Here's a press release about No Depression, a site that will bring great roots music writing back into the picture. I've never heard the term bookazine before, but according to Dennis Publishing it's:
Essentially a Bookazine is a perfect-bound, magazine-sized soft back book focusing on a particular subject matter. These bookazines are sold on the magazine racks and are priced between £6.95 and £9.99 with production values to reflect this price.
Oxford American's editor Marc mentioned some time ago that this was happening, and I'm excited to see that The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing is now soon to be available from University of Arkansas Press. The book collects 10 years of the magazine's great music issues (from which come BMW stories almost every year) and there's a forward by Van Dyck Parks. Awesome.
[note: I'm the coordinator for this conference! Email me if you have questions!]
Here's a good musing by Matos on the deluge of music in our "celestial jukebox" lives, and how critics might deal with it. He's taling about getting into Duke Ellington, and the great big learning curve every critic must face when tackling a new genre or mode of listening.
To celebrate the newest volume of this highly anticipated annual "Best", Ann Powers hosts a panel of other noted music writers (and contributors to this year's book) that will include Solvej Schou, Oliver Wang, Jeff Weiss, Brandon Perkins, J. Bennett and more.