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July 22, 2019
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For Apollo 11’s 50th Anniversary: A Song About The Moon Called “Song About The Moon”
Back on September 19, 1981, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited as “Simon & Garfunkel” for their famous concert in New York’s Central Park that was released as an album the following year. Despite some traditional tension the pair already had built-in to their relationship that reached back to childhood, the touring apparently worked so […]
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July 19, 2019
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Jethro Tull’s Stormwatch Turns 40
A new 4 CD/2 DVD collection of Jethro Tull’s Stormwatch is coming October 18, Rhino’s latest expanded box set in a series celebrating the group’s albums’ 40th anniversaries. Stormwatch was the third in a series of Tull’s folk-rock releases, following Songs From The Wood and Heavy Horses, the project also the last to feature the […]
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July 18, 2019
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Paul McCartney Writing Musical Based On It’s A Wonderful Life
Paul McCartney, meet George Bailey. The former Beatle is in the process of writing words and music to an adaptation of Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life that was based on Philip Van Doren Stern’s The Greatest Gift. The show will be produced by Bill Kenwright, a figure in British theatre and film, […]
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July 17, 2019
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Commentary: Music From Stranger Things 3 On Cassette Might Be On To Something…Maybe
If you’ve been keeping up with associated Stranger Things releases, you already know its series season DVDs and Blu-rays have been packaged in VHS-mimicked boxes, that format (and Betamax) historically having changed how the world viewed and owned their favorite movies and TV series forever or at least until streaming. That also was the last […]
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July 16, 2019
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Blue Note Records Goes Beyond The Notes With 80th Anniversary Release
Eighty years ago, Blue Note was born. The label worked with various inventive “jazz” artists who basically were given the mandate to be free with their art, to push boundaries, and especially to be creative. The new DVD/Blu-ray/Digital release Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes explores the label’s rich history and importance to the jazz […]
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July 15, 2019
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Omnivore To Release Art Pepper’s Complete Artists House Recordings
Producer John Snyder was determined to release a live album by jazz saxophonist Art Pepper’s weeklong Village Vanguard gig in New York City on his label Artists House. However, at the time, Pepper was signed to Contemporary Records and its head, Les Koenig, decided to record a project showcasing those performances for his label, scrapping […]
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July 12, 2019
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Gregg Allman Classic Albums Get Vinyl and Deluxe Edition Treatments
Legendary singer/pianist Gregg Allman’s classic albums Laid Back from 1973 and its 1974 followup, The Gregg Allman Tour, will be re-released on August 30, the former as a double disc CD and on 180-gram vinyl, the latter as vinyl only. It’s the first time in three decades that the long out-of-print …Tour album has been […]
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July 11, 2019
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Opinion: Masters of the Masters
The recent revelation mostly through New York Times Magazine writer Jody Rosen’s investigative reporting that a massively large, major music corporation apparently lied to its recording artists, managers, lawyers, etc. eleven years ago regarding the true state of their master tapes after a massive fire took out the facility in which they were stored should […]
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