New Releases
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,
Vinyl Reviews
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.
Giveaways!
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 copy
New Releases
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 titles will be
Vinyl Reviews
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 when
Vinyl Reviews
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 later;
New Releases
We have another stuffed week of vinyl to sink our proverbial fangs into, and I don’t have much of a preamble today other than to draw attention to today’s remarkable playlist, which features a track from (almost) every album I’ve written about today, plus some extra tracks
Vinyl Reviews
Leafing through the new deluxe edition of 2004’s To the 5 Boroughs. We’ve been living without the Beastie Boys for a while now. Since the death of Adam Yauch, aka MCA, in 2012, the two remaining members, Ad-Rock and Mike D, have remained relatively quiet. But a new
New Releases
Once again, we’ve got another big week of hot new vinyl re-releases to explore, with a little bit of everything for everyone. And this week our exclusive playlist is supercharged, with extra selections from interesting reissues that we didn’t manage to fit into the written previews. Before we
Vinyl news and in-depth reviews.
1993’s Anodyne on Rhino High Fidelity. Today we sink our teeth into the final album from Uncle Tupelo, the St. Louis-area band that is often credited with spearheading the alt-country movement of the 1990s. In April, the album was given a fancy re-release on the Rhino High Fidelity imprint,
Hello, loyal subscribers. You may remember not long ago when my Vinyl Cut partner Ned promised that this post would be our last word on Record Store Day 2026. Well, much like Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III, just when we thought we were done, we got pulled back
It's that time of the week when we rummage through the current release schedule and pick out the best, coolest, and most notable new vinyl reissues coming at you on Friday. Now, we know that Friday is International Workers Day and that there are lots of May Day
We’ve got three new reviews for you today, including a look at the second installment in Org Music’s reissue series of the formidable Funkadelic catalog. We’ve also got some wonderful rediscovered synth music that was found as part of a long-forgotten trove of cassettes, and a ’00s
The 50th anniversary edition of 1976’s Live! now includes the complete show, fully remixed. The theme of 1976 is going to be a recurring one this year at The Vinyl Cut, as the 50th anniversary reissues are coming fast and strong. (Will we get one for Songs in the
A little thing like Record Store Day can’t do much to upset the endless torrent of new vinyl reissues, and this week is looking as robust as ever. We’ll get into the rundown in a second, but first, a reminder that our April vinyl giveaway is now live!
We have two vinyl reviews for you today, for two debut albums from groups that went on to become well-known to rock fans everywhere. But these albums—separated by less than a decade—couldn’t be more different. Both bands were greatly influenced by American blues music, but the fashions
Don’t worry, we didn’t forget—our April monthly vinyl giveaway is now live. Each month we give away free vinyl to one cherished subscriber on our paid tier. But first we’d like to welcome all the new subscribers that have joined us in the past week or
This is our last Record Store Day post, we swear. Well, at least until Black Friday comes around in November. We realized it could be helpful to have an index of all the reviews we’ve written in one place. So here’s an alphabetical list with links to all
Including the Grateful Dead, John Prine, the Tears, Yusef Lateef, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Mal Waldron, Stalk-Forrest Group, Ahmad Jamal, Roy Hargove, Ike White, Joe Henderson, and Magia Brasileira. We did it. We’ve reached the last batch of our Record Store Day vinyl reviews, in which we
Even though Record Store Day is this Saturday, April 18, there are still a ridiculous amount of reissues coming out this week—perhaps to capitalize on all the extra foot traffic that record stores will get this weekend. But maybe there are other motives at work. For example, Vinylphyle just
Including Ween, David Bowie, Ramones, Rod Stewart, Muse, the Sisters of Mercy, Bad Brains, Motörhead, the Stranglers, Todd Rundgren’s Runt, Primal Scream, John Frusciante, and Westbound Records. Welcome back to our continuing onslaught of Record Store Day reviews. We’ve been deep in the RSD vinyl trenches, spinning every
