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    The great 180 gram vinyl rock n roll swindle

    Music plays an enormous part in my life and I'm sure for all of you reading this or, well, you wouldn't participate in this forum. I currently feed said fixation via a mix of the highest quality downloads I can lay my hands on (ALAC or FLAC where possible) and lately have gone back to vinyl...
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    Does Prog lack emotion?

    So, here's a debate that I'm confident will polarise even the most open-minded of rock fans. I went to see Dream Theater in Wolverhampton, England with some friends on Saturday past. I've kind of enjoyed aspects of this band over the years, but largely went along because (a) I love music...
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    New Van Halen album in works ...about a year away

    Source: Blabbermouth: It's been pretty quiet on the VAN HALEN front lately but we've now found out why – they're working on a new album. ALTER BRIDGE guitarist Mark Tremonti broke the news when he was telling VH1 Radio Network's Dave Basner about how new music is coming along with his...
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    Sorry state of UK hard rock music festivals

    I started the day vaguely toying with the idea of music festivals this year and instead it's developed into serious rant about the state of the circuit. Thank god for Download though, with a stream of fresh and challenging new hard rock music. The massive pull this year is that you can watch...
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    Black Sabbath 13: mastered too loud

    It may be a very "rock n roll" concept to record, mix and master LPs too loud (everything up to 11...come one, etc). However, Rick (sodding) Rubin has again succeeded in the ridiculous; almost completely hijacking one of the most hotly anticipated LPs of the decade. In short, the new Black...
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    Bon Jovi should " Hire The Edge"

    In a stunning display of misjudgement somewhat laughingly reminiscint of the David St Hubbins dismissal of founding member Nigel Tufnel ("we'll I'm sure I would if I wasn't under such heavy sedation"), Jon Bon Jovi, these days inseparable from his gargantuan ego, has dismissed the current...
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    New Van Halen album already in the can for 2013?

    Melodicrock.com reports that Van Halen may have recorded enough material for a second LP during the sessions for A Different Kind of Truth. The rumour is that it may make a Spring release date ahead of the next leg of their tour. Interesting.
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    Aerosmith - Music From Another Dimension (2012)

    Released: 6th November 2012 (review based on pre-release advance that will be replaced with a purchased copy) Label: Columbia Track listing: 1. LUV XXX 2. Oh Yeah 3. Beautiful 4. Tell Me 5. Out Go The Lights 6...
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    21st century rock artists who would have been huge in the 70's

    It occurred to whilst thoroughly enjoying the spiffing new Rival Sons album "Head Down" (review shortly I promise) that despite all of the talk of retro plagiarism, what's actually happening IMO is that they were born/ conceived 35 - 40 years out of time. Same with the frankly amazing...
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    Bruce Willis Sues Apple over iTunes ownership

    The below is where we're at if we place trust in copyright. Buying content on iTunes should be like a CD, i.e. it's yours. I understand their willingness to limit mega copying, but within the buyer's own family? I mean, pllleaaase. If they persist in this people will download even more...
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    Lost AOR Classics. Any others?

    If there's one classic rock genre that lends itself to a whole host of underrated major label classics it's this. Maybe it's the fact that it was never metal enough to hit that market, but not pop enough for Milli Vanilli fans to care. Maybe it's simply that the late 80's were hi-jacked by Bon...
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    MP3 Sound Quality Improvement: Bongiovi Acoustics

    I highly, highly recommend the Bongiovi Acoustics DPS real time MP3 remaster technology. It's like removing a veil from the music! Seriously, much warmer sound and it doesn't significantly colour it either. Apparently it's an active processor that scans and optimises the signal in real...
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    Van Halen: Official clips of ALL new tracks

    Here's the VHND link to 1:30 minute clips of all tracks from A Different Kind Of Truth. Without doubt the heaviest VH album ever and Tattoo simply does not fit in this set: Previews of All the New Songs!
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    The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South (1970)

    Released: September 1970 Track Listing: 1. "Revival" (Dickey Betts) – 4:05 2. "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" (Gregg Allman) – 3:31 3. "Midnight Rider" (Gregg Allman, Robert Payne) – 2:59 4. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Dickey Betts) – 6:56 5. "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) –...
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    The best Spinal Tap Type Stories ever

    I thought this would be a fun thread, but I guess we have to be careful about posting anything potentially libellous, so let's use the word alledgedly and not post anything that could be considered defamation. Other rule is that they can't be too obvious. Not much point in posting the story of...
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    Has the age of the 'big rock release' album died?

    You have to give it to Axl Rose; as underwhelming a release as Chinese Democracy is and was, it may just have signalled the very last huge rock album release. That's huge as in investment in studio time and agonising over every note of music production, before delivering the finished product...
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    Why Van Halen can't win with their new album!

    I firmly believe that Van Halen will release a great album in the first half of 2012. All the signs are there: Talk of inspiration from old demos, independent musical witnesses such as Creed's Mark Tremonti commenting that it sounds like classic VH, the rumoured inclusion of the killer guitar...

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