Back To The Retro Futura; Sound Image Marks 40 Years With Jimmy Buffett

Today's Top Story - 08.29.14 Back To The Retro Futura By Clive Young The great Yogi Berra once said, "The future ain't what it used to be"—and ain't that the truth. Back in the 1980s, pop music reflected the upbeat times and a future that looked even brighter, with chart-toppers like Thompson Twins' "You Lift Me Up," Howard Jones' "Things Can Only Get Better" and Katrina and the Waves' "Walking On Sunshine." Three decades later, optimism may have gone out of style, but that doesn't mean we don't need it, so the Retro Futura Tour is here to revive the vibe and prove Yogi wrong. Read More » Today's News Sound Image Marks 40 Years With Jimmy Buffett » Rutherford Dives Into DPA » Soundcraft Powers Alex Clare » d&b Demonstrates OCA » Today's Featured Blog DVD Review: Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me by Kelleigh Welch Some artists are forever associated with certain studios. You can't talk about the Beatles without bringing up Abbey Road. Any look at the Beach Boys' career will bring up United Western Recorders. Prince? Paisley Park. Run-DMC? Chung King. And as the recent documentary, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, shows, it's the same thing when it comes to Big Star, the legendary "lost" pop group of the 1970s whose story has always been tightly intertwined with that of Memphis, TN's Ardent Studios. Read More » Quote of the Week "We are seeing the equivalent of the XLR connector in networked audio develop via the new AES67 standard. In a short while from now, we will look back at the transition from analog to network cabling and wonder what took us so long."—Phil Wagner, president, Focusrite Novation, Inc. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News - Click here to read the full article!

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