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Including Brian Wilson, Yes, the Cars, the Muffs, Cecil Taylor, Phoenix, the Chills, Dr. Feelgood, Jane Weaver, and Michel Petrucciani. It’s time for round two of our in-depth reviews for Record Store Day 2026, in which we listen to a boatload of exclusive Record Store Day vinyl and let
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Including Bill Evans, Neil Young, Françoise Hardy, Blur, Freddie King, Buster Williams, Adam Sandler, Terry Callier, and Bob Brady and the Con Chords. We’re less than two weeks away from Record Store Day, so today we’re launching the first batch of our RSD record reviews. We’ll be
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We’ve reached the last of our preview posts for this year’s upcoming Record Store Day, and today we’re looking at all the reissues of things released in the 21st century—i.e., the century you and I are living in right now. Therefore, almost everything we’re
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Record Store Day 2026 fast approaches, and we at The Vinyl Cut are doing our best to prepare you for this blessed event. Today, that means a rundown of the reissues of albums from the 1990s that we think you should add to your shopping basket on April 18. It’
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Our RSD ’26 previews continue with a batch of all of the 1980s rock and rock-adjacent reissues that have caught our eye. This includes records that can be categorized as post-punk, power pop, new wave, goth, hi-NRG, indie, jangle-pop, college rock, and [other]. We’ve actually broken down today’s
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Our Record Store Day preview continues with what you might call the “classic rock” reissues, although we also touch upon the pop, folk, and country reissues from that same period—in this case, the 1960s and 1970s. If something from that era is missing from this rundown, we might have
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Our preview of this year’s Record Store Day continues with a look at some of the more interesting hip-hop, soul, R&B, funk, and reggae vinyl that’s hitting independent record stores on Saturday, April 18. Last week we tackled hard rock, punk, and metal, and the week
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Our RSD coverage continues with a look at some of the heavier stuff coming to your local record store on Saturday, April 18. Today we’re previewing the hard rock, punk, and metal vinyl that’s being reissued—or in some cases, released on vinyl for the very first time.
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As we begin the week with decided global uncertainty, it might not be the best time for some good ol’ vinyl escapism. ...What am I saying? It might be the best time for some good ol’ vinyl escapism. In here, we can close off the outside world, ignore all the
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First off, welcome to all of our new subscribers! Our RSD Black Friday reviews have gotten a ton of traffic and brought a lot of you to The Vinyl Cut for the first time. We hope you like what we’re up to here and decide to stick around for
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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