Sam Frampton waxes poetic on vinyl, sampling, and their role in hip-hop.     My best friend from home recently resolved to “get into beatmaking.”  Naturally, I fired a few technical questions at him.  In essence, I asked him how he planned to accomplish such a mammoth task.  He declared that first of all, he…

A different week. A different Brit.   There are few things in life that I like better than British artists who sing in their native accents. As a Brit myself, I might be slightly biased, but the accent is such a great one that it would seem silly to waste its obvious allure by swapping…

  How do we talk about music, and can it be talked about? Doing violence to the “text” and the language of music as anti-language.    A Historical Orientation   “Logocentrism” is a favorite word of mine, because it sums up the main thing that the projects of modernity and post-modernity are ultimately up against.…