Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Music / Post No Bills Trawling the Net
Posted by Peter Margasak on Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 7:06 PM
Some worthwhile stuff floating around the good old Interweb . . .
- Destination: Out: MP3s of classic free jazz cuts with some passionate commentary. It’s a good spot for newbies; recent offerings include Lester Bowie, Sun Ra, and Cecil Taylor.
- Greenleaf Music: The site for trumpeter Dave Douglas’ Greenleaf label also has an interesting blog. Douglas is not only an incredible musician, but a deep thinker, and of late he’s been discussing the need for a thorough, unbiased history of serious contemporary music: “The history that needs to be told includes all sorts of music from all sorts of traditions: contemporary classical, music from non-U.S. of A. parts of the world, electric music, pop, blues, country, pure improvisation and purely imaginary traditions.”
- Oral History of Scratch Acid: Joe Gross, a writer for the Austin American-Statesman, put together this piece on Scratch Acid, which is reuniting for the upcoming Touch and Go 25th Anniversary event.
- PostClassic: Contemporary-classical writer Kyle Gann offers some thoughts on the recent death of composer James Tenney.
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Destination Out singlehandedly brought the net's coverage of free jazz up about 10 notches. I wrote about their site on Songs:Illinois a couple weeks ago. If you like Post No Bills (and I do) then you'll Like Carl Wilson's critical music blog Zoilus (just google that sucker!) For Swedish indie pop Swedeplease is the place to be. For real country music Big Rock Candy Mountain (from chicago too...yeah!) is essential. For amazing early R&B it's Spread The Good Word (with Rev. Frost).
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