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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium
Billy Altman  |  Jul 05, 2006  | 
Stadium Arcadium Warner Bros.
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Topping two hours, this double CD is almost too much of a good thing - espe
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Reference CD Review: Band of Horses
Rob O'Connor  |  Dec 03, 2007  | 
Cease to Begin Sub Pop
Music •••• Sound •••••

By turning down the reverb, punching up the melodies, saying goodbye to co-fou

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Reference CD Review: John Fogerty
Brett Milano  |  Nov 04, 2007  | 

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Reference CD Review: moe.
Andrew Nash  |  Apr 03, 2008  | 
Sticks and Stones Fatboy
Music •••• Sound ••••½

After a couple of studio albums built from live rhythm tracks of

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Reference CD Review: Nellie McKay
Ken Richardson  |  Dec 03, 2007  | 
Obligatory Villagers Hungry Mouse/Vanguard
Music •••• Sound ••••½

She has made two double albums (Get Away fr

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Reference CD Review: Patty Larkin
Parke Puterbaugh  |  Mar 03, 2008  | 
Watch the Sky Vanguard
Music •••• Sound ••••

Watch the Sky is pleasurable to listen to and somewhat therapeutic, to

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Reference CD Review: Pylon
Ken Richardson  |  Dec 03, 2007  | 

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Reference CD Review: Raya Yarbrough
Ken Richardson  |  Apr 03, 2008  | 
Raya Yarbrough Telarc
Music •••• Sound ••••½

In this Age of Norah, it's getting to the point where sultry jaz

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Reference CD Review: The Subdudes
Parke Puterbaugh  |  Oct 03, 2007  | 

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Reference CD Review: Tift Merritt
Parke Puterbaugh  |  Mar 03, 2008  | 
Another Country Fantasy
Music •••• Sound ••••

As the title implies, Tift Merritt's third album was written abroad - in P

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Reference CD Review: Umphrey's McGee
Andrew Nash  |  Oct 30, 2007  | 

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Reference CD: Prince
Brett Milano  |  Sep 02, 2007  | 

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Reference DVD-A - The Beatles: Love
Ken Richardson  |  Feb 04, 2007  | 

The Beatles: Love (Apple/Capitol). "The first Beatles album in 5.1"? Well, that's a bit misleading. Love isn't one of the Beatles' original releases; it's the "cast album" to the Cirque du Soleil show in Las Vegas, which does use the band's master tapes not only for full songs but also for new segues and mashups.

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Reference SACD - Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
 |  Apr 03, 2007  | 

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon). In January of 2006, I made it my business (literally) to be in Los Angeles for the first performance to be recorded live at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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Reissue Roundup: Barleycorn Lives!
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 25, 2011  | 

How much do I love reissues? Let me count the ways. Well, let me NOT do that, else I’ll never get around to the subject at hand…

Anyway, this is the first in a regular series of postings about cool reissues that are coming down the pike — or ones that have already come down the pike and may have passed you by.

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