Rhino's Bowie Record Store Day (April 21st) Bonanza

Rhino Records' RSD offerings include three items David Bowie fans probably will want. They are Welcome to the Blackout (Live London 1978), "Let's Dance" (demo) and, available for the first time commercially, the rare Berlin-era U.S. promo album Bowie Now.

500 Rock Records $500 Riverside CA

An AnalogPlanet reader just sent this Craig's List offering of 500 rock records in "good working condition" for $500.

UMe Readies Huge Reissue and First Issue Series Celebrating Leonard Bernstein's Centenary

UMe celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein's birth with a late career "completist" agenda of his DGG and DECCA catalogs as both a conductor and composer. The series includes for the first time his complete works as a composer.

The Great Sadness Makes a Great Noise

Indie records arrive more often than you might imagine from musicians giving vinyl a shot at reaching a new audience and possibly providing an additional revenue stream (though as most find out, it’s neither cheap nor easy). Unfortunately, vinyl doesn’t transform lackluster into exceptional music.

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The Great Sadness
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Weep
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The Great Sadness TGS 003 120g two-tone white LP (+MP3 and FLAC download card)
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Joe Cardamone
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Joe Cardamone
Cred Mix: 
Joe Cardamone
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Howie Weinberg
Indie records arrive more often than you might imagine from musicians giving vinyl a shot at reaching a new audience and possibly providing an additional revenue stream (though as most find out, it’s neither cheap nor easy). Unfortunately, vinyl doesn’t transform lackluster into exceptional music.

Acoustic Sounds Snags a 50,000+ LP Record Collection

This video was produced by Acoustic Sounds. It skirts the "advertisement/useful information" divide but AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer felt it was worth posting for a few reasons.

A 2005 -2006 Video Potpouri—Stereophile Show 2006, Factory Tours, CES 2005

Before donating to Good Will an old Hitachi mini DVD recorder that was so "high-tech" in 2005, it was necessary to transfer all of the useful footage. So here are the "highlights" culled from hours of stuff including the 2006 Stereophile show at the New York Hilton—Stereophile's final sponsored show.

For some reason there's not much footage from the show but there is some from an "ask the editors" panel (but not enough).

Soundmatters UPstage 360 Not a Coffee Maker But Brews Up Immersive Sound

Soundmatters innovates super-compact Bluetooth speakers that sound far better than anything their size has a right to sound. Now the company enters the Hi-Res audio robotic "personal servant" market with "Upstage 360" a "smart home connect' and "Echo Dot docking station" equipped compact, circular "smart" spe

Music Box Designs Says "Put Your Logo Here!"

Last fall AnalogPlanet posted a story about Netherlands based Music Box Designs, maker of sturdy, stackable wooden vinyl storage boxes.

Jerome Sabbagh's Next Kickstarter Funded Release Will Be All-Analog, Cut by BG and Pressed at QRP

Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh's 2014 Kickstarter funded release The Turn was a musical and sonic success. It got great reviews here, in the Boston Globe, Stereophile and the L.A. Times. Now Sabbagh is back with another Kickstarter funded project but this time instead of recording analog and cutting from digital because of the extra expenses involved, he's going for an all-analog production.

Analog Corner #79

Next time someone tells you that nice guys finish last, tell him or her about Bob Irwin, founder, owner, and president of Sundazed Records. He's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, he's currently on top, and odds are he'll finish there—for all the right reasons.

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