…horrific & unnecessary. None of this is “Tower”…and what is so depressing…about this rebrand…is they know it. At least have the decency to call it something else.
Tower Records comeback: Can the now-online retailer compete with Spotify and Amazon? https://t.co/GPwjeW0jZz
— Sunrise Ocean Bender (@SOB_Records) April 1, 2021
A late birthday present to myself, looking forward to diving into this tome today on a sunny park bench!#4AD #facingtheotherway #musicbooks #martinaston #independentmusic #musiclibrary pic.twitter.com/T42MBgfrBL
— Rusted Rail (@RustedRail) April 3, 2021
An interactive visual database for American Sign Language reveals how signs are organized in the mind https://t.co/FiRpYJerY9
— Sunrise Ocean Bender (@SOB_Records) April 9, 2021
"Not being paid fairly for our recorded work means our industry is not inclusive and it makes music a club for the privileged." Whoa this is uncannily similar to a point I made in my @icareifulisten piece back in Nov. https://t.co/q2qj8HRPMK
— Katy Henriksen (@soundoff_katy) April 10, 2021
I have an awful fear of heights and the first chapter of this nearly killed me. Reading Alan Garner’s “The Stone Book”. pic.twitter.com/W7KrqnQKDr
— Phonic Underground (@fi_fry) April 11, 2021
A nice piece by @ericducker on the curious longevity of Aphex Twin's "Avril 14th." (If I were a reply guy I might note that he overlooked the fact that April 14 is also my birthday, which is probably why the song is so beloved. But I'll let it slide.) https://t.co/HBrXIfJ2X8
— Philip Sherburne (@PhilipSherburne) April 13, 2021
“Covid-19 is not a phase or an era or a series of habits to be unlearned. It was a largely preventable horror that altered the fabric of reality and there are people responsible: For refusing aid, for lying about the threat, for profiting off of suffering” https://t.co/Nb4ofABNkH
— Olivia Messer 🌊 (@OliviaMesser) April 18, 2021
via Chris Lee Melkus
The Minneapolis Police Department wouldn’t provide a single disciplinary file on any of its officers—until I sued. Now with 3,300 pages in hand and after months of reporting, here’s @maxnesterak and me on MPD’s failures to discipline its worst officers. https://t.co/xCGE30Mz9k
— Tony Webster (@webster) December 15, 2020
via Glitch
"Mdou Moctar has spoken of how he knows little of the Anglophone rock tradition. But that hasn’t stopped him being compared to Eddie Van Halen and, inevitably, to Jimi Hendrix," writes @MichaelAHannhttps://t.co/xQRCiaMs02
— The Spectator World (@TheSpectator) April 30, 2021
Have you ever checked out this book, Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within, by Kenny Werner? The main takeaway for me was “Be kind to yourself.” pic.twitter.com/Bc1dPPvvRO
— Shane Parish (@shaneparishgtr) April 30, 2021