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(Suddenly, I feel like J-10. What the?) Chris writes:
“There are a number of CD de-static gizmos out there that treat the CD with negative ions. Some are like a Zerostat, some are variations of a hand-held hair blow dryer with Tourmaline or an electronic based negative ion generator. I have been using an easily acquired ion…
With so many great bands, it’s often the mistakes, or accidents, that make the magic of a live performance. But in the case of Sonic Youth, it’s their simple presence, their plain being, that is magical. I had never before seen a band perform so flawlessly, yet with such pure power and vibrant energy, such love. Theirs was a ferocious accuracy, a blistering precision. Sonic Youth was everything on Saturday night, profound and inconceivable beauty shooting from their voices and instruments. I left Terminal 5 thinking that…
Smalls’ owner, Spike Wilner, has started a new CD label, called Smalls Live, featuring (as might be guessed) sessions recorded…
The time has long passed when she could adequately be pegged as an acolyte of Gil Evans. Though she did come up the ranks as his assistant, and still draws on his stacked, lush harmonies, her sound is distinctly her own. The melodic lines are now more propulsive, the rhythms more varied, the dynamics both brasher and suppler than anything her mentor devised.
Much of…
I didn’t even know that she liked Almond Joy.
Katy took a handful of popcorn and tossed it…
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One is an article for the Arts & Leisure section of this past Sunday’s New York Times, about a new and startling 4-CD boxed set of previously unreleased Ella Fitzgerald sets, recorded in an L.A. nightclub in 1961 and ’62 (i.e., her peak years), called Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Verve).
The other is a brief review for New York Magazine of an eyebrow-raising 70-CD Miles Davis boxed set called The Complete Columbia Album Collection. That’s 52 albums, plus a previously unissued DVD of the 1967 quintet playing…
Vinyl lovers, there’s something for you, too, of course. Important is offering a selection of great, colorful vinyl for just $5 or $10 an album. Dan Friel's exultant Ghost Town for just five dollars…