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1. Hip-hop artists are musicologists March 17, 2019
2. Arnold Schönberg: Playing Cards October 9, 2018
3. Alan Watts – “Music and Life” October 6, 2018
4. I Want You Still: Celebrating 40 Years of Marvin Gaye’s Sensual Classic | Pitchfork March 30, 2016
5. The Weird Global Appeal of Heavy Metal February 24, 2016
6. Resonant Frequency: A Glitch in Time: How Oval’s 1995 Ambient Masterpiece Predicted Our Digital Present October 23, 2015
7. Finally, A Non-Embarrassing Classical-Music Scene in a Blockbuster Movie - The New Yorker August 15, 2015
8. Why Can't Streaming Services Get Classical Music Right? July 13, 2015
9. Pitch Perfect May 10, 2015
10. That Ominous Pulse April 28, 2015
11. The Myth and the Reality of the $43 Download | The Pitch | Pitchfork January 29, 2015
12. Making Peace With Music That Everyone Loves But You January 27, 2015
13. The Ultimate David Lee Roth Karate Kick Compilation January 2, 2015
14. Most decade-specific words in Billboard song titles, 1890–2014 December 16, 2014
15. The Dark Science of Pop Music December 6, 2014
16. I Know Times Are Changing July 2, 2014
17. Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste June 9, 2014
18. “Beat It” composed using only Michael Jackson’s voice April 5, 2014
19. Kanye West January 21, 2014
20. I Started a Joke: "PBR&B" and What Genres Mean Now | Pitchfork January 7, 2014
21. Matthew McVickar’s favorite sounds of 2013 January 2, 2014
22. The Year Music Failed to Blockbust December 23, 2013
23. Joe Jonas: My Life As a Jonas Brother December 11, 2013
24. This song was an introduction to Deep Thinking November 30, 2013
25. An Interview With Steve Reich, Who Rewrote Radiohead November 18, 2013
26. Atlanta to Atlantis: An OutKast Retrospective | Pitchfork November 17, 2013
27. The Arts - €”Agents of Change and Source of Enchantment | Catholic World Report October 28, 2013
28. Beatlemania: ‘the screamers’ and other tales of fandom October 5, 2013
29. Drinking Hanson’s beer, Mmmhops, with Hanson September 18, 2013
30. A Synopsis of Tim Burton's Batman Based Only on the Prince Soundtrack July 16, 2013
31. An interview with Rick Rubin July 3, 2013
32. Kanye West and White Women | The Awl June 28, 2013
33. Stravinsky in a Conversation June 3, 2013
34. Key Change Blog May 24, 2013
35. Queue Up: 20 Essential Music Documentaries | Pitchfork May 20, 2013
36. Nitsuh Abebe on the Punk Movement -- New York Magazine April 26, 2013
37. George Saunders on inspiration and his Texas dance hall days | The Dallas Morning News April 15, 2013
38. Up in these mountains, they grow so slowly they sometimes stop growing April 15, 2013
39. Change This Face: Towards Being A Better Fan | The Classical April 12, 2013
40. Tyler, the Creator Talks Directing Movies, Being Rejected by Justin Bieber | Billboard April 1, 2013
41. Why so many of Newman’s portraits became iconic images March 21, 2013
42. Camera Obscura - The new album, Desire Lines, out on June 3rd (4th USA) on 4AD March 19, 2013
43. Resonant Frequency: "Happy Birthday, Kurt" | Features | Pitchfork February 21, 2013
44. B Michael Tumblr: Just Free Stuff February 8, 2013
45. Interview: Big Boi « The FADER January 9, 2013
46. Trombone Silliness January 6, 2013
47. Favorite albums of 2012 December 23, 2012
48. Favorite albums of 2012 December 23, 2012
49. Profiles: Dave Brubeck : The New Yorker December 12, 2012
50. Dave Brubeck’s set list, October 5, 2002 December 6, 2012
51. Bach’s Music, Back Then and Right Now December 4, 2012
52. The Joy of the Single: A documentary about 7-inch records December 4, 2012
53. Why We Shouldn’t Treat Rap As Poetry | The Awl November 27, 2012
54. Dre likes to work in an environment where you can create November 20, 2012
55. BWV 849 | Philip Engel | The Hypocrite Reader November 14, 2012
56. “I don’t know how I’m finna do this shit again” November 14, 2012
57. The secret is that the shit is fun to me November 14, 2012
58. We had zero business plan or experience November 12, 2012
59. If a work has something remarkable to say November 8, 2012
60. Philip Glass and Beck Discuss Collaborating on ‘Rework’ - NYTimes.com October 6, 2012
61. The ears that are listening make more difference than the music September 27, 2012
62. The Case for Allowing Richard Wagner's Music to be Performed in Israel : The New Yorker September 26, 2012
63. Photographing James Brown in Augusta September 23, 2012
64. The King of 78s: Joe Bussard August 28, 2012
65. Punctuation Marks by Theodor Adorno [pdf] August 28, 2012
66. The Boss Is Hungry: Every Food or Drink Name-Dropped in a Rick Ross Song August 3, 2012
67. Why We Fight: Uncomfortably Numb | Features | Pitchfork July 19, 2012
68. After the release party for I Am the Beast July 15, 2012
69. Steve Reich’s Tape Piece “Come Out” July 9, 2012
70. Why My Bloody Valentine's Loveless is the greatest rock album of our greatness-averse age - Grantland July 4, 2012
71. The Believer - Beat Boutique July 2, 2012
72. Hustle & Flow July 2, 2012
73. Calling this the funkiest bassline in the history of recorded music June 24, 2012
74. I analyzed the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found. | Blog – Hooktheory June 15, 2012
75. The best music makes you want to make your own June 15, 2012
76. Did He Feel Good?: James Brown's epic life and career by Ian Penman - City Journal June 10, 2012
77. Abebe: Nicki Minaj, Hot 97, and the Fight Over ‘Real Hip-Hop’ -- Vulture June 10, 2012
78. The Last Days of Disco: Abebe Remembers Donna Summer and Robin Gibb May 30, 2012
79. What is the most musical city in the United States? May 21, 2012
80. Everybody’s Al Capone in a barber’s chair May 15, 2012
81. Rick Ross - Here I Am May 6, 2012
82. The New Kendrick Lamar/Dr. Dre Song, and Other Examples of Egregiously Obvious Ghostwriting - Grantland April 4, 2012
83. Why I Hate The 'Goldberg Variations' : NPR March 21, 2012
84. If you look inward and concentrate only on your own desires March 17, 2012
85. The Making of OutKast's Aquemini | Creative Loafing Atlanta March 5, 2012
86. Country Music, Openness to Experience, and the Psychology of Culture War | Big Think March 4, 2012
87. Young Jeezy - Hustlaz Ambition February 22, 2012
88. Flight of the Concord: The perils of the recording studio by Jeremy Denk - The New Yorker February 8, 2012
89. “25 years of Kylie Minogue in 17 minutes” February 6, 2012
90. Amy Rebecca Klein: The Last Thing I'll Ever Write About Lana Del Rey February 1, 2012
91. Alan Lomax’s dream of a global jukebox January 31, 2012
92. mark larson | Favorite albums of 2011 December 30, 2011
93. Favorite albums of 2011 December 30, 2011
94. Bluebrain’s App Central Park (Listen to the Light) - NYTimes.com December 9, 2011
95. Music Students Hit the Boxing Ring - WSJ.com December 6, 2011
96. The Searchers - Each Time from Take Me for What I’m Worth December 5, 2011
97. T.I December 5, 2011
98. Last Notes: The wild, sublime music that composers write on their deathbeds. - Slate Magazine December 5, 2011
99. What makes music boring? | Music | The Big Questions | The A.V. Club November 21, 2011
100. Composers As Gardeners - Brian Eno - Edge November 18, 2011
101. I wasn’t much on school November 11, 2011
102. Never be ashamed of how you live or where you from November 10, 2011
103. my mortifying month November 9, 2011
104. Marvin Gaye lounging on a couch in the studio rehearsing “I Want You” November 3, 2011
105. WhoSampled.com November 3, 2011
106. When an artist brings me their work, I treat it like food — like a frozen… November 2, 2011
107. There’s no such thing as not playing November 1, 2011
108. Oh you have a dream? October 31, 2011
109. St. Vincent, “Surgeon,” 4AD Sessions October 31, 2011
110. The Dozens: A History of Rap’s Mama, by Elijah Wald September 26, 2011
111. Champ harmonique / Harmonic fields September 22, 2011
112. Paper Trail: Atlanta | Features | Pitchfork September 13, 2011
113. Artists and fans in Atlanta don’t seem to struggle with [getting hung up… September 13, 2011
114. Toward a Reading of Post-Kanye Hip-Hop: The rise of swagger and the increasing… September 12, 2011
115. Albums Recommended in "Dirty South" September 8, 2011
116. DJ Screw vinyl to be archived at University of Houston library | 29-95.com September 8, 2011
117. Candy Lady Grandbaby (Andrew J. Bell Jr. H.S. Crusaders Marching Band) August 29, 2011
118. The pretender: Dana Spiotta's persuasive performances—By Jonathan Dee (Harper's Magazine) August 29, 2011
119. A page from John Cage’s “Aria” August 29, 2011
120. James Brown covering September Song by Kurt Weill August 25, 2011
121. No Love For Me - DMX August 25, 2011
122. The difference between playing with Otis Redding and James Brown? August 13, 2011
123. You’d Make a Mistake and He’d Say, “Ten Dollars” August 11, 2011
124. James Brown: Soul Brother No. 1 (1933-2006) | Creative Loafing Atlanta August 11, 2011
125. The difference is between sitting around listening to music and partying… August 2, 2011
126. What punk was to rock, crunk is to rap August 2, 2011
127. I come from a classical background August 1, 2011
128. People's Champion: Behind the Battle July 26, 2011
129. We Must Be Superstars - New York Magazine July 25, 2011
130. Freddie Gibbs - Rock Bottom July 22, 2011
131. The concert hall is one of the few places where we become unreachable, where… June 30, 2011
132. Pitchfork: Columns: Why We Fight #15 June 24, 2011
133. Radiohead - Staircase (live From the Basement) June 21, 2011
134. Catherine Christer Hennix - The Electric Harpsichord [1976] June 7, 2011
135. I need to see this May 31, 2011
136. It’s my theory that rock and roll happens between fans and stars, rather than… May 30, 2011
137. It’s Gangsta Gibbs, hoe May 23, 2011
138. I take [my work] less seriously than anybody May 23, 2011
139. Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin May 19, 2011
140. Terry Riley and Big Boi May 16, 2011
141. Stevie Wonder - Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away May 12, 2011
142. seedy: Terry Riley - You're No Good (1968) May 2, 2011
143. Ain’t No Thang April 25, 2011
144. Dan Charnas, Author of The Big Payback: Interview on The Sound of Young America April 22, 2011
145. SHITTY LOCAL BAR presents… April 19, 2011
146. Igor Stravinsky: Cowboy April 15, 2011
147. Labi Siffre — “It Must Be Love” April 13, 2011
148. Meadowlark Lemons.: James Brown and Wagner: Tension and Release April 12, 2011
149. Wall of Sound: The iPod has changed the way we listen to music. And the way we respond to it. - By Nikil Saval - Slate Magazine April 8, 2011
150. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, Op.55 “Eroica” April 7, 2011
151. Tehillim by Steve Reich, performed last night by Asko|Schönberg and Synergy… April 4, 2011
152. Destroyer’s Kaputt is $3 on Amazon March 31, 2011
153. Clapping Music - Animation March 30, 2011
154. The greatest audience comment ever recorded is, I think, a remark overheard… March 28, 2011
155. Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill March 28, 2011
156. SJ Boyz - 501 Levi’s (ft. Jam Boyz, Wild Yella) March 25, 2011
157. Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD | Rolling Stone Culture March 24, 2011
158. Owsley Stanley, Artisan of Acid, Is Dead at 76 - NYTimes.com March 24, 2011
159. Complex: The 30 Greatest Hip-Hop Demos March 22, 2011
160. Françoise Hardy - Ce Petit Cœur March 18, 2011
161. Los Angeles-based artist Steve Roden has worked in an overwhelming variety… March 18, 2011
162. Austin City Limits Pilot Episode: Willie Nelson March 15, 2011
163. Duke Ellington — “Midnight Indigo” March 15, 2011
164. Glenn Gould, March 1955, at the Columbia studio in New York during… March 11, 2011
165. You are listening to Los Angeles March 8, 2011
166. Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Rulin’s, 1942 March 8, 2011
167. What you want to do is build the people up March 1, 2011
168. The Baroque is that style which deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust)… February 23, 2011
169. Tech in Lyrics: James Brown the Anti-Technoutopian - Alexis Madrigal - The Atlantic February 17, 2011
170. All of Mix Magazine's "Classic Tracks" in one place February 17, 2011
171. Dust-to-Digital: “Goodbye” to Obscurity - PURGE February 17, 2011
172. Amen break - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia February 14, 2011
173. I think painters and sculptors react to music, more naively, in a sense… February 10, 2011
174. When the Crescendo Is the Least of Your Worries by Christopher R. Graham - The Morning News February 10, 2011
175. Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music” performed by Lee Marvin and Angela Dickinson February 4, 2011
176. Music is not ruined by other people liking it February 2, 2011
177. Riff Market: Theoretically Unpublished Piece About Girl Talk February 2, 2011
178. Love has never failed February 1, 2011
179. Stavin’ Chain playing guitar and singing the ballad “Batson,” Lafayette… January 21, 2011
180. Playboy Interview: Metallica (April 2001) January 19, 2011
181. Playboy Interview: Metallica (April 2001) January 19, 2011
182. Drummer Gene Krupa performing at Gjon Mili’s studio January 16, 2011
183. Motown Junkies January 12, 2011
184. Fully Validated Kanye West Retires To Quiet Farm In Iowa | The Onion January 7, 2011
185. I frequently hear music in the very heart of the noise… January 7, 2011
186. On White She-Devils - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic January 5, 2011
187. mark larson | Favorite albums of 2010 December 29, 2010
188. Favorite albums of 2010 December 29, 2010
189. Out With Mariah’s Melisma, In With Kesha’s Kick - NYTimes.com December 28, 2010
190. By the way, for all you bums tumbling without credit, this photo is by George… December 27, 2010
191. Strip Clubs: Launch Pads For Hits In Atlanta - NPR December 24, 2010
192. La Mantovana - Wikipedia December 15, 2010
193. La Mantovana - Wikipedia December 15, 2010
194. Cocaine Blunts: Best Rap, 2010 December 15, 2010
195. Dr. Dre - Kush ft. Snoop Dogg and Akon December 13, 2010
196. Pitchfork: David Lynch Talks New Music Projects December 2, 2010
197. Poignance Measured in Digits - New York Times December 1, 2010
198. The Searchers: Radiohead’s unquiet revolution - The New Yorker November 30, 2010
199. I read an interview with Tom Waits, around the time of his album “Rain Dogs,”… November 29, 2010
200. Cracked Actor: A 1974 Documentary About David Bowie November 27, 2010
201. No hipster hats November 23, 2010
202. Big Boi and André 3000, 1994, with Atlanta DJ Greg Street November 23, 2010
203. James Kibbie - Bach Organ Works November 22, 2010
204. Excerpt from Jay-Z's New Book 'Decoded': Cristal's Diss of Hip-Hop - TIME November 19, 2010
205. Warren Buffett plays the ukulele November 19, 2010
206. Purchased at the Antiques Garage in Chelsea November 17, 2010
207. Toni Braxton - Another Sad Love Song November 17, 2010
208. George Gershwin November 17, 2010
209. Self-portrait by Darius Milhaud, owned by Dave and Iola Brubeck November 17, 2010
210. Alton Ellis - What Does It Take To Win Your Love November 10, 2010
211. Scene from the 1971 George Englund film Zachariah November 7, 2010
212. Listening To Rap For The First Time, With A Book Critic: NPR November 5, 2010
213. A Crash Course in Rap Lyrics Through 'The Anthology of Rap' - New York Magazine November 1, 2010
214. Classical Fans Tell Stories Of 'First Loves' : Deceptive Cadence : NPR October 29, 2010
215. Louis Armstrong - Mack The Knife - 1959 October 21, 2010
216. I Didn’t See It Coming — Crooked Timber October 21, 2010
217. Peanuts, March 25, 1952 by Charles Schulz October 20, 2010
218. Eminem - Without Me (Ragtime Remix) October 18, 2010
219. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould October 14, 2010
220. T.I. helped save Midtown Atlanta jumper's life — really | Fresh Loaf | Creative Loafing Atlanta October 14, 2010
221. Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat - Charanjit Singh October 13, 2010
222. It was at a concert of lovely old music October 12, 2010
223. Leonard Bernstein’s score of former Philharmonic music director Gustav… October 1, 2010
224. Recent juxtapositions September 23, 2010
225. At The End Of The Grosse Freiheit: The Beatles In Hamburg - The Quietus September 22, 2010
226. Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers, Slower Version, Columbia September 12, 2010
227. Bird September 12, 2010
228. Whitney Houston singing the Star Spangled Banner! September 10, 2010
229. Who is the Greatest Diva of the Last 25 Years? September 10, 2010
230. The Story Behind James Carr’s “At the Dark End of the Street” September 6, 2010
231. New Toy: Putting Tabla Lessons to Use August 15, 2010
232. 1-Bit Symphony August 12, 2010
233. Ennio Morricone — “Once Upon a Time in the West” August 10, 2010
234. Dr. Dre To Release Instrumental Hip-Hop Album About The Solar System | Gigwise August 5, 2010
235. 15th Anniversary: The Brian Eno Evolution August 4, 2010
236. Jazzcats Crossing the Hudson August 3, 2010
237. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year’s answer might not do… July 29, 2010
238. Moogfest 2010 July 26, 2010
239. Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR July 26, 2010
240. Soul Train Line Dance to Gladys Knight & The Pips’ “Daddy Could Swear” July 23, 2010
241. Edgard Varèse does jazz July 22, 2010
242. Bob Marley July 22, 2010
243. The Große Fuge Will Be Contemporary Forever July 20, 2010
244. Willie & Snoop June 30, 2010
245. Dad Life June 29, 2010
246. The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock, or, Why We’re All Out of Good Songs |… June 21, 2010
247. Three-Chick Disks June 15, 2010
248. A lovely little infographic from Neven Mrgan, comparing the durations of Gould… June 9, 2010
249. John Cage: Sonata No. 1 for Prepared Piano (Bieber Edit) June 8, 2010
250. A Drummer Showing Up At The Wrong Gig June 7, 2010
251. Pitchfork: Why We Fight #4 - The Trouble With Maya June 4, 2010
252. The Best Opening Tracks Ever? : NPR June 1, 2010
253. The Journeymen - Stackolee May 28, 2010
254. Familiar music is a convenient crutch, but, in the end, it covers emotions… May 27, 2010
255. The better the singer’s voice the harder it is to believe what they are singing May 24, 2010
256. AllHipHop.com: With “Shooters,” did you hear the original version by Robin… May 6, 2010
257. Colin Marshall: Openearedness May 2, 2010
258. From Kircher’s Musurgia Universalis: Birds!! April 28, 2010
259. Rush - YYZ April 26, 2010
260. Interview with Carol Kaye | WMLB 1690 | The Voice of The Arts April 23, 2010
261. Score for “Piano Etudes” (2009) by Jason Freeman April 23, 2010
262. My Foolish Heart - Bill Evans April 20, 2010
263. Eminem — “Got It Twisted” Freestyle April 20, 2010
264. Then That's What They Called Music! | The A.V. Club April 16, 2010
265. Pitchfork: Why We Fight: Why We Fight #1 April 13, 2010
266. If you’re dancing and not within two people of a girl, you’re doing it wrong April 9, 2010
267. Ravi Shankar at 90: The Man and His Music April 7, 2010
268. Happy 90th birthday, Ravi Shankar! April 7, 2010
269. You can afford to expose yourself to uncertainties in art that you wouldn’t… April 5, 2010
270. Beach House soundchecking at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee April 5, 2010
271. Bing Crosby sings “Moonlight Becomes You” from the Road to Morocco April 5, 2010
272. MOON8 March 31, 2010
273. Brian Eno - Another Green world - Arena 2010 Documentary Part 1/6 March 29, 2010
274. Q&A: David Lipsky | Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes March 29, 2010
275. When the last recording studio goes, what will go with it? | Word Magazine March 16, 2010
276. Tom & Jerry - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 March 8, 2010
277. Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 March 8, 2010
278. Joanna Newsom, the Changeling - NYTimes.com March 8, 2010
279. Jeff Buckley Live at KCRW on Morning Becomes Eclectic, July 28, 1994 March 3, 2010
280. Why you've never really heard the "Moonlight" Sonata. - By Jan Swafford - Slate Magazine March 3, 2010
281. Top Ten Glissandos February 26, 2010
282. People say you teach during the day and you’re free at so-and-so, but there’s… February 25, 2010
283. Joanna Newsom February 23, 2010
284. First Listen: Joanna Newsom : NPR February 23, 2010
285. can I tell you the one thing that gets me about Lady Gaga? February 18, 2010
286. "The Greatest Love Story of the 20th Century" February 18, 2010
287. Music = dye February 16, 2010
288. Bernstein on the Blues - The New York Times February 15, 2010
289. Oscar Levant daydreams a total performance of Gershwin’s Concerto in F.… February 14, 2010
290. A couple of other things that you might not have heard yet, because they’re… February 5, 2010
291. The best way to describe it is I’m like this energy-gathering dynamo February 4, 2010
292. Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company February 3, 2010
293. “Music for Pieces of Wood” by Steve Reich February 1, 2010
294. The Rules of the Game: A Fuller Thought on J. Hopper and Vampire Weekend January 31, 2010
295. Not every end is a goal January 28, 2010
296. Beethoven’s laptop January 25, 2010
297. Visual Analysis of Music — Heinrich-Siegfried Bormann January 25, 2010
298. King Cotton March January 21, 2010
299. Here is a more in-depth video about Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion Tour January 20, 2010
300. The Beatles: Authorship and Collaboration from Michael Deal’s exploration… January 19, 2010
301. Movement of the hands of conductor Riccardo Chailly while conducting… January 15, 2010
302. Craig Schuftan: Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone January 13, 2010
303. A cool song made entirely of sounds from Terminator 2 January 13, 2010
304. Stevie Nicks backstage singing “Wild Heart” January 8, 2010
305. The Magic Flute January 8, 2010
306. The Decade in Music Genre Hype December 29, 2009
307. What is good music? December 28, 2009
308. Amazing Bird Sounds from the Lyre Bird December 23, 2009
309. A Soul Train Line Dance to Fred Wesley & The J.B.’s December 22, 2009
310. Winter / Albert Gumble [sheet music] - Library of Congress December 21, 2009
311. Favorite Albums of 2009 December 21, 2009
312. An Eroica Project December 17, 2009
313. The crisis in performance is, I believe, based on one simple fact December 17, 2009
314. Having Fun With Elvis On Stage (1974) December 17, 2009
315. James Brown & Luciano Pavarotti - It’s a Man’s World December 16, 2009
316. Yeasayer at Masquerade (Atlanta) on 6 Apr 2010 – Last.fm December 15, 2009
317. Passacaglia in C Minor December 7, 2009
318. Organisation - Tone Float November 26, 2009
319. Doc Watson, age 16 November 20, 2009
320. We have to start the concert at 8:00 and we have to stop sometime because… November 18, 2009
321. John Adams Re-Imagines the Hymn : NPR November 18, 2009
322. new Beach House MP3, "norway" November 17, 2009
323. The Wu-Note Project, as if the Wu-Tang Clan had appeared on Blue Note Records November 13, 2009
324. It’s the lyric that makes a song a hit, although the tune, of course, is what… November 13, 2009
325. Raspberries- Go All The Way/I Wanna Be With You November 12, 2009
326. Yeasayer — “Ambling Alp” November 11, 2009
327. The Search for New Materials November 9, 2009
328. How to play piano like Philip Glass November 6, 2009
329. Stevie Wonder drum solo November 3, 2009
330. Karen Carpenter - The Drummer November 3, 2009
331. Saudade November 3, 2009
332. Today’s Pictures: Remember the Record Shop? October 27, 2009
333. Brook Farm group was among the first to hear Beethoven’s brilliance - The Boston Globe October 25, 2009
334. Paul McCartney Wake Up Call October 23, 2009
335. Kraftwerk - Radioactivity October 19, 2009
336. Score for “Belle, Bonne, Sage” ( lyrics), a song with eye music by Baude… October 15, 2009
337. Unquiet Thoughts October 15, 2009
338. Trois Gnossiennes October 14, 2009
339. The Album Covers of Brian Eno October 12, 2009
340. Brigitte Bardot - St. Tropez, France, 1958 October 9, 2009
341. Japanese drum notation for “Dienst Mars” (Service March) by Inukai Kiyonobu… September 28, 2009
342. Score for Clapping Music by Steve Reich September 28, 2009
343. If people have even a little understanding, it is better to move them than… September 25, 2009
344. Awesome Tapes from Africa September 23, 2009
345. Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony September 22, 2009
346. Q. Does President Obama make for a good Auto-Tune? September 15, 2009
347. Men playing instruments, Pensacola Beach September 11, 2009
348. Les Paul’s early solid-body electric, “The Log” September 9, 2009
349. Birds on the Wires on Vimeo September 8, 2009
350. Jonny Greenwood on Digital Music September 3, 2009
351. Exclusive First Listen: Yo La Tengo on NPR September 2, 2009
352. The first movement of Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor (BWV 1001) August 26, 2009
353. Reading through the histories of both jazz and rock, I am struck again… August 20, 2009
354. Exclusive First Listen - Tim Buckley - NPR August 18, 2009
355. Respect the dance floor because the dance floor never lies August 12, 2009
356. Thom and Jonny and I’m guessing Colin in the background August 5, 2009
357. Pachelbel Rant, about being bored out of your mind on cello + the chord… August 5, 2009
358. Radiohead: Harry Patch (In memory of) August 5, 2009
359. All these different kinds of fantastic music you hear today - course it’s all… July 28, 2009
360. Fun fact: I have a podcast July 27, 2009
361. Explanatory illustration in the March 1878 article in Harper’s Weekly about… July 27, 2009
362. Love Is a Mixtape (review: 4/5) July 7, 2009
363. James Brown - Mother Popcorn (1969) July 7, 2009
364. The Coolness Index July 6, 2009
365. Once the music plays, it creates me July 6, 2009
366. Louis Armstrong, takin’ care of business without a shirt June 25, 2009
367. Personics Commercial June 19, 2009
368. Harpsichord Plus Ça Change June 17, 2009
369. Mashup DJ Girl Talk Deconstructs Samples From Feed the Animals June 17, 2009
370. Mahler Trinkets via Alex Ross June 9, 2009
371. Mahler Grooves June 9, 2009
372. If you ever get stuck on that next note/chord, try Musician’s Dice June 5, 2009
373. I never think of anything as finished until it’s released June 4, 2009
374. Brian Eno — Music for Airports Interview May 29, 2009
375. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music v.2.5 May 27, 2009
376. They skipped a few minutes’ worth of the opening toccata section, but man, how… May 27, 2009
377. Hindugrass — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC May 22, 2009
378. Percussive Arts Society: Library of Cylinder Recordings May 20, 2009
379. A favorite from Cliff Robert’s Book of Jazz May 14, 2009
380. in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word project May 14, 2009
381. Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis May 13, 2009
382. A Late-Night Infomercial for Twelve-Tone Greatest Hits May 9, 2009
383. Steve Reich: City Life - Part 1 “Check it out” May 8, 2009
384. Audrey Hepburn sings “Moon River.” Swoon May 7, 2009
385. What Johnny Cash likes April 30, 2009
386. A couple years ago, Stanford hosted an evening with Leonard Cohen and Philip… April 23, 2009
387. My homeboy Steve Reich won a Pulitzer April 23, 2009
388. I love this post about measuring whether an artist is under- or over-valued April 15, 2009
389. A collection of tweet-length opera synopses March 30, 2009
390. I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under… March 17, 2009
391. Stravinsky on remix and love March 15, 2009
392. From an interview with Lynda Barry March 11, 2009
393. Electric Purgatory is a cool documentary about black musicians in rock March 11, 2009
394. Yeasayer has a blog while they work on the new album March 4, 2009
395. About a dozen years ago, Björk interviewed composer Arvo Pärt March 1, 2009
396. In an otherwise unremarkable interview with its inventor, I learned that Lenin… February 26, 2009
397. I like this idea of working up drum patterns via text editor February 10, 2009
398. Miles on Miles (review: 4/5) February 3, 2009
399. Brian Eno, Thinking about Miles Davis in an un-Miles Davis like way February 2, 2009
400. Over the course of more than a decade, Alan Pollack analyzed every Beatles song January 28, 2009
401. You practice and you get better January 26, 2009
402. Connolly’s Number, the largest number of songs that you can realistically… January 25, 2009
403. DCPD Bangerz, Vol. 1 January 25, 2009
404. Philip Glass is coming to Atlanta, and giving a couple talks just a few miles… January 13, 2009
405. The Joanna Newsom Transcription Project is pretty awesome January 3, 2009
406. coming to speak at Kennesaw State University December 28, 2008
407. Tonight I was thinking I'd love to hear hip hop that samples bluegrass music December 22, 2008
408. illustration of Gustav Mahler conducting, by Hans Schliessmann December 15, 2008
409. The twelve composers of Christmas December 9, 2008
410. Favorite Albums of 2008 December 5, 2008
411. Emmet Connolly collected a bunch of worthy quotes December 2, 2008
412. I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes December 2, 2008
413. Doctor Atomic at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra November 24, 2008
414. Crushing Krisis November 24, 2008
415. I recommend Wieland Samolak's 1993 album, Steady State Music October 29, 2008
416. RjDj uses your iPhone and the environment you're in to make soundscapes, etc October 27, 2008
417. the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is giving away a symphony every day October 21, 2008
418. NPR's 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century October 16, 2008
419. A Romance on Three Legs (review: 4/5) October 5, 2008
420. Johann Sebastian Bach September 3, 2008
421. A Day in the Life of a Musician by Erik Satie August 20, 2008
422. record covers from Blue Note Records August 19, 2008
423. Weekly muxtape, heartbeat edition August 18, 2008
424. Is it harder to write a sonnet than a great hip-hop verse? August 15, 2008
425. Weekly muxtape, unusual edition August 11, 2008
426. Weekly muxtape, daybreak edition August 4, 2008
427. Remembering the genius whom Stanley Kubrick stole music from July 30, 2008
428. Weekly muxtape, inclement weather edition July 27, 2008
429. I stumbled on a video of Glen Velez playing a frame drum July 20, 2008
430. Weekly muxtape, never edition July 20, 2008
431. András Schiff’s Lectures on Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas July 15, 2008
432. Weekly muxtape, citrus edition July 13, 2008
433. Classical and pop reviews 2 July 13, 2008
434. Weekly muxtape, dream edition July 12, 2008
435. I stumbled on a couple music reading lists on Amazon July 6, 2008
436. Classical vs. pop music reviews June 29, 2008
437. Bedřich Smetana in a Czech Beer Commercial June 2, 2008
438. La Scala is going to stage an operatic version of An Inconvenient Truth June 2, 2008
439. survey of conducting styles June 1, 2008
440. Radiohead Not for Profit gathers live recordings, concert bootlegs, etc May 29, 2008
441. Fringe just finished up their first season May 22, 2008
442. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (review: 5/5) May 12, 2008
443. Playing the Building May 11, 2008
444. Alex Ross writes about the life and music of John Luther Adams May 5, 2008
445. There's a lot of music in the world April 27, 2008
446. The Most Wanted Song and the Most Unwanted Song April 22, 2008
447. John Mark Harris April 16, 2008
448. A video of Bob Becker playing some novelty xylophone tunes with a college group April 16, 2008
449. You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living March 20, 2008
450. The Stylophone is a pocket-sized organ you play with a stylus March 19, 2008
451. tabla lessons by Venkat March 18, 2008
452. farcical English translation, with soundtrack, of O Fortuna March 12, 2008
453. Little Fluffy Clouds March 4, 2008
454. Women can say stuff like, I loved him, I really, really loved him February 22, 2008
455. Live performance in the age of supercomputing February 19, 2008
456. Chigurh vs. Plainview February 13, 2008
457. Leopold Stokowski February 11, 2008
458. (What I learned about craftsmanship in) The Violin Maker (review: 4/5) February 4, 2008
459. Alex Ross writes about Johnny Greenwood's soundtrack for There Will Be Blood January 30, 2008
460. taming iTunes for classical music January 20, 2008
461. Charlie Rose talks with Alex Ross January 16, 2008
462. Unseen Forces: Electronic Music by Atlanta Composers January 7, 2008
463. Apparition of the Eternal Church January 6, 2008
464. Top Music for 2007 December 31, 2007
465. I don't know how anyone can try to be universal December 25, 2007
466. The Happenstance December 12, 2007
467. Geometry of Circles December 10, 2007
468. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (review: 5/5) November 29, 2007
469. Man, The Rest Is Noise was a great book November 15, 2007
470. why famous musicians don't put out as much music November 13, 2007
471. A couple weeks ago, NPR hosted an awful interview with Sigur Ros November 13, 2007
472. playing unfettered November 11, 2007
473. The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross I've been pining for this book since March October 26, 2007
474. One man's trash is another man's trumpet July 29, 2006
475. Six-and-a-half billion people on this planet July 26, 2006
476. Lately it has become the "in" font for websites July 22, 2006
477. Atlanta Ballet Orchestra Given the Pink Slip July 22, 2006
478. Music is louder than it used to be July 19, 2006