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 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
Vinyl Reviews
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
New Releases
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
Vinyl Reviews
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
Vinyl Reviews
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
News
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
Vinyl Reviews
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
Vinyl news and in-depth reviews.
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
There are lots of new records to talk about today, but first, two bits of news on the vinyl reissue scene: First, Universal’s Vinylphyle has announced the next title in their series. As you may remember, they launched the series at the end of last year with a quartet
More Rhino Reserves! This time we tuck into the new vinyl reissues of Blues & Roots and A Sailor’s Guide to Earth. We’ve got a couple more discs from Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right campaign to tell you about, and just like yesterday, these are in
Rhino Reserve gets their hands on Clouds Taste Metallic and Sweet Revenge. As part of their Start Your Ear Off Right campaign for January, Rhino has released a clutch of vinyl reissues in their Rhino Reserve series. And as you likely know already, the Rhino Reserves have all been pretty
Happy Friday, my fellow vinyl obsessives. Hope that you have been able to get out to your local shop and score some of the killer new wax out today. Or you're having a nice time waiting for your postal carrier to arrive with your new purchases. Whatever the
The onslaught of weekly new releases eased up a bit for the holidays, but now things are getting back to business as usual. It’s a Rhino-heavy week again, with 17 releases from their Start Your Ear Off Right series, but there’s plenty of other stuff to talk about
Happy Wednesday all. I trust this finds you as well as you can be considering, you know, everything. Today we are continuing to corral some of the stragglers from 2025 that we weren't able to cover until now. Trust us, we'll be getting deep into the
We shake hands with the 50th anniversary deluxe edition of Wish You Were Here. The new year is plowing along, but we’ve still got some last flashes of 2025 to catch, including the new deluxe reissue of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. I’ll get to that
