Album review: Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball (Columbia)
I think Bruce Springsteen is a vampire, really. Have you seen him on TV lately? This man, simply refuses to age. At 62 years old, he performs with a level… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 28 Mar 2012
Categories: Music, New music, Tone Audio album reviews
Tags: audiophile reviews, Bruce Springsteen, E-Street Band, new album reviews, Tone Audio, Wrecking Ball
Album review: Sharon Van Etten – Tramp (Jagjaguwar Records)
Sharon Van Etten provides many reasons why you wouldn’t want to be her—or at least, in her first-person narrator’s position—on the engrossing Tramp. The indie-rock songstress, whose excellent sophomore album,… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 29 Feb 2012
Categories: Music, New music, Tone Audio album reviews
Tags: jagjaguwar, new album reviews, New music, Sharon Van Etten, Tone Audio, Tramp, vinyl
Exclusive high-definition film of Gergiev conducting Bolero
Bolero is ‘an orchestral score without music,’ reckoned Ravel. ‘There are no contrasts, and practically no invention except the plan and the manner of execution.’ Such a careful description does… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 8 Feb 2012
Categories: Live music, Music, New music
Tags: Bolero, Gergiev, high-definition film, LSO, Ravel
Album review: Brooks Robertson – Into The Trees (Brooks Robertson Music)
Every now and then you take a break from your travels long enough to find treasure in your own backyard. My current home, Portland, Oregon has broken a number of… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 2 Feb 2012
Categories: Music, New music, Tone Audio album reviews
Tags: audiophile albums, Brooks Robertson, new album reviews
Apparatjik offer exclusive 24-bit studio quality version of their album
“the recording of the new apparatjik album started in norway in a big wooden hall surrounded by snow and quite possibly bears.” Apparatjik are making a stunning 24-bit studio-quality version… Read more
Posted on: Tuesday, 24 Jan 2012
Categories: Music, New music
Tags: 24-bit studio version, Abbey Road studios, Apparatjik, audiophile recordings, Square peg in a round hole
Album review: Shelby Lynne – Revelation Road (Everso)
Shelby Lynne is a multi-faceted artist taking her craft even further on her recent release – Revelation Road Playing every instrument and singing all of the parts on her third… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 18 Jan 2012
Categories: Music, New music, Tone Audio album reviews
Tags: audiophile recordings, Everso records, Revelation Road, Shelby Lynne
Exclusive Charlie Winston album on Society of Sound
Two years after the runaway European success of his previous album, Hobo, Charlie Winston’s hugely anticipated follow-up, Running Still, has been released. Society of Sound has an exclusive version with… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 11 Jan 2012
Categories: Music, New music
Tags: 24-bit FLAC, audiophile albums, Charlie Winston, Hobo, running still
Charlie Winston producer interviewed about new album
Society of Sound members will be able to download an exclusive version of Charlie Winston’s new album, Running Still, next week. In this short film, producer Tony Berg (Peter Gabriel,… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 5 Jan 2012
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Music, New music
Tags: Charlie Winston, Hobo, running still, tony berg
The Wilderness of Manitoba debut and Bruckner’s 4th on Society of Sound
The most interesting sound on When You Left The Fire, the achingly lush, understated debut from Canadian chamber-folk ensemble The Wilderness of Manitoba, doesn’t come from an instrument at all… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 12 Dec 2011
Categories: Music, New music
Tags: bernard haitink, Bruckner's 4th Symphony, lossless sound, LSO Live, new folk, The Wilderness of Manitoba, When you left the fire
Classic Album Sundays’ Colleen Murphy listens to The Great Curve
Rafe says: Can we not get these in Vancouver, B.C.?... 1 day 18 hours ago View commentClassic Album Sundays’ Colleen Murphy listens to New Order’s Age of Consent
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