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| Recommendation on speakers for listening to live music As non-acoustic music is usually heard though the sound system the live music venue uses---which rarely doesn’t employ horns as it’s midrange and tweeter drivers, the advice to listen through horns at home is not without merit. But be for-warned: ... | |
| New In 2022 @slaw: Actually Steve, it wasn’t the pressing Michael Ludwig didn’t care for, it was the music. His review of the album was a stark reminder to me that Michael’s musical taste and mine overlap only peripherally. I am a singer/songwriter aficionado... | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? @tylermunns: One somewhat-artsy New York band I love is Television; their debut album is stunning. On the other hand, I have known a lot of musicians (and civilians) who love XTC, whom, try as I might, I just couldn’t cozy up to. Music is SO subje... | |
| Late night blues Dire Straits Blues?! ;-) Johnny Hartman, Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James, Ruth Brown, Billie Holiday, Lou Ann Barton. | |
| New In 2022 Yep Rock is issuing all three of the above albums on both LP and CD. The label has national distribution (my local independent stocks the label), but I don’t know about Amazon. I learned of Iris from Merle Haggard, who recorded her devastating... | |
| Is blasphemous Music ok? Great post @tylermunns! As further evidence of the hypocrisy, cynicism, lust for power, and even greed (geez, sounds like many politicians ;-) of the Catholic Church, one need only remember how it conspired with the Nazis to rid the world of Jews,... | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? Say, am I alone in noticing the contradiction in Mike’s argument? First he cites the decline of album-orientated artists/bands in the 1980’s as the reason for that decade being a musical wasteland, then predicts that the decade will be forgotten b... | |
| New In 2022 Yep Roc has three albums of great interest coming out soon: - On November 4th, a 30th Anniversary reissue of Iris Dement's startling debut album Infamous Angel. Originally issued on CD only, the album was offered by Vinyl Me Please as their Janua... | |
| Lamont Dozier Passes Away Excellent points @tylermunns. I’m of an age where the first music I bought was 7" 45 RPM singles, and my love of 3-minute Pop songs lives on unabated (all hail ABBA ;-). The albums I was first buying were those of Surf bands (The Ventures, The Ast... | |
| New In 2022 Not being released on LP until February of next year (though already available on SACD), but available as a pre-order now, is The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark, on Intervention Records. The album was originally released on A & M... | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? @dz13: Crowded House, good one. How about The Records? And Lene Lovich! I just found an original UK Stiff Records copy of her debut album (of which I am quite fond), which will now sit next to my U.S.A. copy. Also active in the UK was American si... | |
| Lamont Dozier Passes Away Songwriters of Lamont’s talent are few and far between. Writing a song is a very different thing from singing it or playing it, and very few bands had/have a songwriter with Lamont’s songwriting talent and skill. The Band recorded "Don’t Do It" (... | |
| Help in deciding which tube preamp to replace my old SFL-2 Art Dudley reviewed the EAR-Yoshino 912, and said it was the first pre-amp he had heard which tempted him to replace his beloved Shindo. Designed and built by tube uber-expert Tim de Paravicini, very well known and respected by his peers, ignored ... | |
| Many of us want to Changegrade instead of Upgrading Nelson Pass designs and builds amps with different personalities, for those who want a couple of girlfriends at a time. | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? How anyone can dismiss a decade during which Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Paul Simon, Steve Winwood, Stevie Ray Vaughan, David Bowie, Rodney Crowell, Lyle Lovett, The Clash, and plenty of others (nice list @tylermunns! I could name a c... |