The B-Side Told You More Than the Single Ever Did
The A-side was what the label wanted. The B-side was where the artist was actually living.
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The Album You Put On When Nobody Else Is Home
Some records only work when the house is empty. Not because they're private — because they require a specific kind of attention.
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The Bass Player Who Plays Too Many Notes Is Compensating for Something
Restraint is the hardest skill in bass playing — and the most ignored.
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The Album Cover Nobody Looks at Anymore
Streaming shrank the album cover to a thumbnail, and something about how we receive music shrank with it.
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Nobody Claps Between Movements Anymore, and Classical Music Is Still Pretending That's Fine
The rule against clapping between movements was never about reverence. It was about class — and it's time classical music admitted that.
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