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Music and vinyl expert Claude Lemaire highlights essential recordings—and the best pressings to seek out—for your LP collection, indexed by year of release.
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In his new series, music and vinyl expert Claude Lemaire highlights essential recordings—and the best pressings to seek out—for your LP collection, indexed by year of release.
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Writer Rudy Radelic recommends a dozen great-sounding albums to play at audio show exhibits. Exhibitors, are you paying attention?
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In this installment of The Vinyl Beat, Rudy Radelic recommends not records, but a practical way to catalogue an album collection using Discogs.
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Among my music recommendations is a handful of favorite holiday records in my collection – some new, some classic. ’Tis the season!
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In this first fall installment, writer Rudy Radelic is featuring a comparison, some winners, a major disappointment, and a handful of other notable titles he’s found.
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Rudy Radelic digs into vintage rock, blues, and jazz, spotlighting reissues with stellar mastering, hard-to-find rarities, and standout titles cherished by collectors.
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The Vinyl Beat digs up notable vinyl nuggets like INXS’s “Kick” 45 RPM reissue, Sheila E’s salsa debut, and Rachel Z’s introspective jazz trio recording.
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The Vinyl Beat is a new column that will dig up notable vinyl nuggets, past and present.
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Welcome to my series Treasures from the Vinyl Vault. In it, I will feature select gems from my approximately 12,000 ever-growing vinyl collection, accumulated over a 45-year period and counting.
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Frank Doris interviews Nick Getz, son of sax legend Stan Getz, and Abey Fonn of Impex Records, about the new Getz/Gilberto LP reissue of the bossa nova classic.
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In this interview, Chad Kassem recounts his journey from a halfway house in Kansas to founding Acoustic Sounds, sharing how personal struggles, a passion for blues, and a relentless pursuit of quality helped revive vinyl’s prestige.
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In part two of his candid interview, Chad Kassem recalls the gritty rise of Acoustic Sounds from a record-crammed apartment to an industry leader, detailing the challenges of pressing plants, COVID’s business boom, and forging respectful industry alliances.
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At AXPONA 2023, Chad Kassem opened up to Gilles Laferrière about his Cajun roots, a troubled youth, and the early 1980s decision to embrace vinyl just as the world shifted to CDs—laying the foundation for Analogue Productions.
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Copper Magazine’s Frank Doris recalls his first encounter with Genesis’s Selling England by the Pound in 1973 and hails Analogue Productions’ new 45 RPM reissue as the album’s most sonically revealing edition to date.