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"The Beatles" Unboxing The 4 LP and Deluxe Slipcase Digital Box Sets
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 24, 2018  |  26 comments
Here's a video in which AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer "unboxes" the 4 LP and and Deluxe 6 CD+Blu-ray boxes containing Giles Martin's The Beatles remixes, the Esher Demos and in the case of the Deluxe set, a great deal more!

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"The Man Who Sold The World" File Identities Revealed!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 12, 2015  |  24 comments
The bar graph, representing more than two hundred votes, indicates that "File A" was the clear favorite and that enthusiasm for the others waned based upon their positioning in the test, which in and of itself is fascinating.

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"The State of The Vinyl Industry" Webinar With Michael Fremer Today at 5PM EST
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 17, 2020  |  8 comments
Register now for this afternoon's Webinar, live this afternoon at 5PM EST hosted by AXPONA. There will be an opportunity to ask questions.

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"Thumb" Through ECM's Vinyl Catalog
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 17, 2018  |  3 comments
ECM recently sent an email blast containing a link to the label's vinyl catalogue, which you can "thumb" through to see all that's available.

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"Tour" the QRP Pressing Plant, Acoustic Sounds, and Take A Second Row Seat at Stiefel Theater Saturday Night Blues at the Crossroads Concert
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 02, 2017  |  10 comments
Saturdays during the Blues at the Crossroads concert weekend, Acoustic Sounds and Quality Vinyl Pressing (QRP) open their doors to blues fans from around the world, who are invited to tour the QRP pressing plant and buy new and used records and SACDs at Acoustic Sounds.

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"Ultimate Sinatra" Compilation Includes Columbia, Capitol and Reprise Tracks (Updated 4/13/15)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 10, 2015  |  13 comments
Capitol/UMe kicks off the Frank Sinatra centennial with Ultimate Sinatra a multi-format April 21st release that will include a 24 track double 180g vinyl edition, a 25 track CD, a 26 track digital download and a deluxe 101 track 4 CD set.

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"Uncle Meat" and "Roxy and Elsewhere" Reissued On Vinyl By Zappa Records/Barking Pumpkin Records—Sources Revealed
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 04, 2013  |  8 comments
The Zappa Family Trust recently announced remastered vinyl reissues of these two significant double LP Frank Zappa records.
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"Vinyl Frenzy" Leads to New, New Jersey Pressing Plant!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 14, 2015  |  11 comments
My sources had told me "off the record" about a new pressing plant opening in New Jersey by Epitaph Records or principles of that company, but I was asked not to write anything so I didn't.

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"Vinyl Y'Alta": Chad Kassem Chats with Jack Stoughton and Don MacInnis— Moderated by Michael Fremer
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 28, 2021  |  4 comments
Acoustic Sounds' Chad Kassem recently hosted in Salina, Kansas an event I labeled " Vinyl Y'Alta" that featured Stoughton Press's Jack Stoughton and RTI's Don MacInnis for a wide-ranging discussion about the state of the vinyl record industry in 2021. Kassem asked me to moderate from home and I gladly obliged.

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"Walk on The Wild Side" Will Be Played on Monday's Analogplanet Radio Show
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 22, 2016  |  14 comments
This transcription of "Walk on the Wild" side will be featured on this Monday's "Analogplanet Radio Show.
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"When Albums Ruled The World" BBC Documentary
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 13, 2013  |  10 comments
I was alerted to a terrific BBC documentary currently on YouTube about the "golden age" of vinyl.
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"Who Can I Be Now?" 13 LP David Bowie Box Set Coming in September
 |  Aug 01, 2016  |  7 comments
The second David Bowie box set centered around his so-called "American Period" ships in September.

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"Woodstock The Director's Cut" Coming For One Night to a Theater Near You!
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 22, 2019  |  5 comments
Hard to believe 50 years have passed (well maybe not that hard to believe), but here we are (well, most of us anyway!). On Thursday, August 15th, theaters nationwide will bring back to movie theaters for the first time since it first opened, March, 1970. However, this will be the 3 hours and 44 minute "Director's Cut" version never before screened in theaters (there will be a single, short intermission).

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(Corrected) Beginning to Get Answers on Bert Jansch Vinyl Mystery (Apologies to Lurssen Mastering)
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 13, 2012  |  4 comments
My apologies to Gavin Lurrsen, who did respond immediately to my email via email. Unfortunately his email got trapped in the overaggressive corporate spam filter.
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2015: The Year of the New Record Presses!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 20, 2014  |  26 comments
New record presses are the big news today!
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