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Scribes Sounding Off: David Byrne and the Dadaist Disco of Song and Circumstance

“The world is a song,” but as most artists know, to sing it requires periods of intense preparation. This is a book about that for those who enjoy the Talking Heads-deep back catalogue concert documentary Ride, Rise, Roar at SIFF this year and his enthusiastic appearance in Beyond Ipanema, and yearn for more exposition fromRead more...

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Scribes Sounding Off: A Brief Unity of Time in Vortex

The Experience Music Project’s Pop Conference is coming up in just a few days, and as someone who has attended this annual gathering for many years, it always gets me thinking about what French “urbanist” philosopher Paul Virilio describes as the “art of the accident.” Every year at this event I hear academics and journalistsRead more...

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Scribes Sounding Off: Get Your Pop Con On

Hey, check these out: “Embrace The Martian: Hip-Hop, Outer Space, and Post-Gangster Subjectivity” “Good Golly, Why Mali? Solving The Mystery of the Dominance of Malian Popular Music” “On Lady GaGa, Disability, and the Technology of Stardom” “Total Sonic Annihilation” “Pre-Internet Teen Girl Bedroom Culture” “Hank Shocklee... And The ‘Organized Noise’ Sound Culture of Public Enemy’sRead more...

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Scribes Sounding Off: Rock And Hard Places

Subtitled “Travels to Backstages, Frontlines, and Assorted Sideshows,” Andrew Mueller’s new collection of “being there, doing that” stories from the benches and trenches of broad western pop and underground world rock is this spring’s rock book to grab and sink into.

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Scribes Sounding Off: 24 Hour Rock Apocalypse

I first heard about Gospel music when I read Dave Marsh’s review of a Mahalia Jackson LP in an 80s rock magazine, so it makes sense that I first heard about The Byrds when I started reading reviews about a jangling, lyrical band out of Athens, GA around the same time.

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Design and Damage: A chat with author Geeta Dayal about Brian Eno’s Another Green World

According to music, art and science writer Geeta Dayal in her new 33 1/3 series book on the 1975 album Another Green World, several things went through Brian Peter George St. Baptiste de la Salle Eno’s mind when he was struck by an automobile shortly after finishing it. As he was leaving Basing Street, hisRead more...

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Scribes Sounding Off: Best Music Books of 2009

I wanted to put this list together toot sweet so that our readers might have some perfect last minute choices as gifts for music fans this holiday season. Even in a speedy age of instant cheerleading and grousing, the old-fashioned music biography or history lesson or consumer guide (or more contemporary mixture of autobiography andRead more...

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Stuff It! Their Punk Rock Stockings, I Mean! With More Than CDs!

There has been an awful lot of non-album related punk rock stuff coming out lately: Band history and concert DVDs, zines, books, and even toys. For the little terror you have on your list, you might want to think of tying one of these to a chunk of coal and aiming it at his headRead more...

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Scribes Sounding Off: Things To Make And Do

If you’re in the independent music scene for any amount of time, you find out just how important the people are who aren’t necessarily making music. These could be show promoters who make sure your band is well matched with the rest of a line-up on a Tuesday night; the beautiful bartender at the SunsetRead more...

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Scribes Sounding Off: Cassette From My Ex

It may be too early to tell, but I think that Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves is going to be the gift book of the season. For any music lovers and lovers who share music who have ever been spun around by the magic of giving a mix-tape or gottenRead more...

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