SOTA is an American turntable brand founded circa 1980 by Dave Fletcher and Robert Becker in Berkeley California.The talented Spiral Groove turntable designer Allen Perkins worked for the company in the late 1980s.

Register to win a CSNY 1974 Limited Edition Vinyl Deluxe Box Set ($499 Retail Value) we are giving away.

According to the label:

"This set is limited to 1000 copies, individually numbered, and housed in a custom laser-etched maple wood box. It is available exclusively through CSNY. All 40 tracks on six 180-gram 12” vinyl records and more."

[This Sweepstakes is now closed.]

There's something deeply offensive to me about picking apart the sound on the David Bowie [Five Years 1969-1973] box set. The guy is gone, the sadness lingers and maybe it's time to just enjoy and celebrate the music.

Classic Album Sundays creator Colleen Murphy hosts a two part BBC radio special covering the history of turntables.

Sarasota Florida area readers take note: Encore Home Entertainment Systems hosts a March 24th Technics SL-1200GAE turntable preview event from 7PM-9PM.

Today is both “leap day” and the final Analogplanet Radio fundraising show of 2016. No “leap” songs today, but many about helping out others. “Others” in this case being WFDU, which derives 100% of its income from listeners, and none from advertising.

Graham Nash held a "listening party" for his new album "This Path Tonight" at New York's Electric Lady Studios, Wednesday, February 24th. The album ships on April 15th, including on vinyl mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Here's a half hour interview I conducted with Graham in the Electric Lady control room.

February is WFDU’s pledge month. The station doesn’t run advertising and so depends upon listener support.

At last fall's WAX Event at the Capitol Tower I met the owner of Dorado Music Packaging, a company that fabricates among other printed packaging, record jackets and books about music and vinyl.

Analogplanet Radio's President's Day Show is now available for streaming here and on the WFDU.fm website.