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Joe Ramsey

Saying goodbye to the founding member of Dread Zeppelin: a music lover, co-owner of Resistor Records and devoted family man by Sean Sprinkel It is not surprising that in times of loss we so often turn to song, both for comfort ...
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Audio
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The Oracle ReAnimated

It Doesn’t Have to Cost a Fortune to Upgrade Your Turntable By David Thomson Getting the best out of my vinyl is my goal. The better my system gets, more information is revealed or, since my recent Oracle Delphi turntable...
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Blues
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Michael Bloomfield

LEGACY RECORDS CELEBRATES THE LEGENDARY GUITARIST WITH FROM HIS HEAD TO HIS HEART TO HIS HANDS by Harvey Kubernik~ Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertain-ment for February will release From His Head To ...
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Features
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The Kinks in Mono

A just released vinyl box set contains the core Pye/Reprise By Harvey Kubernik The Kinks-The Mono Collection, the first 10 albums on vinyl by the Kinks in glorious mono is now out, via BMG, including the previously out of prin...
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Features
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T.H.E. Show Newport 2014

SHOW REPORT By Zach Galarza ~ Four years ago, a gentlemen by the name of Richard Beers started The Home Entertainment show in sunny Southern California. It has evolved into the best-attended high-end audio show in North America...
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Books
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We Still Got Power!

WE STILL GOT POWER!  1980s L.A. punkzine revived in new book by Michael Layne Heath David Markey is all kinds of Punk Rock on a West Coast OG level. His career as an independent filmmaker is a classic implementing of one of t...
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Documentary
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The Wrecking Crew

During the 1960s, a group of Los Angeles studio musicians, known as “The Wrecking Crew,” recorded hits for the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, Jan & Dean, The Monkees, Mamas and Papas, Tijuana ...
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Features
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The Bizarre World of Zappa

2019 Is The Year Of Frank Zappa With The Zappa Hologram Tour And The 40Th Anniversary Of Zappa In New York Frank Zappa’s live double album Zappa in New York is being celebrated with 40th anniversary releases...
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Features
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Tales of Vinyl from The Duke of Boyle Heights

MUSIC HISTORIAN GENE AGUILERA HAS BEEN CHAMPIONING THE MUSIC [AND BOXERS] OF EAST L.A. FOR OVER 40 YEARS by Harvey Kubernik Music historian, Gene Aguilera is an East Los Angeles native with a long and varied career working to c...
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