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Month: June 2013

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Darling BOY added to our Lord’s bill

June 30, 2013 Alex Gold 0

Those of you who attended our Divine Comedy show when The Word Magazine was alive may remember a group called The Wutars. Considerably younger than […]

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Daniel Tashian of the Silver Seas makes a video at the mall

June 27, 2013 David Hepworth 0

I can’t decide whether this has been expensively art-directed to look like a slice of American apple pie or whether Daniel just popped down the […]

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“Chat” added to Duckworth Lewis shows

June 27, 2013 David Hepworth 0

There’s going to be a chat element as well as music at the Duckworth Lewis shows at both Lord’s and the Nottingham Playhouse. Neil and […]

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How the album survived and why it satisfies the soul!
byMark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

The album has had 25 years of being hammered by other formats – Napster, iTunes, Spotify, TikTok – and not only survived but thrived. For Keith Jopling it’s the irreplaceable way to hear music and to measure the people who make it. His new book Body Of Work celebrates its battle-scarred trajectory from the beating heart of pop culture to 21st Century affordable luxury, and stops off at …

 

… growing up in the age of cassettes

 

… his lifelong devotion to a Police album left on his doorstep

 

… Adele’s battle with Spotify to get records played in sequence

 

… how albums are how you calibrate a career, from the Beatles to Taylor Swift

 

… has anyone ever loved a CD the way they love an album?

 

… how parents used to despair of their kids loafing in bedrooms listening to records but now try and persuade them to do it

 

… pictures of equipment: rock porn!

 

… the swingback to Listening Parties and analogue recording

 

… records as shining examples of the packaged goods business

 

… “we need to regain control of our attention”

 

… and the iTunes launch party and why Smashing Pumpkins thought they’d seen the future.

 

Order Body Of Work in the UK here: https://www.roughtrade.com/product/keith-jopling/body-of-work-how-the-album-outplayed-the-algorithm-and-survived-playlist-culture

 

And in the USA here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/body-of-work-how-the-album-outplayed-the-algorithm-and-survived-playlist-culture/

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