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Rhino’s High Fidelity Series Continues to Sizzle Here on August 2 With ZZ Top’s From The Top: 1971-1976, an AAA 180g 5LP Box Set Available Exclusively at Rhino.com
Mike Mettler  |  Aug 02, 2024  |  0 comments

Have mercy! Rhino High Fidelity (a.k.a. Rhino Hi-Fi) does it again with today’s special box set release — namely, ZZ Top’s From The Top: 1971-1976, a limited-edition vinyl reissue collection containing the first five LPs from that little ol’ band from Texas — ZZ Top’s First Album (1971), Rio Grande Mud (1972), Tres Hombres (1973), Fandango! (1975), and Tejas (1976). Read on to learn about the source materials, the SRP, and where you can get From the Top exclusively. . .

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Rhino’s Rightly Acclaimed High Fidelity Series Continues Today, January 10, With a Pair of AAA 180g 1LP Releases, Television’s Adventure and Faces’ Ooh La La
Mike Mettler  |  Jan 10, 2025  |  4 comments

The listening glory is all ours with the latest pair of top-shelf releases from Rhino’s High Fidelity (Hi-Fi) series. Television’s potent April 1978 sophomore effort Adventure and Faces’ March 1973 swan song Ooh La La both get the patented AAA Hi-Fi 180g 1LP treatment and are being released today, January 10, 2025. Read Mike Mettler’s combo review to see why you need both of these fine Hi-Fi LP reissues ASAP. . .

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Samantha Crain's Hardscrapple Tales Mesmerize
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 12, 2015  |  13 comments
The golden gatefold cover art of Samantha Crain's Under Branch & Thorn & Tree makes clear that this is not a collection of "good times" tunes, but one is still left unprepared for the relentlessly bleak stories of betrayal, despair and desolation Crain delivers in an often pain-wracked voice that's somehow wrapped in a soothing, mesmerizing balm.

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Singaporean Black Funk Surprise
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 08, 2014  |  15 comments
31 year old Singapore-based vocalist Vanessa Fernandez is well known at home as a former member of hip-hop group Urban Xchange, known later as Parking Lot Pimp. That was more than a decade ago. More recently she's been the disc jockey "Vandetta" or "Miss Vandetta" on Mediacorp Radio's 987FM.

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Stealers Wheel's Eponymous Debut Still Provides Dark Pleasures
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 03, 2015  |  7 comments
Gerry Rafferty has long been under-appreciated. Oh, sure, "Stuck in the Middle" was an unlikely hit when first released by A&M in 1972 and later found its way into Quentin Tarrantino's "Reservoir Dogs" where the bouncy, anthemic, Dylanesque record company exec knock reached a new audience.

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Technics SL-1200G Versus Continuum Caliburn And SAT Arm--File Identities Revealed
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 11, 2017  |  40 comments
The file labels were not reversed in this story!

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The Beach Boys: The Final Nine Analogue Productions Reissues
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 09, 2016  |  27 comments
Analogue Productions recently completed one of the major reissue projects in modern vinyl playback history with the release of the final eight Beach Boys albums in both mono and stereo.

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The Berlin Philharmonic's Direct-To-Disc Brahms Symphonic Cycle Conducted By Sir Simon Rattle
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 23, 2016  |  21 comments
The just released (November 18, 2016) six LP box set of the four Brahms symphonies recorded direct-to-disc performed by Sir Simon Rattle and The Berlin Philharmonic before a live Philharmonie audience is as meticulously produced and presented as its existence is unlikely.

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The Berlin Philharmonic's Direct-to-Disc Bruckner Symphony #7 Box Set
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2020  |  34 comments
Last May 11th 2019 guest conductor Bernard Haitink conducted the BPO in his final performance with the orchestra. At the time plans were made to record the performance of Bruckner's 7th symphony "Direct-to-Disc" neither the orchestra nor the conductor knew it would be their last collaboration. Haitink announced his retirement shortly after the concert.

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The Monty Alexander Trio Live! at the Montreux Festival
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 02, 2016  |  1 comments
Jamaican-born pianist Monty Alexander still tours at age seventy two. He was but thirty two when this live album was recorded at The Montreux Jazz Festival.

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Two Laura Nyro Classics Reissued AAA By Analog Spark
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 03, 2017  |  10 comments
There was a period in '60s record history when you could buy "by the label" and pretty much be assured of a great listen. It was true of Elektra and later, after it got off its "high horse," Columbia, which for a while wouldn't touch rock.

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You Asked For It, But This Weekend Only!
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 16, 2015  |  27 comments
Readers asked for a few more files recorded using the SAT arm.

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Your Stereo Was Made For Ciaramella’s   Dances on Movable Ground
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 28, 2015  |  9 comments
I’ll tell you how I got into medieval era dance music similar to what’s on this record and on la Spagna: back in 1969 when I worked in the downstairs record store division of Minuteman in Harvard Square, a salesman named Duane who worked upstairs selling audio gear I could not at the time afford, insisted I buy a record on Deutsche Grammophone’s Archive Production label.

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