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    Music history needed

    Uhh... I'm very biased here, but Michael has only written two books -- <i>Our Band Could Be Your Life</i> and <i>Come As You Are</i>, an excellent Nirvana bio. And by no means does that "mythos" summary describe how he writes/what he writes about. Sounds like someone with an axe to grind. I...
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    The Great MP3 ethics thread

    Well Grimly, I have nothing to do with negotiating the contracts with labels (we only deal with labels, never artists alone), so it's not like I'm fucking off by not considering these things. (My title is managing editor, which means hiring writers (some of whom are on this message board)...
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    The Great MP3 ethics thread

    I think that I'm the poster-boy for this. Earlier this year -- fed up with my tiny Lower East Side apartment toppling over with all of my CDs and records -- I began ripping my entire music collection onto a 250 gig external hard drive attached to my iBook. It took about four months of ripping...
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    dirty blues records

    just finished editing a long piece about this very topic yesterday. i'll post a link to it when we actually publish it. the writer in question -- the great john morthland -- suggests a lot of pre-blues stuff that's really fantastic. he also quotes this lucille bogan lyric: "I got nipples on my...
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    Hot RnB

    what's up dave! not trying to start a massive ruck, but i gotta disagree about the brandy album. four or five tracks i liked pretty well -- you won't see me disparaging timbo's tricks -- but tim really isn't expanding his bag o' tricks all that much (and hasn't since he went bumpkin with bubba)...
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