Spotify: Access Without Objects
Bjork’s ‘Stunning’ Retro-Tech ‘Crystalline’
A Spell Deferred
Let’s say you have a daughter named Adele, and she is one of the most celebrated young singers in the world. Reporters ask you about her musical education, and you tell them that you raised her right, exposing her early to the work of four musicians: Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Nina Simone. READ MORE >>
How Could We Forget Ginger Rogers?
La Vie en Punk
His Name Was Albert Ayler
Hendricks and Ross: Doodlin' Again
Good-Bye to the Big Man
The Largeness of Sonny Rollins
The web, in the way it favors the short form, tends to disserve artists who work on a large scale, such as the jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, whose epic improvisations involve the sustained development of complex ideas over time. A master of the big statement, Rollins is not called the jazz colossus for nothing. READ MORE >>
The Famous Door: Blake Shelton's Cowardly Ass
“I ain’t trying to start no fight, but I’ll finish one every time”—so crows the country star Blake Shelton in the song that won the first-ever prize for Best Web Video at the CMT Music Awards, broadcast from Nashville this Wednesday evening. Shelton is a coward, and I’m saying that not to pick a fight with him, but to defend country music fans from his award-winning song’s assault on their freedom of individual expression. READ MORE >>
