I now pronounce this Sonic Youth Month. It will be good. To celebrate the release of their new album, <i>The Eternal</i>, the band visited their old friend, Jools Holland. Here they are, the greatest band of all time, performing "What We Know."
Francois Caron of <a href="http://thecanadianpublic.com/">the Canadian Public</a>, Canada's national public access television station, has done a wonderful job of piecing together highlights of the recent <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/ssi2009/">Salon Son & Image</a>.
Colorado high-end retailer ListenUp has three Music Matters events scheduled next week, one for each of their locations: Tuesday, May 5, in Colorado Springs—230 North Tejon Street, (719) 633-2600—Wednesday, May 6, in Denver—685 South Pearl Street, (303) 778-0780; Thursday, May 7, in Boulder—2034 Arapahoe Avenue, (303) 444-0479.
Yesterday's New York Post ran <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/04272009/business/best_buy_turning_the_tabl… brief story</a> on Best Buy's decision to stock vinyl LPs.
I hope all you dudes are enjoying the same sort of sweaty sweet record-breaking weather we're experiencing here in NYC this week (until tomorrow when it gets cold again).
We've been talking about this <a href="http://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=66177&an=0… the forum</a>, but I think it's worth posting here, too. <a href="http://www.scullcommunications.com/">Jonathan Scull</a> sent out this video yesterday, in an e-mail that read:
Now compare <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/goodbye_to_the_revel_salon2/"… exquisite packaging</a> of the Revel Ultima Salon2 with this pathetic excuse for a shipping carton. I mean, seriously. Come on, now.
At around this time last week, John Atkinson and I left the office and headed out to Bay Ridge to pack up the large and lovely <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/608revel/index.html">Revel Ultima Salon2</a>, voted our "<a href="http://www.stereophile.com/features/1208poty/index1.html">Joint Loudspeaker of the Year</a>" for 2008 and a speaker that JA absolutely <i>adores</i>. He selected it as his overall product of the year:
I really don't know anything about the Flying Burrito Bros. I know that Gram Parsons was in the band, and that makes them cool. Michelle, the first girl I ever loved, wore a Flying Burrito Brothers t-shirt (baby blue with a metallic gold logo, purchased from some old train station thrift shop in Hackensack-ack-ack-ack-ack), but she was from San Francisco and talked about Haight-Ashbury and rearranged her furniture twice a week and received phone calls from Pauline Oliveros and Marian Zazeela (in her dorm room!), and I figured the t-shirt was just another one of her crazy things. It was only much later, after she had shaved her head and had her name legally changed to Maya Moksha, that I realized Michelle was way cooler (and crazier) than I'd ever understand.
The May 2009 issue is now on newsstands. The cover's so bright, you gotta wear shades. See that orange LP sitting on the SME 20/12 turntable? That's my copy of Boris's awesome <i>Smile</i>.