Vinyl Reviews
We have two vinyl reviews for you today, for two debut albums from groups that went on to become well-known to rock fans everywhere. But these albums—separated by less than a decade—couldn’t be more different. Both bands were greatly influenced by American blues music, but the fashions
Giveaways!
Don’t worry, we didn’t forget—our April monthly vinyl giveaway is now live. Each month we give away free vinyl to one cherished subscriber on our paid tier. But first we’d like to welcome all the new subscribers that have joined us in the past week or
RSD
This is our last Record Store Day post, we swear. Well, at least until Black Friday comes around in November. We realized it could be helpful to have an index of all the reviews we’ve written in one place. So here’s an alphabetical list with links to all
Vinyl Reviews
Including the Grateful Dead, John Prine, the Tears, Yusef Lateef, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Mal Waldron, Stalk-Forrest Group, Ahmad Jamal, Roy Hargove, Ike White, Joe Henderson, and Magia Brasileira. We did it. We’ve reached the last batch of our Record Store Day vinyl reviews, in which we
New Releases
Even though Record Store Day is this Saturday, April 18, there are still a ridiculous amount of reissues coming out this week—perhaps to capitalize on all the extra foot traffic that record stores will get this weekend. But maybe there are other motives at work. For example, Vinylphyle just
Vinyl Reviews
Including Ween, David Bowie, Ramones, Rod Stewart, Muse, the Sisters of Mercy, Bad Brains, Motörhead, the Stranglers, Todd Rundgren’s Runt, Primal Scream, John Frusciante, and Westbound Records. Welcome back to our continuing onslaught of Record Store Day reviews. We’ve been deep in the RSD vinyl trenches, spinning every
Vinyl Reviews
Including the Doors, the Cure, Steely Dan, Talking Heads, Black Sabbath, Joni Mitchell, George Jones, Electronic, Professor Longhair, and a Lowell George tribute album. We’ve got a big, beefy batch of Record Store Reviews today, and we’ll continue to shovel them out all week long. In case it’
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 news and in-depth 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
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
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
Now with a playlist for paid-tier subscribers!
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’
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
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
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
