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Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer...

"Music Fiesta Shares Harmony across Metal Fence at US-Mexico Border" is from the May 29, 2016 Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Patricia Leigh Brown and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In I'd Fight the World, Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics. These performers and politicians both rode and resisted cultural waves: some advocated for the poor and dispossessed, and others voiced religious and racial anger, but they all walked the line between exploiting their celebrity and righteously taking on the world. 

Brought to you by Penguin. A personal reckoning with grief, doubt, faith and poetry set to one of the most celebrated musical works of the twentieth century, from the award-winning poet and librettist. The story goes like this: on a freezing winter night in 1941, a new piece of chamber music was...

In this new version, Jane Bussmann not so much reads as brilliantly performs her supreme comic history of British youth culture, acid house, and nightclubbing. A book so wonderful, it featured in Jeremy Deller’s winning submission to the Turner Prize. A Muzik Awards Book of the Year.

Every Sunday join Tim as He dives into the lives of up and coming Global Indie artists and their music giving you all you need to know about the beating heart of the Indie/Alt Scene from people who are forming it.

"Good News for MTV's VMAs: Music Videos Matter Again" is from the August 25, 2016 Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Jon Caramanica and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

Bloomsbury presents Metronome by Matthew H. Birkhold, read by Chris Gaines Object Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When the metronome was invented in 1815, it transformed the music world. Composers and musicians now had a tool that could help them...

If you live long enough you pick up little bits of knowledge and wisdom along the way. Hoping to inspire you by sharing.

"Streaming Services to Test the Value of Digital Music" is from the September 11, 2016 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Ben Sisario and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"George Michael Mattered for More Than Music" is from the December 26, 2016 Entertainment section of The New York Times. It was written by Wesley Morris and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Death may be the great equalizer, but it isn’t necessarily evenhanded. Of all the fields of endeavor that suffered mortal losses in 2016 — consider Muhammad Ali and Arnold Palmer in sports, and the back-to-back daughter-mother Hollywood deaths of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds — the pop music world had, hands down, the bleakest year.

"Among Deaths in 2016, a Heavy Toll in Pop Music" is from the December 31, 2016 Entertainment section of The New York Times. It was written by William Mcdonald and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

All They Will Call You is the harrowing account of "the worst airplane disaster in California's history", which claimed the lives of 32 passengers, including 28 Mexican citizens - farmworkers who were being deported by the US government. Outraged that media reports omitted only the names of the Mexican passengers, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem that went on to become one of the most important protest songs of the 20th century. 

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"Twitter Invests $70 Million in SoundCloud Music Service" is from the June 14, 2016 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Ben Sisario and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"A Self-Proclaimed Outsider Moves Closer to Pop Music Limelight" is from the May 09, 2016 Entertainment section of The New York Times. It was written by Joe Coscarelli and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Prince, a Master of Playing Music and Distributing It" is from the April 22, 2016 Entertainment section of The New York Times. It was written by Jon Caramanica and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

Hey, we’re moe and John. Friends since university, we pursued different paths: Moe in software at leading tech firms, and John in AV production and academia at York University. We’ve reunited at time off audio to bridge software, music, and education. Monthly, we nerd out on music tech, trends, and the business of sound.Shop our plugins: https://www.timeoff.audio