10 hours of Brian Eno Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance Harry Smith’s Musical Catalogue of Human Experience Al Anderson (Bob Marley’s guitarist) interview How Jazz may have influenced The Beatles Going for a song: the hidden history of music piracy The Clash see America second “Caught a Vibe”: TikTok and The Sonic Germ of Viral Success Little Richard at Age 19 Poly Styrene: Breaking down the bondage

You might consider Burt Bacharach uncool because he wrote theme songs for corny Hollywood movies and Broadway shows, was a solid member of the glamourous L.A. cognoscenti, the type of guy that might show up in Vegas, married to a movie star, etc. Sure, he was a good-looking white man. …

A certain product, vinyl records, was at one time deemed obsolete, even inconvenient, due to the difficulty of listening to recorded music everywhere, all the time. And thus, is replaced with smaller and smaller delivery systems that can be carried and listened to anywhere, all the time. But somehow the…

Back-in-the-day, I collected 45rpm 7” singles as adamantly as any other format, most especially those tunes that repeatedly burst from the radio, that is — “the hit song”. In those days, we flipped through the record store’s bin, taking a chance or otherwise recognizing what we had already heard. From…

This truncated survey relies on five 7” Hip-Hop 45rpms from my vinyl record collection (episode #1, #2, and #3 linked here), singles that survived multiple moves and loving neglect, and so, at this juncture (with the fourth single) we take a giant leap from 1982 to 1987, the 1980s being…

The third seven-inch 45rpm record (#1 and #2 linked here) of what’s left of my Hip-Hop singles, a collection that made it through the vortex of time, albeit greatly reduced; a collection that stands for a specific time and place — the 1980s — when Hip-Hop/Rap made inroads into the…

Part 2 of a truncated survey (Part 1 here) relying on my own sadly-reduced collection of Hip-Hop seven-inch 45rpm singles, beginning at 1980 when Hip-Hop/Rap finally broke through, entering the recording industry’s stringent charts and establishing itself as a marketplace as well as an international cultural juggernaut. “Double Dutch Bus”…

Part 1 of a 5-part series: This is a truncated, subjective survey, with whole pieces missing, abetted by my memory of the times and gap-filling information gleaned from the internet. In short, it’s a collector’s narrative, all that was found and then lost, or what made it through the maelstrom…

The implication of the word “hippie” was originally, like many slang terms, derogatory. In the Jazz confines of some place like New York City it was applied to wanna-bes, those neophytes who tried a little too hard to make the scene. …