The legendary bluegrass musician Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson passed away today at the age of 89. The Los Angeles Times has an obituary posted on Doc’s passing. The video shows Doc and Mike Seeger performing the Bluegrass standard, “The Cuckoo.”
MP3tunes was one of the most useful services I subscribed to. It was a great place to store lots of music for access to a host of devices. Michael Robertson, the man who came up with the site, is an … Continue reading
Salim Ghazi Saeedi, an Iranian guitarist highly influenced by progressive rock, blogs on his theory of Rock-In-Opposition possibly taking hold in Iran.
Arvo Zylo wrote an excellent primer on the history of Noise in music for Escape From Noise. A nice primer for those who have not been exposed to this genre in the past.
Jazz as a racist term? That’s rich. African-Americans provided the world with one of the most vibrant styles of music ever created. Almost immediately, musicians of every possible race and permutation have adopted it in a wonderful variance of ways, … Continue reading
Sad news to report. Larry “Rhino” Reinhardt, founder of Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond, two of the coolest bands the late sixties and early seventies respectively, passed away Monday due to complications from a respiratory infections. Reinhardt was 63. Billy … Continue reading
An interesting article on the (ever so slight) resurgence of vinyl. The digital medium insures us that CDs won’t be missed, as it’s all “1s” and “0s,” and nothing more. Vinyl, for all its faults (and I’m no purist on … Continue reading
Many good people are working on their own alternatives to Amazon’s proposed locker service (Michael Robertson, for example), but it’s nice to see a heavyweight take on the music industry regarding lockers, places where one can store their music and … Continue reading
Nekesa Mumbi Moody of MyWay News discusses the release of John Lennon’s final interview, for Rolling Stone Magazine, 30 years after its completion.
In a case of absolute hypocrisy, Michael Robertson and MP3 Tunes makes the allegation that EMI, who breathe fire on upload services like Rapidshare, are using Rapidshare to to give away music themselves. Read the full article at P2P.net.