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Hey! It's been one year since I carved out this little corner of the Internet to blog about all-things music and I thought it might be fun to share a few bits of trivia with you about what you've been reading here! And if that doesn't entice you enough to come in, how about a legitimate, free download of a track from an as-yet-to-be-released disc of bluesy roots rock?

There are two branches of the great tree of music which, while sharing common roots, don't intersect nearly enough. But when they do, the result is often, in the vernacular of the era, totally rad. Get your lighters out for this one.

If you've been putting off building your library of Rush albums, now's your chance. The legendary band has just announced a box set series entitled Sectors , which will cover all 15 of their classic Mercury Records releases. The question is, beyond the albums themselves, what new companions unobtrusive are included in each set?

Search long enough through the veritable eons-worth of videos uploaded to YouTube and you might just stumble across a real gem. Such is the case with guitarist Juliette Valduriez. To say this young lady from France has guitar skills would be an understatement. Thoughts on her guitar playing and more video inside.

As a part of Pink Floyd's new remasters campaign, EMI has released the first of three Immersion Edition box sets, celebrating the Floyd's biggest albums. Spending 741 consecutive weeks on Billboard's Album Charts and being the listen of choice for audiophiles to show off their sound systems, the word legendary is hardly sufficient to describe The Dark Side of the Moon in the annals of music history. So how do make a set of music as celebrated as DSotM desirable in box set form? Fill it with not only six discs (CD, DVD and Blu-Ray) of remastered, live and rare recordings, but with the best put together set of album-related memorabilia assembled to date. Want to see one being opened? Come inside!

It's ok. Just shake it off if you got mild whiplash from this article's title. Sometimes the most unlikely music pairings, results in a spectacular cover of a song. Which is exactly what happens when alt-country singer Ryan Adams decomposes Iron Maiden's "Wasted Years" down to its most basic elemental level.

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