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Bluesmaster Buddy Guy Is 'Alive and Well'
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 20, 2018
There are legends, and then there’s Buddy Guy. The Chicago-based octogenarian blues guitarist originally from Lettsworth, Louisiana just keeps going and going. And if his new album, The Blues Is Alive and Well (Silvertone/RCA) is any indication, the Guy train won’t be making its final stop anytime soon.
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Audio Video News
Social Distortion to Headline Klipsch Fest
SV Staff  |  Jun 20, 2018
Klipsch today announced that Klipsch Fest, featuring punk rock legend Social Distortion, will kick off at 3 p.m. ET on Saturday, August 11 at Cleveland’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
New LG Speakers Boast Meridian Audio Processing, Dolby Atmos
SV Staff  |  Jun 19, 2018
LG today introduced a series of soundbars and portable Bluetooth speakers featuring audio processing from U.K.’s Meridian Audio.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Optoma Smart Projector Now Speaks Google and Alexa
SV Staff  |  Jun 19, 2018
Optoma has added Google Assistant voice control to the first-of-its-kind Alexa-enabled projector it shipped in May.
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Signals
We Are Miserable, Slothful Creatures. Can Technology Save Us From Ourselves?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jun 19, 2018
With all due respect to sloths (arboreal mammals that hang upside down from trees) we (humans) are total sloths (ie. reluctant to work or make an effort; lazy). To prove my point, your Honor, I submit Exhibit A, those red Netflix mail-in envelopes.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Yamaha Updates Best Selling DTS Virtual:X Soundbar
SV Staff  |  Jun 18, 2018
Yamaha today announced a “reimagined” version of its best-selling soundbar, the YAS-107, the model just below the Top Pick-designated YAS-207 we reviewed last fall.
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Revel Unveils PerformaBe Speaker Series
SV Staff  |  Jun 18, 2018
Revel has unveiled the PerformaBe speaker series born out of the desire to “create a loudspeaker that redefines performance expectations.”
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Grace Notes
Beyoncé and Jay-Z Making Waves at Tidal
Leslie Shapiro  |  Jun 18, 2018
The Carters, better known as Jay-Z and Beyoncé, have just released Everything is Love, their first joint album, exclusively on Tidal. Jay-Z owns Tidal, and Mrs. Carter is a large shareholder in the music streaming company. While Tidal is facing accusations of late royalty payments, unreliable subscription counts and inflated streaming numbers, the power couple takes a hard stab at Spotify in the new album.

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Audio Video News
HBO: ‘Barry’ Now Available for Download, GoT Music in the Works
SV Staff  |  Jun 18, 2018
HBO is releasing Season 1 of the critically acclaimed dark comedy series, Barry for digital download today.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Darkest Hour
Tom Norton  |  Jun 15, 2018
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Darkest Hour shows the other side of the 1940 events depicted in 2017’s equally superb Dunkirk. The latter showed the evacuations that enabled the British army to survive, the former depicted how Churchill, taking the office of Prime Minister almost by default, navigated around the pacifists in his cabinet who wanted to negotiate a settlement with Hitler’s Nazi Germany. In doing so he cemented his status as arguably the most important national leader of the 20th century.
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