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Crawdaddy! Goes 21st Century

Crawdaddy! The venerable music zine of the late 60's is back—this time paperless. Sort of the Pitchfork of its day, Crawdaddy! was the first to sing the praises of a number of soon-to-be rock legends with its "intelligent writing about pop music."

The zine has gone all internet and sh*t by joining the Wolfgang's Vault family. Current features include articles on Wilco and Jonathan Richman.

Check it out: Crawdaddy!
Posted on 06/04/2007 | Comments(0) | Permalink
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Pete Townshend to Launch Music Composing Website

Pete Townshend
Method acting
The Who's Pete Townshend is getting into the website game (via Billboard):
Pete Townshend utilized his keynote address at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, tonight (March 15) to unveil a new music Web site dubbed the Method. The concept was first introduced in the early 1970s via music intended for "Lifehouse," which eventually morphed into the Who's "Who's Next" album.

Starting in late April, the program, designed by Lawrence Ball, will allow Web site subscribers the chance to "create their own musical composition by 'sitting' for the Method software composer, just as you would site for a painter making your portrait," according to a statement. Townshend, who turns 62 in May, previously used the program to inspire "Fragments," the opening song on the new Who studio album, "Endless Wire."

"You enter data about yourself, you share some stuff about how you feel, and you get back a piece of music," he said. "There was no computer in 1971 big enough or powerful enough to do what I wanted it to do, and of course, there was no Internet."

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