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West Side Story: 1 Hand 1 Heart 50 Years
SV Staff  |  Nov 07, 2007  |  0 comments
Yes, a belated "Happy Birthday!" to the landmark musical by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. At this very moment, I happen to be sitting directly across the street from the Winter Garden Theatre, where West Side Story opened on...
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Floyd, U2, Radiohead in surround. NOT!
SV Staff  |  Nov 08, 2007  |  0 comments
It's getting tougher and tougher these days to cheerlead the cause of music in surround sound. No, we at S&V aren't giving up. But, coming so soon after hearing that we're getting the best of Led Zeppelin on stereo CD (again) as opposed to any...
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Weekend Update: Fagen, Gilmour, Zep, Radiohead
SV Staff  |  Nov 09, 2007  |  0 comments
Can't find some prominent music releases on MVI, Blu-ray, HD DVD, and CD that we previewed recently? The dates, they keep a-changin': Donald Fagen: Nightfly Trilogy (Reprise/ Rhino). Originally conceived as a three-MVI set for release on...
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Update Update: Radiohead
SV Staff  |  Nov 12, 2007  |  0 comments
Monday, Monday / Entrust that date: Comes word this morning (at 6:03 a.m., to be exact) that the regular CD of Radiohead's In Rainbows will now be released on January 2, 2008. (See my post immediately below.) The parent label is indeed the ATO...
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What Means Innovation?
SV Staff  |  Nov 19, 2007  |  0 comments
Each year at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Consumer Electronics Association highlights top new products in select categories and honors them with Innovations awards. The tech press got a peak at winners last week at a pre-CES event in New...
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First Look: Amazon Kindle
SV Staff  |  Nov 25, 2007  |  0 comments
I've always been intrigued by the electronic book, but none of the models that has hit the market to date--from Sony, RCA and others--has jazzed me enough to want to invest in the medium. After all, I like books. I like to store them on a shelf...
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Back to . . . Open-Reel?!
SV Staff  |  Nov 29, 2007  |  0 comments
You say you've (re)discovered vinyl? Fuhgeddaboudit! The LP simply isn't old-fangled enough. To really go reelin' in the years, it seems, you must go all the way back to open-reel tape! The Tape Project, a label for reissuing recordings on...
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Secret Spice!
SV Staff  |  Dec 04, 2007  |  0 comments
I want to say one word to you. Just one word. (Yes, sir.) Are you listening? (Yes, I am.) Branding. (Just how do you mean that, sir?) Here's how I mean that: When it comes to bands maximizing their potential - when it comes to bands being...
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"300" Conquers High-Def Awards
SV Staff  |  Dec 06, 2007  |  0 comments
So says the headline of a press release we received about the first annual High-Def Disc Awards, presented primarily by the weekly B2B trade publication Home Media Magazine. Specifically, 300 won two different awards for its two different...
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"Thriller" in surround. NOT!
SV Staff  |  Dec 07, 2007  |  0 comments
Here we don't go again: According to a report on Billboard.com, Epic/Legacy will release a 25th-anniversary edition of Michael Jackson's Thriller on February 12. (Actually, last year was the 25th birthday of this 1982 album, although it did make...
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Guitar Hero a Wii Bit Off
SV Staff  |  Dec 10, 2007  |  0 comments
Wii users, stop banging on your speakers. It's not your system or your ears. Your Pearl Jam solo is suffering from a glitch in the Wii version of Guitar Hero 3 that's putting out mono sound rather than a multi-channel version advertised as Dolby...
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Hats Off to Led Zeppelin
SV Staff  |  Dec 11, 2007  |  0 comments
Yes, from all accounts, they pulled it off last night. Exhibit A: Just look at those photos! Exhibit B: Ben Ratliff's review in The New York Times and David Fricke's review at Rolling Stone's Rock & Roll Daily. Exhibit C: The set list: ...
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Beck's "Odelay" in surround. NOT!
SV Staff  |  Dec 21, 2007  |  0 comments
Yes, my friends, the Surround-Sound NOTwatch continues! Next up: Beck's 1996 album, Odelay. Seems that Geffen is releasing a Deluxe Edition on January 29. CD+DVD-A? No. CD+DVD-V? Sorry. SACD? Nope. DualDisc? Ha! MVI? That's only from Warner,...
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More Gabriel, more surround
SV Staff  |  Dec 21, 2007  |  0 comments
For those of you who enjoyed my piece on Peter Gabriel (and other folks at the AES Convention) in the January 2008 issue (Random Play, page 16), the quotes had to be severely trimmed for the print edition. (What else is new?) Want more? Here ya...
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Merry Krimble!
SV Staff  |  Dec 21, 2007  |  0 comments
What? You think it's too late for my guide to the season's holiday CDs? HUMBUG! That's why they made Twelve Days of Christmas, Rudolph! After all, just ask the artist who has the biggest-selling CD of 2007. Springsteen? Kanye? Eagles? Those High...
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