Grateful Dead’s vault recordings find new online home
The Grateful Dead’s live recordings have an online home fit for the streaming age.
A collection of hundreds of performances and albums by one of The City’s most iconic bands will appear on Play Dead, an app released Thursday by the San Francisco-based music-streaming company Nugs.
Play Dead will debut with 20 previously unreleased shows from the Grateful Dead’s vault, and new releases will be added to the app every week.
Longtime Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux curated the offerings by combing through shelves in the band’s vault and turning physical tapes into audio files. The high-resolution recordings were enhanced for sound quality and mastered by producer David Glasser.
Deadheads will have the option of listening to the band’s live recordings in chronological order by performance date.
Your single access point to films, images and texts from selected collections of 40 film archives across Europe
The EFG Portal gives you quick and easy access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials. Targeted at scientific researchers and the interested public alike, the EFG offers a look at and behind the scenes of filmmaking in Europe from the early days until today. The EFG facilitates online access to historical documents and leads you directly to the archives that hold the originals.
Letterform Archive offers a visual explosion of the 1970s–80s punk scene in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco.
“From the very beginning, punk’s visual art was deliberately simple, DIY, anybody could make it if you had a demented enough brain. All it took was scissors or a razor blade and some glue, and you could make collages…One wicked idea, especially one that’s going to offend everybody who sees it, that’s the way to go.” — Jello Biafra
Since 2003, we’ve been traveling through time to rediscover and share the legacy of MTV’s 120 Minutes, the classic U.S. TV series that exposed a vast collection of alternative music videos, artist interviews, and live performances to a diverse range of music enthusiasts across several generations.
This project captures and revisits the memories of 27 years of Music Television—this is the soundtrack of our lives.
With hundreds of volunteer contributors like you, we assembled this incredible archive from scratch, rebuilding nearly the entire history of 120 Minutes. Inside, you’ll find the playlists and music videos for 1,005 episodes, spanning across the various iterations of 120 Minutes on both MTV and MTV2 from 1986 to 2013, as well as Subterranean, its successor from 2003 to 2011.
Collection of over 9,000 of the best images from Shorpy.com available as museum-quality prints on archival papers or canvas. For the archive start here
A Norwegian company is preparing what they say is a doomsday vault, intended to preserve a huge variety of music’s most important works, on an arctic island midway between the North Pole and Norway.
The vault, the company say, can survive underground for 1,000 years
From Australian Indigenous music to classics by The Beatles, the Oslo-based Elire Management Group claim the vault – dubbed the Global Music Vault – will endure for at least 1,000 years, buried on the Svalbard archipelago beneath ice and snow at a depth of 1,000 feet. Read more here
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future. Because of that, much of the Swiss-German Bauhaus-associated painter’s work, which at its most distinctive defines its own category of abstraction, still exudes a vitality today. Read More Click Here
The New York Public Library is issuing 6,000 limited-edition library cards to celebrate the opening of the Lou Reed Archive. Credit Jonathan Blanc/The New York Public Library
By Sara Aridi March 15, 2019
After
two years of cataloging and preparing, the Lou Reed Archive at the New
York Public Library’s performing arts branch at Lincoln Center opens to
the public on Friday. And to celebrate, the library is issuing 6,000
limited-edition library cards featuring an image of Reed taken by Mick Rock in 1972.
The library acquired the archive — a large collection of notes, photographs, and more than 600 hours of recordings — after the rocker’s wife, Laurie Anderson, decided to share it with an institution that could preserve and showcase it.
Before Reed died in 2013, he had never discussed what to do with his belongings, Anderson said in a phone interview.
