"There were very few websites that went beyond text at the start of '94, so to begin with people didn't quite know what to make of [Internet Underground Music Archive]."

https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/

"[Brian Eno] and I are developing something from which the user will genuinely feel he has had a full participation creatively."

https://cybercultural.com/p/cd-roms-1994/

via @ricmac

This Black History Month, let's celebrate the many Black artists like Frankie Knuckles, Derrick May, and Duke Forbes, who kickstarted the electronic music scene with genres like house, techno, and dubstep!

https://theelectrichawk.com/black-history-month-edm-history/

It's posted-- thanks to @gloriousnoise for mentioning the idea.

Albums that made me:
https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/albums-that-made-me/

#music #punk #PunkRock #80s #1980s #90s #1990s #80sMusic #90sMusic #history #MusicHistory #PopMusic #electronica

@wendigo @HailsandAles @BlackenedGreen @derthomas @skullvalanche @buffyleigh @rtw @starshaped @srgower

It's February first. Lots of things happen in February that make it a bit more brighter than January. It's also black history month, so I want to give a shout out to Screamin' Jay Hawkins - an inspiration to many great artists, and certainly the father of shock rock!
Thank you Screamin' Jay Hawkins for all you've done for great music and performances, and most certainly my taste in music!
He did so much more than just I Put A Spell On You. Check out his cover of Whistling Past the Graveyard.
#shockrock #musichistory #blackhistory
https://youtu.be/DRjHAHt6rzs?si=W5hrhOV4HUxo8F87

40 years ago this week, "The Boys Of Summer" by #DonHenley entered the #Top10 at 8. It peaked at 5 on 09 Feb 1985. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RUIeX6UCT8 #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo

bit of a dry topic even for me, but since I kept coming across it in my research this week I thought I'd make a #wikipedia article for this defunct music licensing org founded by some of my historical heroes Sholom Secunda, Alexander Olshanetsky, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jewish_Composers,_Publishers_and_Songwriters

check out this old record sleeve from Columbia Records! (originally included with my copy of Buffalo Springfield's 1973 compilation album, the one with the 9-minute version of "Bluebird", though this may have been someone else's substitute sleeve since that album was produced by ATCO not Columbia)

alt text was too long to include with the actual image, so here's the first half:

Here's How Records Give You More Of What You Want:
- The best for less. Records give you top quality for less money than any other recorded form.
- They allow selectivity of songs and tracks. With records it's easy to pick out the songs you want to play, or to play again a particular song or side. All you have to do is lift the tone arm and place it where you want it. You can't do this as easily with anything but a phonograph record.
- They're the top quality in sound. Long-playing phonograph records look the same now as when they were introduced in 1948, but there's a world of difference. Countless refinements and developments have been made to perfect the long-playing record's technical excellence and insure the best in sound reproduction and quality available in recorded form.

Whilst most people associate the song Torn with Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia who released her cover in 1997, it was originally written in 1991 by Scott Cutler & Anne Preven, whose band Ednaswap performed it live, but did not initially release a recording.

The first recording of the song was by Danish singer Lis Sørensen in 1993, then Ednaswap released their recording in 1995.

More Information: https://w.wiki/CUd$

Wow this is amazing. Definitely going to check it out, either digitally or when I'm in NY in February
https://www.jta.org/2024/11/11/ny/how-the-ny-public-library-acquired-a-treasure-trove-of-jewish-and-yiddish-music