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Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra LP Drops March 26th
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 17, 2021
The press release announcing this record out March 26th on Luaka Bop is more coy and less informative, though that will probably change closer to the release date. However, I have a test pressing sent by a friend. Chris Bellman cut lacquers, RTI pressed, I don't care the source
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Florida Expo 2022 Still "A Go" As of Today
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 26, 2021
Despite surging Covid Omicron cases, the organizers of Florida Audio Expo 2022 plan on holding the show February 2022. Here's the press release. By the way, there's a new variant called OmicronMQA. You get Covid, and it unfolds in your body smallpox and diptheria (rimshot).

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Florida International Audio Expo 2025 Is Officially Underway!
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 21, 2025

Ok, let’s see here — current weather in Tampa, Florida: 65 degrees, and sunny. Current weather in certain pockets of the East Coast: 23 degrees, with a chance of flurries. Hmm, where would you rather be? Looks like Tampa may win that bet, not just in terms of the weather, but also because the Florida International Audio Expo — a.k.a. FLAX — has officially gotten underway there today, February 21, 2025, and runs through Sunday, February 23, 2025. Some early, direct-from-FLAX notes follow forthwith. . .

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FMU Record Fair This Weekend Now in Brooklyn, NY
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 30, 2015
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For Cream Fans 4 Complete U.K. & U.S. 1969 Concerts Including Final Royal Albert Hall Show
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 03, 2020
UMe will release on March 6th, 2020 a 4 CD live box set containing on 4 CDs 4 complete UK and US 1968 Cream concerts, including 19 previously unreleased tracks that include the final ever Royal Albert Hall concert—all recorded during Cream's "Farewell Tour".

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For Lovers of Recorded Music and its History, "American Epic" Is Must See PBS TV
Michael Fremer  |  May 10, 2017
Last year while in Los Angeles I was invited to a cramped Culver City editing studio where I got to see extraordinary footage of a then unfinished sprawling documentary series called "American Epic" subtitled "The First Time America Heard Itself" presented by T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford and Jack White.

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Forget "The Donald", "Keef" Tells It Like It Is!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 16, 2015
Watch this recent interview with Keith Richards conducted by the BBC's Andrew Marr:

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Frank Kimbrough Interprets Andew Hill's "Laverne"
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 26, 2016
With permission, here's a transcription of Frank Kimbrough gh and group covering Andrew Hill's "Laverne" from Newvelle Records' first vinyl release, part of its subscription series of original jazz recordings available only on vinyl.

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Frank Ocean Drops Two Limited Edition 7” Singles of New Music
Malachi Lui  |  Oct 20, 2019
Following a year of selective magazine interviews and the recent opening of a VIP 80s retro nightclub, musical genius Frank Ocean is finally back with new music. In addition to returning today to his Beats1 Blonded radio show to premiere a new song “DHL,” Frank also posted preorders on his website for two 7” singles of new music.
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Frank Zappa's Surrealistic Documentary and Soundtrack 200 Motels Gets Multi-Format 50th Anniversary Treatment
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 24, 2021
Los Angeles – September 24, 2021 – Released in October 1971, Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels” was a miraculous feat, a cinematic collision of the venerated musician and composer’s kaleidoscopic musical and visual worlds that brought together Zappa and his band, The Mothers, Ringo Starr as Zappa – as “a large dwarf” – Keith Moon as a perverted nun, Pamela Des Barres in her acting debut, noted thespian Theodore Bikel, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and an incredible assortment of characters (both on screen and off) for a “surrealistic documentary” about the bizarre life of a touring musician.
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FRANK ZAPPA’S FINAL AMERICAN SHOW, ZAPPA ’88: THE LAST U.S. SHOW  OUT NOW VIA ZAPPA RECORDS/UMe
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 23, 2021
LIVE CONCERT ALBUM ALSO INCLUDES PERFORMANCES FROM ADDITIONAL SHOWS FROM THE ’88 TOUR AND FIRST OFFICIAL RELEASE OF “THE BEATLES MEDLEY”
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Frank Zappa’s Seminal Over-Nite Sensation Basks in 50th Anniversary Vinyl Ooze Via Separate 180g 45rpm 2LP and Limited-Edition 180g 3LP Editions From Zappa/UMe on November 3
Mike Mettler  |  Aug 24, 2023

For those of you who have a penchant for listening to visceral, tall-in-the-saddle sonic tales recounting the finer points of dental floss farming, mindless video drones, and poncho-wearing lotharios, then we have an important release announcement for you. Namely, Frank Zappa’s seminal September 1973 LP Over-Nite Sensation is getting a proper 50th anniversary deluxe reissue treatment via a pair of vinyl options — a 180g 45rpm 2LP set, and a limited-edition splatter-vinyl 180g 3LP edition — both via Zappa Records/UMe on November 3. Read on to see all the mennil-toss flykune-approved ONS 50 pressing stats and sugar-plum tracks accordingly. . .

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From Teen Icon To Heart of Darkness, Scott Walker RIP
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 27, 2019
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Full Service Web Site
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 31, 2003

MusicAngle.com begins building Full Service Web Site Thanks to strong support from both readers and advertisers, MusicAngle.com\\\'s site upgrade has been bumped up from the second quarter of 2003 to immediately.

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Furnace Manufacturing Builds New 16 Press Pressing and Packaging Plant
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 20, 2017
That new record you just unboxed probably came shrink-wrapped or in a perforated sealed bag. Maybe it has a sticker or two on it or it's a numbered limited edition. Watch how all of this happens in this just produced video shot at Furnace Manufacturing with founder Eric Astor. And then go to Furnace's brand new, soon to be operational vinyl pressing plant that will also incorporate the packaging facility, which has outgrown its current location. Furnace began in the 1990s as a production and packaging agent for indie and major labels—perhaps you’re unsure about what that exactly means. After watching the video you will—and perhaps you'll come to appreciate an LP production cost you've not before considered.

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