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Beware: This newsletter contains 29 album reviews. Well, this is utterly ridiculous: Today we have reviews of 29 of the reissues coming out this Friday as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event. These are short reviews, mind you—short for us, anyway. But we hope they’ll
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Inside the new Anthology Collection and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness megaboxes. Christmas came a little early for us at The Vinyl Cut. We got the chance to check out two ridiculously mammoth box sets that drop today, and here our our impressions so that you can judge whether
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Hello again, and welcome back to The Vinyl Cut. It’s our usual Thursday rundown of all the new reissues coming out this week, and since we’re more or less into the holiday shopping season, there’s a lot. We’ll get to that in a second, but first,
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The Vinylphyle edition of The Velvet Underground & Nico, and a worthy reissue of Fire of God’s Love. We’ve got two vinyl reviews for you today, including our first look at the ballyhooed Vinylphyle series, and a loving reissue of a gentle, inspirational oddity. The Velvet Underground &
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Welcome back to our ongoing series of previews for Record Store Day’s upcoming Black Friday event, taking place on Friday, November 28. We’re getting near the end, folks, and unfortunately that means today’s pickings are on the slim side. With a dollop of interesting electronic releases to
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1985’s Songs from the Big Chair gets a 2-LP vinyl reissue. Songs from the Big Chair is one of those albums that you can’t examine too closely or it falls to pieces. By all metrics, it shouldn’t work. The 1985 album is a deliberately plotted, swing-for-the-fences effort
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We spin vinyl copies of the new ENZyclopedia Volumes One & Two, Swimming by Moonlight, and Sire Session 1979. Today we’ve got reviews of three new archival releases that came out on vinyl. First up is the 3-LP set that collects the early work of New Zealand band Split
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Many, many new vinyl re-releases to get to this week, but first we just want to shout out the excellent reporting by Zach Schonfeld, whose piece “Who Got Screwed When Vinyl Me, Please Went Bust?” is up over at Stereogum and is a must-read for anyone interested in vinyl or
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The 50th anniversary reissue of Horses includes an all-analog cut of Smith’s 1975 debut and a second LP of outtakes. Few debuts are as striking and complete a statement of purpose as Horses, the first full-length from Patti Smith, released on Arista Records precisely 50 years and two days
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Today’s the big fish in our continuing coverage of Record Store Day’s upcoming Black Friday event—because today we’re covering all the classic rock, pop, and folk reissues that are coming to independent record stores on Friday, November 28. These are all the big acts from the
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Bill Fay and Time of the Last Persecution are back on vinyl, plus three from the psychobilly originators. We’ve got two reviews today to kick off your week. First up are the two incredible albums Bill Fay recorded in the early ’70s, newly reissued by UK’s Proper Records.
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Record Store Day’s Black Friday is swiftly approaching—it’s Friday, November 28, in case you forgot—and our preview coverage of all the worthwhile releases is swelling like a tick. And we haven’t even gotten to the classic rock stuff yet. Today we're looking at