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Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Stephen Mejias  |  Feb 11, 2011  |  13 comments
Mogwai’s latest album, the band’s seventh full-length studio release, due in stores next Tuesday, February 15th, is called Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. I just found out about this today. Stephanie Scola of KEF told me because she knows I like Mogwai. Thank you, Stephanie. My reaction to this news was simple and unambiguous: With a name like Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, the album had already earned my blind and stupid love. That’s right: Before ever even hearing this record, I knew that I was going to own it and I was going to love it. That’s the kind of guy I am. If you didn’t already know, now you know. Maybe this changes your opinion of me, but I don’t care.
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Clogs at Merkin Hall with Shara Worden and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Stephen Mejias  |  Feb 10, 2011  |  0 comments
Clogs in the snow. Photo: Tamara Bogolasky.

Saturday, March 12, 7:30pm: Clogs, Shara Worden, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus will perform at Merkin Concert Hall (129 West 67th Street, New York). The performance is part of Merkin’s inaugural Ecstatic Music Festival. Stereophile readers who have enjoyed John Atkinson’s 2007 recording, Attention Screen: Live at Merkin Hall (available here), will be familiar with the rich, inviting sound of the space.

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The Collect-i-Bowl Record Show
Stephen Mejias  |  Feb 10, 2011  |  0 comments
Sunday, February 27, 12-6pm: Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg) will host the Collect-i-Bowl Record Show.
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Share the Joy
Stephen Mejias  |  Feb 07, 2011  |  1 comments
Vivian Girls's third full-length release, Share the Joy, will be available on April 12th, but you can pre-order it now. Get the LP with a free MP3 download for just $14; or get the LP on limited-edition teal vinyl with a free MP3 download for just $16; or get the LP, free download, and “I Heard You Say” seven-inch for $18; or get all of that, plus a cool American Apparel t-shirt and Vivian Girls button for $36.

Can you guess which offer I selected?

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Kiss Each Other Clean
Stephen Mejias  |  Feb 02, 2011  |  10 comments
Kiss Each Other Clean, the latest album from Iron & Wine, was released on Tuesday, January 25.
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Marantz and David Garrett
Stephen Mejias  |  Feb 02, 2011  |  0 comments
Marantz America will sponsor German classical and rock violinist David Garrett through his 21-city tour of the United States. The tour unofficially opened with a “flash mob” performance at New York City’s Eataly restaurant.
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White Wilderness and Minitel
Stephen Mejias  |  Jan 31, 2011  |  0 comments
John Vanderslice’s seventh studio album, White Wilderness, marked by the enchanting, fluid maneuvers of the Magik*Magik Orchestra, was released last Tuesday. The entire album—nine twisting, coiling songs, spanning 31 minutes—was recorded in just three days, but sounds as purposeful and carefully conceived as a special gift.

Meanwhile, Vanderslice has another gift up his sleeve:

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Now On Newsstands: Stereophile, Vol.34 No.2
Stephen Mejias  |  Jan 28, 2011  |  16 comments
The February 2011 issue of Stereophile is now on newsstands. You want it, you need it, you love it. A quick look at what’s inside:
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Abner Jay: Last Ole Ministrel Man
Stephen Mejias  |  Jan 26, 2011  |  6 comments
Last night, I listened to Mississippi Records’s latest Abner Jay release, Last Ole Ministrel Man, a lovingly packaged 10”, three songs on each side, rawer than winter in New York City.
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Kompakt's Pop Ambient 2011
Stephen Mejias  |  Jan 20, 2011  |  5 comments
I’ve been listening to Kompakt’s excellent Pop Ambient 2011 compilation, which opens with ANBB’s arresting “Bernsteinzimmer” from their album, Mimikry, and ends with Thomas Fehlmann’s interpretation of Gustav Mahler’s magnificent Symphony No.1. This is heavy stuff, and it forms the perfect bridge from the chaos of Las Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show to the cold misery of mid-January in New York City. There’s warmth in this music, and it has a sort of transportational power. Meaning: It gets me the hell out of here.
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Something To Do with January
Stephen Mejias  |  Jan 04, 2011  |  3 comments
As we recover from our holiday parties and work through the darkness of the post-holiday blues, the March 2011 issue is moving, invisibly, to our friends at the pre-press and we prepare for the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in glitzy Las Vegas.
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Furutech's GTX Receptacles
Stephen Mejias  |  Jan 03, 2011  |  12 comments
Furutech's GTX receptacles are well built, seem made to last forever, look like serious business, and increase your hi-fi security.
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Bruce Springsteen: The Promise
Stephen Mejias  |  Dec 28, 2010  |  8 comments
Bruce Springsteen's The Promise is fascinating not only because of the high quality of each of its 21 "lost" tracks, but because of the way it bridges 1975's Born to Run and 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town.
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Now On Newsstands: Stereophile, Vol.34 No.1
Stephen Mejias  |  Dec 21, 2010  |  1 comments
The January 2011 issue of Stereophile is now on newsstands—a whole new year, a whole new volume of your favorite hi-fi magazine!
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What a Wonderful World: My Favorite Records of 2010
Stephen Mejias  |  Dec 17, 2010  |  9 comments
SM lists his favorite records of 2010: Every now and then, I hear people complaining about the lack of good, new music. I figure these people just aren’t paying attention, or they’re looking in the wrong places, because I have the opposite problem: I am overwhelmed by all the good music there is to explore.
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