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Rhino Records rises again

Once upon a time, a great record store existed on Westwood Blvd near the Santa Monica intersection. It sold a wide array of LPs and later tapes and...
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Library events & services

Local libraries are absolute goldmines! I never realized how wonderful library resources could be until I started homeschooling and wasn’t...
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Best Albums of 2009: Mew's Forgotten Gem

Last week I wrote a handy little list of the "best albums of 2009." I wish to amend that list with a forgotten gem: Mew's No More...
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Best Albums of 2009

So our fine year is wrapping up, as is our fine decade. Most of what you'll hear is that this has been the worst decade ever. At least the pain...
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Beatles remastered

Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Unless you don't read magazines or newspapers, you are probably aware that the Beatles catalogue has finally...
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Music Shopping 101: How much should I pay for a record?

As you browse through the few remaining record stores of Los Angeles (or anywhere else in America) the vast range of record prices may overwhelm...
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This Week's New Releases

This Week's Recommendation Yim Yames- A Tribute To (EP)Recorded right after George Harrison's death in 2001, My Morning Jacket's Jim James'...
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Music Shopping 101: What's the Weirdest Place in LA to Buy Music?

LA's a rather weird place if you aren't used to it. And even if you are, you probably have had a time in the last year in which you have witnessed...
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Project Cocktail: iTunes goes all out to make your digital albums feel real

Other than terrible sound quality, the biggest tragedy of the MP3 age is the album's death. It's as if we've come full circle to the days when...
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This Week's New Releases

As summer rolls along, the music new release schedule has begun to dry up a bit. This week will see new releases from a veteran pop-rapper ...
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