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Sub Pop goes RSS
New RSS offerings from Sub Pop point the way to the future of online music marketing, but miss the Podcasting bandwagon.
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Dexter Gordon, The Complete Prestige Recordings
The only constant across 88 cuts, 11 discs, and 24 years in this new boxed set is the magnificent tenor tone of Dexter Gordon, but that’s a fine constant to have.
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PJ Harvey, Boston, Oct 10, 2004
PJ Harvey played an equally sublime and brutal set on Saturday, and got a birthday surprise from her fans.
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War Child Music: downloads with a difference
War Child Music offers only thirty tracks, at higher prices and all with DRM. How is their service compelling? Exclusive offerings, and all the money goes to help child victims of war.
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Trilogy by Rob Wasserman
This new boxed set does more than collect Wasserman's three solo releases; it presents a wild genre-bending portrait of the capabilities of the bass in popular music.
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Sonic Youth, Showbox, Seattle, July 14, 2004
Sonic Youth continue to rock, getting tighter and more jaw-droppingly awesome. It's reviewers like me who can't keep up with them.
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A Bloomsday festschrift
A survey of Bloomsday thoughts and activities and a call to action for our own virtual Bloomsday.
How Hermione's coming of age steals the show.
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Elvis Costello, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, March 8
In which a performance by an aging punk rocker who now sings ballads and cabaret proves to be the best performance I’ve heard in years.
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Georgia is going to be waiting a while for that one
Not exactly tender loving care for Lisa Lopes’ memory from the Georgia Department of Revenue.
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