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How To Wreck A Nice Beach

Music journalist Dave Tompkins (Vibe, The Village Voice, Wax Poetics, etc) tracks the vocoder’s evolution from a speech scrambling weapon to a pop music institution in How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip Hop, the Machine Speaks, the debut release from Stop Smiling Books. Tonight the author will [...]