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New Movies for September 11, 2012: Who's the Fairest of Them All?
Josef Krebs  |  Sep 11, 2012  | 

Snow White and the Huntsman

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" Snow White - at least in terms of this Blu-ray disc. The film itself is sometimes exciting and engaging, sometimes draggy, but where sound and vision is concerned, it's reference quality.

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New Music For September 11, 2012: Sixties Redux with the Monkees, the Velvets - and the Beatles
Mark Smotroff  |  Sep 11, 2012  | 

Magical Mystery Cure

The really big news from overseas is that - FINALLY - The Beatles' legendary Magical Mystery Tour film extravaganza is being reissued with a proper remastering and a deluxe box set treatment.

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Weekend Update: Harry Potter Complete and Titanic 3D on Blu-ray
Josef Krebs  |  Sep 07, 2012  | 

September 07

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Midweek Music Update: Bob Dylan, David Byrne, Ian Hunter, Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, and More
Mark Smotroff  |  Sep 06, 2012  | 

It Don't Mean a Thing If You Ain't Got a Stream

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New Blu-rays for September 4, 2012: Loners, Avengers, Teenagers, and Supernatural Beings
Josef Krebs  |  Sep 04, 2012  | 

Person of Interest: The Complete First Season

Reclusive billionaire scientist Harold Finch (Michael Emerson) has built a machine. It processes information from an omnipresent surveillance network he's created for the government - and is able, based on that info, to predict terrorist events.

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New Music for September 4, 2012: Retro Sessions for All Ages
Michael Berk  |  Sep 04, 2012  | 

Animal Collective Centipede HZ

New Release (Domino)

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Weekend Listening: Lee Morgan and Kenny Burrell in High Resolution
Michael Berk  |  Aug 31, 2012  | 

Following on last month's release of six Blue Note/EMI jazz classics in brand-new high-resolution versions by HDtracks, the label, this week sees the release (again in fresh remasters, by Alan Yoshida and Robin Lynn, from the original analog tapes) a couple of gems recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in 1

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New Blu-rays for August 28, 2012: A Rich HD Harvest of TV Series
Josef Krebs  |  Aug 28, 2012  | 

Boardwalk Empire: Season 2

"After you get what you want you don't want what you wanted at all." A great sense of loss runs throughout Boardwalk Empire, the Terence Winter-created, Martin Scorsese-executive produced gangster series set in Atlantic City of the Roaring Twenties.

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New Music for August 28, 2012: Late Summer Doom, Gloom, and Glam
Michael Berk  |  Aug 28, 2012  | 

Remake/Remodel

Roxy Music The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982
Reissue (Virgin)

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New Blu-rays for August 21, 2012: The Hunger Games in HD, The Dictator Unrated, and More
Josef Krebs  |  Aug 21, 2012  | 

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New Music for August 21st, 2012: John Cale and Danger Mouse, Revisting R.E.M., and More
Mark Smotroff  |  Aug 21, 2012  | 

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New Blu-rays for August 14, 2012: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water
Josef Krebs  |  Aug 14, 2012  | 

Jaws

The arrival of a giant man-eating great white shark on the shores of a New England beach resort in 1975 and its cruise out of the universal unconsciousness and through the international zeitgeist from was a historical and game-changing event.

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New Music for August 14, 2012: Kronikling the Kinks
Mark Smotroff  |  Aug 14, 2012  | 

Kinks at the Beeb

Its been a great few years for us Kink Kroniklers. Ray Davies, of course, just played "Waterloo Sunset" to the packed house at the 2012 Olympics' closing ceremony.

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New Blu-rays for August 7, 2012: Cowboys, Cops, Monsters, and Martyrs
Josef Krebs  |  Aug 07, 2012  | 

Rio Grande and Johnny Guitar

This week Olive Films are releasing these two classic westerns from the early 1950s. Rio Grande (1950) is part of what is known as John Ford’s cavalry trilogy — along with Fort Apache (1948) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) — based on stories by James Warner Bellah.

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New Music for August 7, 2012: Tripping The Wing Beat Fantastic
Mark Smotroff  |  Aug 07, 2012  | 

Mike Kennealy
Wing Beat Fantastic

New Release (Exowax)

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