(with a tip of the hat to Charles Keil's "Music Mediated and Live in Japan," one of the first academic articles about karaoke)
Sasha Frere-Jones has a short essay in The New Yorker about the phenomenon of the usage of laptops in live performance. Check it out.
Otherwise, I haven't had too much time recently to listen to music (or think about it and write up my thoughts here). But Kanye's got a new single, which doesn't have any rapping--it's completely sung by Kanye with Auto-Tune on it. You can hear it on his blog, here. Or, you can see the live performance of it from the VMAs, here. Evidently he's got a new album coming out this year with a great title, 808's & Heartbreak. Is he going to be singing on the album, as he is on this single? Only time will tell.
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