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A Roland TR-909. Its gravitas surged through the cardboard box that carried it. In the days before YouTube celebrities whet the consumer whistle with unboxing videos, young Detroit musician Juan Atkins pulled out a folding knife and carefully sliced open the seam of the box to an audience of one. If the history of techno […]
Seattle Grunge. It was a tough time growing up. We didn’t have much money, and even though I had friends, I felt outcast, like an odd shoe on the doormat. I was in my room, not much bigger than a walk-in closet, when my mom appeared in the doorway brandishing a pair of cassettes. She, […]
Motown – Hits on Down the Line. In 1919, the port city of Detroit had just under a million people over an area of about 143 square miles. It’s river, streets, parks and architectural grandeur, including the Masonic Temple, Central Train Depot, Guardian and Fisher Buildings, caused some to call it “the Paris of the […]
Muscle Shoals Sound. About two hundred and sixty miles from Atlanta, a young woman, blind, deaf, and without speech, held her hands beneath a cascading capillary of the Tennessee River and was so moved that a single word found its way to her lips; “water.” And thus Helen Keller added her voice to the magical […]
Blood donation. An article by Liam Sweeny. A drunk driver swerves erratically down a busy street, losing control of the steering wheel and colliding with a woman in an SUV. The drivers’ side door is crumpled; she’s hurt, and the baby in the seat next to her might just become an orphan on day five […]
Somewhere in the imagination of a fan-fic writer, there is a playground, and on the teeter-totter sits two characters in perfect balance. On one side is Luke Skywalker, and on the other side is Han Solo. One is so good a soul he is a Chosen one with full Jedi power, and the other has […]
Sweat pours down your face, off your hair, rivulets down the back off your T-shirt. It presses into your computer chair as you slam on the buttons and click over here and over there. Your competitors have computer rigs much more advanced, but you have a seventy-two ounce Mountain Dew and you have moxie and […]
Wall of Sound. He slides the faders on the microphone covering the celesta, hoping to catch just a hair of the low note of the cello in the mix. The room through the window is cramped, and the cigarette smoke is the least noxious smell emanating from it when he opens the door to adjust […]
A cloud of cobalt paint dusted the edge a fat, black outline and she pulled back to spread it out. The cans of yellow, blue and white rattled around in her duffel bag like hostages that didn’t know how to keep their mouths shut. The yard was quiet, and she knew when the train would […]
Viral. Oh, that’s funny. I’m dying over here, crying into my keyboard. Share. I think this is something they will like. Only someone cool would put this up. Share. Wow, I did not see that coming. Wonder if anyone else will? Share, share, share! Viral – it’s not just a cat spilling a beaker in […]
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