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...typically broadcast automated air.Unlike BMI, SoundExchange provides no clear guidelines for how the data should be compiled nor do they remind stations to submit the information, setting up a trap for smaller stations.They also accept data only in digital format, making it difficult for stations that play CDs and LPs and do not use automated software for the bulk of their programming to comply.Beyond the administrative and logistical nuisances is the threat to the financial viability of small, streaming operations.Internet radio’s low overhead allows for stations to broadcast on a shoestring budget and still access a worldwide...
...older, gentler, “pre-war” tunes. The three songs that follow the title track on this single release are good, too—but not great. Apparently, on a tiny release like this, listeners miss out on features that have defined Ward’s LPs since 1999’s “Duet for Guitars #2.” Here, there are no whimsical instrumentals, no surf-tinged laments, and a lot less of M. Ward’s signature old-timey feel. It doesn’t take a Luddite to lament this...
...pleasant or painful. But for most people, whether or not they are practicing Christians, the soundtrack of that wayback machine is Christmas music: the religious and secular tunes, the novelty songs and ballads. Grandma has spun these standards for a half century or more, replacing the 78s with LPs, then cassettes and now CDs. The formats change; the songs and feelings don't. Some time in the next few days, you'll hear Bing Crosby sing "White Christmas," and shed a tear or grit your teeth...
...print. Bing does a little globetrotting here, adding songs with Irish and Hawaiian settings, but it's basically that warm Crosby baritone, equally adept at solemnity (a robust "Adeste Fidelis") and swingin' (the vamps of "Jing-jing-jing-jingle bells" that he swaps with the Andrews Sisters). Among holiday LPs, this is the all-time champ...
...listened to as an album is beside the point; I cannot imagine this being consumed any other way than as pure background, to be shortened or repeated as necessary for the purposes of the event. This all sounds harsher than is fair. The band is, after all, 12 LPs and over 20 years into their career, and I suppose that it is preferable to continue to age gracefully than to try to put out as big a bang (or bigger) as they used to. This is a fantastic, light album, succeeding completely in doing something that isn?...