Anyone who has seen the Coen Brothers' film O Brother Where Art Thou? or has heard its popular soundtrack album is familiar with Lomax's work. Two of the films' music recordings were made by Lomax, including the work song "Po' Lazarus," recorded in 1959 during one of his many research tours of the American South. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades, Alan Lomax recorded and archived…
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Alan Lomax, the folklorist and musicologist whose work spurred the folk music revival of the 1950s and '60s, died on Friday, July 19 at a nursing home in Safety Harbor, FL. He was 87.
On May 26, N2K's JazzCentralStation launched the first officially sanctioned Miles Davis StarSite, MilesDavis.com. An all-star musical and multimedia tribute was held that evening at New York City's Birdland, hosted by Dr. Billy Taylor and recorded by Phil Ramone and Michael Cuscuna for a September release on N2K Encoded Music. May 26 would have been Davis' 72nd birthday.
Created by N2K's JazzCentralStation.com under the guidance and supervision of the Estate of Miles Davis, the site features biographical information; a multimedia timeline featuring photos and audio and video clips;…
Editor's Note: This is Part Five of a six-part series from reader Hervé Delétraz of Switzerland, who is chronicling the development of his DIY (do-it-yourself) audio amplifier. Part One of the series is here, Part Two is here, Part Three is here, and Part Four is here.
As you probably noticed in my last article, the finished amp case for this home-brew project is pretty huge and heavy; without components, it weighs about 25kg. I made a big case only for the prototype, however, as this would allow easy tuning and maintenance at any time. Because the first listening sessions have impressed…
It gets tougher every year to cover a show like the CES. Dropping in on most of the high-end audio rooms at the Alexis Park isn't so bad---the hard part is getting to all the various splinter exhibits scattered around Las Vegas within the allotted four days.
Apologies to all who expected but did not receive a visit from us (you know who you are). Our on-site reporting duties kept us running all day, every day, and prevented our seeing many displays. Stereophile's dauntless sleuths---Brian, Bonnie, Muse, Larry G., Shannon, Kal, Lonnie, Rick, Mikey, Sam, J10 & K10, TJN, WP, and JA---…
Is community radio at death's door? More than 1000 churches, schools and community organizations nationwide have applied for licenses to operate 10W-100W FM stations. Despite a strong grass-roots movement, and the support of Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard, the low-power radio (LPFM) movement is about to be buried by the combined weight of the National Association of Broadcasters, National Public Radio, and their many friends in the US Congress.
Little noted by mainstream media during the election season, the move to license low-power stations has been stalled in…
US lawmakers have honored their promise to address a languishing small-webcaster royalty bill that was put on hold prior to the fall elections.
On November 14 and 15, the Senate and House of Representatives approved legislation that will let copyright holders and small webcasters negotiate royalty rates for recordings played over the Internet. President Bush should sign the bill into law soon.
Specifically written to allow small webcasters to negotiate rates different from those to be paid by large commercial broadcasters, the bill was heralded by the Digital Media Association (DMA)…
The Comdex trade show, taking place this week in Las Vegas, is flushing out scores of convergence consumer electronics products, in addition to the more traditional computer fare. Apogee Technology, formerly Apogee Acoustics, a name familiar to many Stereophile readers, is among the dozens of companies announcing technology for the modern consumer electronics marketplace.
Most audiophiles will remember the company for its exotic-looking ribbon loudspeakers, which held listeners' attention for roughly ten years, until the company folded the line in 1995. Recently, fans of the company's…
Klein Technology Group and Adcom have announced an agreement for the sale of Adcom's consumer electronics business to Klein, according to a press release issued January 8, during the Consumer Electronics Show. The effective date of the merger will be February 15.
The merger is the outcome of a sustained partnership between the two companies. "The principals of Adcom and Klein Technology have worked closely over the last year on several exciting yet to-be-released products," Adcom president Alec Chanin stated. "As a result, we are confident that our distribution partners and consumers…
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. This is especially true for music lovers who have begun to fear that record companies purposely corrupt the data on audio CDs in an effort to restrict their use as a source for copies or MP3 files.
Unfortunately, those fears are coming true: Last week, Midbar, the developer of Cactus Data Shield digital-music-use restriction technology, announced that more than 10 million Cactus Data Shield "copy controlled and revenue generating CDs" have been released in the US and Europe by major labels to date.
Midbar reports…
Do high-end cables make an audible difference? Or are they cosmetic enhancements, like fancy wheels on high-performance cars? The New York Times, the nation's foremost newspaper, took up the issue in a December 23 piece in "Circuits," its weekly technology section.
Titled "A Spat Among Audiophiles Over High-End Speaker Wire," the story, by Times reporter Roy Furchgott, quotes National Symphony Orchestra musician and former Stereophile reviewer and musician-in-residence Lewis Lipnick as saying that anyone who can't hear the difference between cables must have "cloth ears." Lipnick prefers a…