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Exclusive Interview: Tom Petty on Recording 'Mojo'

Mike Mettler | May 31, 2010

Here's the thing about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers'

stunning new album, Mojo: While you've never quite heard the band play this way before on record, the songs sound like you've known them all your life.

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Exclusive Video Interview: Steven Wilson Mike Mettler | Nov 15, 2011

“I’ve been thinking about doing this for a long time,” Steven Wilson told me backstage about an hour before his groundbreaking live quad show unfolded at the Performing Arts Center at Temple University in Philadelphia on Saturday, November 12.

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Exploring 3D Audio for Headphones on Amazon Music Mike Mettler | Mar 30, 2022

A new spatial audio option for headphones from Amazon Music Unlimited offers yet another Atmos experience that everyone can wrap their head around.

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Exploring Quincy Jones’ Qwest TV Streaming Service Mike Mettler | Aug 04, 2021

Qwest TV steps outside the streaming mainstream to offer up a wider swath of multicultural live concert and documentary selections.

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Fade to Black: Amy Winehouse Treaded a Troubled Track Mike Mettler | Jul 25, 2011

"It's too bad that her trainwreck of a personal life has at least temporarily derailed what started out as a pretty cool musical retro-ride."

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First Take: Little Steven Van Zandt

Mike Mettler | Jul 06, 2006

How does it feel to have the two Sirius channels that you created - Underground Garage (Channel 25) and Outlaw Country (Channel 36) - broadcasting 24/7? I feel like we made history already, you know? It's not easy to create a new format in radio, and I created two.

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First Take: Seth Green & Matthew Senreich

Mike Mettler | Jun 09, 2006

On Robot Chicken, action figures are stop-motion animated in humorous, wacky, and sometimes violent sketches - and I can't stop watching. Why does the show work? MATT: Our big thing is that we play off of nostalgia.

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Flashback 1999: MP3-for-All

Mike Mettler | Jul 25, 2019

Twenty years ago, Napster introduced the world to unlimited file-sharing — and the music business has never been the same since.

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Fleetwood Mac Blaze Through One Monster Show

Mike Mettler | Jan 09, 2014

"We knew this was a bunch of people who love music," said an appreciative Stevie Nicks about the Monstrous crowd at Fleetwood Mac's muscular 75-minute set, which capped Monster's 2014 Retailer Awards at the Paris Ballroom in the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas on January 8. The mighty Mac were the headliners for a night that saw Monster celebrate its 35th anniversary with style and class.

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Fleetwood Mac: Tusk Deluxe Edition

Mike Mettler | Mar 29, 2016

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Sound

Revisionist history is just as much a part of rock & roll as guitars, cars, and odes to love and lust are. Some albums initially looked upon as noble but failed experiments more often than not semi-mysteriously improve with age and hindsight when viewed through the prism of time, wherein listeners finally catch up to the scope of the artists’ originally over-their-heads intentions.

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