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Happy Holidays!

Issue 48Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #74, the second of three December issues, and one of our biggest issues ever. We hope that those who celebrate it had a pleasant Hanukkah, and wish a very...

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Cables: Time is of the Essence, Part 1

Issue 48FEATURED

[If there’s a name that’s synonymous with wire and cables for electrical connections, it’s that of Belden. Belden is a multi-billion dollar corporation based in St. Louis, founded 115 years...

Brainz The Size of a Planet, Part 2

Issue 48QUIBBLES AND BITS

In the last edition of Copper, I introduced MusicBrainz, a crowd-sourced, free-to-use database of metadata for recorded music. From a skeptical beginning, I have come to appreciate that MusicBrainz is actually a...

The Stories that Just Wouldn’t Go Away in 2017

Issue 48INDUSTRY NEWS

The end of the year is often a time to look back at the significa of the preceding 365 days. Industry News generally features fast-breaking stories that preclude such a retrospective viewpoint—but...

“Go Tell Veronica…” – A Brief, Superficial Glim...

Issue 48FEATURED

Adam Sandler, in his impish introduction on Saturday Night Live to the original “Hanukkah Song”, quips, “There’s a lot of Christmas songs out there, but not that many Hanukkah songs. So, I...

Dan’s 100 Best Albums of 2017!

Issue 48SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

[If you’re looking for yet another remaster of Kind Of Blue or SPLHCB 50—this is not your list. If, however, you’re looking for new music, maybe outrageous music—Dan is your guy. Agree, disagre,...

What If Christmas Sucks?

Issue 48MUSIC TO MY EARS

Old Joke.  There are 10 kinds of people in the world.  Those who understand binary and those who don’t. But there is St Thomas Garnet’s theorem.  He postulated there are actually 3...

Matthew and the Atlas

Issue 48AND INDIE FOR ALL

In the 1960s, the folk music revival opened up a place for artists who loved traditional British song as much as they loved creating new material. Chief among those trad-influenced...

Opportunities

Issue 48MUSIC'AL NOTES

“It was the Armani coat that sealed the deal,” said Mike Creek. “What Armani coat?” I asked. Act One. Music Hall, my company, had been in business for about two...

Brit Psychedelics, Continued

Issue 48TWISTED SYSTEMS

Cream’s Disraeli Gears is being moved to a later issue. Here then are more UK contenders: The Move, Traffic, Procol Harum & The Yardbirds The Move—singles Why are they here?  They only...

An Embarrassment of Riches

Issue 48THE AUDIO CYNIC

Leave it to an indy hipster musician with several different noms de scène de musicien (stage names) to angst over having too much music. Funny thing is—I agree with him. James Jackson Toth is a...

Charley Hansen: RIP

Issue 48THE AUDIO CYNIC

Ayre Acoustics posted the following on the company Facebook page and website on Wednesday, November 29: “Charles Hansen 1956 – 2017 “With heavy hearts, we regret to inform you that Charles Hansen, founder of Ayre...

Oboe Quartets

Issue 48TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

What does an oboe sound like? If you fancy yourself a connoisseur of yin/yang balancing acts, oboes might well provide your soundtrack. On the one hand: honey. Golden, slow-pouring strands...

So This is Christmas…

Issue 48FEATURED

“So this is Christmas”, sings John Lennon, “And what have you done? Another year over.  And a new one just begun.” In our western society there is no holiday or seasonal...