Keep Your Soul Together
Oh crap. I just received an e-mail from the Princeton Record Exchange. Turns out they've added thousands of titles to their already overwhelming collection of tantalizing vinyl.
Stephen Mejias
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Cruel, Cruel World
It was just a few months ago that I was moaning">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/040808immediately/">moaning and groaning about Sonic Youth's latest release being made available only on vinyl. I wrote:
Mikey In the Press Room at RTI
Here's a sneak-peek at Mikey Fremer's upcoming DVD, "It's a Vinyl World, After All," scheduled to be released later this year. I swear: Mikey doesn't always talk like this. It's just that it's loud at the RTIhttp://www.recordtech.com">RTI; pressing plant, and Mikey's a little excitable.
PSB Imagine
Last Tuesday evening, JA and I left the office together and stormed through Madison Avenue's rush-hour onslaught, beneath so much Art Deco splendor, around Grand Central's excitement and confusion, passed happy hour revelers—slicked-backed men dressed in jackets and ties as if it wasn't 100 degrees outside, and impossibly radiant women in their picture-perfect poses sipping frozen drinks through tall, thin straws—to make our way into Park Avenue's old and golden Waldorf=Astoria.
And Into These Boxes
"Up for another?" asked the e-mail.
Elizabeth's Last Day
Friday, June 20th, was Elizabeth Donovan's last day at work. We left the office together, and walked across the street to Mulligan's Pub. Elizabeth carried a large backpack, a box of books, a lamp. The place was packed, but we found a little space by the door, beneath an air conditioning unit.
This Is Our Music
Fortunately, I didn't have to rob any banks or max out my credit cards this weekend. I didn't even have to travel to Africa. The crazy heat and humidity (Footnote for Jaclyn Gooding), however, made it feel like high noon in the Kalahari Desert. Simply sitting at my kitchen table, my laptop (Footnote for AlexO) open and our April 2008 issue turned to page 155, was a kind of dull, hot torture.
A Good Turntable
Some people might wonder what it is about me and the">http://www.stereophile.com/turntables/708rega/">the Rega P3. Why would I simply settle on the old Rega when there are so many other similarly priced turntables out there?
Celebrate Good Times, Come On!
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The Art of the Turntablist
In a sense, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist are music historians and preservationists. In "The Hard Sell," they take us on a scratching, mixing, looping journey through musical genres and fads, from the wildly obscure to the completely commercial, while employing not one, not two, but eight turntables and a collection of original 45rpm seven-inch singles that would make Mikey">http://forum.stereophile.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/84/size/big/… Fremer's hair go straight.