Michael Fremer

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Album Reviews
Lori Lieberman’s Exquisite Album of Loss and Regret
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 23, 2020  |  3 comments
Cushioned by the Netherlands-based Matangi String Quartet, plus bass drums, percussion and occasional guitar, singer/songwriter/pianist Lori Lieberman delivers a tender, occasionally excruciatingly intimate song cycle replete with regret, heartache, abandonment, longing and loss.

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Record Cleaning Machine Reviews
Loricraft's "String" Based Record Cleaning Machine
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2018  |  First Published: May 01, 2018  |  11 comments
This video was shot a few weeks ago. The editing was completed today, the day SME announced it had purchased Garrard and Loricraft. Just a coincidence but a neat one! For those who don't know: Loricraft's Terry O'Sullivan is a Garrard 301/401 idler wheel drive expert who rebuilds and restores them for customers world wide.

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News
Los Angeles "WAX" and Audio Salon Events This Weekend!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 22, 2015  |  First Published: Oct 22, 2015  |  12 comments
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Features
Los Angeles Area Record Stores "Mini-Tour" Part 1
Michael Fremer  |  May 27, 2015  |  First Published: May 27, 2015  |  6 comments
Leading up to the Newport Beach show this weekend, I took a day to travel around the L.A. area with Record Collector News publisher Jim Kaplan.

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Features
Los Angeles Area Record Stores "Mini-Tour" Part 2
Michael Fremer  |  May 28, 2015  |  First Published: May 28, 2015  |  5 comments
Here's Part 2 of the L.A. Area Record Stores "Mini Tour": Wombleton Records.

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Features
Los Angeles Area Record Stores "Mini-Tour" Part 3
Michael Fremer  |  May 28, 2015  |  First Published: May 28, 2015  |  4 comments
Here's a study in record store contrasts.

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Features
Los Angeles Area Record Stores "Mini-Tour" Part 4
Michael Fremer  |  May 29, 2015  |  First Published: May 29, 2015  |  3 comments
Our final stops in the mini tour.

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Features
Los Lobos Interview Part 2
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 30, 2004  |  0 comments

MF: Why are there so many guest drummers on your records?

LP: Because I'm a guitar player. I think what happened in the ’70s with all the disco kind of stuff — all the drummers became, like, machines? So that kind of drumming became a prerequisite....

MF: And how did you feel about that? Was that pushed on the band?

Unidentified voice: The White man again! [Laughter]

MF: That was pushed on the band....

Unidentified voice: The evil White Demon! [More laughter]

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Features
Los Lobos On Record (through 1997)
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 30, 2004  |  0 comments

Los Lobos On Record

This survey omits the group's first independent release (1978), and the La Bamba Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1987)

(Album covers can be found in the Photo Gallery, accessible below the picture of the site mascot, Mr. Eno).

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Album Reviews
Los Lobos's Kiko Makes Its 180g Vinyl Debut
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2014  |  10 comments
Nothing Los Lobos recorded previous to 1992’s Kiko could have prepared anyone for this piece of sustained, surreal brilliance. Dreamlike sonic vistas, ominous lyrical horizons, mysterious musical crevices, and spring-like rhythmic compressions and extensions combine to create a dayglo, funhouse-like environment filled with familiar, but oddly drawn musical elements.
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