music
I'm not going to make any claims to a "Best of" list for 2014 because there are too many albums out there and my budget is too small to buy.
Someone decided to run John Cage's 4'33" through Autotune. Here are the results:
A good tale of a successful band that tours well, sells out shows, and comes up $11,000 in the hole for the tour. The whole "we don't need to buy.
Since it is quiet here tonight, I might as well talk about music. I had the occasion to have a slightly extended weekend thanks to giving a midterm and thus.
Last night, I went to see the great Jon Dee Graham at a bar in Newport, Rhode Island. I used to see Graham all the time when I lived in.
No band in America makes people with decent taste want to punch themselves in the face like Florida Georgia Line, the Nickelback of country music. Exhibit A: Ebola causes you.
It's a bit difficult to come back to active blogging after the fundraising campaign for my stolen computers and--far, far worse--the lost documents for my book. At least I had.
This Rolling Stone profile of Willie Nelson is pretty great, even if magazines should not refer to their own work as "definitive," which is the equivalent of talking about your.