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FRANK ZAPPA’S FINAL AMERICAN SHOW, ZAPPA ’88: THE LAST U.S. SHOW  OUT NOW VIA ZAPPA RECORDS/UMe
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 23, 2021
LIVE CONCERT ALBUM ALSO INCLUDES PERFORMANCES FROM ADDITIONAL SHOWS FROM THE ’88 TOUR AND FIRST OFFICIAL RELEASE OF “THE BEATLES MEDLEY”
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Frank Zappa’s Seminal Over-Nite Sensation Basks in 50th Anniversary Vinyl Ooze Via Separate 180g 45rpm 2LP and Limited-Edition 180g 3LP Editions From Zappa/UMe on November 3
Mike Mettler  |  Aug 24, 2023

For those of you who have a penchant for listening to visceral, tall-in-the-saddle sonic tales recounting the finer points of dental floss farming, mindless video drones, and poncho-wearing lotharios, then we have an important release announcement for you. Namely, Frank Zappa’s seminal September 1973 LP Over-Nite Sensation is getting a proper 50th anniversary deluxe reissue treatment via a pair of vinyl options — a 180g 45rpm 2LP set, and a limited-edition splatter-vinyl 180g 3LP edition — both via Zappa Records/UMe on November 3. Read on to see all the mennil-toss flykune-approved ONS 50 pressing stats and sugar-plum tracks accordingly. . .

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From Teen Icon To Heart of Darkness, Scott Walker RIP
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 27, 2019
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Full Service Web Site
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 31, 2003

MusicAngle.com begins building Full Service Web Site Thanks to strong support from both readers and advertisers, MusicAngle.com\\\'s site upgrade has been bumped up from the second quarter of 2003 to immediately.

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Furnace Manufacturing Builds New 16 Press Pressing and Packaging Plant
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 20, 2017
That new record you just unboxed probably came shrink-wrapped or in a perforated sealed bag. Maybe it has a sticker or two on it or it's a numbered limited edition. Watch how all of this happens in this just produced video shot at Furnace Manufacturing with founder Eric Astor. And then go to Furnace's brand new, soon to be operational vinyl pressing plant that will also incorporate the packaging facility, which has outgrown its current location. Furnace began in the 1990s as a production and packaging agent for indie and major labels—perhaps you’re unsure about what that exactly means. After watching the video you will—and perhaps you'll come to appreciate an LP production cost you've not before considered.

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Furnace Mfg. Finds and Buys Ten Toolex Alpha Record Presses!
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 25, 2015
(analogplanet.com exclusive, August 25th, 2015): Do you remember years ago when Apple was on the ropes? The press loved to predict “struggling Apple”’s demise. Then a funny thing happened: Apple became wildly successful.

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Furnace Record Pressing Fires Up!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 09, 2018
Last year when AnalogPlanet visited Furnace Record Pressing in Alexandria Virginia it was an enormous, mostly empty building. The vinyl pressing plant infrastructure installation had just begun.

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Furnace Record Pressing Tests One of Ten Rebuilt Toolex Presses Soon to Go "Live"!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 20, 2016
Do you need to see more pressing plants go online to be convinced that the vinyl resurgence is surging? How about this: Furnace Record Pressing in Fairfax Virginia will soon go "live" with ten fully rebuilt Toolex Alpha presses.

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Furnace Record Pressing To Open in January 2018 50,000 Square Foot Record Pressing Plant
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 25, 2017

Fairfax, VA, October 25, 2017—Furnace Record Pressing will open a new long-planned record pressing plant this January in Fairfax, VA that will create more than 40 new jobs in what the company says will be an "environmentally friendly" facility.

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Further Details Emerge About Promises  —Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders Collaboration With The London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 17, 2021
Luaka Bop releases March 26th this sensational collaboration between this collaboration between Sam Shepherd (Floating Points) and Pharoah Sanders with the London Symphony Orchestra. It's a sonically spectacular, musically beguiling continuous piece of music in nine movements for saxophone, strings, keyboards and electronics composed by Sam Shepherd. Lacquers cut by Chris Bellman, pressed at RTI, the sonics are enveloping, the music in and out of the world.

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Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate and Jon Hein Visited Today
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 05, 2012
Howard Stern Show producer Gary Dell'Abate and Stern show staffer John Hein stopped by today with a video crew of eleven.
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Gearbox Develops Kickstarter Funded Innovative Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 03, 2017
Gearbox Records, best known as a mastering studio equipped with a vintage tube-based cutting system, announces an innovative new turntable with built-in vacuum tube-based phono preamp and auto-Bluetooth streaming.

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Genesis’ Career-Spanning 1999 Compilation, Turn It On Again: The Hits, Makes Its Vinyl Debut With Two Different 2LP Options on May 3
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 28, 2024

All I need is a cinema show — that, and the radio. Okay, so we slightly butchered the opening lyrics to “Turn It On Again” there, but if you’re a Genesis acolyte and you know (what I like), then you know what we mean. The reason for the above line adjustment is that Genesis is set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their October 1999 Turn It On Again: The Hits compilation by way of two separate vinyl editions via Atlantic/Rhino on May 3, 2024 — marking the 18-song career-spanning collection’s vinyl debut. Read on to see which tracks are on it, and which specific cut is making its own LP debut. . .

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Gentle Giant
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 28, 2011
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George Harrison Sixteen LP Box Set Readied by UMe and Harrison Estate
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 24, 2017
The upcoming (available February, 24th 2017) George Harrison sixteen 180 LP box set includes every solo release by "the quiet Beatle" from 1968 to 2002.

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