For several decades, JS Audio has been a leading purveyor of stereo equipment in the Washington, DC area. The JS refers to the late Joe Stromick, who originally founded the store and was an impassioned and unforgettable figure. It is now owned and run by an intrepid band of brothers—David, Steven and Jason Kennedy—who regularly hold events featuring new gear. This Saturday they invited their customers to a new one that held a special promise.It featured Daryl Wilson,... Read More

The vinyl faithful show up in large numbers when Chad Kassem comes to town to play records at an audio store. They know they are in for good music, good sound and inimitable Chad stories. ZZ Top's Tres Hombres just released as a UHQR will be a highlight but Chad will be bringing a whole lot of other records to Dallas' Audio Concepts on May 16th, including some probably not yet released and he'll be playing those too.I participated in one of these Chad... Read More

Southport, UK, April 30th, 2026– iFi audio unveils the ZEN Air Phono 2, the latest evolution of their entry-level phono stage. A growing audience is eager to experience the joys of classic vinyl listening, and they deserve to hear it as intended. The ZEN Air Phono 2 provides a drastically improved listening experience compared to the built-in phono stages of record players and amplifiers, offering an ultra-low noise floor for enhanced detail, and a precise RIAA EQ for... Read More

Los Angeles, CA (April 16, 2026)—Craft Recordings continues its year-long centennial celebration of one of the 20th century’s most important cultural icons—trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis—with a brand-new box set, Miles ’56: The Prestige Recordings. Building upon Craft’s GRAMMY® Award-winning Miles ‘55 release, this latest collection focuses on Davis’ 1956 sessions for Prestige Records, which resulted in such landmark albums as Cookin’, Relaxin’,... Read More

Reference Recordings is one of the premier audiophile labels that regularly records classical music by contemporary artists in new performances. This Mahler Fifth is the second release in the label's exciting new partnership with the Grand Teton Music Festival. Formats are streaming at several resolutions, hybrid SACD/CD multi-channel and stereo.

(April 24, 2026 - Los Angeles, CA) On June 14, 1970, the Grateful Dead released Workingman’s Dead, an album that was unlike anything they’d ever done, one that showed the world a new side of the Dead. It was clearly the same band as before, but now with a distinctly different sound and approach to the music, pivoting from psychedelic improvisation to folk-rock storytelling for the “everyman,” as the album’s title suggests. Today, Rhino High Fidelitypresents new... Read More

(Press release): (April 17, 2026 - Los Angeles, CA) As the Eagles continue “The Long Goodbye” tour with upcoming performances at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and stadiums, Universal Music Enterprises has announced a vinyl and digital reissue of Don Henley’s 6x platinum solo album The End Of The Innocence on June 5, 2026. The album is newly remastered from the original analog tapes (cut from tapes by Chris Bellman, and pressed at Precision_ed.) and will... Read More

Los Angeles – April 17, 2026 – Though worlds apart sonically, Gang Starr’s Hard To Earn and The Flying Burrito Brothers’ The Gilded Palace of Sin exemplify Vinylphyle’s mission to deliver essential albums across genres with uncompromising sound quality and packaging. Available to order today exclusively via uDiscover Music, both titles are presented in definitive audiophile editions that honor their enduring influence and legacy.The release of The Gilded Palace of Sin... Read More

(press release) Los Angeles – April 17, 2026 – Launched last year to widespread acclaim, Verve Label Group and UMe are thrilled to continue their Verve Vault series in 2026 with an extensive slate of releases, highlighting landmark jazz albums and rare treasures from the deep catalogs of Verve, Impulse!, Mercury, Decca and related imprints. The audiophile vinyl reissue series offers definitive, all-analog 180-gram vinyl pressings newly mastered from the original... Read More

(April 2, 2026 - Los Angeles, CA) Rhino High Fidelity (Rhino Hi-Fi) returns today with two limited-edition audiophile vinyl reissues—one of a band breaking through and the other of a band about to break apart—The J. Geils Band’s “Live” Full House and Uncle Tupelo’s Anodyne.Both albums were cut from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180-gram black vinyl at Optimal in Germany. Each features glossy gatefold packaging with tip-on jackets and newly... Read More

Miles Davis’ earliest masterpiece Birth Of The Cool gets the royal treatment with a new Tone Poet Vinyl Edition to be released by Blue Note Records on May 22 in celebration of the legendary trumpeter’s Centennial. Produced by Joe Harley, the album was mastered by Kevin Gray directly from the original analog phono reel master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket featuring session photos by William... Read More

Despite its stature today as one of the greatest and most influential records in rock history, Pet Sounds was kind of a rush job. In late 1965 Brian Wilson met jingle writer/lyricist Tony Asher at an L.A. recording studio and shortly thereafter the two began writing the songs. By April it had mostly been completed. Considering the complexity of the compositions, arrangements and production, that's an impressive feat in such a short time. It was also expensive,... Read More

Blue Note Records announces the April 24 release of a special Tone Poet Vinyl Edition of The Complete ‘Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia by trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Produced for release by Joe Harley, the 3-LP vinyl set is all-analog and cut directly from Rudy Van Gelder’s original master tapes by Kevin Gray. Pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, the LPs come packaged in a deluxe tip-on trifold jacket which includes a booklet with never-before-seen photos by Francis... Read More

Two weeks ago, Record Store Day announced the list of special releases for independent record shops on Saturday, April 18. The past few years have been mostly underwhelming aside from archival jazz releases, but the 2026 RSD list is easily the best since 2020. Sure, there are still needless 7”’s of album tracks, Doors cash grabs, and zoetrope picture discs, though thankfully that’s balanced out by interesting archival projects and reissues of deserving albums that haven’t already been reissued to death. Without further ado, here’s our guide to some Record Store Day 2026 releases worth seeking out.

Toneoptic manufactures a really neat rotatable wall hanging rotatable record rack that I wrote about some years ago at my previous endeavor. You can show your records by the spines as is typical, or you can easily rotate the whole thing and display them record store like, jackets forward. Not cheap, but efficacious. Now the company has something new that's less expensive but still not IKEA priced but they appear to be beautifully designed and well manufactured... Read More

Los Angeles — January 21, 2026 — In the mid-1970s, the unexpected success of two back-to-back Top 10 greatest hits albums pushed The Beach Boys toward their early surf-and-cars past, fueling hits-laden nostalgia tours at sold-out stadiums and arenas across the U.S. Amidst this era, America’s Band, led by Brian Wilson’s return to songwriting and producing, quietly made some of the rawest, unexpected, and most emotionally exposed studio recordings of their career at... Read More

MAPLE GROVE, MN (January 28, 2026) – Sumiko, a leader in analog audio innovation, today announced the launch of the Oriole Phono Cartridge, a new benchmark in high-performance sound positioned between the company’s acclaimed Songbird and Starling models. Crafted in Japan, the Oriole Phono Cartridge delivers elevated musical detail and dynamic accuracy through a nude Shibata stylus and low-impedance generator rated at 5.5Ω (0.3mV output). These refinements reduce... Read More

Frank Sinatra’s classic 1956 Capitol Records album Songs For Swingin’ Lovers! will be reissued in Blue Note’s acclaimed Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Series on March 27 marking the album’s 70th anniversary. Produced for release by Joe Harley, the new Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and comes packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket featuring session photos... Read More