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Free Audiobook: "Go the F--- to Sleep"
Ken Richardson  |  Jun 15, 2011

 

"A children's book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud. Hilarious!"

That's none other than David Byrne singing the praises of Go the F--- to Sleep, which was published yesterday by Akashic Books.

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Music Reviews
Music: Top of the Pop in '06
Ken Richardson  |  Dec 03, 2006

Think nobody writes and plays like the Fab Four anymore? Take that thought and let it be, 'cuz there's plenty of great pop here, there, and ... you know. You should know that 2006 has had more than its share of great releases.

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Surround at Work - Part 1
Ken Richardson  |  Sep 09, 2002

This is the first installment of our three-part Surround at Work special feature.

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Other Tech
Inside The Making Of The Beatles Remastered Catalog
Ken Richardson  |  Nov 02, 2009

I've come to Electric Lady Studios in New York City for - what? Yet another remastering of the Jimi Hendrix catalog? Actually, that's coming next year (I kid you not). But the subject at hand, after a 22-year wait, is the Beatles making only their second appearance on CD. And it's time for a first listen to a handful of songs and a chat with some members of the remastering team.

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Other Tech
Memo to Music Industry: It's the Music Stupid!
Ken Richardson  |  Jun 10, 2002

If you're one of the 1,000 acts playing SXSW - the South by Southwest Music Festival, which despite its name and its Austin, Texas, location is the nation's biggest live-music shebang - how do you get noticed? I didn't notice Braxton Hicks two years ago.

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Music Reviews
Art for Rock's Sake
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 10, 2003
Click here to read the article (PDF)
Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" on SACD
Ken Richardson  |  May 19, 2003
PINK FLOYD The Dark Side of the Moon Capitol Music SACD
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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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The Octopus Project's 8-Speaker Live Surround-Sound System
Ken Richardson  |  Jun 18, 2010

(Above: Photo by Aubrey Edwards)

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Stereo Review's George Jellinek: 1919-2010
Ken Richardson  |  Jul 12, 2010

"I was born in Budapest in 1919 into a music-loving family."

So begins George Jellinek's own account of his musical life, as it appeared in the January 1976 issue of our predecessor, Stereo Review - a magazine for which he wrote from 1958 to 1999.

As we noted in "Feedback" in our June/July/August 2010 issue, we are indeed sad to report the death in January of a man who covered classical music for this magazine for 41 years.

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