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Stream of Montreal – “Feminine Effects”

Record Store Day is just a few short weeks away and so everyone's getting all worked up and saving their hard earned cash in order to support their local vinyl dealer. There's even a smart...

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hit and run: “Emboldened Orchestras are Embracing the New”

From Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times. Executive summary: Classical music audiences seem more curious than ever, and performers have been emboldened over the past decade or so to take more chances. Composers from...

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“I just started coughing”

From Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times. Executive summary: Classical music audiences seem more curious than ever, and performers have been emboldened over the past decade or so to take more chances. Composers from...

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Jon Stewart Interviews Grohl, Novoslec and Vig

This weekend was Nirvana mania on SiriusXM's Lithium channel. 24 hours a day is being devoted to nothing but Nirvana. Studio tracks, rarities, b-sides, live shows, you name it and they're playing it. The whole...

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“Made me learn a little bit faster, made my skin a little bit thicker, makes me that much smarter”

(email|facebook|twitter) In an interview by More Than The Music, Her Name Is Calla's Sophie Green answers a handful of questions about gender and music. As always, she beguiles. Some highlights: --- There are few things more...

If Czechoslovakia were still around, and a radio station, it would sound like this.

czecjThere are XM Radio People, and there are Sirius Satellite People. But even in this post-merger world, something says that there are no Sirius XM Radio People.

Do the rest of you XM Radio veterans feel invaded upon? Sirius DJs blather on and on about nothing, and their names are weird. Their stations are stuck in The Killers+Radiohead+ Coldplay groupthink, and clearly believe that playing MGMT constitutes “branching out.” Technical issues abound and, I’m sorry, Arcade Fire is not strictly a Canadian band any longer.

Anyone who didn’t expect a decline in quality and service hasn’t been reading the news. But if I hear “Spaceman” one more time I might have to pick up my ball and go home.

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