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Bruce Springsteen Revitalizes the Promised Land with Wrecking Ball
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 06, 2012  | 

Bruce Springsteen has always been a preacher at heart. Ever since he greeted us from Asbury Park back in ’73, he’s been spreading the good word of the healing power of rock & roll far and wide, testifying many a time and many an hour across the live planks, guitar slung back over his shoulder as he stomps, kneels, prays, pleads, and ultimately cajoles the enraptured to follow him down the open road.

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, March 20, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Mar 20, 2012  | 

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Rush Returns With Clockwork Angels
Michael Berk  |  Apr 11, 2012  | 

Rush fans...the moment you've all been waiting for has arrived. Not quite like clockwork, but Clockwork Angels is finally and definitely headed your way.

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Feed Your Vinyl Fetish: Record Store Day 2012 Picks From S+V
Mark Smotroff  |  Apr 18, 2012  | 

Record Store Day can be an exhilarating - and, depending on where you shop, occasionally exasperating - experience. Always a lot of fun, you can raise your odds of getting the good stuff you want on RSD by doing a little planning ahead and preparing a shopping/wish list. Really.  

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The S+V Interview: Talking Tech and More with Singer Julie Feeney
Ken Richardson  |  Apr 20, 2012  | 

Some fellas look at the eyes
Some fellas look at the nose
Some fellas look at the size
Some fellas look at the clothes . . .

First I look at the purse.

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, April 24, 2012
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 24, 2012  | 

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, May 15, 2012
Ken Korman  |  May 15, 2012  | 

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Music to your Eyes: Qello
Michael Berk  |  Jun 07, 2012  | 

If you're the sort of person who enjoys watching classic concert films and music documentaries (and let's face it, you're reading Sound+Vision, so I'm pretty sure you are), you probably wouldn't mind having access to a big archive if such things, available from wherever you are on almost any device.

Qello is here to help.

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First Look: Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project
Michael Berk  |  Jun 08, 2012  | 

Last night we dropped by the 7.1-equipped 3D theater in Dolby's midtown offices for a sneak peek at Francois and Pierre Lamoureux's Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project, the forthcoming theatrical 3D film of jazz legened Pat Metheny's latest "solo" outing with his mechanical orchestra.

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, June 26, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Jun 26, 2012  | 

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, July 10, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Jul 10, 2012  | 

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, July 24, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Jul 24, 2012  | 

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Jazz Classics get the High Resolution Treatment from Blue Note and HDtracks
Michael Berk  |  Jul 25, 2012  | 

If you're a fan of Blue Note's classic releases of the '50s and '60s - and frankly, what jazz aficionado isn't? - and you're a discerning digitally inclined audiophile, you're in luck! Blue Note/EMI, through our friends at HDtracks, is releasing six classics of the period in glorious 96kHz/24bit and 192kHz/24bit remasters from the original analog masters. 

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Ian Anderson, "Brick"layer
Mike Mettler  |  Sep 18, 2012  | 

It’s nice to feel that the music can be improved, and in the case of Aqualung [which saw a 40th anniversary box-set reissue in 2011 with new stereo and 5.1 mixes by Steven Wilson], that wasn’t difficult because it wasn’t a very good recording.

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The Art Of Listening
Mike Mettler  |  Sep 18, 2012  | 

“Anything that we sit down in, we’re good at.” This is Steven Wilson, 5.1 mixmaster nonpareil, discussing two of the gold medals that Great Britain won in the Summer Olympics — one in cycling, the other in rowing. If there were Olympic medals given for achievement in surround-sound mixing, then Wilson would own more golden hardware than Michael Phelps has collected a dozen times over.

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