Two new Rhino Reserves present analog cuts of lesser-known ’70s greats. This October—or, should I say, Rocktober—we’re getting a windfall of new Rhino Reserves. As part of their monthlong Rocktober campaign, Rhino is releasing a baker’s dozen of reissues in their terrific Reserve line, boasting
We have officially entered the silly season, when the record labels go into overdrive to put out as much stuff as possible in time for the holiday shopping season. This week of new reissues might be the biggest of the year so far, what with Rhino’s Rocktober campaign hitting
Today I’m reviewing Angel Olsen’s 2016 album My Woman, which has been given an impressive 10th-anniversary pressing from Mobile Fidelity. But first... A quick reminder that our October vinyl giveaway is now live! It's for a super-rare test pressing of the Definitive Sound Series’
Here’s a Saturday record review for you, for the recent Rhino Reserve reissue of Public Image Ltd’s somewhat controversial album from 1986, Album. (Yes, it’s called Album.) Before you dig into that, I wanted to mention that I appeared on this morning’s edition of Steve Westman’
There’s a lot to talk about this week. It should be a pretty busy weekend at ye olde record store, despite some of the more well-heeled and industry-connected vinyl fanatics making their way to Kansas for Acoustic Sounds’ Vinyl Summit, a celebration of the audiophile company’s
One mega-rare test pressing of the Definitive Sound Series’ one-step pressing of Beck’s 2014 album will go to a lucky paid subscriber. Every month The Vinyl Cut gives away a piece of vinyl to one of our paid subscribers. Often they are things that are available in
I’ve been immersing myself in some Small Faces reissues from Nice Records, the independent label started by that band’s drummer, Kenney Jones. Jones would of course also go on to drum for Faces and the Who; as the sole surviving member of Small Faces, he’s now come
Salutations—it’s time once again for another big week in the world of vinyl reissues. Before we get into all the fancy new pressings, let’s look, as we usually do, at the latest announcements for upcoming stuff. Obviously the biggest announcement this week was for Record Store Day’
Hello folks—today I have an article about a small label in the Pacific Northwest that is reissuing some great, overlooked music from the region, committing it to vinyl for the very first time. Before I get to that, the list for Record Store Day Black Friday was just released.
Hello, friends. I can’t wait to tell you about all of the most interesting new vinyl reissues—there’s a lot to get to this week—but first things first. You may have noticed that there’s a Beatles record in the mix, and I’ve got a comprehensive
The Fab Four’s 1965 album gets the deluxe treatment at last. By today’s standards, Rubber Soul was a rush job. In mid-October 1965, as the Christmas deadline loomed, the Beatles convened with producer George Martin at EMI Recording Studios in Abbey Road, St John’s Wood, London,
Today I’ve got a review of the new 30th-anniversary edition of Buena Vista Social Club, which actually came out 29 years ago, not that trifling details like that matter a whole lot. It’s true that the sessions in Havana, Cuba happened in the spring of 1996, which
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Welcome back to another week in reissued vinyl. As usual, we’ll kick things off with the latest announcements before getting into what’s landing this Friday. It’s a relatively quiet week for preorders, which is perhaps a welcome respite after all the activity last week. Today Rhino/Parlophone
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Two recent OJCs commemorate Coltrane’s centennial. One hundred years ago today, John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina. He died at age 40 of throat cancer in Long Island on July 17, 1967. In the years between, he comprehensively transformed American music by resculpting the parameters and possibilities
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1972’s Occasional Rain gets an all-analog Kevin Gray cut on Slow Down Sounds’ vinyl reissue. There isn’t anyone quite like Terry Callier. In fact, even picking a genre descriptor for his reflective, forlorn music leads to qualifying statements and a whole lot of hemming and hawing. Is
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It’s another fine week of vinyl reissues, with all sorts of albums returning to wax or, in some cases, appearing there for the very first time. We’ll get into this week’s bounty in a moment, but first, as always, let’s pull out the telescope, point it
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New reissues from Counting Crows, the Cranberries, Sheryl Crow, D’Angelo, and GZA. It’s been a little bit since I checked in on UMe’s Vinylphyle series. Launched in November of last year, the imprint has produced well-regarded vinyl reissues of milestone albums in the Universal Music Group
Giveaways!
One copy of the 2021 double-vinyl LP will be given away to a paid subscriber. The funk/soul/Latin band War came out of Long Beach, California, in the late ’60s, first as backing group to the Animals’ Eric Burdon and then as a force in their own right.
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The big news this week, of course, is the much-awaited Maggot Brain reissue from Org Music and Westbound Records—read my review for that Funkadelic classic here—but there are of course plenty of other vinyl reissues coming out as well. And some darn good ones. It’s one
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When Org Music partnered with Westbound Records to produce a series of authoritative vinyl reissues of the Westbound catalog, the first thing out of everyone’s mouths was, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, great—so when’s Maggot Brain coming?” To their credit, Org did not rush to satisfy market demand. Their
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I’ve got two reviews for you as we Americans head into this holiday weekend. One is for a heady experimental jazz record from 1973 and the other is for a triple-LP set of outtakes from a band’s prolific high-water mark in the 1980s. * Woody Shaw: Song
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As I’ve been doing lately, I’ll preface the weekly new reissues post with a roundup of some recent announcements about upcoming releases coming later in the year. As you might expect, there’s been a steady stream of intriguing-sounding things as we ramp up for the holiday
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The Dutch band’s 1973 breakthrough Moontan receives the deluxe treatment from Artone Signature. When Golden Earring officially called it a day in 2021, the Dutch group was at that point one of the longest-lived continuously active bands of the rock era. Having first formed in the Hague by
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It’s another big week in the world of vinyl reissues, with some exciting obscurities coming our way from my two favorite Spanish reissue labels. Plus, the first two Analogue Productions UHQR pressings of the Who are in the process of leaving the Salina, Kansas, warehouse as we speak. The