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For that hour, Star Theater sounded like the world’s last violent gasps were imminent. Impressively, their sound system ...
Historians have uncovered what could be some of the earliest musical notation in Western history. The ninth-century manuscript was found in a private collection in Pennsylvania and contains ...
The Denver doom lords are preparing to release a double LP, Observance, on Halloween via Relapse Records, and the latest death-sludge tome is unlike anything the trio’s done in the past thirteen years ...
It’s been five years since we last had a new Primitive Man release, but that’s all going to change next month, as the doomy sludge metal outfit announced their forthcoming record Observance will drop ...
Seven years ago, a squat, powerful Negro girl named Pearl Primus, who had just graduated in biology from Manhattan’s Hunter College, was ringing doorbells in search of a laboratory job. She did not ...
MR. WALLASCHEK has not only compiled with laborious care what appears to be an exhaustive account of the music of so-called savage races, but has based upon the foundations thus laid an able and ...
A guitar Dave Boyer bought for just 150 bucks took him around the world. A vintage, Swedish-made electric guitar called a Hagstrom Swede. Boyer picked up the Hagstrom around the time his band The ...
Since emerging with his home-recorded, psych-folk tinged debut, Constant Hitmaker, in 2008, Kurt Vile has steadily evolved across genres, ripping into druggy garage punk on 2009's Childish Prodigy and ...
THE death of Prof. Erich von Hornbostel at Cambridge on November 28 is a great loss to the small body of students of comparative music. He was born in Vienna fifty-eight years ago. After specialising ...
Native music in out-of-the-way parts of the world is fast disappearing. Thousands of songs and drum rhythms handed down through generations of woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court ...