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Here are a few musical links you may find interesting. A really fine, young band from Austin, The Wild Feathers, gave The Vinyl District an interview in January 2014. You can read it here . 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair have teamed together to come out with their 2014 music poll. It covers everything from how good or bad today's music is (Guess what? It stinks), to which band you would want to go back in time to see, to the sexiest musical instrument to play. Here are the results . A very intelligent music blog, Any Major Dude With Half A Heart , posts a monthly In Memoriam series that is so popular that when it's publisher tried to end it a couple of years back due to time constraints his readers begged him to carry on. The blog compiles and honors anyone in the music business who passed away the month before, from the most famous to the very obscure. It's a must read. In 2007, recent Rock Hall of Fame inductee, Daryl Hall, began recording full length concerts ...

Below are some interesting music related odds and ends from around the web for you to enjoy while Bloggerhythms is on hiatus for a couple of weeks. See you in early October. Let's start with an article by JC Mosquito (yes, that's his online moniker), a writer for Something Else Reviews . It's about "Taxi," a minor, 1972 hit from singer-songwriter Harry Chapin that seems to be forgotten today. Here's a long but very good interview with Billy Joel from The New York Times Magazine . Murray Gershenz, owner of almost a half million records, has passed away. Read all about him and watch the video about his huge and remarkable collection. At first it appeared that the ipod classic was going to become a thing of the past but after the recently concluded Apple event the old friend is still around. Read about it here . Please take a look at Mike's Basement , an interesting music blog I recently discovered, published by Mike Marrone, the program director of ...