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Future of The Blues
|Author: Drew Hobbs To the uninitiated, the blues is all about hard times, losers, hobos and winos, with the typecast image being of an unkempt, down-on-his-luck, middle-aged black guy with a beat up old acoustic, ...read more -
HDtracks Welcomes Verve Music Group In 96/24 Sound
|(Editorial Note: Late last week, AVguide received word that the HDtracks, the well-regarded high-res music download service, is now offering Verve Music Group offering in 96kHz/24-bit format. Below is the text of the HDtracks announcement, ...read more -
RMAF Seminar videos
|Rocky Mountain Audio Fest has posted videos from most of the 2009 seminars. Go here Sorry about my purple shirt...read more -
HDtracks Expands Catalog with New Hi-Res Indie Rock Offerings
|HDtracks, an audiophile-oriented music download service that specializes in sales of high resolution (that is, CD-quality or better) music files, announced earlier this week that it is expanding its catalog of indie rock offerings through ...read more -
CES 2010 - Hard Rock Cafe Pictures
|Tuesday evening I went to the Nobu restaurant in the Hard Rock Hotel. I arrived early so I spent about ½ hour making some photographs in Hard Rock’s lobby. They were all made with the ...read more -
AVguide.com Visits Ne Plus Ultra for Preview of Dean Peer’s "Airborne"
|It isn’t often that I get an opportunity to meet to one of my musical heroes, but that’s exactly what happened last week when I received an email from the world-class bass guitarist Dean Peer, ...read more -
Two smart ideas from Manchester (Hi-Fi+)
|Last weekend, there was an audio show in Manchester, England. Although very successful in its own right, a lot of the equipment on demonstration there had been seen before, was very home theater oriented or ...read more -
How I spend My Summer Vacation
|How I spend My Summer Vacation Some people go on cruises, some putter around the house, but my “official” summer vacation starts this afternoon when I register for the RockyGrass Academy. This will be my ...read more -
Starting Today, Ray Charles’s Post-1960 Catalog Becomes Available in Digital Format
|According to a Concord Music Group press release, Ray Charles’ post-1960 catalog will, as of April 7, 2009, and for the first time ever, become available in digital format. Starting on April 7, Apple’s iTunes ...read more -
Vienna Teng, Dreaming Through the Noise
|Dreaming Through the Noise If you like singer-songwriters, but are looking for a different sound, try this. I'd compare Vienna Teng's latest to something, but saying she's like Cowboy Junkies meets Lucinda Williams isn't really ...read more -
Must-Have Piano Concertos in SACD
|Shostakovich/Shchedrin: Piano Concertos in SACD In the November 2006 issue of The Absolute Sound, Jonathan Valin and Mark Lehman list "100 More Best-of-the-Century Classical Compositions." Because it is the 100th anniversary of Shostokovich's birth, I ...read more