Copper


Fall Has Fallen....

Issue 45Opening Salvo

...and it can't get up! Welcome to Copper #45! The year ticks away, and we are presented/threatened with the horrors of endless repetitions of Burl Ives' "Holly Jolly Christmas"...Well, be of good...

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Geezerpalooza

Issue 45THE AUDIO CYNIC

Back at the dawn of the grunge era in 1991, Perry Farrell dreamed up Lollapalooza as a festival that would serve as a grand farewell tour for his band, Jane’s Addiction. Over...

Kavi Alexander, Part 1

Issue 45THE COPPER INTERVIEW

Kavi Alexander considers creating music to be a sacred act, and has made Water Lily Acoustics, his labor of love, an avenue for sharing the magic when his recordings capture the inspired...

More Bad News for Sears and Gibson

Issue 45INDUSTRY NEWS

We’ve previously written about the sad, seemingly-inevitable  decline of Sears. While it does not directly affect the audio biz, it certainly does affect the retail climate of America. For many years, Sears...

Flat Worms

Issue 45SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

From the scuzzy, fuzzy den of Castle Face Records comes the first full length LP of Flat Worms, called – wait for it… Flat Worms. It comes out spittin’ fast paced, gnarly, in your face...

Southern Italian Wines: A Walk on the Wild Side...

Issue 45FEATURED

It’s a Malbec world out there. Once upon a time, it was a Merlot world—and then came the movie Sideways, based on Rex Pickett’s novel of the same name. Sideways detailed the misadventures of...

The Two Most Important People in the World

Issue 45FEATURED

Let’s call my audio-show buddy Gavin. I first met him in the elevator at the 2017 Los Angeles Audio Show, and we chatted for ages in the foyer. Then I...

Leopold and his Fiction

Issue 45AND INDIE FOR ALL

With eyes like big brown marbles and his dyed blond hair slicked back, Daniel James Leopold looks like a man whose songs would teeter at the edge of madness. And...

Summer Holiday

Issue 45MUSIC'AL NOTES

“We’ve come to report a car accident”said Ivor. The policeman became animated and said, “Vieni, vieni (come, come) theese-away.” He led us through some corridors and into a courtyard. He...

The Great 1967 Psychedelic Album of the Year Sh...

Issue 45TWISTED SYSTEMS

Part 1   The Contenders I recently sent away for, and received, the 50th anniversary edition of the Rolling Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request, from now on  referred to as TSMR, for the sake of...

Like a Circle in a Spiral

Issue 45QUIBBLES AND BITS

On a piano keyboard, most of us know that all the white notes are identified by the letters A–G, while the black notes are the sharps and flats … written...

Why Doesn’t My System Sound Better? (Or: A Neur...

Issue 45MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

By any objective measure, it sounds incredible. But you know how people like us are: obsessive to a degree that’s way past the point of fault. Maybe I’m romanticizing how...

Materials Science

Issue 45VINTAGE WHINE

I’ve danced around this subject before, with my discussions of tone and wood. Back a million years ago in my college days, I majored in mechanical engineering, focusing on internal combustion engines and...

Hi-Fis, Cars, and Planes

Issue 45FEATURED

Through the years my idea of listening to a stereo has evolved, to where I’m now at the point where I expect  to be totally transported and blown away by a sound...