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From Boston with heartache
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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
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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
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Stan Horaczek  |  Nov 30, 2010  |  0 comments

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10 Best CDs of 2006
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 |  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
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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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A Talk with "Keeping Score" co-director Joan Saffa
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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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AC/DC: Black Ice; Metallica: Death Magnetic
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Jeff Perlah  |  Oct 23, 2008  |  0 comments
Columbia
Music •••• Sound •••½
Review
Warner
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All Dolled up and someplace to go
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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” . . .
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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
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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]
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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
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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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Beethoven-Piano Trios Nos. 2 and 5 (Ghost Trio)—Storioni Trio (PentaTone) [SACD/CD]
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Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 04, 2005  |  0 comments
Isn't it a little odd to squeeze a whole symphony orchestra into a living room? The great thing about chamber music is that it's designed to be played in the home, correctly scaled to your personal space. It's best heard live, of course-but, if you can't invite musicians over for tea, the next best thing might be to feed your universal disc player this well-recorded pair of Beethoven chamber works.
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Bela Fleck—Drive (Mobile Fidelity) [SACD]
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Adrienne Maxwell  |  Jan 11, 2006  |  First Published: Jul 11, 2005  |  0 comments
I don't know how many banjo players you can name, but I can come up with two: Bela Fleck and Roy Clark (and I had to cheat to get Roy Clark-before a trip to IMDB.com, it was "that guy from Hee-Haw"). Even if you've never heard of Bela Fleck, you've probably heard his music, as he's appeared on a ton of pop and jazz albums. He's won Grammys in the country, jazz, classical, and pop categories, but his roots are pure bluegrass.
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Billy Joel: A Matter of Trust: The Bridge
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Mike Mettler  |  Jun 20, 2014  |  0 comments
Performance
Sound
“What did you do in the Cold War, Daddy?” It was a question Billy Joel felt his daughter Alexa would ask someday, and at the height of the most decidedly chilly U.S.–Russian relations in the ’80s, Joel didn’t have an acceptable answer. So he packed up all of the gear, crew, and machinations behind his mammoth Bridge Tour and headed to Russia to spearhead the largest-scale tour a Western musician had ever done in the Soviet Union. A Matter of Trust is the four-disc box set that serves as an extended chronicle of the time in July and August 1987 when an animated American piano man opened the eyes and ears of an Eastern Bloc country just beginning to experience the rise of freedom.
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