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Best Music Box Sets Roundup, Part 4 – The Final Holiday Shopping Countdown,...
We’re in the thick of it now. It’s the final weekend ramp-up ahead of the BTHD—Big Time Holiday Day—and this is the exact moment a certain level of purely palpable panic sets in as you realize you’re...
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Best Music Box Sets Roundup, Part 3: Rolling on With Five More Than Mighty...
As we hurtle ever-closer toward TBHE —The Big Holiday Event — with December continuing to unfold at its usual, breakneck, “where did all the time go” pace, I’m going to continue onward with my music...
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Best Music Box Sets Roundup, Part 2: Five More Smashingly Great Collections...
Happy post-Record Store Day, everyone! If you partook in RSD 2025 like I did (and, if interested, you can read about my RSD adventures over on our sister site Analog Planethere), I hope you found what...
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Best Music Box Sets Roundup, Part 1: The Beatles’ Anthology Collection, Plus...
Happy Crimble, everyone! As we veer ever-so-closer to Record Store Day this upcoming Friday, November 28, 2025—oh yeah, Thanksgiving is happening this week too, isn’t it?—and we’re already feeling the...
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Celebrate Frank Zappa’s Favorite Holiday With This Pair of Treats: Halloween...
“Happy Halloween, everybody!” That’s the late, great Frank Zappa, joyfully addressing the rabid crowd in attendance at one of his most infamous, recurring Halloween shows in New York. After a few years...
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Doug Rasheed & L.V. on the Legacy of Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise at 30, Now...
Hard to believe it’s been 30 years since Coolio’s instant classic “Gangsta’s Paradise” entered our aural lexicon in August 1995—but here we are in the here and now, where the eternally classic...
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Posdnous on Why De La Soul Can Do Anything in Dolby Atmos
“We’re always trying to think of something cool, whether it’s internally inside, or externally cool.” That’s Posdnous, a.k.a. Kelvin Mercer, discussing the creative process De La Soul undertake...
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Norman Greenbaum: “Spirit in the Sky” and Jon Batiste: “Angels” in Dolby Atmos
Summer, it turns me upside down. Actually, I’m more of a fall person, truth be told, so I tend to look forward (and right-side up) to the change in the weather that often coincides with Labor Day...
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Gunna: “WGFT” and “Him All Along” in Dolby Atmos
Southern hip-hop superstar Gunna is on top. The proof can be found throughout the Atlanta rapper’s latest and sixth full-lengther, The Last Wun, which is chock full of the beats, traps, and themes...
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Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food 3CD & 1BD Box Set
The box set review cavalcade continues! Following my recent reviews of a) Jack Bruce’s superb Harmony Row 2CD/2BD box set that posted here on July 24, 2025, and b) Tina Turner’s uber-thrilling Private...
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Tina Turner: Private Dancer 5CD & 1BD Box Set
If you read my review of Jack Bruce’s most excellent Harmony Row 2CD/2BD box set that posted here on Thursday, July 24, 2025, you found me regaling the re-uprising (if you will) of the not-dead-yet CD...
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Jack Bruce: Harmony Row 2CD & 2BD Box Set
I do have to admit that I didn’t quite see the full-bore CD revival coming. Sure, artists continue to release their new music on CD—whether it be via their own labels, or through the major labels and...
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Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 to 1987 6LP Collection, Mobile Fidelity’s Mirage and...
Summertime, and the listening’s easy . . . or something like that. Well, what better way to avoid the unrelenting heat and/or the mugginess that’s hanging in the air than to head down to the cool,...
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LG Malique: “Don’t Come Closer” and “Give It to God” in Dolby Atmos
LG Malique is having a moment—and it’s the right moment. The Arkansas-bred rapper is all about sharing positivity and encouraging uplift, vibes that permeate all 22 minutes of his new eight-song...
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Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms in Dolby Atmos & 40th Anniversary Edition Box...
Brothers in Bare Arms: Dire Straits in repose, taking a break in Montserrat during the 1985 recording sessions for Brothers in Arms. Top row, l-r: keyboardist Alan Clark, drummer Terry Williams,...
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Alex Lifeson on the Mixing of Envy of None’s New Album in Dolby Atmos (and...
See the Music, Be the Music: Envy of None set their sights on Atmos immortality. Irony, your official band name has duly been dubbed Envy of None. That’s the tres-cool moniker for a four-piece...
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Kraftwerk: Autobahn in Dolby Atmos
Has it really been 50 years since electro-pop pioneers Kraftwerk graced us with the sprawling techno-majesty of their fourth album, Autobahn? Mein Gott. Technically speaking, Autobahn was released in...
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Steven Wilson: The Overview in Dolby Atmos
Whenever I talk with the once and forever Dolby Atmos mixing king Steven Wilson, I always ask him about what he’s going to be doing next, because he’s always working well beyond the born-on-date of...
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Doechii: “Denial Is a River” and “Boiled Peanuts” in Dolby Atmos
As Black History Month comes to a close, we wanted to put our final BHM aural spotlight on the always dynamic Tampa rapper Doechii. Not only did she perform a mightily charged set in New Orleans the...
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Aloe Blacc: “Don’t Go Alone” and “Breakthrough” in Dolby Atmos
Staying on the positive tip here in the home stretch of Black History Month, soulful singer/rapper Aloe Blacc has released five tracks in Dolby Atmos ahead of the official February 28, 2025, release...
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