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Neil Brings LeNoise, Leaves the Funk
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2011

Neil plays, Daniel "La-noise" manipulates. The result is a solo album—a man and his guitar— that takes on gargantuan proportions as it throbs, undulates, oozes, howls, flows, rattles and hums through a series of reminiscences, philosophical discussions, entreaties and proclamations of faith that only an older man could possibly produce and deliver with such rich and fervent authority.

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Witmark Demos
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2011

Bootlegs, outtakes and unreleased material mostly interests completists, scholars and obsessive fans. Usually, the quality and significance declines with each new archival release, but not with Bob Dylan.

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Album Reviews
Sneak Peak: ORG Music's Damn the Torpedoes
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2011

ORG Music is a new division of ORG, the label that's been reissuing mostly classic jazz titles over the past few years along with the heart of Nirvana's catalog. ORG Music will specialize in classic rock reissues, with an enhanced, extra track edition of this Tom Petty breakthrough album  coming first.

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Album Reviews
Little Boy Lost Takes Himself Even More Seriously in Mono
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2011

It's easy to understand why some youngsters don't get Dylan. Everybody sings like him now but no one did back then and at first only a few could take the unadorned voice (referencing the Dylan on these old recordings, not the current croaker).

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Columbus Has Arrived
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2011

Little Feat was never an "album" band, even though they released many good records. They were low concept and high boogie. The groove was cerebral though, not the mindless "good time" endless fist pump variety mainly because of the playful and smart Lowell George. Lowell was from Baltimore,MD.

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TOM WAITS VINYL RECALL ISSUED BY RHINO!
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 30, 2011  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
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Elvis Costello Kicks Off Live From the Artist's Den Season Three April 1st
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 28, 2011  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
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Hear Bob Ludwig, Doug Sax and Michael Fremer at SXSW
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 19, 2011  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
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Popular Session Guitarist Gets The Spotlight
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 09, 2011

Underrated and anonymously well-exposed, the Los Angeles session guitarist Howard Roberts played for everyone from Frank, to Elvis, the Beach Boys, the Jackson 5, the Monkees and Dean Martin, to name but a few. That's Howard out front on "The Twilight Zone" theme song, among many others. The guy got around.

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HDTracks Gets Rolling Stones Catalog In High Resolution Digital!
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2011  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
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