WQXR-FM’s Meet the Composer podcast is now around half a year old, and it has already become a wonderful resource. I just finished listening to the latest episode, focusing on the Brazilian composer Marcos Balter. “As a composer, [Balter] writes an almost unthinkable amount of music, and not all of it works,” observes MTC host and […]
The Future of Music Coalition is holding its 14th annual Policy Summit this week in Washington DC. The Summit features keynote presentations from FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, Damin Kulash of the band OK Go, Jon Abodeely from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and comedian, writer and radio artist Harry Shearer. Last year […]
As the St. Louis Symphony revved up to perform the Brahms Requiem on Saturday night, live on St. Louis Public Radio, symphony Vice President and program co-host Adam Crane probably thought he had an uncomplicated evening ahead of him. Instead he wound up narrating a requiem for the martyr of Ferguson, Missouri: Mike Brown. A […]
Last month the world’s #2 music stream service Deezer introduced itself to the US with a new high-fidelity, uncompressed service called Deezer Elite. Now the company is bringing its compressed Premium Plus service stateside. Like Elite, at launch Premium Plus is tied to specific hardware. The service is only available to users of Bose SoundTouch […]
I’m enjoying the very Hollow Earth Radioesque interview that Garrett Kelly, co-founder of Hollow Earth Radio in Seattle gave to The Stranger, Seattle’s arts/culture scene newspaper. Hollow Earth just got a Low Power FM construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission. “We’ll be on the air in no time, though we can’t give you the […]
Here’s some encouraging news for classical music radio lovers. The Telegraph has an interview with renowned Welsh harpist Catrin Finch, who says she’s seeing lots of children turning their parents on to classical music. “Quite often it is the kids will come home and introduce classical music to their parents,” Finch noted. “It is something […]
As a long-time volunteer and DJ at Foothill College radio station KFJC-FM, I’m eagerly anticipating the station’s ambitious live remote broadcast from Liverpool, England, which begins today (within minutes of when I’m posting this article at 6:20AM Pacific time). On Friday, September 26th and Saturday, September, 27th, the station plans to broadcast up to 30 […]
SoundCloud has a variety of “Explore” channels. These are basically very long playlists of whatever has been recently posted. They include Folk, Rock, Deep House, Trip Hop, and a bunch of other genres about which I know nothing. The service also has a “classical” channel. The problem is that most of the content on the […]
Over the last few days we’ve been tweeting and pondering the “dirtiest song on the radio” question. The conundrum has been reprompted by a Wall Street Journal post on the history of Aerosmith’s song “Walk This Way,” titled “The Dirtiest Song on the Radio” (it was christened this by David Johansen of the New York […]
Here’s an update to a documentary-in-progress that we’ve been keeping an eye on. Roger King of Toronto writes to let us know that he has released a YouTube trailer for his doc on the glory days of the rock deejay “I Am What I Play.” Voila!: “They Played What They Wanted to Play,” the trailer says […]
