Digital
Review: Pono Music Player
Enter Pono Well, it happened. I got my Pono player. For those of you not keeping track, Pono is a music service, a portable digital audio player, a lifestyle experience, and more, that’s supposed to […]
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Audio-Life
Pono Backers Listening Party in San Francisco, 8/1/14: Part Two
by Paul Ashby After being wooed with the Pono headphone experience, the organizers herd a group of nine of us into a darker, un-airconditioned room. It’s unfinished, the concrete floor covered with a rug, with […]
Audio-Life
Pono Backers Listening Party in San Francisco, 8/1/14: Part One
by Paul Ashby Flashback to Summer 2003 Apple’s iTunes Music Store had been up and running for awhile, but its only content was music from major labels. I was working at an independent music distributor […]
Music
Have Yourself A Quiet Little Christmas: Year End Music Reviews
by Paul Ashby The holidays: a time to reflect with family, enjoy cozy nights indoors with blustery weather beating at the door, imbibe festive drink and hearty seasonal fare, celebrate surviving yet another year, endure […]
Music
Music Reviews: Carla Bozulich, Eno/Hyde, Christopher Komeda, Charles Hayward, Neil Young
Carla Bozulich, Boy Constellation Canada LP Ethyl Meatplow. Geraldine Fibbers. Scarnella. Evangelista. And … Carla Bozulich. The absurdly talented Carla Bozulich’s nomadic recording personae share one distinction: fearlessness. It’s possible she doesn’t always know where she’s […]
Music
Music from Harold Budd, Cian Nugent & the Cosmos, John Lemke, and Favorites of 2013
by Paul Ashby Harold Budd, Perhaps Double LP, Root Strata I first heard Harold Budd in the early eighties while listening to The Pavilion of Dreams, his 1978 album for Brian Eno’s Obscure label. Californian Budd’s […]
Music
Music from Bruce Langhorne, Blaze Foley, William Tyler
–by Paul Ashby Bruce Langhorne, The Hired Hand In 1971, Peter Fonda, ricocheting off the commercial success and counterculture impact of “Easy Rider,” was a bankable personality in Hollywood. Universal, to its credit, stayed out […]
Music
Music from Broderick & Broderick, Friedman & Liebezeit, and Locust
— by Paul Ashby Dedicated to Bill Smith (1959-2013) Broderick & Broderick (self-titled) 10″+CD, Team Love, US
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The Best of 2013
Here I am again, at the ass-end of the calendar, wondering how it’s possible that yet another year has gotten away from me. Going through it, I’m sure it seemed interminable at various points, but […]
Contributors
Mohammed Samji Senior Contributor Mohammed remembers cleaning his first LP at age 9, as he dubbed his father’s record collection to audio cassettes, and some of the L.A.S.T cleaning products he used 30 years ago are […]
