Vinyl Reviews
What do a Brazilian jazz fusion band and a Chicago vocal-soul trio have in common? Not a whole lot, as it turns out, except that we’re reviewing reissues of both of them this week. First up, we’ve got a never-before-released 1977 recording from Grupo Um, the intensely ambitious
Vinyl Reviews
Today I’m reviewing a fascinating reissue of Japanese jazz, released by the South Korean label Beatball Music. I was unfamiliar with the label until its owner, Bongsoo Lee, emailed The Vinyl Cut to inform us of their projects. Based in Seoul, the label is one of the most esteemed
Giveaways!
For some, February 14 means chocolate, snuggles, and chalky little hearts with illegible messages printed on them. For us here at The Vinyl Cut, it means our February vinyl giveaway is going live! Every month, our paid subscribers are eligible to enter and win some very cool vinyl. So far,
New Releases
We’ll jump right into this week’s vinyl reissues—but first, just a reminder about our upcoming February vinyl giveaway: We’ve got a copy of the Tom Petty live album released exclusively as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event last November, and it's
Vinyl Reviews
New analog cuts of the Stax classics Pain in My Heart and The Soul Album. As our regular readers know all too well, we’re pretty high on Rhino Reserves these days. Rhino has used the line to carve out a more affordable alternative to their Rhino High Fidelity series
News
The Brazilian manufacturing plant’s Clássicos Em Vinil series brings MPB and Tropicália to a new generation. Music discovery has never been easier these days, from online sleuthing to physical crate-digging. While the majors have begun to take vinyl seriously again, it’s been the smaller independent labels that have
Vinyl Reviews
We spin the new Monkees singles compilation and two reissues from Real Gone Music. Start your weekend with three piping-hot vinyl reviews—just don’t burn your fingers. Today we catch up on the last of Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right campaign from January and also get on
New Releases
It’s time for our weekly plunge into the refreshing waters of the latest vinyl reissues. And it’s quite a deep pool this week, so we hope you saved a little bit of covetous anticipation after the Record Store Day announcement landed yesterday. Because wow, that is quite a
Vinyl Reviews
Howdy, friends. I hope this finds you in good spirits on what is, for me anyway, a chilly but lovely February morning. Today's edition of the newsletter dives back into the slowly growing discography of Zev Feldman's imprint Time Traveler Recordings with reissues of two out-of-print
Vinyl news and in-depth reviews.
We checked out the new half-speed master of Station to Station and the Rhino Reserve pressing of Back to Oakland. Today’s newsletter contains reviews for a pair of recent reissues—one for an undisputed classic and one for a record that, relatively speaking, may have fallen by the wayside
We’ve got three new reviews for you this weekend, as we catch up on a January that saw a lot more worthwhile reissues than we would have guessed. (February’s looking pretty loaded, too.) Here’s what’s inside: * The Necessaries: Completely Necessary (Anthology 1978–1982) * Todd Rundgren’s
Hello, hello, vinyl enthusiasts. We’ve got another action-packed week of new vinyl reissues for you, but there are two upcoming releases that we didn’t include—because we don’t know what they are yet! Rhino High Fidelity is dropping their next two titles this week, and our friend
As January draws to a close and much of the US is under a blanket of snow, we’re still happily shoveling ourselves out from under a pile of vinyl from Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right campaign. Over the month of January, they’ve dropped a ton of
We’ll jump right into the reviews—two for you today. One’s for an album that was lost to time due to record company interference, and the other is for a pair of albums that explored the merging of post-punk with rockabilly. * David Forman: Who You Been Talking To
Greetings, young (and not so young) vinyl lovers. We’ve got a lovely new edition of the newsletter for you today, but first... Congratulations to Allan, the winner of this month’s vinyl giveaway! He’ll soon be receiving the test pressings of the recently released Definitive Sound Series one-steps
As much of the US begins to plunge into a deep freeze, we figured what better time to cozy up with some records that we missed the first time around? This pair of vinyl reissues came out last November but got lost in the crazy shuffle of releases leading up
Howdy, partners. We’ll jump right into this week’s reissue rundown in just a sec. First, we wanted to welcome all the readers who clicked on us from around the web. If you’re digging our coverage, please consider signing up for a subscription. Our subscribers are the coolest,
Hello, and happy Wednesday to you and yours. For the first time in over a week, we’ve got reviews of some fresh reissues that are not part of the Rhino Reserve series. Today we’re digging into a couple re-releases that hit record store shelves this past Friday, and
Hello again, and if you’re sick of reading our reviews about all of the new Rhino Reserve pressings—well, tough. Following up on yesterday’s newsletter and a pair from last week, we’ve got reviews of the remaining three Rhino Reserve titles that Rhino has released so far
The Rhino Reserve series continues apace with a definitive edition of Future Games. Not even a year old, the Rhino Reserve series has quickly become one of the most appealing and reliable vinyl reissue lines around. The formula is stupidly simple: Take a slightly less well-known album from the vast
As promised, our January vinyl giveaway goes live today, and it’s a pretty incredible one, if we do say so ourselves. Every month we’re giving away free vinyl to our paid-tier subscribers, and each month we’ll endeavor to make the vinyl as special as possible. I’d
