RSD
Our RSD ’26 previews continue with a batch of all of the 1980s rock and rock-adjacent reissues that have caught our eye. This includes records that can be categorized as post-punk, power pop, new wave, goth, hi-NRG, indie, jangle-pop, college rock, and [other]. We’ve actually broken down today’s
Vinyl Reviews
Two new reviews for you today, for a pair of pretty playful albums—one of which you will definitely know if you were listening to rap in the early ’90s, and one an indescribable jazz-Indian-fusion obscurity that even the most seasoned Impulse! Records collectors might not be familiar with. * Bill
New Releases
We’re marching closer to Record Store Day but that doesn’t mean the blizzard of new reissues is letting up. There’s a lot of great stuff to talk about today, including a new Sinatra Tone Poet, some half-speed Alan Parsons, a Queen remix, and an overlooked British jazz
Vinyl Reviews
Plus, news of the different Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds' reissues.
RSD
Our Record Store Day preview continues with what you might call the “classic rock” reissues, although we also touch upon the pop, folk, and country reissues from that same period—in this case, the 1960s and 1970s. If something from that era is missing from this rundown, we might have
Vinyl Reviews
We’d like to help you ease into your weekend with some leisure reading in the form of two extended vinyl reviews. So we went long on some new releases that have been spending time on our turntables in recent weeks. * Van Morrison: Moondance [Rhino Reserve] * The Beach Boys: We
New Releases
Howdy. It’s a busy week in the vinyl reissue world, with new releases from Mobile Fidelity, Vinyphyle, Acoustic Sounds, Craft, Guerssen, and many other fine labels. And after yesterday’s idle speculation about the world’s oil situation and how it it will likely affect our favorite hobby—which,
Vinyl Reviews
Today’s record reviews cover recent reissues from the Hamburg, Germany, label Tapete Records and its electronic-music-focused sister imprint, Bureau B. The first album is from the longtime UK band Comet Gain, who have made a virtue of their disparate sound, with acoustic folk and abrasive punk sharing groove space
RSD
Our preview of this year’s Record Store Day continue with a look at some of the more interesting hip-hop, soul, R&B, funk, and reggae vinyl that’s hitting independent record stores on Saturday, April 18. Last week we tackled hard rock, punk, and metal, and the week
Vinyl news and in-depth reviews.
A look at recent entries in Universal's all-analog reissue series.
Hello, fellow vinyl heads—we’ve got another weekly rundown of all the vinyl reissues coming at us fast and furious. It’s a stacked roster, so we should probably get right into it. But first, just a quick reminder about our March vinyl giveaway for folks on our paid-subscriber
Loaded comes to Rhino High Fidelity, plus two reissues from the Japanese black-metal band. Today’s newsletter contains a pair of reviews for you. The first is for the recently released Rhino High Fidelity edition of the Velvet Underground’s 1970 swan song, Loaded, cut from the original tape by
The Definitive Sound Series gives Enema of the State and Can’t Slow Down the one-step treatment. Back in December, we reviewed four installments in the Definitive Sound Series (DSS), Interscope-Capitol’s ultra-high-end reissue series of one-step pressings. Refreshingly, the series seems to be primarily focused on the ’80s, ’90s,
Our RSD coverage continues with a look at some of the heavier stuff coming to your local record store on Saturday, April 18. Today we’re previewing the hard rock, punk, and metal vinyl that’s being reissued—or in some cases, released on vinyl for the very first time.
Yesterday we teased our March vinyl giveaway for paid subscribers, with reviews of the four latest Vinylphyle reissues: * Jellyfish: Spilt Milk * Heart: Dreamboat Annie * Erykah Badu: Mama’s Gun * Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive! Reviews: Jellyfish, Heart, Erykah Badu, and Peter Frampton on VinylphyleToday we’ve got a quartet of
Today we’ve got a quartet of vinyl reviews for you, exploring the four most recent releases from Universal’s budding Vinylphyle imprint. We dug into the first four Vinylphyle reissues at the end of last year (read those reviews here and here) and we were impressed, to say the
Welcome back to The Vinyl Cut, where the only thing that’s square is the album cover art. Although, actually, we’ve got some praise for a pretty middlebrow Elvis Presley album in today’s newsletter, so I guess that’s kind of square. And hey, now that I think
Some musicians exist outside of a genre even as they define it. “Country music” doesn’t quite seem a fitting descriptor for what Johnny Cash did, and yet he was one of its most representative practitioners in the second half of the 20th century. The term is simply too limiting
As we begin the week with decided global uncertainty, it might not be the best time for some good ol’ vinyl escapism. ...What am I saying? It might be the best time for some good ol’ vinyl escapism. In here, we can close off the outside world, ignore all the
It was scarcely three months ago that we were treated to a definitive box set of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s sophomore album, 1967’s Axis: Bold as Love. That box, containing analog cuts of the album’s mono and stereo mixes plus three LPs of bonus material and a
It’s your favorite time of the week, when you get to read our ramblings about some of the upcoming vinyl reissues hitting your local record store this Friday. You will not be surprised to hear that it’s another jam-packed roster, with lots of below-the-radar stuff as well as
