Other Music Types

Magazine articles on other types of music.

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Reason May 2009 Damon W. Root	Briefly Noted: Punk/Metal Rules! Despite its distracting academic jargon, Steve Waksman's This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk pinpoints an underappreciated truth.
Reason November 2008 Mike Riggs	Emo Rescue Emo -- a musical subculture defined by melodramatic, sometimes whiny lyrics delivered over distorted guitars -- faces a global assault.
Wired September 22, 2008 Brian Raftery	Weird Al: Forefather of the YouTube Spoof Yankovic isn't just popular. He is also the unlikely forefather of the infectious, hyperlinked, quasi-referential comedy that's become the lingua franca of the Web.
Wired May 19, 2008 Steven Leckart	15th Anniversary: The Brian Eno Evolution Interview with this electronic musician best known as the father of modern ambient music.
Wired April 21, 2008 Joshua Davis	Subatomic Pop: Composing an Electronic Symphony, 0.001 Second at a Time Curtis Roads is the foremost composer in a new genre called microsound, where notes are broken into barely audible fragments as short as 1/1,000 of a second.
Wired April 21, 2008 Brian Raftery	Wired Talks Jet Packs and Groupies With Kiwi Duo Flight of the Conchords With the April 22 release of their first full-length album on Sub Pop, the duo with the hit HBO series are set to become the greatest Kiwi phenomenon since the Zorb ball.
Reason February 2008 Jesse Walker	Steve Earle's Hammer A talented songwriter puts his message before his music.
Wired September 25, 2007 Brian Raferty	Punk Band Joy Division Left a Legacy That's to Die For Joy Division never should have made it big, but thanks to upcoming reissues and covers by more popular bands, the group seems eternal.
Smithsonian June 2007 Dina Modianot-Fox	Portugal's Soulful Sound Often compared to American blues, fado is gaining global appeal.
Smithsonian February 2007 Catherine Clarke Fox	Second Time Around Invented by Ben Franklin but lost to history, the glass armonica is been resurrected by modern musicians.
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