Vinyl Reviews
A look at recent entries in Universal's all-analog reissue series.
New Releases
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
Vinyl Reviews
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
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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,
RSD
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.
Giveaways!
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
Vinyl Reviews
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
New Releases
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
Vinyl Reviews
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
Vinyl news and in-depth reviews.
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
Hello once again to our fellow wax fanatics. We are back after a small but necessary break with some new reviews for you to dig into. Musically, these albums couldn’t be more different, but they both represent projects from musicians looking for creative outlets outside of their better-known bands.
Let’s jump right into this week’s new reissues, which include two just-announced titles from Vinylphyle and a pair of MoFi releases as well. You ready? One sec—first, a quick reminder about our February vinyl giveaway. Click the box below to learn all about it and enter! You’
New Rhino Reserve pressings of Donny Hathaway’s 1972 Live album and Sam & Dave’s 1966 debut full-length. Today we’ve got reviews of the two remaining soul albums Rhino Reserve has reissued at part of Black History Month. (If you missed our reviews of Otis Redding’s Pain
What do a Brazilian jazz fusion band and a Chicago vocal-soul trio have in common? Not a whole lot, as it turns out, except that we’re reviewing reissues of both of them this week. First up, we’ve got a never-before-released 1977 recording from Grupo Um, the intensely ambitious
Today I’m reviewing a fascinating reissue of Japanese jazz, released by the South Korean label Beatball Music. I was unfamiliar with the label until its owner, Bongsoo Lee, emailed The Vinyl Cut to inform us of their projects. Based in Seoul, the label is one of the most esteemed
For some, February 14 means chocolate, snuggles, and chalky little hearts with illegible messages printed on them. For us here at The Vinyl Cut, it means our February vinyl giveaway is going live! Every month, our paid subscribers are eligible to enter and win some very cool vinyl. So far,
We’ll jump right into this week’s vinyl reissues—but first, just a reminder about our upcoming February vinyl giveaway: We’ve got a copy of the Tom Petty live album released exclusively as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event last November, and it's
New analog cuts of the Stax classics Pain in My Heart and The Soul Album. As our regular readers know all too well, we’re pretty high on Rhino Reserves these days. Rhino has used the line to carve out a more affordable alternative to their Rhino High Fidelity series
The Brazilian manufacturing plant’s Clássicos Em Vinil series brings MPB and Tropicália to a new generation. Music discovery has never been easier these days, from online sleuthing to physical crate-digging. While the majors have begun to take vinyl seriously again, it’s been the smaller independent labels that have
