some emusic articles

How to Make a Comedy Album
by Todd Barry

"If you've listened to a comedy album, you probably had the same reaction as you did the first time you saw The Matrix. How do they do that? That seems like a production nightmare.

"Danielson, Seeking and Finding
by Douglas Wolk

"There were two questions people tended to ask about the band when we started raving, or when a song we put on a mix jumped out at someone who heard it. The answer to the first one is that, yes, they are totally 100% in earnest about the Christian thing; the answer to the second one is that, yes, even though they sound like they're as far out of the orbit of "normal" pop as the nuttiest outsider musicians, they totally, 100%, know exactly what they are doing — the first Danielson performance was Daniel's senior-thesis project for art school. "

Folk-Not-Folk
by Keith Harris

"Folk music — we all know what that is, right?"