Robert Baird

A New Pixies Album
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Robert Baird  |  May 02, 2014  |  3 comments
Although they were released twenty years ago, they are four albums possessed of a timeless beauty
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Recording of May 2014: The Imagined Savior . . .
Recording of the Month
Robert Baird  |  Apr 22, 2014  |  First Published: May 01, 2014  |  1 comments
WANTED: Jazz Hero. Must be willing and able to bring stunning new creative energies to a musical genre in danger of becoming stale and repetitive. Must be comfortable with a Marsalis level of celebrity. Saxophone or trumpet players preferred. Old men need not apply.

In 2011, jazz prayers were answered with the release of When the Heart Emerges Glistening, a brilliantly inventive mainstream jazz album led by Ambrose Akinmusire, a photogenic, 28-year-old trumpeter from Oakland, California. The young man had lots of fresh ideas, speed and dexterity to burn, and a unique tone, the combination of which brought back a flood of memories: Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Pops.

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Record Store Day 2014
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Robert Baird  |  Apr 18, 2014  |  3 comments
A month ago, flying to South By Southwest 2014, the numbers on paper were grim.
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Roger Waters in 5.1
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Robert Baird  |  Apr 14, 2014  |  7 comments
On Saturday, April 12, John Atkinson and I fought our way through toll plazas, endless New Jersey traffic (is there any other kind?) and one really annoying traffic jam (but hey, it was only one!)
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Roger Waters in 5.1
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Apr 14, 2014  |  0 comments
On Saturday, April 12, John Atkinson and I fought our way through toll plazas, endless New Jersey traffic (is there any other kind?) and one really annoying traffic jam (but hey, it was only one!...)
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The Divine Miss King
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Apr 11, 2014  |  9 comments
The vinyl reissue wave gets smarter by the day...
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I Love The Dead
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Apr 11, 2014  |  4 comments
It’s a very scary and weird commentary on the state of the music business, that posthumous albums have now become a booming category.
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The Women of Warpaint
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Robert Baird  |  Apr 11, 2014  |  0 comments
In the tornado of music and gear better known as, let’s say, audiophilisma, there are a lot of guilty pleasures.
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Kiko and that Lavender Moon
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Robert Baird  |  Apr 04, 2014  |  0 comments
Once there was a band of brothers from East Los Angeles...
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Neil Young's PonoMusic Launches at SXSW 2014
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Robert Baird  |  Mar 12, 2014  |  21 comments
"I’m not an audiophile but I’m very geeky about other things."
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