This year is the 25th anniversary of the SXSW music, film and interactive festival. My liver is twitching in anticipation of the abuse it will endure in a couple weeks. Literally over a thousand bands from all over the World will descend upon Austin for a non-stop week long party. It’s time to scour Show List Austin to start planning the FREE day parties. Ask any local Austinite and they’ll tell you that the day parties are where it’s at. Austin is known for having more Tattoo parlors per capita than anywhere else in the World. I think it may also be the largest mass hangover in the days following SXSW.

Tom Dowd is someone you’ve heard but probably never heard of. Once you know who he is, you’ll see his name pop up throughout your record collection. One of the true great recording engineers, he changed the musical landscape of popular music. There is a great documentary about him called The Language Of Music. Netflix it!

Looks like a punk rock version of Ein Prosit!

I was noticing that the record selection was getting thin so I placed a nice order full of Funk, Blues, Afro Beat, Rock, etc. I have one copy to sell of the new Syl Johnson box set. I kept the other! Get in here quick before I start calling all these new records mine!

The $495 Okki Nokki record cleaning machine is now on demo. Come check it out!

Also just in, the Auditorium 23 DL103 step up transformer. Still waiting on the Well Tempered Amadeus and EMT to arrive. It will be a sweet rig! I’m going to hook it up to the Leben RS-30EQ phono pre / Rega P9 / Dynavector Te Kaitora Rua and see how that sounds. It shouldn’t be a shabby front end!

I’m about to have 100,000 hits for the site! Thanks for reading. Thanks for shopping!

Wired magazine has reviewed the UnitiQute. check it out

The Trash Project
Delta Blues Museum
National Music Museum
Stax Records Museum
Rock & Roll Museum
Motown Museum
Buddy Holly Museum
Rockabilly Museum