Ken Richardson

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This Week in Music, October 22, 2013: Woody Guthrie, “American Radical Patriot”
Ken Richardson  |  Oct 22, 2013
Also: Van Morrison’s Moondance in 5.1 on Blu-ray, Santana’s third album on audiophile vinyl, and ’80s tunes revamped by The Big Bright. Plus, let’s see…oh, yeah, Katy Perry.

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This Week in Music, October 29, 2013: Arcade Fire’s “Reflektor” (or, the trials and tribulations of a rock critic, part 896)
Ken Richardson  |  Oct 29, 2013
Also: Humble Pie expanded, Jethro Tull remixed in 5.1, and much more. Plus: the return of Dorothy Wiggin. (She used to be a Shagg.)

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This Week in Music, October 8, 2013: Taking Miley Cyrus Seriously
Ken Richardson  |  Oct 08, 2013
Whatever you think of Miley Cyrus these days, she does have you thinking. In other words, she got your attention. Which, in the current era of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and elder shockwoman Britney Spears, is the first order of business, and I do mean “business.”

The thing is, what if she’d gotten our attention another way?

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This Week in Music, September 10, 2013: The country side of Sheryl Crow
Ken Richardson  |  Sep 10, 2013  |  Published: Sep 17, 2013
This Week in Music, September 10, 2013: The country side of Sheryl Crow
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This Week in Music, September 17, 2013: Costello wants to play with the Roots
Ken Richardson  |  Sep 16, 2013
Also reviewed: Richard X. Heyman, Potty Mouth. Plus: boxes of the Band and the Grateful Dead.
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Blu-ray Movie ReviewsThis Week
This Week in Music, September 24, 2013: Elton? Don’t Shun Him, He’s Still a Piano Player.
Ken Richardson  |  Sep 24, 2013
Also reviewed: Kings of Leon, Sting, and Icona Pop. Plus: a thematic list of all the other prominent new releases and reissues, including The Complete Waitresses and a big box of Nirvana’s In Utero.

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This Week in Music, September 3, 2013: Nine Inch Nails, with fewer teeth
Ken Richardson  |  Sep 03, 2013

Nine Inch Nails: Hesitation Marks

New release (Columbia; tour dates)
Photo of Trent Reznor by Baldur Bragson

Trent Reznor already came back haunted in March with the release of Welcome oblivion by How to destroy angels. That side project with Atticus Ross and (Reznor’s wife) Mariqueen Maandig took post-industrial/ambient music and made it sound fresh. By contrast, Hesitation Marks, Reznor’s first album in five years under the Nine Inch Nails moniker, seems beset by run-of-the-mill electronica. Ross and another veteran collaborator, Alan Moulder, return as co-producers with Reznor, but together they’re often just busy little techno-bees buzzing around Reznor’s generally average material.

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Audio Video News
Three opinions on the iPad at SXSW
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 27, 2011

The iPad is cool for a lot of things, but does it work for music? Various opinions came from the SXSW Music Festival, and together they're an interesting follow-up to Michael Berk's earlier post here on the concept of the iPad Album.

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Other Tech
Tomorrow's Music Today
Ken Richardson  |  Jun 23, 2003

Photos by Ebet Roberts Molotov photo courtesy of Universal Looking through some past Austins: I told you 'bout punk-happy Donnas. You know the place where everything's Norah. . . .

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Tracking Surround
Ken Richardson  |  Apr 03, 2006

In case you missed it, Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms won the Grammy for Best Surround Sound Album.

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