Thanks for posting the whole thing. A great encapsulation of Bangs at his worst (the section about the couple at the Sun Ra gig) and best (the last three paragraphs).
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Audio musicam ergo sum
Music supplies us with a first clue. What part of me hears music when I
listen to it? My body trembles, dances, kicks up its hee...
sugared hiccups (UK rock 'n' roll 1 of ??)
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"He didn't have much of a voice either, he was all nose and tonsil, a poor
man's Buddy Holly. What he did have, though was... a certain persistent
odd...
Scroll on
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A little souvenir of a terrible year... something I wrote about
doomscrolling for *Sasha Frere-Jones's* end-of-year writer-buddies round-up,
looking bac...
Project Future
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Interesting post by *Derek Walmsley* at *Slow Motion* blog, based on his
research for liner notes for a new *Soul Jazz* compilation: *Electro
Throwdown:...
It's Different For Girls (Auto-Tune)
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Following on from the "my kind of rap" post with its coda about Auto-Tune
and ad libs.
Here's something that's been puzzling me for a while...
Q: Why ha...
It's not the economy, stupid
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Just over two weeks to go now... How strange it feels to be waiting, in
hideous suspense, to see if you're going to be living in a flawed but
functioning...
RIP Lillian F. Schwartz (1927 - 2024)
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*"Resident artist and consultant at Bell Laboratories (New Jersey)....
during the 70s and 80s Schwartz developed a catalogue of visionar...
haunty ha-ha, haunty peculiar
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Sometime ago, *Vic Reeves* posted this on Twitter - if I remember right,
it's artwork for a tour poster that was nev...
50 Favorite Songs
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(for an Italian publication, 2009)
The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls"
The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever"
John's Children -- "A Midsummer ...
angel delights
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https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs
*Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica!
Another vintage release, with a vi...
Thanks for posting the whole thing. A great encapsulation of Bangs at his worst (the section about the couple at the Sun Ra gig) and best (the last three paragraphs).
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