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Whitney Houston’s second album, “Whitney,” released on June 2, 1987, was a seismic event in pop music history. This album didn’t just meet the high expectations set by her debut—it obliterated them, securing Houston’s place as a musical titan and smashing records left and right. From the outset, “Whitney” was a force of nature. It…
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Of all the reasons that Taylor Swift deserves to be Time magazine’s first ever musician Person of the Year, none are bigger than her smashing victories over misogyny and the music business’s malign way of swindling artists and stealing valuable intellectual property. The particulars of her creative predicament are well known. Once a shy, teenaged…
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“No, I have the best system in the world!” #5: Crafting an Audiophile’s Dream in a Split-Level House
Be forewarned: If your stomach knots in pain at the very thought of expensive, high-end audio cabling or AC conditioning products, you may want to bypass this article, which contains many references to such items. Ditto, if you’re averse to systems costing comfortably in the six figures, such as the one that is the subject…
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Vinyl LP pressing plants are churning out records at such a clip they’re routinely backed up for six months or more. The once discredited LP has now become one of the few revenue centers for the record business outside of streaming. And now the thunderclap! The format predicted by a tenacious few since the invention…
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Downsizing. It’s not for everyone. While we’ve all been cocooning like hermits and stocking up on toilet paper to wait out the Great Endless Virus(es), our dear friends in The Billionaires Club have been killin’ it like villains. According to Fortune Magazine, while we were being furloughed and our fave bistro went broke, the world’s…