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For a band made up of four unfailingly polite British lads, Coldplay inspires an awful lot of antipathy. Alan McGee, founder of influential UK record label Creation, which was once home to Oasis, famously referred to Coldplay as “music for bedwetters” around the time they appeared on the… Read More
The sounds of Christmas have invaded every mall, office, store and tree lot by now. This is the only holiday season to which performers in the Western world devote an entire CD. Most of these Christmas CDs recycle old standards and sprinkle in one or… Read More
CROSSING AMERICA, by Leo Connellan, CD produced by Chris King and Lij. skuntry.com, Wayne, N.J., 2003. $12. Leo Connellan’s poetic energy hits full force in a new CD of a recording he made in the late 1990s of “Crossing America,” a series of poems carved… Read More
THE RISING (Columbia) – Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band. There was a time, in the not so distant past, when musicians refused to attach their songs to commercials. It would spoil the artistry, the message connected to melody, if they were used to pitch… Read More
“There and Back Again” (Columbia) – Phil Lesh and Friends Phil Lesh has some pretty good friends. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length; i++) {… Read More
BANGOR – For the generations that still consider baseball the national pastime, the game remains serene yet full of emotions. It’s passion and pain, tribute and tradition, and mostly fun. Those emotions are the backdrop for “Baseball Songs Sports Heroes,” a CD recently released by… Read More