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Zeth Lundy
PopMatters Music Columns/Features Editor
About Zeth Lundy
Zeth Lundy has been writing for PopMatters since 2004. He is the author of Songs in the Key of Life (Continuum, 2007), and has contributed to the Oxford American, Metro Boston, and StylusMagazine.com. He lives in Boston.
Features
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[10.Jul.08] :. Guitarist Eddie Willis takes us from the beginnings of Motown through the band's current activities, all with a sense of amazement that he's been part of something so big.
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[11.Jun.08] :. A pair of new Beach Boys releases -- a 16-disc box set of singles and the reissue of Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue -- examines the group's resonance beyond the lauded Pet Sounds era.
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[22.Apr.08] :. With four albums for the independent Minneapolis label Twin/Tone, the 'Mats rendered the hierarchies and caste system of the rock world irrelevant by remaking rock 'n' roll as an anonymous force.
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[17.Aug.07] :. The latest installment in Hip-O Select's impressive reissue series, The Complete Motown Singles, Volume 7: 1967 collects every A-side and B-side released that year, including planned and deleted singles, as well as alternate and promotional mixes -- 120 tracks in all.
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[2.Apr.07] :. Sly & the Family Stone, a group that riddled pop music's consciousness with a concentrated dosage of exploding possiblity, finally get the expanded reissue treatment from Epic/Legacy.
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[25.Jul.08] :. Bowie's first live U.S. radio broadcast, a show in Santa Monica, California with the Spiders from Mars, is officially released 36 years after the fact.
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DVDs
[22.Jul.08] :. Tony Palmer's compelling yet frustrating 15-hour television series on the history of popular music, originally broadcast in the 1970s, finally sees a DVD release.
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[23.Jun.08] :. Idiosyncratic American guitarist teams up with bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith for the year's best heretic deconstruction of power trio clichés.
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[13.Jun.08] :. Allen Toussaint and the Meters are featured heavily on this compilation of rare-ish soul, R&B, and funk from New Orleans in the '60s and '70s.
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[12.Jun.08] :. The venerable Canadian power-pop band follows up its 30-track double-album with a collection of songs that gets back to basics with renewed energy.
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[21.Mar.08] :. Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys and hip-hop beatman Boom Bip get elbow-deep in '80s synth-pop with a concept album about John DeLorean.
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[15.Feb.08] :. Lowe's classic 1978 solo debut, long out-of-print and overlooked, is reissued in a definitive expanded edition that includes ten bonus tracks.
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[3.Dec.07] :. Contrary to its public image, Frank Capra's greatest film is a dark and turbulent tale of surrender and sacrifice, of human frailty and defeatism, of that proverbial ledge from which hopes and dreams are thrown to the raging waters.
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[19.Oct.07] :. Costello's classic debut gets yet another double-disc reissue (its fourth reissue in 14 years), including a 1977 live show with a newly formed Attractions.
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[7.Sep.07] :. Louis Prima embraced jump blues, swing, New Orleans jazz and R&B, pop, and just about any kind of quick-pulsed shuffle music that could withstand his nimble and punishing arrangements.
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[16.Aug.07] :. Thirty-track compilation of Domino's tenure at Imperial Records includes 29 top ten R&B records from 1950-1961.
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[11.Jul.07] :. Austin band's sixth LP is its most groove-oriented effort since 2001's Girls Can Tell, an efficient rhythm machine with a sinuous palate.
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[29.Jun.07] :. Three-disc set chronicling the seminal bluegrass band spans recordings made for the Rich-R-Tone, Columbia, Mercury, King, and Starday labels.
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[20.Apr.07] :. The Swedish band's fourth album takes everything that was great about last year's State of the Ark and supersizes it, a gluttonous allowance by a band that has every right to have the world eating from the palm of its hand.
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[10.Nov.06] :. The 20th anniversary reissue of Yoakam's major-label debut includes both his 1981 demos and a live show from the Roxy in L.A.
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[17.Jan.06] :. Following last year's career-spanning Brick box set, the first four studio albums from the seminal art-pop band are reissued as individual DualDiscs.
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[23.Dec.05] :. This five-CD/one-DVD set spans the most important years of the Band's existence, from its days with Ronnie Hawkins to The Last Waltz's curtain call. It's both a lavish dedication and definitive documentation of the Band's legacy.
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[19.Aug.05] :. Highly anticipated third full-length from Vancouver collective offers up another round of smart, audaciously engaging pop.
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[16.May.05] :. Country music's prince of composition ends a prolonged silence with his first collection of new material since 2001. In related news, scores of aspiring songwriters give up.
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[12.May.05] :. Fifth full-length from Austin indie luminary is, simply put, a triumph.
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[29.Apr.05] :. Fifth solo release from consummate singer-songwriter is an examination of the centripetal destruction that consumes lives at the point of no return. It's also a concept album that actually works -- devastatingly so.
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[8.Apr.05] :. Reissue of the landmark jazz guitar album is appended with six additional tracks from the original live sessions.
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[22.Feb.05] :. Sam Beam and producer Brian Deck continue to experiment in the studio, replacing the sounds of necessity with the sounds of possibility. Woman King is Iron & Wine's most economically expansive set of songs to date.
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[16.Sep.04] :. Funeral is a truly eccentric rock record: bizarre at turns and recognizable elsewhere, equally beautiful and harrowing, theatrical and sincere, defying categorization while attempting to create new genres.
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Blog posts
Consuming Consumables
[2.Dec.07] :. Time Life's fantastic three-disc set, The Definitive Collection (1947-1966), is aptly named, for it's the very first Stanley Brothers compilation to include tracks from every label they...
Consuming Consumables
Consuming Consumables
[30.Nov.07] :. Legacy gave the long overdue re-issue treatment to Sly and the Family Stone's catalogue this year. The Collection is for anyone who loves great music. Fraudulent transcendence is one of pop...
Consuming Consumables
Consuming Consumables
[28.Nov.07] :. Things go awry in the films of Joel and Ethan Coen. Perfect murders are foiled by crumbling contingency plans, kidnappings are bested by cruel Minnesotan winters or the rigors of child-rearing, and...
Consuming Consumables
Consuming Consumables
[19.Nov.07] :. Hip-O offers another must-have reissue of Elvis Costello's first record. My Aim Is True remains the true anomaly in Costello’s catalog. It’s a batch of unaffected pop and rock...
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