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Movies & Music : Music Reviews

8-Bit Music

Kind of Bloop

As digital music files become larger and higher definition, some folk are getting creative using old school technology to make music. Check this out!

A Couple Brazilian CDs You Haven’t Heard

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About ten years ago, I first heard Tom Zé's Com Defeito de Fabricação (1998) and subsequently discovered the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s. I had heard and enjoyed bossa nova and other Brazilian-inspired jazz in my earlier college years, but the psychedelic tinges of Tropicália artists...

Marianne Faithfull: Easy Come Easy Go

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I'll always be eternally grateful to Marianne Faithfull for her 1979 comeback album, Broken English.  As a hardcore punk rocker, nothing could convince me that there was power in subtlety . . . until Broken English.  Saying she wanted the album to sound great on an expensive German stereo, Broken English is a minimalist study in seething, percolating anger, focusing on both sexual and social politics in a voice that Faithfull describes as showing signs of every whiskey and cigarette she'd ever consumed.

Try these Music Review websites!

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There are well-known magazines that write reviews on music (Rolling Stone, Spin, and Entertainment Weekly just to name a few), but I submit this list of music reviews and news websites for folks who are trying to find new sounds that exist outside the mainstream popular music spectrum. If you've...

listen up: Bonnie “Prince” Billy

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I read about Bonnie "Prince" Billy's music in a profile of the man behind the music, Will Oldham, in a recent article in The New Yorker. The piece, "The Pretender: Will Oldham transfigures American music" by Kelefa Sanneh appeared in the January 5, 2009 issue.

I don't know how to write a music...

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