Apple’s Music app on macOS Big Sur is an absolute shit show. It keeps wanting to sync and turn on iCloud Music Library, which I tried long ago and hated. You can’t quit the app. You try to force quit, but it still keeps syncing in the background. THERE IS NOTHING TO SYNC.

This new release of a 1968 concert at Palo Alto High School is a delight. The vinyl release includes reproductions of the concert flyer and poster. Well done.

Material - The Western Lands feat. William S. Burroughs. Seven Souls (1989)

This fantastic 3-CD set could really use a limited edition 5-LP 50th anniversary Record Store Day release produced by Joe Harley and mastered by Kevin Gray.

I snagged a couple of nice records on Record Store Day #1 (8/29/20). But I am really looking forward to this in October…

I’ve been posting my favorite ‘Perfect’ albums on Instagram as part of Mike Montiero’s August challenge. Here is what I posted today.

perfect31 Day 24 of the @mikemonteiro perfect record challenge. Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars. This is a winter record. This is a curl up with a blanket and don’t leave the house for weeks record. It seems strange listening to this in August. This was recorded in New Brunswick in late December early January 1998-1999, deep in the middle of a grey, cold Canadian winter, with many more months of cold and snow to come. Doiron’s beautiful voice and Michael Feuerstack’s guitar lines just melt together in a melancholic, melodic and warm way. Perfect.

I got a 2017 Subaru Outback a couple of weeks back. It’s really great. I haven’t had a car with current technology maybe ever, so I get giddy whenever it beeps at me for drifting in my lane, or neglecting to pull away at a light in a timely manner. No car play, but the Bluetooth integration is solid.

I bought this beat-up, but playable copy on Saturday for 8 bucks. RIP, Jimmy Cobb.

New Vinyl Friday

Not something you get to see from your backyard every day!

Now playing with the new Plexamp app. I went for a walk and it looks like it was downsampling while on cellular. I didn’t notice, but I didn’t have noise canceling enabled on my AirPods Pro.

A new version of Plexamp is out for MacOS, Windows, iOS, Android and Linux! Shown here running on my new Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu. Also, RIP Lee Konitz.

Installing Focal Fossa daily build.

New Vinyl Friday 2020.03.13

King Curtis & The Kingpins - King Size Soul - Atco 1967

Gato Barbieri - Fenix - Flying Dutchman 1971

Erroll Garner - The Elf: The Savoy Sessions - Savoy Records Compilation 1976

Sonny Stitt - Sonny Side Up - Royal Roost 1960

Photo challenge Day 1.

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Opening my new Art Blakey record!

I just picked up this BN80 reissue of Lonnie Smith - Live At Club Mozambique pictured here along with my original 1995 Rare Groove CD. Wow does this new all-analog version mastered by Kevin Gray sound great.

Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) - Blues For A Hip King. I just picked this up on eBay. It’s not a perfect copy by any means, but the music is so joyful that you cant help but ignore the crackles and dance.

Hope everyone had a happy Halloween! I am posting this from Dialog, an Android Micro.blog app.

Sending a test microcast from Wavelength to micro.blog

I’m upgrading my micro.blog account so I can try out some microcasting.

Getting ready for Wilco!

Beautiful morning in REO Town.

Vinyl is all the rage these days, and it’s a lot of fun seeing young folks get the record collecting bug. Last year I bought a new turntable and have enjoyed picking up and listening to some records again. But what is really interesting is that this vinyl revival along with easy access to streaming music has caused the price of used CD’s to tank! There are such great deals to be had everywhere! I picked up the 5-disc Temptations box set ‘Emperors Of Soul’ for $17.99. This has 6 + hours of music with all the original single mixes, a great book with an essay by Nelson George, beautiful photographs, discography, and more. Go find some deals!

Artists file a lawsuit over a 2008 fire (The Day The Music Burned) that destroyed thousands of master recordings. Universal lied about the losses and received insurance claims totaling over 150 million dollars. The suit, filed by Soundgarden, Hole, Steve Earle, and representatives of Tupak Shakur and Tom Petty, seeks to recover half of any settlement proceeds.

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