by Keidra Chaney Holy crap it’s been a great couple of weeks for music writing. Lots and lots of fantastic articles, to the point where…
Matt Stahl’s Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work is an interesting book about the ways recording artists have been treated by California…
by Laura Fletcher What’s better than a cover song? Okay, assuming you aren’t at a sad, small bar listening to someone croon or whatever, in…
Kembrew McLeod & PeterDiCola’s recent book, Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling is a truly excellent overview of the complicated aspects of…
Among music fans/geeks, the news circulated quickly (mostly on Twitter)`that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences – the folks that run the Grammys…
One of my go-to book purchases at the end of the year is the DeCapo Best Music Writing anthology. There’s no way for me to…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH01RKvKUNs] Of our very diverse blog posts, some of the most popular are about hallyu, the export of Korean pop culture. While still very much…
[youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOS43N8tAyI”] At what point is copying homage (as a way of honoring and being respectful of the original) even through direct copying? transformative (in…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCwaYb16hNk] If you don’t know the artists (Faith No More & Kylie Minogue) and musical genres (J-pop & hallyu) mentioned in the title of this…
Greg Kot’s Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music is a must-read for those interested in how economics combined with listener actions have led the…