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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,
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,
News
Zev Feldman doesn’t need more work to do. By the end of this year, the celebrated record producer and co-founder of Elemental Records will have helped foster the release of at least 15 different archival albums, including a wonderful collection of rare recordings by country legend Patsy Cline and
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
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
RSD
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