There’s a new David Bowie video for “Starman”
In about a week, we’re going to get a new version of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on Blu-ray. It’ll feature four editions of the album. Word is that the Atmos
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Pink Floyd’s Animals is being reissued in Dolby ATMOS
Even all these years later, Pink Floyd’s albums from the 70s are among the best-sounding of all time. But the band and their people believe that there’s still room for improvement. Come May
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Want a free twenty bucks? If you bought some consumer electronics between 2004 and 2010, you may qualify.
Free money? Sure! A $29.7 million settlement has been reached in a price-fixing class action suit in Ontario, BC, and Quebec regarding optical drives sold between 2004 and 2010. That includes CD players,
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Pink Floyd’s Animals finally gets the remix/reissue treatment
If you’re a hardcore Pink Floyd fan, you probably have the special box sets issues for Dark Side the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, and a few others. Missing from the
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How long will you continue to buy things like CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays?
Item 1: Earlier this month, Samsung announced it was going to stop investing in new Blu-ray technology. While the company will continue to manufacture players for the foreseeable future, they won’t be spending
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Random music news for Friday, February 22, 2019
Heading out of the hemisphere for a few days, but I promise to keep on top of things with music news. Here’s what’s happening on Friday, February 22, 2019. Peter Tork of The
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Sign of the times: Samsung has stopped making new Blu-ray players
Like you, I have a couple of DVD and Blu-ray players in the house. I haven’t touched any of them in–let me see…years. Let’s face it. Between iTunes, YouTube, and Netflix (not to
Read MoreRandom music news for Friday, December 14, 2018
Plutonium was isolated on this day in 1940. As for music news on December 14, 2018… Nominations for the 2019 Juno Awards will be released January 29. Peter Murphy–yes, the Goth god–was thrown
Read MoreHere’s the Official Trailer for the Rush R40 Concert Film
As a touring entity, it appears that Rush is no more. When they wrapped up that last gig in LA earlier this year, the implications were this would the last time we’d see
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Wow. A Restored Edition of the Beatles Film for “A Day in the Life”
If you haven’t heard by now, a new version of the Beatles 1 collection is coming next month. Dubbed 1+, it features 27 #1 hits and films/videos/performances–fifty of them, in fact–to go along
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Another Peek at Rush’s R40 DVD/Blu-Ray
R40, a video record of Rush‘s (apparently) last ever tour will appear in stores November 20 as both a DVD and Blu-Ray. Shot over two nights at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto,
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