Culture and Society

“Cause, what the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a hole in my head” (Cracker) And many may feel tht way about search engines also, but a good meta search engine – one that searches the search engines – is a fine thing indeed. I checked …

Man, we have to celebrate the sites, and especially the indie sites, that make the web a revolutionary place to experience music. Check out this one, Exit Records, specializing in jazz guitar, with free MP3s available from all of their artists, including: Steve Lacy Billy Hart GeorgeGarzone George Coleman Barry …

Willie Nelson has managed to carve out a niche for himself, not only as one of our foremost interpreters (and writers) of almost every form of American music, but he also has established himself as one of the most iconoclastic “patriots” in the nation, commanding center stage on national holidays …

We mentioned back in March the Harvard-UNC study by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf which seemed to indicate that Internet music file sharing has no negative effect on legitimate music sales. Oberholzer-Gee discusses what the industry should do next with Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge: Sean Silverthorne: The draft of …

I don’t talk enough about Thomas Mulready’s Cool Cleveland newsletter and website, which tackles real and difficult matters of culture and activism in a truly local way. I admit it: I am something of a mercenary. Even though I have lived in the Cleveland area for a total of 22 …

With blogs turning up in the mainstream media virtually every day, it astounds me that there are still vast swaths of the population that haven’t heard of them. So the more coverage the merrier, evne if it’s the same story over and over again. NPR’s Talk of the Nation did …

Although I haven’t attended, I am totally down with the Bonnaroo concept of peace, love and eclectic jam bands, and I have no problem with declaring this year’s show another success – the numbers speak for themselves. But what I don’t get is an extended pat on one’s back that …

As all regular readers and contributors know, we’ve had a roller coaster ride here at Blogcritics over the last few weeks: we had to pick up and change hosting companies precipitously with the cost in that area rising dramatically, the move also generating all kinds of technical issues that have …

The invaluable ResourceShelf site tells us about a new blog resource called Blogsnow. “Blogsnow ‘reads’ blogs, depending on what’s going on between 100 and 240 a minute. Out of this stream of information it extracts links and displays them in different views every 10 minutes.” “In the top section you …

You see, there was this band called the Beatles, and at one time they ruled the planet. And they still semi-rule the planet, even though half of them are dead and the other half are into their seventh decades of life. But despite their unrelenting good fortune – or perhaps …