Over the years, there have been no shortage of compilations containing early recordings by David Bowie and his earliest groups, The Lower Third and The Manish Boys. But as far as can tell, this is one ...

Ken Micallef is on the ground in Salina, Kansas, for Acoustic Sounds' inaugural Vinyl Summit. In our first video from the event, Ken shows us the sights and sounds around town, shares Chad Kassem's ...

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 ...

The Rubber Soul 60th anniversary 180g 5LP super deluxe edition box set is arguably one of the most anticipated Beatles packages to date — and it has just been released by Capitol/Apple/UMe today, ...

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 ...

Three acoustic-driven rock records — one from the 1960s, and two from the 1990s — have recently gotten the Vinylphyle audiophile treatment from UMe. As most regular AP readers likely know, the ...

Today, Hana announces the late-September 2026 release of the MK II version of their E Series nude-elliptical moving-coil (MC) cartridges, but I already got my hands on the first EH MK II! I’m not ...

Something About Him: Tom Scholz, lost in thought and doing what he does best, behind the board. Photo by Ron Pownall, courtesy Boston and Impex. As soon as you hear those distinctive, fade-in opening ...

Allnic, Kang Su Park’s company’s name, is a portmanteau of “all” and “nickel,” a tribute to the material in the transformer cores he uses in his equipment, often referred to by the trade name ...

When Heart emerged in the mid-’70s with their hugely successful debut LP Dreamboat Annie, you could immediately hear how brilliantly they rode the fine line between loving homage and unabashed ...

We first heard these new cartridge wares at High End Munich 2025, where Ortofon’s Louis Dorio had them spinning in a tight, well-dialed-in system. The Ortofon MC X30 ($780) and MC X10 ($330) ...

In 1936, the great blues pioneer Robert Johnson recorded his song “Cross Road Blues,” which many interpret as his telling the story of how he went to a crossroads and fell to his knees to make a deal ...