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Sunday, August 19, 2001
20:08: The japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi presents: "My Favorite Elvis Songs", reports CNN. Let's hope this doesn't become a trend ("Blair's all time Cliff Richard melodies" or "Bush's favorite Dolly Parton parts" spring to mind)Saturday, August 18, 2001
23:36: "In rock music, you have to earn money and you have to be an entertainer, but music should be like yoga or another means of trying to reach God. That is why I found the rock music experience so disturbing.", Ravi Shankar (best known for the sixties, when he performed at Woodstock and had the Beatles over for tea in Indian) view on rock music in The Telegraph12:37: John Strausbaugh wrote the book "Rock Til You Drop", in which he argues that rock "is youth music. It is best played by young people, for young people, in a setting that is specifically exclusionary of their parents and anyone their parents' age.". This means to him that Jagger, The Who, Neil Young should all gather in a retirement home and live by the rule that they "hoped to die before they get old".
Although he rightly states that "no one can argue against the abundant evidence that middle-aged people make sad spectacles of themselves when they think they're 'rocking out'", he list plenty of examples that in my book fall in the category of "ageing gracefully".
The Observer publishes excerpts from the book.
11:32: Despite the multiple pop-ups, this is one cool concept of an internet radio station, and a great way to keep updated on various genres of (indie) music t o t a l l y r a d i o.
Wednesday, August 15, 2001
19:25: Your Roommate Plays The Indigo Girls on the biting Brunching Shuttlecocks site. L.O.L.Sunday, August 12, 2001
22:58: "Singles are essentially four minute adverts for albums. Apart from a few dance labels with minimal overheads, nobody expects to make money on them. Single sales guarantee chart places and, in turn, radio play - and that is why record companies persist with them. They are little more than loss-leaders for albums, where the real money is made". BBC ponders the future of the single, in Counting the cost of a hit.19:36: Now I bet that would be a hit on broad(band)way: Dot Com: the musical.
Saturday, August 11, 2001
22:21: Junior Dready, is my new name, in Rasta land. Found out by testing the The Irie Reggae Name Generator. Jah mon!21:18: Contradictory to the previous post, is the finding of Italian psychologists that House music causes impotence. God is a weird DJ.
15:21: "In every genre of music (...) men produce about 10 times as much as women, and their output peaks at around age 30 - near the time of their peak reproductive years. (...) Successful male musicians are notoriously promiscuous and tend to produce a lot of children - and that's how the genes for musical ability tend to be passed on." What's the biological function of music, in Discover.
Wednesday, August 08, 2001
19:39: Ike and Tina Turner, Sonny and Cher, Jason and Kylie, Britney & Justin, Serge & Jane Birkin ... The best & worst of spouse rockSunday, August 05, 2001
17:20: Who can go to this site and still keep denying that "rock is dead"?Saturday, August 04, 2001
13:04: Oh My God! This is Joan Jett anno 2001, going to the MTV: Music Television's 20th anniversary celebration.Saturday, March 17, 2001
15:08: Head to Head : Moby ("In the year 2000, no electronic artist - and not too many from any other genre of music, for that matter - made more of an impact on pop culture than Moby. His music was inescapable") and Daft Punk ("Ironic that in 2001, the artists most poised to capture the attention of America's dancefloors and clothing stores are two people you wouldn't recognize if you clocked them in the head with a glowstick") on CMJSaturday, February 10, 2001
14:00: Share entire albums on Napster with AlbumWrap12:22: IUMA on the verge of black-out : Web's oldest music site could become history on CNet.com
Thursday, January 25, 2001
22:54: This article by Michael S. Malone on Forbes.com is about the unintented side-effects of technology innovations. While mostly about computers & internet, it also raises an interesting point at the end : "The arrival of digital recording and playing did two things: It enabled recording engineers to distinguish each instrument even in a wall of sound ... and let bands hit bass notes they never could before. ... The result was predictable: music that is a deep roar. And because bottom notes are more visceral than top, they have come to predominate. You need only play Abbey Road and Nevermind, recorded less than 20 years apart, side by side. That in turn raises an interesting question. Because deep bass notes also provoke a dark emotional response, is modern rock music (and the kids who listen to it) more ominous and paranoid because it reflects the society around it--or is it the other way around, driven by digital technology?"Monday, January 22, 2001
23:06: Jazz Sites by the Thousands, but Where's the Music?: NYTimes (login required, but it's free) wonders why "there are thousands of musician, fan and commercial sites devoted to the genre, and online portals like AllAboutJazz.com, Jazz.About.com, JazzOnWeb.com and JazzReview.com give easy access to them. Search engines yield the track listings for out-of- print albums faster than you can say Dodo Marmarosa. But one element is missing from this online scene: music."Friday, January 12, 2001
21:48: Ouija Board, Ouija Board : The Queen is dead. Is Morrissey a visionary who foretold the death of Diana Spencer, or is the Morrissey fanbase just craving for some actual "news" about their favourite artist.Monday, January 08, 2001
20:13: "After all, what are we here at Spin.com but a bunch of aging teenagers scrawling band logos on notebooks?" Spin's Top 20 albums of the year.Tuesday, January 02, 2001
16:02: Sign one : You know what "bitrate" means. : Tech TV's Five Signs That You Are a Napsteraholic.Do something!
Sponsor a NA-meeting (Napsteraholic's Anonymous). Urge your government to consider a ban on chocolate Napsters & Napster billboards that have such a devastating effect on the helpless youths of the world ...
15:54: related : "I'm emotionally dependent on music, and Napster is my source. It is the pusher." : Profile of (an addicted Napster) User on Tech TV
Monday, January 01, 2001
10:31: So Finally a "happy new millenium" to wish you. Or is it?Sunday, December 31, 2000
15:01: "The book, which reads something like a Rolling Stone interview that unaccountably goes on for hundreds of pages, is heavy enough to challenge the carrying capacity of some coffee tables and is spread over multicolored page layouts that seem like dutifully hard-to-read tributes to the golden age of psychedelia.". A look at "The Beatles Anthology" and "1" in the NY Review of Books by Geoffrey O'Brien.14:55: Funny look at the Eminem phenomenon in The Spectator.co.uk
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NME
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Dotmusic
Music Newswire
Music365
Q Online
les inrockuptibles
Rolling Stone
Wall of Sound
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