Arsenio is a music reviewer for WORLD Magazine and one of its original contributors from 1986.
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Five Christmas albums
New or recent classical releases
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
Six new or recent CD releases
Hal David and Joe South were masters of the songwriting craft
Five new or recent jazz CDs
