Arsenio is a music reviewer for WORLD Magazine and one of its original contributors from 1986.
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Four recent classical releases
Leonard Cohen's <em>Old Ideas</em> deserves its place on the charts
Superstar singer threw away her talent and beauty
Five new or recent pop releases
From a high-profile makeover to awkward obscenities, Lana Del Rey's <em>Born to Die</em> is an exercise in inauthenticity
Five new or recent pop releases
Five new or recent jazz CDs
Two-disc anthology traces an evolving genre
Leiber, Ragovoy, and Tate were pioneers in white-black musical collaboration