This unique old time radio DVD collectible features 162 digitized reels of classic Big Band Music radio broadcasts and over 68 Hours 41 Minutes of total running time on 1 DVD. Take a journey back through radio broadcasting history with this large audio library of OTR memorabilia. The golden age of old time radio has been rescued, digitized, and packaged into a gift set that any classic radio lover can appreciate. The DVD opens and plays in a computer DVD drive and the collector can listen to the audio on a MP3 player, DVD/MP3-compatible car stereo, computer, MP3-compatible DVD player, or just compile favorites onto CD for greater user flexibility.

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CrystalTop Music is fast becoming a “buzz” label – a reliable source of incredible music that has been tickling the ears across Rock, Soul, Electronica, and some susprising sounds in between. With CrystalTop Music Presents, the label creates a compilation that showcases some of today’s most critically acclaimed new recording acts along with some untapped up-and-comers to create a musical landscape that runs the gamut from accessible songwriter’s hits to fascinating underground sounds.

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As featured on NBC’s TODAY Show! The experts from the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, the independent consumer organization rate the best (and worst) in children’s toys, books, videos, music and software. Don’t waste any more money on products that are a waste of your money and your child’s time. Here’s the guide that every parent (and grandparent) should have before they go shopping. Guide includes important child development information, basic gear checklists, product comparisons, best shower and birthday presents for every budget, multicultural products, science toys, educational toys and a full chapter on adapting ordinary products for kids with special needs.

About the Author

Joanne Oppenheim is one of the country’s most trusted and respected child development experts and the author of more than fifty books for and about children. Joanne is a Contributor to NBC’s TODAY Show. Stephanie Oppenheim, a former corporate attorney, is the publisher an (more…)

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This year’s package of bite-size think pieces about pop music continues the fine tradition of previous editions. Subjects and contributors include Robert Christgau on “postmodern minstrelsy” and why studying it matters, Robert Hilburn on Bob Dylan as “rock’s enigmatic poet,” and Chris Norris on the continuing cult-icon status of Saint [sic] Kurt Cobain. Greil Marcus kicks in on Buddy Holly, and two other contributors take on punk’s legacy: Is it dead, or does it just smell funny? Nicole White and Evelyn McDonnell bring news that cautious fans and musicians can use in their timely “Police Secretly Watching Hip-hop Artists,” and again this year, an Onion article, “Heartbreaking Country Ballad Paralyzes Trucking Industry” (a story that, factual or not, had to be told), peacefully coexists with the verifiable stuff. Ben Yagoda explores a subject that will grab catalogers and other metadata enthusiasts, “reflexivity” (fancy for self-referential lyrics and criti (more…)

As featured on NBC’s TODAY Show! The experts from the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, the independent consumer organization rate the best (and worst) in children’s toys, books, dvds and music. Don’t waste any more money on products that are a waste of your money and your child’s time. Here’s the guide that every parent (and grandparent) should have before they go shopping. Guide includes important child development information, basic gear checklists, product comparisons, best shower and birthday presents for every budget, multicultural products, science toys, educational toys and a full chapter on adapting ordinary products for kids with special needs.

About the Author

Joanne Oppenheim is one of the country’s most trusted and respected child development experts and the author of more than fifty books for and about children including: Read It! Play It!, Choosing Books for Kids, Buy Me! Buy Me! and Kids and Play. Stephanie Oppenheim, a former corporate (more…)

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VOID (Video Overview in Deceleration) is the ultimate video experience of The Flaming Lips. With all 18 previously released music videos spanning their Warner Bros. career, the DVD features 5.1 Surround Sound as well as stereo mixes, band commentary and the debut of a new song and their 19th video-”Mr. Ambulance Driver”. Want to know what The Flaming Lips are all about? Want to immerse yourself in The Flaming Lips? Enter the VOID. Track Listing: Mr. Ambulance DriverSpongebob & Patrick Confront The Psychic Wall of Energy Fight Test Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robot Do You Realize?? (UK Version) Race for the Prize Waiting For A Superman This Here Giraffe When You Smile Bad Days Christmas At The Zoo Be My Head She Don’t Use Jelly Turn It On Frogs Talkin’ Bout the Smiling Deathporn Phoebe Battles the Pink Robots Are You A Hypnotist? Do You Realize? (US Version)

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This year’s package of bite-size think pieces about pop music continues the fine tradition of previous editions. Subjects and contributors include Robert Christgau on “postmodern minstrelsy” and why studying it matters, Robert Hilburn on Bob Dylan as “rock’s enigmatic poet,” and Chris Norris on the continuing cult-icon status of Saint [sic] Kurt Cobain. Greil Marcus kicks in on Buddy Holly, and two other contributors take on punk’s legacy: Is it dead, or does it just smell funny? Nicole White and Evelyn McDonnell bring news that cautious fans and musicians can use in their timely “Police Secretly Watching Hip-hop Artists,” and again this year, an Onion article, “Heartbreaking Country Ballad Paralyzes Trucking Industry” (a story that, factual or not, had to be told), peacefully coexists with the verifiable stuff. Ben Yagoda explores a subject that will grab catalogers and other metadata enthusiasts, “reflexivity” (fancy for self-referential lyrics and criti (more…)

You are looking at a great postcard. It is a wonderful addition to your collection — and it makes a great gift. This postcard measures approx. 4 x 6 and is perfect, unused, and a great looking card.

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Guest editor Mary Gaitskill says she put together this edition of Da Capo’s annual to be “like a mix tape of sounds a person might hear in life,” some of which “enter your imagination and take strange dream-shapes.” Manifesting strangeness are Kevin Whitehead’s disquisition on the “hidden affinity” between the music of Art Tatum and that of Thelonious Monk, Raquel Cepeda’s thoughts on the rise of “reggaeton,” and David Thorpe’s biting commentary on R. Kelly’s notorious sexcapades. Moustafa Bayoumi reports on American use of music in the war on terror: “usually heavy metal or hip-hop but sometimes . . . Barney the Dinosaur” is “pumped at detainees with such brutality [as] to unravel them” without leaving the telltale marks of bodily violence. Of particular interest to classic-rock fans and aging boomers is Tom Ewing’s remembrance of August 1966, when the Beatles’ two-hit single, Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine, topped the charts. Terrorism, sexual misconduct (more…)