Courtney in Anchorage, Alaska, and her teenage son disagree: Should that collection of music be called a mixtape or a mixed tape? The former is far more common, and reflects that linguistic process known as lenition or “softening,” in...
If you release a collection of music on compact disc, can you still call it a record or an album? Or is it just a CD? A musician from Indiana wants an answer. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Is a Compact Disc a Record, an...
melotronic adj.— «Bickley-based musician Graham Smith has just completed an album called Eleven, inspired by the first Moon landing. The style of music is electronica / ambient, though Graham refers to it as “melotronic”—melodic...