Category: music
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Musical Discoveries June 2021 #6
TX litblogger Robert Nagle shares his fave musical discoveries from June 2021
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Musical Discoveries May 2021 #5
TX litblogger Robert Nagle shares his fave musical discoveries from May 2021
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Musical Discoveries April 2021 #4
TX litblogger Robert Nagle shares his fave musical discoveries from April 2021
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Musical Discoveries March 2021 #3
TX litblogger Robert Nagle shares his fave musical discoveries from March 2021
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Musical Discoveries Feb 2021 #2
TX litblogger Robert Nagle shares his fave musical discoveries from Feb 2021
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Musical Discoveries January 2021 #1
TX litblogger Robert Nagle shares his favorite musical discoveries from Jan 2021. #1
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Why does Fort Bend public library sanitize Pulitzer Prize winners?
TX litblogger Robert Nagle notices that a county library system has stocking its music collection with censored versions of famous music albums.
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Take my online survey about music listening habits!
I am writing an article (and eventually a book) on music listening habits. For this article I prepared this survey (which should take about 8-15 minutes to complete). As an aside, I am curious exactly how hard it will be to recruit people to fill out this survey. I plastered the URL on my other…
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Monk Turner’s God Complex”: A Suburban Rock Opera with Mythical Overtones (Review)
Title: God Complex Musician: Monk Turner (songwriter) and various singers and performers. Where to Find: Free download on bandcamp and FMA; Youtube playlist. Recommended if you like: Allen Touissant, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks, Randy Newman, modern retelling of Greek myths Summary: Charming suburban rock opera with mythical overtones Monk Turner is a talented and prolific…
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Supergeek’s Guide to Free Downloadable Music Samplers
I’m in the process of writing an ebook about music collecting. I’ll probably add some book excerpts on my blog. This URL will regularly be updated with new information, so feel free to check later. Two years ago I wrote about great ways to learn about free creative commons music. Since that time, a lot…
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Houston Public Library Music RSS Feeds
Recently the Houston Public Library switched over to a new cataloguing system. One nice feature I discovered was the ability to create custom RSS feeds out of search results. So I decided to create a table of permanent RSS feeds for the music CDs for quick reference. This is a work in progress (and actually,…
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Emusic: (Personal Music Finds) By Robert Nagle
Jan 2021 Update. This page has become unwieldy (duh!), so I’m going to write a monthly blogpost of musical finds (on youtube, emusic, bandcamp, etc). So December 2020 will be my last entry here. The rest of them are found in my Musical Discoveries January 2021 #1 post and my other Musical Discoveries posts .…
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Best Happy Birthday Songs: I am Super Psyched!
You may not be aware that Free Music Archive is running a contest to identify some excellent birthday songs. There’s a real need for restaurants, moviemakers and radio people to identify a song which can be sung royalty-free at any time. Out of the 137 songs, here are my 10 favorites. They are all great.…
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Music Review: Monk Turner’s Kaleidoscope (Free Download)
In reviewing Monk Turner’s latest album, Kaleidoscope, I wanted to try a technique that writer Paul Ford used when reviewing SXSW music tracks. He wrote 6 word reviews of every single music track at the festival (all 1000 of them!). White. Ebullient vocals bursting ahead –with piano. Blue. Nonsequitur lyrics, skipping outside, lightly, saxily. Fuchsia.…
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Some Amazing Musical Deals on Amazon
April 2013 Update: It now seems clear that with a few exceptions, Amazon.com’s prices are higher than average, especially when compared to emusic, a service I highly recommend. So I would recommend first becoming an emusic member (minimum of $6 a month) and then take advantage of their discounted member prices which usually stay the…