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In the March 1 issue of LJ, Music for the Masses introduced librarians who host music clubs at their branches, offering patrons the opportunity to discuss a particular record, performer, [...]

Book clubs cater to every taste and fancy, but music lovers are usually left to find their own way in libraries. Lately, though, a handful of hardy librarians are blazing [...]

I received an issue of Car and Driver in the mail the other day. That in and of itself is not exactly a column-worthy pronouncement, except for the accompanying bland [...]

Music fans have been blasted between the ears with digital for years, but in 2012 vinyl and, even more remarkably, cassettes began rising from the ashes to again find a [...]

The Iowa City Public Library (ICPL) made quite a stir last year, launching a digital local music collection. The library took control of its own digital destiny, working out deals [...]

Veronica Vasicka started the Minimal Wave label from her New York bedroom in 2005. In the seven years hence, she's unearthed a treasure trove of electronic music rarities and jump-started [...]

Can I get all self-referential for a minute? During an American Library Association conference in Chicago a couple of years back, I stumbled into a Casiotone for the Painfully Alone [...]

The exodus of music from physical digital formats isn't quite as all-encompassing as we've been led to believe. First, the CD is still hanging on by its fingertips in classic [...]

British producer/musician/ designer Trevor Jackson recently compiled a selection of seminal industrial and electro tunes from the early 1980s for tastemaking label Strut Records. It was released as Metal Dance, [...]

I've become fixated on the idea of partnering with local musicians, performers, and DJs as subject experts/advisors on the library's music collection. Think about it. You can have members of [...]

Starting as a humble blog in 2006, Awesome Tapes from Africa (ATFA) has grown into a cottage industry of sorts by combining the best parts of the voracious collector mentality [...]

I don't know about you, but your Music for the Masses columnist views digital music warily. Triple that for digital music services that vendors are rolling out for libraries. But [...]

By the time you read this column, 77-year-old Canadian poet/musician Leonard Cohen will have only just released his 12th studio album, the drolly named Old Ideas (Columbia. UPC 886979867123), on [...]

Even as the record industry crumbles and digital music is either saving or ruining music depending on whom you ask, great music was plentiful in 2011, as Matthew Moyer's empty [...]

'Culturally, we have pushed firmly into full-on 1990s revival. Be ready for it,' Courtney E. Smith sagely claimed during our recent interview (L.J 11/1/11, p. 54). Techno, grunge, vocal groups, [...]

Matthew Moyer (Popular Media Dept., Jacsonville PL, FL) has previously surveyed popular albums, artists, and defining moments in the history of various music genres as well as interviewed music critics, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In this age of total disclosure via social media and a 24/7 Internet presence, there is something to be said for the shadowy iconoclast. The following is a selection of [...]

In May 2007, librarians at New Zealand's Palmerston North City Library (PNCL) unveiled Beatbooth, purportedly the first recording studio in a public library (see LJ Online 9/5/07). While in 2009, [...]

Ever notice how readers' advisory (R.A) gets all the love? Training classes abound, resources like EBSCO'S NoveList and NextReads offer a wealth of information to library users, and increasingly more [...]

My favorite part of Tim Irwin's 2005 documentary, We Jam Econo--a history of the fiercely independent punk rockers Minutemen--is when bassist Mike Watt talks of how at one point the [...]

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, [...]

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., [...]

Scholarly electronic publisher Alexander Street Press (ASP), best known for its online streaming video products, has lately grown its music offerings significantly. Here, ASP music editor Liz Dutton speaks to [...]

The heavenly harmonies and raw passion of classic gospel artists like Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Soul Stirrers have inspired musicians as diverse as Elvis, Dylan, Little Richard, and Spacemen [...]

Ruthann B. McTyre, MLS, head of Rita Benton Music Library (RBML), Iowa City, and president of the Music Library Association (MLA;www.musiclibraryassoc. org), talks to LJ columnist Matthew Moyer about the [...]

When I reviewed Neon Indian's Psychic Chasms for Ink 19 in 2009, I likened it to 'stripping down Eighties Synth Pop to its clockwork essentials and dirtying up the gleaming [...]

For 23 years, Naxos of America (www.naxos.com) has been the go-to vendor for classical music of all kinds. Today, its music-related offerings include books, audiobooks, and video as well as [...]

If you haven't yet heard of Nigerian musician, composer, and activist Fela Kuti, public enemy No. 1 of that country's repressive military dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s, expect to. [...]

In the late 1960s, a new generation of postwar youth in a divided Germany began making music that reflected their own surroundings and lack of a voice in the popular [...]

Few genres are as maligned and caricatured as gothic rock. Through media misrepresentations and in the hands of preening clowns like Marilyn Manson, gothic rock has become distilled into 'goth' [...]

Many date romantic classical music as beginning with Ludwig van Beethoven's death (1827) and ending with Gustav Mahler's death (1911). It's a suitably dramatic way to bookend this type of [...]

Brazilian music evokes for many images of Carnival, samba by the beach, Astrud Gilberto's delicate bossa nova--all very real. But raw psychedelia, audience riots, art as protest, musicians disappeared by [...]

Gary Giddins (garygiddins.com), whose Visions of Jazz won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1998, is perhaps best known for his longtime 'Weather Bird' column for the [...]

When purchasing hip-hop for library collections, it's tempting to get caught up in the now. This summer's hot track, however, inevitably becomes fall's 'Who's that?' and then we're left with […]

Stephen Kijak's 2008 documentary about notoriously reclusive singer Scott Walker, 30 Century Man (Oscilloscope Laboratories), which features lengthy testimonials from musicians including David Bowie (also executive producer) and Radiohead about [...]

It's a given that your reggae music collection should include a couple of Bob Marley & The Wailers albums, but then what? What of those artists who, though lesser known, [...]

Steven Patrick Morrissey, one of the most singular performers of alternative music, just released his ninth solo album, Years of Refusal, to resounding acclaim. That Morrissey, who turns 50 this [...]

At the dawn of the 1980s, disaffected American youth, feeling burned by Reagan and left out of disco and new wave's nonstop party, were looking for a noise to give [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Garner, Ken. The Peel Sessions. BBC, dist. by Trafalgar Square. Aug. 2008. 352p. photogs. ISBN 978-1-84607-282-6. pap. $29.95. MUSIC American audiences can't understand the colossal influence of British broadcasting legend [...]

Browne, David. Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth. Da Capo. Jun. 2008. c.320p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-0306-81515-7. $25. Chick, Steve. Psychic Confusion: The Sonic Youth Story. Omnibus: Music [...]

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You'd be hard-pressed to find someone more appropriate to rhapsodize about British glam godfathers/avant rockers Roxy Music than novelist, cultural commentator, and inveterate dandy Michael Bracewell. Evidently Brian Eno, Bryan […]