New vinyl reissues: February 13, 2026
We’ll jump right into this week’s vinyl reissues—but first, just a reminder about our upcoming February vinyl giveaway: We’ve got a copy of the Tom Petty live album released exclusively as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event last November, and it's something you'll have to work pretty hard to still find in stores. The giveaway goes live in just a couple of days, but you’ll need to be on our paid tier to enter. If you’re not already a paid subscriber, please consider it, as it helps support our work and gives you access to our entire archive.
With that out of the way, let’s see which old records have been made new this week!
The Beach Boys: We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years [UMe]
This deluxe set includes three LPs and three CDs covering the 1974 to 1977 period that saw the Beach Boys’ fortunes resurrected after the massive success of the Endless Summer greatest hits collection. 1976’s 15 Big Ones was their first studio LP in more than three years, and it was their biggest hit in even longer. This was primarily because it was touted as the glorious return of Brian Wilson to the creative chair, although it’s questionable whether he was up to the job, as 15 Big Ones is a gross, sweaty album of subpar originals padded out with a bunch of wimpy covers. 1977’s The Beach Boys Love You did not fare as well, but Beach Boys diehards prefer it, as it found Wilson experimenting with synths and charting genuinely new territory. We Gotta Groove delves into this treacherous period with the complete contents of Love You, its proposed follow-up album Adult/Child (which went unreleased at the time in favor of the dismal M.I.U. Album), and a bevy of outtakes from 15 Big Ones. The CDs contain additional bonus tracks that aren’t on the vinyl. This sold out of its initial run already (Beach Boys fans be crazy), but a second pressing is due on March 20. NL
Velocity Girl: ¡Simpatico! [Sub Pop]
After introducing themselves to the world as dutiful students of the UK shoegaze scene with their 1993 debut Copacetic, Washington, DC, quintet Velocity Girl put their distortion pedals on ice and leaned into their power-pop influences on their 1994 follow-up full-length, ¡Simpatico! It was a brilliant move that drew frontwoman Sarah Shannon’s sweet-and-bitter vocals into greater focus and brought a sharp precision to the band’s songwriting. The newly remastered edition of the album includes a bonus disc collecting the B-sides, one-off singles, and compilation tracks from this era including their fantastic cover of New Order’s “Your Silent Face” and fan-favorite original “Marzipan.” RH
Jeff Buckley: Live at Sin-é [Columbia]
Jeff Buckley’s debut record was a four-song EP recorded at Sin-é, a tiny East Village anti-folk hangout where Buckley honed his performing chops during long sets of mostly covers that showcased his acrobatic voice. Released several months before his first and only finished full-length, 1994’s Grace, the EP was a way for Columbia Records to test the waters as to Buckley’s commercial viability. He was viable, all right, although I don’t think anyone could have predicted the juggernaut status he’s taken on with Gen Z in the past couple of years. The Live at Sin-é EP was expanded and reissued as a double CD in 2003 to satisfy the cult that had begun to emerge around Buckley after his untimely death by drowning in 1997 at age 30. A 4-LP vinyl version followed in 2018, first as a Record Store Day exclusive and then a wider release. It’s now back in print this week and should do gangbusters business; Grace has in recent years joined the likes of Rumours and Abbey Road as a perennial bestseller on vinyl, so chances are high that newer fans are going to want more Buckley to adorn their Kallax shelves. NL
Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square & other Groove Classics [Music on Vinyl]
This killer 1963 live set from Sam Cooke is one of the greatest live records of all time. It was so raw and raucous that RCA was afraid to release it at the time, opting instead to release Cooke’s far more polite set at the Copacabana (which was recorded in front of a white audience, as opposed to the Harlem crowd captured here). The album was eventually issued in 1985 and has since become a crucial document of soul music. It’s been in and out of print over the years, but Music on Vinyl has re-pressed it as part of the launch of their Groove Classics series, intended to put classic albums back in print at an affordable price point. This being Music on Vinyl, they all come from the Sony catalog and are cut from digital files. Other Groove Classics titles in the launch include the Byrds’ Greatest Hits, Jaco Pastorius’s self-titled solo debut, Nina Simone’s Sings the Blues, and Highwayman by the outlaw country supergroup of Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. Music on Vinyl is only making these available to European customers because of rights issues (and the links I included above will not load in the US without a VPN), but they should eventually make their way through importers to the States, although probably at a price point that negates Groove Classics’ mission statement of affordability. Nevertheless, Live at the Harlem Square is absolutely worth the extra dip. NL
Sister Double Happiness: Sister Double Happiness [Label 51]
A key influence on the Seattle grunge scene, San Francisco band Sister Double Happiness never truly got their due during their nine-year run, but it’s never too late to get the group their deserved flowers. At least, that’s my hope for the re-release of the quartet’s 1988 self-titled debut. Originally issued by SST Records, the album is a steaming-hot collection of blues-inflected indie rock lifted to greater heights by the soulful growl and desperate lyrics of ex-Dicks vocalist Gary Floyd. The double LP reissue out this week includes the original album remastered by Jim Hall and a second disc of demos that includes a pair of tunes recorded by the great Jack Endino. RH
The Black Heart Procession: 1 [Solid Brass]
With their ’90s art-pop project Three Mile Pilot on indefinite hiatus, musicians Pall Jenkins and Tobias Nathaniel decided to spend the next chapter of their creative partnership exploring more folk- and blues-influenced sounds on a new project called the Black Heart Procession. What followed was a series of albums that sounded like an absinthe-drunk circus band playing crushed-velvet goth. With the band kicking back into gear last year, the Procession is taking a look back with a reissue of their 1998 debut, titled simply 1, that boasts remastered audio and updated artwork. RH
Comet Gain: City Fallen Leaves [Tapete]
British indie band Comet Gain has a voluminous back catalog brimming with delights that range from jangly fuzz pop to introspective baroque folk and all the waypoints in between. 2005’s City Fallen Leaves might be the best way to introduce yourself to the band, and as it so happens, Tapete Records is releasing a 20th-anniversary version on vinyl. This could not be more welcome, as the album’s only previous vinyl incarnation was a 2017 version released on M’Lady’s Records, an outfit run by a one-time Portlander named Brett Lyman, who took copious orders for the record, extracted payment from Comet Gain fans, and then never made good on his promises—a practice that, I believe, is called thievery. Most people never got theirs, but somehow after much badgering, I managed to get Lyman to send me my copy (my position as a member of the press might have helped) and it was an utter disappointment: dismally pressed and full of noise and scuffs and all the crap that came with the worst vinyl of the 2010s. So this Tapete reissue is a joyous occasion for many reasons, not the least of which is that the band’s fans will finally be able to play this wonderful record on their turntables. NL
Should: Feed Like Fishes [Numero Group]
Austin, Texas, band Should brought their unique slant to the dreampop and slowcore waves of the ’90s, emphasizing interiority and glacial movement through distortion and repetition, often with little kernels of pop songs buried underneath their downy exteriors. Their debut full-length, 1998’s Feed Like Fishes, has been treated to a double-LP reissue, with 10 bonus tracks from the period. The songs are wounded, lovely, and standoffish, peering through the shoegaze door but never walking through. Should trucked along for several more releases, but without a touring regimen, they remained the cultiest of cult bands. This Numero vinyl release should justly inject them into a lot more record collections. NL
Huggy Bear: Basic Strategies for Going Out: The Peel Sessions [JABS]
While we wait semi-patiently for someone to reissue the work of UK riot grrrl group Huggy Bear, we will make do with this, a 10-inch that combines the two sessions the band recorded for John Peel’s BBC Radio 1 program in 1992 and 1993. The Maida Vale studio could barely contain the group's youthful energy and righteous fury as heard on neck-snapping classics like “Hopscorch” and “Our Voltage.” The original audio for this 10-inch release (which comes in standard and colored vinyl) has been mastered by Fred Thomas. RH
Hozan Yamamoto: Shakuhachi and Bossa Nova Vol. 2 [Cobrarose/Beatball]
This arresting blend of jazz and traditional Japanese music was first released in 1969, with Hozan Yamamoto playing the shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute. His collaborators, the Shungo Sawada Quintet, do not strictly keep to bossa nova, incorporating elements of bebop, Latin jazz, exotica, and Japanese pop into the proceedings. The album has been reissued on Cobrarose records, a division of the South Korean label Beatball, and it’s being distributed in the States via Light in the Attic. We’ll have more to say about this fascinating reissue in the coming days, with a full review and a look at some of Beatball’s other offerings. NL
Lootpack: Soundpieces: Da Antidote! [Stones Throw]
Originally released in 1999, Soundpieces: Da Antidote! was, for many, their introduction to both the soulful beats of producer Madlib and Stones Throw, the still-going-strong label started by DJ/producer Peanut Butter Wolf. And it remains one of the finest documents from both entities thanks to its sneakily thoughtful rhymes from Madlib and fellow MC Wildchild and the crate-digging prowess that helped build every crackly, head-nodding track. This fresh repress comes on lovely-looking (and hopefully lovely-sounding) colored wax. RH
Wigwam: Live in Denmark 1976 [Svart]
Finnish progressive rock band Wigwam took a more commercial turn in the mid-’70s, and this archival live performance recorded by Danish radio in 1976 catches them on the tour that followed 1975’s successful Nuclear Nightclub album and its follow-up, 1976’s The Lucky Golden Stripes and Starpose. Having just incorporated synths into their sound, Wigwam never fully shrugged off their proggier impulses, but they also sound like they’ve been listening to a lot of Southern rock and the Grateful Dead. The double disc comes in a limited edition of marbled cream and black, a transparent red pressing, or standard black, and comes with thorough liner notes (in English). NL
Sun Ra: Exotica [Modern Harmonic/Sundazed]
While most Sun Ra releases focus on intergalactic jazz explorations, Exotica, a compilation originally put together for Record Store Day 2017 by archivist Irwin Chusid, celebrates the artist’s more earthbound sounds. Inspired by the music of lounge-music composers like Les Baxter and Martin Denny, the tracks selected here wouldn’t sound out of place in a friendly tiki lounge or as part of a DJ set of Latin grooves. Does it still sound spacey as all get out? Like you have to ask… The repress of this 3-LP set includes copious liner notes from Chusid and fellow Sun Ra enthusiast Brother Cleve of lounge band Combustible Edison and comes on “sunrise orange” wax. RH
The Beat of the Earth: The Beat of the Earth [Cosmic Rock]
Originally released in 1967, the self-titled debut by Southern California psych group the Beat of the Earth features two side-long suites that slide from tribal thunder to freeform freakouts to blissed-out soundscapes. It’s nothing too far afield for the time in which it was first issued and definitely par for the course for the band’s creative leader Phil Pearlman who would later head up the equally trippy project Relatively Clean Rivers. This gray-market reissue comes from Italian label Cosmic Rock, whose releases take advantage of that country’s relatively lax copyright laws, so proceed with caution. RH
Munster and Vampisoul
The latest batch of reissues from Spanish sister labels Munster and Vampisoul makes its way to our shores this week. Bolivian garage-rock band Los Indios were partly responsible for the inception of Bolivian rock, and Los Indios [Munster] compiles their best work, with psych, surf, and unique takes on American soul records all sharing groove space. Peruvian cumbia band Los Roger’s were part of the Iquitos scene that birthed the Amazonian psychedelic cumbia scene, with a Cuban take on the style; ¡Qué Ardiente! [Vampisoul] compiles tracks from their albums and singles for a concise introduction to the group. And lastly, Colombian accordionist Ángel Vásquez pioneered his own style of music that he called vasqeusón, which took notes from pachanga, cumbia, son, porro, and other Cuban and Puerto Rican styles; Vampisoul is reissuing his 1970 album La Gustadera, a sunny collection of his rhythmically undeniable sound. NL
Jazz Alley
Another handful of premium-quality all-analog jazz reissues are on the docket this week, and seemingly every week from now until the end of time. The two titles from the Verve Vault should make jazz obsessives happy: 1958’s Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio does exactly what it says on the tin, with the Getz/Peterson team-up running through a mixture of originals and standards in a drummerless combo that explores swing, bebop, and even a hint of Dixieland. Sonny Rollins’s Brass/Trio, also from 1958, also does what it says on the tin: On one side Rollins plays with a big-band brass ensemble, and on the other with a stripped-down trio. These were both mastered from tape by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed at Optimal. Also, Analogue Productions has readied three further titles from their Pablo Records reissue series: Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson’s aptly titled Ella and Oscar, from 1975; Ella Fitgerald’s Fine and Mellow, from 1978; and Count Basie’s Me and You, from 1983. These three easygoing listens were all cut from tape by Matthew Lutthans at the Mastering Lab, pressed at QRP, and housed inside Stoughton tip-on jackets. NL
OTHER REISSUES OF NOTE:
Ace of Base: Bridge [Playground Music]
The Allergies: As We Do Our Thing [Jalapeno]
Richard Band: Parasite soundtrack [Mystic Vault]
Banda Black Rio: Saci Pererê [Music on Vinyl]
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Strasbourg 82 [Gearbox]
Billy Bond y la Pesada del Rock and Roll: Vol. 1; Vol. 2 [Beat Generation]
Duncan Browne: The Wild Places [Reissued Sounds]
Capricorni Pneumatici: Uber Artaud [Vasopressin]
Care: Love Crowns and Crucifies [Needle Mythology]
Jen Chapin: ReVisions: Songs of Stevie Wonder [Chesky]
Jacques Coursil: Black Suite [BYG/Charly]
Crown Heights Affair: Dream World [Reissued Sounds]
D’Angelo: Voodoo (zoetrope edition) [Capitol]
Dave’s True Story: Sex Without Bodies [Chesky]
Dazzle: Dazzle [Reissued Sounds]
Debt of Nature: Robin Diamond’s Lungs [No Holiday]
Dimmu Borgir: For All Tid [Nuclear Blast]
DMA’s: Hills End 10th anniversary edition [BMG]
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space [Demon]
John Doe: Forever Hasn’t Happened Yet [Yep Roc]
Dolorian: When All the Laughter Has Gone [Peaceville]
Earthless: Live at Roadburn [Heavy Psych Sounds]
Bill Fontana: Early Works [Alga Marghen]
Foreigner: Inside Information [Friday Music]
Curtis Fuller: New Trombone [Sowing Records]
Fuzzy Duck: Fuzzy Duck [Reissued Sounds]
Tilaye Gebre: Tilaye’s Saxophone with the Dahlak Band [Mr Bongo]
Robin Gibb: How Old Are You? [Reissued Sound]
Golpes Bajos: A Santa Compaña [Nuevos Medios]
Lou Gramm: Ready or Not [Friday Music]
Jody Grind: One Step On [Reissued Sounds]
Glenn Hughes: Live in Wolverhampton [Reissued Sounds]
Jefferson Starship: Red Octopus [Friday Music]
Joy Division: Transmissions: Eindhoven 1980 [Expensive Woodland]
Tamas Katai: Erika Szobaja [Circle Music]
Gaetano Liguori, Giulio Stocchi, Demetrio Stratos: La Cantata Rossa per Tall el Zaatar [Black Sweat]
Byron Lee & the Dragonaires: Plays Jamaican Ska [Kids of Yesterday]
Jon Lord & The Hoochie Coochie Men: Live at the Basement [Reissued Sounds]
Patrick Lysaght: For the Birds [Holidays]
Moody Marsden: Real Faith [Reissued Sounds]
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: Let’s Face It [UMe]
Anthony Moore: Monkey’s Birthday [Paradigm Discs]
The Pretty Reckless: Going to Hell 10th anniversary edition [Fearless]
Jaime Roos: La Margarita [Little Butterfly]
Quicksand: Manic Compression [Iodine]
Ranking Barnabas: The Cold Crusher [Jamdung]
Rata Blanca: Magos Espadas y Rosas [Universal Import]
The Max Roach Trio: Featuring the Legendary Hasaan [Music on Vinyl]
Santana: Shaman [Music on Vinyl]
Sato: Leather Warriors: Anthology 82–86 [Lost Realm]
Boz Scaggs: Silk Degrees [Music on Vinyl]
Schlippenbach Trio: Elf Bagatellen [Cien Fuegos]
Sisters of Mercy: Peel Sessions ’82–’84 [Waste Management] (gray market)
Troye Sivan: Blue Neighborhood 10th anniversary edition [Capitol]
Steeleye Span: Ten Man Mop or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again [Reissued Sounds]
Sugarhill Gang: Sugarhill Gang [Music on Vinyl]
The Velvet Underground: Live at End Cole Ave 1969 [Room on Fire]
Wall of Voodoo: Museums [Label 51]
Wicked Leather: Season of the Witch [Lost Realm]
Witch: The Hex Is On… and Then Some [Lost Realm]
The Wonderland Philharmonic: Shogun Assassin soundtrack [Cinewax]
Xploding Plastix: Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents [Beatservice]
Young-Holt Unlimited: Born Again [Music on Vinyl]
Warren Zevon: The Wind [Friday]
Tapper Zukie: Earth Running [Lantern]
Various Artists: The Man from R.G.M.: Joe Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes 10-inch [Code 7]
Various Artists: Put It On It’s Rock-Steady [Kids of Yesterday]
Various Artists: Deep Soul City 1966–1976 [Soul City]
