day one Nothing happened. In fact, it was downright disappointing. The first time Jeff had listened to the tape he pulled off the earphones of his walkman after 30 seconds and said: “What the hell is that? It’s awful. Sounds like some kind of new age crap. ” Alison was disappointed...

"Cut for cut, track for track ... It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back." Even the most basic statements of fact come from Chuck D as poetry, with the right rhythm, at the perfect pitch. It's why It Takes A Nation... is a stone cold classic, and it's why last night Public Enemy's set lit up ...

What It Means To Have An Artist’s Voice (originally published at MatthewDallman.com) When we study in our favorite artists’ works, somehow we always know it is them. Whether we are familiar with the piece of artwork that well or not, so often there is an immediate recognition. We hear th...

I wrote this piece in the Summer of 2005. This piece is full of questions. At that time, I find them hard to answer. I was in a state of confusion and ambivalence. This is a story of a male friend whom I considered family. He is a very caring man, like a knight in shining armor type of guy, big boom...

p2pnet news view Music | RIAA | P2P:- At the end of April, Fred Wilhelms and I started “Project Unfound Artist,” an experiment in crowd-sharing to see if the ordinary denizens of the Internet could cut into the 7,872 names posted on the SoundExchange site as artists they’d been uns...

- Go to musicoutfitters.com- Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year.- Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorites. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember/care about. I ...

Talk about learned music - Dave Wax and his museum (aka: The Dave Wax Museum), are bringing sounds and textures to the scene that haven’t been heard before and are completely packed with purpose. Taking in lessons at Harvard in poetry and Latin American history, Dave Wax has used the influence...

This week came to a sudden end when Kalman Tillem died Saturday. I was listening to the last of the Evil Rabbits when I got the call, and couldn't concentrate on it. Ironically, I had just finished the Paul Shapiro CD, which he would have gotten a kick out of. Should be able to finish this column/cy...

Have you played Space Invaders Extreme yet? Possibly not, since summer's a good time for nerd detox. Months past Grand Theft Auto 4, months before the Christmas rush of big games, months during which the sun stays out until 10 p.m. But this new Space Invaders is something else. Something worth retur...

One Vice at a Time is the sixth album by Swiss metalists Krokus, released in 1983 on Arista Records. It became a gold album in the United States, Canada and Switzerland, and was the first album to feature Mark Kohler on rhythm guitar. Yes it does sound like AC/DC a lot on a few tracks, but I don't c...