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Maltese Cross Record Store Day on Saturday

Tomorrow, Saturday 19 April 2008, has been designated Record Store Day. Independent record stores of all stripes from coast to coast will be celebrating. In many larger cities, musicians will be stopping by local stores. Locally, Atomic Records in...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on April 18, 2008 8:20 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Queens do a triple-10 inch release of Era Vulgaris

Queens of the Stone Age did an interesting thing with the vinyl release of their most recent album Era Vulgaris. The album is only 47 minutes so it might have in fact fit onto one piece of vinyl, but instead...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on January 21, 2008 10:02 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Mark Cuban’s idea for music: The Album is dead

Billionaire and sports fanatic Mark Cuban has an idea for the music industry: instead of releasing albums, serialize the release of music so people can buy one song at a time over a period of time. He writes: If an...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on January 19, 2008 11:43 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Places to buy Vinyl Records online

With the explosion of new vinyl coming out, you may run into the question of where to buy the stuff. Chain stores no longer vinyl – whether you're talking Fye up to a store like Target or Walmart, you're just...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on January 14, 2008 8:19 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Vinyl gets its groove back

I've written previously about how we've entered a new golden age for vinyl records. And this seems to be truly the case. Record companies are releasing and re-releasing lavish editions of albums on vinyl. Gatefold sleeves, which were relatively uncommon...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on January 14, 2008 6:36 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Circuit City rocks the Vinyl

The more re-issues I see on vinyl and the compelling selection of new releases, the more I think that vinyl is here to stay. I'm amazed at the selection at the Exclusive Co. But the gaps in the local store's...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on December 20, 2007 10:48 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross A little bit o’ downtime

I'm sorry if you saw the above message recently. The excellent webhost that powers this site had a bit of rare, unexpected downtime – on Cyber Monday no less. At any rate, things seems to be up and running...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on November 28, 2007 7:41 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Siouxsie’s first solo album: Mantaray

I've been listening to Siouxsie's debut solo album Mantaray, and it's good. Siouxsie who? Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie & the Banshees fame. Siouxsie & the Banshees were big in '80s for their many great albums, such as Tinderbox. I...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on November 18, 2007 10:34 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross KMFDM’s original glory: Naïve re-released

The KMFDM album Naïve is by far their best album. It's also extremely difficult to get an original 1991 vintage CD or LP. The album, published by Wax Trax!, was taken off the market very quickly after it was...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on November 7, 2007 9:40 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross 45 RPM: The 7-inch Single

I was in the record store the other day buying a record. There were a whole bunch of promotional CDs on the counter with a label by them that said "free CDs." I didn't ask about the CDs, but...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on October 29, 2007 8:41 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Monday Night Vinyl Notes: Arcade Fire, Dust Bunnies, 120 Minutes

I was pleased to see that the Arcade Fire did some things very right with the vinyl release of Neon Bible. I talked earlier about how the practice of putting an album on four sides of vinyl is tiresome...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on September 17, 2007 10:18 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Analogy: Linux is to Turntables as Windows is to CD Players

Walt Mossberg's column in the Wall Street Journal today (available here) was especially interesting today because he tackled a subject he rarely touches on: Linux. Dell has recently started selling some computers with the option of having Ubuntu Linux...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on September 13, 2007 10:05 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Bootleg your records

Die Zeit newspaper in Germany has an interesting photo gallery on their site about how to create a bootleg copy of a vinyl record. No, not by recording the LP to cassette or to a computer, but by actually...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on September 4, 2007 9:36 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Interpol is enlightened: Vinyl and more

Some bands don't care much about the production and distribution of their albums. They want to make money, and that's about it. Interpol is not one of those bands. I keep getting more and more impressed with Interpol every...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on September 4, 2007 12:14 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Turntable setup: A video introduction

I was going to tell you about all the great websites that detail how to setup a turntable, but I couldn't find any. I looked and looked, and Google issued up a lot of text-heavy, poorly organized sites that...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on September 3, 2007 9:48 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Simplifying the Setup: Dual-boot no more

I've been running dual-boot systems since December 2005. On both my desktop and laptop, I had a Windows partition and an openSUSE Linux partition. After using that basic setup for the past year and a half, it's become clear...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on August 27, 2007 7:07 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross A chain of flowers: Finding wax online

I did some digging into various music blogs, and certainly there are a lot of blogs out there publishing MP3s of old, strange vinyl finds. But mostly I just wanted to record a couple of interesting links I discovered....

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Posted by Daniel Stout on August 26, 2007 2:38 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Primer on the Loudness of CDs

I've talked here before about the loudness of modern CDs. CDs these days are a compressed, fatiguing affair. The difference between CDs mastered fifteen and twenty years ago is striking to today's CDs. It's a huge difference, and all...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on August 24, 2007 7:30 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross I Want You (She’s So Heavy): The weight of modern vinyl

If your musical tastes tend toward the alternative side of the spectrum, then you're in luck for vinyl. A lot of the hip, young bands that skew towards the alt have a much higher propensity to releasing vinyl releases...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on August 20, 2007 9:15 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross How does ’80s vinyl compare to new releases?

In some respects, the past 10 or 15 years have been a golden age of vinyl. While the majority of mainstream artists no longer release their albums on vinyl, many of the artists I care about still release vinyl...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on August 1, 2007 9:34 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Online places to feed the vinyl fetish

I would be remiss if I didn't offer up a few links after the last post of some places to dig out the vinyl. I will offer a few choice ones, but I know there are many more out...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on July 29, 2007 10:05 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Spinning the tunes vinyl-style

After a big move, it takes a while to get everything out and unpacked. I had unpacked my turntable right away as setting up my stereo is a priority. But I didn't hook up the turntable, and listened instead...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on July 28, 2007 4:28 PM · Permalink

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