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Music of the Spheres: Redux

For the love of all things cool and artistic and musical, you must check out the SolarBeat project. The White Vinyl Design group has given a tone to each of the planets in our solar system, worked out their rate of travel, and then kicked them off on digital orbits, leaving the viewer/listener to adjust [...]

A Band of One

The first one-man band that I remember seeing, was Bert in Mary Poppins. I was immediately intrigued by the notion that you could, by utilizing all of your available appendages, create a pretty full and lively sound.
Bert has set a pretty high bar as far as one-man bands go. Check out the knee cymbals, the [...]

That’s Why They Call It The Blues

I’ve always marveled at the blues, and the power that a sad song has to transport the singer and listener from a place of pain, to a place of beauty. To share our pain is such a deeply human act that allows us to better see the connections that we have to each other, and [...]

A Short History of Stax Records

Working in a record store, we get a lot of promotional stuff; posters, pins, stickers, whoopie cushions…whatever the labels think will get people talking about their artists. We also get T-Shirts. They are generally XL (record store nerds are generally big dudes, I guess), but over the years, I’ve collected a nice little handful of [...]

Humans & Music

Watch in amazement as Bobby McFerrin taps into the inherent human understanding of music, and without a word, draws an entire audience into his world.
If your exposure to Bobby McFerrin’s music begins and ends with that one hit from the 80s, do yourself a favor and dig a little deeper. He is a compositional genius [...]

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