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Rick Rubin Interviews RHCP About the Group's New Album Recorded and Mixed to Analog Tape
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 06, 2022  |  First Published: Apr 06, 2022  |  10 comments
The new Rick Rubin produced Red Hot Chili Peppers album Unlimited Love was recorded to analog tape and mixed to analog tape and it sounds so—at least based on streaming where the "analog goodness" shines through. A month long series of "Broken Records" Pushkin Shows covering the release began last Friday.

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Album Reviews
Rick Rubin's Road to Ruen—The Ruen Brothers' "All My Shades of Blue"
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 20, 2018  |  17 comments
The faded Crown (or Coronet) Records cover art, the borrowed “360 Sound” “Stereo” arrows in the top strip where “Ruen Brothers” replaces “Stereo” and the retro attitudinal looks on the faces of the two brothers, one wearing string tie, one not, hint at what’s in the grooves of this audacious Rick Rubin produced debut of the brothers RUpert and hENry Stansall also known as the Ruen Brothers. They are not poseurs. They are serious. They are on a “wake up” mission that’s been developing for four years.

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Album Reviews
Ricki Lee's Cover Album Covered By Analogue Productions
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2008  |  0 comments

This lovely set of intimately arranged and meticulously recorded covers, originally issued in 2000, is precisely the kind of semi-obscure album in need of a quality all-analog reissue.

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Album Reviews
Rickie Lee Jones Returns A Winner
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Even if you generally find Jones's voice too nasal, too cat-like, too small, too thin, too whiney and especially too nasal, her cool, slinky and smartly laid-back vibe on this impeccably arranged and played double LP set will surely win you over.

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Album Reviews
Rickie's Pop Pop On Double 180g Vinyl!
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2009  |  0 comments

Calling Ricki Lee Jones’s Pop Pop an “enduring” audiophile classic would be an understatement, though getting a copy on vinyl has been difficult until now.

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Album Reviews
Righting a Rolling Stones Catalogue Wrong: The New Rolling Stones "Studio Album Collection 1971-2016" Box Set
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 29, 2018  |  30 comments
The irony wasn't lost on Stones fans when ABKCO and Universal simultaneously issued Rolling Stones vinyl box sets back in 2010. ABKCO, which owned the group's British Decca-era catalog, hired legendary mastering engineer Bob Ludwig to handle mastering of its catalog while Universal, which controlled the group's own label, released a box set with no mastering credits.

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Album Reviews
Rilo Kiley Front Gal Steps Out And Steps Up!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2006  |  0 comments

Former child star and Rilo Kiley front-gal Jenny Lewis may present herself as a latter day Charo, but she’s not afraid to plant serious concerns within her art, both in Rilo Kiley and in this earnest solo setting backed by Louisville natives The Watson Twins.

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Ringo Starr's No. 0000001 Copy of "The Beatles" On the Auction Block
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 10, 2015  |  First Published: Nov 10, 2015  |  16 comments
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RIP Bruce Lundvall, Resurrected Blue Note Records
Michael Fremer  |  May 21, 2015  |  First Published: May 21, 2015  |  5 comments
Record business veteran and jazz fan Bruce Lundvall passed away Tuesday, May 19th at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

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Features
Riva Audio's Magic Wand!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 30, 2017  |  First Published: Nov 30, 2017  |  12 comments
Just had to sneak this in before heading for vacation. Riva Audio's Wand is a spectacular-sounding wireless Wi-Fi based distributed audio system that features open architecture, meaning you can stream using Google's Play app via Chromecast, or Apple's Airplay, or directly from a hard drive via DLNA or control the system Riva's own Wand app, at up to 192/24 bit resolution. It has Spotify built in.

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