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Issue 32Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #32!  If you're a reader of fine print (and who amongst our readers is not?), you've probably noticed that the legend on our cover has morphed from "Journal of Music...

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Thurston Moore/ Father John Misty

Issue 32SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

Album: rock n roll consciousness Artist: Thurston Moore Release: Ecstatic Peace! Records, April, 2017 Within the first two minutes of the opening song “Exalted,” the ever-familiar rhythm of Thurston Moore’s guitar craft...

Audiophile Therapy

Issue 32FEATURED

Do you remember that special feeling on the way home from a great concert? If you’re like me, you hardly remember the trip home. Do you remember feeling the concert’s emotional...

Cynically Yours

Issue 32THE AUDIO CYNIC

I won’t beat around the bush: putting Copper together is a lot of work. I don’t recall my exact response when the idea of the magazine was pitched to me by Ye...

Toon Town!

Issue 32MUSIC TO MY EARS

I think  was in my teens before I realized that the couple thousand Warner Brothers cartoons I’d seen since I could remember with a big bowl of Rice Krispies in...

Axpona: Up Your Game, Exhibitors!

Issue 32FEATURED

While watching Stereophile’s video of 2017 CES impressions, Peter McGrath of Wilson Audio made a comment  (at 1:48) that some of the demo rooms need to “up their game” with the demo music. In his...

Silence Isn't Silent

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 32MUSIC

Let me tell you about Bernie Leadon. Bernie came to some notice in the late 60s, as a member, first, of Dillard & Clark, and then of The Flying Burrito Brothers. And...

A Joyful Experience

Issue 32IN MY ROOM

A friend and I would walk into hi-fi stores back in the day, and hope to be left alone in the big demo rooms where we could listen to Supertramp’s Crime...

Taste the weather

Issue 32PARTING SHOT

Mmmmm, summer’s just around the corner. You can almost taste it!

Neil Young—Again?

Issue 32INDUSTRY NEWS

[In last issue’s Industry News, I mentioned that following the decline and perhaps-demise of Pono, Neil Young had come on the scene as vouching for the hi-res streaming technology called OraStream....

Jack the Dripper

Issue 32QUIBBLES AND BITS

Most aspects of modern life at the personal level tend to operate on the basis of meritocracy.  The better you are at something, the more likely you are to be...

Exiles

Issue 32TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Last time our subject was Americans, and a varied lot they were. Who knew a person could write “American” music in so many different ways? Actually you knew, and so...

Becoming a Curd Nerd

Issue 32FEATURED

When I was eleven years old, Santa left a fondue machine and half a wheel of stinky French cheese in my stocking at Christmas. Most kids (and plenty of adults)...

High-End Audio Retales

Issue 32TWISTED SYSTEMS

I want to start this one by thanking Copper for being brave enough to publish tales about some of my real life experiences which sometimes take an acidic and cynical turn as...

Hannah McPhillimy

Issue 32... AND INDIE FOR ALL

If a ukulele makes you think of 1960s Hawaiian kitsch pop, then please have a listen to Hannah McPhillimy. The Belfast-based singer-songwriter uses that maligned instrument to bittersweet effect, accompanying reflective...

Horns!

Issue 32VINTAGE WHINE

If there’s a more contentious topic in audio than that of horn loudspeakers, I don’t know what it is.—Okay, that’s not quite true: cables are a more contentious topic. I’m...