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Jazz Great Lee Konitz, R.I.P.
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 16, 2020  |  9 comments
Alto saxophonist, improv great Lee Konitz who was associated with every style from bebop to avant-garde and especially cool jazz died today at age 92 a victim of the coronavirus.

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Art Dudley, Rest In Peace
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 14, 2020  |  33 comments
The hi-fi world has lost a giant, and we at Stereophile have lost a brother.

Art Dudley passed peacefully this morning around 4am after a short illness. The cause was metastatic cancer.

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Short Cuts
Review Explosion: FKA Twigs, Sunday Service, Travis Scott’s JACKBOYS, Liam Gallagher, & More
Malachi Lui  |  Apr 13, 2020  |  15 comments
(Review Explosion is a recurring AnalogPlanet feature covering recent releases for which we either don’t have sufficient time to fully explore, or that are not worthy of it. Curated by AnalogPlanet contributing editor Malachi Lui, Review Explosion will focus on the previous few months’ new releases as well as archival titles and reissues.)

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Vinyl Reports: Don't Believe the Hype
Malachi Lui  |  Apr 09, 2020  |  120 comments
(“Hype: to promote or publicize something intensively, often exaggerating its importance or benefits.” We all succumb to hype, either from others’ high recommendations or our own excitement and anticipation. Once something falls short of those expectations, we rush to denounce it as “overhyped;” not necessarily bad, but underwhelming for however much we expect. Today’s Vinyl Reports feature centers around such overhyped records.)

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Review Explosion: Coldplay, Tame Impala, Dos Monos, Gil Scott-Heron, & More
Malachi Lui  |  Apr 05, 2020  |  7 comments
(Review Explosion is a recurring AnalogPlanet feature covering recent releases for which we either don’t have sufficient time to fully explore, or that are not worthy of it. Curated by AnalogPlanet contributing editor Malachi Lui, Review Explosion will focus on the previous few months’ new releases as well as archival titles and reissues.)

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The Vinyl Alliance Issues a Covid-19 Advisory
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 03, 2020  |  8 comments
The Vinyl Alliance Just Issued This Press Release:

The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is severe and hits the vinyl industry hard with a decreasing demand, closed stores, limited production, and transport bans. However, a quick survey amongst Vinyl Alliance members shows the commitment and resilience of the industry.

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Can I Have My Money Back?
When Is The Used Album You Buy Online Not the Album You Bought?
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 03, 2020  |  33 comments
Charles Lloyd pointed me towards the Chico Hamilton album A Different Journey (Reprise RS R9-6078) on which he plays, is musical director and wrote all of the tunes. I'd never heard of it or even seen it, so I went on DISCOGS and found a copy.

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Can I Have My Money Back?
Adam Schlesinger, 52 — He Had "All Kinds of Time"
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 03, 2020  |  8 comments
The Coronavirus got singer-songwriter and Fountains of Wayne co-founder Adam Schlesinger on Wednesday. He was 52. That wasn't supposed to happen to someone so young. He had "All Kinds of Time". Though that FOW song from the album Welcome Interstate Managers is about a football quarterback standing in the pocket, it was the first song I played after learning the virus had gotten to Schlesinger. it's a stop-action suspended animation song with an oddly downcast mood that fits the news.

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Cartridge Reviews
High Performance, High Value Hana ML and MH Cartridges (Reversed Channels Fixed)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2020  |  62 comments
Though AnalogPlanet reviewed the low output $750 Hana SL cartridge back in 2017 in a “shootout” with the $999 Ortofon Quintet Black S, we’re kind of “late to the fair” on these two newer Hana models, in part because they’ve been reviewed by others in Stereophile (and of course elsewhere), where I mostly (but not exclusively!) cover the top end of the high performance market.

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Album Reviews
Big Thief's U.F.O.F. Steals a Page From '60s era Psych-Folk Rockers
Jeff Flaim  |  Mar 31, 2020  |  15 comments
Brooklyn- based quartet Big Thief formed after all four of its members— Adrianne Lenker (guitar, vocals), Buck Meek (guitar, backing vocals), Max Oleartchik (bass), and James Krivchenia (drums)— had graduated from the Berklee College Of Music.

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