Tears For Fears' multi-platinum-selling second album, Songs From The Big Chair, will be reissued in multiple formats on November 14, marking its 40th anniversary and celebrating its enduring impact. Originally released on February 25, 1985, Songs From The Big Chair became a global sensation, topping the US charts and spawning five hit singles: “Mothers Talk,” “Shout,” “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” “Head Over Heels,” and “I Believe.” The album captured a... Read More

September 24, 2025 - Nearly five decades after its original release, The Rolling Stones are set to celebrate their groundbreaking 1976 album Black and Blue with a definitive Super Deluxe Box Set, arriving globally on November 14, 2025 from Interscope/UMe. Originally released in April, 1976 Black and Blue marked a bold new chapter for the band and now returns in a stunning, remixed and expanded package across multiple formats.Available as a 5LP vinyl box set and a 4CD... Read More

With the arrival of the sixth and final David Bowie anthology box set I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016], Parlophone has finally completed a decade-long undertaking: ruining the sound of Bowie’s entire catalog.It’s quite impressive, actually. Six hefty remaster box sets from 2015 to 2025, most with some problem of some sort, and none of them having the sound quality these records deserve. Not all of the box set remasters (and the equivalent individual album... Read More

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arnold Schoenberg, DG's Original Source deluxe vinyl reissue series presents Herbert von Karajan's seminal survey of music by the composer and his two most famous pupils, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. In Part 1 of our coverage of this important reissue I discussed the development of atonality and serialism in the music of Schoenberg, which laid the foundation for a major strand of 20th century modernism. Here, in Part 2, I discuss how the recording industry represented this repertoire in the years leading up to the release of Karajan's game-changing box set.

Tomorrow I leave for the Making Vinyl even in Haarlem, The Netherlands, and what shows up today? The New $899 Technics SL50C turntable that comes complete with an Ortofon 2M Red and built in phono preamplifier! So let's unbox it together (in a hurry). I'm hoping tomorrow I'll have time to give it a quick spin and post video before I leave, but maybe not! Read More

Last week during a visit to REL Acoustics in Berkeley, CA, I was among the guests treated to a tour of 2200 Studios, the former legendary The Record Plant where Fleetwood Mac recorded "Rumours", Prince recorded his debut album and so much music history was written and played. The new owners just recently opened the restored facility that also contains many of the musical instruments formerly housed at Fantasy Studios, including the piano Bill Evans played on... Read More

Peter Ledermann's announcement: After 30 years in our location, we are being forced out of our Soundsmith home......with little time to move…..and we need your help. This rapid unplanned move is very expensive…so to raise funds for the move and to create an opportunity for you….Peter Ledermann is personally building a limited number of our high end cartridges - now available direct to you at a great discount for a limited time…….and he will help you on the phone... Read More

The Mack Avenue licensing deal with Strata-east Records turned out to be more successful than the label had originally thought. The first run of 2500 titles each, sold out relatively quickly and probably exceeded sales when the records were originally released, which is both amazing and gratifying. The hyperlink is to our original coverage of the reissue announcement.The re-stocked titles are available now at the Mack Avenue Store And soon will be available again at... Read More

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arnold Schoenberg, DG's Original Source deluxe vinyl reissue series presents Herbert von Karajan's seminal survey of music by the composer and his two most famous pupils, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Mastered and cut AAA directly from the original 4 and 8-track mastertapes by Rainer Maillard and Sidney C. Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios, this deluxe 4LP set offers the perfect opportunity to reassess how these composers played a central role in changing everything about how music was composed, listened to - and not always understood.

Zev Feldman—record producer and Jazz Detective—launches his next endeavor, the archival label Time Traveler Recordings with the label’s Muse Master Edition Series: a run of masterpiece reissues from the historic Muse Records catalog. Pre-order Muse Master Edition Series.The series begins with the October 17th release of three albums from the legendary label’s discography: drummer Roy Brooks’ seminal 1972 live album The Free Slave; pianist Kenny Barron’s 1973 work... Read More

(Press release): Analogue Productions is revisiting its first-ever UHQR (Ultra High Quality Record) title — The Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1967 masterpiece Axis: Bold As Love - newly remastered and available for the first time as a 45 RPM edition, in both stereo and mono pressings. Both the stereo and mono versions have been cut by noted mastering engineer Bernie Grundman from the original analog master tapes, and pressed at Acoustic Sounds' industry-leading... Read More

(Press Release): Frank Sinatra’s seminal 1955 Capitol Records album In The Wee Small Hours will be reissued in Blue Note’s acclaimed Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Series on November 14 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... Read More

September 12, 2025 – (Los Angeles, CA) – Neil Young continues his Official Release Series (ORS) with the next installment of four classic titles from the 1990s. ORS Vol 6: Discs 26, 27, 28 & 29 collects HARVEST MOON, UNPLUGGED, SLEEPS WITH ANGELS and MIRROR BALLin the ongoing reissue series and is set for release on October 24 via Reprise Records.Each disc in the limited edition, numbered box sets will contain 4 albums with the original, historically accurate... Read More

(Press Release) When originally released back in 1992, The Chronic was a single LP with long sides. It was a gift that vinyl even existed for the original release – CDs ruled the day. By 2001, this landmark recording was split across 4 sides which allowed for a more authentic audio listening experience to what Dr. Dre had created.The Chronic One-Step release takes Dr. Dre’s production to a whole new listening level. The original analog master tapes were completely... Read More

‘The tide is turning… everything’s gonna be alright now’ - “New Millennium”. Progressive music is rarely the most commercially viable genre for the singles charts and radio. As the 1990s gave way to the 2000s, Dream Theater avoided becoming collateral damage catering to record label demands. The pressure to write shorter material and work with outside producers/writers—the antithesis of what the band had set out to accomplish—almost to it disbanding. Earning artistic... Read More

5LP/4CD + Blu-ray Box Set Containing Landmark 1967 Album Axis: Bold As Love In Stereo, Mono, ATMOS, Plus 40 Bonus Studio & Live Tracks (28 Previously Unreleased) Out On Experience Hendrix/Legacy Recordings(Press Release): Experience Hendrix L.L.C. and Legacy Recordings, are releasing Bold As Love by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on November 7. Produced by Janie Hendrix, original Experience recording engineer Eddie Kramer, and John McDermott, this expansive... Read More

I am working on a major loudspeaker-design project. A floorstanding 3-way (not the speaker pictured, which is a pair of late 1990's era Ed Meitner designed Meliors). The Business Model is to deliver the sound quality of a $40,000/pair loudspeaker, but charge only $30,000/pair. Of course, in the Bill of Materials, I included both deluxe crossover parts, and the cryo processing of the completed crossovers. I was told that neither was necessary, but based on... Read More

Mark Volman — a founding member of the ’60s rock band The Turtles died on September 5th at age 78 following a “brief, unexpected illness” in Nashville, Tenn. In 2020 Volman was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia.

Craft Recordings honors this inimitable trio through Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings—a brand new collection that, for the very first time, collects the complete recording studio output by Evans’ “Classic Trio.” Anchoring this 5-LP, 180-gram vinyl collection (also available in a 3-CD set and standard/hi-res digital) are the trio’s two acclaimed original studio albums, Portrait in Jazz (1960) and Explorations(1961), both of which benefit from meticulous audio restoration by Plangent Processes. Three additional LPs feature 26 breathtaking alternate takes and outtakes from these famed sessions—17 of which have never been released—offering rare insight into the trio’s innovative creative process.

Newark, N.J. (September 4, 2025) - Technics today announces the introduction of the new SL-40CBT and SL-50C Direct Drive Turntables at this year’s annual CEDIA convention in Denver. The latest models continue the iconic Technics legacy while introducing a fresh contemporary design and convenient new features aimed at both Hi-Fi users and modern home audio lovers. The SL-40CBT / SL-50C maintain the classic Technics turntable characteristics, such as the iron-coreless... Read More