Most of what you’ll find on Largehearted Boy’s list of new releases this week are box sets, vinyl reissues and remastered albums, including that sweet 16 GB green apple-shaped USB drive containing 17 remastered Beatles albums (but you better hurry because those things are going fast!). Other great looking reissues include 2-CD sets from Camera [...]
By KEXP | Published:
September 9, 2009
Among the albums out this week is a the long-anticipated, massive digitally re-mastered collection of The Beatles music, gathering all 13 studio remasters (plus Past Masters and a DVD of mini-documentaries, bringing the disk count up to 17). The big news, of course, is that the albums are newly cleaned up and presented in both [...]
If you thought you were going to give your bank account a break on this short, post-Labor Day week, you are mistaken… but happily mistaken because it’s a time of happy returns as some newer and much older favorites reunite or continue to put out new albums. Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls, who just performed live on [...]
Each week we make a short radio story — a KEXP Documentary — on a musical subject. Our current series is Psychedelics, and this past week we profiled The Beatles. Focusing on their first psychedelic albums: Revolver, Rubber Soul and Sgt. Pepper’s.
John, Ringo, Paul and George had made a name for themselves as charismatic [...]
Woodstock, equal parts ‘69 phenomena and ’90s nightmare, may get another chance this year for its 40th anniversary. In order the get the go-ahead, promoter Mike Lang has until the end of the month to raise $8-10 million for the event, which would take place at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Lang hopes to recreate the feeling [...]
