May 4, 2021

DJ Shadow: Endtroducing – 25th Anniversary Sample Mix

Cited as one of the best records of the nineties by most major music publications and included in Time Magazine’s list of greatest albums of all time, one of the keys to the resounding impact of DJ Shadow’s Entroducing can be found in the title of one of its less substantial cuts, a 43-second interlude entitled “Why Hip Hop Sucks in ‘96”. It kind of did.
June 26, 2021

Review: Six Vintage Shure Cartridges

Vintage Shure moving-magnet cartridges offer considerable presence, texture and dynamic heft, playback traits the most cerebral vinyl collectors acknowledge as prerequisites for emotional connectivity.
August 22, 2021

Beauty And The Beat: Part Two – Building an Audiophile Sound System to move People

The calculus of throwing a dance party today is no more complex than it was five decades ago when David Mancuso kicked off The Loft in New York City and birthed a disco mecca still worshipped today by tens of thousands: The latest iteration of which – Beauty and The Beat – continues to be the subject of this second article and interview.
October 5, 2021

Jazz Kissa 2014 Vol.1 and Vol. 2 Photo Book now Available – UPDATED

Jazz City Store is now taking pre-orders for an exclusive photo book on Tokyo jazz kissa by photographer Katsumasa Kusunose. The latest instalment in his Jazz Kissa series, Jazz Kissa 2014 Vol.1, features 144 pages packed with Kusunose’s extraordinary images chronicling kissaten still operating in Japan and some that have since disappeared forever.