Vinyl Reviews
Two recent OJCs commemorate Coltrane’s centennial. One hundred years ago today, John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina. He died at age 40 of throat cancer in Long Island on July 17, 1967. In the years between, he comprehensively transformed American music by resculpting the parameters and possibilities
Vinyl Reviews
1972’s Occasional Rain gets an all-analog Kevin Gray cut on Slow Down Sounds’ vinyl reissue. There isn’t anyone quite like Terry Callier. In fact, even picking a genre descriptor for his reflective, forlorn music leads to qualifying statements and a whole lot of hemming and hawing. Is
New Releases
It’s another fine week of vinyl reissues, with all sorts of albums returning to wax or, in some cases, appearing there for the very first time. We’ll get into this week’s bounty in a moment, but first, as always, let’s pull out the telescope, point it
Vinyl Reviews
New reissues from Counting Crows, the Cranberries, Sheryl Crow, D’Angelo, and GZA. It’s been a little bit since I checked in on UMe’s Vinylphyle series. Launched in November of last year, the imprint has produced well-regarded vinyl reissues of milestone albums in the Universal Music Group
Giveaways!
One copy of the 2021 double-vinyl LP will be given away to a paid subscriber. The funk/soul/Latin band War came out of Long Beach, California, in the late ’60s, first as backing group to the Animals’ Eric Burdon and then as a force in their own right.
New Releases
The big news this week, of course, is the much-awaited Maggot Brain reissue from Org Music and Westbound Records—read my review for that Funkadelic classic here—but there are of course plenty of other vinyl reissues coming out as well. And some darn good ones. It’s one
Vinyl Reviews
When Org Music partnered with Westbound Records to produce a series of authoritative vinyl reissues of the Westbound catalog, the first thing out of everyone’s mouths was, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, great—so when’s Maggot Brain coming?” To their credit, Org did not rush to satisfy market demand. Their
Vinyl Reviews
I’ve got two reviews for you as we Americans head into this holiday weekend. One is for a heady experimental jazz record from 1973 and the other is for a triple-LP set of outtakes from a band’s prolific high-water mark in the 1980s. * Woody Shaw: Song
New Releases
As I’ve been doing lately, I’ll preface the weekly new reissues post with a roundup of some recent announcements about upcoming releases coming later in the year. As you might expect, there’s been a steady stream of intriguing-sounding things as we ramp up for the holiday
Vinyl news and in-depth reviews.
The Dutch band’s 1973 breakthrough Moontan receives the deluxe treatment from Artone Signature. When Golden Earring officially called it a day in 2021, the Dutch group was at that point one of the longest-lived continuously active bands of the rock era. Having first formed in the Hague by
It’s another big week in the world of vinyl reissues, with some exciting obscurities coming our way from my two favorite Spanish reissue labels. Plus, the first two Analogue Productions UHQR pressings of the Who are in the process of leaving the Salina, Kansas, warehouse as we speak. The
Today I’m reviewing Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab’s new edition of Television’s 1977 debut, Marquee Moon, which underwent Mobile Fidelity’s UltraDisc One-Step process and marks the first time this seminal LP has been pressed at 45 RPM across two discs. (It is also available from MoFi
The Jethro Tull 1968–1972 RHF box set is here, sourced from UK tapes. Hi, record-loving friends—a vinyl review to kick off your week, for Real Gone Music’s reissue of a fantastic and overlooked album from 1970: Take It to the Streets by the New York outfit
Plus a ton of new announcements, including Rhino’s Rocktober, three new Vinylphyles, the R.E.M. DSS, and more. It’s another brimming week of vinyl reissues, but before I get into that, a huge amount of upcoming titles have been announced in the past few days. There’s
Feeling Alright: The Complete Nancy Pulsations Concert is a scorching-hot live show from the blues-rock legend. One of the standouts of 2026’s Record Store Day was the release from Elemental Music of Freddie King’s 1975 performance at the Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival. Feeling Alright: The Complete
Rhino High Fidelity’s new pressings of CSN’s 1969 self-titled debut and Joni Mitchell’s 1971 masterpiece Blue. Today I’m catching up on two of the most recent Rhino High Fidelity pressings. These two albums are interconnected in many ways, although they’re actually pretty different listening
Welcome back, friends. It’s a relatively streamlined week for new vinyl reissues—perhaps a good thing, as it looks like we’ll be getting a deluge of wallet-tempting stuff in the back third of 2026. Nevertheless, there’s still plenty to talk about today, although you may notice
Today I’m reviewing the two latest releases from Dust and Memory, a new reissue label from Bilbao, Spain, run by Álvaro Lissón, who’s also responsible for the excellent Meritorio Records. So far, Dust and Memory has focused on off-the-radar American indie rock and pop from the
We’ve got another metric ton of new vinyl reissues to sift through today—but first I wanted to mention the recent layoffs at the four music-news outlets owned by a company called Veeps. This happened earlier this week, as reported by Pitchfork; the sites/publications are BrooklynVegan, Goldmine,
Hi everyone—two reviews this evening, as I catch up on a pair of Rhino Reserves that came out a few weeks back. * Allen Toussaint: Life, Love and Faith * The Time: Ice Cream Castle Before we get to that, though, the big vinyl news today is that a 5-LP
The two vinyl reviews today don’t have a ton in common, although both albums come from troubled geniuses who lived difficult lives and died before their time. Both artists transcended their genres—soul and country, respectively—by reaching their audiences on purely emotional wavelengths. One of these is a
