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U2: No Line on the Horizon
Brett Milano  |  Mar 03, 2009  |  0 comments
Interscope
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If you read the album title a certain way, No Line on the Horizon sounds pretty funny: Wouldn't that be the
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U2: The Joshua Tree – Super Deluxe Edition
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 12, 2017  |  0 comments
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“Outside, it’s America.” That’s U2 vocalist Bono, setting the stage for the explosive climax of “Bullet the Blue Sky,” one of the pivotal tracks on the band’s 1987 masterpiece, The Joshua Tree. As Bono purposefully charges his way through the denouement of the narrative, ace guitarist The Edge literally dive-bombs the aural equivalent of the lyrical floodlights—let’s call them “flood-licks”—through a series of unrelenting scorched-earth riffs while the track careens to its final U.S. caress.
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Use care when operating CD player
Jeff Perlah  |  Jun 22, 2009  |  0 comments
Shady/Aftermath/Interscope
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"Push down & turn." That's what you'll see etched onto the CD when you crack open
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Vinyl LP Review: Mark Knopfler's Get Lucky
Mike Mettler  |  Jan 02, 2010  |  0 comments

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We Have Our Winner!
Michael Berk  |  Aug 16, 2011  |  0 comments

District 97 has won over some impressive fans. Bill Bruford and John Wetton have been singing the praises of the band's debut, Hybrid Child. And S+V's editorial staff was equally unable to resist the Chicagoans' progressive pop in selecting the band as our first Breaking Out contest winner.

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Welcome to the Machines
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Nov 08, 2011  |  0 comments

The genius of Pink Floyd's music is intertwined with the genius of the recording of the music. And the innovative studio techniques used by the band and its producers and recording engineers are integral to the music. It's impossible to imagine The Dark Side of the Moon without vital creative touches such as the sound of clanging money or thumping heartbeats. Perhaps no other band has pushed the technical envelope so aggressively, or profited from it so enormously. The catalog of their works is one of innovation - both musically and sonically.

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Witt & Wisdom
Mike Mettler  |  Aug 16, 2011  |  0 comments

YOU’RE SCRAMBLING NOW, thinking, Wait — I recognize her . . . don’t I? Yes — yes, you do. Can’t quite place her though, hmm? (She might actually appreciate that; she doesn’t like or seek being typecast.)

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Workingman's Dead - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 02, 2020  |  2 comments
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The Grateful Dead couldn't catch a break. Sure, they were the head-trip belles of San Francisco's 1960s psychedelic ball, but they were unable to get their recording act together enough to cut an album that best captured their true spirit—that is, until they struck prospector's gold with their fourth studio album, June 1970's Workingman's Dead. By dialing back on the overtly psychedelic-cum-outré experimental modes that dominated June 1968's Anthem of the Sun and June 1969's Aoxomoxoa and instead zeroing in on their folk-bred songcraft for Workingman's, the Dead had finally found their recording niche at last.
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XTP: Skylarking
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 03, 2011  |  0 comments
 
Ape House
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Funny thing about this 1986 album: Despite its Pepper-y production by Todd Rundgren, it has always sounded . . . what, exactly? Thin?

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!
Rob O'Connor  |  May 18, 2009  |  0 comments
Dress Up/DGC/Interscope
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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third studio album is another major advancement in the Manhattan-hatched trio's so
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Your Garage or Mine?
Ken Richardson  |  May 05, 2003  |  0 comments
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Zappa: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Deluxe Edition
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 26, 2021  |  0 comments
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It's hard to fathom counterculture icon and multitalented musician nonpareil Frank Zappa left this mortal coil almost three full decades ago in December 1993, given the sheer range of archival and new releases that continue to arise from the vaults of his legendary Utility Muffin Research Kitchen (UMRK)—a.k.a., Zappa's onetime home studio. Fact is, many of them were personally sequenced, mixed, and/or produced by the man himself before his untimely passing at age 52.
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“Keeping Score”: Where the Classics Are Current — and High-Tech
Robert Ripps  |  Jul 02, 2011  |  0 comments

“I sometimes think I should’ve been a filmmaker rather than a musician.”

So says Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor and music director of the San Francisco Symphony.

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