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TunesDay: The best CDs of 2008, pt. 1 – the Gold LPs

Posted on 2009.01.06 by winterSmith 5 comments

Most years are pretty good for music if you know where to look, and 2008 was no exception. It’s a shame that you have to search so hard, of course – once upon a time all you needed to keep track of what was good in the world of music was a radio. These days it requires a little effort,

Music/Popular Culture

TunesDay: what is, what was and what almost was – the S&R interview with Don Dixon

Posted on 2008.05.27 by winterSmith 7 comments

I’ve been a very big Don Dixon fan since the late ’70s, so when his new CD, The Nu-Look, dropped I was bouncing around the living room like Snoopy doing a happy dance. Sadly, a lot of people don’t know Don’s music – although many know his work as the producer of Murmur and Reckoning by REM and multiple records