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[Mysterier]

Remembering Richard Taruskin, a writer who made you care about 1,000 years of music

Hear the towering – and polarizing – author in conversation about his 4,000-page book, The Oxford History of Western Music.

www.cpr.org

 

[Mysterier]

I don't know much of this rapster, but here's news:

A$AP Rocky Charged With Assault Over 2021 Shooting Case

A$AP Rocky faces two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm with allegations of personally using a firearm.

www.billboard.com

 

[nepalnt21]

i guess psychedelics don't make everyone nonviolent, afterall!

just kidding, i already knew that

 

[plumbus-nine]

i guess psychedelics don't make everyone nonviolent, afterall!

I never associated rap/hip hop with psychedelics, rather with sizzurp and weed and opioids in general. But I guess if you want so, you'll find at least one person for each drug who mades some bad shit blaming the drug for. Even if it wasn't a drugged case at all, like with shrooms in the NL.

 

[Mysterier]

Rest in peace, Loretta.

Queen of Country music Loretta Lynn dies aged 90

The singer's hits included Coal Miner's Daughter, Honky Tonk Girl and feminist anthem The Pill.

www.bbc.com

 

[BK38]

Remembering Richard Taruskin, a writer who made you care about 1,000 years of music

Hear the towering – and polarizing – author in conversation about his 4,000-page book, The Oxford History of Western Music.

www.cpr.org

 

[Arnold]

‘It was a gateway for people to get into electronic music’: 30 years of Warp Records’ Artificial Intelligence

Taking cues from Detroit techno and showcasing Autechre and Aphex Twin, the famed compilation found hedonism in the wind-down. As it is reissued, famous fans from then and now explain why they love it

www.theguardian.com

Warp recors artificial intelligence

 

[CFC]

The continuing revival of vinyl sales pushes them past CDs this year. What's much more interesting, however, is that by some estimates I read vinyl sales now exceed online/streaming sales as well. This is because the music industry doesn't count sales of second-hand music, which naturally accounts for the vast majority of vinyl transactions, because it doesn't add anything to their own pockets. In doing so, of course, these statistics don't actually reflect music reality at all, just crapitalist values.

Taylor Swift propels UK vinyl sales past CDs for first time in 35 years

Exclusive: Midnights LP purchases push UK record sales above 5.5m in 2022 in ‘watershed moment’ for vinyl revival

www.theguardian.com

 

[Mr. Krinkle]

Roger Waters: Why I’ve re-recorded The Dark Side of the Moon – without Pink Floyd​

In the week David Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson called him a ‘megalomanic’, the musician airs his views on Russia, Israel – and his bandmates

8 February 2023 • 6:30pm

Roger Waters: Why I’ve re-recorded The Dark Side of the Moon – without Pink Floyd

In the week David Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson called him a ‘megalomanic’, the musician airs his views on Russia, Israel – and his bandmates

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Mr. Krinkle]

‘Wish you weren’t here’: The Pink Floyd feud shows no sign of easing

The row between former bandmates David Gilmour and Roger Waters has roared back into life after an extraordinary attack from Gilmour’s partner and Floyd lyricist, Polly Samson. Ed Power delves into a decades-long feud that’s incorporated everything from liner notes to Russia’s war on Ukraine

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Asclepius]

Rest in peace, Loretta.

Queen of Country music Loretta Lynn dies aged 90

The singer's hits included Coal Miner's Daughter, Honky Tonk Girl and feminist anthem The Pill.

www.bbc.com

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[deficiT]

Robert Hunter passed recently. RIP to an amazing lyricist.

 

[deficiT]

Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead Collaborator and Lyricist, Dead at 78

One of rock’s most ambitious and dazzling lyricists was literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation

www.rollingstone.com