Mike Mettler

Music Reviews
The Tragically Hip: We Are the Same
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 19, 2009
Zoë/Rounder
Music •••• Sound ••••
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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Other Tech
Freakin’ Surround with Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 04, 2009

So after 6 or 7 years of work, Christmas on Mars (Warner Bros.) is finally here. And it isn't "just" a holiday film, it's what I'm calling a fable for the sci-fi generation. It's a fable of hope for the sci-fi generation, yes. Is there a sci-fi generation?

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Music Reviews
Steven Wilson: Insurgentes
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 25, 2009
K-Scope
Music ••••½DVD-Audio Mix ••••• Extras ••••½
The once and future king of surround has done it again - or,
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Lost in the Blu
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 07, 2008
Buena Vista
Movie ••••½Picture ••••• Sound ••••• Extras ••••½
TV's benchmark for A/V quali
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Other Tech
BackTalk: Jewel
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 07, 2008
I have to borrow a line from your song "Intuition" and ask: Are you still "just a simple girl in a high-tech digital world"? A little bit, yeah [chuckles].
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Other Tech
Back Talk: Paul Ben-Victor
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 26, 2008

Walk me through your recent HDTV buying experience. I found myself attracted to the LCD. Two of my very good friends - Dave Rodriguez, who's directed two upcoming films that I'm in, and John Barr, the director of photography on those films - they're plasma guys.

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Other Tech
Editor-in-Chief Mike Mettler's Top 50 Albums of All Time
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 26, 2008

As I noted in one of the five entries I wrote for our Top 50 Albums of All Time list (actually, I also penned three of the uncredited entries for albums 41-50 - see if you can guess which ones once our master list posts), I became an audio journalist to extol the virtues of great-sounding recordings.

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Other Tech
Talkin’ DVD Politics with Tom Smothers
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 09, 2008

I find it interesting that you chose to start releasing The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on DVD (Time Life) with a collection of the best episodes from Season 3 (1968-69). That's the season we got fired from CBS. I was very, very, very reluctant to put this show out on home video.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 02, 2008
Warner
Movie •••½Picture •••• Sound •••• Extras •••½
Can a great TV drama have an endoskeleton
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Other Tech
Lisa Loeb Takes Us to Camp Vinyl
Mike Mettler  |  Sep 30, 2008

You've always been a bit of a hi-fi geek, haven't you? I have. On prom night, my boyfriend and I checked out stereo speakers at an all-night speaker sale. It was a big deal back then, a ritual - you had to get the perfect speakers, and set your room up a certain way.

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