The Friday Informer: Too White and Nerdy?

The Friday Informer: Too White and Nerdy?

Just your usual week of radical musicology, complex charts, and the opera-ready “Trapped in the Drive Thru.”

Written By

Molly Sheridan

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Frankly, I would have gone for “Pulitzer Prize Winner” in big block letters.

  • Peer-reviewed online journal Radical Musicology launches. Yeah, you read that right.
  • How would we understand our love of music without charts…lots of complex charts?
  • Love child of Diamanda Galás and Joan La Barbara, perhaps?
  • Lest you feel left out of headline news this week, know that Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej not only endorses miliary coups, but is also an avid jazz saxophonist.
  • Steven Colbert was robbed by the MacArthur Foundation—he is just as much of a genius as John Zorn.
  • Is there anything the Commodore 64 can’t do? [via boingboing]
  • Just try and resist a polka-dot clad pianist playing “Schroeder’s Revenge” and “Wonky Inside!” [via the well-tempered blog]
  • Who needs Grimm’s fairytales when you have threatening legal letters to read aloud to the children? Honestly, the RIAA may be a little right and a little wrong here, but clearly they need a new public relations agent.
  • Speaking of laughing and the RIAA, Weird Al just had a great week. How long after listening to “Trapped at the Drive Thru” will it take for Peter Gelb to commission an opera from this guy?