25 Great Articles and Essays
about Music
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Music and Life
Why do we feel nostalgia? And are infinite entertainment choices changing the way we look back?
I slid the first record from its sleeve, touching only the label, and eased it like a pan of nitro onto the black rubber turntable pad.
Why do we listen to our favourite music over and over again? Because repeated sounds work magic in our brains
A short philosophical history of personal music
His ability to perceive what he saw and heard was unimpaired. But he did not seem to be able to retain any impression of anything for more than a blink.
Muzak in the realm of retail theatre.
Pop
How Auto-Tune conquered pop music
The hitmakers behind Rihanna
Record companies are tracking download and search data to predict which new songs will be hits. This has been good for business — but is it bad for music?
How do you really like Carly Rae Jepsen, really?
Before the weirdness claimed his legacy, Michael Jackson understood his talent better than we ever have.
Depending on whom you ask, the Shaggs were either the best band of all time or the worst.
Rock
If you ever thought feedback was the best thing that ever happened to the guitar, well, Lou just got rid of the guitars.
"It doesn’t pay much and doesn’t lead anywhere in particular, so no matter how successful you are at it, you’ll eventually have to decide what you’re going to do with your life anyway"
Jerry Lee grew up torn between the Devil and the Holy Ghost.
Johnny Cash thought his recording career was over. Then he met legendary producer Rick Rubin.
"Rock music used to be a safe haven for degenerates and rebels. Until it found Jesus."
"The doors had opened at seven o'clock. The opening act had been off by eight thirty. It was now after eleven o'clock. It didn't feel like the room could get any tenser..."
People would sooner pay $10 to see four guys pretending to be Kiss than $5 to see four guys playing original songs nobody had ever heard before...
The best writing about, art, film, TV and why we like the things we do
Classical
Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?
A critic decides to find out—by stepping up to the podium himself.
A single mistake and it's over. A 10 minute audition for of the world's top orchestras
Shushing and silence and stony facea in the audience, presumably enraptured, certainly deferential, possibly catatonic…
The violin maker's universe is all about reputation...
Inside the private world of the baddest man who ever lived.
Even the name is legend. Bunny Wailer.
"Rap, whether fecund or sterile, is today's pop music's lone cutting edge, the new, the unfamiliar, the brain- resisted-while-body-boogies. And that resisted, alien, exhilarating cutting edge has always been black."
How a short burst of drumming changed the face of music
How American music legends made millions off the work of a Zulu tribesman who died a pauper.
"Hervé Halfon owns a record store on the Rue des Plantes, in Montparnasse, just a few Métro stops from the Eiffel Tower but spiritually closer to Avenue Gambela, in Congo..."
The science of a human obsession
Tales of music and the brain
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