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Daniel Ek, Spotify’s CEO, Doubles Down On Greed
There’s not much I can find to like about Daniel Ek. The more he speaks, the less I think of him.
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Album of the Week: Waxahatchee
Perhaps more than any other record so far this year, Waxahatchee’s Saint Cloud has taken up permanent residence in my mind’s ear.
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Album of the Week: Juliana Barwick
She had me at Healing Is A Miracle.
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A Favorite Music Resource: Kevin Richard Martin
There’s nothing I enjoy more about hifi than discovering new music.
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Album of the Week: Phoebe Bridgers
There are times when I find myself listening to and silently singing a new album over and over and the more I do, the deeper and richer it gets (much to my delight). This is exactly the case with Phoebe Bridgers sophomore record, Punisher.
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Michael Lavorgna’s Favorite Albums of 2019
Perhaps contrary to popular belief, retirement fromhifi does mean retirement from music. Here are twenty of my favorite records from this year. Enjoy!
Classic Albums
Classic Albums: DUETS 1992 by Bill Dixon & Cecil Taylor
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.
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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 the LPs I love mostest, I put together this stream-of-consciousness […]
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Pre-Order Begins Tomorrow
Lana Del Ray Norman Fucking Rockwell!
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Classic Albums: Le Temps restitué by Jean Barraqué
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 fact that I didn’t know much, or anything, about it. […]