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Said the Gramophone
Type of site
MP3 blog
Available in
English
Owner
Sean Michaels
URL
www.saidthegramophone.com
Commercial
No
Launched
2003
Current status
Active
Said the Gramophone is an mp3 blog launched in 2003, one of the first of its type. Founded by Montreal novelist Sean Michaels, as of 2016 the site is maintained with contributions by poet Emma Healey, zine-maker Jeff Miller and Mitz Takahashi. Its past editors were Toronto-based actor Dan Beirne (2004 to 2014), and Jordan Himelfarb (2004 to 2012), who subsequently became an editor at the Toronto Star.[1]
Said the Gramophone is strongly associated with Montreal's indie-rock scene. The site charted the rise of bands like Arcade Fire,[2] Wolf Parade[3] and Tune-Yards[4] and has been credited with introducing them to a wider audience.[citation needed] It was also among the first outlets to write about Beirut,[5] Nicolas Jaar,[6] Basia Bulat, Yeasayer,[7] Feist,[8] and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.[9][10]
Besides its longevity, Said the Gramophone has been recognized for its "inventive, literary style"[11] — using metaphor, anecdote and even short fiction to describe the way a song "feels" to the listener.[12] It is also notable for the way it has never accepted advertising, subsisting on occasional funding drives from its readers. In 2009, Time Magazine selected Said the Gramophone as one of the 25 best blogs in the world.[13]
Guest contributors to the blog have included Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear, Beirut, Silver Jews, novelist Jonathan Lethem, and critics Sasha Frere-Jones and Carl Wilson, among many others.[14]
^"Said the Gramophone: SAID THE GRAMOPHONE IS NEW AGAIN".
^"Said the Gramophone: The Arcade Fire".
^"Said the Gramophone: Wolf parade / Greg macpherson / Upwards and onwards!".
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musician, recording engineer and one of the earliest classical music producers for thegramophone. He did not use the term 'producer', and was not an impresario...
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of 18 nominations, and 9 Gramophone Awards in addition to its first and only "Piano Award". Murray (Moshe) was born in the Bronx borough of New York...
Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards and has won three Classic BRIT Awards and three German Echo Awards, and was a soloist at the BBC Last...
City of Westminster, London. It was established in November 1931 by theGramophone Company, a predecessor of British music company EMI, which owned it...
Industries Ltd was formed in March 1931 by the merger of the Columbia Graphophone Company and theGramophone Company, with its "His Master's Voice" record...
described as the first composer to take thegramophone seriously. Between 1914 and 1925, he conducted a series of acoustic recordings of his works. The introduction...
performers in the newly emerging industries of mass entertainment, such as thegramophone, theatre and later films. The earliest singers to record for the gramophone...
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