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Tony Perrottet tells us that Spike Jones was closer to being right than we suspected.
There are many nights when being a music writer comes down to the whining about the stark question: why am I dragging my ass out on the town again? What reason do I really have to see this act? Or to see this act one more time?
I know, I know, boo hoo, free tickets for the poor wittle music writer who wants to stay home and watch bad TV. I'm aware this is a rarified problem that only a handful people can relate to but believe me there are times when getting up, or in my case staying in the naked city after work, waiting for an act to come on at 11 pm, can be a slog.
Last week in…
I was raised in Virginia, so for me, the perfect ham is a Smithfield-cured ham. I think I was 21 before I ever tasted that bland concoction sold at delis as "ham." It might be pork, but ham it am't.
Bill Wyman (no, not that one) calculates the sell-out factor for when musicians whore out—um, I mean, lease—their muse.
"Today's your lucky day," JA said.
"It is? Why's that?"
"Look at what I've got," he said, handing me a first bound copy of the 2008 Stereophile Buyer's Guide.
Ah, it's beautiful. It is always wonderful to hold in your hands the product of all those tedious e-mails, pages and pages of blinding proofs, countless spreadsheets, and long hours. The Buyer's Guide is done. I hope you'll find it valuable and entertaining. Besides all of the informative specs, compiled by out tireless intern Ariel Bitran, the Buyer's Guide also includes essays by Stereophile's…
Jeremy Clarkson rightly rogers the Volvo S80 SE Sport. This is auto reviewing as a contact sport.
The 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show is not far away. My press badge arrived in the mail yesterday—I am a Reporter/Writer!—and I booked my flight to Vegas today.
I’ll be departing from the cold east coast on a Sunday evening and leaving the dry desert on a Friday afternoon. See you there.
Speaking of fun, please be sure to visit the redesigned SonicFlare. I met SonicFlare's Josh Ray at CES a couple of years back and I was impressed by his enthusiasm and energy. The dude exists to share the magic of hi-fi. The updated SonicFlare offers entertaining and informative articles on how to make sense of measurements, how to pimp your system, and how to use your speakers to get laid. They've even come up with a new way of describing the various sonic characteristics of components and systems. The "Sonic Circle" breaks hi-fi down into three major categories (Precise, Emotional, and…
NPR has four of 'em up, including a good 'un by Neil Gaiman. All of them are 30 seconds long.