Vinylism

A recent comment about cast albums that have not yet been transferred to CD brought forth several requests for a discussion on this topic.

A recent comment about cast albums that have not yet been transferred to CD brought forth several requests for a discussion on this topic.

The Beatles' recorded past is being faithfully refurbished in CDs, while the videogame springboards the British group into the world of interactive game play and the entertainment future. Retailers have been taking advance orders for individual CDs, box sets and the "Rock Band" game for months, and it's a good bet that the Beatles will appear near the top of sales charts one more time.

Image of Maga Bo from his Web site . Brazil Night Bostonist's favorite experimental dance party Beat Research welcomes Maga Bo, a producer/DJ from Rio de Janeiro with an abiding love for the dance music of all four habitable continents. Live, he plays a jumble of different source material, including pirate street cassettes, hard-to-find vinyl, and obscure MP3s "with a DJ’s feel for the dance ...

I didn’t realise quite how angry I was until I started writing up this week’s singles. But it appears I am really quite furious if shouty caps are anything to go by. For which, of course, massive apollies- I have calmed down now.

Looks like some Arctic Monkeys have been listening to Doors albums. And, reportedly, Jimi Hendrix riffs. After absorbing their new release Humbug's first track,...

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VIERA, Fla., Aug. 30 -- Twelve days, 9 hours and 40 minutes after Stephen Strasburg agreed to his record $15.1 million contract, he squinted into the searing Florida sun, cranked his arm back slightly and tossed his first ball as a member of the Washington Nationals organization.

Ellie Greenwich wrote songs that captured the dreams of the teenage heart, but her own love life was short of idyllic.

We harvested a record 252,017 deer last season.