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Album Reviews
Raucous Ramones Double Live Album Reissued
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2009  |  0 comments

I know people who actually think that The Ramones were a “joke” band&#151sort of a punk version of Sha Na Na. I’m not kidding. I know people who thought The Ramones were a sloppy outfit goofing around on stage. I know people who think Joey Ramone was a screamer. But then I live in the suburbs.

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Album Reviews
LiPuma Production and Al Schmitt Recording Get Deserved Analog Treatment
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2009  |  0 comments

Krall’s cool, detached yet available look on the front and back covers of this popular 2002 release let you know from whence the emotions flow here. She sells these standards intimately yet barely rising above a warm smolder, leaving you to crack the code.

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Album Reviews
Frank Still Lonely After All These Years
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2009  |  0 comments

One of the first “concept” albums, Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely invited listeners back in 1958 to pull up a chair and share the singer’s misery exquisitely expressed in a carefully collected set of tunes given sensitive, sumptuous backdrops by the late, great Nelson Riddle.

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Features
New Orleans Culture at a Tipping Point Part 1
Roger Hahn  |  Jun 30, 2009  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
On Saturday morning, April 26, 2008 an overcast and moderately humid day in New Orleans, a small group of neighborhood kids organized an impromptu 'jazz funeral' to commemorate the recent death of a loved and respected local track coach.
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Features
New Orleans Culture at a Tipping Point Part 2
Roger Hahn  |  Jun 30, 2009  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments

New Orleans' second-line parade culture and Mardi Gras Indian culture share a number of attributes.


Both emerged as casually formalized neighborhood practices in the post-Reconstruction decades of the late 19th-century, with Indian imagery likely influenced around that time by the popularity in the U.S. of traveling 'Wild West' shows.

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Features
New Orleans Culture at a Tipping Point Part 3
Roger Hahn  |  Jun 30, 2009  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
While the corruption-and-reform message that would dominate post-Katrina rebuilding was being crafted in the arena of national politics—delivered through the combined strategies of federal inaction and rabid crime enforcement—the tourism industry in New Orleans emerged as the second gatekeeper of post-Katrina message delivery, energized by a void of local political leadership.
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Features
New Orleans Culture at a Tipping point Part 4
Roger Hahn  |  Jun 30, 2009  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
This is part 4 of Roger Hahn's epic musical and cultural look at New Orleans, post Hurricane Katrina. Parts 1 through 3 have been on musicangle's home page since this past summer. The final and fifth part of the piece can also be found on the current home page. Parts 1-3 are available by searching the musicangle site—ed.
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Features
New Orleans Culture at a Tipping Point Part 5
Roger Hahn  |  Jun 30, 2009  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments

This is the 5th and final part of Roger Hahn's "New Orleans Culture at a Tipping Point." Part 4 is on the home page. You can find Parts 1-3 elsewhere here by searching the site—ed.

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News
Pixie's Collector's Set Bets Packaged Media Lives (And How!)
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 15, 2009  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments
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Turntable ReviewsTonearm Reviews
SME Model 20/12 turntable & 312S tonearm
Michael Fremer  |  May 15, 2009  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Much has happened in the analog world since I reviewed SME's flagship Model 30/2 turntable for the March 2003 Stereophile (footnote 1). Back then, spending $25,000 on a turntable (without tonearm) was an odd extravagance intended only for those seriously committed to the format, and who already owned large LP collections. Although new LPs were being pressed in growing numbers, the resurgence of vinyl was still spotty, and the long-term prognosis for the old medium remained in question.
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