Ned Lannamann is a writer, editor, and journalist based in Portland, Oregon, where he was Music Editor and Senior Editor for the Portland Mercury. His writing has also appeared in Willamette Week and Seattle's The Stranger.
Vinyl Reviews
Charting the breakthroughs on Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18, 1956–1963. We’re still catching up on all the great things that have come out over the past few weeks, particularly the larger box sets that take a bit of extra time to absorb. Today we
Vinyl Reviews
We indulged in the fancy new pressings of Purple Rain and Wildflowers. As December plows forward, the seasonal deluge of reissues and box sets is tapering off. So we’re taking the opportunity to catch up on some major releases that we missed earlier. Today we’re dissecting the two
Giveaways!
We have been promising that paid subscribers will be eligible for our first-ever vinyl giveaway. Well, that day has arrived—it’s giveaway time at last, and that’s just the beginning, as we’re planning to hold similar giveaways for our paid subscribers every month going forward. The prize
New Releases
Hello, hello, and welcome back to The Vinyl Cut. The wave of reissues timed for the holiday season seems to finally be cresting, but there are still lots of good things coming out this week. First: If you’re interested in vinyl reissues, you’re probably interested in the analog
Vinyl Reviews
We dig into the rest of the Vinylphyle starting lineup, including Exodus, Northern Lights–Southern Cross, and The Christmas Song. Two weeks back, we jumped on one of the first four titles of Universal’s new all-analog Vinylphyle series. Today we’ve got reviews of the remaining three. * Bob Marley
Vinyl Reviews
Black Friday has come and gone, but there’s still plenty of new vinyl to listen to. Today we go long on a few new reissues of note: The 50th anniversary double-LP edition of Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night, and the four inaugural albums in a terrific new
RSD
First off, welcome to all of our new subscribers! Our RSD Black Friday reviews have gotten a ton of traffic and brought a lot of you to The Vinyl Cut for the first time. We hope you like what we’re up to here and decide to stick around for
New Releases
Welcome back to The Vinyl Cut. Our weekly rundown of new vinyl reissues is coming at you a day early because of a holiday that takes place tomorrow in which Americans all come together and decide that yes, for one day and one day only, cranberries are food. Of course,
RSD
Beware: This newsletter contains 29 album reviews. Well, this is utterly ridiculous: Today we have reviews of 29 of the reissues coming out this Friday as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event. These are short reviews, mind you—short for us, anyway. But we hope they’ll
Vinyl Reviews
Inside the new Anthology Collection and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness megaboxes. Christmas came a little early for us at The Vinyl Cut. We got the chance to check out two ridiculously mammoth box sets that drop today, and here our our impressions so that you can judge whether
New Releases
Hello again, and welcome back to The Vinyl Cut. It’s our usual Thursday rundown of all the new reissues coming out this week, and since we’re more or less into the holiday shopping season, there’s a lot. We’ll get to that in a second, but first,
Vinyl Reviews
The Vinylphyle edition of The Velvet Underground & Nico, and a worthy reissue of Fire of God’s Love. We’ve got two vinyl reviews for you today, including our first look at the ballyhooed Vinylphyle series, and a loving reissue of a gentle, inspirational oddity. The Velvet Underground &