Brass Trax

New Release Round-up: Forge Your Own Slits

By Rick Sawyer
November 20th, 2009

This week, we feature a batch of reissues and new albums that hone in on the groove, hearty listening for early winter that will keep you warm at night.

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X is the Y of Z

The Beyoncé of Pancakes and Other Bodacious Breakfast Bonanzas

By Mark Peters
November 19th, 2009

But while “Beyoncé” means “cataclysmically beautiful” to me, her name has a few other meanings to the other humans who scribble and scrabble around the Internet. Forgive them, Beyoncé!

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Featured Stories

Blown Away by a “Landslide”

By MYKE
November 18th, 2009

“I took my love. Took it down,” she began softly. I couldn’t make sense of all the words she was singing, but her lusty voice just cascaded over every note. The experience was almost spiritual; everything else faded away.

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Vinyl Vault

Don Henley: Building the Perfect Beast

By JBev
November 16th, 2009

For his second solo album in 1984, former Eagle Don Henley put away the twang of his former band and embraced the synthesizer. The result, Building The Perfect Beast, placed multiple singles on the charts and even made the poker-faced Henley an unlikely MTV star.

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Brass Trax

The Pleasure of Pain Teens

By Rick Sawyer
November 13th, 2009

Pain Teens sounded like Texas. The band took the tape manipulations, decontextualized vocal samples, and motorik beat of industrial music and wed it to something uniquely Texan: fuzz guitar psychedelia.

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Baker's Dozen

Overlooked Albums from the 1970s

By Douglas Newman
November 13th, 2009

This week’s Baker’s Dozen highlights 13 albums from the 1970s that often go unmentioned when discussing the best music from the decade.

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Album Review

Norah Jones: The Fall

By JBev
November 11th, 2009

With Norah Jones’ The Fall, there may be a few more guitars and drums tossed into the mix this time around in the place of her piano, but this is still music that attempts to resonate without ever getting in your face.

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X is the Y of Z

The Simon Cowell of Urinals and Other Preposterous Potty Problems

By Mark Peters
November 11th, 2009

Unless you’ve been living under a rock lodged beneath a boulder, I don’t think I need to explain who Simon Cowell is; he makes substantially more public appearances than the Yeti.

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