Stories by tintinnabula

Prayers for Little Richard

Why You Don’t Sell the One Copy of Your Album for $2M

English and Its Undeserved Good Luck

DIY vinyl records from the Soviet “Stilyagi” scene of the 1940s, 50s and 60s

Spoiler Alerts: Three Books on Trash

Frank Sinatra and the Scholarly but Scandalous Autobiography

Cinematic obscenity in America: A hundred years of over-baring censors

Why is English so weirdly different from other language?

Songs in the Key of Zzz: The History of Sleep Music

1988 Interview with Nick Cave

Jagged Little Pill: An Essay

Bob Dylan and the 'Hot Hand'

Wax cylinder recordings digitized

Chemirocha: How an American Country Singer Became a Kenyan Star

Human language may be shaped by climate and terrain

Lou Reed and the End Times

The 1965 Blackout: An Eerie Broadcast When New York Went Dark

The 1965 Blackout: An Eerie Broadcast When New York Went Dark

The Most Likely Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes (2004)

The Sea, or the Poet at Work

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