If there are two individuals who know the world of Hi-Fi audio, it's Ken Kessler & Michael Fremer. Ken is a Hi-Fi expert journalist, who joined Hi-Fi News & Record Review in 1983, to which he still contributes. He also writes a column for the website Soundstage UK, is the author of "Quad: The Closest Approach", "McIntosh … For The Love Of Music", and co-auth ... Show More
Oct 2023
Talking Mal Evans with Ken Womack
<p>Bonus Episode!</p><br><p>Talking Mal Evans with Ken Womack</p><br><p>Kenneth Womack is a writer, historian, and critic, who has written some of the best books about The Beatles and their inner circle. </p><p>To this list, he is about to add Living The Beatles Legend, The ... Show More
1h 5m
Apr 2023
The Artist Who Was Both Loved and Disdained
We bring you a special episode from Sidedoor, a podcast about the treasures that fill the vaults of the Smithsonian. This story is inspired by “Big Band,” a defining work by the painter LeRoy Neiman.
Neiman was a character, a cultural gadfly and an omnipresent artist who sat fo ... Show More
37m 12s
Mar 2023
Chris Jones & Michael Mooney on the Rise and Fall of Siegfried & Roy
<p>On October 3, 2003, a horrified audience looked on as Roy Horn, one-half of the famous German magician duo Siegfried & Roy, was bit by a 400-pound white tiger named “Mantecore” and dragged offstage. After many years in residency at the Mirage Las Vegas and more than 30,000 ... Show More
39m 21s
Sep 2023
Jeremy Eichler on his new book 'Time's Echo'
<p><strong>Jeremy Eichler</strong>'s new book, <em>Time's Echo,</em> just out from Faber (HB; £25) tangles with memory – what we choose to remember, what to forget – as history takes hold, and he argues that music can become in many ways the most powerful form of memorial. To ill ... Show More
30m 34s