Tag: music

  • Broadcast during just 23 weeks of 1982, and reaching no more than WCIU’s Chicagoland perimeter, The Chicago Party conformed only to those codes that suited it….treating Chicago audiences to dynamic performances by unjustly local artists trafficking in sweet soul, disco, and emerging electronic R&B, the pop forms then wrestling for urban chart dominance — Read…

  • Today I worked a 13 hour day, got yelled at, dealt with office politics and the worst part of my day was the Uber home. The driver was playing a flute rendition of Unchained Melody. I love Unchained Melody. It’s a song about love that endures over decades. It’s very catchy. It is awful, in…

  • Mort Garson’s electronic magic

    “His work stopped sounding like music and instead like the inside of a haunted lava lamp filled with dead satellites and broken View-Masters.”

  • “Asking an algorithm to broaden our horizons is like having lunch with a friend who claims to be open to anything but vetoes everything you suggest.”