Vital Weekly is the oldest e-mail magazine, which appears 48 times a year and has the latest experimental music reviews.
Vital started in 1987 as a paper magazine. Its simple xeroxed form ensured free copyright; everybody was encouraged to make and distribute copies. Until 1995, 44 issues were made, and with the arrival of the Internet, Vital changed into a pure review newsletter; since then, it has appeared online weekly, still as a free service and still without copyright.
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Read the latest Vital Weekly:
- Number 1435Week 18 “I haven’t included an artist name or credit on the CD sleeve but if you do write about it, you can credit to my name. It’s not hat I’m avoiding responsibility for all this, just prefer the music to exist independently of any sort of person or personality”. Hence this 3CD set is listed by – on Bandcamp. The previous releases I reviewed by – or the same label were credited to James Hamilton (Vital Weekly 1082) and JH (Vital Weekly 1331), so there is a gradual removal of personality already. Hamilton’s primary instrument is the Hammond organ… Read more: Number 1435
