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Let No Good Deed Go Unpunished! Craft Announces "Small Batch" Alert Newsletter
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 09, 2022  |  45 comments
When Craft Recordings rolled out its exclusive "Small Batch" limited edition "One Step" series last year it thought it had done a good thing.

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Limited Edition Version of ABKCO's Rolling Stones Mono Box Set to Include 7" Singles Bundle
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 12, 2016  |  10 comments
ABKCO announced today a limited edition version of The Rolling Stones In Mono box set (15 CDs or 16 vinyl LPs) bundled with a set of nine extremely limited Rolling Stones 7” vinyl singles.

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Listen to Two Compositions From Jack DeJohnette's New Solo Piano LP
Michael Fremer  |  May 25, 2016  |  33 comments
The new subscription-based vinyl-only label Newvelle Records has given analogplanet.com permission to post this video with audio sourced from "Return" Jack DeJohnette's first solo piano record and the label's latest release.

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Listen Up! Music Matters Denver Event Video Posted on YouTube
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 25, 2014  |  9 comments
Last winter analogplanet.com editor Michael Fremer attended a Music Matters event at Denver's Listen Up! retailer. Retailers throughout the country hold these "meet and greet" events for their regular customers and to attract new ones to the store.

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Livestream Tomorrow, November 30th on YouTube: Chad Kassem Moderates the "Stereo Mikes"—Fremer and Esposito In a "Lively" Lacquer Discussion
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 29, 2021  |  45 comments
You axed for it: tomorrow, November 30th at 4 PM on YouTube, Acoustic Sounds' Chad Kassem will moderate a "lively" hopefully friendly and informative discussion with "The stereo Mikes" Fremer and "The In Groove"'s Esposito. The main subject will be our two videos regarding lacquer longevity and its appropriateness as a sellable format.

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Los Angeles "WAX" and Audio Salon Events This Weekend!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 22, 2015  |  12 comments
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Lou Reed Dead at 71: A Not Very Perfect Day
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 27, 2013  |  13 comments
Lou Reed died today. Not a good day.
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Lou Reed's Raw, Essential New York   Gets Rhino Deluxe Reissue Treatment
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 29, 2020  |  20 comments
Lou Reed's Sire Records debut New York first released in 1989 gets the deluxe Rhino treatment in a new box set scheduled for September 25th release. The original was a gold record-selling, Grammy nominated album with the memorable "Dirty Boulevard" a #1 hit on the Modern Rock charts.

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Lousville's Funhouse Records Adds 300,000 to the Store's Inventory
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 08, 2018  |  10 comments
Louisville’s Funhouse Records just acquired 300,000 plus records from a Texas based “junker”. Five years ago Funhouse owner Bill Barriger “had little interest in used vinyl records” according to Courier Journal reporter (and record collector and AnalogPlanet/Stereophile reader) Jeffrey Lee Puckett. (Photo: Michael Clevenger, Courier Journal).

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Luxman LMC-5 MC Is The Company's First New Cartridge In 40 Years
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 10, 2022  |  46 comments
Luxman today announced the introduction of the new LMC-5 moving coil the company's first new cartridge in 40 years.

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Lyn Stanley Recording March 4, 2014 At Avatar Studios in NYC With Legendary Recording Engineer Al Schmitt
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 04, 2014  |  4 comments
Chanteuse extraordinaire Lyn Stanley was at New York's Avatar Studios (formerly The Power Station) recording songs for her next album Potions, which will consist of '50s era covers. Most distinguished recording engineer/producer Al Schmitt was at the board and yes, the big Studer 24 track you see in the picture was rolling.

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M2tech Joplin A/D Converter Gets Mk2 Update (Revised 4/9/2015)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 07, 2015  |  5 comments
The M2tech Joplin, one of the A/D converters profiled in the recent A/D converter "shoot out" has had a "make over".

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Mack Avenue Music Group & Octave Music Partner With Vinyl Me, Please For Erroll Garner's Magician
Michael Fremer  |  May 20, 2020  |  5 comments
Mack Avenue Music Group and Octave Music are proud to announce a partnership with Vinyl Me, Please on Erroll Garner’s Magician as their May Classics Record of the Month. The record is also featured as the 11th release of the critically acclaimed year-long 12-album Octave Remastered Series featuring newly restored and expanded editions of classical Garner albums from the 1960s and ‘70s. Vinyl Me, Please’s package includes 180g black audiophile vinyl and an exclusive listening notes booklet by Ted Gioia.

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Mack Avenue Music Group Webstore Event Distributes 100% of Sales Directly to Artists
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 29, 2020  |  0 comments
Mack Avenue Music Group launches an all-sales-go-directly to-the artist event starting Thursday, April 30th, which is also International Jazz Day, running through May 3rd. Mack Avenue Senior Director of A&R Will Wakefield says, "Almost everyone I know—musicians, managers, venue owners and booking agents—are facing unemployment or worse for an unknown amount of time. We are keenly aware of what that means and wants to be there to help in whatever way we can and I think this is good start."

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Mack Avenue Records Issues Limited Edition 5 LP Oscar Peterson Tribute Set
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 25, 2020  |  4 comments
Oscar, With Love, was released as a 3 CD set in 2015 to observe the 90th birthday of jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson (1925-2007). To honor her late husband, Kelly Peterson assembled some of the most celebrated jazz artists in the world to perform and record on the luminary's prized personal piano, then released the recordings as a deluxe collector's edition shortly before the 10-year anniversary of the celebrated pianist’s passing. Now, a deluxe limited edition 5-LP 180-gram box set, re-sequenced for vinyl, is slated to be released on February 21 in a two-piece box with a 40-page booklet.

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