New York Coin Magic Seminar Volumes 1-13 (2005-2010) is a 13 DVD set dedicated to exploring the art of Coin Magic. For 8 years, Mike Rubinstein, David Roth, and Mike Gallo have hosted a weekend seminar featuring lectures, presentations and workshops on coin magic. Each of these seminars have been captured on film with the effects, lessons and methods taught in excellent detail. With 13 volumes of coin magic, the New York Coin Magic Seminar collection provides a complete collection of coin magic to learn, appreciate and study.
A six-disc archival set, Ventura chronicles summer concerts Phish gave at the Ventura County Fairgrounds in the back half of the '90s, by which time their status as the titans of jam was well-established. The first show here is from July of 1997, the second performed a year later, which means both arrived during the two-year gap separating 1996's Billy Breathes and 1998's The Story of the Ghost – two years where the band's popularity was on the rise and it certainly seemed like a crossover was perhaps within their sites.
Vintage Years is a 1975 compilation album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac and was released on the Sire Records label.
Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani has long defined his style not just by razor-sharp chops, but also by the spirit of imagination and curiosity that shines through in his most innovative work. Recorded slowly and patiently at his home studio while the COVID-19 pandemic kept him from touring, The Elephants of Mars highlights Satriani's imaginative approach to instrumental guitar rock, twisting his already versatile guitar sounds into new forms of warped, fantastical, and often fun-loving compositions. Album-opener "Sahara" is as dust-swept as the title suggests, with a slow, broiling melodic figure switching gears to cosmic distortion tones midway through. By the end, the song has traveled from the Sahara desert to a red planet in a different solar system.
The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It offers a survey of many different blues sub-genres and tangential music styles, as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time. In 2004, the box set won two Grammy Awards for "Best Historical Album" and "Best Album Notes." That same year it was #2 on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart.