Robert Baird

So audiophiles are all effete snobs right?

Making a recording is always a personal journey—everyone has a story to tell. Jazz violinist Regina Carter's latest, Southern Comfort, is an eloquent musical expression of Carter tracing the roots of her paternal lineage back five generations. For the project's sound engineer, Joe Ferla, it's the final project of a engineering career, and the beginning point of his new life as a practicing musician. The entwining of these journeys gives the album's music and sound a rare honesty.

Although they were released twenty years ago, they are four albums possessed of a timeless beauty

A month ago, flying to South By Southwest 2014, the numbers on paper were grim.

On Saturday, April 12, John Atkinson and I fought our way through toll plazas, endless New Jersey traffic (is there any other kind?) and one really annoying traffic jam (but hey, it was only one!)

The vinyl reissue wave gets smarter by the day...

It’s a very scary and weird commentary on the state of the music business, that posthumous albums have now become a booming category.