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From Boston with heartache
Brett Milano  |  Mar 10, 2009  |  0 comments
Spill
Music ••• Sound •••
There's a certain kind of female singer/songwriter that seems to flourish in New England: thoughtful, emotionally intense, a
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From Genesis: 5.1 Revelations
Ken Richardson  |  Feb 09, 2009  |  0 comments
Rhino
Music •••• DVD-Video Surround Mix •••• Extras ••••
In the afterglow of the heyday of multichannel music, it's getting harder
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'Gimme Shelter' Isolated Studio Tracks Posted on Youtube
Stan Horaczek  |  Nov 30, 2010  |  0 comments

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10 Best CDs of 2006
 |  Feb 03, 2007  |  0 comments

Billy Altman's Top 10 of 2006 Best Sound on CD

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium (Warner Bros.). Producer Rick Rubin's frenetic, skittering sound helps these four eternally Lost Boy punk/funkers stay hungry - and relevant.

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10 Great Music Documentaries Streaming on Netflix
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 02, 2010  |  0 comments

In the heyday of Blockbuster, music documentaries and concert videos were tough to find unless you were willing to settle for musty oldies like the Three Tenors or musty newbies like Britney Spears. But the rise of video-streaming technology - and in particular, Netflix's Watch Instantly streaming service - has made music-video content of all types easier to access.

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10 Top Concert Blu-ray Discs
Mike Mettler  |  May 21, 2020  |  16 comments
One thing our ongoing pandemic lockdown continues to remind many of us music lovers of on a daily basis is just how much we all miss attending live concert events.
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A Talk with "Keeping Score" co-director Joan Saffa
Robert Ripps  |  Jun 20, 2011  |  0 comments

Robert Ripps: From your perspective, how has Keeping Score evolved since its 2004 premiere, both artistically and technologically?

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Abbey Road - Anniversary Edition (Super Deluxe Version)
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 06, 2019  |  2 comments
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The Beatles were, for all intents and purposes, over. While new, original music would follow in May 1970 with the release of Let It Be, the balance of the recording sessions for what ultimately became September 1969's Abbey Road is generally acknowledged as the in-studio swan song for those four Liverpool moptops who forever defined, if not outright created, the popular music artform in the 1960s.
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AC/DC: Black Ice; Metallica: Death Magnetic
Jeff Perlah  |  Oct 23, 2008  |  0 comments
Columbia
Music •••• Sound •••½
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Warner
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Al Stewart: Year of the Cat: 45th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 09, 2021  |  0 comments
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Al Stewart is the kind of seasoned artist known for being well worth the wait. The Scottish-born and London-bred Stewart initially focused on mining a folk-driven vein when he made his debut with October 1967's orchestrally buttressed Bed Sitter Images, and it took the burgeoning singer/songwriter five more albums and another eight years until he truly hit his stride with March 1975's Modern Times.
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All Dolled up and someplace to go
Jaan Uhelszki  |  May 19, 2009  |  0 comments
Atco/Rhino
Music •••½ Sound •••½
Rarely has a reunion been as successful as the 2004 reconstitution of the New York Dolls.
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Allen Toussaint, from “St. James Infirmary” . . .
Brett Milano  |  Apr 28, 2009  |  0 comments
Nonesuch
Music •••½ Sound •••½
It took Elvis Costello (via the 2006 collaboration The River in Reverse) to remind the world
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Art for Rock's Sake
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 10, 2003  |  0 comments
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Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin, Dance Suite, Hungarian Pictures—Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Marin Alsop (Naxos) [DVD-Audio, SACD/CD, CD]
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 26, 2005  |  0 comments
Imagine the score for a 33-minute film noir with nonstop action. That's Béla Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin in a nutshell, although it's actually a one-act dance suite. The story concerns three thugs who use a young woman as bait to rob a series of victims, culminating in the Mandarin. They murder him—but not before he consummates his passion for the girl. The plot had enough sex and violence to get it banned immediately upon its 1926 debut in Köln, Germany.
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Beatles For Sale
Mike Mettler  |  Nov 20, 2012  |  0 comments

Original Studio Album Remasters Stereo Vinyl Box Set

The Holy Vinyl Grail, Part 1 officially arrived in stores November 13. I was blessed to get the Beatles' original studio album remasters stereo vinyl box delivered to me a full month early, and I still feel that I haven't spent enough time with the 14 albums contained therein.

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