Stephen Mejias

Yesterday's New York Post ran a">http://www.nypost.com/seven/04272009/business/best_buy_turning_the_tabl… brief story on Best Buy's decision to stock vinyl LPs.

I hope all you dudes are enjoying the same sort of sweaty sweet record-breaking weather we're experiencing here in NYC this week (until tomorrow when it gets cold again).

We've been talking about this in">http://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=66177&an=0… the forum, but I think it's worth posting here, too. Jonathan">http://www.scullcommunications.com/">Jonathan Scull sent out this video yesterday, in an e-mail that read:

At around this time last week, John Atkinson and I left the office and headed out to Bay Ridge to pack up the large and lovely Revel">http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/608revel/index.html">Revel Ultima Salon2, voted our "Joint">http://www.stereophile.com/features/1208poty/index1.html">Joint Loudspeaker of the Year" for 2008 and a speaker that JA absolutely adores. He selected it as his overall product of the year:

I really don't know anything about the Flying Burrito Bros. I know that Gram Parsons was in the band, and that makes them cool. Michelle, the first girl I ever loved, wore a Flying Burrito Brothers t-shirt (baby blue with a metallic gold logo, purchased from some old train station thrift shop in Hackensack-ack-ack-ack-ack), but she was from San Francisco and talked about Haight-Ashbury and rearranged her furniture twice a week and received phone calls from Pauline Oliveros and Marian Zazeela (in her dorm room!), and I figured the t-shirt was just another one of her crazy things. It was only much later, after she had shaved her head and had her name legally changed to Maya Moksha, that I realized Michelle was way cooler (and crazier) than I'd ever understand.

Under the soft blue light: Grails' most awesome Interpretations of Three Psychedelic Rock Songs from around the World goes for the ride of its life on the massive SME 20/12 turntable.

Grails' Interpretations of Three Psychedelic Rock Songs from around the World, part of Southern Records' incredibly dope, limited-edition Latitudeshttp://www.southern.com/southern/label/LTT/">Latitudes; series, was a gift from Michael Lavorgna. Note the radical etching of the white vinyl. Only 700 copies are/were available.