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• Wyrd Britain: John Peel's Record Box
  John Peel's Record Box
• The Black Music History Library
  The Black Music History Library
• Musician and multidisciplinary artist Kilo Kish on finding freedom in experimentation – The Creative Independent
  Musician and multidisciplinary artist Kilo Kish on finding freedom in experimentation
• The Quietus | News | Cardiacs' Tim Smith Has Died, Aged 59
  The Quietus | News | Cardiacs' Tim Smith Has Died, Aged 59
• 1000+ Black Producers / Artists / Labels for Bandcamp Day - Google Drive
• Using TikTok to make ambient music
• Audio Albion – Audio Visual Archive 17/52
  “Audio Albion is a music and field recording map of Britain, which focuses on rural and edgeland areas. Each track contains field recordings from locations throughout the land and is accompanied by notes on the recordings by the contributors.”
• Dick Dale, Surf Rock Icon, Dead at 81 | Pitchfork
  “Dick Dale, the guitar player and singer-songwriter known as “the King of the Surf Guitar,” has died. Dale’s live bassist Sam Bolle confirmed the news to The Guardian. He was 81. A rocker whose career bloomed in the early 1960s, Dale toured into the end of his life despite “excruciating” pain stemming from numerous health problems (including rectal cancer, kidney failure, diabetes, and damaged vertebrae). He had tour dates planned throughout 2019.”
• 50 Historic Black Women Guitarists and Bassists You Need To Know
  "If you’re reading this and are someone who consumes or performs music, then every day you should be celebrating the innovation, resilience, and talent of black music communities. Last February, we published a guitarist a day in the genre of rock ‘n’ roll to emphasize the history and impact black women have had as pioneers in the United States. Today, on the last day of Black History Month, we take a deeper dive into the influences that Black, Indigenous, and Afro identifying women musicians have had on music history. "
• The Official Archive of Prince GIFs
  GIPHY, in collaboration with Paisley Park and Prince’s estate, has done a truly remarkable thing. It’s created an official archive of high-quality Prince GIFs, from virtually all of his music videos. You can browse it by album and by song.
• 🎶 In bad times, good music.
• Summer 2018 playlists, chosen by Goat Girl, Justice, Hot Chip and more
  Musicians reveal the songs they turn to when the sun hits the sky – listen to their hot tracks below
• Heart of gold: Neil Young's online archives are a revolution in fandom
  Sometimes, flicking through the online Neil Young Archives, one wonders if he has slightly oversold the marvels on offer for public perusal. In his introductory video, Young guides new users around the site, showing them the audio, video and documentary material on offer. “Here we have a copyright letter,” he intones, over footage of an envelope. “Very interesting!”
• The Stradivarius Of The Synthesiser: Fifty Years Of The Moog
  Fifty years since the introduction of Bob Moog's first modular synthesiser, Robert Barry explores the history of this revolutionary instrument, and discusses its legacy with Bernie Krause and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp
• Brazilian Soul, now playing just down the rickety steps in the...
• Heavy Funk covers of James Brown
• Philip Glass: "I expected to have a day job for the rest of my life"
  I enjoyed reading Lolade Fadulu’s interview with Philip Glass about the composer’s early life and how he made a living in NYC before being able to fully support himself with his music (which didn’t happen until he was in his early 40s). As a boy, his mother made sure he got a musical education and his job at his father’s record store exposed him to the idea that people paid money for art:
• Kendrick Lamar just won a Pulitzer Prize for ‘DAMN.’ - The Verge
  Kendrick Lamar has become the first non-classical, non-jazz artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for music for his 2017 album DAMN. The prize listing describes Lamar’s record, which documents the complexities of growing up in his hometown of Compton, as “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life.”
• Stewart Lee on the 'nerveracking thrill' of being a fan of the Fall
  Tributes to artists often end up being more about the person writing them, but MES provided me with an alternative education, looping me into Camus, and Arthur Machen, and William Blake, and Can, and dub and old garage punk and rock’n’roll. I saw the Fall 52 times and without MES my life would have been utterly different and nowhere near as much fun. What on earth are we all going to do with ourselves now?
• SotD: Troy
  I bought Sinéad O’Connor’s de­but, The Lion and the Co­bra, be­cause Mandinko was on the ra­dio and I liked it. The first time I played it, not hav­ing looked at the track list­ing, I no­ticed some med­i­ta­tive croon­ing about “Dublin in a Rainstorm”; the next time, a gut-grabbing throaty chan­t: “You should have left the lights on”; and then an­oth­er time a howl­ing dec­la­ra­tion about ris­ing, a phoenix from the flame. It took me a while to no­tice that all of these were from the same track: Troy. It’s a hell of a song.
• See Jello Biafra Join Dead Cross for 'Nazi Trumps F--k Off' - Rolling Stone
  "Former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra joined the supergroup Dead Cross Wednesday night for a revised version of the pioneering hardcore group's 1981 single, "Nazi Punks Fuck Off." This time, though, it was "Nazi Trumps Fuck Off" and each of the band members wore T-shirts with that phrase emblazoned on it and a photo of Trump's head crossed out."
• Three synched performances of Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead
  Radiohead has performed Fake Plastic Trees at the Glastonbury Festival three times: in 1997, 2003, and 2017. This video synchs all three performances into one, with the audio switching between the three.
• Music For An Uncommon Era – The Awl
  The record is a beautifully imperfect monster — a zombie of a former arena rock band. You recognize it and want to invite it in, but you’re afraid it might eat your neck. This is the Pet Sematary version of Queens of the Stone Age that would launch Homme and a cast of legends, unknowns and in-betweens on an artistic journey that keeps unfolding in astonishing and unexpected ways.
• Alice Coltrane’s Ashram Recordings Finally Have a Wide Release
  Surya Botofasina, 39, a keyboardist who lives in Brooklyn, has fond memories of growing up at the Shanti Anantam Ashram in Agoura, Calif., which was established in 1983 by Alice Coltrane, the jazz pianist, harpist and widow of the saxophone immortal John Coltrane.
• Josh Homme on Iggy Pop: ‘Lemmy is gone. Bowie is gone. He's the last of the one-and-onlys’ | Music | The Guardian
  Josh: That notion of talismans, to have a touchstone of your own mortality… so much of today’s world is about not focusing on what’s beyond. Stay focused on buying something! Or something to that effect. To live while knowing it’s close, and you can be young or old, it doesn’t matter. Being able to keep it there, even at arm’s length… I think you live better because of that awareness. Awareness is worth a lot.
• Steve Lacy Produced That Hot Kendrick Lamar Track Using Only His iPhone | WIRED
  A FEW MINUTES after Steve Lacy arrived at a dingy, weed-clouded recording studio in Burbank, the 18-year-old musician flopped down in a plush leather chair in the control room. Vince, one of the studio’s proprietors, came in to show Lacy how the mixing boards and monitors worked. Lacy didn’t care; he was just in it for the chair. He picked up his new black-and-white Rickenbacker guitar, then reached into his Herschel backpack and yanked out a mess of cables. Out of the mess emerged his iRig, an interface adapter that connects his guitar directly into his iPhone 6. He shoved it into the Lightning port and began tuning his instrument, staring at the GarageBand pitch meter through the cracks on the screen of his phone.
• Mica Levi’s Intensely Unconventional Film Scores - The New Yorker
  The musician Mica Levi has observed that in the world of film music, there are two schools of thought. “Some people see it as about doing something new and different, something very ‘felt,’ ” she told me when I met her at her manager’s office in North London earlier this month. “And some people are very respectful of the craftsmanship of writing an articulate score that uses the variety of the orchestra and moves very fast to picture, like you’d see in a children’s adventure film—which is an amazing skill, like watching martial arts. The two sides are quite stark.”
• Advice on how to play a gig by Thelonious Monk
  In 1960, saxophonist Steve Lacy wrote down a list of advice from jazz pianist Thelonious Monk on how to play music. Among the items on the list: Just because you’re not a drummer, doesn’t mean you don’t have to keep time. Don’t play the piano part, I’m playing that. Don’t listen to me. I’m supposed to be accompanying you! Always leave them wanting more. What should we wear tonight? Sharp as possible!
• "Dr Daniel Glaser asks what effect does music have on our brains? And how can it be harnessed for therapy?"
  In the first episode of this new podcast, Dr Daniel Glaser asks what effect does music have on our brains? And how can it be harnessed for therapy?
• William Onyeabor, 1946–2017
  “William Onyeabor, the Nigerian synth funk pioneer, died in his sleep on Monday, the Luaka Bop label has announced…. Onyeabor launched his music career in the 1970s, when he put together an impressive home studio and pressing plant in Enugu. Between ’77-’85, he single-handedly recorded, pressed, and printed a series of groundbreaking synth-funk albums. They included classic songs such as ‘Good Name’ and ‘Fantastic Man,’ novel takes on synthesizer-driven funk that stood out even within Nigeria’s thriving music scene.”
• The Genius of Paul McCartney’s Bass Playing in 7 Isolated Tracks
  In many a musical situation, one can communicate an entire playing style in a name. When it comes to the bass—in pop music, at least—one of the foremost of those names is Paul McCartney, whose soulful basslines have given us some of the most memorable melodies in music history.
• Google Music Taps Big Data to Build a Robot DJ Mind-Reader
  OTHER THAN MAYBE the NSA, nobody knows more about you than Google. It’s got a read on where you are, what you’re doing, what you’re thinking and watching and searching for and chatting with your friends about. Which means nobody should be better equipped to soundtrack every second of your life than Google Play Music. Starting today, the company’s taking full advantage of its smarts to deliver you the sounds you want, when you want them. All you have to do is press play.
• Egyptian Females Experimental Music Session (Live from Borealis Festival) - 10th March 2016 (NTS Radio)
• The Quietus | Opinion | The Quietus Essay | The Wheal Thing: Aphex Twin's Alternative Cornish Language
  From the myth of the methane princess to a reflection of Cornwall's rich history of radiocommunications, his home county permeates the music of Richard D James far more than as a cultural backwater, says Laura Snapes
• The Millennial Whoop: A glorious obsession with the melodic alternation between the fifth and the third – The Patterning
  This week, The Lonely Island released a music video for a song that was cut from their new movie, Popstar. The deleted scene for the song, “Fuck Off,” shows Conner4Real (Andy Samberg’s Bieber-esque teen idol character) joyfully belting out the most over-the-top expression of teenage angst possible.
• Languages Inhabited: Teju Cole's Favourite Albums
  Following the publication of his first collection of essays, Known And Strange Things, the writer and photographer pens us his own Baker's Dozen, picking "as many kinds of albums that really mattered to me as possible"
• Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive - The New York Times
  TULSA, Okla. — For years, Bob Dylan scholars have whispered about a tiny notebook, seen by only a few, in which the master labored over the lyrics to his classic 1975 album “Blood on the Tracks.” Rolling Stone once called it “the Maltese Falcon of Dylanology” for its promise as an interpretive key.
• Lessons We Can Learn From PJ Harvey
  For 25 years, Polly Jean Harvey has carved a unique, sinuous path in pop culture. As an artist, she keeps surprising her fans, less reinventing herself with every record than constantly pushing at her many talents. From the grungy waif of her band's blistering debut album Dry to the glossy metropolitan creator of Mercury Prize-winning Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, and on to her current incarnation as poet-observer of the dispossessed, Harvey is in a pop cultural league all of her own, and is possibly Bridport, Dorset's most famous export. This summer, in addition to touring the festival circuit following the release of her critically lauded ninth album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, she is also exhibiting The Hollow of the Hand, her lyrical project with photographer Seamus Murphy based on their travels to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington DC, as part of the Rencontres photo festival in Arles. (Harvey's poems and Murphy's photographs were collected in a book of the same name, published by Bloomsbury last year). Coming up: a European and UK tour, as well as an original composition for a production of Franz Xaver Kroetz's play The Nest, premiering in October. Here we try to extract some lessons from her life and work. 
• Beyond Fela: A Guide To Early African Electronic Music
  Call it what you will, but there’s no denying that West African funk or boogie
• Hear Electronic Ladyland, a Mixtape Featuring 55 Tracks from 35 Pioneering Women in Electronic Music
  Given that we’ve previously featured two documentaries on electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, an introduction to four other female composers who pioneered electronic music (Daphne Oram, Laurie Spiegel, Éliane Radigue
• Talking Heads - Full Concert - 11/04/80 - Capitol Theatre (OFFICIAL)
• Bandcamp, Downloads, Streaming, and the Inescapably Bright Future « The Bandcamp Blog
  In light of a recent report that Apple will soon abandon music downloads (later denied, but undoubtedly containing a certain amount of inevitability), we thought we’d take a moment to update you on the state of Bandcamp’s business and our plans for the future.
• St. Vincent and Peter Gabriel are advising medical music initiative The Sync Project
  Peter Gabriel, St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark), Jon Hopkins, and Esa-Pekka Salonen are going to help The Sync Project — the initiative headed up by former Nokia design head Marko Ahtisaari — explore the future of musical medicine. The four musicians are joining the collaborative venture as advisors, roles that'll necessitate working with the scientists researching music's therapeutic properties and helping to raise the project's awareness. While they represent a wide range of musical styles and experiences — Gabriel and Clark are art-rock veterans, Hopkins is an accomplished electronic producer, and Salonen conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra — Ahtisaari is more interested in their value as thinkers than their musical bona fides.
• Moog’s New App Is a Spot-on Recreation of a Classic Synth
  The Moog Model 15 Synthesizer app is an iOS-powered recreation of Moog's iconic Model 15 modular synthesizer from 1973. The post Moog's New App Is a Spot-on Re
• Al Bowlly (1936)
  RT @chris__shepherd: Sublime film of #AlBowlly. Night night.
• Radiohead - Burn The Witch
  Aww, they even made it 4:3!
• Prince's Women and Me: The Collaborators Who Inspired a Generation
  The first lyrics I can remember ever singing came in 1984, when I was six: "I'm not a woman. I'm not a man. I am something that you will never understand." They were words I practiced into the mirror dozens and dozens of times with a nearly religious dolefulness, as if I were waiting for the Bloody Mary of Gender Identity to show herself. Back then English was a new language for me, learned largely from MTV, and the only way I made it through school was through recess's most universal form of bonding: music, meaning someone's boombox, our main source of play being dance routines and lip syncs, all moves and manners cribbed from Star Search, Solid Gold, and American Bandstand. Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Prince were everything, but Prince ruled my heart not just for his sound but for his paraphernalia, his look, all that he carried, all that came with him.
• An Audience With Terry Riley - The Wire
  A special edition of The Wire Salon with the composer of such landmark minimalist works as In C and Rainbow In Curved Air in discussion with The Wire's Tony Herrington. By Terry Riley
• Vinyls earned more money than ad-supported music streams in 2015
• Where to start with the primal howl of Iggy Pop · Primer · The A.V. Club
  Iggy Pop 101 In February—one month after the death of his close friend and collaborator David Bowie—Iggy Pop covered Bowie’s “The Jean Genie” at Carnegie Hall. Two weeks earlier, he said in an interview that he’s probably “closing up” and retiring from the recording business after the release of his new album Post Pop Depression. If Pop seems a little morbid these days, well, it’s nothing new. A hell-bent, self-destructive streak runs through his entire body of work; in fact, that streak long ago became his calling card, along with this feral, hair-raising baritone. Hard to believe he launched his music career innocuously enough as fresh-faced James Osterberg, the drummer of various ’60s garage bands in Michigan such as The Iguanas and The Prime Movers.
• Listening to Song Exploder (Warpaint - Love Is to Die): http://songexploder.libsyn.com/warpaint-love-is-to-die In 2013, Warpaint starting working on their sophomore album. They retreated away from their home in Los Angeles to the nearby desert oasis of Jo
• 1,000 Hours of Early Jazz Recordings Now Online: Archive Features Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington
  David W. Niven spent his life amassing a vast record collection, all dedicated to the sounds of Early Jazz. As a kid during the 1920s, he started buying jazz records with money earned from his paper route. By World War II, Niven, now a college student, had thousands of LPs. “All the big names of jazz, along with lesser legends, were included,” Niven later said, and “I found myself with a first class treasure of early jazz music.” Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, and much, much more.
• Eagles of Death Metal deliver rock'n'roll catharsis in Paris | World news | The Guardian
• The Cramps Play a Mental Hospital in Napa, California in 1978: The Punkest of Punk Concerts | Open Culture
  The Cramps Play a Mental Hospital in Napa, California in 1978: The Punkest of Punk Concerts
• Apes, "Mosaic" - The Awl
  Apes, "Mosaic"
• BBC - BBC Arts, Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track
  Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track, BBC Arts - BBC
• Squarepusher: 10 songs that taught me how to play bass | Music | The Guardian
  Squarepusher: 10 songs that taught me how to play bass
• A Q&A With Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys Who Shares His Strong Opinions on Basically Everything | Music | San Francisco | San Francisco News and Events | SF Weekly
  A Q&A With Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys Who Shares His Strong Opinions on Basically Everything
• The Neuroscience of Bass: New Study Explains Why Bass Instruments Are Fundamental to Music | Open Culture
  The Neuroscience of Bass: New Study Explains Why Bass Instruments Are Fundamental to Music
• Leo Abrahams, "Chain" - The Awl
  Leo Abrahams, "Chain"
• Micachu and The Shapes: The Art of the Happy Accident | Crack Magazine
  Micachu and The Shapes: The Art of the Happy Accident | Crack Magazine
• Karl Martin Sandberg, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen and Other Songwriters Behind the Hits of Katy Perry and Taylor Swift - The Atlantic
  The Elaborate Charade to Obfuscate Who Writes Pop Music
• How Iceland saved John Grant: 'I feel safe here' | Music | The Guardian
  How Iceland saved John Grant: 'I feel safe here'
• Grimes In Reality | The FADER
  Grimes In Reality
• Hear All of Mozart in a Free 127-Hour Playlist | Open Culture
  Hear All of Mozart in a Free 127-Hour Playlist
• U.S. Girls: "Damn That Valley"
• How Mica Levi got Under The Skin of her first film soundtrack | Film | The Guardian
  How Mica Levi got Under The Skin of her first film soundtrack
• The Tunes We Tried To Distract Ourselves From 2014 With - The Awl
  The Tunes We Tried To Distract Ourselves From 2014 With
• Alice Armand – Erica Sings
• a few thousand words without any - Tashi Dorji