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,
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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
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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
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This is the first of what will be an ongoing series here at The Vinyl Cut where we take you on a tour of the record shops, and share our experiences of digging in a particular city. Digging for vinyl around Reykjavík, the capital city of Iceland, a few truths