totally revamped Contrabass Conversations site

After a few hiccups here and there, I’m proud to announce a totally redesigned Contrabass Conversations site. This professional design should hopefully serve the podcast well as it heads into the future, and I’d love to hear reader reactions to this site....

Great interview with Ranaan Meyer

I just completed an excellent interview with Time for Three bassist Ranaan Meyer. John Grillo (a Contrabass Conversations regular) and I co-interviewed Ranaan, and you can expect the first part of this interview on next week’s podcast.Ranaan is well-versed in...

Bass shot of the day

The Creole Quartet plays a little jazz on the Heart of Wales line in this photo en route from Swansea to Shrewsbury:Related Posts:Maggini exhibition photobeautiful Millennium Park photodemotivational postersBassfest 2007 photos and videoBass hedge from Robert...

Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

I stumbled upon a fascinating essay recently through Dana Boyd’s blog about how class differences manifest themselves in whether a teen chooses to use Facebook or MySpace. In it, she hypothesizes that the ‘preps’ go for Facebook while the...