We are told: This 3 x CD Collection brings together a set of rare recordings by the Velvets, 50 plus years (for most) after they were first made and which will complete collections worldwide for the millions of fans still flying the flag for this strange collective. Everything about The Velvet Underground was astonishing. Take […]
Month: January 2018
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We are told: CLASSIC 1977 BROADCAST FROM TORONTO At 3 a.m. on 28th May 1977, after ten months of legal battles, and nearly two years after Born to Run had catapulted him to national celebrity, Bruce Springsteen and his former manager, Mike Appel, settled their differences and parted ways forever. The move finally enabled Springsteen […]
We are told: CLASSIC 1994 BROADCAST, LIVE FROM MUSIC CITY USA In April of 1994, Johnny Cash released American Recordings, his first collaboration with Rick Rubin, who would serve as Cash’s producer until his 2005 death. Under Rubin’s stewardship, Cash would reinvent himself for the final time, and later cover, among others, Soundgarden’s ‘Rusty Cage’, […]
There are fantastic pre-owned bargains out there. We all know this. That said, many budget-end enthusiasts just don’t know to what extent the system components work well together – if at all! In short – is there system synergy? Who knows? I do! Hi. I’m Howard Popeck – features editor. Truthfully … I get bigger […]
We are told: Led Zeppelin will continue their reissue campaign with a new edition of their celebrated live album How The West Was Won, originally released in 2003, featuring newly remastered audio, which was done under the supervision of Jimmy Page. CD – Remastered audio on three CDs HOW THE WEST WAS WON highlights the […]
We are told: THREE SUPERB FM BROADCASTS FROM JAPAN 1990, USA 1991 & EUROPE 1995 The most formidable of contemporary rock groups, the Red Hot Chili Peppers don’t just defy categorisation, they appear to invent their own with every new release – and often do likewise within the confines of a live performance. Indeed, the […]
What Hi-Fi write: Digital-to-analogue conversion is perhaps the most critical process you system undertakes – all those ones and zeros are brilliantly easy and convenient to package, but they don’t mean anything to your ears until they’ve been turned into analogue information. Which is where your DAC comes in. But that doesn’t mean you have to break the […]
We are told: Brett Anderson believes that Suede’s debut album, winner of the Mercury Music Prize in 1993, probably has more cultural resonance than any other of their albums, as a pre-cursor to Britpop and a supplanter of grunge. It is also home to four ground-breaking singles. This deluxe edition features the album; […]
We are told: The Strawberry Alarm Clock made musical history with its first single, the infectiously psychedelic “Incense and Peppermints,” which topped the singles charts in December 1967. It remains one of the Aquarian Age’s most enduring anthems. And as the California combo’s debut LP demonstrates, there was a lot more to the Strawberry Alarm […]
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High End Audio For The Passionates write: The Sony TA-N77ES is Japan’s greatest power amplifier of all time. It’s a 55-pound behemoth with huge meters that sounds and measures extremely well. The TA-N77ES was Sony’s last effort at pushing the envelope of serious power amplifiers at the end of Hi-Fi’s glory days. No one will […]
Essence Electrostatic Systems write: When it comes to how we store our music these days, there’s no doubt that nothing beats digital for convenience. Thats why we call it your digital life. Your favorite songs are on your Smartphone, Tablet, PC, Tablet Kontrolor other digital player, mostly at MP3 low resolution to save space, but […]
Dan Marsciano / ThoughtCo write: The power metal genre as a whole really took off in the late ’80s with help from bands such as Helloween and Gamma Ray. The ’90s continued this momentum, thanks to Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Hammerfall, and Dragonforce. Metal fans became infatuated with the speedy solos and soaring vocals, along […]
When I was a student at UMIST, I saw The Who, a few days before the legendary Live at Leeds gig. They were awesome. So loud in fact it punctured my left ear drum. So loud in fact that if for a moment you could isolated yourself from the audience (no easy thing) you couldn’t […]
Jonathan Feist (for ThoughtCo) writes: There are a number of different types of bass parts, but the primary role of the bass in a rhythm section is the same: defining the harmonic structure by emphasizing the chord roots, generally on the first beat of the measure. Beyond that, the different types of bass line help […]
Robert Silva (for ThoughtCo) writes: Taylor Swift’s Five Worst Songs Taylor Swift is talented. And she’s won every country music award there is. But her elfin charms and precocious musical ability don’t make the singer immune from writing some pretty bad songs. It’s enticing to jump on the Taylor Swift bandwagon, but let’s keep it […]
Bill Lamb writes: One of the very first punk bands, the Ramones (1974 – 1996) distilled the core of rock and roll and pop music that came before them in short, fast, loud songs two minutes or less in length. Armed with a distinctive visual style and trademark musical approach, they changed the history of […]
Thaddeus Herman writes: We have a problem. The music industry has been celebrating a surge of interest in one of its most beloved artifacts: the vinyl record. Major labels are returning to their old business model and are quickly saturating clothes stores, online shops, electronics outlets and international vinyl-themed holidays with reissues of old […]
There’s no getting around it: transferring content between your iPhone and your Mac can be an effort. It’s also a necessity. iPhone storage doesn’t come cheap, and the more we shoot 12 megapixel photos and 4K video, download high-resolution audio or play graphically-intensive games, the faster it’s going to run out. Some events, like a […]
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We are told ….. There is no doubt that the absolute best “source” for reproduced music is analogue tape recorded on 10″ reels at 15ips. The same analogue tape reel-to-reel recorders are also the absolute best way to record and capture music [concert recording]. This is a fact not open for discussion and is responsible […]
Guest writer from Germany, Lothar Kissinger writes: Well, most of us had to decide this at some time; it remains one of the most discussed topics at many, many fora and blogs. My advice – as so many have said before me is to just trust your ears and don’t let anybody tell you what […]
We are told ….. 4CD 24-page hardback book Comprising Bert’s seminal 1960s output (alongside his only album as a duet with Pentangle bandmate John Renbourn) this four disc set covers an era that forged creative paths for everyone from Neil Young to Johnny Marr. New listening notes from Bill Leader, as well as unseen photographs […]
Originally published 2015 This shouldn’t work, but it does; people hug during Disorder and applaud in the middle of Shadowplay as the bassist plays the band’s entire catalogue on the 35th anniversary of Ian Curtis’s death Continues HERE More music like this HERE