Critical Theories in Education
I used to post much more often about music here at WTBHNN, but I thought I would at least continue the tradition of my yearly favorites list. See my annual reviews dating back to 1998 here. Before I get to the list, some observations about purchasing, streaming, and sharing music. For many years I purchased […]
I recently posted some comments on my year in music with a listing of top ten favorites (both new music and reissues/covers/live) cds released in 2009. For years I’ve been making mix tapes of favorite tunes from my favorite albums of the year, here is my playlist of new music favorites from 2009: E. Wayne’s […]
I used to post about music much more often to WTBHNN, don’t really know why I haven’t done so lately, but thought I write up a my thoughts about what I spent my time listening to in 2009. I continued the 2008 trend of listening to internet radio, particularly SOMA FM‘s Groove Salad (almost nightly), […]
From Rock & Rap Confidential: JUST EXACTLY WHY DO WE NEED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY?… Fred Wilhelms writes: I have a good friend, Jon Newton, who for the past couple years, has graciously provided me, through his website p2pnet.net a place to stand and swing at the evils of the music business. Jon has teamed up […]
This piece pretty much sums it up: From The Consumerist: How I Became A Music Pirate
Gilberto Gil is best known as a founder, with Caetano Veloso, of the art/political movement known as Tropicalismo, which developed in the late 1960s and encompassed theatre, poetry and music, among other forms. Now, Gil is a cabinet minister in Lula’s government in Brazil and in that role is integrating the “share, reuse, remix” approach […]
Here’s my yearly list of the best albums I’ve found this year. It would be more accurate to call this my a list of my favorites, I don’t really claim these are the “best”, rather these are the albums/tracks that I played the most throughout the year. [If you’re into Top Ten+ lists, Metacritic.com has […]
Here’s a very cool version of Reebee Garofalo‘s “Geneology of Pop Music Chart, which was originally published in 1977 as part of Steve Chapple and Garofalo’s book Rock and Roll is Here to Pay (an analysis of why and how rock’n’roll developed within the context of U.S. capitalism). Covering the time period from 1955 to […]
Here’s a review from the CUNY Graduate Center Advocate of three CD reissues for all you commies out there looking for 70s agit-prop— PLP style! The Progressive Labor Party Takes the Agit-Prop Challenge Review of 3 Albums of the Progressive Labor Party: Power to the Working Class / A World to Win / Songs of […]
In celebration of the the fiftieth year of the British pop album chart, The Observer struck a panel of “experts” (ames Bennett, Kitty Empire, Dave Gelly, Lynsey Hanley, Sean O’Hagan, Elle J Small, Neil Spence) to pick the 50 albums that changed music. Here’s the Top 10 of The Observer‘s list along with their reasoning […]