I'm gunna plug my friend's site, that he's been running since the naughties on roughly the equivalent of three pieces of gum and some bailing wire with a PATA drive alligator clipped in. He does interviews and the like - even has a DVD! Probably has a similar archive of music - probably more bootlegs / ID, though.<p>my understanding is, if you're in to punk...
<a href="https://www.punkrockdemo.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.punkrockdemo.com/</a><p>re:<p>> “We want people to realize that in one fell swoop, the Center for Popular Music is going to be the new epicenter of punk-related research,” Reish told California media outlet SFGate.com.<p>p.s. the site probably runs on BSD. 99.999% probability. also i just discovered there's a podcast and live programming. This is actually cooler than i thought when i thought to link it...
How bizarre to think that when I was mailing records to MRR for review in the 90’s, I was also nominating them for inclusion in an archive of punk.<p>Life is strange, and I’m glad librarians and archivists exist.
As a proud graduate of MTSU's CS department, I'm so happy to see my school listed here. Even back in the 1990s when I attended there, everyone knew the recording industry program was something special. For a small to medium town, Murfreesboro had an incredible music scene.<p>I loved getting my bachelor's degree there. Best 9 years of my life :-D
Neat. I found a pen pal via MRR - lost touch for 30 years, found him a couple years ago, exchanging post cards now.<p>I digitized one of the VHS tapes we traded; presented for your enjoyment. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOgT48pM4GcsfPMvrDEUWQApMd_Zy-5RE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOgT48pM4GcsfPMvrDEUW...</a>
The MRR archive is probably the single most important collection in the field of punk music and I am glad that it has found a (hopefully) permanently safe home. Would be amazing if Center for Popular Music would digitize the materials - with the green tape and all - and index it for the public.<p>There's so many things there that nobody has probably seen or heard in decades, not to mention letters, notes and other additions along side records and flyers.<p>Also it's a fuzzy feeling to imagine one of my recordings is now laying around in a box in MTSU, waiting for someone to discover it possibly decades after.<p>Support your local libraries and archives and all the librarians and archivists!
I'm glad to see this material has a home, but I'm curious why it didn't end up at some institution in the Bay Area close to MMR's home
MTSU has a rather well known recording industry department, probably driven by the fact it's located in a suburb of Nashville, itself called 'Music City.'<p>While definitely not traditionally known for punk, I don't think it's a bad choice.