Michael Fremer

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Can I Have My Money Back?
"Geek Squad" Road-Rage Madness!
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 17, 2014  |  47 comments
So I'm driving back from Washington D.C. where I'd gone to install an Etna cartridge in an AMG Viella turntable for a friend. His politics are 180 degrees diametrically opposed to mine. In fact, he's a consultant to "those people". But you know what? Politics stops for me at the lead-in groove.

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AAA VinylNews
"Gene Clark" Coming Soon AAA From Intervention
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 05, 2018  |  First Published: Jun 05, 2018  |  9 comments
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Analog Gear NewsNews
"George Harrison" Pro-Ject Turntable Announced, Limited to 500 For America
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 24, 2017  |  First Published: Jan 24, 2017  |  8 comments
Pro-Ject recently announced the availability of the George Harrison turntable shown at the recent C.E.S..

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Album Reviews
"Great Hope" For the Future of Rock Lives Up to Hype
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2005  |  1 comments

In this post-modern, post-rock age of bratty musical cynicism, along comes this Montreal-based outfit projecting meter-pinning 70's style sincerity and passion.

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News
"Hearing is Deceiving" Analog/Digital LP Kickstarter Project Now Live!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 31, 2015  |  First Published: Oct 31, 2015  |  51 comments
The "Hearing Is Deceiving" AAA vs. ADA vinyl record project is now "live" on Kickstarter!

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News
"Hearing is Deceiving" Kickstarter Funding Fails
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 27, 2015  |  First Published: Nov 27, 2015  |  36 comments
The goal was 1000 backers pledging $10.00 each for a total of $10,000 to produce this record, which would be all analog on one side and sourced from a digital file of the same material on the other.

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Album Reviews
"Heartbreak" Is Right! How Did This Happen???? (Pressing plant correction)
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 10, 2012  |  7 comments
The backstory here is almost as interesting as the music on this just reissued, long out of print record first released in 1982.
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Album Reviews
"Heartworn Highways" May Be Out of Print But Copies Are Still Stocked Somewhere (Or Other)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 19, 2013  |  4 comments
The documentary "Heartworn Highways" produced and directed in the mid-1970s by James Szalapski but not released until 1981 documented the rise of a generation of singer-songwriters that included Steve Earle, the late Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Steve Young and Charlie Daniels.
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Album Reviews
"Heigh Ho"—Blake Mills Goes to Work
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 26, 2016  |  4 comments
Though he's but thirty years old, guitarist, record producer, studio session and touring band member Blake Mills has had already had a dizzying career. He's toured with Jenny Lewis and Band of Horses and Lucinda Williams. He's done session work for Norah Jones, Weezer, The Avett Brothers and Andrew Bird among many others and he produced Alabama Shakes' Sound & Color for which he received a producer of the year, non-classical, Grammy nomination.

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Can I Have My Money Back?
"I'm Appalled at the Way You Treat Your Readership"
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 29, 2014  |  56 comments
Rabbi Fremer says: The Peter, Paul & Mary file comparison story has created quite an uproar. Most of you took it for what it was—an informal but reasonable comparison of two unidentified files that could have been the same or different. 79% of you thought they were different files. 21% though they were the same file posted twice.

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