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Graham English Official Site: The Decade In Music: How Musicians Create

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:27:08 -0500

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How has technology changed the relationship between musicians and their fans? While major record labels still struggle to grasp the power of the MP3, artists, including Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, have embraced and even found creative solutions around file-sharing.

Link: The Decade In Music: How Musicians Create

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Celebrity Series of Boston Blog: Charles Ives is on Twitter

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:06:51 -0500

The UnTwittered Question

Charles Edward Ives, internationally renowned American modernist composer (and explorer of such musical techniques as polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones), and insurance industry innovator (author of Life Insurance with Relation to Inheritance Tax) whose work helped [...]

The Goodtime Stringband: New England Folk Music Archives

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:59:40 -0500

We just stumbled upon this site and thought we’d share a link – Check out the New England Folk Music Archives

The site describes itself as follows:

The New England Folk Music Archives preserves, promotes and documents the ongoing cultural legacy of folk music and its connections to New England through [...]

The Lone Beader: Custom Beaded Bailey

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:05:00 -0500

Semi-beaded Old English Sheepdog pin/pendant.
Bead embroidery on felt. 2.5" x 1" (6.5 x 2.5cm)

I've been jumping back & forth between a few projects lately, mainly because' [...]

pantaloons:: You were touched. Transgressive languor zigzagged down ...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:24:00 -0500

You were touched. Transgressive languor zigzagged down one shoulder. I had to say something. I chose any car in the aisle, because it's Olympic, and because I like to gamble with your money, brooding of course, doing something earlier enormously mysterious with time. I was and am alive with burdens. [...]

Enough Cowbell: DEVO Stands for De-evolution, and I Stand For The Death of Death. [Part 2]

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:00:48 -0500

Of what matter are the thoughts that arise in one’s mind as they survey the American landscape from within an automobile? The construction of a road promises uniformity in vision and thought, a line from known to known, from spot to spot, from life in America to death in the [...]

HubArts.com: Morning reading: BMAs, NH arts center and (groan) journalism

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:50:41 -0500

Check out all the Boston Music Awards winners at Boston.com as neither On The Download nor RSL have anything up yet. For my southern NH posse, I have a story in Globe North today about plans moving forward for a new arts center in pastoral downtown Newfields. ... [...]

The Mirror up to Nature: Brustein - The More Things Change?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:28:00 -0500

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Jenna Scherer has an interview with Robert Brustein, former Artistic Director and Founder of the ART in Cambridge.Here is Brustein on the current direction the ART is taking:I happen to have the annoying quality of being very faithful to an idea. I still believe that a company of resident actors [...]

//Music and Culture for the Young Bostonian: [nt]

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:13:10 -0500

providing a large selection of wholesale pine furniture and signs, including display cabinets, cupboards and consumer furniture. [...]

The Beantown Bloggery: Drinks at the Ames Hotel

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:39:00 -0500

So unfortunately, I didn't an invite to the opening of the Ames Hotel, but I did swing by there last night to grab a drink and check the place out. You all know of my love for hotel bars, so clearly I had to check' [...]