Maybe a new beginning for clubs everywhere. Listening rooms. Maybe in your house? “Our place is centered around the artists, and we do ask people to keep their talking down so that the performers can come across to everyone.” —From one of Exit/In’s first advertisements in The Tennessean Within its first year, Exit/In quickly stoodContinue Reading
The Rolling Stones Cruise on Eighth Street | The Village Voice
“The Stones Cruise on Eighth Street” July 23, 1980 I was talking to a friend of mine one night a couple of years ago, after ten thousand varyingly voluntary rehearings of Some Girls had convinced us it wasn’t so bad after all, that in fact we really actually liked it: “Do you think the StonesContinue Reading
‘Rockers and spies’ – how the CIA used culture to shred the iron curtain | US news | The Guardian
Now, it turns out, that sparkler-swaying anthem may have been contrived by US intelligence as cultural subversion of communism. An upcoming podcast series, Wind of Change, by the New Yorker’s Pat Radden Keefe, investigates whether it was – as the journalist was told a decade ago – actually a CIA-crafted confection. The producers can beContinue Reading
Former Music Exec Describes The Scary Meeting That Resulted In Today’s Violent Rap Music
Where did all the good music go? Here’s one answer and it makes sense considering what we have had to endure. Quickly after the meeting began, one of my industry colleagues (who shall remain nameless like everyone else) thanked us for attending. He then gave the floor to a man who only introduced himself byContinue Reading
The Vinyl? It’s Pricey. The Sound? Otherworldly. – The New York Times
Hutchison defends such efforts as part of the label’s devotion to authenticity. But it comes at a cost. Its manufacturing methods, and the quality-control attention paid to each record, bring no economies of scale. So Electric Recording would gain no reduction in expenses if it made more, thus negating the question Hutchison is most frequentlyContinue Reading
