November 6, 2020
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Review: Linn Sondek LP12 Turntable

As visually iconic and sonically compelling a turntable as one is likely to come across in a lifetime of looking and listening, with a long history and legions of acolytes, the LP12 could be seen as the aspirational everyman’s record player.
November 23, 2020
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Classical Music, Psychologically Speaking – The Spotify Playlist

If self expression, emotional regulation and cognitive development can be influenced by music, then classical is genre by association with serotonin production.
December 14, 2020

Gateway to Jazz Kissa Vol. 1: In English for First Time

Katsumasa Kusonose, editor and publisher of #VINYL magazine, is offering English language pre-orders of his previous Japanese-only publication Gateway to Jazz Kissa Vol. 1.
February 20, 2021

Heavy Rotation: Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual

In 1984 Cyndi Lauper achieved what Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Patti Smith before her had not: she became the first female artist to chart four Top 5 singles off one album. A heady space to occupy considering the size of the craters that musical heavyweights like Tapestry, Blue and Horses had left on the industry the previous decade.