March 9, 2024
March 9, 2024
In stark contrast with digital devices that allow rapid selection and playback of music, the 12-inch single – or maxi single – looks like the anachronistic relic it is. Oh, but what a relic.
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February 23, 2024
February 23, 2024
Racial activism within music isn't a modern phenomenon, it has been there since the art form's inception. In the late nineteenth century, marginalized African-American communities invented the Blues largely as an expression of their subjugation; the fact that they also invented the structure of popular music was just a happy accident.
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February 2, 2024
February 2, 2024
For the moment I’m willing to consider music to be the only life raft within swimmable distance of this sinking ship. I can’t imagine a more apt moment for a mode of human expression free of violence, divisiveness, and hate; something that speaks to our better angels and lets our worst demons take an overdue nap.
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October 13, 2023
October 13, 2023
Moby’s genre-shifting 1999 album Play, was recorded in a bedroom following the death of his mother. More hail Mary than mea culpa, by the time Play was finished Richard Hall was halfway out the door on his music career.
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October 28, 2022
October 28, 2022
In 1972, Edward Blankman, a retired dentist from Abington, Pennsylvania sought solace after the death of his wife Natalie. After moving to Cape Cod and finding a secondhand Wurlitzer he took it upon himself to play and read music, and after amassing enough songs, he brought together some studio musicians for a self-financed recording session in Boston. The result is an album of elegant, minimalist jazz: Cape Cod Cottage.
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July 14, 2022
July 14, 2022
A gravity well of sleepy beats trades mystery with understanding for those listeners foolish enough to believe they possess the cipher to translating the 22 songs by trip hop duo Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister on their 1998 downtempo compilation of remixes The K&D Sessions.
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April 27, 2022
April 27, 2022
An independent label birthed in 2008 by composer, jazz musician and producer Matthew Halsall, Manchester-based Gondwana Records was started as an outlet for Halsall and saxophonist Nat Birchall. The label now sports a deep stable of artists from around the globe.
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