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Recorded in London, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, Los Angeles, California, and Boston, Massachusetts. Includes liner notes by Black Francis. Like the rest of 4AD's Pixies retrospectives, Complete B-Sides is equally exciting and frustrating: Many of their B-sides are just as good as their album tracks, so it's terrific to see them collected onto a single disc. But a number of factors make it somewhat disappointing, not the least of which is that Complete B-Sides is available only as a U.K. import due to U.S. licensing problems. That won't dissuade Pixies diehards from seeking it out, but many longtime fans probably already have these songs, either on the original singles or on the bootlegs that proliferated while 4AD inexplicably sat on them. At any rate, Complete B-Sides mostly delivers the goods, kicking off with a ferocious version of "River Euphrates" from the Gigantic single. Witty, spooky Doolittle B-sides like "Manta Ray," "Weird at My School," and "Into the White" are so good that it's a shame they weren't saved for Bossanova, when the band really could have used them. Meanwhile, the Neil Young cover "Winterlong," which also appeared on The Bridge tribute, reaffirms the Pixies' ability to turn any artist's songs into their own. Not every song here scales these heights -- "Bailey's Walk" and "Dancing the Manta Ray" are slightly less inspired bits of Doolittle-era pop perversity, and the snappy, strutting "Santo" and demented cow punk of "Build High"...

The Chandler Travis Philharmonic: Chandler Travis (guitar); Dinty Child (accordion); Keith Spring (keyboards); John Styklunas (upright bass); Rikki Bates (drums). Reestablishing their role as one of New England's most diversely talented and underrated harmonic entities, CTP delivers yet again with a coherently varied collection of musical madness. From the self-censored opener (and uncensored closer) "That's What She Said" and the lazily fanfared reunion of "This Is Home" to the encouraging vaudevillian bounce of "Bob What's-Is-Name" and the late-night lounge of "What'll ...

It's not the standard musical progression: band goes through a flurry of breakups, band produces their most accessible, most poppy record. However, that's what Boston indie outfit Buffalo Tom did with BIG RED LETTER DAY. The 1993 album opens with the effervescent guitar rocker "Sodajerk," a mix of abstractly melancholy lyrics and jangly hooks which would prove the band's biggest hit. The trio builds on the tremendous ballad formula it discovered on their prior album's "Taillights Fade" with a pair...

Ori. Compilation Release '05 from the late saxophonist who had worked with with MIles Davis, Chick Corea, Horace Silver and many other legends. Personnel: Bob Berg (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Mike Stern (guitar); David Sanborn (alto saxophone); Dave Kikoski (piano, synthesizer); Don Grolnick (keyboards); Will Lee (bass instrument); Dennis Chambers, Peter Erskine (drums); Manolo Badrena, Arto Tuncboyaciyan (percussion).

Live Recording Track Listing of songs: Brahm's Lullaby; * Through the Night; Jesus in the Morning; Be Still and Know; * Night, * Day; Evening Hymn; Lord Is My Shepherd, The; Let Us Break Bread Together; Father We Thank Thee; Whisper a Prayer; Sweet Hour of Prayer; O Come, Little Children; What a Friend We Have in Jesus; Children of the Heavenly Father; When Morning Gilds the Skies;

Recording information: Basemint Studios, NJ; Honey Studios, Staten Island, NY; Sounds Boutique, Teaneck, NJ; The Digital Bitch Studios, NY; The Weight Room, Brooklyn, NY. Arranger: Charles Farrar. Personnel: Frankee (vocals); Chris Liggio , Tarus Mateen (various instruments); Charles Farrar (drum programming); Makeba Riddick (background vocals). Audio Mixers: James Porte; Jim Caruana.

Track Listing of songs: Creatures of the Night; Unchain Me; When the Lovin' Dies; Last Samurai, The; You; Dragon's Fire; Voices in the Rain; Love Lost; Burn on the Flame; Deja Vu; In Love and War;

This album was produced, written, and engineered by TL. Hope you enjoy it as much as I. Thank you to everyone for * of your support! Musiq is life and life is love! TL

If it is true that every five years or so country music starts reinventing itself, adopting embarrassing pop affectations to reach a wider audience, then this compilation is the other side of the coin. For every mechanical bull/don't call it a fiddle, it's a violin/just put a steel guitar on a pop song reinvention of country to grab the big buck, about five or so years later it will reverse itself (read: traditional core audience begins to leave) and start...