Vinyl Reviews
Including Brian Wilson, Yes, the Cars, the Muffs, Cecil Taylor, Phoenix, the Chills, Dr. Feelgood, Jane Weaver, and Michel Petrucciani. It’s time for round two of our in-depth reviews for Record Store Day 2026, in which we listen to a boatload of exclusive Record Store Day vinyl and let
New Releases
It’s the week before Record Store Day 2026, and you might notice a bit of a drop-off in the new releases in today’s roundup. There’s still plenty to talk about, but generally the labels are targeting their big reissue guns for April 18, leaving us with a
Vinyl Reviews
I Want You on Vinylphyle, plus half-speed masters of Breakfast in America and more. Before we get into today’s vinyl reviews, here’s just a reminder/warning that we’re in the thick of Record Store Day season. For those of you with short memories, Monday’s post contained
Vinyl Reviews
Including Bill Evans, Neil Young, Françoise Hardy, Blur, Freddie King, Buster Williams, Adam Sandler, Terry Callier, and Bob Brady and the Con Chords. We’re less than two weeks away from Record Store Day, so today we’re launching the first batch of our RSD record reviews. We’ll be
RSD
We’ve reached the last of our preview posts for this year’s upcoming Record Store Day, and today we’re looking at all the reissues of things released in the 21st century—i.e., the century you and I are living in right now. Therefore, almost everything we’re
New Releases
Now with a playlist for paid-tier subscribers!
RSD
Record Store Day 2026 fast approaches, and we at The Vinyl Cut are doing our best to prepare you for this blessed event. Today, that means a rundown of the reissues of albums from the 1990s that we think you should add to your shopping basket on April 18. It’
Vinyl Reviews
The two vinyl reviews we have today could not be more different. One is for a box set that is the very definition of excessive: a single album stretched out to multiple discs, with alternate mixes, live tracks, videos, and all kinds of tchotchkes to fill out the package. The
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 news and in-depth 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
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
Plus, news of the different Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds' reissues.
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
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
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,
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
Our preview of this year’s Record Store Day continues 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
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,
