Mike Mettler

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Music Disc Reviews
MUSIC REVIEW: Gomez
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 09, 2006  |  0 comments
How We Operate ATO
Music •••• Sound ••••
This freewheeling British fivesome loves to follow its own ramshackle muse.
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First Take: Seth Green & Matthew Senreich
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 09, 2006  |  0 comments

On Robot Chicken, action figures are stop-motion animated in humorous, wacky, and sometimes violent sketches - and I can't stop watching. Why does the show work? MATT: Our big thing is that we play off of nostalgia.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Top 10 Superhero DVDs
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 09, 2006  |  0 comments

With a slew of superheroes in theaters this summer - X-Men: The Last Stand, Superman Returns, My Super Ex-Girlfriend - we feel a musclebound DVD assessment is in order. Batman Begins, a benchmark title, ascended beyond this list to the pantheon of torture test discs and will be revered in a future issue.

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30 Minutes With T Bone Burnett
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 08, 2006  |  0 comments

You want a Renaissance man? Look no further than T Bone Burnett, the producer behind the soundtracks to O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Walk the Line. Now, after a 14-year break, Burnett re-dons his singer/songwriter and recording-artist hat to drop a gritty new album, The True False Identity (DMZ/Columbia, also available on DualDisc).

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Alan Parsons Does 5.1 Live on XM
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 05, 2006  |  0 comments

Live music in surround: You just can't beat it. When S&V was asked if we'd like to head down to our nation's capital and see Alan Parsons do an installment of Artist Confidential in 5.1 for XM Satellite Radio back on March 4, we jumped at the chance.

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Alan Parsons on 5.1 Music Mixing, Live and Studio
Mike Mettler  |  May 31, 2006  |  0 comments

In our previous installment, S&V traveled to Washington, DC, to sit in on the recording of Alan Parsons' groundbreaking installment of Artist Confidential in 5.1 for XM Satellite Radio back in March.

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30 Minutes with Ted Nugent
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 06, 2006  |  0 comments

In honor of Ted Nugent's role as one of the outspoken members of VH1's volatile Supergroup , I dug around in the S&V archives and found this interview I conducted with the Motor City Madman exactly 5 years ago on June 14, 2001.

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Music Disc Reviews
Music: Iraq and a Hard Rock
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 05, 2006  |  0 comments

"Four Dead in O-HI-O." "Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s." "We got a kinder, gentler machine-gun hand." "Time is runnin' out, let's roll." "I'm living with war every day." Neil Young has never been one to pull punches either socially or politically.

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First Take: Little Steven Van Zandt
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 06, 2006  |  0 comments

How does it feel to have the two Sirius channels that you created - Underground Garage (Channel 25) and Outlaw Country (Channel 36) - broadcasting 24/7? I feel like we made history already, you know? It's not easy to create a new format in radio, and I created two.

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The Future of Recorded Music - Part 4
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 04, 2006  |  1 comments

Musicians sound off about the merits and detriments of the CD and how they're dealing with a digital-delivery-oriented future

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