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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band The Ultimate Collection  From UMe Drops April 16th
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 04, 2021
John Lennon's raw, jarring solo debut album first released December 11, 1970 gets the 50th anniversary treatment in a multi-release series coming this April 16th. For those experiencing the album when it was first released 50 years ago, it was at first an ugly shock to hear a former Beatle (the phrase "former Beatle" was to fans shocking enough) bare his soul and express his personal anguish and pain, while simultaneously declaring "the dream" (whatever it was) "over".

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Lazaretto  Sells 40,000 Vinyl Copies, Opens at #1 on Billboard Charts
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 19, 2014
Jack White's new Third Man/Columbia album Lazaretto opened at #1 on Billboard's album charts, selling 138,000 copies, 40,000 of which were the "ultra" vinyl edition, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was the biggest vinyl seller since the beginning in 1991 of Nielsen SoundScan's music tracking service.
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Let It Be Gets Giles Martin Multi-Remix Box Set With Plenty of Extras
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 26, 2021
As expected, The Beatles' post-break up Let It Be album gets a Giles Martin re-mix and will be available worldwide October 15th 2021 in multiple editions. For the new release Martin and engineer Sam Okell produced stereo, 5.1 surround DTS and Dolby Atmos mixes. The new stereo mix sourced directly from the original session and rooftop performance 8 track tapes were "guided by the original "reproduced for disc" Phil Spector version.

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Let It Bleed   50th Anniversary Deluxe Box From ABKCO Coming November 1st
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 11, 2019
You can always get what you want: ABKCO will release a remastered by Bob Ludwig "stand-alone" CD or vinyl LP version of Let It Bleed if that's what you want, but if you want it all, you can have it all.

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Mulberry Street Symphony Awaits Re-Press, Will Be Available In United States
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 15, 2022
Mulberry Street Symphony awaits a re-press. Once it's in stock, Cowbell (see comment section) says it can ship to the United States.

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The Turn  First Pressing Sold Out
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 31, 2015
Jerome Sabbagh, who's album The Turn was most favorably reviewed on analogplanet, emailed the other day to say that "...the first pressing...is completely sold out everywhere in no small part due to the interest generated by your review.

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@analogplanet is The New Analogplanet.com Twitter Account Address
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 27, 2012
Follow me on Twitter. Just signed up (succumbed is more like it) so it will take a while to get up to speed but now when I visit a used record store of something interesting happens in the vinyl world (or whatever else) you'll be the first to know!
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A "Live From Van Gelder Studio" Concert November 14th You Can "Attend"!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 06, 2020
Live From Van Gelder Studio presents a Hank Mobley tribute concert Saturday November 14th at 9PM EST starring Ron Carter, Joe Lovano, Isaiah Thompson and Kenny Washington.

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A 2005 -2006 Video Potpouri—Stereophile Show 2006, Factory Tours, CES 2005
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 28, 2018
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).

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A 2016 Analog Business Update Presented at the L.A. and O.C. Audio Society Gala
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 17, 2016
AnalogPlanet Editor Michael Fremer addresses the L.A. and Orange County Audio Society Gala and gives them the facts and figures that prove that the "analog revival" is real.

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A Day In the Life Of Vinyl
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 06, 2016
What a day. It actually started yesterday when I exited an airplane and entered the Newark International Airport terminal and spotted a record store!

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A Lego Turntable?
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 26, 2014
From Mixmag.net: someone in Korea has built a working LEGO turntable and tone arm. Amazing.
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A New Stackable, Breakdown-able Record Storage System From Wax Stacks
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 29, 2015
Wax Stacks is a new company just "Kickstarted" by a Kimber Kable employee.

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A Quick Look at the Sam Records Jazz Reissues
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 20, 2015
Some records deserve to be looked at as well as listened to. That's the case with the series of Sam jazz reissues from France.

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A Sign of the Times
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 04, 2014
A Massachussetts-based reader was alarmed by a sign in the window of Tune Street his local audio store:

"All CDs & DVDs MUST GO 50% OFF BLOWOUT SALE".

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