELAINE RADIGUE: The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal
(RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY)

The Tuneyards' Merrill Garbus on Adele's 25

(THE TALKHOUSE)

The Unlikely Return of the Sloths
(L.A. TIMES)

NATURAL IMBALANCE: The Dangers of Being A Female Field Recorder

(THE PITCH)

What Kind of Stress Do Full-Time Composers Experience?

(SLATE)

THE CURMUDGEON: Pops Staples and the Great Variety of African-American Music
(PASTE)

How The Word "Jazz" Appeared in 1917 Chile

(UCLA ETHNOMUSICOLOGY REVIEW)

New Mosaic Set Essays the History of Chicago's Bee Hive Records

(INDIANA PUBLIC MEDIA)

BRINGING BACK THE SUN: An Oral History of Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang's Winter Solstice Concerts

(CHICAGO READER)

Hear An Unreleased Take of Coltrane's "Acknowledgement" from New ALS Box Set

(PITCHFORK NEWS)

LSD, the Butthole Surfers, and Getting Kicked in the Head

(CUEPOINT)

WATCH: The Classic 1982 New Orleans Documentary Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together

(YOUTUBE)

CRY, CRY, CRY: The Making of ? & the Mysterians' "96 Tears"

(VICE)

SONGS IN THE KEY OF ZZZ: A History of Sleep Music

(PITCHFORK MEDIA)

Serf's Up

Why Do We Hate Modern Classical Music?

(The Guardian)

Does Jazz Music Really Suck?

(Medium)

Kamasi Washington on 21st Century Jazz

(The Talkhouse)

Thundercat is Modern Music's Secret Weapon

(Wired)

Born To Run and the Decline of the American Dream

(The Atlantic)

How "Kung Fu Fighting" Came to Represent Asia

(Code Switch)

AMAZING GRACE: The Tortured 4-Decade History of the Film 

Aretha Franklin Wants to Stop

(Hollywood Reporter)

COSMIC ZOO: Inside the L.A. Studio That's Shaping L.A.'s Underground Hip-Hop Scene

(FACTMAG)

Remembering the Real Lessons of 2-Tone Ska

(The Pitch)

How Many of These Velvet Underground Songs Have You Heard?

(Clickhole)

WHAT GOES ON: How Sterling Morrison Left the VU for UT
(The Alcade)

The 13 Most Insidious, Pervasive Lies of the Modern Music Industry

(Digital Music News)

Buddy Rich's Legendary Tirade. . .Set to Music

(YouTube)

Top 10 Albums of the South African Jazz Diaspora

(Hub Pages)

THE SURGEON'S CUT: What Do Doctors Listen To In the the Operating Room?

(The Guardian)

The Misunderstood Power of Michael Jackson's Music

(The Atlantic)

How Flying Lotus Built Brainfeeder

(The Fader)

Machines and Fleshapoid Falliability: Electronic Music and Halt and Catch Fire

(Grantland)

TIMELESS SONGS: Using Spotify To Measure the Popularity of Older Music

(Polygraph)

From Nirvana to GG Allin: Flipside's Krk Dominguez Photographs L.A.'s Post-Hardcore Scene

(Huffington Post)

L.A.'s Ten Best Up-and-Coming Rappers

(L.A. Weekly)

The 25 Best Rock Acts with Unique Setlists

(Consequence of Sound)

ELECTRIC FLING: Sun Ra's Free Space

(Pitchfork Media)

How Guitarists Form A Giant Hyperbrain...wait, WHAT?
(Fast Company)

11 Bands That Skipped Woodstock For Incredibly Lame Reasons

(11 Points)

LISTEN: The One Real Problem with Rolling Stones' "Greatest Songwriters of All Time" List

(The Record)

THE BEST SONGS OF THE 1980s: Picking Apart Pitchfork's Fascinating, Frustrating List

(Salon)

THE GOOD LISTENER: Are Tall People Obliged to Stand in the Back During Concerts?

(NPR)

Morton Subotnik on the Dawn of Modular Synthesis

(Electronic Beats)

This Squeaky Door in Chicago Does A Great Miles Davis Impression

(Dangerous Minds)

Chance Discovery Casts New Light on Origins of Polyphonic Music
(The Guardian)

Hoo Deep in the Kneepla

OUTSIDERS: Alex Ross Visits the Ojai Music Festival

(The New Yorker)

How Ornette Coleman Freed Rock 'n' Roll

(Longreads)

LISTEN: The Charles Lloyd Interview

(The Jake Feinberg Show)

5 Artists Who Are Changing the Sound of L.A.

(West Coast Sound)

Michael McDonald and the Fractals of the Human Mind

(NOVA Next)

The Most Important Jazz Album You've Never Heard

(UDiscover)

Matt Groening Tells "The True Story of the Residents"
(Residents.com)

STRAWBERRY LETTER 22: An Interview with Shuggie Otis
(Austin Chronicle)

IT'S OFFICIAL: Sound Engineering is the World's Grumpiest Profession

(Wunderground)

Kamasi Washington's Top 5 Fave Hip-Hop Albums

(Mass Appeal)

Man Records An Entire Album at Guitar Center...And It Kind of Rules

(VICE)

"Afropunk" Is Now A Thing...And That's A Good Thing

(Pop Matters)

Download Wilco's New Surprise Album Star Wars Here

(WilcoWorld)

LISTEN: Interview with Nels Cline

(Kreative Kontrol)

The Entire Print Run of SLASH Magazine Now Online

(Dangerous Minds)

BOOK EXCERPT: Spirits Rejoice! Jazz and American Religion

(Point of Departure)

The Chaotic Days of Sly Stone's Stone Flower Label

(Wondering Sound)

IN STUDIO: Kamasi Washington on KCRW

(NPR)

Gaming's Best Ambient Tracks

(Pitchfork Media)

ARCHIVE: Herbie Hancock + The Headhunters, Live on Soundstage (PBS, 1978)

(YouTube)

LISTEN: 7 Hours of Electronic Made by Women

(Open Culture)

New Study Finds Punk and Heavy Metal Actually Calm You Down

(Consequence of Sound)

How Dylan, Waits, Cash and Others Broke Out of Their Creative Ruts in the 1980s

(Slate)

RETRO RANT: The View From the Bottom of the Heap

(NewMusicBox)

LUCKY THIRTEEN: George Clinton Lists His All-Time Favorite Albums

(The Quietus)

Wadada Leo Smith Discusses The Great Lakes Suite

(Search + Restore)

SHORT FILM: Masabumi Kikuchi: Out of Bounds

(YouTube)

6 Drummers You Should Know About

(ReviveMusic)

LISTEN: Mark de Clive-Lowe's 90-minute Herbie Hancock Tribute
(The Revivalist)

RIP: Ethan Iverson Interviews Masabumi Kikuchi

(Do the Math)

Why the AACM and AfriCOBRA Still Matter

(Chicago Reader)

Compositions of New Jazz: Essentials from the AACM Library

(Red Bull Music Academy)

Locoachella

Tidal: End the Suffering

(YouTube)

Soundpapered: The Music of Robert Glasper Translated from Piano To Page
(OKPTV)

WATCH: New Trailer for Netflix's Nina Simone Documentary
(Paste)

How The L.A Beat Scene Conquered Coachella

(West Coast Sound)

Los Angeles Jazz with Kamasi Washington
(NY Times)

FIRST LISTEN: The Epic by Kamasi Washington + The Next Step
(NPR)

Kamasi Washington Talks The Epic
(Revive Music)

An Inglewood Saxophonist Might Have Made the Best Jazz Record of the Year
(L.A. Weekly)

Q&A: Kamasi Washington
(The Jazzcat)

"Rockit" at 32: How Herbie Hancock Created A Hip-Hop Classic

(Medium)

Sell Your Records: How To Stop Hoarding and Embrace the Cloud
(Salon)

Preserving the Fillmore Jazz Era

(SF Chronicle)

Bernard Stollman R.I.P.: The ESP-Disk Story

(All About Jazz)

Steve Stollman Eulogizes His Brother Bernard
(ESP-Disk)

WATCH: Selections from ESP-Disk Documentary Inside Out in the Open

(YouTube)

A Dispatch from the D.I.Y. Opera Scene

(Pitchfork Media)

Under The Influence: Thurston Moore on Black Flag, Sun Ra and the Ramones
(The Skinny)

LISTEN: A Love Supreme At 50

(BBC Radio)

Do We Really Stop Listening to New Music at 33?
(The AV Club)

Flight of the Firebird: Stravinsky in Los Angeles

(KCET)

Big Money for Campus Music Buildings

(Jazz Beyond Jazz)

The Man Who Broke the Music Business

(The New Yorker)

The Samplers That Shaped Modern Music

(FACTMAG)

A Brief History of the DJ Mixer

(Cuepoint)

Bill O'Reilly's Rock 'N' Roll Machine

(PopMatters)

Erik Friedlander: Stories Without Words

(NewMusicBox)

Q&A: Divine Styler

(L.A. Record)

PROFILE: Marte Roling and Fontana Records

(Burning Ambulance)

Langston Hughes' History of Jazz for Children

(Open Culture)

ARCHIVE: Flipper's Incredible Unreleased 1982 Studio Session

(Dangerous Minds)

WATCH: Herbie Hancock and Thundercat Talk About Working with Flying Lotus

(Revive Music)

Flying Lotus: Death Becomes Him
(Irish Times)

How Brian Wilson Helped Spawn Punk

(Stereogum)

50 Excellent International Pop Songs from the 1960s

(Flavorwire)

The Remarkable Life and Tragic Death of a Pioneering South L.A. Music Producer

(L.A. Weekly)

Man Invents 100 Musical Instruments Never Seen Before

(YouTube)

Words Without Music: Philip Glass' New Memoir

(Slate)

ARCHIVE: A Clueless Harry Reasoner Interviews Miles Davis (1989)
(CBS)

Report of the 1st Annual Symposium on Relaxed Improvisation

White Guy Won't Shut Up About "Inspiring" Trip to Watts
(L.A. Weekly)

T.S. MONK: "Jazz Was Not Meant for the Dinner Table"
(Huffington Post)

Have We Reached the End of Jazz?

(The Nation)

Jazz Has Become America's Least-Popular Genre

(The JazzLine)

Metallica Bassist Robert Trujillo Co-Produces New Jaco Pastorius Documentary
(Rolling Stone)

The L.A. Roots of Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly

(KCET)

How Kendrick Lamar Became "The John Coltrane of Hip-Hop"

(Billboard)

7 Musicians Who Made To Pimp A Butterfly Possible

(Revive)

Jazz Pianist Robert Glasper Reflects on His Role in To Pimp A Butterfly

(Slate)

Meet Thundercat, the Jazz-Fusion Genius Behind Kendrick Lamar's Butterfly
(Rolling Stone)

TV ARCHIVE I: 1959: The Year That Changed Jazz
(YouTube)

A Map of Locations of Tom Waits Songs

(BoingBoing)

The Best L.A. Punk Band of the '70s (That You've Never Heard of)

(L.A. Weekly)

ARCHIVE: John Lee Hooker, Live from the Detroit Tube Works (1970)

(YouTube)

A Brush With Jazz Immortality

(DagBlog)

The Day the Music. . .Spied?
(Philly.com)

How Verve Records Got Gutted

(The Daily Beast)

The Globetrotters: Future Brown's Global Signifiers

(The New Yorker)

Beautiful Music, Designed Specifically For Cats

(Salon)

Q&A: Fernando Pullum Interviews Flea

(YouTube)

The AACM Turns 50

(The Pitch)

Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream Lady" Turns 76

(Seattle Times)

The AACM's Influence on Underground Rock

(Chicago Tribune)

WATCH: Engineering Students Put Out Fires with Sound Waves

(New York Magazine)

Deaf Artist Christine Sun Kim Is Reinventing Sound
(VICE)

The Unbearable Whiteness of Indie

(Pitchfork Media)

Atonal Composers Gather for the "Atony" Awards

(The Onion)

LISTEN: Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Finally Goes Online

(NPR)

What Are The Best Novels About Music?

(The Daily Beast)

Hip-Hop Did Not Begin How You Think It Did

(West Coast Sound)

Booze, Blood & Noise: The Violent Roots of Manchester Punk

(Cuepoint)

TV ARCHIVE II: Miles Ahead - The Music of Miles Davis (PBS, 1986)

(YouTube)

Going To Live Shows When You Have A Disability

(Pitchfork Media)

Wizards of Sound: Retouching Acoustics from the Restaurant to the Concert Hall

(The New Yorker)

Ornette & Cecil Hang Out

(Detroit Metro Times)

WATCH: Ben Goldberg & The Making of Orphic Machine

(YouTube)

Songs That Almost Killed the American Songbook

(Slate)