Addicted To Vinyl

Busy night tonight in the Cleveland music scene. As per usual, there’s no shortage of choices for live music!
Nine Inch Nails are at Quicken Loans Arena - I of course saw the show a few weeks back at Virgin Mobile Festival, and it ruled.

EDIT:
Just got word that Cleveland’s own Nicholas Megalis has been added […]

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Bob Lefsetz writes:
Is Kid Rock selling a hundred thousand CDs a week because his album is not available on iTunes?
Last year, Jay-Z famously refused to sell his new album at iTunes because he thought it would break up the flow, that it needed to be heard as a whole. Despite being available digitally at […]

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This is part two of promised posts to “rock your weekend.” I had to pull the Black Keys post that was up earlier offline (hopefully temporarily.)
So we’ll skip ahead to the second planned post.
It was practically Jam Band Week here in Cleveland - The Black Crowes were at the House of Blues for two […]

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I was shocked, as I think many people were, to wake up to the news today that George Carlin had passed.
I wasn’t a monster Carlin fan, but I had a huge amount of respect for his career and the things that he had accomplished. Carlin was one of the greats, much like Richard Pryor, […]

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Greetings from Memorial Day Weekend in Cleveland, where I saw Filter for the second time in a week, last night at the House of Blues. Friday night, found me at the resurrected Euclid Tavern for young up and comers The Suede Brothers, who are currently making lots of noise here on the Clevo scene. […]

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Here are just a few things that have been rocking my world over the past couple of weeks.
Stone Temple Pilots delivered a rockin’ performance on Jimmy Kimmel that might not have been perfect, and definitely had a bit of rust - but man, it was good to see the DeLeo brothers back on stage rockin’ […]

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So you’re a Nine Inch Nails fan, and as you’re waking up your week officially begins with the Monday morning announcement that there is a new Nine Inch Nails album available for download.
For free.
Reznor writes:
Click HERE to get the new full-length nine inch nails record: the slip
(thank you for your continued and loyal support […]

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This one is for the vinyl junkies. I read the following dispatch of email replies to Bob Lefsetz with interest. In particular, take note of the forwarded email from legendary mastering guru Bob Ludwig.
In reply to Sound Quality
Here are the replies.
In particular:
Michael Fremer:
A) Blu-ray is not a disaster. In fact, what’s […]

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One of the loudest men on the internet, Bob Lefsetz recently penned a couple of pieces relating to the new Mudcrutch CD, which I wrote about here yesterday.
He urged Warner Brothers and Petty to put Crystal River online in all of its 9 minute glory, and WB were indeed paying attention, and now have a […]

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Thanks to Bob Lefsetz for getting my attention with a mention of this:
It’s always fun to call out a major print magazine, and The Huffington Post does just that with this great article that looks at the Rolling Stone review history for recent R.E.M. albums starting with the current CD Accelerate.
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It’s sarcasm at its finest. […]

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