Samples are a dime a dozen in the modern music landscape. The now-common practice found its roots in the invention of the Fairlight CMI synthesizer in 1979 and the Akai MPC workstation nearly a decade ...

In order to put a damper on the sonic abuse of its audience from cacophonous, “contemporary” music, the Aspen Music Festival should consider placing those pieces at the end of the program. That would ...

“The Philosophy of Modern Song” offers commentaries on a range of music, written in the singer’s unmistakable lyrical style. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

Sprinkled with photos of record stores and record pressing plants, LP covers, Elvis postcards and similar ephemera, the book conjures a far-away world—not the Old Weird America, but the old physical ...