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Concert Reviews
Spoon Live At Webster Hall, NYC December 30th 2006
Terri Karnessis  |  Apr 30, 2007  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  2 comments

Listening to Spoon is best done as described in singer/songwriter Britt Daniel’s own words: “You gotta feel it/ Don’t take notes/ Just clear out your mind.” Fans of Spoon’s five albums and two EPs, issued over the past twelve years know very well the feelings brought to mind when listening to these songs: they range from yearning, heartbreak and frustration, to isolation and desperation, to tenderness, lust, and satisfaction from a job well done.

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Interviews
Why Sixties British Rock Is Still the Benchmark
Mike McGill  |  Apr 30, 2007  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments

… or, why does it make sense for musicangle and other perceptive writers and sites to still be discussing and rating this stuff 40 years later?

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Features
Final Complete Set of The Tracking Angle Sold!
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 30, 2007  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
The last complete set of The Tracking Angle (15 issues) sold this week to a buyer in New Zealand. With three issues now officially out of print, there will be no more complete sets available.
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News
Warner Brothers to Launch Vinyl and DVD-A On-Line Record Store
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 25, 2007  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments
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Turntable ReviewsTonearm Reviews
Kuzma Stabi XL turntable & Air Line tonearm
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 22, 2007  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Almost immediately on entering the analog marketplace in 1982, Franc Kuzma, a mechanical engineer based in Slovenia, then part of the former Yugoslavia, established a reputation for manufacturing finely engineered, high-performance products that sold at reasonable prices. Kuzma's early industrial designs, however, while serviceable, looked less than distinguished.
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News
Check Out Jerry's Records In Pittsburg, PA
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 05, 2007  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
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Album Reviews
Sundazed and Mobile Fidelity Make The Case For Mono!
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2007  |  0 comments

Sundazed has just released the first five Byrds albums cut from the original mono master tapes, which didn't see that much action when new and haven't seen much since. Thus the sound on this first one has a chance of being positively stupendous and it is.

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Album Reviews
Dion Sings The Blues
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2007  |  0 comments

When this arrived I stated the obvious to myself “Why would I want to hear Dion sing the blues?” I can hear Robert Johnson do his own tunes, I can hear them “rock-a-fied” to great effect on any number of albums from the 1960’s, I can hear other blues greats, from Mississippi John Hurt to Howlin’ Wolf to Lightnin’ Hopkins, singing their originals and covers, some superbly recorded, and generally I was so down on this disc that I played it more to see how awful and/or pointless it was.

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Album Reviews
Order of Shinola, Hold the Shit
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2007  |  0 comments

“Tastes good on th’ bun” are all the lyrics you get on “Tastes Good on th’ Bun,” the opening tune, of the Ween brothers’ new collection of closet clutterers and leftovers. There’s a tune called “Big Fat Fuck.” Can you guess the lyrics? Close. Add “Feelin’ like a” and you’ve got it.

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Album Reviews
There's Still Time To Get This For Christmas!
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2007  |  0 comments

This year's (2006) showing of this 1965 animated special drew a huge audience. I don't have the numbers but I think it beat everything in its time slot.

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