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Blues 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…
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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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September is Public Library Sign-Up Month. Seeing as how I hadn’t yet visited the brand-new Advanced Learning Library, I knew exactly what I had to do.…
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The term “open source” was coined 20 years ago this month by some software engineers who had the radical idea of allowing their code to be freely shared,…
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We need to talk about net neutrality. It’s a simple idea: Everything gets sent to your web browser at the same speed without middlemen, gatekeepers, or…
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I try not to live in the past, but when an album of music by John Coltrane is discovered and released decades after it was recorded, I’m justified in…
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Every once in a while there’s good live music on TV. The best shows are by smaller nonprofits: my favorite, Austin City Limits is on PBS, the BBC has…
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Binging seems to be the business model for television and publishing now. TV show marketing makes us gladly lose sleep to get to a season finale, and…
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Good and bad things have happened to music with the invention of headphones more than a hundred years ago. Headphones are in many ways ideal, the sonic…
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(Music: Kendrick Lamar, “Alright”, -48u_uWMHY?t=275 )This is “Alright,” from Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly. There are so many amazing…
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Wes Anderson movies are a definite thing. Take his set design: earnest, quirky, and obsessive. Every shot is a consummation of painstaking detail. The…
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Now that fake news is being reported by real news, I thought it would be good to look into how much fakery goes on in the music business. Sure, there’s…