February, 2014
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A Surprising Advantage of Vinyl
I am emphatically not an audiophile. My home contains neither $500 ethernet cables nor “acoustic isolation platforms.” I am absolutely not here to convince you that vinyl recordings sound inherently better than the same data on CD. But: there is one absolutely irrefutable advantage to many modern vinyl releases, andRead More…
Black Sabbath – The Original Six
To commemorate scoring Black Sabbath concert tickets for the April 20, 2014 show in Calgary, I decided to make my largest and longest post yet. Most of you wouldn’t give a crap about this stuff, but please indulge an old man and his neurotic hangups. Thanks to my ongoing sell off ofRead More…
Jerry’s Record Store
Sarah Schneider is an MFA student at the Maryland Institute College of Art. More of her work can be seen at her site.
Bootlegging as Material Culture
Long before “cassette culture” and DIY, there was a distinct culture of homemade media: bootleg records. Even with the technological limitations of shellac and vinyl, pirates, collectors, and music fans figured out how to reproduce sound. In doing so, they also invented a unique aesthetic of piracy in theRead More…