The Independent.UK:
Which comes first, the skill, or the looks?
Washington Post:
Rock and roll, turning to gravel?
Ars Technica:
A guide to ripping and encoding music.
Chicago Tribune:
The jukebox, updated for the Internet age.
The Economist:
The older rock ‘n’ roll acts are beginning to lose copyright protection on their songs.
BBC:
Mozart, painted a year before his untimely death.
Annie Leibovitz at the Andrew Smith Gallery in Santa Fe ...
some great photos. Reinforces my teenage belief that Emmylou would grace even a mud puddle. Go see, go purchase.
NY Times:
End the Beguine. The official site. Rest in peace, sir.
NY Times:
For Mozart’s Archrival, an Italian Renaissance. As if any appreciation of Salieri might ‘harm’ Mozart’s incredible body of work ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Parents group fights indecency 1 bleep at a time. So, rerun that apropos episode of “Northern Exposure,” and roll Hendrix’s “Hey Joe” in defiance.
Guardian.UK:
German archaeologists find the oldest flute.
CNN:
An individual
trying to impress in casual conversation, mentioned they admired “Edith Pilaf.” La Vie en Riz [rice]?
BBC:
A US judge’s lyrical ruling.
Telegraph.UK:
Considering Dizzy Gillespie. I enjoy “Night in Tunisia”, myself.
Scientific American:
Speaking tonal languages promotes perfect pitch. Slow load.
Scientific American:
Music and the Brain. Finding your inner jukebox.
Discovery:
A CD made of corn. “Is it good? Is it crunchy?”
One last quasi-political link:
NY Times Fashion:
“... the return of punk is fashion’s equivalent of a palate cleanser.” How many remember that when Van Halen debuted in the late ‘70’s, they were labelled “punk”?
Globe and Mail.CA:
Building a piano anyone can afford. Re-engineering the acoustic piano for ‘better’ sound and cheaper manufacturing.
Telegraph.UK:
Botox isn’t just for pretty faces. It’s for nimble fingers, too.
Independent.UK:
Strange but true: country music saps will to live. For some reason, reminded me of this Spooky Tooth album ...
Threepenny Review:
Table Talk. “By the time I left, I was largely convinced that around the next technological bend lurks the true seamless convergence of the primordially pure and the ineluctably final—around 2010 if you believe the placards, 2015 at the latest.”
The Province.CA:
Alicia Keys, Cyndi Lauper and other artists to play at Great Wall of China. “‘There are good walls and there are bad walls,’ Lauper said. ‘I played at the Berlin Wall and I saw that wall come down and I was very joyful to be able to play there.’”
