It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas will close on October 18, 2010. In the 50s Liberace was on our TV, the candelabra was on the Steinway, and my family took delight… read more >>
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We Built This City On…
It is a little known fact that the ancient Nabataeans were early adaptors of new sound recording technologies. They began with cylinder discs (called columns) but found them awkward. Later, around 70 BC, they sliced the cylinders into wafer thin segments, well… read more >>
ARC Partners with Columbia University
It’s taken a while, but here’s the text of the official press release from Columbia University. Yes, were changing the face (facade) of academic study! Columbia Forges Partnership with ARChive of Contemporary Music Collection of be-bop, bluegrass, blues, country, jazz, rap, reggae,… read more >>
Record Hound of Barcelona
As you all know that Spanish visionary, A. Gaudi, loved his music. Some insists he was a serious trance + techno fan, sneaking off to rave the Balerics between concrete pours. But I’m convinced it was the fandango that fueled his modernist… read more >>