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.
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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
Vinyl Reviews
1967’s Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. is cut directly from the master—for the very first time. It makes perfect sense that the Rhino High Fidelity series take on a Monkees album. No, really, it does. In the 1980s, Rhino Records made their bones on Monkees reissues, when
New Releases
There are so many records to tell you about right now. What with Record Store Day’s Black Friday around the corner, the near-assaultive Rhino Rocktober campaign, and the regular barrage of reissues that all need to come out in time for the holidays, there’s actually too much to
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Welcome to The Vinyl Cut’s first installment of our preview of Record Store Day’s Black Friday 2025 event, which comes to independent record stores on—you guessed it—Black Friday (that’s Friday, November 28). We’re going to help you make heads and tails of all the
Vinyl Reviews
Distortions is back on yellow vinyl, and the black vinyl repress of Blind is much improved. Today we’ve got two quick vinyl reviews of some recent represses. The Litter's Distortions is a garage-rock classic, and the Sundazed label has re-upped their original 2013 Kevin Gray mono cut
New Releases
There are a lot of new reissues this week, but you can be forgiven for being preoccupied with the Record Store Day Black Friday list that was just announced. (Live Bad Brains! The original version of Freewheelin'! A Love box set! It's a darn good list this
Vinyl Reviews
A deluxe edition of MMJ’s Z and an audiophile pressing of Ornette! make their way to vinyl. Today at The Vinyl Cut, we've got My Morning Jacket and Ornette Coleman. Not together on the same album, of course. Can you imagine? That would be nuts. No, today
Vinyl Reviews
Vinyl reviews of Heatmiser's Mic City Sons and the mono version of the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle. We're doubling up today, with not one but two vinyl reissues in this newsletter. First up is an expanded 2-LP reissue of Heatmiser's 1996 album Mic
New Releases
A heaping helping of new vinyl is making its way to your record store shelves this very minute. There's all kinds of old music for everyone, so take a look at some of our picks for this week and see what catches your fancy. I wanted to take
Vinyl Reviews
The duo’s pre-Fleetwood Mac album Buckingham Nicks is finally back on vinyl—in two all-analog versions. Fleetwood Macologists more learned than me can determine the sequence of events that led to the new, long-awaited reissue of Buckingham Nicks, the 1973 album by Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham that directly
New Releases
There's a lot happening in the world right now, but in our little vinyl corner, it feels a bit like the calm before the storm. We're basically days away from the start to the holiday shopping season, and that means vinyl reissues galore. It makes sense
Vinyl Reviews
Org Music has released 1970's Funkadelic in 33 and 45 RPM versions. We listened to both. When news broke in 2023 that Org Music would be reissuing the Westbound catalog on vinyl, the first thing that crossed most people's minds was, "Cool, when's