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The S+V Interview: Ozzy Osbourne
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 07, 2010

And in an instant, lo, a hole in the sky appeared, and then it hit me like (bang bang) Maxwell's Silver Hammer when "Get Back," the Beatles? 1969 classic song to roller-coast by, cued up on my iPod during one morning's commute. As Paul McCartney's lead vocal embraced the song's galloping melody line, a great revelation emerged: I can sing Black Sabbath?s "Paranoid" to the same tune! Black Sabbath, the dark lords of melody . . . revealed!

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The S+V Interview: Talking Tech and More with Singer Julie Feeney
Ken Richardson  |  Apr 20, 2012

Some fellas look at the eyes
Some fellas look at the nose
Some fellas look at the size
Some fellas look at the clothes . . .

First I look at the purse.

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The S+V Interview: Van Halen’s David Lee Roth
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 07, 2012

In honor of today’s release of A Different Kind of Truth, the first album from Van Halen with David Lee Roth as lead vocalist since 1984, we’re proud to present an interview I did with the inimitable Mr. Roth back in 2003. Our chat was ostensibly centered around his covers-oriented solo album Diamond Dave, but we quickly went into, well, a different universe. “As far as learning the alphabet of music goes,” opined the ever-quotable Dave, “I always tell young musicians, ‘Last I looked, the Bible was written in the exact same alphabet as my favorite pornography. So I guess the choice is yours, son.’” As the song says, might as well jump. . .

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The Tragically Hip: We Are the Same
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 19, 2009
Zoë/Rounder
Music •••• Sound ••••
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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The Traveling Wilburys: Revisited & Remastered
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 26, 2016
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There are supergroups, and then there are The Traveling Wilburys. The wink/nudge humor behind the band name and the multiple nicknames of its five members is all George Harrison, the late Monty Python–loving Beatle, who put together a cream-of-the-crop collective for a pair of fabulously harmonious albums, 1988’s Vol. 1 and 1990’s Vol. 3. Harrison coined the word “Wilbury” in reference to in-studio recording gaffes attributed to faulty equipment, of which he told producer Jeff Lynne: “We’ll bury ’em in the mix.”
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The Vinyl Never Lies: The Full Henry Rollins Interview
Mike Mettler  |  Aug 25, 2011

We bring you, at last, the full version of our talk with Henry Rollins that ran in the September print and iPad editions of Sound+Vision. Enjoy!

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The Vinyl Never Lies: The Full Henry Rollins Interview Page 2
Mike Mettler  |  Aug 25, 2011

We bring you, at last, the full version of our talk with Henry Rollins that ran in the September print and iPad editions of Sound+Vision. Enjoy!

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, April 24, 2012
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 24, 2012

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, December 6, 2011
Josef Krebs  |  Dec 06, 2011

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, Feb. 7, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Feb 07, 2012

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, January 10, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Jan 10, 2012

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, January 17, 2012
Josef Krebs  |  Jan 17, 2012

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, January 24, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Jan 24, 2012

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, July 10, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Jul 10, 2012

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, July 24, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Jul 24, 2012

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