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watch the exclusive interview with co-producer Steve Berkowitz First thought upon seeing the original album cover in 1977: "If his aim is so true why would this guy adopt such a bogus name and dress in that get-up?". Turn over the jacket and he too looks as if he's not convinced. It's almost apologetic. It didn't help for this observer that another Brit named Graham Parker had already released Howlin' Wind, which had a superficially similar vibe (unknown at the time that Nick Lowe produced both).

Lowest priced Rega ever ARLINGTON, Texas - Oct. 12, 2026 — The Sound Organisation is excited to announce Rega Research’s newest offering Replay, an entirely new turntable designed to bring the company's celebrated approach to analog playback to a broader audience. Priced at just $395 MSRP, Replay represents a new entry point into Rega’s award-winning turntable range, offering the performance and engineering principles that have defined the British manufacturer's turntables for decades.

definitely not a "someone hung a microphone from the ceiling over the drummer's head and somewhere back there you can hear Cecil Taylor!" recording The short story told here, (a longer one in the accompanying booklet is almost as good as the recording) is that in 1979 the free jazz, avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor's group performed at Albuquerque's KiMo Theater Tuesday evening November 20th. Taylor's gig there came between one by Anthony Braxton and another by Sam Rivers also recorded.

Zikra’s amplifier and preamplifiers show that something is not rotten in Denmark but ravishingly beautiful For the past 27 years, Warsaw's Audio Video Show has been steadily growing in popularity and size. Last year, I started hearing reports from Michael Fremer as well as veteran European distributor Ricardo Franassovicci, the founder and managing director of Absolute Sounds, about an unusual product that they had heard in several rooms at the 2025 Warsaw show.

Deutsche Grammophon produces a masterful reissue of two longtime friends early into their careers When I was a 20-year-old student at the Manhattan School of Music, I played in a production of Offenbach’s comic opera Orpheus in the Underworld. In order to fit in the small black box theater, the orchestra for this production was greatly reduced and featured a small, chamber-sized string section.

After 27 years and 12 albums, Sweden's Dungen release their most accomplished record yet. The band Dungen (pronounced “doon-yen”, and Swedish for “The Grove”) have not yet received the credit they deserve for helping advance the vocabulary of 21st-century popular music.

A conceptual tale from rock ‘n’ roll’s ultimate villain comes back to life via Rhino Reserve The mid-70s were a victory lap for Alice Cooper. After fronting the band of the same name with his high school buddies for years and delving into audience-taunting theatrics, the shock-rock king took the daring risk of striking out on his own for better or worse.

Malachi review soon but for now, in case you've not heard I thought by now fans of this record and especially of the Vinylphyle reissue, supposedly of the "Closet Mix", know what happened but emails keep coming. What happened and the fix has been posted on the udiscovermusic website. The fix is a most honorable solution.

refinements and a promise of greater reliability, a 3 year warranty and "in the field" service Audio Desk Systeme introduced its original cleaning machine in 2009. It was the first microprocessor-based automatic cleaning machine that cleaned and dried both sides automatically at the push of a button. It became extremely popular and then people started having problems. The pump that pushed the water into the cleaning chamber began failing and the machine was not openable outside of the factory.

the festival will be in Indianapolis, not Hope, AR (where the "Heritage" speakers are still manufactured) (Press release) INDIANAPOLIS, IN — October 8, 2026 —Klipsch is turning up the volume on 80 legendary years with KlipschFest 2026 Powered by Onkyo, opening the doors of its global headquarters in Indianapolis on November 6–7 for a free, two-day celebration offering unprecedented access to music lovers, audio enthusiasts, families, and the Indianapolis community.