Pacer Image via Wikipedia I spend entirely too much time these days at The Truth About Cars. It's partially my MI/IN auto-town nostalgia coupled with a need to forecast the outlook for the the local eighty-seven-year-old's pension checks from GM and Chrysler. A post today encouraged readers to list ...

Cover of Hoodoo Man Blues Via Iron Tongue of Midnight: Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, pe...

Image via Wikipedia I've decided the Obama inauguration was the apex of post-modernism and we are headed in a different and hopefully better direction. When the conservative David Brooks accuses the Republican Party of nihilism, clearly we are in a time of change. Back to music, consider the John Wi...

Image via CrunchBase Clusterstock links to what is supposedly economist Paul Krugmans' Amazon wish list. I agree it's a bit on the "wussy new age" side of the musical spectrum. But hey, even mine is idiosyncratic (and reminds me I still want to buy the punk rock version of West Side Story. Composer ...

Music in Twelve Parts More on last night's rare performance of Music in Twelve Parts: 1 Within two minutes of the beginning of the concert, I decided I didn't like the sound. With three-plus hours to go, this was not an auspicious start. The keyboards were too tinny and I couldn't hear the woodwinds...

The local eighty-seven-year-old points out two members of jazz trumpeter Chuck Mangione's band were killed in this week's New York plane crash. The Buffalo News in reporting the passengers: ...two musicians who played with Chuck Mangione’s jazz band, Coleman Mellett and Gerry Niewood, who were goi...

Cover of Trout Mask Replica I collect books. I have over 180 different editions of Don Quixote, covering 17th-20th century. Safely in storage. Along with around 36,000 others. Ran out of money to build my library. One day…. (confused of calcutta). Impressive. He also admits why both he and Dick Ch...

Performance Today stream. YouTube video: pre-recording - Itzhak and Yo-Yo Go Milli Vanilli (Gizmodo)- I have less of a problem with the prerecording then not telling people. (Berman Post)- almost lip-synching...Marine Band, choruses were live (Daniel Wakin)- The synching business bugs me because Pre...

Image by Rev. Santino via Flickr twitpic: now that we know the outcome, this photo of the hudson river looks so peaceful. lala recent add (i.e. i paid .10 for streaming rights): i think the dress looks nice on you by sufjan stevens. lala recent add: bitches brew by eddie jefferson. this is still the...

MediaMonkey via Wikipedia How I listened to music this year changed more than the actual music I listened to. Early in the year, I switched from iTunes to MediaMonkey after a new PC didn't remedy my iTunes woes. Then, mid-year, I washed my iPod and so I tried a succession of workarounds -- a MacBook...