White
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Stephen Mejias
Fashionable Records
The lovely, fashionable, and hell-raising Coral, dressed to kill and with all of today's hottest accessories.
Nasty Air Guitar
John DeVore designs loudspeakers and plays a nasty air guitar.
At the Monkeyhaus
The quiet evenings leading up to a DeVore Fidelity Monkeyhaus event are passed by searching through your record collection for the perfect LPs. Every attendee will offer their own ideas of interesting and exciting music, and you will not be outdone by some other audiophile. You decide to bring one of your 2009 R2D4 selections, Lo Dice Todo by Grupo Folklorico y Experimental Nuevayorquino; Richard Hayman's Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine, not only for the persuasive content but also for the outstanding album art; and El Guincho's Alagranza! because you're pretty certain it'll shock and impress the crowd.
Josh Bizar's Secret Record Cleaning Method
During a recent e-mail exchange with Music">http://www.musicdirect.com">Music Direct's Josh Bizar, the topic turned to record cleaning. Josh shared with me his "Secret Record Cleaning Method."
Dreaming of Cleaning
If you visit our News">http://www.stereophile.com/news/">News Desk, you'll find my announcement of Michael Fremer's latest DVD, It's">http://www.stereophile.com/news/itsa_vinyl_world_after_alli/">It's A Vinyl World, After All. While Michael offers an entertaining look into the world of vinyl manufacturing and provides tons of valuable information on record collecting, handling, cleaning, and storage, I did have one minor criticism:
"Happiness won't leave me alone," says the bird in his nest.
I have a little space heater that I keep in my kitchen because the kitchen is where it's coldest. The wind whips against our old apartment building and rattles the old windows and sets the sparrows and the starlings fluttering into my thin walls where they've made their nests. If there was ever any insulation in those thin walls, it must be long gone.
Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine
This album was obviously named after me.
Darkness on the Edge of Town
It's a very tough call, but Darkness may be my favorite Springsteen album. See him there, looking so damn ready to prove it all night.
Elvis
I purchased this album, simply titled Elvis, at the ARChive of Contemporary Music's winter record fair. This album immediately followed his RCA Victor debut, Elvis Presley. Both were released in 1957 and both went gold. By the end of the year, I suppose he was so successful that a single name was enough. My copy is a 50th anniversary reissue special.