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Exciting news! The B-52’s are set to release their first album in SIXTEEN YEARS on March 25th. I can’t believe it’s been that long. Not because of a “wow it seemed like just yesterday” sort of nostalgia. Actually, their last two albums are amongst some of the first cassettes I ever [...]

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So….what’s wrong with this picture of Pink Floyd? That’s right! There are five members posing here. For a couple of months in early 1968, the band existed as a five-piece before making the transition from Syd Barrett to David Gilmour.
A Saucerful of Secrets was recorded before, during, and after this brief existence as a five [...]

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Fraggle Rock, as most of you know, was a Jim Henson creation that aired on H.B.O. in the U.S. from 1983 until 1987. I’ve always wondered why the poor Fraggles seem to have disappeared from the public consciousness. Perhaps the hippies (Fraggles) versus straights (Doozers) conflicted yet symbiotic relationship was too out-there for [...]

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Scary picture, eh? Scary music.
Coming to us from England, Blurt is a bizarre little beast. Formed by puppeteer and saxophone player (wonder if he can do both at the same time?) Ted Milton in 1980, Blurt has stayed active all this time, releasing 32 albums in just 28 years. It looks like [...]

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As one might imagine, someone as prolific as Bob Dylan has a lot of leftovers and outtakes laying around. Columbia has done a fairly good job trying to round up some of the key tracks and releasing these “bootleg” collections.
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There’s a ton of material on this particular three CD set and I could easily [...]

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