Category: Music
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Recently Single Al Gore Finally Able To Listen To W.A.S.P. Albums
Link: “I can’t believe I wasted half my life helping Tipper put warning labels on this stuff when I could have been seeing these guys do their thing live,” Gore said of W.A.S.P. “They used to whip raw meat at the audience. How bad-ass is that?” “Cause I’m burning, burning, burning up with fi-ire! ” added…
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Respect and Obey Authority
Link: This has been an exceptionally emotional year. Love was lost and new friends were found. People died, but they were replaced with the first breath of birth. I made mistakes and I succeeded. I sinned and was forgiven. I cried and I laughed.
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The Worst Demo Tape Compilation in the World – Ever
Link: In the late 1980′s, my cousin gave me a cassette that instantly became an obsession of mine. It was a tape, compiled by a UK record company – and made purely for internal use – featuring the worst songs they’d ever been sent from the thousands of demo tapes they received each year.
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Somehow this isn’t Tim and Eric
Link: The ‘Enter Pyongyang‘ flow-motion hyperlapse by JT Singh and Rob Whitworth debuted to the public two hours ago as of this writing, and already it has over 3,500 upvotes on Reddit and almost half a million views… ON VIMEO!
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In Focus: Ebru Yildiz’s Final Days and Nights at Death by Audio | American Photo
Link: Last fall when Ebru Yildiz learned that one of her favorite Brooklyn venues, Death by Audio, would be shuttering its doors documenting its final weeks was a no-brainer. “I just felt like I had to be there,” she says. “When I started taking photos I realized how big of a project it was going…
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In These Harlem Jazz Clubs, Musicians and Audience Became One – The New York Times
In These Harlem Jazz Clubs, Musicians and Audience Became One “You went for the scene,” said Gerald Cyrus, who spent the 1990s photographing Harlem’s jazz clubs and jam sessions. Then they went away. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/lens/in-these-harlem-jazz-clubs-musicians-and-audience-became-one.html Twenty-odd years ago, Gerald Cyrus wandered into a Monday night jam session at St. Nick’s Pub, a jazz club in…
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A Visual History of Rock and Roll, Room by Empty Room – The New Yorker
A Visual History of Rock and Roll, Room by Empty Room The photographer Rhona Bitner captures iconic music venues after the revellers have gone home and the bands have pushed off for the next date. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-visual-history-of-rock-and-roll-room-by-empty-room?mbid=rss For the past decade, the photographer Rhona Bitner has been working on “LISTEN,” a “visual…
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On Tour with Prince: A Photo Story and Remembrance
On Tour with Prince: A Photo Story and Remembrance June 21, 2011. “You want to shoot Prince’s European Tour? Need to know ASAP.” January 28, 1985. I had snuck my 12″ Sampro B/W television that my via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/04/28/shooting-prince-photo-story/ June 21, 2011. “You want to shoot Prince’s European Tour? Need to know ASAP.”
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Saying Farewell to the Last Great Underground Music Venue in NYC – Feature Shoot
Saying Farewell to the Last Great Underground Music Venue in NYC – Feature Shoot Brooklyn-based photographer Ebru Yildiz emerged from Death by Audio and into the crisp night of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was the fall of 2014, and the waterfront DIY venue would shutter it’s doors come November 23, 2014, but until then, its most…
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In Shift to Streaming, Music Business Has Lost Billions – The New York Times
In Shift to Streaming, Music Business Has Lost Billions Streaming and vinyl sales surge, but the big moneymaker, CDs, has been gradually abandoned. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/business/media/music-sales-remain-steady-but-lucrative-cd-sales-decline.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 But a closer look shows that the big sales numbers that have sustained the recorded music business for years are way down, and it is hard to see how they…
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Dan Ball’s Unseen, Intimate Photographs of Memphis’s Music Scene | VICE | United States
Dan Ball’s Unseen, Intimate Photographs of Memphis’s Music Scene The Memphis native shot some of the most influential musicians of the past 30 years—including Jay Reatard, Three 6 Mafia, and Sonic Youth—often in his home. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/dan-balls-unseen-photographs-of-memphiss-underground-music-scene-111 If you were in a band that played a show in one of Memphis’s many clubs since…
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Jessica Lehrman: Documenting the Underbelly of the NYC Hip Hop World
Jessica Lehrman: Documenting the Underbelly of the NYC Hip Hop World Jessica Lehrman is a 26-year-old Brooklyn-based documentary photographer who captures the glamor and grit of contemporary underground movements, from the via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/06/02/jessica-lehrman-documenting-the-underbelly-of-the-nyc-hip-hop-world/ Jessica Lehrman is a 26-year-old Brooklyn-based documentary photographer who captures the glamor and grit of contemporary underground movements, from the underbelly…
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A Photographer Infiltrates the Rio Funk Scene | PROOF
A Photographer Infiltrates the Rio Funk Scene Photographer Vincent Rosenblatt spent ten years documenting the funk scene in Rio, and his work was recently featured in the March issue of National Geographic in Brazil.
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‘Killer Angels’: Portraits of Death Metal Fans Taken at Over 60 Shows – Feature Shoot
‘Killer Angels’: Portraits of Death Metal Fans Taken at Over 60 Shows – Feature Shoot Maybe it’s hard to believe but death metal fans are some of best people out there, or so says Baltimore photographer J.M. Giordano. He would know. For his latest project Killer Angels, the photojournalist attended over sixty death metal shows.…
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Photographer Charles Peterson Captured the Birth of Grunge Music in Seattle
Photographer Charles Peterson Captured the Birth of Grunge Music in Seattle Charles Peterson is known for being one of the primary photographers on the forefront of the grunge music scene when it emerged from the Seattle via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/03/03/photographer-charles-peterson-captured-the-birth-of-grunge-music-in-seattle/ “Amidst the chaos of a live show, I wanted to find that sense of grace,” says…
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Norman Seeff – The look of sound – The Eye of Photography
Norman Seeff – The look of sound Known for his portraits of American artists, South African photographer Norman Seeff is releasing his first monograph with the publisher Kehrer Verlag, and is the subject of an exhibition at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany.
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Erin Feinberg photographs music fans in her book, Diehards.
Music Fans Are Crazy Erin Feinberg began her career photographing concerts as a way of getting to see her favorite musicians up close and for free. But as digital… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/07/14/erin_feinberg_photographs_music_fans_in_her_book_diehards.html Erin Feinberg began her career photographing concerts as a way of getting to see her favorite musicians up close and for free.…
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Photographs from Paul Zone’s ‘Playground’
Paul Zone’s “Playground” via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/07/photographs-from-paul-zones-playground.html#slide_ss_0=1 I would venture to guess that Paul Zone describes himself as a former rock star, but to me he’s something else—a rock-’n’-roll photographer, that increasingly rare breed whose energy and drive and discipline go into making pictures that reflect the highs of life on the New York stage
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Free Music, at Least While It Lasts – NYTimes.com
Free Music, at Least While It Lasts The people who make all that yummy music are actually being loved to death by fans who expect it to be free. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/business/media/free-music-at-least-while-it-lasts.html I hesitated when it came time to pony up and realized that, as just one more participant in the Something for Nothing economy, I’d…