Radio Days(oldster.substack.com)
5 points by NaOH | 2 comments
A personal essay in Oldster Magazine where Michael A. Gonzales recalls childhood mornings in Harlem listening to WNEW and WABC radio and how it shaped his musical taste.
#music-history on Hacker News
6 stories tagged music-history, newest first.
The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl(ei3lh.eu)
48 points by austinallegro | 14 comments
A personal blog post recounting the author's detective work into the origins of a Toftwood Male Voice Choir vinyl record found while crate digging.
Coltrane's Shadow(tabletmag.com)
9 points by tintinnabula | 1 comments
Tablet Magazine arts essay by Mark Stryker on how the newly revealed Tiberi Tapes show new sides of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
Map of Metal(mapofmetal.com)
402 points by robin_reala | 147 comments
Map of Metal is an interactive site that charts the history and subgenres of heavy metal music, shown here on its splash screen with a link to buy prints.
A Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years(nytimes.com)
419 points by perihelions | 123 comments
New York Times article about a previously unknown Chopin waltz manuscript discovered after nearly 200 years; the page loaded a captcha check instead.
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music(music.ishkur.com)
451 points by diggan | 135 comments
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music, an interactive timeline map of electronic music genres and subgenres from the 1900s to the 2010s.