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Cool site... Rare vinyl records from the golden era of avantgarde and experimental music: http://wolffifth.blogspot.com/

If you guys haven't heard, RR is getting back into releasing lp's. Paul Stubblebine and Prof Johnson have been toiling away behind the scenes to put this together for a couple of years now and the first 2 releases will be next month (Sept 2011). Here's the press release; TWO NEW RELEASES September 2, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO – For many years, RR has been searching the world over for the best possible vinyl mastering, plating and pressing facilities so we could re-enter the LP market. We now have a production chain that will allow us to produce LPs to meet our high standards and satisfy our demanding customers, who have been waiting for these LPs for a long time! Assembli…

http://www.nytimes.c...dies-at-70.html "Nick Ashford, who with Valerie Simpson, his songwriting partner and later wife, wrote some of Motown’s biggest hits, like “ and “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEcLuVhRbkU,” and later recorded their own hits and toured as a duo, died Monday at a hospital in New York City. He was 70 and lived in Manhattan."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/arts/music/jerry-leiber-rock-n-roll-lyricist-dies-at-78.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Leiber_and_Mike_Stoller

Not a huge selection but at $3 a piece , not bad http://www.allegro-music.com/label_search.asp?label=LIN ..dB

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/arts/music/marshall-grant-bass-player-with-johnny-cash-dies-at-83.html

New album being digitally released (in WAV, if you like) on Saturday! Just pre-ordered the $53 2-lp set, which won't ship till May but includes a WAV download. Super excited to hear the new material. http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/

For those of us that are jazz fans this is an outstanding set. I've listened to the available mp3 on Laurie Peppers site about 2 dozen times. Here is a link for those that are interested My link The set was pro recorded at Ronnie Scotts during an 80s engagement and the band on the mp3 track is smoking hot. The transfer was done at 24/192 with a 4 cd set from CDbaby.com setting you back $27. There is a vinyl set for over $200 but I'm going to wait until I get the cd set in the mail to see if I need it. I just wish Laurie Pepper would release the 24/192 tracks of this set.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/23/entertainment/main20082454.shtml

I've really been getting into Multichannel SACD's and DVD-A's lately. Too bad they're all pretty much dead formats. And many of my favorites are out of print, and going for insane prices on fleaBay and such. Captain Hindsight says, you should've bought them when they were first out to begin with! OK my job is done here, goodbye!!! <whoosh> <sigh> -Ed

Has anyone listened to these Hi-Res downloads? HDtracks Opens Hi-Res 96/24 Store 20% OFF CODE: experience9624now For Your First Hi-Res 96/24 Purchase Good Until October 15th, 2008

Stumbled across this today, and thought it was worth sharing. About as good as a YouTube video can sound, that's for sure! Funny bit with Michael Fremer towards the end. If you're ever driving past Salina, KS, you've just GOT to stop in to see Chad and his crew. What a bunch of great guys who have an absolutely boundless love for music and all things connected to it. Once they know you're an audiophile, they'll make the time for you...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/arts/music/poly-styrene-brash-frontwoman-of-x-ray-spex-dies-at-53.html?_r=1&hpw “Poly Styrene’s voice on ‘Oh Bondage! Up Yours!’ was the most exhilarating voice I ever heard — it was all body,” said Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/arts/music/phoebe-snow-bluesy-singer-songwriter-dies-at-58.html?_r=1&hp http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/la-me-phoebe-snow-20110427,0,1871879.story

Just a heads-up for this year's RSD on 4/16: http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases Lots of special releases on vinyl in particular.

...looks like we can expect a NEW album in the Spring! [url=http://thenjunderground.com/blog/2010/10/29/feelies-set-to-release-first-album-in-over-20-years.html]Feelies set to release first album in over 20 years.

I've decided not to run my masterings through an HDCD converter..

I am a big fan of Christian McBride, Steve Gadd, Everette Harp and consider Hajime the owner of East Winds Imports a good friend. I am sadden by the huge devastation that Japan has experienced with the tsunami and thought I would just pass this along. Jazz for Japan.

On Thursday, “sometime between 1:23 and 1:38 p.m. Pacific time,” Mr. Lynch, the celebrated “Twin Peaks” creator and director of films like “Mulholland Drive,” will reintroduce davidlynch.com as a digital music store and “sensory experience.” There will be sound experiments from the past (some unreleased from his film and television projects) and new music. http://tinyurl.com/4j48hkc

Just a heads up,.. There's a 15% discount code (on that other site) for the Rolling Stones hi rez downloads that HD Tracks are selling. I guess I could just paste it here but somehow that doesn't seem right? Whatever,.. all you have to do is visit that site and copy and paste it to the "discount code" box when you're checking out. If you're like me, I'm just grabbing the "Through the Past..." and waiting for "Let it Bleed" and hopefully "Sticky Fingers" latter on. I haven't got anything but the original vinyl of this stuff so don't ask me to do comparisons! If I can't hear a difference without A/Bing it,.. it isn't significant in my book.

Owsley Stanley, the father of the acid test, and the former sound engineer for the grateful dead died in a car crash. http://www.jambands.com/news/2011/03/13/owsley-bear-stanley-dies-in-car-accident/?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4d7d444b6e0aa4a1,0 RIP.

just fave finds, not albums necessarily released in 2010. if there's a personal story behind the album, please share. as a former aspiring double bassist, and Beethoven lover, i really love this album recorded by my hometown team. the 3 and 8 make for a wonderful album pairing. [ATTACH=CONFIG]4170[/ATTACH] and when i want to get my groove on while slinging solder [ATTACH=CONFIG]4171[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]4172[/ATTACH] and a late entry i picked up last week... fucking.amazing.album.period.especially.when.drunk.double..period.. [ATTACH=CONFIG]4173[/ATTACH]

Going out on a limb here, has any head-caser heard the 2009 remaster of Tattoo You? I grew up listening to the original, yet all I own is a scratchy early-80s vinyl pressing. There was a time when I'd cheerfully buy any remaster, but the Terrible Age of the Brick Wall has cured me of that forever. I'd much rather track down a halfway decent CD pressing (or needledrop) of the original version than suffer through having all the dynamics crush by a modern rework. Anyone out there heard both? Bueller?

New thread. Jackie McLean - Action

Just stumbled onto this stuff. Anyone has one of these? Is this just another gimmick? Weather Report - 8:30