Archive - Rino’s stack

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Re-thinking content, with new video content.

Jul 3 •

January 2025

Fatbergs and Sinkholes

A loose cultural framework for our times.

Jan 24 •

December 2024

On building your own instrument

On the interesting crossover between making sound AND the soundtool.

Dec 11, 2024 •

October 2024

So bands are over (for now)?

There's more reasons than Rick Beato noted...

Oct 3, 2024 •

August 2024

Lenny Kravitz: Mama Said: Retrostalgia

My love and discomfort with Lenny's best album.

Aug 8, 2024 •

Locked and unlocked music

A thought experiment on musical form and freedom.

Aug 1, 2024 •

July 2024

The Social Media Musician

This is the Age of the Social Media Musician, for better and/or worse.

Jul 24, 2024 •

Neil Young - Heart of Gold

In many ways the perfect Neil Young song.

Jul 17, 2024 •

Degrees of late night music

A long read guide to the music that sounds better late at night.

Jul 9, 2024 •

The Velvet Underground — Ocean

Notes on Lou's true decadent songs.

Jul 9, 2024 •

The Grateful Dead play Hard to Handle

The good/better/best version of a song... is a rabbit hole for fans.

Jul 9, 2024 •

What makes Elvis great?

My primer on the King.

Jul 9, 2024 •

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