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I've been getting some free concerts (streaming, not download) from Qello, and I know there's at least one other Styx fan (Mikey?) so thought I'd share -- doesn't even require signing up (they're trying to promote the snot out of it, so they're actually releasing some entirely for free. Styx Peter Gabriel If you follow them on Facebook, there are others -- Michael McDonald doing Motown, Waylon Jennings being Waylon Jennings, etc. Highly recommended. Feel free to share other services. What you got? There was a place in Amsterdam that used to stream every show they ever had come through their doors, saw The Gathering perform the entirety of Black Li…

The State of Audiophile Music Downloads | Computer Audiophile The B&W 'club' especially looks interesting.

So, I have accumulated a good amount of Opera over the years and have decided to take a systematic approach to listening through it. Some of the stuff has decent libretti and notes included, but I am looking for some additional external sources. I definitely would like a compendium that includes English translations, as I have a lot of Euro releases without any English, but also looking for reviews of performances and what not. Any recommendations of some things I can grab on Amazon? My goal is to do headphone (audio-only) listen-through and then BluRay / move theater / live and then back to a speaker rig (audio-only, probably) over say the next 3 years.

I hadn't seen this posted anywhere and thought it was worth mentioning... Sorry, lost the link to where I found it... Hopefully remastered means fixing the channel dropouts in "The Moor" and not brickwalled loud. Should be interesting. MA,YH is still my favorite Opeth album, but this could add new life to Still Life. That channel dropout really drives me nuts, as "The Moor" is my favorite track on that album.

PAX.AM \ Welcome extremely limited vinyl pressing, snag it if you like this kind of stuff.

Any of you guys who have an interest in acoustic or early electrical recordings like I do, might find the downloads that Amoeba have made available interesting. If you don't know what I mean about acoustic recordings, they are from the era of recording when acoustic horns were used before the invention and/or the general use of microphones or electric amplifiers. The musicians had to gather around a horn and play loudly so the vibrations at the small end of the horn could "cut" the record master or wax cylinder. This made the recordings of large ensembles (such as an orchestra) difficult and in many instances, instruments were replaced by ones which were capable of pro…

Figured someone here may be interested as reportedly they've bought out someone's collection. Pre-Owned Mint Mobile Fidelity Gold CDs - elusivedisc Rare & Collectable Mint DCC Gold CDs - elusivedisc

Jean-Michel Jarre has re-recorded Oxygene from the ground up for the 30th anniversary of the album. Theres also a DVD with a one-take live performance of the album. Theres a stereo and a 5.1 version of the album and a 2D and 3D version of the video. http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press87.htm Its out at the end of the month. I for one, shall certainly be getting a copy. Anyone else?

Have any of you discovered Pandora yet? http://www.pandora.com/ Pretty cool way of being introduced to new music -- I have several "stations" set up already (Ambient Electronica, Organica, Eccentrica, eMetal, and Electro Industrial). If you are on, and/or you don't mind me giving them your email address (I.E. if you are going to sign on anyway), then let me know (PM me your E), and I'll "share" them with you. And apparently, there's some sort of sharing of information going on with the Slimdevices Squeezebox, so if you have one of these, you can listen anywhere and all of the other functionality (and you will want to be able to rate and skip songs, &c.), not…

First off some jazz LPs (Blue Train!!! :o ) And Love- Forever Changes on CD

Just got her Modern Cool Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs SACD Now I get what SACD can really do This sounds so good... you are right there! The soundstage... the transparency... yikes!! Any one else have other MFSL or Patty Barber SACDs?

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Paul Motian passed away a week ago and Fresh Air had a nice tribute/older interview that hit upon Bill Evans, Monk, and Keith Jarrett. Worth a listen. "I'm not a showpiece drummer. ... I feel like I'm an accompanist. It's my sort of thing to make the other people sound good, as good as they can be. I feel like I should accompany them, and I should accompany the sound that I am hearing and make it the best that I can — that I can do."

If you're a 'Mats or Westerberg fan, or simply interested where where music distribution may be headed, see here and here.

Now, Renato is going to think I am drunk... and he is somewhat correct, but I just had an epiphany of sorts and decided to start this thread. If there is already a similar thread on the go, I'm sorry, but I'm not searching for shit at this point. Just doing a little spring cleaning and spinning some vinyl and I was struck by the perfect beauty of Stevie Wonder's 'Ordinary Pain'. Any other songs that you think are perfect?

Great show as expexted!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/arts/music/phoebe-snow-bluesy-singer-songwriter-dies-at-58.html?_r=1&hp http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/la-me-phoebe-snow-20110427,0,1871879.story

The entire Pink Floyd catalog has been remastered and repackaged. Who's going to purchase Dark Side of the Moon again? Why Pink Floyd...?

Is it possible that there is not a dedicated podcast thread yet? https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/arts/music/poly-styrene-brash-frontwoman-of-x-ray-spex-dies-at-53.html?_r=1&hpw “Poly Styrene’s voice on ‘Oh Bondage! Up Yours!’ was the most exhilarating voice I ever heard — it was all body,” said Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth.

Pop music review of the decade, noughties, 00s - Telegraph Ok, so its a UK-centric view, but "kidz on da street", did they miss anything? "Landfill Indie", hadn't heard that before, but its pretty descriptive

1. "Nil Recurring" 6.08 2. "Normal" 7.09 3. "Cheating the Polygraph" 7.10 4. "What Happens Now?" 8.23 So far I'm really loving the extra tracks on this album. I just preordered the EP from burningshed, but the tracks will be on the DVD-A release of Fear of a Blank Planet. Fear of a Blank Planet is also available on vinyl for preorder, which I ordered as well

This was announced some time in June. They put up samples of the upcoming album on their Myspace page today: Porcupine Tree on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads The stream quality is not very good, but I enjoyed what I heard A review from a listening session can be found here. Also it sounds like a 5.1 DVD-A is confirmed, which more than likely means a high res stereo PCM track on the same disc.

All taken from another forum: Track list: 17 minute prog track

Rules: 1. The video must be music related, meaning it can be a live performance, a music video, an interview with an artist, etc. 2. You must describe the contents of the video, you can't just post a youtube link with no accompanying description. Just something as simple as "<artist> plays <song> live" will suffice, but feel free to describe more if you would like. So those are the rules. Linky: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfjqZC5iTU8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfjqZC5iTU8[/ame] RZA from Wu-Tang describes covering/sampling "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" in a brief five minute interview. Interesting story about how George Harrison's son…