I miss living in Athens, Georgia. Music falls out of the sky there like tech start-ups spring from San Francisco’s shifting, sandy foundations. (Guess which one I prefer.) Recently, an Athens stalwart recommended Kurt Vile’s B’lieve I’m Goin (Deep) Down… so I picked...
Record Store Day has left me feeling a little cold the last couple of years. Sometimes due to a lack of compelling titles, sometimes a lack of quality pressings. This year felt different. There were some exciting releases on the list for a man of my temperament...
Did you hear that David Bowie transitioned earlier this year? It made the news. Somehow, my mom missed it, and I had to break it to her over the telephone. I think she cried. She took me and my right...
I’m not sure how I whiffed on the Nirvana catalog as issued by ORG Music a while back. They did everything right. They were mastered for vinyl from the original analog master tapes at Bernie Grundman and pressed at Pallas in Germany back when Pallas...
I made a pithy comment here last month about “violence erupting in unexpected places.” I was referencing an audiophile Jazz “shootout” we were having between some reissue labels that I hold in especially high esteem. Then, the real thing...
This month was not initially intended to be a Jazz duel between varying audiophile labels. MoFi and Analogue Productions acquit themselves quite well in any sonic domain. But I’ve never found records that are more listenable...
Ah, yes, indeed, it’s fun time. The Faces rarely get their due as one of the G.O.A.T. It would be almost impossible. If they did, we’d never have time to discuss anything else. In an age when Rock and Roll...
Deathly quiet, spectacularly dynamic, and wonderfully flexible, the Parasound Halo JC 3+ is all that and then some, a legitimate sonic superstar.
It's a miracle that I survived my time in Athens, Georgia, let alone that I actually graduated from college. I think my GPA was, like, 0.05 or something, but I finished and I got the piece...
There's A Riot Goin' On, by Sly and the Family Stone, is one of my favorite albums of all-time. I have a pretty clean original copy with only a couple of minor ticks here and there, but I got super stoked when I saw that ORG Music had tackled a reissue and put it all on 45 rpm double 180-gram vinyl pressed at Pallas. It's about time.
Big Jack White was ambassador for this year's Record Store Day. I don't know what that means except that he had a video of some sort that I never watched on the official RSD website. I think the word's pretty much out about this guy by now. He likes analog. In fact, there's a note in the Elephant liners explaining that "No computers were used during the writing, recording, mixing or mastering of this record." And Elephant is why we're here. The White Stripes classic was reissued for RSD on double vinyl. Double crazy super vinyl, that is. I'll try my best to explain...
I'd not paid a lick of attention to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds until 2008's Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! That album rocked. Their latest does not. It's called Push The Sky Away, and it is fantastic. Like a lot of what's going on nowadays...
It doesn't seem like that long ago that Big Boi sat squarely atop the Hip-Hop world as one half of the inimitable OutKast. But time gets away from me, and I realize that their last vital release was almost ten years ago. Big Boi hasn't exactly been prolific in the interim...
For all of these years that I've been extolling the virtues of analog (LP a.k.a., vinyl) playback I've known that it just isn't really practical for most people. Even less practical, is the necessity to clean your LPs once in a while to keep those pops and ticks out of the music. Several companies make devices that clean your LPs. The Audio Desk System Automated Vinyl Cleaner is one of them, and we review it here.
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