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Neil Innes Gone Too Soon at 75
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 30, 2019  |  6 comments
Neil Innes, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band co-founder, Rutles member and writer of all of that group's hilarious Beatles parodies and Monty Python member/contributor died suddenly and unexpectedly Sunday night, December 29th. According to his family, he'd not been sick and the cause of his passing has of yet not been determined.

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Neil Young "Ditch Trilogy +" LP Box Set Coming For Black Friday RSD. This image is of a Counterfeit!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 26, 2014  |  26 comments
The Neil Young master tapes for this second box set were sitting in Chris Bellman's mastering suite last winter when I visited and interviewed Bernie Grundman about the Blue Note reissues, some of which were originally digitized at BGM Mastering and some of which were cut to lacquer by Chris.
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Neil Young Cultivates Harvest 50th Anniversary Box Set for December 2 Release That Houses Two 180g LPs and 1 EP, Including a Full Disc of Previously Unreleased Of-Era Live Tracks and Three Studio Outtakes
Mike Mettler  |  Nov 30, 2022  |  2 comments

A man needs to harvest a heart of gold, and Neil Young’s groundbreaking February 1972 album Harvest provides all the aural goods on wax to do just that. (Yes, I mashed up a few album titles there, but you get the point.) To wit: A new box set celebrating the 50th anniversary of Harvest is coming via Reprise on December 2 that will include the original album on one 180g LP, plus another LP comprised of an unreleased of-era live BBC solo performance, and a 7-inch EP with a trio of unreleased Harvest outtakes. Read on to find out what appears in this must-have box set. . .

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Neil Young's Annual Bridge School Benefit Concert To Stream October 26th Live On Line For First Time
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 24, 2013  |  6 comments
Neil Young's annual Bridge benefit concert streams for the first time on line live from the Shoreline Amphitheatre on October 26th.
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Neil Young's New Official Bootleg Series Debuts With Fabled 1970 Carnegie Hall Debut
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 20, 2021  |  12 comments
Shakey Pictures Records and Reprise Records announced today The Neil Young Official Bootleg Series, which will commence with an official release of Neil's legendary December 4th, 1970 Carnegie Hall debut show available now for pre-order at The Greedy Hand Store at Neil Young Archives. A bootlegged version of the later midnight show helped make the evening among Neil's most fabled appearances, but according to the press release the earlier show, not captured by bootleggers, was the better one.

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Neil Young's Upcoming Record Store Day 4 LP Box Set Produced From Master Tapes AAA (Now Delayed Until November)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 15, 2014  |  32 comments
Neil Young's previously announced 4 LP box set due to arrive on Record Store Day, April 19th will definitely be issued AAA from the original master tapes.
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Neil Young: Vinyl Resurgence is "nothing but a fashion statement"
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2015  |  119 comments
According to U.K. music paper NME, Neil Young claimed during a recent interview on Frame, a California radio show, that vinyl is "nothing but a fashion statement."

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Never Before Released Erroll Garner Recordings Coming From Octave Music and Mack Avenue Music Group
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 24, 2021  |  1 comments
The Erroll Garner Project in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh (where Octave Music in 2015 archived Garner’s physical assets) and in partnership with Mack Avenue Music Group celebrate what would have been Garner’s 100th birthday with three forthcoming vinyl releases due September 17th: Liberation in Swing: Centennial Collection is a Deluxe Limited Edition Box Set, Liberation in Swing: The Octave Records Story & Complete Symphony Hall Concert (Standard Edition Box Set) and Symphony Hall Concert (single 180g LP, CD and digital editions).

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New "Deluxe" and "Super Deluxe" Editions of The Who's "Tommy" Coming From Universal
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 22, 2013  |  13 comments
On November 12th Universal will release numerous versions of The Who's Tommy, including "Deluxe" as well as "Super Deluxe" editions as well as the original configuration on double 180g vinyl. The press release doesn't divulge the vinyl source, who mastered or who is pressing.

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New George Harrison Guitar Collection App Coming February 23rd
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 16, 2012  |  0 comments
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New Jimi Hendrix Album "Both Sides of the Sky" Just Released (All Analog)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 10, 2018  |  10 comments
March 9 – Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings have released Jimi Hendrix’s new album Both Sides of the Sky today on CD, digital, and as a numbered 180-gram audiophile vinyl 2 LP set. NPR Music recently declared, “No rock figure before or since could breathe fire like Hendrix does, on his beloved well-known albums and on the assortment that is Both Sides of the Sky.” For the occasion, director John Vondracek has created a music video for “Lover Man,” a single from the album.

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New Label Inner Groove Records Announces Their Inaugural 180g 1LP Reissue Is Lim Taylor’s Lost 1974 Funk/Soul Gem, You Hear Me Knocking
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 12, 2023  |  2 comments

We’re always happy to see when new vinyl-centric record labels crop up with a clear mission, and that leads us directly to the M.O. that’s fueling Inner Groove Records. The fledgling label’s inaugural release is a 180g 1LP reissue of Lim Taylor’s long lost 1974 funk/soul gem You Hear Me Knocking, an album that initially surfaced on Ray Charles’ custom Crossover Records imprint. Read on to see how you can secure your own copy of Knocking before this strictly limited-edition LP is gone, gone, gone. . .

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New Los Angeles Area Vinyl Mastering Facility Opens
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 27, 2017  |  1 comments
Elysian Masters today announced its new Los Angeles "vinyl lacquering studio".

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New ReVox Details Emerge!
Michael Fremer  |  May 11, 2016  |  33 comments
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New TW Acustic Raven Phono Preamplifier To Debut at RMAF 2014
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 24, 2014  |  4 comments
This is a sneak peak at the brand new TW Acustic Raven phono preamplifier designed and built by TW Acustic owner Thomas Woschnick.

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