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REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11:ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF SEPT. 11, 2001WILLIAM BASINSKI: THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPSWORLD PREMIERE LIVE ORCHESTRATIONMUSIC OF SCHNITTKE, MARSHALL, & GOLIJOVTHE WORDLESS MUSIC ORCHESTRARYAN MCADAMS, CONDUCTOR A free concert on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, at The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. […]

Just in case you’re interested, we’ve asked various members of our staff to contribute a little cultural tidbit/random thought/funny link…we’re calling them “staff picks.” Here’s a list of what we’re into this week and stay tuned for bi-weekly updates. John Mark: Online, I’ve been reading Brand New, which covers the world of corporate logo re-designs

Watching old youtube clips from The Dukes of Hazzard featuring country musicians performing at The Boar’s Nest to pay off trumped up speeding tickets from Boss Hogg’s Celebrity Speedtrap. Enjoy! (Embedding has been disabled on several of these videos, unfortunately, but you can click through.) Buck Owens The Oak Ridge Boys Johnny Paycheck Tammy Wynette

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSW6BoJHxi0&w=480&h=390] Stevie Nicks gets her hair did.

Bryan Waterman (Television’s Marquee Moon) will be on WNYC’s Soundcheck on Wednesday, August 17 from appx 2:30-3:00pm EST. If you can’t tune in live, I will update this post with an archive tomorrow. here’s the link!

Ed McKay bookstore in Raleigh, NC is curating an amazing series of artist and author talks and panels September 8th, 9th, and 10th. The last of the series features Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips and our own author of the 33 1/3 on Zaireeka, Mark Richardson. But I’m going to repost the entire lineup

We are proud to announce the release of “Early ’70s Radio” by Kim Simpson. The title speaks volumes for the content and there’s a bit about the book over on Continuum’s Film and Media Studies Blog. Kim Simpson explores the different formats that emerged from both a technical and a historical perspective, definitely Required reading

I once had a professor who tried to explain the frustration around translating Russian curses (or was it Hungarian? Or Czech?) into English, saying that for a native speaker on a real tear, each curse added to the string multiplies the previous curse exponentially and lays a foundation for the next, so in effect you

For certain volumes in the series, it is not unfathomable for the author to get to meet their book’s subjects. But for artists at a certain echelon of fame…well, you just don’t expect it to happen. Here’s the story of one of those unlikely meetings from Stephen Catanzarite, author of the 33 1/3 on U2’s

Our friends at WNYC’s On The Media briefly discuss the volumes on Paul’s Boutique and It Takes A Nation of Millions and conclude that “it seems like absolutely no one likes Russell Simmons.” [The weekly staff picks on the blog are well worth checking out. Actually, everything about that show is worth checking out. Highly