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Where do you buy your used vinyl? Yard sales, record shops, eBay? While I’ve done all of the above, my favorite place to buy used vinyl is Discogs.

All-Star indeed as the panel doing the discussing includes saxophonists Archie Shepp(!!), Lakecia Benjamin, Shabaka Hutchings, and Melissa Aldana moderated by Ashley Kahn, author of two books on Coltrane, and Greg Tate, the Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies.

Where we buy our music determines the music we buy. Even when buying from that giant retailer in the sky, the selection is limited. There’s simply no such thing as a place where you can find everything. This is another internet myth.

Standing in stark and lovely contrast to Spotify, Bandcamp continues to give back to the music community. Today, as they’ve done in the past, Bandcamp is waiving their revenue share so the artists get more money during these troubled times.

There’s not much I can find to like about Daniel Ek. The more he speaks, the less I think of him.

There’s nothing I enjoy more about hifi than discovering new music.

Perhaps contrary to popular belief, retirement fromhifi does mean retirement from music. Here are twenty of my favorite records from this year. Enjoy!

Grinderman fans rejoice! From Nick Cave’s blog July 2019:

Lana Del Ray Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Björk’s nine studio albums are now available as Colored Cassettes. Yeow!

I am continually stunned by FKA twigs. Her recent cinematic video for “Cellophane” is beyond beautiful both visually and musically. Now we have a paired down performance that seems to suggest her talent knows no bounds.

I have a confession to make.

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band created a double LP of pure Magic with their 1969 release Trout Mask Replica. By my estimation, it is one of my favorite records. But don’t just take my word for it.

While we’re talking cinematic songs, ahead of his new album Flamagra, Flying Lotus has released a few singles/videos, the first, “Fire Is Coming”, features David Lynch as the William Burroughs surrogate for the odd man with a distinctive voice.