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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...

Another season of American Idol in the can.

Another year, another upset. Yawn. I’m done with 24, Lost, and American Idol. Thank goodness the former two had the common courtesy to quit while they were behind.

I’m so bored with it that I can’t even manage tracking down a public domain image on Wikipedia, or typing out hyperlinks for the whole “by Fred, follow us on Facebook” nonsense. The show did in the first season what it set out to do: create a pop sensation. Now it’s more like a $300 bottle of wine with the cork still in: it has peaked, declined, and smells too much like vinegar to open. Even one of the show’s creators is leaving.

Someone tell us again with a straight face how this is the second golden age of television?

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