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
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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
Vinyl Reviews
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
New Releases
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
Vinyl Reviews
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.
New Releases
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’
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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
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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
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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
We spin the new Monkees singles compilation and two reissues from Real Gone Music. Start your weekend with three piping-hot vinyl reviews—just don’t burn your fingers. Today we catch up on the last of Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right campaign from January and also get on
It’s time for our weekly plunge into the refreshing waters of the latest vinyl reissues. And it’s quite a deep pool this week, so we hope you saved a little bit of covetous anticipation after the Record Store Day announcement landed yesterday. Because wow, that is quite a
Howdy, friends. I hope this finds you in good spirits on what is, for me anyway, a chilly but lovely February morning. Today's edition of the newsletter dives back into the slowly growing discography of Zev Feldman's imprint Time Traveler Recordings with reissues of two out-of-print
We checked out the new half-speed master of Station to Station and the Rhino Reserve pressing of Back to Oakland. Today’s newsletter contains reviews for a pair of recent reissues—one for an undisputed classic and one for a record that, relatively speaking, may have fallen by the wayside
We’ve got three new reviews for you this weekend, as we catch up on a January that saw a lot more worthwhile reissues than we would have guessed. (February’s looking pretty loaded, too.) Here’s what’s inside: * The Necessaries: Completely Necessary (Anthology 1978–1982) * Todd Rundgren’s
Hello, hello, vinyl enthusiasts. We’ve got another action-packed week of new vinyl reissues for you, but there are two upcoming releases that we didn’t include—because we don’t know what they are yet! Rhino High Fidelity is dropping their next two titles this week, and our friend
As January draws to a close and much of the US is under a blanket of snow, we’re still happily shoveling ourselves out from under a pile of vinyl from Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right campaign. Over the month of January, they’ve dropped a ton of
