everything connects.
songs are attached to sessions. sessions to rooms. rooms to cities. artists to labels. genres to other genres. this is the map underneath the magazine.
155 cards filed in the index
1951
calendar year 1951.
1952
calendar year 1952.
1991
calendar year 1991.
antonio vivaldi
arturo toscanini
identified from explicit musical context in this story.
bark psychosis
bass
bergamo
bill withers
black american blues
mentioned in this story as a possible instrument.
blues
mentioned in this story as a possible genre.
bob dylan
mentioned in this story as a possible artist.
bologna
Brass Bands
brian eno
mentioned in this story as a possible artist.
busseto
busto arsizio
butch vig
Carol Ihle
catania
changed
Chas Chandler
mentioned in this story as a possible person.
Chess Records
Chicago label whose catalog became foundational to electric blues, rhythm and blues, and rock’s vocabulary. indeed.
chicago
claudio monteverdi
critics
david bowie
mentioned in this story as a possible artist.
dgc records
Distortion
From damaged speakers to deliberate overload. The sound of imperfection becoming vocabulary.
dolly parton
mentioned in this story as a possible artist.
domenico modugno
drawing
duration
electric guitar
mentioned in this story as a possible instrument.
elvis presley
the king of rock and roll; elvis served as a gateway for white audiences to experience black music. with songs like "hound dog, "jailhouse rock," and many others, presely showed sinatra how to be a true teen idol.
ennio morricone
Ernesto Cavour
fabrizio de andré
festival di sanremo
field recordings
finneas
identified from explicit musical context in this story.
Folk Revival
following
franco battiato
frank sinatra
sinatra was swagger, heartbreak, jazz phrasing, and american cool compressed into one impossible voice that could make loneliness sound like the best table in the room.
friction
gaetano donizetti
genoa
george harrison
mentioned in this story as a possible artist.
german musicians
Giacinto Scelsi
giacomo puccini
gioachino rossini
giuseppe verdi
glasgow
graham sutton
Grateful Dead
guitar texture
harmonica
mentioned in this story as a possible instrument.
Ike Turner
Bandleader, pianist, guitarist, arranger, and a central musical presence around the Rocket 88 session.
il barbiere di siviglia
improvisation
Jimi Hendrix
mentioned in this story as a possible artist.
john reynolds
identified from explicit musical context in this story.
jonia
journalist simon reynolds
junior murvin
Keith Richards
king tubby
kurt cobain
la bohème
La Paz's Gran Poder
la traviata
london
Los Jairas
Los Kjarkas
loudness
lucca
lucio dalla
Luzmila Carpio
Mal Evans
mark hollis
memphis
Memphis, 1951
Beale Street, radio, rhythm and blues, and a city becoming one of recorded music’s great pressure cookers.
michael karoli
Mick Jagger
milan
miles davis
mentioned in this story as a possible artist.
mina
mixing consoles
mogwai
montell jordon
mentioned in this story as a possible artist.
Monterey Pop Festival
mentioned in this story as a possible event.
Movimiento Cultural Saya Afroboliviano
Mystical Andes Volume
nabucco
Nancy Andrews
nevermind
new york
nina simone
identified from explicit musical context in this story.
nirvana
Northern Soul
Olympic Studios
mentioned in this story as a possible studio.
One Name
Oruro Carnival
parma
patterns
paul chambers
performances
pesaro
piano
mentioned in this story as a possible instrument.
polignano a mare
post punk
producer butch vig
mentioned in this story as a possible artist.
public image ltd
Purple Rain
mentioned in this story as a possible album.
Purple Rain
testestest
repetition
reverb
reykjavík
rigoletto
Ringo Starr
Rocket 88
rome
Sam Phillips
Engineer, producer, and founder whose Memphis rooms became central to the mythology and machinery of early rock and roll.
Savia Andina
saxophone
mentioned in this story as a possible instrument.
seattle
Shea Stadium
Shea Stadium Index
silence
simon reynolds
slint
so recordings
sonic youth
space
its big
spiderland
Sun Records
The Memphis label associated with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the commercialization of a new Southern sound.
teatro alla scala
teatro argentina
teatro di san carlo
teatro la fenice
teatro regio
teatro san cassiano
the beatles
the beatles were four guys from liverpool who somehow went from playing sweaty clubs to rewriting the basic operating system of popular music in less than a decade. john lennon, paul mccartney, george harrison, and ringo starr absorbed rock and roll, r&b, country, skiffle, girl groups, motown, indian music, classical composition, and whatever else wandered within grabbing distance, then kept mutating until the band that recorded “love me do” barely resembled the one that made *revolver*, *sgt. pepper*, the white album, and *abbey road*. they changed songwriting, recording, album culture, fashion, fandom, and the very idea of what a rock band was allowed to become. plenty of artists have sold records. the beatles changed what everybody made after hearing them.