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Happy Birthday David Bowie, Thank You For The Gift
Wishing David Bowie a Happy Birthday today. Thanking him for his latest artistic contribution, a brand new single and accompanying video (Directed by Tony Oursler), “Where Are We Now?”. It was leaked...
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Five Easy Pieces – EMP Pop Conference 2013
The Experience Music Project (EMP) Pop Conference in 2013 will be a five city live streaming event. The five easy pieces for Pop Conference 2013 will take place in Seattle (Central site), New York (the...
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The Rewarding Influence of Richard Hell
Last month I wrote an extensive A-Z music journalist series. The tree of music journalism I planted continues to harvest fruit. I commenced InterWeb reading this morning with Robert Christgau’s Barnes...
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Linda McCartney Retrospective – Vienna, Austria
Linda McCartney, London © 1968 Paul McCartney / Photographer: Eric Clapton The music of our heart loves the photographic beauty captured through the lens of Linda McCartney.There is a new retrospective...
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Paul Allen and The Underthinkers, Everywhere At Once, Available Tuesday...
I was in my favorite Sunday repose watching CBS Sunday Morning, enjoying the segment “Sunday Morning” Calendar. Copyright 2013 (CBS News) I saw that music release Tuesday features the début album from...
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EMP Pop Conference 2014
We hear a lot about The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as “The” museum for music in the United States. Last week was the 2014 Induction Ceremony at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, NY. However my favorite...
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AACM 50th Anniversary Celebration
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year. The AACM is preparing for a worldwide celebration of musical presentations, installations,...
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Björk/MoMA
Björk’s MoMA Exhibition Courtesy of New Museum, New York/Benoit Pailley Björk’s exhibition at MoMA in New York City opens to the public this weekend on Sunday March 8th. My interest in music technology...
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A Conversation With George Clinton – May 12, 2015
A major event during the Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York, May 1-31, 2015 is A Conversation With George Clinton. This event, being held at the Brooklyn Museum on May 12th, 2015. It requires a...
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Mark Mothersbaugh + Adam Lerner in NYC
I have to hand it to the Strand Bookstore. They get the best music author signings and talks. Are you in NYC this Thursday March 19th? Then you should come join Mark Mothersbaugh and Adam Lerner as...
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Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival
I have focused more of late on folk music and New York City. I met with a lack of well researched Web information, which served as a frustration. As it turns out my resource needs were recently...
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National Blues Museum – St. Louis, Missouri
I am thankful for the CBS Sunday Morning television show. It constantly increases my awareness of the performance arts and other subjects. This morning I learned about my new music pilgrimage stop, The...
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SF Music Hall of Fame
There are various locales that represent important music genres in the United States. I’ve been fortunate to visit New York City (infamous for Jazz), Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Beale...
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Where is our Love Song?
I received an email this morning. It contained an invitation from Congressman John Lewis via the White House. I was invited to virtually attend the opening ceremony of the National Museum of African...
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Louder Than Words: Rock, Power and Politics – Newseum
Some members of the general public don’t believe musicians have the right to protest. They just want them to play the music and shut up about politics. Yet any fan can protest should they so choose....
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Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia
BAMPFA, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, is the visual arts center of the University of California, Berkeley. This exhibition is part of San Francisco’s 50th Anniversary of the...
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It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection
A couple of weeks ago we attended the “It’s Alive” exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. There are 100+ items on display curated from Kirk Hammett of Metallica’s private...
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Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains Book
This Pink Floyd book is the closest I will get to the Pink Floyd Museum Exhibit. I am hoping that New York City will be the next museum tour stop. The curator hasn’t announced where in the world this...
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Mickey Hart Presents Musica Universalis
Legendary Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is performing in a unique program at the American Museum of Natural History on Friday April 13th/Saturday April 14th in New York City. The evening begins...
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OKPOP – Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture
Pop culture is global, national, and regional. Our favorite pop culture museum is MoPOP (Museum of Pop Culture) in Seattle, Washington. It started as the Experience Music Project then it grew a second...
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