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Nabisco's New Oreo Turntable Sounds Sweet! Or Tastes Sweet....
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 04, 2018
Nabisco recently announced a turntable that plays Oreo cookies. Pop any Oreo cookie onto the platter and it will play a tune. Take a bit out of it and it plays a different tune. Apparently it's been on the market for a few weeks and the company is sold out for now. It sells for $19.99. Sweet deal hopefully back in stock for Christmas.
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NAIM Back In The Turntable Tonearm Game
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 21, 2021
Naim Audio launches first-ever turntable plus next-generation Aro tonearm as part of complete Solstice Special Edition package – limited to 500 units.

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Nashville's United Record Pressing Expanding With Sixteen New Presses
Michael Fremer  |  May 08, 2014
On Wednesday, May 7th, Nashville's United Record Pressing announced a major plant expansion with the planned addition of 16 additional presses. To meet demand the company currently operated 24/6 snd has been doing so for the past two years.

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Navigating Through Our "Shows" Dropdown Menu
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 15, 2018
Your editor hadn't looked in a while at the "drop down" menu under "Shows". When he did he was kind of shocked to see how few shows were there compared to how many have been covered.

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Naxos America To Distribute Berlin Philharmonic Direct to Disc LP Box Set
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 22, 2017
The Berlin Philharmonic's Direct-to-Disk Four Brahms Symphony box set currently available for purchase on the orchestra's website store will also be available for purchase in America beginning January 27th, 2017 on the website of Naxos USA.

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Neil Innes Gone Too Soon at 75
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 30, 2019
Neil Innes, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band co-founder, Rutles member and writer of all of that group's hilarious Beatles parodies and Monty Python member/contributor died suddenly and unexpectedly Sunday night, December 29th. According to his family, he'd not been sick and the cause of his passing has of yet not been determined.

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Neil Young "Ditch Trilogy +" LP Box Set Coming For Black Friday RSD. This image is of a Counterfeit!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 26, 2014
The Neil Young master tapes for this second box set were sitting in Chris Bellman's mastering suite last winter when I visited and interviewed Bernie Grundman about the Blue Note reissues, some of which were originally digitized at BGM Mastering and some of which were cut to lacquer by Chris.
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Neil Young Cultivates Harvest 50th Anniversary Box Set for December 2 Release That Houses Two 180g LPs and 1 EP, Including a Full Disc of Previously Unreleased Of-Era Live Tracks and Three Studio Outtakes
Mike Mettler  |  Nov 30, 2022

A man needs to harvest a heart of gold, and Neil Young’s groundbreaking February 1972 album Harvest provides all the aural goods on wax to do just that. (Yes, I mashed up a few album titles there, but you get the point.) To wit: A new box set celebrating the 50th anniversary of Harvest is coming via Reprise on December 2 that will include the original album on one 180g LP, plus another LP comprised of an unreleased of-era live BBC solo performance, and a 7-inch EP with a trio of unreleased Harvest outtakes. Read on to find out what appears in this must-have box set. . .

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Neil Young's Annual Bridge School Benefit Concert To Stream October 26th Live On Line For First Time
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 24, 2013
Neil Young's annual Bridge benefit concert streams for the first time on line live from the Shoreline Amphitheatre on October 26th.
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Neil Young's New Official Bootleg Series Debuts With Fabled 1970 Carnegie Hall Debut
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 20, 2021
Shakey Pictures Records and Reprise Records announced today The Neil Young Official Bootleg Series, which will commence with an official release of Neil's legendary December 4th, 1970 Carnegie Hall debut show available now for pre-order at The Greedy Hand Store at Neil Young Archives. A bootlegged version of the later midnight show helped make the evening among Neil's most fabled appearances, but according to the press release the earlier show, not captured by bootleggers, was the better one.

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Neil Young's Upcoming Record Store Day 4 LP Box Set Produced From Master Tapes AAA (Now Delayed Until November)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 15, 2014
Neil Young's previously announced 4 LP box set due to arrive on Record Store Day, April 19th will definitely be issued AAA from the original master tapes.
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Neil Young: Vinyl Resurgence is "nothing but a fashion statement"
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2015
According to U.K. music paper NME, Neil Young claimed during a recent interview on Frame, a California radio show, that vinyl is "nothing but a fashion statement."

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Never Before Released Erroll Garner Recordings Coming From Octave Music and Mack Avenue Music Group
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 24, 2021
The Erroll Garner Project in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh (where Octave Music in 2015 archived Garner’s physical assets) and in partnership with Mack Avenue Music Group celebrate what would have been Garner’s 100th birthday with three forthcoming vinyl releases due September 17th: Liberation in Swing: Centennial Collection is a Deluxe Limited Edition Box Set, Liberation in Swing: The Octave Records Story & Complete Symphony Hall Concert (Standard Edition Box Set) and Symphony Hall Concert (single 180g LP, CD and digital editions).

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New "Deluxe" and "Super Deluxe" Editions of The Who's "Tommy" Coming From Universal
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 22, 2013
On November 12th Universal will release numerous versions of The Who's Tommy, including "Deluxe" as well as "Super Deluxe" editions as well as the original configuration on double 180g vinyl. The press release doesn't divulge the vinyl source, who mastered or who is pressing.

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New George Harrison Guitar Collection App Coming February 23rd
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 16, 2012
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