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The Valerie Project - Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA) - Saturday, April 5, 2008 by Tim Bugbee

6 April 2008

Philly-based ensemble provide a live score to a singular film.

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WEA Is Shameless by Steve Holtje

8 January 2008

It’s only January, but already we’ve got our first example of major label greed running out of control. Nonesuch, a division of WEA, has issued two versions of the soundtrack to Tim Burton’s film of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Johnny Depp in an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical of the same name. Consumers – and retailers – have an unpleasant choice to make.

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Desperate Man Blues: Discovering the Roots of American Music (Dust-to-Digital) by Steve Holtje

7 December 2006

“You can thank old time record collectors for the music that is left because the record companies didn’t give a damn about any of that stuff. They threw all the stampers out.”

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Stephin Merritt - Showtunes (Nonesuch) by Dave Heaton

28 March 2006

Showtunes is the right name because it simply states the fact of it: this is Merritt writing songs for actual works of theatre instead of imaginary ones.

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Various Artists - The Squid and The Whale [Soundtrack] (Ultra) by Suzanne Baran

24 March 2006

Pensive and poignant, the rich flavor of soundtrack will entice continuous play, the good version of listening to a broken record.

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Broken Flowers: Music from the Film [Original Soundtrack] (Decca) by Suzanne Baran

12 January 2006

As a whole, the lyrics, different genres, instruments, and time periods of the soundtrack are brilliantly fused; I even would venture to suggest that the film could be viewed as a music video for the soundtrack!

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