Mike Mettler

1 week ago | analogplanet.com | Mike Mettler

Elvis Presley Takes Us on a Vinyl Ride Down Sunset Boulevard With New 2LP Set Loaded With ’70s Rarities on August 1 It’s a hunka hunka heap of great burning Elvis tracks a-coming on wax! Or, to be more specific, RCA/Legacy is set to release Elvis Presley’s Sunset Boulevard as a 2LP set on August 1, 2025, a collection that will feature a number of rarities that’s also intended to put a spotlight on Elvis’ oft-overlooked 1970s recorded output.

1 week ago | analogplanet.com | Mike Mettler |Mark Smotroff

Mike Mettler: Last week was indeed a tough one for those of us who listen to a lot of music on vinyl that initially made literal waves in the latter half of the 20th Century. On Friday, June 13, 2025, I tasked my colleague Mark Smotroff to write about the rich recorded legacy of Brian Wilson, the eternal Beach Boy who passed away at age 82 on June 11, 2025. You can read Mark’s wonderful full-bodied surf through Wilson’s formidable vinyl catalog here.

2 weeks ago | analogplanet.com | Mike Mettler

We’re always up for seeing whatever cool accessory ideas emerge from the mind of Sublima Audio Research founder Alessandro “Alex” Cereda, and his latest foray into this realm is the Shelly tonearm headshell. Before we get into what Shelly is made of and what it’s purported to do, let’s first have a brief callback to Sublima Audio Research’s Mat Chakra Limited platter mat, which we initially covered here on AP back on October 8, 2024.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mike Mettler

Billy Idol learns he has a long lost son from 1985 tourIn the new Billy Idol documentary, Billy Idol Should Be Dead, it was revealed that the musician has newly learnt that he has a long-lost adult son. The …

2 weeks ago | stereophile.com | Mike Mettler

The Compact Disc needed a big win—and fast. During its first few years in the marketplace (footnote 1), the format wasn't living up to lofty expectations. Part of the problem maybe was that most of the CDs released up to that time came from analog sources. But then on May 17, 1985, the CD's savior arrived: Brothers in Arms, the fifth studio album release by British rock stalwarts Dire Straits.