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Anetode / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licenseBlues guitarist Robert Johnson is said to have gotten his musical talent by selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads close to the famous Dockery… -
A fire destroyed an obscure factory in California a few weeks ago. Apollo Masters Corporation ran one of only two plants in the world that supplied…
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I’m seeing all kinds of good concerts coming to Wichita this summer. And the lineup is surprisingly free of washed-up acts trying to squeeze the last… -
Weddings are just about the only events where it is still traditional to hire a band. Sure, you can get by with a DJ or even a digital playlist, but live… -
I’ve been talking lately about good film music, but what about films about music? I imagine it’s difficult to do - what can a movie say about music that… -
The recent tragic fire at Notre Dame got me thinking about that building, and others like it. Music history is tied to a thousand years of cathedrals… -
A lot of movies use music as sonic wallpaper - just background sound to fill silence and fit the genre - but bold, memorable films tend to have equally… -
There’s a lot happening in the movie biz: Disney just bought 21st Century Fox and will be launching their own streaming service later this year. More… -
A lot of the music you hear comes from production music libraries. These are collections of sound cues that are licensed for use in media. It’s like using… -
Video podcasts are just like the audio podcasts I talked about a few weeks ago, but with the added video dimension. This is a broad category, and I don’t… -
Most of my listening time is now devoted to music podcasts. They fit the way I live; I like the format - most podcasts are almost as ad-free as what… -
The late Amy Winehouse will be going on tour this year. More accurately, a company called Base Hologram has created a digital 3-D representation of the…
