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
As the holidays wrap up and the calendar comes to a close, it seems like the right time for a quick look back. We launched this newsletter at the beginning of September and are humbled and honored by the response we’ve gotten in just a few short months. Along
The new all-analog cut of 1957’s Dance Album of Carl Perkins does justice to a formative rock ’n’ roll text. It would be natural to start this review by rehashing Carl Perkins’ vital importance to the history of American popular music. But I’m finding it difficult to summarize
New Releases
Our weekly rundown of new vinyl reissues is a little slimmer than usual this week, for an obvious reason: Record labels are gearing down for the holidays, letting shoppers catch up on all the bounty that’s been hitting stores the past couple of months. So while we don’t
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Fancy one-step pressings of R.E.M.’s Chronic Town and Murmur, Beck’s Morning Phase, A Perfect Circle’s Mer de Noms, and Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song. A couple of weeks back, we checked out two recent releases in Warner’s Because Sound Matters series, which
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A deluxe box set explores the Black and Blue era. Hello again. Today we continue to play catch-up with all those fancy vinyl box sets that came out during the past couple of months to seduce gift-givers for the holidays. These are not cheap items, we realize—but hopefully we
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A new box set charts the course of 1967’s Axis: Bold as Love. We’re still catching up on the many vinyl reissues, re-releases, and box sets that have landed this fall, and today we dig into the new deluxe Jimi Hendrix Experience box set. Titled Bold as Love,
New Releases
Greetings, and welcome back to The Vinyl Cut! Y’know, I thought the year-end deluge of reissues and re-releases was slowing down, but this week has proven otherwise. There’s just a staggering amount of new vinyl coming out in time for the holidays, and our weekly roundup is just
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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
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