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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Fictive music update

Welsey Stace's novel Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, a darkly comic tale of early-twentieth-century British music with resonances from the twisted life of Carlo Gesualdo, has been winning rave reviews in the UK.

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Why not hire a music critic as an 'American Idol' judge? Ten ...

With three "American Idol" judges potentially in play, Pop & Hiss would like to make a humble suggestion: that one of the new judges be a bona fide music critic or journalist. There are a number of reasons why this...

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