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When I try to imagine a young Daedelus, what comes to mind is Harry Potter. The smiling one from the book covers, not the serious one from the movies. “I was a pretty fat kid,” he says shattering that image. Were there any fat kids at Hogwarts? Of course young Alfred [...]

I didn’t do an end of the decade list.  Whenever I start making lists, they end up way too long, and I always forget something.  That’s how this whole thing started out, as a long list of songs from about 2005 to 2009.  The selections were made for any number of reasons but mostly because [...]

At the turn of the 20th century, the technological revolution in music was shifting in favor of the populous. With the advent of sound recording technology, music was no longer restricted to the concert halls, but being given directly to the people, by the people and for the people, allowing them to dictate new music [...]