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Fleetwood Mac: Tusk Deluxe Edition
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Bruce Springsteen: The Ties That Bind--The River Collection
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Chesky Records Uses Its Head to Make Better-Sounding Music
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The Allman Brothers Band: Idlewild South: Super Deluxe Edition
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Phil Collins: Take a Look at Me Now – Retrospective Reissue Series
PerformanceSound Phil Collins required rehabilitation, and stat. Not only did the noted drummer/vocalist have to deal with a bout of sudden deafness, a lingering hand injury, and recover from back...
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The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds – 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition
PerformanceSound For certain musicians, creativity is sometimes fueled by a deep desire to impress their peers. That was certainly the case with Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and Paul McCartney of The...
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U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE - Live in Paris
PerformanceSound These days, even the most seasoned recording artists find it difficult to gain traction with their new material. Case in point: U2, whose deeply personal 2014 release Songs of...
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The Traveling Wilburys: Revisited & Remastered
PerformanceSound There are supergroups, and then there are The Traveling Wilburys. The wink/nudge humor behind the band name and the multiple nicknames of its five members is all George Harrison, the...
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ELP Reissue Series: Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Tarkus; Pictures at an Exhibition
Welcome back, my friends… well, you know the rest. That opening line—made famous in “Karn Evil 9 – 1st Impression, Part 2” from 1973’s Brain Salad Surgery—certainly applies to the re-emergence of the...
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Temple of the Dog: 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition
PerformanceSound The Seattle music scene was devastated. Andrew Wood, the promising and charismatic frontman of Mother Love Bone, was found dead of a heroin overdose in March 1990. His bandmates and...
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The Band: The Last Waltz, 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition
PerformanceSound If The Band didn’t slow down and get off the road—and get off the road soon—they were going to wind up killing themselves, to a man. “It’s a goddamn impossible way of life,” says Band...
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Lou Reed: The RCA & Arista Album Collection
PerformanceSound“Isn’t that amazing? I mean, there it actually is. I can’t believe it. I lived long enough to hear it right.” That’s Lou Reed, lifelong audiophile, commenting to his longtime friend and...
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Fleetwood Mac: Tusk Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound 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...
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Bruce Springsteen: The Ties That Bind--The River Collection
PerformanceSound When the calendar turned to 1980, it was time for Bruce Springsteen to grow up. “How people connect and relate to one another, or don’t—I want to be a part of that, not just looking at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chesky Records Uses Its Head to Make Better-Sounding Music
I met singer-songwriter Amber Rubarth when she was recording her first Chesky Records album, Sessions From the 17th Ward, back in 2012. I instantly fell in love with her music and the sound of her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Allman Brothers Band: Idlewild South: Super Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound When the last notes of “Trouble No More” rang out at The Beacon Theatre in New York in the wee hours of the morning on October 29, 2014—closing an epic show comprised of three full...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Phil Collins: Take a Look at Me Now – Retrospective Reissue Series
PerformanceSound Phil Collins required rehabilitation, and stat. Not only did the noted drummer/vocalist have to deal with a bout of sudden deafness, a lingering hand injury, and recover from back...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds – 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition
PerformanceSound For certain musicians, creativity is sometimes fueled by a deep desire to impress their peers. That was certainly the case with Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and Paul McCartney of The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE - Live in Paris
PerformanceSound These days, even the most seasoned recording artists find it difficult to gain traction with their new material. Case in point: U2, whose deeply personal 2014 release Songs of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Traveling Wilburys: Revisited & Remastered
PerformanceSound There are supergroups, and then there are The Traveling Wilburys. The wink/nudge humor behind the band name and the multiple nicknames of its five members is all George Harrison, the...
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