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teasers

“…read the art and the life fully as they wind and unwind around each other, changing shape and direction,” Margo Jefferson on Michael Jackson.

Rhiannon Giddens, and the “trilobytes of American musical history,” from John Jeremiah Sullivan…

Amy Wang on how garageband “gives modern music a distinctly different rhythm and sound,” which links to Greg Milner’s piece on the Grammys.

Hal Blaine, the “Be My Baby” master Brian Wilson called the “greatest drummer ever,” dies at 90…

“Literacy being common is new historically. It’s only within the last 100 years. It’s something we take for granted…” Nichole Procopenko talks to She Shreds about archiving Smithsonian, Dischord, and Henry Rollins

“…So immaculately and distinctively recorded as to boggle the ear,” Robbie Fulks on Shania Twain

“Overseas, it gets weirder…” Bill Wyman on Bob Dylan’s Never-Ending Tour

Medium still message, world keeps turning: Streambait Pop (Liz Pelly) and algorithmic culture (Cherie Hu)

“You’re not pretending to be something you’re not…” Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks, 1966-2018

Evelyn McDonnell on Turner’s new memoir

“…I didn’t want to make it look like an an uphill trek,” Tina Weymouth tells Carrie Courigan in Paper

“…He’s playing squash without a ball,” Nicholas Baker on Saul Steinberg (NYRB) in the NYTimes Book Review

Appearances

2018
November 28, 11 am
WBUR Boston/NPR
On Point, #whitealbum50

November 8-11
Monmouth University, NJ
The White Album:
50th Anniversary Celebration
“Producing an Enigma for the Ages”

2017 June 1-4
University of Michigan
Sgt. Pepper at 50 Conference (see FB page)
with Ken Scott, Kenneth Womack and John Covach

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