Retrofuturistisches Fest? Die Zeit über Donna Summer im Konzert: ↑Wenn Saturn mit Venus tanzt
Times Online portraitiert David Byrne: ↑Speaking in tongues. Dazu gibt´s einen Auszug aus Byrnes demnächst erscheinenden Buch „Bicycle Diaries“.
Interview mit Barry Mazor zu seinem Buch ↑Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America’s Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century
Graeme Thomson ↑bespricht im New Statesman Greg Milners Buch ↑Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story of Recorded Music
One of the joys of the American music writer Greg Milner’s history of recorded music lies in debunking the rather tedious myth of a halcyon age when records were somehow „authentic“. At its heart, Perfecting Sound Forever is an anti-nostalgia tract, a ritual smashing of rose-tinted glasses. Almost since its inception, the recording industry has, given the opportunity, sought not to preserve reality but to improve upon it.
Legal Downloads:
↑ Daytrotter-Session mit The Coast (4 Songs)
↑ WOXY Lounge Act-Session mit The Duke Spirit
