Perfect Sound Forever
Contents

'70's Revival
AOR is not A-OK

8-Chip Music
Worshipping video game tunes

Abortion Rights and the Indie World
How artists fight back and you can too

A Boston Folk Tale
Music scene fiction

Absurdist Guide To Punk
Its strange origins

Achy Breaky (Not)
Americana's strange sad songs

Acid House
A Socio-Historical Perspective

Adult Musicals
Off Broadway, off clothes

African Instruments
How they changed America

Afternoon Delight
Naughty ode and/or drab 70's tune

Afro-Futurist Music
Sun Ra, OutKast, Kool Keith

Albany Rock
Hudson Valley NY in the '80's

Rashied Ali
Survival Records survives

Laurie Anderson
How avant is she really?

Alien Instruments
The rise of the synths

Alien Instruments
Loving & hating guitarists

Alien Instruments
When weird instruments ran free

Alternative in the 00's
Twenty One Pilots, Fall Out Boy??

Ambient Music
Is it in a (calming) rut?

Apocalypse in the American Bush
Southern Bitch, Shooter Jennings & other good ol' boys/girls

Armenian Record Guide
Groovin' Haikakan style

Artificial Intelligence
Musicians say how they'll cope and use it

The Art of Bullshit Critique
Rock's partisan politics

Asian Improv
Vijay Iyer & friends

Assassination of Jazz-Rock
Another victim of the me-decade

Astral Weeks
Van Morrison's troubles

Ace Atkins
A novelist's blues Audio Memes
Vaporware folk inventions

Aussie Underground
The real action going on 

Australian Music Today
Rude sounds down under

Avant Garde & Music
Chris Cutler dissects connections

Albert Ayler
Marc Ribot & Henry Kaiser tributes

Bad Songs, They Say So Much
The worst of the 70's

Band Reunions
The real & the fake

Band Reunions
When are they authentic?

Bangla Music
Indian philosophy

Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus and the Sex Pistols
A new reading: Children in the Mire

Lester Bangs
A good role model for writers?

Syd Barrett
Early days of the crazy diamond

Barrett-Hitckcock
The Syd & Robyn connection

Beat Beat Beat
60's German rock TV

Beatles-Residents-Laibach
The Syd & Letting It Be, Without Love

Berlin DJ Culture
A personal guided tour

Between A Rock & Experimental Place
Rock & the avant converge

Beyonce & Jay Z
The Carters battle via video

Bird of Paradise
Michigan jazz haven

Black American Avant Garde
Where is it now?

Black Gospel
Blind Boys of Alabama, Andrae Crouch define a style

Blue Wicks
Southern indie fiction

Black Metal
Notes from its underground

Blues Convention
Memphis blues again

Brain Records
Krautrock haven

Born To Choose
Do abortion and rock mix?

David Bowie Karaoke
Ziggy Walks Into A Bar

Brazilian Experimental
A Nova Bossa Nova

Andre Breton
Is silent music golden?

Breaking the Sound Barrier
Revisiting classic classical music tome

Burlesque Revival
Crotch Level, Ten to a Table

John Cale/Lou Reed
Velvets face down the '70's

Cannabas-O-Rama
How it affects the music biz

Camelot and Tricksters
Nixon, Dylan & Elvis Camera Obscura #1
Master of the Airwaves & Nite City Camera Obscura #2
Country, Metal, Folk Obscurities Camera Obscura #3
Hurmi, World of Oz remembered Camera Obscura #4
Psych, studio rock & folk obscurities Camera Obscura #5
Americana guitar, disco glam & satire rock Camera Obscura #6
Folk-psych, synthy power-pop & more Camera Obscura #7
Sophisto-pop, psych rock, cinema singer and more Camera Obscura #8
Meticulous rock, Aussie folk, breezy folk Camera Obscura #9
Post-punk glam, art work with Ted Nugent Camera Obscura #9
Post-punk glam, art work with Ted Nugent Camera Obscura #10
Obscure prog, satire rock, rockin' romance

Kerim Capli - Blue
Is a Turkish rock bio necessary?

Daniel Carter
Test for the saxophonist

CBGB's Unknowns
Marbles, Nervus Rex, Come On

Champaign/Urbana Blues
The action outside Chicago

James Chance
Talks about his fave noir films

Christian Rock
Origins of a (hip?) style

Christmas Carols
Where the pop classics originated

The Clash
The story of "Train in Vain" Classical Canon
Call it 'baroque' or 'romantic' instead? Classical's New Common Practice
As principle and poetics Classic Rock Top Songs
Which ones are tops?

Classical Does Rock
From Mozart to Metallica

Classical Villains
Mozart as cinematic bad-guy?

"Classical" Vs. Film Music
Kissing cousins or enemies?

Cleveland, Indie Music & the 1970s
The Untold story of the Mid-West

Cocksucker Blues
The Stones' raunchiest fest

John Coltrane
Travels in interstellar space

Composers and Flatulence
Highbrow/lowbrow culture

Conservative punks
Oxymorons or reality?

Country Murder Songs
Carrying on a fine tradition

John Corbett
Explaining jazz improv

Creative Dead Ends
How composers ovecome it

Creative Success
How indie musicians get it

Creative Success II
What is the future of indies?

Croatian Folk Music
Modern acapella music

Culture Cycles
The 20-year revival rule

The Czech Gypsies
Never-Ending Roma Question

Czech Underground
BBP and the Plastics' legacy Dada Music
Aural Art Terror

Danger Mouse & Mike Patton
Love, Italian Style

Miles Davis in the '70s
His most controversial decade

The Death of Singles
Hit songs no more?

Deep in the Heart of Tuva
Singing from the throat

De Rising Funky Tide of the Dirty South
Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson, Kid Rock and friends

DIY or Die
Road rules from Elephant 6

Pete Doherty
Talent & tabloids

Doowop on YouTube
Hidden treasures found online

Down With Downloaing
The great online music debate

Downtown Pop Underground
NYC suburbs subversives

Dreamworks Records
The Rise and Fall

Drone Music
Its strange scattered history

Dublin's Post-Punk Explosion
Why and how is it happening & with who?

Dunedin Fringe Festival
Kiwi avant gathering

Duplicate Albums
Collecting record frauds?

Dutch cassette culture
A real underground community p> Dutch cassettes
90's indie history/hatred

Dutch Post-Punk
Who remembers Minny Pops?

Dylan's 'Love and Theft'
His later-day masterpiece?

Earache Records
Grindcore history

Steve Earle
Sympathy for an American terrorist

East Austin History
Chitlin' Circuit, Juke Joints

East Berlin Rock
Countercultures & Popular Music book excerpt

Electronic Music Survival Guide
Advice on aesthetics & finance

Elvis in 1969
Going back to his Memphis roots

EMP's Love and Theft
Reflections on the Seattle conference

Emo origins
What it is, where it's from & where to now?

Emo Revisted
Thursday Fan Grows Up and Out

Engage Fans or Die
How the best performers connect

Brian Eno- A Sandbox in Alphaville
Previously unpublished Lester Bangs essay

Environ
70's jazz loft remembered

Epistrophy Arts
Austin's adventurous music hub

Erewhon Calling
New Zealand Noise Chronicle

The Experimental Disc Spinner
The DJ as Shaman

Experimental Musical Instruments
Not just guitars and drums

Experimental Instruments
Inventors' showcase

Experimental Music on Traditions Instruments
A daring concept?

Experimental String Instruments
From ancient China to punk

Extended Technique
A way out for classical?

Fact Records
Israeli experimental music

Fargo Rock City
Midwest experiences Metal

Field Recordings
Via composers and highway rest stops

Fierce Lenny C
Fiction- snagging a mythical drummer Film Music/Sounds
How does it create drama?

Flying Nun & Nationalism
Great label or just a myth?

Freak Folk Origins
Peter Stampfel explains

Freak Show
Race & New Weird America

Free Form Radio & Branding
Sellin' Out & Buying In

Free Improv Manifesto
Via Italy, 1921

The French Can Rock
Mais oui!

Free Jazz
Theme Amour Universal

Free Jazz
An introduction/entry-way 

Gamelan
How Western culture absorbed it

Don Gallucci
From the Kingsmen to the Stooges

Jerry Garcia "interview"
A chat from beyond the grave

Geek Rock
Revenge of the Nerds

Genre Definitions
Ultra rare punk & post-punk

Global Punk
The Indonesian scene struggles

Goema Music
South African carnival music

Goose Lake Festival
Detroit's version of Woodstock

'Go' songs & 'Stop' songs
Peter Stampfel explains

Goth-Fathers
Black Nail Origins

Greatest Hits
Formerly know as 'Mixtape' 

Greatest Misses
Book excerpt- BOC, Zombies 

Greatest Misses
Book excerpt- Status Quo, X get hits with consequences 

Gnawa
Arabic music mash-up

Guitar Heroes
Which classic rockers are over-rated?

Gunshot Songs
From rap to reggae to country & beyond

Hacker Metal
Heshers in the Early Web

Hair Metal
Its rise and fall and rise and fall...

Hawaiian Music
Not just Don Ho Heavy Metal
Is it really Satanic? Heavy Metal in the '80's
Of guitar virtuosos and big hair Heavy Metal Drum Blasts
How to master the headbanger technique Heavy Metal Politics
A liberal bend there

Jimi Hendrix
Band of Gypsys

Hendrix/Santana
Their classic Woodstock sets

The Hills
Britney s New Baby: Teen TV

Hip Hop History or Hearsay?
Is 'the original flyer' legit?

Buddy Holly
His winning geek personna

Home Recording
Outsiders come of age

Hondo Guitars
A musician's lifelong chronicle

How Technology Changed Music
Private Listening, 21st Century Tech

How To Be A Rock Critic
Fighting Hootie and Rolling Stone

Hysterie of Can
Holger's side of the story

I Lou Bot
Metal machine fiction

Improv Techniques
Theories & approaches

Improvisation
Is it music?  Greg Segal investigates

Indian Collectors
Scouring for 78rpm treasures

Indie Cover Bands
Scouring for 78rpm treasures

Indigo Boom
Great Service for Musicians?

Industrial Musicals
The artistic 'soul' of corporations 

Indianapolis Funk
Socio-economic Midwest blues 

Indie music downloads
Warnings from Chris Cutler 

Instrument Worship
Cult or Snobbery? 

Instrumental Techniques
Classical's new common practice? 

Iraq War & Music
composing under fire 

Irish music industry today
Beyond U2, Van and Sinead 

Irish Rap
Paddy Whack

Is This Thing On?
famous production fuck-up's

The Jades
Fiction- 60s garage rock antics

Japanese Club Scene
The Pay-To-Play System

Japanese Hits
How they're made

Japanese Music
Greatest Hits 1880's to 2010

Japanese Record Stores
Singing docs & friendly bombs

Jazz's Evolution & Death
Rant/critique/commentary

Jazz Origins
The Days of Bix and Jelly Roll

The Jazz-Punk Connection
Free jazz as the first new wave

Joi, Nikka Costa, Wicked Wisdom
Who says black sisters can't rock?

Tom Johnson
How to succeed at 'Failing'?

The Jolly Boys
Mento music in Jamaica

Camden Joy
Great rock fictionals

Karaoke
Behind the Japanese obsession

Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestra
Bubblegum pop is good for you

Andy Kaufman/Bill Hicks
The comedians as Elvis' progeny?

Killed By Death
The punkest of punk compilations

K-Pop
Korea's latest popstars

Chuck Klosterman
Voice of a generation?

'Krautrock'
the real story

Krautrock Obscurities
Kosmische Treasures Found

L.A. Orchestra Pop
Its origins and legacy

Large Ensemble Free Jazz
Not oxymoronic at all, really

Lebanese Music
The burgeoning improv scene

Leningrad Rock Club
Historic venue back in the USSR

John Lennon
On the run with the "Cold Turkey" single

The Linda Lindas - Yee Loi
Asian girls rock and kick butt

'Listen Whitey!'
3 women poet-vocalists 

Little Willie John/Albert Ayler
Re-Viewing influences

Alan Lomax
his Southern Journey

Lost Music Venues
Disappearing Gotham history

Love Parade
Berlin Technostock- Love & Pancakes

Lydia Lunch
Bio excerpt- NOLA excursions

Mainstream Rock Radio
The problem at its core

Make American Hate Again?
What music fuels the Trump movement?

Manchester
Forgotton 90's baggy bands

Metal for the New Millennium
What are headbangers' path forward?

Metallica
The ultimate prom-band?

Metal Machine Music
Dissecting noise for meaning?

Metal Sub-genres
Ambient, symphonic and more

Mexican Rock
Its sad recent history

Midnite Jamboree
Country music greats & failures

Milwaukee
Cows, Beer, Punk Rock and Noise

Mingus, Trane, Vicious, Buddha
A fantasy play/get-together 

Minimalism
Composer Philip Corner explains 

Minimalism's future
Did it kill innovation?

Mofo Techno
Stop worrying, start loving

Monster Club
Great lost '80's movie soundtrack

Monthly Mix Tape
Michaelangelo Matos picks 'em

Derrick Morgan
Making of a ska anthem

Moogfest
Disco, pop & space rock collide

The Motorcycle Jacket
Glam/punk fiction

Motown Goes Hollywood
The liberalization of Motown

MP3's in our lives
We have the technology

MTV
Their early innocent years

The Mundanes
Fiction- a Boston indie make-or-break practice

Musica Caipira
Brazil goes country

Music As A Deadly Weapon
Bring the noise

Musichound World
Byrne and Kidjo on 'world' music

Musicians You Should Know
Courtesy of The Lowbrow Reader

Music Poems
Explaining esoteric classical scores

Music Structure and Performance
Some anecdotes and observations

Music Therapy
We prescribe it in many forms

Musical Divorce Albums
Dylan, Springsteen, Buckner

Mutek 2005
Highlights from the tech fest

NAMM Conference
What's new in the synth world?

Navy Music
Non-Attack Drones & Improv

A New, Bad Beginning
Rock fiction squalor

New Orleans Metal
The Big Easy's big noise

New York Hardcore
Peddling an Underground Punk Classic

Fred Neil
The center of New York folk music

Nerdcore
Geek rappers proud & strong

New Rose
Fiction- punk singles & party girls

New York Rocker
Zine & indie rock history

90's Noise
MBV, the Ex deconstruct rock

Nirvana
Long shadow over Seattle

North Carolina Punk
Tar Heel history

N-th Wave
The new school of indie rock?

Nu-Metal
The Good/Bad/Ugly of Rap-Metal

The Occult and Popular Music
'Evil' running rampant

Edley O'Dowd
Psychic TV tunes in

Off Island Chinese Singers
A video/musical match-up

Old-Time Music
Don't call it 'bluegrass'

OHM- Gurus of Electronic Music
Essays/interviews with the pioneers

One Man Bands
In metal & industrial music

John Oswald
What do plunderphonics mean in '22?

John Otway
'Cor baby it's me!

Outsider Music
The inside out of...

Jimmy Page
Genius or thief?

Peruvian Chicha
The Brooklyn Connection

Liz Phair-Dixie Chicks
At the front of cultural wars 

Piece of My Heart
Fiction: jammin' on Janis 

Pipedown
Stop the muzak 

P-Funk & the Dead
Cosmic collusions 

Please Release Me
Disappearing and mangled music

Political Music Now
Failed in the post millennium?

Pono
Examining Neil Young's tech toy

Port Arthur Blues
Texas Showdown

Post-Rock Cliches
Formula for '90's music

Porous Music
Accidental & purposed music

Walter Prati
Italian composer's improv tome

Prince
The secret 2 maintaining his royalty

Prog Rock defended!
It's hip so get used to it

Prog Rock/Critical Reaction II
Eclecticism as a End in and of Itself

Prog Rock/Critical Reaction III
Advent of technique

Prog Rock/Critical Reaction IV
The Twilight Era

Prog Rock Obscurities
'70's American Music

Pscyhobilly
UK roots revival

Prog Rock/critical reaction
The beginning- love, hate, history

Providence Rock
Art + noise = a strange scene

Public Image Limited
The 1981 riot show at the Ritz

Queen Jess Approximately
Fiction- folky chanteuse breaks thru

Queering Classic Rock
Testerone implications

Radio Quotas
Do they really work? 

Rap/Metal How To
Making your own band 

Readding Music
What Books Do Musicians Find Crucial?

Reasonable Guide to Rock Critics
How to spot them and avoid them

Record Cultures
Book excerpt- labels vs. radio

Record Fairs
Their psycho-geography

Record Rituals
Strange ceremonies revealed

Reggae & Decolonization
Did roots music inspire Black Lives Matter?

Reggae & the Punk Legacy
The Womens' Story

Rivers Of Babylon
Behind the reggae classic

Roller Derby
Theme music for elbowing

Simon Reynolds feature
UK rave/jungle pirate radio

Rock and American Literature
The not-so-obvious connections

Rockin' in Chicago Before '65
Midwest Madness pre-Beatles

Rock's Heroin Connection
Rock 'n' horse

Russian Jazz
Post-Perestroika music

Sacred Steel
Hawaiian Guitar Gets Saved

St. Joseph Bands
Midwest indie invasion

Salsa in the 70's
Popularized by Tommy?

Same Titled Songs
Led Zep vs. Benetar vs. Sedaka

Same Titled Songs II
Battle of the Bands returns

Same Titled Songs III
Beatles vs. Pink Floyd & more

Same Titled Songs IV
Metallica and Connie Francis battle

Sample Snitching
Musical/legal investigation

Sampling
From concrete to hip-hop

Satanic Majesties
Stones album not unloved

The Savoy Music Center
Saturday in Eunice LA

Scottish Music
From Folk To Electronica

Selling Out
What does it mean for an artist?

Sextant & Dr. M
Herbie Hancock meets Matthew Bourne

Sharpies
Aussie fashion & violence

John Sinclair
Recent writings from the Big Easy

Situationism & Rock
Dickens Meets the Sex Pistols

Ska's Third Wave
Waiting for the next wave

Snorecore
Spacemen 3, Low and more

Solo Percussion
Not just snoozy drum solos

Solo Saxophones/a>
Three composers, 3 journeys

Song Poems
Amateurs' top 40 dreams

Songs Against Injustice
Ferguson Riots Stir Musicians

Songwriter's Block
The psychology of beating it

Sonic Phantoms
Book excerpt- repetition in the (art) music

Sonic Youth in Serbia
Rough Guide to the Dark Side

Soul of Protest
Godfather of Soul, Marvin, Kendrick lead the way

Sound Poetry
Its dada origins & beyond

Soundscape
RIP another NYC music venue

Sounds of Silence
Rating an album of no sounds

South African Festivals
Are corp sponsers helping?

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Extended Travelogue

Bruce Springsteen
Born in the USA/Viva Vietnam

SST Records
Legendary punk label 

The Street Singer
Fiction- a musical swindler

Subtropic's Music Fest
Florida's avant gathering Suicide Note Songs
BOC, Ozzy, Nilsson and More Surf Punk Rockers
Love letter from '80's Cali

Sun Ra Guide III
'70's to '90's

Surf Ballroom
Pilgrimage to history

Swiss Underground
80s punk/newwave SXSW 2016
Why it still matters & highlights SXSW 2022
Band report & back to abnormal SXSW 2023
Music fest in a post-post-pandemic world SYNCING MUSIC
The In's/Out's/Techniques SYNESTHESIA
Really 'seeing' classical rock

A Taste of Krautrock
Survey of German rock's golden age

The Technology Trap
Will digital FX save or kill music?

Telephone Hold Music
A fevered quest for muzak

Temporary Residence Records
Of Sky Explosion and Eluvium Tidal
To stream or not to stream... To Improv is Human
How is improvisation created? David Toop
Book excerpt- becoming a music scribe

Touring No More
How indie, avant artists say they'll manage

Trance Music
Its dizzying history

The Trip
Fiction- Athens GA wanna-be's

Tropicalia's Dark Side
The destruction of Brazil's music?

A True-Life Adventure of Music Writing Ethics
'This is not a PSF article

True Love Scars
'70's tales of music & love- book excerpt

True Temperament
Guitars in 'strange' scales

Turntablism
From John Cage to Kid Koala 

20th Century's Greatest Hits
Paul Williams' tally 

Twentieth Century Flute Music
Vintage Album for the Adventurous 

Two Tales From the Rave
The decline and renewal of dance music 

U2
"Exit" and its murderous connections

UK Music Festivals
Their originas, back to 3000 BC

UK Music Festivals II
Small fests thrive despite adversity

Under Appreciated Moments
In Jazz and creative music

Underground Hip-Hop
Who/what killed it?

Unique Recording Spaces
Creating Unique Music From It

Village Voice R.I.P.
Freaky freelancing tales

The Vinyl Anachronist
Our expert on fantastic plastic

Virginia Rock
Not just GWAR

Washington DC Experimental Music
Noise Along the Potomac

Waterfront Blues Festival
A 35 year old tradition survives, thrives

Muddy Waters
His least-loved album

Mike Watt & James Joyce
Punk meets literature

Weirdo Records
Detailing Obscure Catalogs

Weirdo Records II
More detailing of obscure catalogs

Weirdo Records III
Scouring More Great Indie Unknowns

Weirdo Records IV
Scouring Even More Great Indie Unknowns

Weirdo Records V
Horror, art, gospel, blues unknowns

Weirdo Records VI
Polish jazz, Canadian garage & more

Weirdo Records VII
Bahamas guitar, space jazz, Satan rock

Weirdo Records VIII
Zambian funk, tango noise, surf music

Weirdo Records IX
Early blues, electro noise, baby sounds

Weirdo Records X
French synth pop, Afrobeat, Peruvian psych

Weirdo Records XI
French soul, Cali funk, Japanese porn

Weird Song Titling
A Plea For Insanity

West Cork Chamber Music
Classical festival

Whistling
In movies and cartoons

Why Was '70's Music Orgasmic?
Understanding the Quiet Storm

Sonny Boy Williamson
His secrets revealed

Winnipeg Rocks
Canada's hidden music scene

World War I music
The pro's and con's of pop

Xenakis
Aesthetics of his early works

Xenharmonics
Beyond 12-tone with Ivor Darreg

Yodeling
Not just for the Swiss mountains?

Yodeling II
Heard from country to funk to gospel

Yodeling III
Heard from the '70's to now

Yodeling IV
Country, Cambodia, JFK rival and more

YouTube Pundits
The new online music gurus

Zappa & Cleveland
New music in the midwest