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The Super Deluxe Mega Awesome Edition of the Rolling Stones’ classic Exile On Main Street, considered by some to be the greatest rock and roll album of all time—complete with two CDs, including ten previously unreleased tracks, two LPs, a DVD, and a 50-page book—is now available. Damn.
The pianist Hank Jones died on Sunday at age 91, ending one of the great jazz dynasties (his brothers were the drummer Elvin and the trumpeter-composer Thad) and taking out one more survivor of the generation that founded post-war jazz.
Jones was active till the end, and in fine form too. His style was mannered and sophisticated but never gentle or posh. He played mainly standards, always with swing, inventive harmonies, and a subtle undercurrent of blues.
He came up through the jazz ranks in Detroit, moved to New York in 1944, and fell in instantly with the be-bop elite on…
Thursday, May 20, 6 to 9pm: Meridian Audio and Stereo Exchange will host an evening celebration to introduce the new Meridian Sooloos 2.1 music server system and Meridian 808.3 Signature Reference CD player. Wine and music will be served.
RSVP to ann@stereoexchange.com or (212) 505-1111.
Should be fun. Stereo Exchange is located at 627 Broadway, between Bleecker and Houston, in Manhattan.
For background on these new products, you can read our review of the original Sooloos system, with Follow-Up coverage on the upgraded Sooloos Control 10, and our review of…
Via Mashable.
“A violin may be beautiful, but it always will sound like a violin.”
I hear that, and I immediately wonder: Well, what’s the problem? Isn’t it a comfort to know that a beautiful violin will always sound like a violin?
Sometimes, the future of musical instruments, and the future of music—and, for that matter, the future, in general—sort of makes me sad, leaves me feeling a bit cold and confused. I don’t easily understand why we continue to replace our beautiful, fleshy things with flatter, shinier, digital devices. I see how these…
Take a look into the heart and soul of my favorite radio station, Jersey City’s own WFMU, 91.1FM.
Via Goldmine Magazine.
Emma: I love records, too. Call me!
While John Atkinson, Art Dudley, Bob Deutsch, and I were having a great time roaming the halls of the 2010 Salon Son et Image at the Hilton Bonaventure in beautiful Montreal, Francois Caron of The Canadian Public was lugging a Canon Vixia HF200 camcorder and Rode Stereo Videomic from exhibitor room to exhibitor room, capturing the action.
Francois does an excellent job of conveying the warm, fun vibe and sharing the overall experience of Salon Son et Image. If you weren't able to attend the show, Francois' video footage, paired with our blog coverage, should give you a great…
There’s nothing like being pulverized by a Norwegian power trio in the morning. Thank you, Bushman’s Revenge. Your latest assault, Jitterbug, completely kills.
It kills, but it also builds, it soars, it uplifts. Jitterbug is deadly like the night and triumphant like the day, equal parts fire and soul, matching Motorhead and the Melvins with Hendrix, Ayler, and Coltrane.
Jitterbug burns. Due to be released on June 8, from Rune Grammofon, distributed by Forced Exposure. Listen.
Sommer from German electronic duo Klangwart (Markus Detmer and Timo Reuber) includes rare compilation tracks, remixes for other artists, and previously unreleased studio recordings.
The music, like summer, pulses with heat and haze; sounds bubble and fume from hot city streets, screech and cry like cicadas in trees, pierce like sunlight off of high rolling waves. Sommer startles like the invisible night and then soothes like the endless sky. The soundstage expands and contracts and expands until it can hardly hold, so full with warmth and promise you’ll want to dive in.
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This sexy album cover, making glorious the embrace of sanctity and lust, belongs to Rene Hell’s Porcelain Opera. Rene Hell is the latest guise of noise artist Jeff Witscher, whose overwhelming mass of work, under names including Impregnable, Deep Jew, and Marble Sky, has been documented mostly to cassette, while utilizing high-quality production. The curious might take a chance on his latest Night People release.
The six cryptically titled songs of Hell’s Porcelain Opera pour over with lush analog electronics, alternately bouncing and lulling, but always haunting. There are…
The word in our forum is that 90 percent of today’s popular music is crap. Need a little proof that real talent still exists in the world of pop music? Check out Janelle Monae’s performance on last night’s Letterman show.
Via Prefix.
It may be nothing new, but this is an homage to past musical forms done with great style and skill. Awesome to see and hear. Janelle Monae's full-length debut, The Archandroid, joining large-scale classical, big-band jazz, R&B, hip-hop, rock, techno, and soul, is available now.