Ken Micallef sits down with mastering engineer Ryan K. Smith for an exclusive interview on Day 2 at @Vinyl_Lives' inaugural Vinyl Summit in Salina, Kansas bit.ly/4hS6m2H

Rare early mono @DavidBowieReal recordings have been officially unearthed for an important new historical vinyl collection, The Shel Talmy Recordings LP, which was released by Parlophone on 09.18.26. Our review bit.ly/4k1BNcc

Ken Micallef is on the ground in Salina, Kansas, for @Vinyl_Lives' inaugural Vinyl Summit. See it all for yourself, direct from our official YouTube channel bit.ly/4yYiohc

The new Spira two-speed belt-drive turntable from UK-based @CambridgeAudio is a plug-and-play record player with a built-in preamplifier and a pre-mounted @USAudioTechnica AT3600 cartridge with conical stylus bit.ly/4hQ60JR

AP editor Mike Mettler reviews the two initial @Vinyl_Lives 180gm Blues Masters Live at the Crossroads Concert Series LPs: Tab Benoit’s 2LP set (2002) & Tony Joe White’s 1LP offering (2003), recorded a year apart at Blue Heaven Studios in Salina, Kansas bit.ly/3VOioS7

Just what the doctor ordered. Pangea Audio has just announced that the Record Doctor XI, the 25th anniversary edition of the well-respected—and well-reviewed!—Record Doctor series of vacuum record cleaning machines (aka RCMs), will be shipping this month analogplanet.com/content/25t…

Alex Halberstadt tackles the Analogtechnik DST15 Ice Age phono cartridge bit.ly/4dxhS0W

Interscope-Capitol just announced @BillyIdol’s breakthrough 1983 LP Rebel Yell is getting the full all-analog Definitive Sound Series (DSS) treatment for its limited-edition 180g 1LP release on 11.20.26. AP editor Mike Mettler has all the DSS details bit.ly/3UepQ8D

The Rubber Soul 60th anniversary 180g 5LP super deluxe edition box set is arguably one of the most anticipated @thebeatles packages to date — and it has just been released by Capitol/Apple/UMe today, 10.02.26. Our review bit.ly/4djSn32

Ken Micallef speaks with @Vinyl_Lives head honcho Chad Kassem about the upcoming Vinyl Summit that is being held in Salina, Kansas, from October 15–18, 2026 bit.ly/4y2zitD

Foreigner's Head Games: Remixed LP is set for release on 10.30.26 via Atlantic/RHINO. A bonus separate 45 with two previously unreleased tracks from the sessions that begat the original 11.79 HG LP is also on the way. AP editor Mike Mettler has the details bit.ly/3VopWe7

Our resident turntable setup expert Michael Trei has some advice for how to break in a new cartridge bit.ly/4ADoOTW

The Mothers of Invention’s debut double LP Freak Out!, released by Verve on 06.27.66, is arguably one of the most important recordings of the 1960s—and perhaps the 20th century overall. Our review of the new 180g 5LP 60th anniv FO! box set from UMe @zappa bit.ly/4htgldu

Michael Trei tells us why he can see things more clearly with the WAM Engineering WallyLoupe whenever he’s setting up and aligning cartridges bit.ly/3V8E4rP

A legacy brand in cartridge production, Sumiko recently introduced their Oriole moving coil (MC) cartridge. Ken Micallef puts the new Oriole MC cart through its paces bit.ly/46xalvb

Three new reissues of popular blues LPs from three different record labels comprise some recent reissues from @CraftRecordings Bluesville line: a trio of iconic AAA 180g LPs by three different blues legends: Jimmy Reed, Skip James & Albert King; our review bit.ly/4hyccGa

Believe it or not, there are still active shopping malls in the U.S. — and at least one, Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, leases to a modern record store, The Sharp Notes. @juliecmtweets takes us on a tour bit.ly/4AiElbL

British Invasion icons The Zombies have just announced that their Continue Here (Mono Remastered) LP is set for release on 10.30.26, via Beechwood Park. AP editor Mike Mettler tells us about all the there that’s there with Here bit.ly/4rgA44h

Making a turntable’s platter spin at exactly 33⅓ rotations per minute sounds like it should be an easy task, but in fact, it’s hard to do precisely. Michael Trei explains the process bit.ly/4Ae49FV

Marvin Gaye’s 1973 landmark LP Let’s Get It On was reissued on 07.17.26 as another important all-analog (AAA) One-Step 180g 1LP entry in Interscope-Capitol’s most excellent Definitive Sound Series (a.k.a. DSS); our review bit.ly/3US2JAG