Music

  • Mourning Into Dancing

    Weekend Music I've been thinking I might stop doing this, as I'm so busy these days that I rarely even listen to music. But I happened to run across both these today, by totally unrelated paths, and the juxtaposition was so striking that I'm passing it along. The first was a post by godescalc at There

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  • Weekend Music A conversation on Facebook a few days ago reminded me of the sole and self-titled album by former King Crimson members Ian Macdonald and Michael Giles, released in 1970. I am one of the few people who bought it, even though I had not been a King Crimson fan. Now I can’t remember

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  • Still Listening to Vinyl

    I've been meaning to comment on this CNN story about the continued surprising life of the vinyl LP, though I'm not sure many people who read this blog are interested. It is an interesting phenomenon. I still have hundreds of LPs and still listen to them, though not that often, and currently not at all: my turntable

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