Stephen Mejias

This week only, we can stream">http://soundcloud.com/subpop/beach-house-the-arrangement">stream new music from Beach House. “The Arrangement” comes from the A side of Beach House’s “Zebra” 12-inch, made special for Record">http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home">Record Store Day (this Saturday, April 17!).

Longtime Stereophile 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&#151scintillating at times and always passionately wrought&#151but it’s the voice that gets you. The voice&#151childlike 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.

There is a pile of boxes in my office. Nothing unusual. Boxes are a fundamental aspect of our lives here at Stereophile, 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, Live">http://www.stereophile.com/musicrecordings/907att/">Live at Merkin Hall.

Photo: Karyn Haag

A gift from Uncle Art: Introduced">http://www.stereophile.com/phonocartridges/1207zu/">Introduced in 1962, the Denon DL-103 moving-coil cartridge ($229)&#151a music-lover’s friend, an audiophile classic, a man’s cartridge.

Two Wilson Sasha Puppies and two Wilson Sasha WATTs, wrapped up and nestled into a Land Cruiser, ready for the long drive from Art Dudley’s Cherry Valley farm to John Atkinson’s Bay Ridge castle.