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Fine Songwriting From "Under the Radar" Indie "Group"

Michael Fremer | Jan 01, 2011 | 2 comments

This is not Sam Beam's (A/K/A Iron and Wine) latest album. It dates from 2007. His first release, The Creek Drank the Cradle, was released back in 2002. Somehow that one, this one, his newest and all of his work escaped my attention until last year's AXPONA audio show in Jacksonville Florida where I saw the collected works in the bins of a Florida audio store owner who had a room at the show. I asked to hear something and he played a cut from this introspective, atmospheric and sonically enticing and well-produced album. I was hooked.

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Fine Sounds Transforms Itself into World of McIntosh (WOM)

Michael Fremer | Mar 17, 2016 | First Published: Mar 17, 2016 | 7 comments

The Italian holding company Fine Sounds, which owns McIntosh, Audio Research Corporation, Sumiko and Wadia last fall announced a new name and marketing that puts all of the brands under one roof (literally) called "World of McIntosh".

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Finest Audio Show Zurich January 9th and 10th, 2021 Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Sep 21, 2020 | First Published: Sep 21, 2020 | 1 comments

The High End Society, (which also runs High End Munich) today announced the first "live" audio show of the new year, taking place January 9th and 10th, 2021. The name has been changed from HIGH END SWISS to FINEST AUDIO SHOW, which is wholly appropriate and indisputable since for now it's the only hi-fi show on the books.

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Fiona Apple Having a Fight With Her Brain! Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Aug 06, 2012 | 2 comments

All of Fiona Apple's albums have been been personal and confessional (some might say "self absorbed") but this one is really personal and confessional and attractively self-absorbed too.

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Fire at Pallas Pressing Plant Destroys CD/DVD Duplication Facility Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Apr 01, 2013 | 7 comments

This is no April Fool's Day trick: a fire last night destroyed the Pallas Pressing Plant's CD/DVD duplication facility. Fortunately there were no injuries.

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First 27 Analog Corners Served Up on Analog Planet Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Feb 22, 2013 | 1 comments

The first 27 of the hundreds of Analog Corners written for Stereophile have now been published on this site with many new accompanying photos courtesy of Ariel Bitran, Stereophile's hard working editorial assistant.

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First Blue Note 45rpm Reissue From Music Matters Doesn't Disappoint! Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Jan 01, 2008 | 0 comments

There’s nothing groundbreaking on this 1960 Parlan-lead session, but that’s okay. The lure here isn’t the musical construction, since it covers familiar grooves and doesn’t move jazz forward. In fact, you’ll hear familiar gestures, some gleaned from Miles’ modal Kind of Blue issued a few years earlier, others from common blues.

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First Six Bryan Ferry Albums Released on AAA Vinyl?

Michael Fremer | Aug 11, 2021 | First Published: Aug 11, 2021 | 17 comments

Don't know how we missed this but Bryan Ferry's first six solo albums are about to be released on vinyl, "...re-mastered from the original tapes at Abbey Road Studios and cut by Frank Arkwright." It's unfortunate that today we can't be sure if that means an AAA cut or if Arkwright used the original tapes and digitized before cutting. Hence the question mark in the headline.

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First Yardbirds Guitarist Gets His Due

Michael Fremer | Sep 01, 2010 | 1 comments

The back story here is that in May of 1963, the Yardbirds’ first guitarist, “pimply” 15 year old Anthony “Top” Topham stepped on stage with the new group at the Eel Pie Island Club.

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Five Labels, Fifteen Cities. One Truck: Secretly Group Announces "Paved Paradise"

Michael Fremer | Jul 27, 2021 | First Published: Jul 27, 2021 | 5 comments

"Today, Ghostly International, Numero Group and Secretly Group record labels Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian all join forces to announce Paved Paradise, a traveling expo bringing their music to parking lots this fall. Over the course of September 9th-26th, a 24-foot Penske truck helmed by several of Secretly's sonic specialists will visit 15 cities in the eastern United States. From the birthplaces of Secretly, Ghostly and Numero in Bloomington, Detroit and Chicago, to Third Man Records in Nashville, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, and a community of breweries, flea markets and independent venues in between, Paved Paradise will take the record store experience outdoors, with special guests and local collaborations set for every stop."

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