Various And Sundry

|July 17, 2015 | Various And Sundry

* The hits and misses of album cover artwork : also, check out these cheesecake classical album covers

 

* Laibach will be the first foreign band to perform in North Korea

 

* Various depictions of the cat piano ( see also cat organ )

 

* Here’s a hilarious story, and here’s a crazy story

 

* Billy Zoom has cancer

 

* Fans of Blade Runner will enjoy this

 

* Turkey’s once-booming folk-rock industry has mostly vanished, but a few holdout producers are still cranking out the hits : Big In Karaman

 

* A fun guide to visiting Japan

 

* Moments in man-made music and the machines behind it

 

* Hate Mail, Mr. Bingo’s ongoing project where he sends actual hate mail to paying customers through mail carriers

 

* ” Moving past the end of the 1960s optimism about social change and deep into the economically troubled Me Decade, we can get a good sense of what the inverse of  The Stooges’ ‘No Fun’ sounds like, listening for the apotheosis of the fun ideology in action in popular music of the 1970s. ” Fun will find a way

 

* Ian Hunter : the truth about Mott The Hoople, the drugs, and the manager with a death wish