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'The Bridge School Benefit Concerts—25th-Anniversary Edition' (Reprise Records)
	
	

	

	
If you’ve never experienced the Bridge School Concert in Northern California, stop reading this and run out to your local music store and buy this 3-DVD/2-CD package. No, really, go now.
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Review: Miranda Lambert 'Four the Record' (Sony Music)
	
	

	

	
Gotta admit, I like Miranda Lambert’s side project, the Pistol Annies—the old-school, bad-girl country trio she put together with Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley—a little better than this record, but only a little. 
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Crooked Fingers 'Breaks in the Armor' (Merge)
	
	

	

	
Former Archers of Loaf frontman Eric Bachmann debuted this project, Crooked Fingers, about a dozen years ago, and since then he’s used the name whenever it suits. This latest Crooked Fingers release is a spare, rhythmic, almost folky rock ’n’ roll collection, heavy on bass and simple guitar patterns but very tuneful—really beautiful in its simplicity. ...















































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DVD Reviews: A Potpourri of Music DVDs
	
	

	

	
Culled from two performances at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in late October 1964, the legendary TAMI (Teenage Music Awards International) Show film—which was released theatrically in December ’64, been excerpted often through the years for various videos about pop music, but never released in its entirety until now—is a fascinating glimpse of the teen music scene at a pivotal moment. It features representatives from the still-new British Invasion (Rolling Stones, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas), Motown (The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles), the SoCal surf movement (Jan & Dean, The Beach Boys), a rock ’n’ roll pioneer (Chuck Berry), a top pop singer of the day (Lesley Gore), and the (still young) King of Soul (James Brown)....














































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