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Independent Record Companies are Committed to Innovation
A study carried out by researchers at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid analyzes, for the first time, the independent label sector in Spain. It describes both the wide range of activities and strategies that these firms use, and their presence in new networks...
Jenni Rivera Returns for Season Two of Her Mun2 Original Reality Series I Love Jenni
Jenni Rivera, the iconic Latin music superstar, returns for season two of her mun2 original reality series I Love Jenni on March 4 at 9pm/8c. How People Arrived Here: jenny rivera radio
Why I Am Not (currently) Reading Jonathan Franzen
I always seem to have a built-in skepticism towards books other people try to persuade me to read. This is probably because Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid was forced on me in its pre-publication form by a colleague I otherwise respected;...
Parties to the Farce?
The London Telegraph, which is, for the record, a Conservative-leaning newspaper, ran a rather interesting take on The Iron Lady this morning. It was a piece by Arts Correspondent Roya Nikkhah in which she documented the opinions of several of the...
Getting Out of the Shadow of History
Recently, while reading Milan Kundera’s extended essay, The Curtain (in Linda Asher’s translation from the French), I came across the following remark: The novelist’s ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what...
Confusing Amazon
Amazon.com has turned out to be a rather valuable resource when I am doing my writing for Examiner.com. When I am reviewing a recording, it is one of the easiest places for me to find its release date; and, since an image of the album cover is often...
The Panda with FLAYSHEDIG Tastes
Desperate times call for desperate measures. As just about anyone who follows stories about these creatures knows, pandas are supposed to subsist entirely on a diet of bamboo. Indeed, Stephen Jay Gould’s famous essay about the panda’s “thumb”...
Rediscovering SILENCE
I think I did not purchase my copy of Silence until after I met John Cage (and hunted mushrooms with him) during the summer of 1968. I probably bought my copy shortly after my return to MIT in the fall. It was the M. I. T. Press paperback edition...
