…drawings in DayGlo colors and hair, long beautiful hair, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen (to quote a lyric from the era). Music, too, is being used to invoke the 1960s….

RIAA I think the record labels are taking the wrong approach to digital music–suing file sharers, crying to congress, and operating their own crappy music websites (pressplay and something or…

MTV Video Music Awards I didn’t watch them, but skimming the news I can’t help wondering how many Google hits I’d get if I were to post the words “Madonna”,…

…Quaker service, a sermon on the four kinds of prayer (oops, please, thanks and wow!), a Music Sunday last week in which the choir was singing things about The Christian…

…of rival music-streaming companies. While Apple Music is easily accessible on the iPhone, Apple has placed conditions on its rivals that make it difficult for them to offer competitive streaming…

…Texas.’ Floyd not only made music, he also customized cars to build in tape decks. The challenges of living in the Third Ward overwhelmed the opportunities Floyd found there. In…

…jumping up and down and dancing, with many musicians playing all kinds of music.  Heck, it was just plain great.  I loved it. We did go to Fourth Street to…

…specifying the source, he alluded to having addressed pseudo-activity “more than thirty years ago.” A little digging suggests his infamous 1938 essay, “On the fetish character in music and the…

…virtuoso slaughters the piece of music in the name of the spellbound community as an act of atonement. The theme of ritual sacrifice and the renunciation of ritual sacrifice plays…

…there are so many cases where the wants of one person clash with the wants of another (when, for example, my neighbor wants to play loud music in his apartment…