Vinyl Reviews
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
New Releases
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
Vinyl Reviews
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
New Releases
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,
Vinyl Reviews
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
Vinyl Reviews
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
New Releases
I’m back with another rundown of this week’s vinyl releases. Things have been a little quiet around here while I was traveling to visit family, but it’s been a very busy week in terms of announcements for upcoming reissues, so let’s start there. The big (hey
One copy of the new reissue of Rokk Í Reykjavík from Arena Rock will be given away to a paid subscriber. Earlier this week I wrote about the fascinating, jam-packed soundtrack to Rokk Í Reykjavík, the 1982 documentary about the Icelandic music scene. It’s filled with punk, post-
New Releases
It’s another big ol’ week in the world of vinyl reissues, with the launch of an authoritative reissue series for one of the biggest bands of all time, the kick-off entry in the new Capitol Record Club, the latest Definitive Sound Series one-step pressing, two new MoFis,
Vinyl news and in-depth reviews.
It feels a little funny to be listening to a compilation of Icelandic artists during the hottest days of American summer. But as every non-Icelandic person surely knows by now, Iceland is more than a realm of glaciers and snowdrifts—it’s a place of volcanos and hot springs,
A new Rhino Reserve pressing marks Year of the Cat’s 50th anniversary. I’ve got another review from Rhino’s Spirit of ’76 campaign today... but first, the big vinyl news this morning was that Mobile Fidelity has announced a 45 RPM 2-LP pressing of Rodriguez’s Cold
Shake Some Action gets a 50th anniversary reissue with a new analog cut and an extra disc of bonus music. Today I’ve got a review for the 50th-anniversary expanded edition of Flamin’ Groovies’ fantastic 1976 album Shake Some Action, which has just been released as part of Rhino’
It’s another busy week in the vast realm of vinyl reissues, where everything old is new again, and some of these new pressings can sound very good indeed. At the top of yesterday’s newsletter, I briefly mentioned some exciting announcements for upcoming reissues, so be sure to check
A new Rhino Reserve pressing makes 1970’s Express Yourself bigger than ever. Today I’m continuing my survey of the five Rhino Reserve pressings that came out in June as part of Black Music Month. Last week I reviewed Betty Wright’s I Love the Way You Love and
Hello—today’s review covers the only solo album from one of Fela Kuti’s most indispensable sidemen: baritone saxophonist and Egypt 80 bandleader Lekan Animashaun. The album had a protracted process of creation and a delayed release, all of which I’ll get into. Despite being cut from the
All of a sudden, it feels like the vinyl calendar is exploding with reissues. Things don’t normally feel this way until the holiday shopping season gets going, but after a few quiet weeks, it seems that the gloves are off (it’s summertime, way too hot for gloves anyway)
The Rhino Reserve series revisits two gems of Miami soul. Just a couple of quick newsy bits before I get into today’s reviews: • Maggot Brain is coming! The third installment in Org Music’s reissue series of Funkadelic’s Westbound Records catalog will be arriving on September 11. This
It’s time for our weekly look at the passel of new reissues coming our way—and it’s a slower week than usual, due to the American holiday of Independence Day on July 4. The upside of this is that many retailers are having sales this weekend, and if
Today I’ve got a deep dive on the latest release from Rhino High Fidelity for you, for Curtis Mayfield’s immortal Super Fly. For those keeping tabs on the series, Rhino have also announced their next release: an upcoming RHF pressing of Joni Mitchell’s 1971 album Blue, which
Greetings and salutations, vinyl friends ’n’ vinyl fiends—it’s another jam-packed week in the realm of newly pressed reissues, so let’s hop to it. To accompany our journey, here’s the new playlist, which is bursting at the seams with all of this week’s choice reissues.
I talk a lot about sound quality in this newsletter. That’s hardly surprising. But one of the reasons we’re all into vinyl is that it can offer a lot more than just an aural experience. (There are plenty of perfectly good-sounding digital streaming services you can listen
