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Music Monday Throwdown: The Choking Kind

August 2, 2009, 8:34 pm

I recently grabbed an old Mavis Staples “twofer” from eMusic and have really been enjoying her take on the song “The Choking Kind.” After a little looking, it seems hers is actually one of the better...

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Chicago Summerdance iCalendar

June 21, 2009, 10:51 pm

Since I wanted it for myself, I offer up to you an iCal file holding the Chicago Summerdance ’09 schedule. I used Max M’s icalendar library for Python, which works pretty well, although the file...

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Treat a Stranger Right: a Muxtape

April 2, 2008, 10:13 pm

The internet toy-of-the-week is Muxtape.com. It’s pretty slick, although I’m not sure I’ll use it much. When they add the ability to stream from your friends mixes and randomly identified simpatico...

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Let it Shine: the SNCC Freedom Singers

January 20, 2008, 8:24 am

Last fall I had the pleasure of seeing a concert by the SNCC Freedom Singers at Woodson Library. CAN TV was there shooting, and they aired the entire event in December. I’ve finally gotten around to...

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No Wonder People Are Confused about DRM

May 29, 2007, 6:51 am

A couple of weeks ago, I was disappointed by the media coverage about Amazon’s entry into digital music sales. The New York Times wrote: “Apple plans to start selling EMI’s songs as MP3 format later...

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Re-Festivated

May 9, 2007, 10:57 pm

Well, I really didn’t realize how much I had been missing, but now that I’m back from the JazzFest, I am sure as shooting going to be back as frequently as providence permits. It’s just a glorious...

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Jazz Fess-tival

May 3, 2007, 12:56 pm

I’m returning to New Orleans this weekend for the Jazz Festival for the first time in six or seven years. For a while in the 90’s it was an annual affair with a lot of friends; I think we went...

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Guarding the Groove

March 21, 2007, 3:16 am

This weekend I booked my travel to New Orleans for the JazzFest. I made the pilgrimage annually for six years running back in the day, but haven’t been to New Orleans except en route to Baton Rouge...

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Music Sharing (the old fashioned kind)

February 4, 2006, 10:04 am

Tim Bray has observed youth in the act of Music Sharing: The mornings when I take the kid to school I see them standing in the schoolyard, sharing two between four or three between five. It’s a...

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Logrolling In Our Times

August 19, 2005, 10:52 pm

So I happened to hear on All Things Considered an interview with Dick Cavett on the occasion of the release of a box of DVDs featuring performances and interviews with “rock icons” on his show in the...

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An MP3 Blog is Born

December 15, 2004, 8:27 pm

Announcing the first posting of the Akwaaba Sound System, a new group MP3 blog. A few years ago, my friends Chris and Pieter and I (with a few other folks) were DJing some parties at the Elastic...

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Pleasures

November 22, 2004, 2:52 pm

A scattering of things which have made me happy lately: Incremental searching: I recently switched to using Firefox instead of Safari, largely for this feature. Now it drives me crazy to search using...

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Hey, Music Lover…

November 1, 2004, 8:20 pm

Don’t miss this video clip of Sly and the Family Stone on the Ed Sullivan Show from 1968. Also an MP3 from the Family’s debut album, “A Whole New Thing”

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Credit Where Credit is Due

October 17, 2004, 7:38 pm

While surfing the net today, I came across a collection of jazz resources at Columbia University. It has a couple of interesting things like close analysis of Lonely Woman and Haitian Fight Song, with...

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Voter Payback

October 13, 2004, 10:09 pm

I’ve always thought it would be great if voters could get something as a reward for displaying their voting receipt on election day. I’m not talking about vote buying, but just some modest rewards for...

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Gallery Watch: Ken Butler, Anxious Objects

September 12, 2004, 6:00 pm

Yesterday while Jennifer was returning some books to the De Paul library, I stumbled into an excellent exhibition at the De Paul Art Museum. Called “Anxious Objects,” it collects about 60 pieces by...

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Installazione Sono-botanica Nella Città del Suono

August 24, 2004, 11:45 pm

Somewhere along the line I subscribed to the RSS feed for City of Sound, but I haven’t been making it that far down my feeds list in NetNewsWire. Today I found a couple of interesting posts that seem...

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UbuWeb

August 24, 2004, 9:59 pm

Googling for Henry Flynt, I stumbled upon UbuWeb, an interesting collection of art and writing, including sound (MP3 and RealAudio). Stumbled isn’t exactly accurate, since I had recently found that it...

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William Parker’s Musical Synesthesia

August 23, 2004, 2:48 pm

Tom Hull’s “consumer guide” to the music of William Parker, et. al includes several links to interviews with William Parker, one of which had a few interesting pieces: I visualized each string of the...

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Metafilter Talks Jazz

August 23, 2004, 10:04 am

I’ve been subscribed to the Metafilter RSS feed for a while now, but this is the first time I’ve seen discussion veer into”free jazz”. Since Metafilter is no longer accepting new users, the only way I...

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