The Way We Hear Music Has Changed. Now Change it Some More.
A lot of buzz out there about Taylor Swift abandoning Spotify (what a very odd name – Taylor Swift…
November 5, 2014-
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Acker Bilk and Instrumentals of Exquisite Melancholy
In his masterpiece The Tin Drum, author Gunther Grass writes of a character who is able to “turn feelings…
November 4, 2014 -
1985: I Turn Down My Chance to Become a (temporary) Beastie Boy
In the middle of 1985, the Beastie Boys were on the precipice of breaking big. The “Rock Hard” single…
November 3, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East” by Scott Anderson
Notice the title of this book: it’s not “Lawrence of Arabia” (that’s a movie) or “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”…
October 31, 2014 -
Tell the Bartender Episode 46: Halloween Spooktacular!
Listen to Episode 46: Halloween Spooktacular! Download From iTunes Here In this Episode: David Lawson joins Katharine to tell the story about, well, the worst thing to happen while leading a “Ghost Tour” in a graveyard in Boston. And Lauren Hennessy is back to talk about a scary thing that happened while in a lighting booth for a […]
October 30, 2014
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New York City and Taylor Swift (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Change)
I do not blame Taylor Swift for embracing her role as the new face of New York City. I…
October 30, 2014 -
Paul O. Zelinsky to appear at Greenlight Books on Saturday (11/1)
On Saturday, November 1, at 11 AM, Paul O. Zelinsky, the beloved children’s book author and illustrator and Brooklyn…
October 29, 2014 -
Talking Ebola, Politics and Pathogens
Please explain this to me. If a doctor is willing to go to West Africa to help Ebola victims, what the HELL is the big deal about a few weeks of Quarantine?
October 28, 2014 -
Scott Walker and Sunn O))): The Future of Rock’n’Roll
Yesterday, we were talking about how we may be entering the Sunset Years of conventional Western Pop. I posited…
October 28, 2014 -
The Myth of Western Pop Supremacy: Prologue to a Scott Walker/Sunn O))) Review
There is a gorgeous arrogance to the idea of Western Pop Music, a truly child-like presumption that our kind…
October 27, 2014