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Arsenio Orteza

Arsenio Orteza

Arsenio is a music reviewer for WORLD Magazine and one of its original contributors from 1986.

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Articles by Arsenio Orteza

Christmas mix

Enough performers produced enough good songs to make a decent holiday music season

Five new or recent pop-rock releases

The uplifting <em>Fifty Shades</em> 'soundtrack' is the opposite of the trashy <em>Fifty Shades</em> novels

His behavior may not reflect it, but Billie Joe Armstrong’s music shows him maturing


Recent

Six new or recent CD releases

Hal David and Joe South were masters of the songwriting craft

Five new or recent jazz CDs

Remastered recordings of Arizona Dranes reveal a musical pioneer

Four new or recent pop-rock releases

With partisan rants, Ry Cooder sounds more like a propagandist than an artist