Music – Page 49 – The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

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Pictures at an Exhibition – State Theatre in New Brunswick, 5/19/06

I’m pretty much a dummy when it comes to classical music. I couldn’t tell a Beethoven movement from a Mozart symphony if you held a gun to my head. To be perfectly honest, a lot of the

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1974 – It was a very good year (for music)

According a recent piece on cnn.com, 1974 was a really bad year for music. Like, really bad. As some examples, the author cites the following examples of musical craptasticity: Terry Jacks’

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Album review – Queensrÿche, Operation: Mindcrime II

I’ve had about a week to digest the latest release from Queensrÿche, Operation: Mindcrime II. It was an album I dreaded listening to when I first heard the group was planning a sequel a year

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The Chordettes – Early feminist heroines?

Chris Holmes
posted on March 28, 2006March 8, 2011
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An examination of the 1959 Chordettes song "A Girl's Work Is Never Done." Is it an early example of feminism in

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A Loving Tribute to “Slave to the Metal”

Chris Holmes
posted on December 18, 2005June 18, 2013
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A fond look at Slave to the Metal (1982), my favorite heavy metal compilation album of all-time. Featuring Twisted Sister, Judas Priest, and

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In Concert: Steve Hackett Acoustic Trio

A concert review of the Steve Hackett Acoustic Trio at the Keswick Theatre - October 13,

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Goodbye to CDs (maybe)

Chris Holmes
posted on October 3, 2005June 30, 2008
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Sales of digital music boomed in the first half of 2005, compared to the same period in 2004. Meanwhile, sales of physical product (CDs, DVDs, etc.) slipped. Many are already hailing this as a sign

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1994 in popular music – musical hell, heaven or purgatory?

Nothing cures a pesky bout of writer’s block like a good old-fashioned Inter-web meme!I stumbled across one today on a blog that is full of crap. So like the lemming I am, here we go: The gag

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Brian makes me SMiLE

Chris Holmes
posted on August 15, 2005June 18, 2013
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I don’t normally plunk down any of my hard-earned (well, just earned) money on any form of entertainment unless I have a reasonable expectation that it will be worth it. But when I found out a

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