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On this episode, we talked about the book "Fear of Music" by David Stubbs, which compares the public acceptance of modern art with acceptance of mo...
- Added: Sep 07, 2024
- Length: 28:31
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Taking Funny Music Seriously" by Lily E Hirsch, which explores a wide range of approaches that artis...
- Added: Aug 25, 2024
- Length: 28:27
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Dream Machines" by Matthew Collin, which details the history of electronic music in the UK from its ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2024
- Length: 28:18
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Post-Punk and Philosophy," a collection of essays that's part of a Pop Culture and Philosophy series...
- Added: Aug 10, 2024
- Length: 28:09
On this episode, we talked about the book "60 Songs that Explain the 90s," which is a companion to music writer Rob Harvilla's well-regarded podcas...
- Added: Aug 03, 2024
- Length: 28:44
On this episode, we talked about the book "Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews," a handy but very readable reference that collects n...
- Added: Jul 27, 2024
- Length: 28:30
On this episode, we talked about Ben Ratliff's book "Coltrane: Story of a Sound," one of the most thorough and engaging books for getting into the ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2024
- Length: 28:30
On this episode, we talked about "The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins," the new book of selected entries from Rollins' 50 years of personal notebooks ed...
- Added: Jul 13, 2024
- Length: 28:43
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium," which examines the early compositional career of Boulez from the...
- Added: Jul 06, 2024
- Length: 27:28
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis," a bold look at our contemporary music making and listening ha...
- Added: Jun 29, 2024
- Length: 28:30
On this episode, we talked about Hawkwind, the legendary space rock and proto-punk band, and a new book that takes readers through their voluminous...
- Added: Jun 22, 2024
- Length: 28:24
On this book, we talked about the new Simon Reynolds book "Futuromania," which looks at the notion of "the future" as it has manifested in pop musi...
- Added: Jun 16, 2024
- Length: 28:30
On this episode, we talked about "Earlier," the new memoir by music journalist and musician Sasha Frere-Jones. We listened to some of his music, too.
- Added: Jun 01, 2024
- Length: 29:26
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Lit-Rock," a collection of essays that explore the many ways that literature and pop/rock music have...
- Added: May 25, 2024
- Length: 27:28
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Living Space" by Michael E. Veal, which is a thorough and creative examination of John Coltrane's fr...
- Added: May 05, 2024
- Length: 28:27
On this episode, we talked about the book "The Musician as Philosopher," which explores several important musicians who worked in the New York City...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 28:13
On this episode, we talked about the book "Transfigured New York," which features interviews with NYC experimental musicians of the 1980s, first fe...
- Added: Apr 13, 2024
- Length: 27:36
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Rock Guitar Virtuosos," an academic book that acts as a study of old and new guitar shredders, what ...
- Added: Apr 06, 2024
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we talked about the new book "3 Shades of Blue," which discusses the careers of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans, and th...
- Added: Mar 30, 2024
- Length: 26:57
On this episode, we talked about the book "The Underground is Massive," which charts the foundation and development of Electronic Dance Music (EDM)...
- Added: Mar 23, 2024
- Length: 28:30
On this episode, we talked about the book "The Past is Always Present," which documents Orthodox chant practices among the monasteries of Mount Ath...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2024
- Length: 27:24
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about a recent book that gathers all of David Bowie's interviews with BBC television and radio into one handy and very r...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Mar 02, 2024
- Length: 27:45
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we traveled back in time to early 20th. C. Italy, where the Futurists were dropping manifestos and proposing exciting new ideas th...
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- Added: Feb 24, 2024
- Length: 28:27
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we looked at the book "Now and Forever," one of the first book-length investigations into the many ways that loops (repeated audio...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Jan 27, 2024
- Length: 27:58
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town," the first critical biography of "the world's greatest party band," wh...
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- Added: Jan 20, 2024
- Length: 27:45
- Purchases: 1
