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Gomez Grooves Greatly
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Mike Mettler  |  Jul 15, 2011  |  0 comments

We didn’t know it until about an hour or so before showtime, but we wound up seeing Gomez’s last North American summer tour date last night at Terminal 5 in NYC.

The reason, as noted here: key bandmember Ben Ottewell — a thirtysomething British lad with the singing voice of a 75-year-old bluesman — was ordered by doctors to rest his voice for no less than 2 weeks.

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R.I.P. James Gandolfini: A Soprano Sings Eternal
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Mike Mettler  |  Jun 19, 2013  |  0 comments

James Gandolfini, best known for his triple-Emmy-winning six-season stint as Tony Soprano on HBO’s defining drama The Sopranos, died in Rome, Italy at age 51 on June 19, 2013.

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High Fidelity, First Class: Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 40
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Mike Mettler  |  Apr 19, 2013  |  0 comments

The Dark Side of the Moon has long been considered to be the audiophile benchmark. It's been remastered and reissued a number of times over the years since it was initially released March 1, 1973 and proceeded to spend a record 741 weeks (that's 14.25 years!) on the album charts.

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Primus: Sailing the Seas of Surround
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Mike Mettler  |  May 21, 2013  |  0 comments

Primus does 5.1 proud.

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Peter Gabriel, Sonic Sledgehammer
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Mike Mettler  |  Sep 24, 2012  |  0 comments

When live sound is as good as it was at Peter Gabriel’s show at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on September 21, I felt like I had to pinch myself to believe it. I mean, was I really hearing what I was hearing?

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Giveaway: Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Box Set
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Mike Mettler  |  Jan 04, 2013  |  0 comments

Happy New Year, S+V friends! What better way to break in that new turntable you got over the holidays than with a nice big vinyl box set that we're giving away?

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The Avengers Assemble on Blu-ray
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Mike Mettler  |  Jun 29, 2012  |  0 comments

Yesterday, a rep from Disney came to the S+V offices to show me some of the coolest interactive features that will be on the Blu-ray edition of The Avengers, which comes out on September 25.

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Storm Corrosion Talk Vinyl
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Mike Mettler  |  May 01, 2012  |  0 comments

Sound+Vision is honored to present an exclusive 10-minute interview clip with Storm Corrosion, the explosive new collaboration between Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt and Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson. SC's self-titled debut comes out next Tuesday, May 8, in a variety of S+V-friendly formats.

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Live Review: Bruce Springsteen Reaches Higher Ground
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Mike Mettler  |  Apr 04, 2012  |  0 comments

“Church.”

That was how a musician friend responded shortly after I told him via iPhone chatter that it was 10 minutes before Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band hit the stage last night in the first of two dates at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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Bob Dylan: Never-Ending, Ever-Rolling
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Mike Mettler  |  Aug 15, 2011  |  0 comments

Bob Dylan, bard for the ages, brought his never-ending tour to Convention Hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on the torrential evening of Sunday, August 14, and reinforced his prowess as the key observer and interpreter of our ever-distressing modern times.

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Devon Allman's Turquoise Soul
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Mike Mettler  |  Jun 04, 2013  |  0 comments

"It's rich. It's got depth that you'll never get from an MP3, and it's just cool, man. It's got more soul." That's Devon Allman, talking about one of our favorite subjects, vinyl.

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McCartney Carries That Weight
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Mike Mettler  |  Jul 16, 2011  |  0 comments

“By the way, who is this Derek Jeter guy?” asked Sir Paul McCartney of the full crowd at Yankee Stadium on July 15, four songs deep into the opening night of his Summer 2011 On the Run tour. “Somebody said he has more hits than me.”

Hmm, not bloody likely.

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Fade to Black: Amy Winehouse Treaded a Troubled Track
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Mike Mettler  |  Jul 25, 2011  |  0 comments

"It's too bad that her trainwreck of a personal life has at least temporarily derailed what started out as a pretty cool musical retro-ride."

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