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Not At All Like The Dallas Symphony's Version
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2012

This performance and recording with Eiji Oue conducting the Minnesota Orchestra emphasizes the "symphonic" while downplaying the "dance" aspects of Rachmaninoff's composition.

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Album Reviews
Legendary Beach Boys Album Finally Released
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2012

First of all the back cover photo doesn't include Brian Wilson! What's that all about?

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Album Reviews
Seventh Heaven
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2012

Does it have to sound this bad fellas? We all love your brand of fist pumping, T-Rex boogie, rhythm guitar riffing rock.

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Album Reviews
White's Sixth Chosen For AAA Reissue
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2012

I’ve heard and read complaints about the unadventurous reissues coming from Analogue Productions, especially now that the parent company Acoustic Sounds owns its own pressing plant, Quality Record Pressing.

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Concert Reviews
" Just a Little Lovin' " Finally Gets Some
Andre Marc  |  Feb 29, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969

Like Steve Earle, Ryan Adams and other distinctly American artists, Shelby Lynne finds it difficult to settle down musically in one place.

Since releasing I Am Shelby Lynne in 2000, she’s been a moving target for her fans and critics alike. Though she won a “Best New Artist” Grammy® Award for that album, in fact, it was her sixth record! Go figure.

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Concert Reviews
Dengue Fever Fells Our Man in SoCal!
Andre Marc  |  Feb 22, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969

The Los Angeles based band Dengue Fever played to a packed house near downtown San Diego, on a beautiful night in late January. For those not familiar with this unique outfit, they are comprised of a group of American musicians with xenophile and psychedelic tendencies fronted by Chhom Nimol, an exotic female vocalist from Cambodia. Michael Fremer reviewed their latest CD, Cannibal Courtship, here http://musicangle.com/album.php?id=1015. Sound funky? It is, in the most delicious way.

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News
He liked the Beethoven Review
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 07, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
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Rhino Shipping Tom Waits Replacements
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 02, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
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Rhino Shipping Tom Waits Replacements
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 02, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
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Album Reviews
Robert Johnson Gets a Centennial Edition
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 01, 2012

A funny thing happens as you age: time compresses. When I was 20, music from the 1940s seemed old. Robert Johnson was positively pre-historic, and to my ears the sound was equally cobwebbed. Oh, like everyone else, I bought CL 1654 after seeing it on the cover of Bringing It All Back Home and reading one of the breathless cover dissections in a magazine. Back then every cover prop "meant" something. 

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