Elvis and His New Boxed Set
When an artist recommends stealing rather than buying their latest deluxe, boxed set, you can bet they’re not happy campers. But since Elvis Costello has made a career out of being disgruntled, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised…
The Disc That Finally Put My DVD-HD Player to Rest
Steven Stone holds on to old technologies. He still has Beta and VHS video-cassette recorders, PCM, DAT, tape cassette and even a pair of Revox reel-to-real recorders, but with the latest BluRay release of Cream’s 2005 Royal Albert Hall concert, it’s finally time to put the Toshiba DVD-HD players into mothballs…
Quantifying Ecstasy
Can the subjective audio experience be quantified? Dr. Charles Zellig and Jay Clawson believe that it can. I’m withholding judgment until I’ve read all four installments of their articles.
The Compass Points Up
Another Friday, another music review. I’ve written that labels don’t matter in the new world order of Internet distribution, but there’s always an exception to the rule. Compass Records makes consistently great-sounding acoustic music that deserves a place in any acoustic music lover’s collection.
Five Reasons Not to Use Subwoofers (and why they are wrong)
Subwoofers. Sure, they can sound awful. But just because they CAN sound badly (and disturb the neighbors in the process) is no reason to avoid them. A well set-up subwoofer can make a system sing and kick out the jams…
Johnny Cash – Love, God, and Murder – Three CD Box
Johnny Cash. Few musicians have had as much influence on country, roots, and acoustic music as Johnny Cash. Unfortunately during his long career Cash recorded and released as many awful albums as good ones. Love, God and Murder has both.
Newport Folk Festival-Best of Bluegrass 1959 – 1966 and Newport Folk Festival-Best of the Blues 1959 – 1968
It’s Friday. Time for a review of what Steven Stone considers an essential recording for anyone into Roots, Folk, Blues, Bluegrass, and Americana. The Newport festivals were the models for all the festivals that followed…
