TAG: music
Kids music for road trips
Posted in Explore and Discover, Parents and Teachers on June 23, 2016 at 6:00 am
By Rachel Edmondson Summer has arrived, and with it comes more time spent in the car. At least, that’s the case for my family. Whether it’s driving to swim lessons or taking a road trip, music can be a great way to make time in the car more fun. Of course, if you have the […]
Music and conspiracy theories: a primer
Posted in Explore and Discover on April 28, 2016 at 6:00 am
By Brian Vander Veen Sometime during the tail-end of the 80s, my middle-school youth group made us watch a grainy VHS documentary about the evils of contemporary music. The presenter played samples of music that, slowed down and backwards, might have sounded vaguely like blasphemous utterings. He picked apart various band names and album covers, […]
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Hoopla for kids
Posted in For You, Parents and Teachers on March 8, 2016 at 6:00 am
By Rachel Edmondson Welcome to the tail end of winter—one of the worst times of the year for parents living in cold climates. If your family is anything like mine, you’re all starting to feel a little bit stir crazy. Visiting the library to pick out new-to-you books and DVDs can be a great way […]
Mixtape: Festive holiday albums
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on December 22, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Clarissa Fidler Music is an essential part of the holidays for me. The day after Thanksgiving, my family typically switches over to all Christmas music, all the time. And with Christmas only a few days away, you better believe that I have Michael Bublé’s Christmas album merrily blasting away in my car. With so many good Christmas alb […]
Mixtape: A non-traditional Halloween playlist
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on October 21, 2015 at 6:00 am
By David Wyatt This might be heretical, but as far as Halloween-themed music goes I have never been a fan of Tim Burton’s soundtracks, Rob Zombie gets old after the n-teenth time, and Ghostbusters is a little too upbeat for my taste. I get it though—it’s easy to make a list of songs or albums […]
Mixtape: Punk retrospective
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on October 15, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Brian Vander Veen Not long ago, a young college student realized exactly how old I was and started grilling me about 1990s punk music, of which he was a particular fan. And it quickly occurred to me that he, thanks to the web, knew much more about the music of my teenage years than […]
Mixtape: Contemporary ladies of country music
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on September 24, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Clarissa Fidler Growing up my dad exposed me to a variety of music genres. He played everything from smooth jazz and disco to pop and classic rock. But of all the genres we listened to, one always reigned supreme—country. It probably had something to do with the fact that it was my mom’s favorite. Modern […]
Mixtape: Four metal bands for fantasy fans
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on June 2, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Brian Vander Veen Not long ago, I was lamenting to my long-suffering partner the unfortunate decline of references in popular music to fantasy literature. Although I’m too young to remember much of it firsthand, I had imagined this glorious, idealized decade or so—let’s call it “the long 1970s”—when every van was airbrushed with a […]
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Finding Free Music Without Getting Sued
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on January 28, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Brian Vander Veen It recently made me feel old to realize that more than fifteen years had passed since the first major peer-to-peer file sharing service, Napster, was launched. Napster lasted only two years before it was shut down by court injunction, but it helped ignite almost a decade of contention between the recording […]
Tags: free services, hoopla, Internet Archive, music, Pandora, Spotify
Mixtape: Your Summer Soundtrack
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, Parents and Teachers, Prime Time, Teens on July 30, 2014 at 6:00 am
By Sheri Boggs I’ve made, and received, a lot of mixtapes over the years. The early ones were literally tapes; hand-labeled cassettes painstakingly recorded in front of the radio and full of an 11-year old’s dubious taste (Electric Light Orchestra, Donna Summer). As technology evolved, so did my mixes and I blew through stacks of […]
