ERIC writes … I think most folks would be shocked to find out how much stuff comes from China. We’ll all find out soon as these tariffs kick in. China has the rep. of making lousy products but that isn’t always the case. If a US company contracts for a product, manufactured in China, to […]
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180 gram audiophile vinyl / Gatefold sleeve / First ever 3LP version of this Animals Best Of This triple vinyl package includes the complete sessions that The Animals recorded with producer Mickie Most in 1964 and 1965. The 40 songs capture the band at their peak, including most of their best and biggest hits: ‘House […]
John Dawson Winter, III, known as Johnny Winter was an American blues guitarist. He was a multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer. Johnny was prominent session man and toured with Muddy Waters. Johnny is the brother of Edgar Winter. Sadly, Johnny passed away in 2014 so we are proudly releasing Raisin Cain on CD. This was originally […]
Stephen Pritchard writes ….. This is a major achievement. Stephen Farr triumphs in his massive survey of the output of Kenneth Leighton, a towering figure in British 20th-century liturgical music – one who instinctively understood the context of his compositions; how the organ works within great buildings and how its power and myriad colours can […]
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Strangeways, Here We Come was released on 28 September, 1987, months after the Manchester band disbanded in acrimony. It went on to reach number two in the UK charts and was the group’s most successful album in the US. Joyce said though the band had split before it came out, it had been “a great […]
We are told: . The Cinema of Miles Davis showcases superior examples of the use of the great jazz trumpeter’s music in film. This edition includes his first complete score, sultry and improvised, for Elevator To the Gallows – Louis Malle’s directorial debut starring the eternal Jeanne Moreau – which came in late 1957, a […]
DOUG writes … Bob Carver had a circuit he called the digital time lense that was supposed to help with CD harshness. It sounded like an eq to me overall, and I never used this feature as a result. Other things claim to improve Mp3 files. Not for me they didn’t. Your suggestion of replacing […]
The late guitar hero Stevie Ray Vaughan is getting an epic release from Epic Records and Legacy Recordings. On October 28, Legacy will unveil Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: The Complete Epic Recordings Collection, a 12-CD box set compiling, for the first time, the entirety of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s official studio and […]
Hi Neil. A bit of confusion here re the two brands. What’s their connection – if any? Ivor. Wikipedia states the following: International Radio and Electronics Corporation (IREC) was established in 1947 by Clarence C. Moore, an Elkhart, Indiana minister. The company started out building rugged, open reel tape recorders for use by missionaries in […]
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MAX W writes… Yes, definitely. It illustrated how intimately close John and Paul were; how isolated and insecure George clearly felt (not just set against John and Paul, but also against his peers like Clapton) and how much of a junior partner he was considered by the two main songwriters; how surprisingly important and stabilising […]
STEREOPHILE Let’s face it — January 1977’s Animals has always been considered to be somewhat of a dark horse in the Pink Floyd recorded canon. Yet here in Year 45 of Animals, the album is finally getting a rightly deserved re-evaluation, thanks to Animals 2018 Remix (Pink Floyd Records/Sony Music), which was just released on […]
With its new season opening this weekend, the Southbank Centre’s 32-year-old leader talks about how he’s shaping the venue to reflect classical music today, the magic of live music, and the challenge of keeping the lights – and the heating – on. Toks Dada is reeling off the concerts that make up the opening weekend […]
Tourists visiting the Caribbean during the summer of 1981 might have spotted something unexpected: Joni Mitchell in the thick of things at a disco, grooving up a storm to the Police’s inscrutable hit De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. “I love to dance, and anytime I heard it, boy, I didn’t care if […]
PM writes … I use the equilateral triangle method for a starting point only and what I wind up with is almost never that. It’s just a starting point. GL writes … Generally a good starting point is an equalactial triangle (speakers equal distance to the distance from a speaker to the listener) if you […]
FP writes … The beauty of buying home-audio gear from reputable companies that allow their prospective customers to have a 30-to-45-day in-home audition is that the customer can’t really go backwards because they can do a direct comparison with their current piece of equipment…whatever that might be…& decide for themselves whether the new piece is […]
I am always fascinated to watch those slow-speed nature videos where you watch flowers open and plants grow. Or, the opposite. A high-speed camera that slows down the wing motions of a hummingbird so we might see what in real life we cannot. Those cameras (both film and video) are essentially digital: frame by frame […]
JASON B writes … I would say Steppenwolf’s “Heavy metal thunder” lyric in Born To Be Wild is more closer to the creative origin of the heavy metal rock genre than anything, and the band borrowed it from the post-WWII Zen motorcycle culture and its clubs like the original Hell’s Angels, not the successive versions […]