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Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2012  |  1 comments

First of all the back cover photo doesn't include Brian Wilson! What's that all about?

Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2012  |  3 comments

Does it have to sound this bad fellas? We all love your brand of fist pumping, T-Rex boogie, rhythm guitar riffing rock.

Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2012  |  1 comments

I’ve heard and read complaints about the unadventurous reissues coming from Analogue Productions, especially now that the parent company Acoustic Sounds owns its own pressing plant, Quality Record Pressing.

Andre Marc  |  Feb 29, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  3 comments

Like Steve Earle, Ryan Adams and other distinctly American artists, Shelby Lynne finds it difficult to settle down musically in one place.

Since releasing I Am Shelby Lynne in 2000, she’s been a moving target for her fans and critics alike. Though she won a “Best New Artist” Grammy® Award for that album, in fact, it was her sixth record! Go figure.

Andre Marc  |  Feb 22, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  2 comments

The Los Angeles based band Dengue Fever played to a packed house near downtown San Diego, on a beautiful night in late January. For those not familiar with this unique outfit, they are comprised of a group of American musicians with xenophile and psychedelic tendencies fronted by Chhom Nimol, an exotic female vocalist from Cambodia. Michael Fremer reviewed their latest CD, Cannibal Courtship, here http://musicangle.com/album.php?id=1015. Sound funky? It is, in the most delicious way.

Michael Fremer  |  Feb 13, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
The phono preamplifiers reviewed this month are both affordable ($400–$1960) and highly accomplished, and the most expensive of them offers versatility that's unprecedented in my experience. Three of them are designed to be used only with moving-magnet, moving-iron, and high-output moving-coil cartridges, so I installed Shure's V15VxMR cartridge in VPI's Classic 3 turntable and listened in MM mode to all of them, beginning with the least expensive.
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 07, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 02, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 02, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 01, 2012  |  0 comments

A funny thing happens as you age: time compresses. When I was 20, music from the 1940s seemed old. Robert Johnson was positively pre-historic, and to my ears the sound was equally cobwebbed. Oh, like everyone else, I bought CL 1654 after seeing it on the cover of Bringing It All Back Home and reading one of the breathless cover dissections in a magazine. Back then every cover prop "meant" something. 

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