Best Coast's full-length debut, Crazy For You, will be released by the awesome Mexican Summer label on July 27th. (That's just a few days away!)
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Maria Schneider’s Jazz Orchestra plays at Birdland in midtown Manhattan this week, an unusual season and setting (usually they play at the Jazz Standard around Thanksgiving). The occasion is the premiere of a new, commissioned composition, and at Wednesday’s early set, it sounded as lovely as anything she’s written: joyful, melancholic, adventurous, pensive, with a samba swing.
She devoted much of the rest of the set to very early pieces, including an upbeat number she wrote for the (now-defunct) Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and an arrangement of the ballad standard “My Ideal” that she said…
On Friday, John Atkinson and I visited the lovely home of WIRC Media’s Micah Sheveloff, press representative for Thiel and Bryston.
I first met Micah in January 2005 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. You can read about that experience here. It was my first time in Vegas, my first time attending a CES, and my first-ever press demo. Jim Thiel was discussing his CS3.7. All at once, and just off a plane, I was being introduced to Jim Thiel, Kathy Gornik, and the latest iteration of a classic loudspeaker design. Jim Thiel was vibrating with an incredible kind of…
Photo: David Black
Last Night, in Other Music, I held out my copy of Best Coast’s Crazy For You, and I smiled at Karen and, because I needed to say something, I said, “I’ve been looking forward to this one.”
She lit up like a firefly, like a summer moon, like a pretty girl in love with a song, and she said:
“Oh yeah…yeah. It’s so…it’s so…high.”
She raised one hand up to her head.
“It’s like way up here. But then…”
She lowered her hand to her waist.
“It’s down here, too.”
What the hell was she talking about? I had no idea. I…
Last night, after leaving Other Music, orange bag in my hand, I stopped in front of In Living Stereo and gazed dreamily at the window display: A pair of DeVore Fidelity Gibbon 3s (just like home!), a Rega P3 (just like home!), and a…
Leben CS300 integrated amplifier? What is this beautiful thing? It’s got big silver knobs and little black switches and a gold faceplate and wood side panels and green trim and it uses four EL84 tubes and it’s “A Motion Sound,” whatever that means, and its dimensions are entirely adorable and I want it! I want it now, I want it.
A…
Will you be in or around Baltimore tomorrow night? Will you be in the mood for music, hi-fi, and wine? If so, this looks fun:
Thursday, July 29, 6–8pm: Join musicians from the world-renowned Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Gramophone’s Timonium Showroom for Music Matters: interludes of music and intimate conversation amid fine wine, hors d’oeuvres and state-of-the-art audio systems. Space is limited for this FREE event, so reserve today.
In addition, representatives from Meridian will be on hand for the US premier of two new products. The Gramophone Timonium Showroom…
When Sound + Vision splashed Tom Petty’s still remarkably vital mug across a recent cover it caught my attention. Inside, across 12 pages, they basically anointed his new record Mojo, as disc of the year. So Petty’s blues record, one that was a long time comin’, is the best album of 2010? No offense to Mike Mettler and Ken Richardson, both of whom I consider friends, but the whole thing seemed like a stretch to me.
Last weekend, I went to see the bluesman Tom Petty for myself at an outdoor shed in Pittsburgh. I was accompanied by my nephew who’d never been to a rock concert before…
August is here, which means it’s time for The Cable Company’s Annual “Summer Against Hunger” fundraiser. This marks the 15th year that The Cable Company collaborates with CARE, a leading humanitarian effort battling global poverty, with a dollar for dollar donation on purchases of sponsored products in the month of August.
The Cable Company donates a percentage of sales which are matched by sponsoring manufacturers. The 1:1 minimum donation is guaranteed by the generous participation of an anonymous audiophile donor, who is providing a funding match for total Cable Company, plus…
Well, all the cool kids are going to want one of these. Rega strikes back with their new RP-1 turntable.
For now, all I know is what you know. Click here for the pretty pictures, a nice new logo, and a list of appetizing features.
But I'll tell you this:
Rega's new RP-1 turntable might just be the perfect source for Stereophile's new monthly column, "The Entry Level." But, we'll see about that.