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Next time you are in the Los Angeles area be sure to visit the Orange County Record Swap (commonly known as the Buena Park swap) just outside Knott’s Berry Farm at 8530, Stanton Ave., Buena Park, California. I am a regular visitor there, myself and always find a few juicy gems to bring home. The [...]

Shattered Music is a very small, independent record company in California specializing in rock and roll music. Shattered produced a handful of releases by Los Angeles area bands in the mid 1990s, and started up again in late 2011 with a new catalog of previously unreleased bands. The catalog which Shattered Music will be producing [...]

I guess I should subscribe to Rolling Stone, but never get enough time to read all the other mags like TAS, Stereophile, Down Beat, Jazz Journal and the likes as it is, so I picked up a copy of this chunky tome at Whole Foods checkout with a price tag to match their food. Voted [...]

We have an almost complete set of the original Absolute Sound Magazine when it was still a true high-end journal. They stretch all the way back to Volume 1 Number 1 from Spring 1973 (rare cover art version). The first four issues are bound in the original outer protective plastic binder along with issues 5 [...]

VPI Typhoon Record Cleaning Machine (U.S. voltage) in immaculate ondition. This is the latest model with the solid plastic sides, which are better quality than the previous painted wood sides, which tend to chip.  Comes with the clear plastic protective top, two felt cleaning pads, instruction manual and shipping box. Contact us for more details. [...]

We are in the process of uploading two more collections we recently purchased. We have some very tasty jazz titles still to upload, among them are: Lee Morgan “Expoobident” mono original, Andrew Hill’s “Black Fire,” “Smokestack” And “Compulsion,” Wayne Shorter “All Seeing Eye,” Gigi Gryce & Donald Byrd’s “Jazz Lab” On Jubilee, A sealed Original [...]

I’ve just installed the new Clearaudio Concept turntable in our office system after spending a weekend of listening and comparisons at home and pitting it against the Basis Gold Debut which I have owned for several years. I have to say that this is one amazing turntable / arm/ cartridge that has to be one [...]

I have been very busy these last few weeks traveling to view record collections from the boiling hot and smog-bound Hemet to beautiful mile high Idylwild and so on to fog-bound and chilly Pacifica just south of San Francisco with a trip to Los Angeles thrown in for good measure. The results are a severely [...]

It is with great sadness that I have to report that friend and fellow record nut (collector extraordinaire might be more accurate), Brooks Berdan, proprietor of Brooks Berdan Ltd in Monrovia, California passed away on July 8th. I have fond memories of digging through crate after crate of records at the Pasadena swap meet (back [...]

OK, so it’s not quite a torpedo and it’s nowhere near as heavy as it looks, but this big ‘ole thing turned up at Freakbeat Records in Sherman Oaks recently and via the bush telegraph, Tom Petty found out they had it in stock and bought it for his own collection of memorabilia. Pictured here [...]