Making Popular Music: Musician, Aesthetics and the Manufacture of Popular Music
calicodaisy (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Music. My life is filled with musical memories. My mother's silly songs when I was young, radio, records, dancing, television shows and jingles, the 80s!, church, playing the piano, musicals, lullabies to my children, choir. I'm pretty great at "name that year" games and trivia when contemporary songs are included in the clues. Name a song, and I can remember where I...
WebMink (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's a round-up of the music I've been recommending this week on Twitter. For Everyone UltraChorus: 3Hive has links to two rather good free tracks of throbby "bubblegum pop", worth looking. **** For US Readers Amazon US downloads are restricted to verified US account-holders Excellent sampler from Brushfire Records starts with a deliciously slouchy Jack Johnson track and goes on...
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Many women's names come to mind when we think of pop music. Today, many new faces are showing up on the pop music scene, many of whom are women under the age of 30. Who are some of these top women artists?
Touching Base (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
For their proposal of the Taipei pop music center, rather than design a building, ICE wanted to develop a platform for spontaneous activities: a street, a park, a network of pedestrian circulation, all embedded within an architectural framework.
rssblogstory.com Music (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Dizzee Rascal said he now "gets" pop music. The rapper said after his first three albums he finally understood how to make pop records with
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Filed under: Music Appreciation Despite his reputation as the "bad boy" in the Backstreet Boys -- or, perhaps, because of it -- it's not hard to imagine that AJ McLean doesn't actually listen to bubblegum pop music himself. At least not exclusively. Indeed, he confesses to Spinner that, off the clock, he's more of a rock guy and considers himself "a huge Green Day fan."...
rssblogstory.com Music (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Vampire Weekend hits some local clubs as a warm-up for a bigger tour.
Green Options (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Taipei Pop Music Center has opened up an amazing architecture design competition for it’s new building. Nabito Architects has drafted and shared their vision of the new Taipei Pop Music Center composed of a “ photovoltaic screen and a wall of LED panels ” The screen of the Pop Music Center may: have a LED media wall reporting news, weather, event info and ads....
rssblogstory.com Music (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
KU students will have the opportunity to take new course in the university’s Professional Writing department this spring. Pop Music Journalism taught by KU English
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
With the success of Arctic Monkeys, The Cribs et al, a history of Yorkshire pop music is an appealing enough proposition - but this is too cursory and superficial.
MuuMuse (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Skip ahead to 2:55…that’s all you need to hear. Or for the lazy, allow me to assist. On “Party in the USA”: “I don’t know, I didn’t write the song, so I have no idea. Honestly, I picked that song because I needed something to go with my clothing line. I didn’t write it. I’ve never heard a Jay-Z song. I don’t listen to pop music, and it’s not even my style of music, that song.” Literally...
PopWreckoning (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Canadian twins Tegan and Sara have been making innovative power-pop music for ten plus years, and they’ve been doing so on their own terms: navigating the challenges of the music business and following their fearless hearts with grace and conviction. The following interview marks a personal milestone for me in my fledgling career as a [...]
rssblogstory.com Music (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Dizzee Rascal said he now ''gets'' pop music and felt brave enough to embrace it for his new album.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Dizzee Rascal said he now "gets" pop music. The rapper said after his first three albums he finally understood how to make pop records with his latest, 'Tongue...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital announced that Latin music superstar Luis Fonsi will serve as an official celebrity ambassador for the 6th Annual Thanks and Giving campaign supporting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The Latin pop music superstar, nominated for two Latin GRAMMY awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, will...
