#149 - Bakersfield’s World Records | Code in Music | Music Snobbery
Jay brings us a genuine feel good story this week. World Records, in Bakersfield California, is celebrating its 40th year in business and it is quite a success story. A recent article in SFGate applauds their model and notes they’ve been able to do live music without relying on any major ticketing service. You buy your ticket at the record shop and the show is in the back, it’s pretty sweet!
Song: Joe Maneri - “Paniots Nine”
Nick came across a wild story in Wired this week about a saxophonist that smuggled messages into the USSR via encoded music notation. Merryl Goldberg’s trip makes for quite a story, as the KGB suspects her ensemble is somehow communicating with members of the Phantom Orchestra, but never thought to look closer at the pages of music she had alongside her the whole trip. Check out the story over at Wired.
Song: GoGo Penguin - “The Antidote is in the Poison”
Finally, Greg noticed, on his social feeds, that there seemed to be a lot of music snobbery about kids getting into an old Kate Bush song after it was used in a particular scene in Stranger Things. Feeling like we’re safely on the other side of this 20/30-something phenomenon, we discuss whether we have an issue with discovering music from popular television shows (we don’t), times in our lives when we’ve been the music snob and why we can’t condone it anymore. It was quite an interesting conversation, hope you enjoy! :-)
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