Local music blogger the Indie Peddler (www.theindiepeddler.blogspot.com), a.k.a. Kim Conlan, writes about local music in a studied, literary manner. Aside from revealing her true identity on our blog, ...

At Dial M for Musicology, Jonathan Bellman rails against the music video game Guitar Hero, which allows the player to be rock star-ish without learning how to play an instrument. Bellman would rather ...

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