5 Online Tools to Help You Create the Perfect Mixtape
These 5 sites are perhaps also useful for compiling playlists, but there’s really no gift that can communicate pure ’90s love quite like the mixtape.
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10 Epic Collaborations Between Bands and Orchestras
We’re going through an orchestral-indie golden age right now. Here are 10 bands blurring the lines between classical, indie, hip-hop and pop to epic effect.
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What Is a Soundwalk?
A soundwalk can be a lot of things. It can require headphones as easily as it can require that you take them off and listen to your surroundings. It can be experienced on an actual walk, guiding you through a live excursion, or it can be listened to as a standalone piece in the comfort…
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How Wu-Tang, Björk and Jay Z Turn Albums into Fine Art
There is only one single copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s newest album, The Wu – Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, that has seen the light of day. The Wu-Tang Clan will auction this handcrafted album off after an international museum listening tour, and bids are already coming in exceeding $5 million. This single copy is encased in a…
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An Ethnomusicological Study of Feist’s Let It Die
Canadian singer-songwriter Feist’s monumental second album, Let It Die came out all the way back in 2004. So why am I all of a sudden offering a perspective on it? Good question. I have no idea. Long car rides often provoke more attentive re-listens, I suppose. Upon first listen, Let It Die has this deeply seductive bossa nova-style…
