If you already own the earlier edition of Anthology 1, 2, and 3, this new box set containing those plus Anthology 4— 13 previously unreleased tracks and 17 songs selected from super deluxe versions of five classic albums plus 2025 Jeff Lynne mixes of "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love"— might not be enough to get you to buy it yet again but maybe the additional 26 never before released on vinyl tracks will entice you to buy the separately available... Read More

The third and final video coverage of the Capital Audio Festival 2025 features mostly "room walk ins" plus a few interviews. You'll walk into rooms featuring Acora, VPI, VAC, ,EMM Labs Credo, Aequo, Trilogy, Burmester, Audience, Martin Audio, Luxman, Estelon, Vitus, Crystal Cable, Sonorus, SAT, Lyra, Lampizator, Tidal, REL, Turnbull, C.A.T., Göbel, EMM Labs, Revox and THRAX.Because of technical issues related to a truly stupid function on the DJI Pocket... Read More

Capital Audio Festival Part 2 coverage begins with the final room I visited on Sunday thanks to a tip from Stereophile's Herb Reichert. A chance lobby encounter had Herb going on about the goings on on the 8th floor in the La Dolce Audio room. Herb's tastes run to esoteric tubey stuff, just as he insists mine are towards "oligarch" products. I plead guilty, though I also try to review affordable stuff. Fortunately I took Herb's word for his... Read More

Capital Audio Festival 2025 was the largest ever and perhaps the most unusual, starting with a manufacturer greeting me by grabbing my junk. Not kidding. I've been described as being "a handful", but this was too literal for my liking. I didn't give him the pleasure of a reaction. Just glad to be wearing my Tommy Johns, which put everything in a neat package. Ok, enough of that. This was the largest Cap Audio Fest ever in terms of manufacturer... Read More

The Donnas were at a career crossroads in the mid-2000s. Atlantic Records’ revolving door of personnel left the group without the core team of people who helped market them via product placements, both benefiting album sales and landing them major tours. First-year sales of 2004’s Gold Medal were a mere 20% of what 2002’s Spend The Night achieved. Atlantic insisted that The Donnas’ follow-up effort be more rooted in pop and assisted by outside writers. Not aligning... Read More

The "Studio Confidential" event announced a few weeks ago had a pre preview last night (Nov.18th) at Technica House in Manhattan and it was well-worth attending. On hand with entertaining anecdotes were Niko Bolas, Frank Filipetti, Jimmy Douglass, Chuck Finlay, Sylvia Massy, and Elliot Scheiner. George Massenburg did something he never does while working: he "phoned it in" because he was working on the west coast.This was not a tech-based... Read More

You'll note that this press release is authored by me and not by "Tracking Angle" as most pressers are. That's because I took original promo copies of both of these early I.R.S. records (I.R.S. was a record label founded by Police drummer Stewart Copeland's brother Miles and Jay Boberg, distributed by A&M) to the Capital Audio Festival and played them for a room full of people, all of whom thought the new One-Step Murmur absolutely crushed... Read More

GIG HARBOR, WA (November 13, 2025) - Intervention Records will continue its Sun Records Hi-Fi Series—featuring classic titles from the Memphis label, mastered to vinyl from original master tapes in the Sun vaults—with a brilliant new pressing of Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!, the first long-playing record from one of country music’s most enduring icons. The album, featuring “I Walk The Line,” “Cry, Cry, Cry,” and “Folsom Prison Blues,” has been given the ultimate treatment for this 180-gram, 45 RPM mono release, featuring audio from original master tapes mastered to vinyl in an all-analog process, plus restored artwork featuring new liner notes.

No other group in the 1980s lived up to the hedonistic rock-and-roll lifestyle than did Mötley Crüe. Emerging from the sleazy Hollywood scene, they sought to craft an entity that was described by bassist Nikki Sixx as, ‘David Bowie and the Sex Pistols thrown in a blender with Black Sabbath.’ Their debaucherous history often eclipses the impact of their recorded output, immortalized in both the memoir and Netflix adaptation The Dirt. It goes without saying that their... Read More

A landmark recording gets a fabulous new remastering from master tapes that have rarely been played.

(November 13, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA) Since its original release in 1988, Talk Talk’s critically acclaimed fourth album Spirit Of Eden has grown to become one of the most influential albums of the 80s. A step away from its hugely commercially successful predecessor The Colour Of Spring, Spirit Of Eden is steeped in legend for its long and improvisational recording sessions that created a body of work that would go on to be vital in the creation of post-rock as a... Read More

Of course this wasn't Little Feat's "last album" any more than boomer rock band "final tours" are ever final. As Dennis McNally's well-illustrated excellent annotation points out without actually saying it, Lowell George was not exactly ebullient about things when this was recorded and the songs weren't either though there are a few classics like "All That You Dream" and "Long Distance Love". In fact all of... Read More

Mode was a '50s era west coast jazz label with a distinctive look thanks to Eva Diana's colorful portraits but more importantly, the label, in its 6 months of operation produced 31 albums and managed to release 29 of them. And of equal importance to TrackingAngle readers, the sets were recorded at Radio Recorders and engineered by a then just starting out Dayton "Bones" Howe! As you'll hear unless you already have some of the '80's... Read More

(November 12, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA) John Coltrane’s impact on modern music is immeasurable. The saxophonist’s groundbreaking work at Atlantic Records in the early 1960s helped expand the language of jazz and redefine the possibilities of improvisation. In honor of Coltrane’s upcoming centennial next year, Rhino is starting the celebration early on November 28 with a vinyl boxed set featuring six albums in mono, reissued as part of the acclaimed Rhino High Fidelity... Read More

The British prime minister Harold Macmillan, who was known as Supermac during the 1950s, once famously declared, “you’ve never had it so good.” Something similar could be said about vinyl lovers. As several listening events at Innovative Audio, a carefully curated store located underground in midtown Manhattan, demonstrated over the past several days, vinyl has returned to the heart of the high-end audio hobby.The first event featured two stars in the vinyl firmament,... Read More

Blue Note Records has announced the 2026 line-up for the Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series. The acclaimed series is produced by the “Tone Poet” Joe Harley and presents definitive audiophile quality vinyl reissues that are mastered all-analog directly from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in deluxe tip-on jackets. The Tone Poet Society subscription service also... Read More

It’s almost a Hollywood cliché…promising young band signs to a major and comes out the other end pummeled, singed and largely indistinguishable. In 1983 The Dream Syndicate tumbled into bed with A&M Records, which helped cushion their fall with a $150K recording budget for sophomore outing Medicine Show. The songs were just as solid as their Indie debut (The Days of Wine and Roses) but something had broken in the process.“We’d come out the other side of the... Read More

Disguised in Kabuki-esque makeup and looking imposing in studded leather uniforms, KISS was the grotesque footnote of a musical subset on the verge of being submerged by disco that deafened and blinded the musical landscape. Their brand of unadulterating hard rock, delivered with on-stage theatrics, wooed audiences across the United States, often upstaging the headliners they opened for. Sustaining a live reputation conflicted with the timid nature of their album... Read More