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Album Reviews
Decade Old Collection Gets Vinyl Release
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 01, 2010  |  0 comments

This is a vinyl reissue of lo-fi home recording genius and underground hero Ariel Pink. These sometimes tuneful lo-fi experiments from a decade ago are interesting and probably very influential but there's no real reason to have them on double 180 gram vinyl given the lo-tech origins of the material.

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Phono Preamp Reviews
Vitus Audio MP-P201 Masterpiece Series phono preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 23, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments
This massive, two-box beauty from Denmark costs $60,000, and I wish I could tell you it wasn't really better in most ways than the already outlandishly priced and sonically superb Boulder 2008. I can't.
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Album Reviews
Sony Makes the Case For Physical Media
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 15, 2010  |  0 comments

How fast was Miles Davis moving in 1970? Listen to the title track on the double LP recorded late summer 1969 and released the next April and then play the version on the bonus live at Tanglewood CD recorded August 1970. 

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News
Fall Tour For Van Dyke Parks and Clare and the Reasons
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 06, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
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News
Another Glitch
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 03, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments
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News
Please Stand By
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
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Album Reviews
Blues Classic Better Than Ever
Mark Schlack  |  Sep 01, 2010  |  1 comments

It was 1965 and Junior Wells was no longer the precocious teenager who had gotten the likes of Muddy Waters, Elmore James and Otis Spann to back him up on his 1953 and 1954 hit singles. Now 30, he was a fixture of that generation of electric Chicago bluesmen. He toured, and worked regularly at Theresa’s on the South Side. And he was about to make an album that has long been a staple of any modern blues collection.

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Album Reviews
Two Sought After 70's Albums Surface In Box Set
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2010  |  1 comments

Chris Darrow may not be a name familiar to you, nor might Kaleidoscope, the ‘60s psych/folk band on Epic of which he was part. That band passed me by back then. Maybe I didn’t like the cover art, or thought Epic wasn’t in the same solid A&R league as was Elektra for instance, so I didn’t want to chance it. I never heard them on the radio and Epic probably did a crappy job promoting them.

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Beatles
The Beatles Remasters: A Splendid Time is Guaranteed For Some
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2010  |  1 comments

The Beatles Remasters: A Splendid Time Is Guaranteed For Most

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Album Reviews
Available Again For a Short Time!: Neil Young's Upcoming Four 180g LP Box Set!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2010  |  1 comments
When Buffalo Springfield broke up, Neil Young set about building his solo career. The high-production work with Jack Nitzsche that had created classics like “Expecting to Fly” and “Broken Arrow” brought Neil back to the producer/keyboardist/orchestrator, who gained fame working with Phil Spector but the results on Young’s eponymous debut album were not as memorable. In fact, many critics and fans alike back in 1969 considered the album a disappointment and a misstep. 
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