Haven't jotted down the firehose of details I'm still catching listening through the EMI Beatle remasters, but I enjoyed this podcast with Nik Cohn, who was always more of a Stoner, and poses the most reasonable push-back... … [Read more...]
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HEARING UNHEARD NUANCES
"The Beatles remasters have finally hit the street and all across the world, music fans are gorging themselves on the most fabled and revered repertoire in pop music history. This may well prove to be the last hurrah of the CD age and certainly the marketing gurus at Capital have been working … [Read more...]
NOTES FROM ALL OVER
[cover: Chip Kidd, 1988] Of the scores of Beatles books I've skimmed over the years, Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song, the Sixties and After , by Tim Riley, is one of the few I've taken the time to read because of its depth, insight and readability. Written when the author was … [Read more...]
RESEGREGATING THE CHARTS
"The Beatles hit white America like the biggest thing to happen maybe ever, and they hardly hit black America at all..." Elijah Wald in TIME, talking about How The Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Oxford). Erik Himmelsbach, LA Times Michealangelo Matos, AV Club … [Read more...]
GTR W/PIANO?
...Using sound-wave analysis based on the 1820s work of French scientist Joseph Fourier, Dalhousie University's Jason Brown deconstructed the opening chord with the help of basic audio-editing software. Brown found that it isn't purely guitar and bass, as previously assumed; he theorizes that … [Read more...]
LONG, LONG, LONG
Print wimps gather to celebrate 40th anniversary of the Beatles' White Album symposium, at Skidmore College, hosted by Gordon Thompson, author of Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out (Oxford). Panel: Allan Kozinn, New York Times critic and author of The Beatles; Walter Everett, … [Read more...]
ROCKCRITICS.COM
The oral rendition of the selected bibliography, in conversation with Scott Woods (mp3). … [Read more...]
Long Long Long
Chicago Reader has upgraded its archives, and voila. … [Read more...]
Fall Lectures
Brown University: three lectures SGT PEPPER (9/16, 4pm, see poster below) FEVER: HOW ROCK TRANSFORMED GENDER (10/30) MUSIC CRITICISM (12/2) Host: Professor Rose Rosengard Subotnik (401) 863-3234 Society for Music Theory November 7 & 8, 2008, Nashville, TN Plenary Session: The Pop Music Catalog Host: … [Read more...]
Schiff’s Schubert at the Wigmore
For tragic albeit fortuitous reasons I find myself in London teaching a Beatle class, put up and well-paid only homesick for my family beyond words. For solace I seek out culture, and last week I caught Andras Schiff playing Schubert at the Wigmore Hall. (The link goes to the Guardian excellent … [Read more...]
RINGO AT THE FLOWER SHOW
Contemporary Britain is still so much more a literate culture than America that the GUARDIAN gives away paperback books in its Sunday Observer (whereas the Mail gives away pop CDs). And this past Sunday's special Music section included a feature article on My Bloody Valentine by... Sean O'Hagan, who … [Read more...]
The Monkees: Pomo Arrivistes…
Another TOP TEN POMO list by Jason Gross of Perfect Sound Forever: 1. Bugs Bunny "Rabbit Rampage" (Warner Bros, June 11, 1955) One of Chuck Jones's many classic cartoons with that rascally wabbit,this is also the baby of one of his long-time partners, MichaelMaltese. Here, Maltese's background as … [Read more...]
Movement You Need Is On Your Shoulder
--includes my "Hey Jude" essay from Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary. … [Read more...]
Astrid Kirchherr Photos
This book finally compiles many of the images put out by Genesis in the 1990s, with candids from Harrison and Starr's apartment during the shooting of Hard Day's Night, the HDN set with Richard Lester and Pattie Boyd, and a fascinating trip to Liverpool where the Cavern is overrun by beat-bands such … [Read more...]
Ringo as rock’s Sonny Greer [Gould part 2]
Dear Tim, ...Somewhat incredibly, I haven't read Magic Circles; it must have come out right around the time I finally stopped reading and researching and staying current on all things Beatle in order to focus all of my addled attention on finally finishing my book. But now, of course, I'm curious, … [Read more...]