It's Alive!
It's an Angry World
Stereogumhttp://stereogum.com/507781/neil-young-angry-world-video-stereogum-prem…; premiered the video for Neil Young’s “Angry World” from his upcoming solo album, Le Noise.
It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp
John Atkinson just sent out a very strange e-mail:
It's Spring Again
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It's the Song I Hate
On Sonic Youth's 1992 album, Dirty, there is a song called "Youth Against Fascism," in which Thurston Moore lists a series of difficult political themes (racial violence, a poor economy, a lousy president, etc.) and follows each item with the refrain:
Itsy-Bitsy Little Hole
See that itsy-bitsy little hole way at the back of the speaker? Properly installing the replacement drive-unit meant lining up that itsy-bitsy little hole with the tapered end of the transmission line and locking it in place with a hex screw. So easy, a caveman could do it.
J. Gordon Holt
In 1962, J. Gordon Holt started a magazine based on the simple, beautiful idea that the quality of an audio component should be measured, first and foremost, by how it sounds. That magazine, of course, was Stereophile.
J. Gordon Holt and Richard Dyer-Bennet
Stereophile's founder, J">http://www.stereophile.com/historical/66/index.html">J. Gordon Holt, who passed away in July, was also a recording engineer. Here we see one of his projects, a rare 1958 LP of British-born American folk singer, Richard Dyer-Bennet, the "twentieth-century minstrel."
JA Sings at the 18th Annual LAOCAS Gala
Clearly, my boss, Stereophile’s esteemed editor, John Atkinson, lost another bet.
Here we see him singing, furiously, at the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society’s 18th Annual Society Gala and Awards Banquet, held last weekend in the Grand Ballroom of the Buena Park Holiday Inn. He really hits his stride at about 40 seconds in. (Thanks to "The Audio Otaku" for capturing the magic.)
Jack White's Triple Decker Record
When I initially read about the Triple Decker Record on">http://pitchfork.com/news/40051-jack-white-invents-a-new-type-of-vinyl-… Pitchfork.com, I thought to myself, “Maaaaan, that’s stupid.”