ABBEY ROAD REUNION: KNOB-TWIDDLERS REVEAL ALL IN NEW BOOK by Tim Riley, NPR critic and Beatle author http://www.rileyrockindex.com/AbbeyRoadReunion.mp3 In November of 2006, over 30 engineers gathered for a reunion at Abbey Road studios in London, where many of them worked uncredited on Beatles sessions. The occasion was the release of RECORDING THE BEATLES, by Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan, a major new entry in Beatle scholarship emphasizing recording techniques and analog equipment. It's a story about how EMI's rigorous training paradoxically … [Read more...]

The Last Magazine (Paperback) by David Renard (Author), Steven Heller (Contributor), Jan Van Mol (Contributor), Rankin (Contributor), Robert Sacks (Contributor) (from Universe/Rizzoli) Print is dying, so our current crop means we're watching the Last Mags -- a supernova, if this were music it would be Sleater-Kinney and Blonde Redheads and Arcade Fire and Reigning Sound and Beck's The Information slamming inside the heads of today's most insistent graphic designers. Free Press: Underground and Alternative Publications, 1965-1975 by … [Read more...]

NPR's HERE AND NOW The Legacy set piece aired today. … [Read more...]

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