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I’ve got two very nice items to share with you today: The first is a fantastic review of Richard Henderson’s volume on Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle from Crawdaddy. “Henderson’s impeccably researched volume tells the story of a young vagabond landing in Los Angeles and falling in with an elite circuit of musicians and intellectuals. […]

From way back in 2005, here are some nice pocket histories of five short but ubiquitous songs, if you could call them that, in the words of their composers (Apple start up chord, THX sound, Microsoft sound, etc.) “He had developed what is now called the THX sound system. It was to premiere with Lucasfilm’s

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/26570444 w=400&h=300] Sesame Street breaks it down from Wonderful Creative.

Brian Eno’s Another Green World by Geeta Dayal was selected by Flavorwire as one of “10 Great Books about Music by Female Writers” Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love by Carl Wilson (“Erudite and eye-opening”) and John Darnielle’s volume on Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality were both reviewed as part of Pitchfork’s “Our 60 Favorite

One of my all-time favourite Onion stories, from June 2001… “[Metzler] works at the coolest record store in Athens, and she’s totally up on all the latest stuff,” said Ryan Griggs, 48, a television repairman from Salem, OR. “You have no idea how many people go in there every day and buy some obscure Go-Betweens

Maurice (Pre-Slint) Demos Now Available If you’ve read my book on Spiderland, you know that one of my main arguments in the opening chapter is that the significance of Squirrel Bait in the pre-Slint soup is somewhat overstated, considering David Grubbs wrote the majority of that band’s music and lyrics and that Brian McMahan and

A little reminder that Tony Tost will be talking about his 33 1/3 on Johnny Cash’s American Recordings at Ravenna Third Place in Seattle TONIGHT, July 7th at 7pm. [Mnemonic: 7/7 at 7.] You can read an excerpt from Tony’s book in the Arkansas Times here. It’s also worth pointing out that the Cash book,

News on Tony Tost’s excellent book about American Recordings… First up, if you’re in and around Seattle, please do stop by Ravenna Third Place Books this Thursday (July 7th) to hear Tony reading from and discussing his book – it kicks off at 7pm. Further details can be found here. You can also read reviews

Images from Tuesday’s event at Word Brooklyn…

Thanks to Greco at pigeonsbutterfliesandairplanes, we have video evidence of last night’s event at Word Brooklyn.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fztgq4hPS8g&w=500&h=349]