Tag: music

  • What I saw somewhat recently #96: September 9, 2022

    The end of a dry, busy summer Three months is a long time to go, even for me, without publishing a post in this series of links. But this summer has been extraordinarily busy at work – in a way that consumed a lot of my creative and just overall energies. But of course, I’ve…

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  • Music at Lucky Hare Brewing – March 2020

    Music at Lucky Hare Brewing – March 2020 Just prior to lockdown, we were able to listen to this lovely chap play some music at Lucky Hare Brewing in upstate New York. I rescanned this 35mm negative to get a better quality version than my first scan. Shot on Kodak Ultramax 400 using the Canon…

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #68: September 10, 2020

    Don’t forget, as of this writing there are 67 other lists like this one.

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  • Steve Benjamins on Spotify

    Steve Benjamins, in a post showing how he makes some money via Spotify for streaming his music: Every Monday my music gets a spike in streams on Spotify. You could set a watch to it— it’s that consistent: What makes Monday so special? Well every Monday Spotify sends out a new Discover Weekly playlist. Discover…

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  • Chris Stapleton, Bethel Woods, New York – July 2019

    Chris Stapleton, Bethel Woods, New York – July 2019 Eliza and I had the opportunity to see Chris Stapleton at the infamous Woodstock grounds. Though not a fan of country, per se, he was amazing.

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  • The Quincy Jones interview

    Quincy Jones: What would account for the songs being less good than they used to be? The mentality of the people making the music. Producers now are ignoring all the musical principles of the previous generations. It’s a joke. That’s not the way it works: You’re supposed to use everything from the past. If you…

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  • Spotify’s Discover Weekly Playlist

    Sophia Ciocca: This Monday — just like every Monday— over 100 million Spotify users found a fresh new playlist waiting for them. It’s a custom mixtape of 30 songs they’ve never listened to before but will probably love. It’s called Discover Weekly, and it’s pretty much magic. I’ve mentioned Spotify’s playlists before. They are incredible. They are…

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  • Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic – October 2017

    Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic – October 2017 So much fun.

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  • Attending the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic: The Music of John Williams (audio)

    This past weekend Eliza and I attended an orchestral presentation by the NEPA Philharmonic that featured musical scores composed by John Williams – my favorite score composer. Forgive the audio quality, the fact that I forgot to record more than I did, and that at the end I yell "it’s all over" so fast that…

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  • Mumford & Sons concert, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017

    Mumford & Sons concert, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017

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  • The music for Stagehand

    I linked to this post in #32 but, just in case you missed it, I’m linking to it properly because I believe it deserves it. Cabel Sasser, on creating the intro song for Stagehand: There was no way I was gonna be able to put a “live” version of the song together by myself. I’m basically musically…

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  • Beethoven

    Noah Read on music: When I became a teenager this music fell by the wayside as my tastes followed those of most teenagers trying to be cool while not popular. Some of what I liked then has stood the test of time, but much of it has proven itself culturally and emotionally bankrupt. In recent…

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