- Best Music Video Ever?: OK Go, "This Too Shall Pass"
I'm totally addicted to OK Go's brilliant video for "This Too Shall Pass." Every time I watch it, I discover a handful of new reasons to love it. Perhaps the most satisfying part of this video is the sheer number...
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- The Stimulus Package: Best Album Art of 2010... So Far
Leave it to Rhymesayers to lead the charge in putting off the obsolescence of physical music. Last year, we made a bit of adoring noise about the very cool packaging of P.O.S.'s Never Better (in additional to naming it one...
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- Stile Antico: Media Vita
In a few days, the wait is over for fans of Stile Antico, the phenomenal vocal ensemble who specialize in Tudor and Renaissance choral music (and high-profile side projects with Sting.) They release "Media Vita ," a selection of works...
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- Lou's Metal Machine Hits The Road
Lou Reed has always gone against the grain. During 1967's so-called summer of love, his band The Velvet Underground released a debut album about prostitution and heroin addiction. Then, when the hippy revolution turned sour, the VU released their happy,...
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- Joanna Newsom: Have Three On Me
Criticizing an album before anyone's ever heard it would be a bizarre thing to do. Bizarrely, I think I'm going do just that. Y'see, I'm just a little concerned about one of my favorite artists. Joanna Newsom's Ys was one...
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- ABBA World Says Thank You For The Music
There was a time when you kept your enjoyment of ABBA’s bouncy pop melodies to yourself, but those times are gone. In these enlightened days of the early 21st century, pretty much everyone has come to accept that during the...
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- Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, by Terry Teachout
I recently had the mixed pleasure of reading the newest biography of the great Satchmo, entitled Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, by Terry Teachout. Having previously read Teachout's The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken, I'd expected a reasonably...
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- Editor's Choice: Othmar Schoeck, "Notturno"
By the time the European avant garde had advanced to breaking china and blowing train whistles, Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck was deemed "too accessible." Their loss, as "Notturno," op. 47, (1931-1933) is a post-romantic chamber gem. Poems by Nikolaus Lenau,...
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- Hope for Haiti Now
Download the Hope for Haiti Now benefit album featuring live performances from last night's star-studded Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief telethon. All proceeds from the album sales will go to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund,...
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- Can You Master The SoundUnwound Genre Quiz?
Hi there! SoundUnwound is the new music website from IMDb and Amazon. We are primarily a music database, which is editable by all users, but moderated to help keep data quality high. Recently we’ve been adding a few extra features...
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