Earlier this fall Seattle's Rosie Thomas put the finishing touches on her new album, These Friends of Mine, featuring a bevy of guests including: Sufjan Stevens, Damien Jurado, Denison Whitmer, Dave Bazan, and Jeremy Enigk. The sessions yielded some fine . . .

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As far as we're concerned, blog-wise, Big Rock Candy Mountain is the place to be during the month of December. For three years now, every December, the site steadily offers up obscure quality Christmas nuggets you won't hear at the mall or Starbucks. What's more impressive is the fact none of the tunes have been repeated since they began their holiday tunes tradition.The following is a medley of tracks I gathered . . .

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Allow me to, again, gush over another Pretenders reissue. This time it's their 1981 second album appropriately entitled Pretenders II. The short-lived band led by guitarist become a member or log in.

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Part Two of our Year In Review...Part One can be found HERE.The following list is comprised of my favorite 12 albums released in 2006. Take note that this list is in flux, and could be very different a month from now. For example, last year I declared Sufjan Steven . . .

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Best 2006 Reissue :: Pavement - Wowee Zowee (Sordid Sentinels Edition) Matador continued their excellent Pavement reissue campaign in '06 with the Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition. Like it's reissued predecessors, become a member or log in.

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Veteran readers will note this one is a long time coming. Last February I posted the first half (1967 - 1971) of the Neil Young soundboard derived live collection, A Perfect Echo Volume 1, and recently a kind soul, and A.D. reader, sent me the second half (1974 - 1976) to complete the set. As promised I now share it here with you.

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Until this week I hadn't listened to Kurt Wagner's collaborative EP with Josh Rouse, Chester, all the way through in a couple of years. I'm happy to report it holds up extremely well seven years after it . . .

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It's (somehow) December again...a quick year indeed. For the first Holiday post of many, let's begin with Vince Guaraldi's classic score for the 1965 Peanuts TV special "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Nostalgia inducing holiday instrumental jazz at it's best, this CBS soundtrack is as familiar as the cartoon itself . . .

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Although suffering from poor health in the spring of 1970, Howlin' Wolf agreed to travel to Europe to record with the who's who if British rock royalty; namely the Stones rhythm section (Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman), Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood. Produced by Norman Dayronthe, the sessions capture an interesting snapshot of a blues legend passing on some of his secrets . . .

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A number of readers have requested additional tracks off The Zabriskie Point Sessions, so here is another excerpt from the cream of the crop. Per the comments in the original post, yes, the sparse piano track later became "Us And Them" found on 1973s Dark Side of The Moon. **Part one of this post can be found here.

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After years of speculation and anticipation, Neil Young has finally released the first artifact from his legendary archives. The six track album is culled from the March 6th & 7th, 1970 performances at Bill Graham's famed Fillmore East. While the material itself is fantastic it does beg the question of . . .

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When Radiohead's Ok Computer was released, one of the finest and most appropriate appraisals was that of deeming the band the '90s Pink Floyd. I was reminded of this recently while listening to the Floyd sessions for the soundtrack to the 1970 film Zabriskie . . .

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