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Welcome to Pocket Calculator's Classic Walkman Museum. Our goal here is to provide you with the most complete vintage walkman & portable stereo information source anywhere. As trivial as the subject may be, we realize there's a following out there in search of information on the history, technology and collectibility of personal stereos and walkmans. The museum provides information on the birth and Golden Age (1979-1989) of these devices through photos, information and opinions.
Most of us have no trouble taking this little device for granted, and perhaps that's only indicative of its success. We struggle to name another invention that has reached such ubiquity in such a short period of time. Sadly, this little gadget has fallen into decline in recent years--gone are the days of sharp styling, state-of-the-art engineering in a small, yet feature-laden package. We're left with hackneyed, disposable descendants, most of which are bulkier than those made 15 years earlier...

Pictured above is the first (and best) Walkman I owned (the Sony TCS-310) bought in 1981 for £100 in a shop in Charlotte Street London W1. I got some great recordings of gigs on this back in the day.

To find your 'cassette tape' (a term just dropped from the Oxford English Dictionary) of choice, go here.

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Swans In Concert: ATP Festival 2011

Swans never broke up. The blistering and artful noise-rock band just went away for a while — 13 years, to be exact. From all accounts, every time Swans hit the stage during its harrowing existence, it was like a premonition of End Times.
After several years and other projects, frontman Michael Gira reconvened the band in 2010. It wasn't a reunion, because the resulting new album, My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky, was more like the next step. Live, Gira is not unlike his kindred spirit in Woven Hand, shepherding a swirl of foot-stomping chaos, but in five songs smeared over two hours, Swans was absolutely Wagner-ian in scope. The result was masculine and relentless, yet alluring in every respect.

"No Words No Thoughts"
"Jim"
"The Apostate"
"The Seer, Pt. 1"
"I Crawled"
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