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The Anti-Music Issue

Keeping It Bleak
There are certain types of tours where you barely make it off the floor. And if you do, the couch is a sweet, sweet blessing.
EMA, Tara Tavi
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Fear Of Music
Do you know someone who says they don’t like music? Someone who doesn't own a single CD or an iPod? Are they always turning the radio down? And when pressed on the subject, do they shrug and say they don’t really “get” music?
Mark Allen, Tara Sinn
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Letter From The Guest Editor
Here's some advice for anyone pondering guest-editing the Anti-Music Issue of a magazine in the future: Don't tell anyone else what you're doing. It'll just complicate things.
Sam McPheeters
8.1.10
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A Reader & Writer’s Guide To Reading Writing About Music
Words hard. Writing about music can be almost as hard as reading about music. This handy little glossary should help you around both chores of modern living. Either way, it’s all about the music. Let’s be clear on that
Neil Burke
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Life Sans Music
As I write this, I am recovering from spending two weeks without hearing music of any sort. Two. Fucking. Weeks. It’s been awful, really awful, and, for the most part, mind-bendingly depressing.
Ben Cohen, Neil Buckingham
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

$ell Your Music With Prose!
In the 1990s, the manufacturing cost of a compact disc was a little over a dime. It had cost four times as much to manufacture a vinyl album, meaning that the switch from vinyl to CD slashed operating costs for record labels large enough to own the...
Oliver Hall, T. Sheppard Shanks
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Downloading Some Bullshit
Many, many people believe that the Recording Industry Association of America is a giant hairy tumor on the neck of the music business.
Rocco Castoro
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Vice Comics
Natch
Johnny Ryan
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

All Music Is Shit To God
Music is so embedded in all aspects of culture today that one rarely pauses to question the validity of the form itself. But is music even a legitimate form of art?
Anthony Berryman, Rick Froberg
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

On The Misuse Of Music
If the world, at this juncture in time, is characterized by one thing, it is music. Music is being blasted from cars and into ears through earbuds, piped into shopping malls, in public parks, on TV—everywhere. But is this a good thing?
Ian F. Svenonius, Nicholas Gazin
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Vice Comics
Carol I'm home.
Lizz Hickey
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Musicians
Behind the scenes of reality TV, there is a person called a story producer. Their job is to stand over an editor’s shoulder and craft countless hours of quotidian bullshit into compelling drama.
John Michaels
8.1.10
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