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The man who completely reshaped the face of rock and roll forever has passed on at 94 years of age.

I grew up on this one, and if you don’t already have it in your collection, it is a MUST own as one of the most prolific albums of all time.

The pioneers of shoegazer have added four US tour stops to follow up their April 19th stop in the deserts of California at Coachella.

I just saw Tom Moon on Carson a few nights ago promoting his book, 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die. The premise of the book is to educate and open up the minds of readers by introducing them to genres and records which they may have written off before. You could easily write a [...]

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If nothing else, you’ll recognize “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” from Kanye’s use of it in his hit Stronger back in 2007. Other classics on Musique, which you’re sure to recognize from various commercials and the like, include Around The World, Technologic, and One More Time.
Get your roots right with some of [...]

After a spirited performance of their new single, Get On Your Boots, at the Grammy’s last night, U2s catalogue of albums went on sale at Amazon.com. Just about every album they’ve released can be purchased for $5.99 or less.
Check it out the entire list of albums here, and fill out your collection. Definitely pick up [...]

I’ve actually got 2 great buys for you today from Amazon. They just keep putting out good stuff.

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All of Radiohead’s most popular hits for $5. As most of you know, Radiohead has been one of those bands that have continued to challenge the musical norm; not only compositionally, but also pushing against [...]

I bought Rush’s Exit Stage Left when I was in high school, upon recommendation from my guitar teacher. I was absolutely blown away by Neil Peart’s drumming, especially the solo in YYZ. In this video, a girl half my age takes on YYZ, not only playing drums, but triggering the song sections and adding in some stick flourishes [...]

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The Verve’s Urban Hymns is on sale at Amazon today for $1.99. This was the album that really propelled them into the spotlight with Bittersweet Symphony, one of the most epic and well known songs of our generation. Richard Ashcroft has been hailed as one of the most prolific songwriters of our [...]

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Stevie Wonder’s 1970 Classic, Signed, Sealed And Delivered, is on sale for $1.99 on Amazon today. It’s hard to imagine how somebody could crank out music this good and timeless at just 20 years old, and then you remember that he started when he was just 13 years old… which almost makes [...]

I found this article in the Boston globe. I hadn’t realized how significant 1968 was in the world of music:

In 2008, a flurry of releases arrived to remind us of the inventive vibrancy of the pop music scene . . . of four decades ago.
Albums by the Beatles, Stones, Jimi, Janis, Aretha, Marvin, Otis, Sly, [...]

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Are you kidding me?! I’ve been trying not to inundate you with too many Wax Picks, but I couldn’t pass this one up. 18 of U2’s best songs on sale for $3.99. If you don’t already own their entire catalogue, pick this up from Amazon to get a jump start on the [...]

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Who can hate on Ol’ Blue Eyes? If you don’t have this album already, you need to scrape up some cash and get it. If you do have it already, you need to gift it to somebody who doesn’t. This is the album to which all other Christmas albums are measured. Plus, [...]

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Get your Christmas Spirit on with a cheap $1.99 special from Amazon. What is it about Christmas time that makes jazz feel like the best kind of music?
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Wishes You A Merry Christmas

So it took some big brains and fast computers to figure out the opening chord in the Beatles’ song “Hard Day’s Night”, a chord that has plagued guitarists in countless coverbands for decades.
Using the fourier transforms in Melodyne’s Direct Note Access (DNA), developed by Peter Neubacker, Dalhousie University professor Jason Brown was able to uncover [...]