MDM - music

I was yesterday years old, when, upon hearing Alabama Shakes' 1st hit "Hold On" over the speakers at a coffee shop, I said the band's name aloud and suddenly realized that the name was a music history pun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Shakes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Sheiks

a few thrilling seconds in the middle of this mary halvorson track where all is normal for mary and her guitar but i guess the guitar is synthesized somehow because wow ive never heard any guitar do that before

That feeling when you write a parody of popular, better-selling music in 1989, and it becomes a streaming hit in 2017, when someone flips the global switch on the streaming box so an algorithm delivers auto-play tunes that sound like better-selling, popular music.

via “Filterworld” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Chayka

There's so much in here that was news to me; that there are brass bands where the instruments are silver-plated instead of brass - so they're called silver bands; that the first three tracks on Sgt. Pepper are in the same key; that sequencing for vinyl had creative constraints that were usurped by the CD, and more... https://pca.st/episode/7210c50b-091d-4c29-b99a-adbd59ce546e

Every time our 100+ year old floors shed a foot-destroying splinter, I think about how vandals broke into Bill Monroe's house in the 80s and smashed-up two of his Lloyd Loar mandolins from the 20s with a fireplace poker. And how a genius luthier at Gibson put them back together using tweezers and a microscope.

Here's video of the day Monroe went to retrieve the miracle restoration.

I know "Murder Most Foul" was released in March as a single, but hard not to applaud the timing of the arrival of the new Dylan album last Friday, on Juneteenth, with its line "take me back to Tulsa, to the scene of the crime" and realize that as a 79-year old, he's still leaning-in with his foot on the gas in a way that's instructive for everyone else who's turned their fear into silence.