Stephen Mejias

You don’t have to wear a thin mustache and skinny jeans to rock the new Betty Davis t-shirt from American">http://store.americanapparel.net/6401vbty.html">American Apparel. (Really, I promise.) The t-shirt comes from a partnership between the hip fashion outlet and Anthology">http://anthologyrecordings.com/newspost.asp?blogid=140">Anthology Recordings, an all-digital reissue label devoted to rare and out-of-print music from around the world. For $27, you also get a digital compilation, curated by Anthology, featuring tracks from Betty Davis, Karen Dalton, Father Yod, Telegraph Avenue, Shoes, and other obscure, forgotten artists.

Chris Vogel of the Space Coast Audio Society is excited. He believes he has developed a “dramatic improvement” for treating deleterious, devilish static&#151not only on compact discs, but in compact disc players and even integrated amplifiers.

Hey, have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a Stereophile staffer? (I have.)

The December 2009 issue of Stereophile is now on newsstands. Our final issue of 2009 includes our annual “Products">http://www.stereophile.com/features/1208poty/index9.html">Products of the Year” feature. People love this feature. We’re already receiving fun complaints from manufacturers whose products are not pictured in the article, complaints from readers because we only vote on products we’ve actually listened to, complaints from angry moms because we didn’t pick their children to play one of the lead roles in “A Christmas Carol.”

Well, here’s another great video from Grizzly Bear. The band is like a bottomless cup of creativity. How do they do it? Don’t they have record reviews to write? Don’t they have issues to ship to press?

This dude, Patrick">http://poptartssucktoasted.blogspot.com/2009/11/live-review-fucked-up-b… Duffy, does a good job of detailing last night’s Fucked Up show at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in charming Fort Greene. On a tree-lined, brownstoned block, in an old and ornate shrine, Fucked Up, joined by New Jersey’s Vivian Girls on backing vocals and Andrew WK on synths, made a scene. I kept a safe distance from the anarchy, up in the urine-scented balcony, with the other parents.

Photo: Jayme Thornton