Daily Newsletter, September 5, 2023

Mikes Scott and the art of changing your musical direction

Need some new tunes? Well, as the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for. Summer is barely in the rearview, but the fall onslaught has already begun, with more than 430 new albums, EPs, sing…

Sadie Dupuis and her crew are BIG on sonics; they played about fifty different guitars, through over a hundred effects pedals and thirty amps at Rancho de la Luna and Sonic Ranch for Rabbit Rabbit . The band has always had a guitar focus, and the riffs have continuously been hot, but engineer Sarah

September 2023

AI can streamline the painstaking work of mixing and editing tracks. But it’s also easy to see how AI-generated music will make more money for giant streaming services at the expense of artists.

Showing a little love for the overlooked classics by prog giants Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Rush and more

Melissa E., Aaron N. and Juicy J kick off the annual fall memoir parade, David Bowie gets double-teamed, Ozzy Osbourne is celebrated a tad early, singers talk shop, the girl groups get some love an…

No number of A-listers can save a narrative with no momentum.

I truly, unironically love this 2-hour recording of music, created by a company called “Special Recordings, Inc.” that was played inside Kmart stores in 1973 (previously at Boing Boing). It current…

For his latest novel, Lars Iyer returns to his alma mater for a story about student film-makers, disaster studies, and Simone Weil