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Holiday music

Generation Xmas

Setting new standards for the season?
by Roni Sarig

Scat & Santa

Plan yourself a jazzy little Christmas
by Richard C. Walls

Musical gifts

The complete collection of Pere Ubu, lava lamps, sick videos, and Elvis tees
by Brett Milano


Away, yon devils!

Enigma deliver their sermon on the mount
by Michael Freedberg

Eastern front

Asian-American artists forge new fusions
by Norman Weinstein

Dueling horns

Mosaic resurrects two trombone heroes
by Ed Hazell

To LA and back

Ape Hangers return as 3XL
by Brett Milano

Cantab delta?

Rishell and Raines play the real folk blues
by Bill Kisliuk

Bad guitars

Japanese rockers turn folly to genius
by Carly Carioli

Roadtrips

Stir, Cow, and the Gang
edited by Matt Ashare

[Live & on Record]
The Descendents: Fresh Melodies, Old Shtick
Smashing Pumpkins: Another Jazz Odyssey



[Off the Record] Pet, PET
Sun Ra, THE SINGLES
Mobb Deep, HELL ON EARTH
Ten Seconds, TEN SECONDS
Mazzy Star, AMONG MY SWAN
The Original Sins, BETHLEHEM
Curtis Mayfield, NEW WORLD ORDER
Bruce Gertz Quintet, DISCOVERY ZONE
Bundy K. Brown/James Warden/Doug Scharin, DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC
Serge Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra, SESSIONS OF NOVEMBER 22, 1944


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