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Radio Fri Dec 21 2007

Speaking of Hearing Sound Opinions

If you're all geared up to listen to Kot and DeRogatis on the airwaves after reading this week's feature, but you still want to bask in the glow of the holiday spirit, then you're in luck. There'll be a special holiday edition of Sound Opinions this week, with all of the season's weirdest offerings, brought to the studio by special guest, and holiday music savant Andy Cirzan. The show airs tonight at 8pm and again tomorrow at 11am at 91.5 FM, or you can grab the podcast starting Monday. You can add even more to your Xmas tunage by downloading Andy's mix, titled "The Santa Set" here.

Anne Holub

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Feature Thu Nov 12 2009

She's Money

By Kara Luger

When talking musical influences with Helen Money, it's easy to forget her instrument of choice: cello. She references Bob Mould's Beaster, with its wall of sound and intense, thought-obliterating guitar work. She speaks of The Who and all the crazy rock bands she was exposed to in the '80s. "The stuff I like sounds like life or death," she reasons. And this coming from a woman with a picture of Jimi Hendrix taped to her cello case like he's a saint.

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