And now for something completely different: a post about what we won’t be doing here this week.
First: today is Vinyl Record Day, the 132nd anniversary of the invention of the phonograph. In 2007 and 2008, I coordinated a celebratory event with contributing blogs from everywhere. This year, my lone contribution to the day is at [...]
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I’m taking the day off today and letting some of my favorite bloggers do the heavy lifting instead.
–Any Major Dude With Half a Heart recognizes the greatness of early 70s soul.
–At Bloggerhythms, Charlie picks 10 lesser-known/underrated Beatles songs.
–Barely Awake in Frog Pajamas welcomes you to July 36th.
–SHHH/Peaceful breaks down the American Top 40 broadcast from [...]
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I’m still coming down from Vinyl Record Day. (Perhaps I’m stoned on the fluid I sometimes use to clean the most stubbornly dirty discs in my library, but I don’t think so.) It was tremendously entertaining and endlessly fascinating to see how the different bloggers involved responded to a pretty simple challenge: Write something about [...]
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(Final update.)
Today (Sunday, August 12) is Vinyl Record Day, the anniversary of the date in 1877 on which Edison invented the phonograph, and focus of an effort to preserve and celebrate vinyl as a music medium. This weekend, a crateful of music bloggers is banding together to celebrate Vinyl Record Day. Visit them all; you [...]
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Happy Vinyl Record Day weekend to all. Many music blogs around the web are participating in a blogswarm dedicated to the celebration and preservation of vinyl as a recording medium. (Links to the other participating blogs are here.) Also, my radio station, 93.1 The Lake in Madison, is playing classic album sides straight off the [...]
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On vacation last week, I read Dirty Little Secrets of the Music Business: Why So Much Music You Hear Sucks by Hank Bordowitz. I could blog on it from now until St. Swithin’s Day, but I’ll talk about just one bit of it instead. Bordowitz quotes research from Ed Christman at Billboard, who likes to [...]
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