Learning out Loud in Milwaukee, WI

Tag: music

  • Analog media is for the children

    We recently set up our record player in our living room. It had been connected into the whole house speaker system but we found we simply weren’t listening to records due to the cumbersome nature of that setup. We picked up a couple records at Rushmor on Record Store Day this year and took the…

  • Just a ten letter word

    I recently attended my first show at Red Rocks and it was as good as everyone has hyped the venue to be. The scene is beautiful, with a huge stage and brilliant sound (suggesting they had some good engineers, and good luck with the weather). We were also seeing some of my favorite acts: Atmosphere…

  • Coding on the 1s and 2s

    Brother Ali: Mourning in America and Living in Color (at 33 1/3 RPMs) I ended up working from home today. Even though I probably could have made it up the less-icy-than-expected hill our apartment is on by bike, I like working from home and the weather was a convenient excuse. I like it because my internet connecting is…

  • Sound City: American music, recording, and audiophiles

    Sound City is a documentary about the now defunct, eponymous Van Nuys studios. If you’ve never heard of the studios you’ve almost certainly heard music recorded there. The studios also hosted some of the most famous producers of the last 70 years, many of whom got their start as runners or assistants. The studios operated…