Daft Punks
Digital sales rep, Jon Banner, just shared with me this bit of beautiful brilliance.
Stephen Mejias
While My JVC Vibrates the Concrete
Lyle Owerko likes boomboxes.
The Good News Is
Last week, we moved—from the sixth floor of 261 Madison Avenue to the fifth floor of 261 Madison Avenue. The good news is abundant:
Sonny & Linda Sharrock: Paradise
One of the records we listened to at">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/at_the_monkeyhaus/">at the Monkeyhaus last week was Sonny & Linda Sharrock's Paradise—a powerfully uplifting record, in my opinion. Sonny Sharrock, however, did not feel the same. In a 1989 interview with WKCR's Ben Ratliff, Sonny dismissed Paradise as being "not a good album," and attributed the album's failure to his own incompetence as a bandleader.
Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
Hello Jon.
I hope you had a great weekend.
I hope you had a great weekend.
Rhapsody Remastered and Revitalized
Did you know that we recently remastered our Rhapsody? The album is a tribute to George Gershwin, conducted by pianist Hyperion Knight, and it's good, good fun on the hi-fi.
The KEF Blade
At last year's http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2008/010908future/ ">Consumer Electronics Show and http://blog.stereophile.com/fsi2008/040408muon/ ">Festival Son & Image, British loudspeaker manufacturer KEF caught a lot of eyes and ears with their shimmering, $140,000/pair Muon. Now the company has unveiled the Blade, an artful, sleek, stealthy looking thing, poised to draw similar attention.
Rather Ripped
Audiophiles and music lovers may be interested in Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music, the new book from music critic and Sound">http://soundopinions.org/">Sound Opinions cohost Greg Kot. The book is being billed as "the first definitive account of the digital music revolution," and takes an appreciative look at a world in which peer-to-peer file sharing and CD burning are commonplace tools. It can be argued that such technologies are not only blessings for independent musicians looking to gain wider audiences, but also gifts to the music lover who cannot get enough.
Landslide
Intern Ariel Bitran sent this around the office today, in an e-mail titled "Crying in My Cubicle."
Desire, Passion, Hunger (Duh)
Fans of Shindo's gorgeous green and gold tube amplifiers will be excited to know that the Japanese manufacturer has just introduced (or re-introduced, I'm not sure) a new (or re-new, as the case may be) integrated amplifier.