Tag: Holding It Down

• Top 40 Over 40.16: Holding It Down

  One possible answer to the question I posed in my post on Reckoning with REM – How come their early portraits of Southern life never said anything about the history of racist violence and forced labor in their native Georgia, even on their album Fables of the Reconstruction / Reconstruction of the Fables? – is that…

  jhd123

  March 2, 2014

  Music, Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40

  Afghanistan, american empire, Blowback, Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat, chalmers johnson, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Holding It Down, Imperialism, In What Language?, Iraq, Lynn Hill, Maurice Decaul, Mike Ladd, Minutemen, Music, Politics, Race, Record Reviews, REM, Still Life With Commentator, Top 40 Over 40, Vijay Iyer

• The Core is Getting Soft.8: Couture on the Cheap

  When you have friends with similar interests and desires as you, sometimes you have to be willing to experience the pangs of jealousy.  I’m not just talking about romantic jealousy – for us musicians, it can be about the gear.  When I was in grade school, there was a bright and talented kid a year…

  jhd123

  November 29, 2013

  Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Spare Parts, The Core is Getting Soft

  2001, Digital vs. Analog, EMS Synthi AKS, Harry Partch, Holding It Down, Kraftwerk, Mike Ladd, Novachord, Olivier Messaien, Ondes Martenot, Oud, Sandy Bull, software reviews, Soniccouture, Stanley Kubrick, Steve Albini, Treated Piano