Monthly Archives: June 2024

Hilary Gardner’s Pandemic Record of Cowhand Tunes

For all its insidious ferocity, the COVID ordeal also spawned a new musical genre: pandemic records. Stuck indoors like everyone else, some musicians found ways to express their creativity at home, often exploring new repertoire. While some of the resulting albums were myopic and indulgent, others—McCartney III for example—confirmed that artists who need to create […]

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NXT Ratings Report (5/14): Total viewership and demo rating, details on AEW lead over NXT shrinking by huge number of last three years

SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… Tuesday’s (5/14) episode of NXT on USA Network averaged 597,000 viewers, down from 659,000 the previous week but above the 564,000 two weeks ago. One year ago this week, it drew 564,000 viewers, so this week was up 33,000. Click Here: Through 20 weeks this […]

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ROH TV Tapings Added To AEW’s Residency At eSports Stadium Arlington, AEW Trios Titles Update

– Ring Of Honor has announced a pair of tapings for the eSports Stadium Arlington schedule announced by AEW as the Path To All In. The company announced two taping sessions for July 28 and two more for August 11. With that now known, featured below is the new schedule for AEW’s residency at eSports […]

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June 2024 Jazz Record Reviews

Stephan Crump: Slow Water Crump, bass; five others Papillon Sounds PS 28242 (CD, available as LP). 2024. Crump, prod.; Chris Benham, Cat Evers, engs. Performance ****½ Sonics ****½ The first impression of this record is the freshness and richness of its sonic palette. There may never have been a jazz album with this exact instrumentation: […]

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Proche-Orient : des tensions à la frontière israélo-libanaise

Des colonnes de fumée le long de la frontière entre Israël et le Liban. Jamais les attaques n’avaient été aussi intenses. Avec, d’un côté, les nombreux tirs de roquettes du Hezbollah ; de l’autre, les bombardements de l’armée israélienne sur les positions du mouvement chiite. Des frappes qui touchent aussi des zones civiles. Une escalade […]

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Borg.Audio

The electronics of Borg.Audio’s Christian Gunther look like they’re straight off the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. With their retro-futuristic visual style, you’re bound to either love or hate them. Though I didn’t hear them at Gunther’s static display, I’m already in the first camp. Gunther premiered a number of products at High End Munich, […]

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Magico, Pilium, Antipodes, Vyda

Magico turns 20 this year, but founder and chief designer Alon Wolf isn’t the type for gauzy remembrances. In Magicoland, looking ahead beats looking back, so we’ll have to marvel some other time at how the Californian brand has shot to the top of the high-end heap. At this year’s AXPONA, Magico introduced an upgraded […]

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Iran : libération de Louis Arnaud, otage français depuis deux ans

Après 20 mois de détention, l’otage français Louis Arnaud a fait ses premiers pas sur le sol français à l’aéroport du Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis), dans la matinée du jeudi 13 juin. “Il est assez amaigri, assez choqué, extrêmement ému, étourdi de se trouver en dehors de ces murs”, a confié sa mère, Sylvie. À Montceau-les-Mines (Saône-et-Loire), […]

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Spoilers For Tonight’s WWE SmackDown In Chicago

Tonight’s WWE SmackDown takes place from the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois and will be broadcast on the FOX Network. Fightful Select has released a report revealing several spoilers for matches and segments on the program. If you wish to avoid spoilers, DISCONTINUE READING HERE.   Announced lineup: -CM Punk opens the show -Bianca Belair […]

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NH Patch, News Partners Win New Hampshire Press Association Awards

MANCHESTER, NH — Patch.com in New Hampshire won four press association awards for government, political, and spot news reporting, while news partners affiliated with the site also earned many honors. Tony Schinella, a senior local editor with Patch, won four awards for stories published in 2023 as Class II Division entries. The Class II Division […]

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