tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113500972026-03-16T16:16:23.393-07:00Music and CultureA repository for articles on all aspects of music and culture (and a few musings)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1474125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-34998912291148945492014-08-07T21:23:00.000-07:002014-08-07T21:23:30.447-07:00When Robots Write Songs: Computers That ComposeThe Atlantic
When Robots Write Songs
Bach, Coltrane, McCartney: New algorithms can produce original compositions in the style of the greats. But are those works actually art?
William Hochberg Aug 7 2014, 8:01 AM ET
When Pharrell Williams accepted five Grammy Awards this year on behalf of the French group Daft Punk, the duo were dressed as robots. This may have foreshadowed a coming invasion Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-6617815616140043082014-02-25T08:24:00.000-08:002014-02-25T08:24:18.471-08:00LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy Wants NYC's Subway System to Make MusicBROOKLYN, N.Y.—Musician James Murphy thinks New York's "underground music" scene leaves a lot to be desired. He wants to change the underlying sound: the cacophony produced by the subway turnstiles.
"They make this unpleasant beep and are all slightly out of tune from one another," said Mr. Murphy, 44 years old, over breakfast recently in the trendy Williamsburg neighborhood here.
For the past Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-64095940653792574572014-02-03T22:52:00.000-08:002014-02-03T22:52:25.793-08:00Classic Anthropology CartoonUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-22148475329105457472014-02-03T22:51:00.000-08:002014-02-03T22:51:14.487-08:00Fav Halloween Costume of 2013: Edgar Allen HoUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-49844155142200168042013-12-30T22:29:00.002-08:002013-12-30T22:38:57.850-08:002013 Steely Dan InterviewsSteely Dan on Making New Music: 'We've Been Talking'
Band kick off 53-date Mood Swings tour this weekend
By Andy Greene
July 18, 2013 11:40 AM ET
Interviewing Steely Dan is no easy task. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen turned messing with journalists into an art form back in the Seventies. Rolling Stone checked in with Becker and Fagen during the final days of rehearsal for their upcoming Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-60115549875868323842013-12-30T22:01:00.001-08:002013-12-30T22:01:31.708-08:00Awesome Donald Fagen Interview from 2006 about His Bard DaysBack to Annadale
The origins of Steely Dan -- Donald Fagen returns to campus and revisits the origin of his old grudge
By Rob Brunner on Mar 17, 2006
On Halloween 1967, a party is raging inside Ward Manor, an Elizabethan-style mansion-turned-dorm at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. On a small stage set up in the corner of the common room, a band called the Leather Canary tears throughUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-56226519978962216602013-10-31T11:18:00.000-07:002013-10-31T11:18:05.377-07:00Star Wars/Thomas KinkadeA delicious gallery from Deviant Art. A sample:
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-64231549512201203082013-10-18T09:35:00.000-07:002013-10-18T09:40:29.696-07:00Zen Pencils Illustrates Cartoonist Bill Watterson's AdviceIllustration by Zen Pencils, words by cartoonist Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) given at a commencement address. Apparently part of the illustration is autobiographical for Zen Pencils. You can check out Zen Pencils HERE and a fullsize version of this comic HERE.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-28817369447884698972013-10-17T21:57:00.000-07:002013-10-17T21:57:01.218-07:00Awkward Jesus Paintings from American Jesus
Ah, "Business Jesus" is just one of the awkwardly bad Jesus paintings posted at American Jesus. Check out the rest THERE.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-43697288148218940592013-07-26T00:02:00.001-07:002013-07-26T00:02:55.769-07:00Recording Diana Ross' "Love Hangover"A great story from producer Hal Davis that mostly comes from the biography Diana. Best part:
"No one really liked disco here at Motown," producer Hal Davis said in J. Randy Taraborrelli's biography, Diana. "The company wasn't heavily into it, so I figured I'd take advantage of that. When I did the track for 'Love Hangover,' I knew it was a hot track. But when I played it for Diana, well, she Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-45710392675987644512013-07-20T15:42:00.002-07:002013-07-20T15:42:37.161-07:00Steam TrekUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-86528715937218589702013-06-15T20:48:00.002-07:002013-06-15T20:48:52.151-07:00Classical Sculptures Dressed As HipstersMore of them HERE.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-32080232770003448512013-06-06T00:40:00.000-07:002013-06-06T00:42:12.921-07:00Great Interview with Bass Guitar Master Anthony JacksonConducted by drummer Cliff Almond that he posted in 2007.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-14796747499836880042013-05-31T11:03:00.002-07:002013-05-31T11:03:36.141-07:00Studio Bass Legend Carol Kaye Multi-Part Video Interview 2013A great series of interviews with Carol Kaye produced by Snapshots Music:
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-31252786747333982292013-05-29T22:46:00.001-07:002013-05-29T22:46:48.254-07:00Calvin Grown Up
by Craig Mahoney.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-12637491284535058152013-05-25T21:21:00.002-07:002013-05-25T21:21:37.013-07:00Tin Man YogaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-65250676726766611052013-05-13T08:31:00.002-07:002013-05-13T08:31:29.952-07:00Mongolian Metal Band Ego Fall: Metal + Overtone Singing!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-84938003464089439512013-05-12T18:04:00.002-07:002013-05-12T18:04:43.270-07:00Astronaut Chris Hadfield Sings Space Oddity in SpaceUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-38896152683826534782013-05-04T21:40:00.000-07:002013-05-13T08:44:23.554-07:00Harry Connick Jr. Schools American Idol Contestants on the Great American SongbookWhy Harry Connick Jr. Couldn't Sit Idle During 'Idol'
The star couldn't stand hearing young singers mangle the Great American Songbook
posted by John Stark, May 4, 2013
From the Daily Roadmap
Those of us who grew up in the 1950s and '60s got to constantly hear — on radio, TV and vinyl — the Great American Songbook sung by the likes of Bobby Darin, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-73667951719927552192013-05-04T17:36:00.004-07:002013-05-04T17:36:50.190-07:00Re-made PG PornUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-11711745516736168552013-04-28T11:32:00.001-07:002013-04-28T14:05:37.259-07:00Star Wars Music Related Instruments, Arts, and HumorUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-86898015407629636692013-04-20T11:00:00.002-07:002013-04-20T11:00:41.520-07:00More Drum Master Cha-CháUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-10287050497742358842013-04-18T21:55:00.000-07:002013-04-18T21:55:59.176-07:00Cha-chá Plays RumbaThe great Esteban Vega Bacallao, otherwise known as Cha-Chá, video posted by Mark Sanders. I logged many a day in that room, but Cha-Chá is younger here than when I first met him in 1996:
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-83459966703325327632013-04-17T21:34:00.000-07:002013-05-18T08:10:52.866-07:00Bass HumorUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350097.post-54773532435167693622013-04-10T10:23:00.000-07:002013-04-17T21:54:27.975-07:00Bonnie Raitt's Cover of Randall Bramlett's "Used To Rule the World"A great blues ode to the fall of aged winners:
Then listen to his intro anecdote about her request to change one line:
I heard Raitt's cover first. Interestingly, the line I think is best is the one Bonnie Raitt changed. Original: Miss Cocktail Dress, looking in the bathroom sink, did anybody find the ring? Raitt's: Miss Cocktail Dress, standing at the bathroom sink, looking for a back way outUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0