The MC Hammer school of English

It’s video Friday here on the blog this week! I found this adorable and amazing performance of a Taiwanese English class through a recent Boing Boing post. Although utterly hilarious from a native English speaker perspective (especially given the MC Hammer...

Royalties for musicians? What are you talking about?

Elaine Fine posted this video on her Musical Assumptions blog recently, demonstrating the relative level of importance that government places on music and music performers here in the United States. Listen to Bush’s response to the question posed to him by an...

Scott Rosenthal on this weekend’s Contrabass Conversations episode

I hope that folks enjoyed our interview with Eric Hochberg that was released yesterday. This special mid-week episode featured the conclusion of our interview from earlier this year plus some music from Eric. These shorter mid-week episodes will come out from time to...

Fall = more writing time

I hope that readers enjoyed yesterday’s installment of Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. If you’re looking for more long form original content (stories, articles, essays, and he like), just click the Articles link in the upper left hand corner of...