And that news is this: In celebration of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ 50th anniversary, a comprehensive new 5LP/1DVD/1BD box set titled Origins 1971-1978 is scheduled to come out on November 6, ...

Stoughton Printing Company is renowned for manufacturing high-quality tip-on jackets, which are the preferred choice of ...

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, ...

Two in a row, everybody knows — at the green light, you rev it on the red line. Gearheads know what I’m talking about here — and so do fans of the blended British/American rock collective known as ...

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 ...

In the fall of 2021, I was at lunch with my friend, turntable guru and occasional AP contributor Michael Trei, when he mentioned a then-new Chinese-made automated ultrasonic record cleaning machine ...

It was a new day yesterday, and it’s an even newer day now. Yeah, I swapped “even newer” for “older” in the latter half of that borrowed Jethro Tull lyric — but I feel somewhat justified because of a ...

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 ...

While I was repeat-playing a 120g 1979 Deutsche Grammophon disc of Maurizio Pollini playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat with the Vienna Philharmonic, Karl Böhm conducting (DG LP 2531 194 ...

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 ...

Love to Watch Him Strum: Bob Seger, in shades and wielding an acoustic guitar. Photo by Clay Patrick McBride, courtesy UMe. One thing Bob Seger can never be accused of is shying away from addressing ...