Chuck Fensch
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 25, 2026
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- Jul 30, 2026
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The Groove Grotto: The evolution of the SL-1200 turntable (opens the original)
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For someone who loves vinyl, that seems like a pretty darn serious omission. Itâs probably the most recognized and used turntable ever made. Even if you canât tell a 45 single from a 33â LP, youâve probably seen one. The SL-1200 is the turntable with the big platter with four rows of dots around it, a pitch slider and four large stabilizing feet. Most commonly, the body, known to us vinylheads as the âplinth,â of the SL-1200 is silver. At 27 pounds, itâs a beast. Iâve owned a few
Groove Grotto: Meitei creates haunting soundscapes of old Japan (opens the original)
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If youâre a reader of this column, by now you know I love unusual music. Just one scant week ago, I discovered Meitei. I was immediately obsessed with this Hiroshima-born, Kyoto, Japan-based musician (real name Daisuke Fujita) â an artist who describes his albums as exploring a âlost Japanese mood.â His music was unlike anything I had ever heard; sounds and feelings truly of a Japan long gone yet reimagined in a way that feels otherworldly, timeless and haunting. I discovered his 2018 de
Groove Grotto: The unsung pub pioneers of punk (opens the original)
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This month, Iâm diving into a genre so small and short-lived that itâs almost unknown outside of the U.K. Iâm talking pub rock. At its core, pub rock was around for only a couple of years, and it would barely raise a blip in the history of rock music. But its impact was crucial to the early days of punk and some of its biggest heroes. In the early- to mid-1970s, rock music in the U.K. was predominantly focused on large production and technical virtuosity. âProg rockâ groups like Yes, P
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