A fresh post (the overseas kind) has brought the latest issue of the Japanese edition of WaxPoetics and a reprint of a story they saw on one of our posts (the blog kind). I added some images to Dan Neely’s original story… read more >>
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I Can Haz Lolz?
From the ARChive’s “Animals In Pants” section: I am one of those people who is endlessly amused by the Stuff On My Cat / Stuff On My Mutt / I Can Has Cheezburger / I Has A Hot Dog / etc sites. … read more >>
Songs About Obama
So, ’bout a month and a half ago someone points me to the Svarten blog, a site run from Uppsala, Sweden, that in one post provides what they describe as “the most comprehensive playlist on the internet with songs for Barack Obama.”… read more >>
The NY Black Sabbath Covers Project
One day as I was developing the New York Music Index and Archive (the project I mentioned in last week’s “Metallica” post where we’re cataloging and making freely available information about all aspects of the music industry in New York State), I… read more >>
The New Metallica
So, it’s almost here. Death Magnetic. The new Metallica record. And part of it’s been leaked onto YouTube. I don’t know about you, but I’m LOVING most of what I heard–it’s like the Metallica of old in a lot of ways. (Thanks… read more >>
Tha Syncopaytah!
On Monday I went to see Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks play the finest in early jazz, and as I was describing it to Jon yesterday I was reminded that one day, while working on this crazy little thing we like to… read more >>
Paddy Canny
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBONRwNY77c] Paddy Canny 1919-2008 Because his playing was so identified with the “east Clare” style, Canny’s passing is an important moment in Irish traditional music. He was born in 1919 into a musical family (his father was a fiddle player) and had… read more >>
Tuesday Wrap-Up
1. Dear Wes Anderson, Why haven’t you hired the McMahon family to score one of your films? Behold Michael McMahon’s Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co’s MySpace, where you can listen to their humorous little ditty “I Hate You.” (Michael is pictured… read more >>
The Oldest Playable Phonautogram. Ever.
The New York Times has a new article about the newly recovered, mid-nineteenth century recordings of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian “tinkerer” who invented a recording device called the Phonautogram YEARS before Edison (that bad bastard) ever even thought about… read more >>
The 45 Adaptor
Few inventions are as useful or as elegantly simple as the “centering device for phonographic records” or put more plainly, the 45 adaptor. We have upwards of 200,000 45s here at the ARChive, and since people often just left them in their… read more >>
Reason 5446 Why I Love Jamaica
Calling All Vipers? Yeah…for a “listening party.” The “records” (*wink* *wink*)just arrived. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=PLXMkdAXDZw] So maybe it’s not the best Jamaican smuggling scheme I’ve ever heard (my favorite involved a calypso band and a banjo), but its a damn good one. And it… read more >>
Bell Biv DeVoe
While riding the 7 train into work today, I found a pair of business cards wedged into the plastic liner above the doors. You know the spot – it’s where you’d usually see fliers telling you either how to lose/gain 30 lbs… read more >>
Global Reggae
Got back yesterday from spending a week in Kingston, Jamaica at the aptly named “Global Reggae Conference” held at the University of the West Indies, Mona. There, I presented a paper about mento music’s role in the 1968 Festival Song Competition on… read more >>
Are They So Very Different Today?
Hipsters, I mean. No, Columbia wasn’t the hippest label in the 1950s, but the cover of their Columbia House Party LP did nothing to hurt them. Covered with hipsters hanging around with portable pets, drinking martinis, smoking who knows what and carrying… read more >>
The Irish Session of the Future!
We have lots of Irish music here at the ARChive (the entire Green Linnet catalog, for example), but I don’t think we’ve got anything like this. Here is a video of someone playing a very convincing set of jigs on a game… read more >>
Old Dirty.
On this date in 2004, the world lost Ol’ Dirty Bastard, a.k.a. O.D.B., a.k.a. Dirt McGirt. I had a brush with O.D.B. once. It was an afternoon in the late 1990s and I was sitting in front of the Knitting Factory on… read more >>
Doing The Good Day
B. came back from Europe yesterday with all sorts of exciting stories and a stack of great records. One record that caught my eye was this 45 with an instructional picture sleeve about how to do a dance called the “Casatschok”: As… read more >>
Pop and Lock
The ARChive is a deep and wonderful place. As I was sorting through the children’s section for the records I wrote about yesterday, I came across these two gems, both from 1984 and I just had to share. First, we have Break… read more >>
Hey You Guy-ys!
Sure, we all watched the Electric Company at one point or another. Chock full of famous actors (Bill Cosby, Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman were regulars while folks like Gene Wilder, Victor Borge, Mel Brooks and Joan Rivers all popped in now… read more >>
The Message: Run-Off Grooves and Pop Music Consciousness
In the manufacture of phonograph records, there are a number of blank or “musicless” grooves at the end of each record. These are put there for several reasons, among them the inability of the operator of the recording machine to raise… read more >>