I Finally Found Someone

Barbra Streisand is an undeniable pop icon, a walking summation of song. For her fans, she is the total, pure, triple-distilled essence of the human voice. The aptly named Timeless DVD attests to the staggering range and experience of this woman named Barbra, as she appeared in her now-mythic millennial two-night farewell stand at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. All the big names Celine Dion and Neil Diamond were there; and even some departed legends Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra manage to take bows with the diva, via tape and film clips.

Honus Honus (aka Ryan Kattner) has devoted his career to exploring the uncertainty between life’s extremes: beauty and ugliness, order and chaos. The songs on Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between, Man Man’s first album in over six years and his Sub Pop debut, are as intimate, soulful, and timeless as they are audaciously inventive and daring.

As soul music moved into the early '70s, it became dominated by smoother sounds and polished productions, picking up its cues from Motown, Chicago soul, and uptown soul. By the beginning of the decade, soul was fracturing in a manner similar to pop/rock, as pop-soul, funk, vocal groups, string-laden Philly soul, and sexy Memphis soul became just a few of the many different subgenres to surface. Often, the productions on these records were much more polished than '60s productions, boasting sound effects, synthesizers, electric keyboards, echoes, horn sections, acoustic guitars, and strings.