June 2010

Grateful Dead Road Trips: Vol. 3, No. 3

You’ve gotta love the frequency of Grateful Dead archival releases. Four months after the last Road Trips installment came out, we’ve got word that Vol. 3 No. 3 – featuring

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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Bonnaroo 2010, Manchester, TN 6/11/10

It was around 2pm last Friday when a huge crowd began to gather around Bonnaroo’s Other Tent. As the happy mob swelled and overflowed onto the grassy hillside surrounding the stage it became irrefutably clear that Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros were on a lot of people’s must-see list at this year’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. At 2:30 the enthusiastic crowd welcomed the group to the stage, saving the largest measure of their applause for the appearance of singer Alex Ebert.

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The Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street – Deluxe Edition

If ever a classic rock album was not suited for a deluxe reissue, it's The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. The textbook definition of a whole being (far) greater than the sum of its parts, the album works in strange mysterious ways, and the various packages can only go so far to reveal exactly how that process worked.

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Bonaroo 2010 – Sunday Recap – Cluth, John Fogerty, They Might Be Giants, MMW. Phoenix, Dave Matthews Band

After the dual spectacle of Wonder and Jay-Z Friday evening, I did a few slow laps around Centeroo, marveling that the last day of Bonnaroo 2010 had arrived – and that most people just didn't know it yet. Easing by each music tent, I circled, impaling my brain on a sort of late night "sensory spit." Dan Deacon's slapdash, noisy barrage of sounds is incredibly jarring in the live setting. The exploratory fascination of his last album, Bromst, was challenging, but not nearly as challenging as watching his band attempt an approximation of the sound live. It's the kind of music that can give you a skin condition after prolonged exposure.

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Michael Jackson Video Game Unveiled

Ubisoft, a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide, announced at their press briefing prior to the renowned video game conference, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the

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