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Casual Archives: Observations from the WGUC CD Giveaway

About a month ago, Cincinnati’s public classical radio station, WGUC extended an invite to Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra staff and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music students to help clear out […]

April 15, 2025

No Bad Blood About Pete Rose: Yo La Tengo at the Woodward Theater, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 25, 2025

About halfway through the sixth song in Yo La Tengo’s set, “Periodically Double or Triple,” at the Woodward Theater in Cincinnati, Ira Kaplan stopped, realizing he had yet to say […]

April 7, 2025

The Medium is Indifference: How Will We Navigate Musical Taste in a World with Artificial Intelligence?

A couple months ago, I was hanging out with a friend who shared with me an article by sound studies scholar Ryan Blakeley from the Musicology Now blog titled, “Welcome […]

March 17, 2025

“Every Instrument is Alive”: Susan Alcorn’s Pioneering Pedal Steel Guitar

Several years ago, NPR published a piece on the ever elusive nature of the pedal steel guitar, an instrument nearly fettered to the “classic mid-century Nashville sound,” despite its potential […]

February 28, 2025

Estoy Aquí: Smithsonian Folkways Music Pathways, Accessible and Public Education Opportunities, and Advocating for the World of Sound

Coming from a background of studying music history in graduate school, and assuming teaching responsibilities as part of that program, I perked up when I read that Smithsonian Folkways has […]

February 16, 2025

Digesting at the Buffet: Binge Culture, the Streaming Model, and Its Reinforcement of Passive Listening

When I was thirteen, my parents gifted me with the red and blue Beatles compilation CDs, the last CDs I used before I received my first iPod touch, which launched […]

February 1, 2025

David King, Logos, and the Messages in Underground Graphic Design

A little over a month ago, Colpa Press and the San Francisco Center for the Book put out a collection of David King’s designs, Publications 1977-2019, in tandem with the […]

January 19, 2025

Do Not Disturb: Autechre, Electronic Music, and the Role of the Laptop Onstage

Warp Records placed me on high alert a couple months ago when they made an enigmatic post on Instagram featuring a gradient black and blue square and the mysterious caption […]

January 6, 2025

The Internet, Micro-Communities, and the Future of Interdisciplinary Art

The other day, I was waiting for a friend to meet me at a coffee shop when I decided to pass the time with a Wire article or two. In […]

December 17, 2024