Music biz insider, new music booster, and first-time author Courtney E. Smith is generating a pretty deafening level of buzz (turn it up, mannnnnnnn) with her new book, Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner More...
Rock critic par excellence Paul Trynka wowed serious students of rock history with his magnum opus on punk wildman Iggy Pop, Open Up and Bleed, in 2007. Now, he has gone after the great white More...
There will be much duckwalking and air drumming in the halls of academia tonight! For the serious student of music history and popular culture, primary source writing on rock?n?roll music is available but not exactly More...
In April?s column on setting up an online Music Advisory (MA) service in our library (LJ 4/1/11, p. 66), I left things in a bit of a cliffhanger. Would anyone actually take advantage of this More...
Experimental electronic duo Yip Yip plays in the Teen Department of Jacksonville Public's Main Library. Photo by Max Michaels, 2005 My favorite part of Tim Irwin?s 2005 documentary, We Jam Econo?a history of the fiercely More...
If you thought 2010 was a good year for music, then, baby, you?re going to love 2011. To the relief of major label record execs stressing over their bottom line, heavy hitters like Lil? Wayne, More...
LJ music columnist Matthew Moyer picks the most definitive albums of 2010, among them a classic Bowie reissue and two markedly different debuts.
Three bored-looking girls with colossal beehives and panda-style eyeliner snap gum from behind their microphones, then?BOOM!?a gigantic explosion of echo-drenched sound (guitar, bass, drums, strings), their angelic voices magically rising above it all. That, in More...
Though some claim the era of the classic soundtrack is dead, the past decade has seen a number of worthy soundtrack releases. Many of them, libraries already do?or, should?own, e.g., O Brother, Where Art Thou?, More...
Alexander Street Press music editor Liz Dutton speaks about the growth off music offerings in libraries.
It was a time when boys looked like girls, girls looked like drag queens, and they all danced to a loud, strange, vibrant brand of rock'n'roll whose lyrics were cribbed from sf, comic books, and More...
With an aura of cool danger, boundlessly inspirational and challenging, the 1960s work of free jazz touchstones like Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane confounds with its complexity and spontaneity. This is the sound More...
No music genre has more proudly distanced itself from mainstream tastes and embraced any taboo within reach than heavy metal. Yet, once seen as a sure sign of the downfall of Western civilization, today metal More...
Thirty new grants are up for grabs to libraries and museums looking to improve young people's digital media skills and turn them into cutting-edge content producers.
