A new Rhino Reserve pressing makes 1970’s Express Yourself bigger than ever. Today I’m continuing my survey of the five Rhino Reserve pressings that came out in June as part of Black Music Month. Last week I reviewed Betty Wright’s I Love the Way You Love and
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Hello—today’s review covers the only solo album from one of Fela Kuti’s most indispensable sidemen: baritone saxophonist and Egypt 80 bandleader Lekan Animashaun. The album had a protracted process of creation and a delayed release, all of which I’ll get into. Despite being cut from the
New Releases
All of a sudden, it feels like the vinyl calendar is exploding with reissues. Things don’t normally feel this way until the holiday shopping season gets going, but after a few quiet weeks, it seems that the gloves are off (it’s summertime, way too hot for gloves anyway)
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The Rhino Reserve series revisits two gems of Miami soul. Just a couple of quick newsy bits before I get into today’s reviews: • Maggot Brain is coming! The third installment in Org Music’s reissue series of Funkadelic’s Westbound Records catalog will be arriving on September 11. This
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It’s time for our weekly look at the passel of new reissues coming our way—and it’s a slower week than usual, due to the American holiday of Independence Day on July 4. The upside of this is that many retailers are having sales this weekend, and if
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Today I’ve got a deep dive on the latest release from Rhino High Fidelity for you, for Curtis Mayfield’s immortal Super Fly. For those keeping tabs on the series, Rhino have also announced their next release: an upcoming RHF pressing of Joni Mitchell’s 1971 album Blue, which
New Releases
Greetings and salutations, vinyl friends ’n’ vinyl fiends—it’s another jam-packed week in the realm of newly pressed reissues, so let’s hop to it. To accompany our journey, here’s the new playlist, which is bursting at the seams with all of this week’s choice reissues.
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I talk a lot about sound quality in this newsletter. That’s hardly surprising. But one of the reasons we’re all into vinyl is that it can offer a lot more than just an aural experience. (There are plenty of perfectly good-sounding digital streaming services you can listen
Giveaways!
One copy of Kuumbwa will be given away to a paid subscriber. Every month, The Vinyl Cut gives away a piece of choice vinyl to one of the excellent subscribers on our paid tier. And this month is no exception. For June, we’re giving away Michel Petrucciani’s Kuumbwa,
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It’s another fine week in Vinyldom, with reissues, more reissues, and even more reissues behind those first reissues. Plus, reissues! We’ll get right into what’s on tap, including two new Vinylphyles and the welcome return of Jazz Alley after a week’s hiatus, but first, just a
Brian Wilson’s 1966 masterpiece comes to DSS and Vinylphyle, plus other 60th-anniversary goings-on. Hello, readers—at long last, here is my coverage of the recent reissues of Pet Sounds. I hope by now you are not sick of reading about the album. There was a lot of
Welcome back to another week in vinyl reissues. It’s a bit of a slow week, all things considered—but there’s absolutely nothing to complain about, as there are a few things hitting stores this week that are among the most exciting reissues of the year. But I don’
Real Gone Music expands the 1975 reunion album with an extra LP. Before we get into the review today, here’s a quick reminder that today (Sunday, June 7) I’ll be appearing on Steve Westman’s Live Audiophile Roundtable at 10 am Pacific Time (1 pm Eastern). You can
It’s another fine week in Vinyl-land, with more reissues that you can shake a stick at. (What are you doing shaking sticks, anyway? Put that stick away.) Seriously, there are a lot of vinyl reissues this week, more that I could capably cover in today’s newsletter, but
Analog-cut reissues of Court and Spark and 3614 Jackson Highway arrive on Rhino’s premium vinyl line. I’m reviewing two of the latest Rhino High Fidelity reissues today, both cut from tape by Kevin Gray and arriving in oversized tip-on gatefold jackets. * Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
Lots of new vinyl reissues to get into this week, but I’ll start today’s newsletter with some interesting announcements for reissues coming later this summer. First up: Fontana Records, the British label that was reborn in 2025 after having originally been a sublabel of the Dutch giant Philips,
A groundbreaking Ghanaian highlife classic from 1974 gets a sweet reissue from Strut. Before I get into today’s review, here are some “What We Did on Our Holidays” pics. I went up to Seattle over Memorial Day weekend and dropped by the renowned Easy Street Records in West Seattle.
One copy of Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts 3-LP set will be given away to a paid subscriber. As we do every month, we’re giving away some shiny new vinyl to one of the subscribers on our paid tier. And this month we’ve got a
It’s another high-flyin’ week in the world of vinyl reissues, and we’ll glide into that in just a moment, but I’ll kick off today’s newsletter with a bit of vinyl-related news. Yesterday, Interscope-Capitol announced that all—but one—of their Definitive Sound Series
1969’s The Gilded Palace of Sin now comes in an all-analog Vinylphyle pressing. Today I’m reviewing one of my favorite records, the Flying Burrito Brothers’ debut album. This was one of those records I had read about for years before actually getting my ears on it—and
Catching up on a pair of Blue Note Tone Poets. Today I’m reviewing two pieces of vinyl that were released back in March but got temporarily side-shifted during the onslaught of Record Store Day. The good news is that they sound just as good a couple of months
