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《Live from SoHo》是一个系列EP的名字，这个系列的EP都是由 iTunes Store 独占发行的，EP的内容也就如名字所示，是歌手在纽约 SoHo 区内的 Apple Store 表演时的现场录音。
SoHo 是英语单词 Southe Of Houston 的缩写，当然这里的 Houston 可不是姚明打球的那个休斯顿城，而是纽约的一条街道名。在这条街道附近的一个区域（具体范围请 Google），是纽约市久负盛名的一个艺术家聚集区，有点类似北京的798工厂。不过现在的 SoHo 区已经开始了商业化，但这不妨碍它的艺术基础，据说，这个地区的白人、亚裔人口数、受教育程度、人均收入均高于纽约整体水平。
回到正题，《Live from SoHo》系列从2008年3月26日开始发行，很多知名歌手都在这个系列中拥有自己的一张EP，也包括了 Taylor Swift 的一张。Taylor Swift 在这次的现场表演中翻唱了 Rihanna 的大热曲目”Umbrella”，不同于 Rihanna 原唱的嘻哈风格，Taylor Swift 的翻唱是以吉他伴奏的，显得别有风味。其他曲目也比 Taylor Swift 正式专辑里的曲目去除了一些电子乐器的伴奏，牵强点看，也可以说这是一个“不插电版”吧。

CD/DVD NTSC/Region 0 pressing. Katy Perry goes back to her acoustic singer/songwriter roots on MTV's legendary Unplugged series. See the multi-platinum pop/rock superstar as you've never seen her before performing her #1 hit singles I Kissed A Gir and Waking Up In Vegas plus Thinking Of You, Ur So Gay and Lost. Plus two additional tracks - a cover of Fountains Of Wayne's Hackensack and the never before released track Brick By Brick. Stripped down versions of her hits with the addition of strings and brass on select tracks.

For many pop-music cynics, excess can be neatly summed up in three things: live albums, double-CD's, and Tori Amos records. Damned if To Venus and Back doesn't hit the trifecta. But perhaps Amos is just trying to prove what we've always suspected: that her muse possesses a sly, ironic wit and has been frantically trying to give us a wink while Tori whipped up her heady cocktail of quiet Sturm, desperate Drang, and angst in the panties. There's teasing moments on this double-dose of Tori's love affair with her own melodic and mystical dramaturgy to support that notion, even in the disc of powerful new studio recordings that inaugurates this set. Dubbing a song "Glory of the 80's" is burlesque enough, but yearning to have oneself cloned as Kim Carnes at its climax is simply inspired. Amos is to Kate Bush's distaff mysticism what Mark McGwire was to Roger Maris; she hasn't so much broken the mold as willfully hammered it into her own image. After Bush hit the snooze-bar on her career in the late `80s, Amos boldly stepped into the fray, building a body of work that demanded to be taken seriously, even while the thrift-store chic set were laughing up their tattered sleeves at her ambitious chutzpah. They're not laughing now; in fact, many may find Venus to be a deliciously guilty pleasure. Amos supporters have long maintained that the key to understanding her intrigue lies in her live performances. Disc two boldly states their case as Amos coos, whoops, and warbles through a hit-sprinkled set, her shrewd, sorely undervalued band hanging with every nuance and turn of phrase. Cynics are from Mars; Tori is from Venus--that's just the way her galaxy crumbles. Jerry McCulley

Yann Tiersen is a French musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations and film soundtracks songwriting.

In the 1970s lower Manhattan's Max's Kansas City was the place to be, a perpetual meeting place for scene-makers and their satellites. In the summer of '70, The Velvet Underground was the house band, and their nightly gigs, propelled by Lou Reed's mesmerizing vocals, are the stuff of legend. Documented on a cassette player by one of the Velvet's entourage, this recording has since become the most famous "bootleg" ever, capturing one of Reed's last-some say final-performances with the band before going solo. It both immortalizes a precise moment in pop culture history, and also spotlights one of rock's most influential bands at the peak of their extraordinary powers.