January 2012
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‘The Alan Lomax Collection From the American... →
A decade after his death technology has finally caught up to Lomax’s imagination. Just as he dreamed, his vast archive — some 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts, much of it tucked away in forgotten or inaccessible corners — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online. About 17,000 music tracks...
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Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of...
Music journalist Chuck Eddy has reviewed a huge variety of bands in the past 30 years, from the Beastie Boys, the Pet Shop Boys, Robert Plant, to the Flaming Lips and AC/DC. One of the first critics to widely cover indie rock, he’s also known for his reviews in the heavy metal, hip-hop, and country genres.
So it’s great to see that a collection of his work has been published by Duke...
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