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Michael Lavorgna’s Favorite Albums of 2019
Perhaps contrary to popular belief, retirement from hi-fi does mean retirement from music. Here are twenty of my favorite records from this year. Enjoy!
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Classic Albums
Classic Albums: Bill Dixon & Cecil Taylor, DUETS 1992
I transferred to Bennington College from the School of Visual Arts as a philosophy major, which lasted all of two weeks before I switched back to fine art.
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#NewMusicFriday: August 9, 2019
Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream.com columnist, will browse through the many exciting albums released that day and select 15 worth a closer listen.
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Album of the Week: Lingua Ignota
Raw power, sheer emotion, and frightening fury. These are some of the things that make Kristin Hayter as Lingua Ignota’s second album Caligula a force to be reckoned with.
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Nick Cave Hints at Grinderman 3
Grinderman fans rejoice! From Nick Cave’s blog July 2019:
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#NewMusicFriday: August 2, 2019
Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream.com columnist, will browse through the many exciting albums released that day and select 15 worth a closer listen.
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Album of the Week: Knife Wife
Sami Cola, Nico Castleman, and Ruby Parrish + guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. This is Knife Life, raw and simple.
Classic Albums
My 100 Favorite Albums (as of today)
Culling a list of 100 favorite albums could be seen as an arduous task. But it wasn’t. By combining a look at my digital library in Roon sorted by “Most Played” and my memory of […]
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Pre-Order Begins Tomorrow
Lana Del Ray Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Classic Albums
Classic Albums: Jean Barraqué, Le Temps restitué
Digging through the Contemporary Classical bins at the old Tower Records on Broadway in NYC was an endless source of mystery and magic. Sometimes, I would pick a recording based on nothing more than the […]
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#NewMusicFriday: July 26, 2019
Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream.com columnist, will browse through the many exciting albums released that day and select 15 worth a closer listen.
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Album of the Week: Vanessa Wagner
French classical pianist Vanessa Wagner’s latest record, Inland released on InFiné, presents a wonderfully diverse and charmingly off-kilter set of minimalist works for solo piano.