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Lloyd Sachs explores the life, times, and endless journeys of singer-songwriter-musician T Bone Burnett.

This is another triumph for Punch Brothers, who continue to find a balance between catchiness and esoteria.

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The soundtrack to the Coen Brothers' film about Greenwich Village's folk scene is slick, polished, and reverent to a fault.

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The superstar producer just helped helm the mega-selling Hunger Games soundtrack, and tells PopMatters all about its creation, including how he never actually knew about the series until right before he started working on the music.

Sam Phillips' year-long project of intricate multimedia comes to an end on a high note with the full-length release of Cameras in the Sky.

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