If you want to read a great classical music blog that emphasizes modern music, your search is over. Check out the Boom’s Dungeon blog.
The blog makes available recordings of music, often in FLAC format, that serious listeners might be interested in. Typically these are live recordings, but a few out of print LP recordings also are offered. Boom, as the blogger calls himself, never circulates commercially available recordings, i.e. he’s not a pirate.
This would be cool enough, but what makes Boom’s Dungeon a joy to read is the often funny and always biting writing, which sometimes veers away from music criticism. Here’s are the first couple of graphs from an Oct. 1 posting about pianist Till Fellner:
Years ago I had what must have been a Perfect Girlfriend: she was good looking, young (early twenties), intelligent (earned a Ph.D. from a top school a few years later), erudite in the visual arts, and musically informed. She also was honest, kind, and optimistic. Not once did she have a headache or lose her temper fighting traffic on LA freeways. I also could add that occasionally she would rebuild a carburetor as a pleasant diversion from writing her M.A. thesis, but I won’t because then you’ll be convinced that I’m shitting you. (I am not!)
Despite my Perfect Girlfriend’s long list of virtues, what I remember most vividly about the time I spent with her is my persistent feeling of boredom. She had everything I could ever ask for in a woman except personality. There was something so anonymous about her that when our relationship ended I only felt a sense of relief as I went back to dating cynical secretaries, neurotic two-bit actresses, disillusioned MILFs, and tattooed heavy metal chicks – all so abundantly distributed along the coast of Southern California as if God himself wanted to make life easy for a young guy of modest means and immodest libido.
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