Ten Years of "The Humorless Ladies" (Part 2)
Part 1 of my revisitation of The Humorless Ladies of Border Control, on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, is here.
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Ten Years of "The Humorless Ladies" (Part 1)
What holds up; what I'd change
The disappearance of the pop group
An excerpt from a larger article I’m working on, in which I did some crude research to try to confirm an anecdotal sense—that multi-person groups (whether as creative collaboration or performers) are thinner on the ground.
Wurlitzer of Cincinnati
The carnivalesque story of one American music company
Gee Dad, it's a Wurlitzer!
One of the minor tragedies of being a rock keyboardist is that you rarely get to, in the course of your work, play your actual instrument. That is, for all the obvious logistical reasons—they’re heavy, bulky, fragile, hard to keep in tune, hard to amplify—you’re not typically touring or performing with an acoustic piano, a Hammond organ, a Wurlitzer or Rhodes electric piano, but with digital…
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My full Congressional testimony on LiveNation/Ticketmaster
From yesterday's hearing
A quick one from Boston
…where I’m setting up with the Hold Steady for four nights at the Sinclair.
Admiring one bassline
Dottie West's "A Lesson in Leavin'"
"More like 'Copy and Paste magazine' eh?"
Who is holding the line for original music criticism, if the editors themselves aren't?