This week only, we can <a href="http://soundcloud.com/subpop/beach-house-the-arrangement">stream new music</a> from Beach House. “The Arrangement” comes from the A side of Beach House’s “Zebra” 12-inch, made special for <a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home">Record Store Day</a> (this Saturday, April 17!).
<I>Photo:Jason Creps</I>
Longtime <i>Stereophile</i> contributor and well-respected child psychiatrist, Larry Greenhill, is a fan of Insane Clown Posse.
Comparisons to a young Bob Dylan are inevitable. There’s the same sort of defiance, the odd insouciance, the long lines of poetry squeezed out and hacked out and blown out like kisses, too. The guitar work is very good—scintillating at times and always passionately wrought—but it’s the voice that gets you. The voice—childlike but crotchety as hell, delicate but yearning, beautiful but completely wrong. The voice is what gets you. Kristian Matsson is The Tallest Man On Earth; he plays rock and roll, and plans to be forgotten when he’s gone.
Have you guys seen “Date Night,” the new comedy starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey? I’m thinking about going to check it out because: 1., Steve Carell is <a href="http://www.moviemaker.com/images/uploads/steve_carell_40_year_old_virgi…;; 2., Tina Fey is <a href="http://thezaz.nationallampoon.com/files/2009/12/tinafey_21313.jpg">hot<…;; 3., Parts of the film are set in my college town of Teaneck, NJ; and, 4., There are scenes featuring a hi-fi made up of Meridian’s DSP7200 Digital Active loudspeakers, Reference 800 DVD player, and G68 surround controller.
<B>London Concertante: <I>Piazzolla and Beyond</I></B><BR>
Works by Astor Piazzolla, David Gordon, Adam Summerhayes<BR>
London Concertante; Adam Summerhayes, dir.<BR>
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907491 (CD). 2009. Chris Grist, prod.; Matt Butler, eng. DDD. TT: 52:01<BR>
Performance ****<BR>
Sonics ****
As we transition from one format to another, some components hang on as our main source of music. What is the source component you use most in your home system?
I always enjoy CES. Like the Big Apple, or the City of Angels, the Consumer Elecronics Show is stimulatingly frenetic and enjoyably fatiguing—things that would soon put me in the funny farm if I lived with them year 'round, but can easily cope with twice a year. In fact, attending CES is rather like visiting the city of my birth, a place whose culture is one with my own because I grew up there, and where half the pleasure lies in seeing once again those audio people—the Allisons, Marantzes, Frieds, Beveridges, Haflers, and Tuckers—whose durability as friends always reminds me of how rapidly time passes and how little of it we may have left.
There is a pile of boxes in my office. Nothing unusual. Boxes are a fundamental aspect of our lives here at <i>Stereophile</i>, a fundamental aspect of the lives of most audiophiles, I imagine. Inside these boxes, however, there are no amplifiers, no loudspeakers, no turntables. These boxes hold the packaging materials for our Attention Screen release, <i><a href="http://www.stereophile.com/musicrecordings/907att/">Live at Merkin Hall</a></i>.
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