Jack White's Triple Decker Record
When I initially read about the Triple Decker Record <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/40051-jack-white-invents-a-new-type-of-vinyl-… Pitchfork.com</a>, I thought to myself, “Maaaaan, that’s stupid.”
Stephen Mejias
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Grinderman Day
<i>Grinderman 2</i>, by <a href="http://www.grinderman.com/">Grinderman</a> (don’t click that link), is October 2010’s “Recording of the Month,” and it’s available today. Go out and buy it, before it buys you. Bwhahahahahahahaha.
It's an Angry World
<a href="http://stereogum.com/507781/neil-young-angry-world-video-stereogum-prem…; premiered the video for Neil Young’s “Angry World” from his upcoming solo album, <i>Le Noise</i>.
Killing the Blues: John Prine at Governors Island
The two Big Eye IPAs I had enjoyed with dinner were doing the trick. I was feeling weightless even before stepping onto the ferry. Beautiful people crowded the front, holding onto railings and each other, while some sat inside the old, wooden frame. Lower Manhattan was soft, quiet, and blue, and two towers of light shot high into the night sky. Suddenly, imperceptibly, the unreal city became smaller and more distant: I hadn’t noticed that the ferry had departed. We could just as easily have been riding a magic carpet. Robert Baird and I were on our way to see John Prine at Governors Island, just a short ferry trip away from Ground Zero in Manhattan.
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Building Quality
The cover is cracked. It is time to rip it off, look directly at the inner workings, and begin to fix things for ourselves.Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
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Recording of September 2010: Jitterbug
<B>Bushman's Revenge: <I>Jitterbug</I></B><BR>
Rune Grammofon RCD 2097/RLP 3097 (LP/CD). 2010. Bushman's Revenge, prods.; Hasse Rosbach, prod., eng.; Morton Stendahl, eng. DDA/DDD. TT: 53:39<BR>
Performance *****<BR>
Sonics ****½
The HiFiMAN HM-801 portable music player:
Big is the new small
<i>Photo: HeadRoom.</i>
A Welter of Polyrhythms
On the train this morning, deep into Aaron Copland’s classic, <i>What to Listen for in Music</i>, which Art Dudley discusses in our November issue, I read a bit about rhythms and polyrhythms. Copland is giving a brief history on the use and evolution of rhythm in modern Western composition, explaining how we got from basic two-four time marches to much more complex combinations of two or more independent rhythms in varying times. This is what I read:
Affordable Integrateds (with phono!)
<i>The Cambridge Audio Topaz AM10 has a phono stage.</i>
It's ALIVE!!!
This morning we received our office copies of the October 2010 issue, which includes the latest installment of "Recommended Components."