Music: Sin City: Morally Bankrupt, but Musical
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âRise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,â is the most ambitious product of the collaboration between Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. It is also the hardest of their works to pull off.
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EveryoneÂs sorry about something in this glum drama about the way repentance can do more damage than the sin that precedes it.
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Record labels don't trust us with their music. They need to retune that thinking
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In the last month, two very  different West Coast live music venues have met two very  different fates.
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Steve Jobs' essay questioning the wisdom of selling DRM-wrapped tunes is still spurring lots of discussion about the future of music, and rightly so. In Listening Post.
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The success of the video game Rock Band  is drumming up revenue for the music industry.\
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Radiohead's album in Rainbows was revolutionary for its "pay what you like" availability. Now the band's plan for licensing that album continues the trend, further eroding the bond between bands and the record industry.
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Tycho:   One of the questions during a a panel at PAX had to do with the italicised line at the end of each day's post.  They're almost always song lyrics, and back before we were paying for bandwidth (and before RIAA rape gangs were prowling the web) these lines used to link directly to the MP3.  I maintained the practice afterward because it's sort of like a song of the day, and I like the idea that someone might be struck by a strange turn of phrase and seek out a piece of music.  It also serves as a gauge of my mental state at the moment.  Today's song, for example, is Stan Rodgers' incredible live version of the sea shanty "Rolling Down To Old Maui," which Pandora kicked out after about a week of tuning the station.  I've listened to it about thirty times today.    The person who asked the question at the con complimented my musical tastes, and I accepted the compliment, but I'm almost always late to the scene.  I just bought Interpol's "Turn On The Bright Lights," for chrissakes.  I'm mostly lucky to know people who do have unique library.  I told him I would mention a few of my favorite bands on the site, but then I forgot.  Essentially, it's music that cool people were listening to a decade ago (where applicable).  I am a musical carrion bird.    He wanted me to list off a few bands, and I said I would last week, but then I forgot.  These are the first ten albums I could think of.    "Starless" by Shiner
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Though the album has its moments, it's not entirely enticing.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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Joy Divisionâs songs provide a harsh sound that lives up to the lyricsâ unflinching view of the human condition.
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Recently, GuitarWorld magazine published a list of top 100 of the worst guitar solos, riffs and licks of all time. I am a big sucker for this sort of thing, so I swallowed the $7.95 price to purchase it, with a good expectation of what would be included. Just as literary scholars have a canon of great literature, the guitarist community has a canon of really awful guitar solos - including, for instance, Neil Young's infamous one-note Cinnamon Girl solo, anything by Van Halen, and anything played by Kurt Cobain. When I turned to the list, I suffered a cruel, horrible shock.
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Dispatch is a welcome reminder that the music industry isnât reducible to the rather sad spectacle of multinational corporations trying to exchange CDs for cash.
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Viewpoint: Record labels don't trust us with their music. But they need to retune that thinking, says Lev Grossman
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I've heard thousands of sermons over the years, and a ton of them were about sex and money (or substitute: lust and greed). It's as if the two issues are synonymous, and in a way, they are.
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Arts & entertainment: The ENO has put on a 1950s musical that asks how anybody could be unhappy in Baghdad. What were they thinking, asks Charlotte Higgins.
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U2's superb new album is about faith. And morality. Not to mention social justice, science and the heroic intimacy of love.