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Johnny Cash, Singer Known as 'The Man in Black,' Dies at 71 |
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| Topic: Music |
6:40 am EDT, Sep 12, 2003 |
Johnny Cash, the legendary Man in Black whose gravelly bass-baritone was the vocal bedrock of American country music for more than four decades, died early this morning at a hospital in Nashville. He was 71. It is a sad day in Nashville, and for fans of great music everywhere. Johnny Cash, Singer Known as 'The Man in Black,' Dies at 71 |
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| Topic: Music |
11:45 pm EDT, Aug 28, 2003 |
On sale now. Available for $10 at buymusic.com and the iTunes store. Includes Gotan Project Remix of Sarah Vaughan's "Whatever Lola Wants". Streaming online audio works, but seems to require Internet Explorer. Verve Remixed 2 |
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NYT Readers' Questions for Liz Phair |
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| Topic: Music |
11:11 am EDT, Jul 19, 2003 |
The singer and songwriter has released her first album in five years. Submit your questions about her songs and her life. The New York Times will be interviewing Liz Phair for an upcoming article. NYT Readers' Questions for Liz Phair |
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All Your Singles Are Hits To Us |
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| Topic: Music |
12:17 pm EST, Mar 16, 2003 |
Polyphonic HMI has developed Hit Song Science, an artificial intelligence application that helps music labels determine the hit potential of music prior to its release. The new application is to music what x-rays are to medicine, allowing labels to see mathematical patterns and structures in music that until now have been hidden. ... Polyphonic also has begun to experiment with the technology at the production level of music creation. There are two possible futures here, and neither is particularly bright for traditional artists and their fans. 1) However impossible it may have seemed before, "pop" music takes a still further dive into homogeneity. Frustated by the turn of events, smart mobs of teens with angst deliberately seek out the rejects, and the new genre of "unpop" is born. It all begins with dumpster diving for discarded hard drives in the alleys behind recording studios. 2) This software is truly as amazing as the hype suggests. In the future, your embedded biocomputer will let you "sample" new music, instantaneously filling you with the emotional impact of an hour's worth of listening to the album. If you like the feeling, you'll buy the album. Shortly thereafter, people will cut the audio out of the loop entirely; instead, already overstimulated teens will flock to Tower Records to pick up the new "essence of post-Britney." Think of it as a kind of digitally encoded musical perfume. Recording studios rapidly evolve into urban laboratories for neurochemistry and bioinformatics. Eye candy and gangstas are replaced as pop stars by thirty-something MD-PhDs who seem more interested in patenting their instruments than copyrighting their music. All Your Singles Are Hits To Us |
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Natalie Merchant, No Strings Attached |
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| Topic: Music |
1:56 am EST, Mar 14, 2003 |
Natalie Merchant has stepped off the pop treadmill. After 17 years with Elektra Records, first as the main songwriter and singer of 10,000 Maniacs and then with million-selling solo albums of her reflective folk-rock, Ms. Merchant decided to go it alone. Fans of Natalie Merchant will be interested in this as news, but it's also a revealing commentary on the (dysfunctional) state of the music industry. Mainstream record labels have become pure profit/loss centers specializing in the trafficking of glossy liner notes, accompanied by compact discs which, oh, by the way, just happen to contain some music, if by chance you like that sort of thing. Natalie Merchant, No Strings Attached |
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| Topic: Music |
4:57 pm EST, Dec 25, 2002 |
Soundmosaic constructs an approximation of one sound out of small pieces of other sounds. The soundmosaic algorithm is: Split the target file up into equal-sized segments, or "tiles". For each tile in the target file, find the closest match in the source files, and replace the target tile with the tile from the source files. soundmosaic |
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AOL Reaches to Create Its Own Big Music Scene on the Internet |
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| Topic: Music |
4:18 pm EDT, Sep 2, 2002 |
Instead of appearing on radio stations or MTV, they are taping a segment for Sessions@AOL, a series of short video programs that users of America Online can watch on their computers. With radio controlled by a few chains and MTV playing videos less and less, the vanguard of music promotion has rapidly moved to the Internet. And AOL's music channel has become the biggest force in online music promotion. "You can't skip steps. First we have to become really relevant to how people find and discover music. Then we will have the building blocks to profit from it." "At best, subscription services appeal to a minority of the population. We should be focused on the majority of the population." AOL Reaches to Create Its Own Big Music Scene on the Internet |
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The Dixie Chicks Keep the Heat on Nashville |
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| Topic: Music |
8:49 am EDT, Aug 25, 2002 |
In the early 1990's, the Dixie Chicks were a cowgirl revival troupe playing for tips on the Texas dance hall circuit. By the end of the decade, they were Nashville, and pop, superstars. "Home," the album they'll release on Tuesday on their new Open Wide Records label, an imprint of Sony Music, is likely to shake up and challenge the Nashville establishment: tracks too long for radio airplay, no drums, and lyrical jabs at commercial radio. ... But country stations can't afford to ignore them. The Dixie Chicks Keep the Heat on Nashville |
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'Virus of the Mind', by Heather Nova |
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| Topic: Music |
8:37 pm EDT, Jul 15, 2002 |
Well I was watching this talk show the other day
And on it there was this guy
And he was saying "When you let other people tell you what's right
when you leave your instinct and your own truth behind
that's a virus of the mind,
that's a virus of the mind" ... It's in the deep of your soul, it's on the tip of your tongue
It's the feeling you get, when you feel young
It's in the sound of a beat, it's in the base of your spine ... I'm pretty happy, living in my
My own sweet time, living in my
I'm pretty happy, and I don't need your
Virus of the mind
Your virus of the mind "This guy" was Richard Brodie, author of the book, _Virus of the Mind_, which is all about memetics. "This talk show" was The Oprah Winfrey Show. Nova sort of co-opts the concept for her song, but it retains a kernel of the basic truth about memes. 'Virus of the Mind', by Heather Nova |
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