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One of the more under-the-radar releases that I didn’t see or hear many people talking about pre-Record Store Day 2025...

AXPONA is back, and bigger and better than ever. People packed Chicagoland’s Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center’s rooms and...

Welcome welcome welcome to Part 3 of my AXPONA: First Impressions series. Considering how odd and wonky the weather has...

Welcome back to Part 2 of my AXPONA: First Impressions series. Today’s as-I-write-it soundtrack was quite symmetrical. Since I missed...

It seems like only yesterday we were at AXPONA 2025 — well, actually, it was exactly yesterday, April 13, 2025,...

If there’s one product category I want to see in droves at AXPONA, it’s gotta be turntables. Luckily, I got...

We’re a day away from wheels-up to AXPONA, but as I noted in my show primer here yesterday, I wanted...

As we get ready to head off to AXPONA in just a day’s time, we wanted to post a macro-level...

Before we turn our posting attention to covering AXPONA the rest of this week, AP editor Mike Mettler wanted me...

Manhattan’s All Blues played host to Zev Feldman’s traveling Record Store Day (RSD) cavalcade this past Wednesday, April 2, 2025....

Worth the wait! We’re happy to report that Venus and Mars — Wings’ May 1975 arena-rocking, No. 1-charting, platinum-selling smash-hit...

The Dr. Feickert Analogue Volare 25 25th Anniversary Limited Edition turntable — a.k.a. the Volare 25 — was designed and...

I thought I was safe this time, but I should have known better. When my iPhone rang at exactly midnight...

Nagra knows all about recording — and Nagra knows phono too. The venerable Swiss manufacturer, initially known for making top-shelf...

One Little Victor, He: Alex Lifeson, out of the weeds and into the breach again, this time on the inner...

In September 1997, Buena Vista Social Club, an album of inspired Cuban music was released by Nonesuch to near universal...

We haven’t looked in on Vertere for a while since we saw their RG-1 and MG-1 MKII turntables firsthand at...

I have a lot of jazz records. Too many jazz records. Thousands of jazz records. What to do with them...

In my latest Short Cuts review roundup, I’m catching up on some fun rockin’ albums from artists past and present,...

How many times do we just “make do” in the moment when it comes to handling some of the finer...

Lightness, Lightness: Above, giving flowers to Jesse Colin Young, while leaning into his inner sunshine. Photo courtesy JCY. Singer, songwriter,...

All hail the return of a classic cart! Or, as Ortofon puts it, “A classic, reimagined.” We’re talking about Ortofon’s...

Hello and welcome to Part 8 of my Florida International Audio Expo 2025 show report, which is the final installment...

At risk of sounding like a broken record, original blues vinyl pressings are cousins to jazz and soul LPs in...

Welcome to Part 7 of my Florida International Audio Expo 2025 show report. This time, I’m in the Palm Room...

I’m back with Part 6 of my Florida International Audio Expo 2025 show report, where I head into the Brandon...

It is always refreshing to share a truly good story about a person with a vision achieving bonafide success in...

Hello and welcome to Part 5 of my Florida International Audio Expo 2025 show report. This time around, I got...

Welcome to Part 4 of my Florida International Audio Expo 2025 show report! If you’re a fan of reel-to-reel tape...

When I originally received Supertramp’s 2LP live set Paris as a birthday gift in mid-October 1980 — just a few...

Hello and welcome to Part 3 of my Florida International Audio Expo 2025 show report! This is the point in...

Welcome back to Part 2 of my Florida International Audio Expo 2025 show report! Let’s get right back into it...

Now that you’ve seen my colleague Ken Micallef’s turntable-centric video, it’s time to kick off my own Florida International Audio...

Live from this past weekend’s Florida International Audio Expo — a.k.a. FLAX — Ken Micallef shows us turntables, reel-to-reel players,...

As I await all the reports from this past weekend’s Florida International Audio Expo (a.k.a. FLAX) to come into AP...

Ok, let’s see here — current weather in Tampa, Florida: 65 degrees, and sunny. Current weather in certain pockets of...