Analog Adventures: Record Store Reviews
The Personal Touch Crate digging is a way of life. Image appears courtesy of Collecting Vinyl Records Amazon, Target, and Wal-Mart are three of the biggest retailers in the United States. They all recognize...
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Analog Adventures: Riki
Riki Riki (2020) About the Artist In an age in which artists and musicians are encouraged to engage with fans directly, it is refreshing to come across one that envelopes themselves in a shroud...
Deposition: Vaporwave Moving from Bandcamp to Vinyl
To relate music to the states of matter, one can declare that physical media is the solid. The structure of the music will never change and will always play in the same order. Streaming...
Monthly Mixtape: February Redux
What is Cassette Culture? While Spotify playlists have long lay claim to the thrown of personal musical expression, there is something special about the humble mixtape. The hardy plastic encases hand picked songs that...
Analog Adventures: Hounds of Love
Kate Bush Hounds of Love (1985) About the Artist Kate Bush is a pop music pioneer. She grew up playing music and the love for writing never waned. Her demo tape made the rounds...
Analog Adventures: A Farewell to Kings
Rush A Farewell to Kings (1977) About the Artist Rush humbly began as a hard rock band in 1968 in Toronto, Canada. The band became modestly successful on the radio with the song Working...
Analog Adventures: Journey in Satchidananda
Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda (1970) About the Artist Alice Coltrane is known as John Coltrane’s wife, but stands on her own as a great composer. Her style of jazz is soaked in...
Analog Adventures: Into the Pandemonium
Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium (1987) About the Artist Swiss heavy metal pioneers Celtic Frost originally formed as Hellhammer. The band is often cited as a profound influence on extreme metal genres such as...
2019 Physical Media Retrospect
A Year of Physical Media 2019 bucked a lot of trends with music distribution. Cassettes are seeing a small comeback likely due to their low-cost and accessibility. CDs were once thought to be going...
Analog Adventures: Volume 2
She & Him Volume Two (2010) About the Artist Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward are the two parts that make one entire She & Him. The folk rock duo came together in 2006 when...
