Mickey Guyton

February 13, 2015

Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet

1. An article by David Pogue about Neil Young’s PonoPlayer. “The results surprised even me. Whether wearing earbuds or expensive headphones, my test subjects usually thought that the iPhone playback sounded better than the Pono Player.” 2. An article about Mickey Guyton and black women in country music. “The song is lyrically substantive in an era of eye-roll-inducing “sweet little somethin’” trivialities. Continue reading

Curating The Week

country music, David Pogue, Mickey Guyton, Neil Young

Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

Mickey Guyton

Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet