Bash & Pop on Vinyl
The final utterance of a great band dissolving has completely stood the test of time.
Robert Baird
Ella on Record at 100
Fitzgerald's influence on jazz vocals, celebrated in a flurry of reissues from Universal Music, is almost unimaginably vast.
First Listen: The 2017 Sgt. Pepper Remix
We are all going to be buying "new" Beatles reissues for the rest of our time upon this mortal coil.
Record Store Day 2017 a Success
These kids were focused and motivated. In other words, RSD works.
Record Store Day Saturday Marks 10th Anniversary
Robert Baird gets ready for the big day with a special reissue on two 180gm LPs of Elton John's live 17-11-70 album. (Photo: Jana Dagdagan)
Are record stores who have the product in hand breaking ranks and selling on eBay to the highest bidders?
"We Are Stereo, Hear Us Roar!"
"Phase 4 stereo can only be described as a marvel of sound, a radically new and dramatically potent concept in the art of high fidelity reproduction . . . it stands for motion and an uncanny sense of spatial realism unapproached by conventional disc standards."
Uh huh. And we have a miraculous vintage tube amp out in the swamps, spanned by the Brooklyn Bridge, that we want to sell you!!!
Uh huh. And we have a miraculous vintage tube amp out in the swamps, spanned by the Brooklyn Bridge, that we want to sell you!!!
Lightnin' Hopkins on an Analogue Productions LP
Is there such a thing as a bad Lightnin' Sam Hopkins record? No, but there are a lot of badly recorded Hopkins records. Happily, Goin' Away originally released in 1963 on the Bluesville label (an imprint of Prestige Records) isn't one of them. And the already good sonics have even been improved in yet another superb 180gram Analogue Productions LP reissue.
Crate Diggers?
Put the expression "crate-diggers" into any sentence and it will catch my eye. The Warner Music Group has launched Run Out Groove, a new fan-driven, vinyl-only label that is going to let the public, or more accurately the crate-diggers among us, choose which records from the WMG trove of labels this new label will release.
Gil Evans and Ten
If arrangers and orchestrators are the secret weapons of jazz, Evans on this new LP from Analogue Productions is revealed to be the atomic bomb.
The Imperfect Art of the Steal
Innocents waiting to be taken advantage of are few and far between on record collector sites like Discogs and eBay.