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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Joe Henry's Rumbling, Rattling 'Reverie'
posted: October 26, 2011
Joe Henry has been exploring the relationship between songs and their aural atmosphere for a quarter of a century. His early albums cloaked his carefully crafted compositions in a variety of artful atmospheres provided by…
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Sound And Vision: Director's Cuts — From Lady Gaga to Kate Bush, the Mixed Results of Tampering with Your Own Songs
posted: August 26, 2011
I’ll never forget the day Basia lied to me. Twice. I was interviewing the Polish singer (best known for her 1988 hit “Time and Tide”) shortly before the release of her 1994 album, The Sweetest…
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The EditoriaList: Top Nine Rock Stars Turned Producer
posted: August 18, 2011
A lot of musicians produce their own music, but there is a smaller field of those who can produce other artists AND are successful at it. Here’s a list of nine artists better known (in…
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88 MPH: Throwback Suburbia Channels Costello
posted: July 22, 2011
Welcome to 88 MPH, musical time traveler! Before we hop in the DeLorean and activate the flux capacitor, remember that even though you’ve got Hypemachine, your favorite blogs and an RSS feed that ranges from…
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Monday, July 11, 2011
posted: July 11, 2011
Rebecca Black just won’t go away. Really, Yoko?? How is it possible that the world’s largest music festival is “on the way out”? Coheed and Cambria bass player makes a quick stop at the pharmacy…
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Sound And Vision: Why I Miss the '90s
posted: July 1, 2011
Every decade lives twice. Each one seems to get a second shot about twenty years after the fact. The ’50s were hot again in the ’70s (which might be why Happy Days was one of…
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