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
We’ve got a record review today for the last of our Rocktober titles: the Rhino Reserve edition of Warren Zevon’s 1978 album Excitable Boy. Before we get to that, this morning’s big vinyl news is that Universal Music has just entered the premium all-analog arena with a
Vinyl Reviews
Vinyl reviews for the Stooges’ Fun House (Alternate Version), Rush’s The Albums 2002–2012 box set, and Faces’ Early Steps. It’s the final week for Rhino’s Rocktober series, and if you’ve been keeping tabs, you know it has already been a smorgasbord of vinyl reissues plundered
New Releases
Hello—it’s our usual Thursday email, in which we emerge out of the vinyl mines, wipe the sweat from our brows, and tell you about all the appealing, interesting, weird, and wonderful vinyl reissues coming out this week. Although it’ll be Halloween, there is no overarching spooky theme
Vinyl Reviews
Vinyl reviews for the sixth Official Release Series box and Rumah Sakit 25. We’ll get right into it today, with two vinyl reviews for you. I went long on the new Neil Young box set, which includes some of his most difficult-to-find albums back on vinyl. And Bob’s
RSD
Our preview of Record Store Day’s upcoming Black Friday event continues today with perhaps the most treacherous genre yet: hard rock and metal. There are some titles we’re very, very excited about in this batch... and there’s also a lot of dreck that seems produced solely to
Vinyl Reviews
Vinyl reviews of Feels’ 20th anniversary edition and Heavy Combination, a comprehensive overview of a Kenyan musical legend. Did you see the Bruce Springsteen movie this weekend? I won’t spoil anything, but who would have guessed that such an important plot point would pivot around vinyl mastering? Speaking of
Vinyl Reviews
Vinyl reviews of Fleetwood Mac’s Bare Trees; Mr. Bungle’s Disco Volante and California; Warren Zevon’s Mr. Bad Example, Learning to Flinch, and Mutineer; Ministry’s The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste and Psalm 69; and Jethro Tull’s Minstrel in the Gallery. Whew. More months
New Releases
Once again, it’s a week where there are simply too many vinyl reissues to cover. Labels are racing to cram in their 20th, 30th, 40th, and 50th anniversary reissues before the end of the calendar year, the holiday shopping season is about to hit terminal velocity, and there are
RSD
Welcome back to our preview series for Record Store Day’s Black Friday event. Today we’re looking at the hip-hop, R&B, funk, soul, and Latin releases that’ll be at independent record stores on Friday, November 28. It’s a wildly mixed array of stuff, of course,
Vinyl Reviews
Vinyl reviews of the Doors' Greatest Hits, Yes's 90125 (both in Rhino Reserve pressings), Morphine's Good, and Yes's Big Generator. By my count, 14* vinyl reissues from Warner labels are hitting the racks at independent record stores today (October 17), which means that
New Releases
It’s another busy week in Recordland, with reissues and re-releases aplenty. Before we dive in, last week we received some criticism for our weekly new releases post, with some folks on Reddit complaining that it was too long and they didn’t feel like doing all that reading. Well,
RSD
We’re continuing our ongoing RSD Black Friday preview series today with a look at all the interesting releases that aren’t part of the US version of Black Friday. While Black Friday itself started as a grossly American phenomenon—a manufactured shopping “holiday” that takes place the day after