Book Marks
– Nov 12
Yesterday marked a century since the guns finally fell silent on the Western Front. For over four years “the war to end all wars” turned Europe into a trench-scarred theater of bloodshed, directly claiming the lives of nine million…
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JazzWax
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Marc Myers
– Nov 12
At the end of July 1977, Art Pepper went into New York's Village Vanguard. Recordings of nine sets over three days would be released years later as a nine-CD boxed set called the Complete Village Vanguard Sessions. It was heralded as some of…
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Open Culture
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Josh Jones
– Nov 12
Sixty years ago, Art Kane assembled one of the largest groups of jazz greats in history. No, it wasn't an all-star big band, but a meeting of veteran legends and young upstarts for the iconic photograph known as “A Great Day in…
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The Guardian
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Robin Robertson
– Nov 11, 11:00 PM
I watched film noir before I knew it had a name, growing up with these black-and-white B-movies that appeared at odd hours on 70s television. It was only when I moved from Scotland to London that I saw them, properly, on the big screen, and…
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Pitchfork
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Stuart Berman
– Nov 12
Dinosaur Jr. didn't reunite so much as reset. Since the mid-2000s, J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph have essentially picked up where they left off after 1988's college-radio touchstone Bug, reasserting themselves as indie rock's most ferocious and…
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The Guardian
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Philip Norman
– Nov 11, 7:00 AM
S lowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton is my eighth rock biography since Shout! The True Story of the Beatles in 1981. It left me feeling more than ever that writing books about such people is no job for a grownup and determined never to be…
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The Atlantic
– Nov 9, 7:37 AM
If The White Album were a concept album, the concept would be this: The world's greatest four-piece, comprising two geniuses, one great and searching songwriter, and a magical melancholy drummer-clown, is breaking up—it just doesn't know it…
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Book Marks
– Nov 9
1. Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin Article continues after advertisement “[In Evening in Paradise, there] is little if any diminishment in quality or intensity [of Berlin's work] … One thing that makes Berlin so…
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Bandcamp Daily
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Editorial
– Nov 8, 10:44 PM
Which Cosmic Analog Ensemble album is your favorite? You'd be forgiven for needing a few minutes to decide. The Lebanese producer Charif Megarbane has released over 70 records in the past half decade, both under his C.A.E. moniker as well as…
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Vanity Fair
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Mark Rozzo
– Nov 5, 4:00 AM
On February 22, 1987, Andy Warhol died at age 58 following a gall-bladder operation at New York Hospital. That day, in something of a cosmic coincidence, Irving Blum, the Los Angeles gallerist who in 1962 had given Warhol his first solo exhibition…
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