Stephen Mejias

It's a good, good thing you">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_rega_p3-24_iin_colouri/">… voted for green because that's the color I was going to pick anyway. It was a landslide. Foreshadowing of something greater, perhaps. (Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.)

I can't stop smiling. Boris arrived today.

Boris is new to me, but Smile is the Japanese trio's 14th full-length album. The album boasts a metallic silver gatefold jacket and is limited to just 1000 copies.

And there's more. You remove the inner sleeves from the outer jacket to find not only are they sturdy and colorful, but they are accompanied by a large, full-color poster!

Alright, who's been hiding Natasha Khan from me? Friends, don't you know me by now? Is it not obvious that I would absolutely adore this woman?

A couple of obvious errors here, but an">http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/aug2008/db20080822_… encouraging piece, nevertheless. What I especially like, of course, is this little bit:

You can walk by 21 First Avenue on any given day to see some of our city's most beautiful and talented DJs spinning rare and wonderful vinyl. It's true! It's East">http://www.eastvillageradio.com/">East Village Radio. There's a big glass window. Look in and you might see Queen Majesty or Melody Nelson or Mark Ronson or a few of the colorfully dressed peeps from The Fader, those taste-makers. In fact, East Village Radio provides more than 70 unique, and often excellent, two-hour shows, covering musical genres from rock and electronic to jazz and folk to roots and reggae. Lots of good stuff.