guardian.co.uk : Genre busting: the origin of music categories | By Michaelangelo Matos
"Where did the terms retro-nuevo and skronk originate? Or hip-hop? Michaelangelo Matos runs through an exhaustive catalogue of music's phrasemakers and trendsetters"
via guardian.co.uk
Arcade Fire discuss playing Wireless festival - video | Music | guardian.co.uk
Members of Arcade Fire share their thoughts on playing at Wireless festival in London's Hyde Park with, among others, Mumford & Sons, Beirut and the Vaccines
Critic's Notebook: Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' book app is a road trip and a map to the future
The choice of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' to be an iPad application and its apparent early success show how publishers, writers and readers are learning how to adapt to the digital age. via latimes.com
guardian.co.uk : On the Road 'amplified' in app of Kerouac classic | Adaptation for iPad features interactive map of novel's famous pan-American journey
itunes.apple.com : Jack Kerouac's On the Road (A Penguin Books Amplified Edition)
guardian.co.uk : Bob Dylan protest lyrics to go on sale. Scrap of paper with four of five verses to The Times They Are a-Changin' expected to fetch $300,000 at auction in New York. By Stephen Bates
guardian.co.uk : Why the Beatles sealed the digital deal with iTunes · Caspar Llewellyn Smith
Robert Johnson, Walking Blues, last verse, slowed down (132KB) via Steady Rollin’ Man: a revolutionary critique of Robert Johnson http://bit.ly/cR1YJA
The Guardian: Either the recordings were accidentally speeded up when first committed to 78, or else they were deliberately speeded up to make them sound more exciting. Whatever, the common consensus among musicologists is that we've been listening to Johnson at least 20% too fast. Numerous bloggers have helpfully slowed down Johnson's best-known work and provided samples so that, for the first time, we can hear Johnson as he intended to be heard.
— Robert Johnson revelation tells us to put the brakes on the blues | We've been listening to the immortal 'King of the Delta Blues' at the wrong speed, but now we can hear him as he intended | guardian.co.uk http://bit.ly/9bl76J
npr.org: Robert Johnson, We Heard You All Wrong - by JOHN ASANTE http://n.pr/947RAX
guardian.co.uk :: Coldplay and Wilco sponsor sports teams http://bit.ly/9hVp8q
What has the digital decade meant for music? | Music | guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk: Chicago alt-rock veterans plan to fill Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art with performances and installations
guardian.co.uk: Bob Dylan's planned tour of east Asia called off after Chinese officials refuse him permission to play in Beijing and Shanghai
