Archive for the ‘music blogs’ Category

Again with the other blogs
April 28, 2009Specifically this Inconstant Sol post, atwhere you may download a live set from 1982 of an Arthur Blythe band with Bob Stewart on Tuba and Kelvyn Bell on guitar.

Thank you, Inconstant Sol
June 3, 2008I’ve been trying to reunite myself with this record, Bush Baby by Arthur Blythe, for a long time.

Blogbert Blogowicz
February 28, 2008
Bloggity bloggity
December 24, 2007Mutant Sounds, which I found out about because it won an award, which I found out about because it was geblogkt by Avant Music News. I live in constant fear of the day that you guys (both of you) start reading Avant Music News for yourselves. Until then, he’s got a few best-of-aught-seven lists here and here. But seriously, it’s like Eurypterids never even existed over there.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) memorial linkfest
December 8, 2007Obits: NYT, BBC, WaPo, Bloomberg
Informative bloggery: Marginal Revolution, Damin Lanigan (the Telegraph), The Rest Is Noise,

Blogs against cultural oblivion, in a loungy-islandy-brasilly kinda way.
November 12, 2007It’s coming out of your speaker. Lots of Lee “Scratch” Perry on top at press time.

Linkfest re: the volume wars
November 10, 2007Avant Music News has blogged a post from Bob Drake to a prog listserv with a bunch of links to articles and videos about the disappearance of dynamic range from commercial recordings. You can read that post, but my quote of his quote of Drake’s email has hyperlinks:
The Loudness War. Very good YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQIEEE article on the loudness war:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aug07/5429Over The Limit: excellent, classic article about the volume war:
http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/files/8A133F52D0FD71AB86256C2E005DAF1CShort Term Gain/Long Term Pain:
http://gboers.xs4all.nl/daisy/home/g3/139/loudnesswar.htmlDeath of Dynamic Range:
http://www.mindspring.com/~mrichter/dynamics/dynamics.htmI Want to Break Free of the Volume War. Another good Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkkqsN69JacHere is my own little example:
http://www.bdrak.com/other/mastering/examples.htm