So much has been written over the last 55 years about The Who’s landmark, triple-platinum, best-selling, and (arguably) best-ever single-disc album, August 1971’s Who’s Next, that it is almost ...

A legacy brand in cartridge production, Sumiko may be best known — at least amongst the crowd I hung with back in the day — for their Sumiko Blue Point No. 2. The Blue Point was a moving coil (MC) ...

I’m always on the lookout for new and better tools to help with my installations, and over the years, WAM Engineering, a.k.a. WallyTools, has made some of the most innovative aids to help nail the ...

In the following video interview that is now posted on the AP YouTube channel, Ken Micallef speaks with Acoustic Sounds head honcho Chad Kassem about the upcoming Vinyl Summit that is being held in ...

Originally released on Tamla on August 28, 1973, Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On LP was a landmark recording that resonated with audiences at the time of its release, and it has continued to do so for ...

Fact it, it’s all about applied science. “I was unscrewing the back of everything in the house — the stereo, the television, the table radio, my sister’s hairdryer. That’s when my mother sent me to ...

A few more Zombie FAQs for you now. According to the liner notes, “ Continue Here is the first, full account on LP of those [mid-’60s] wilderness years in the original mono mixes — eight singles; ...

Believe it or not, there are still active shopping malls in the U.S. — and at least one, Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, leases to a modern record store, The Sharp Notes. The notion is so ...

Jimmy Reed at Carnegie Hall is neither a live album, nor was it recorded at Carnegie Hall. It was simply a studio recreation of a set that this supremely popular and influential blues artist had ...