-
Recent Posts
- Follow Katherine Wikoff on WordPress.com
Subscribe
-
Join 886 other subscribers
Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsLatest Tweets
- RT @Scobleizer: Steve Jobs, when he formed his first iPhone team of about a dozen people, told them "you are not allowed to hire anyone who… 6 hours ago
- RT @_agharass: Photographer William Eggleston https://t.co/dnulN0RLY9 4 days ago
- @SHM2024 Nicely said! 6 days ago
- Really nice article from November profiling Brendan Fraser. gq.com/story/brendan-… 6 days ago
Click here to find me (Katherine Wikoff) on Facebook
Categories
- 500 tabs and counting down
- architecture
- Art
- “Reblogged” posts from other writers
- Books and reading
- Creativity
- Digital society
- Food
- Grammar, punctuation, usage, mechanics
- Higher education
- History
- Learning
- Life
- Little Free Library
- Media studies
- Milwaukee
- Movies and film
- Music
- Nature
- News
- Northern Soul
- Photography
- poetry
- Political Analysis
- Popular culture
- Science
- Teaching
- Technology
- Television
- Travel
- Uncategorized
- UX (user experience)
- WPLongform (posts of 1000 words or longer)
- Writing, blogging
Archives
- March 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- July 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
Meta
Tag Archives: music
A chance encounter with “Tubular Bells”
Heard this old song on the radio driving home today. It has literally been YEARS since I’ve heard it or even thought about it. The song, “Tubular Bells,” was released in 1973 and went on to be used as the … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, History, Media studies, Movies and film, Music, Popular culture
Tagged creativity, Media studies, movies, music
1 Comment
Thoughts on Patti Smith
Patti Smith was a little before my time. Definitely WAY outside the bounds of my Midwestern sensibilities by the time I became aware of her during my high school years. Smith was that punk performer, the one in New York who urinated onstage and … Continue reading
The Northern Soul Project – Some Background (post #2)
To recap: I stumbled across the term “Northern Soul” a week ago while trying to see if the Dusty Springfield part of the Pet Shop Boys’ “What Have I Done to Deserve This,” was actually one of her old songs. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Learning, Life, Movies and film, WPLongform (posts of 1000 words or longer)
Tagged "Northern Soul: Living for the Weekend", #NorthernSoul, blues music, Keith Richards, Keith Richards "Life", learning, Manchester, Mick Jagger, Motown, music, Northern soul, R&B, The Twisted Wheel, Titter hastags, Wigan Casino
3 Comments
Lynyrd Skynyrd – 35 years later
I just realized that yesterday was the 35th anniversary of the plane crash that killed three members of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, and several members of their crew. High school dances are mostly DJ-powered … Continue reading
Happy birthday, Rod Temperton!
Today is Rod Temperton’s 65th birthday, according to Wikipedia. For reasons I’m not completely sure of, I’ve always paid attention to songwriting credits. Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall album had three really great songs written by someone named Rod Temperton: “Off … Continue reading
Sonia – Blues Radio DJ
Last week Friday I was fortunate to spend time in the radio booth with Sonia, who hosts “The Blues Drive” every Friday afternoon on 91.7 WMSE (“Frontier Radio, anti-established in 1981”), a radio station owned and operated by Milwaukee School … Continue reading
George Martin: the man behind the Beatles’ sound
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a fascinating story on / interview with George Martin, the man who produced all of the Beatles’ music except the Let It Be album. A BBC documentary titled Produced by George Martin is being released … Continue reading
Recording Academy pushes for digital songwriter credits
A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about how I’d noticed that iTunes doesn’t give credit to songwriters. It looks like I’m not the only person who wishes things were different. According to an AP story by Mesfin Fekadu … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged digital liner notes, Give Fans the Credit, music, Recording Academy
Leave a comment
Who writes the songs that make the whole world sing? (Barry Manilow, for one)
Walking on the treadmill earlier today, I kept skimming through my iPod to pick out whatever suited my workout fancy of the moment. At one point I idly wondered whether the song I was listening to had been written by the … Continue reading