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Category Archives: Must a Post-Rockist embrace classical?
Living Room Music
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Living Room Music I [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Living Room Music II [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Living Room Music III [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Living Room Music IV (all selections from John Cage: Music for Percussion) I don’t listen [...]
News Item: Dead Guys I’ve Never Heard of Sing Song I Kind of Know in a Language I Don’t Know and Make Me Feel Chills
I don’t know what these guys are singing about. I’ve heard of Bizet–he wrote Carmen and was French–but that doesn’t matter with music this moving. Although I’m sure that my experience would be heightened if I knew what they were singing, I still get chills from this piece. A piece on classical music on NPR [...]
Must a Post-Rockist Embrace Classical? pt. 2: Cover Songs
Glenn Gould-”Liszt’s Piano Transcription of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, First Movement” (from The Art of Glenn Gould) The Flaming Lips-”Can’t Get You Out of my Head” (from The Fight Test EP) In this segment of “Must a Post-Rockist Embrace Classical?” we look at the cover song through the lens of classical music. The Rockist’s greatest pet [...]
Must a Post-Rockist embrace classical music? Part I
Clarinet Concerto in A Major Wolfgang Mozart The Best of Mozart Must a Post-Rockist embrace classical music? The intention of this site is to write about music sans the snobbery of the High Fidelity-esque record store clerk or the critic who only likes the “true” punk or “true” music or whatever. But is it possible [...]
NPR puts us out of a job, again: Andrew W.K., J.S. Bach, & Bill Callahan