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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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Welcome back to The Vinyl Cut. Our weekly rundown of new vinyl reissues is coming at you a day early because of a holiday that takes place tomorrow in which Americans all come together and decide that yes, for one day and one day only, cranberries are food. Of course,
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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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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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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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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
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Our Black Friday preview continues with a look at all of the punk, new wave, and post-punk discs coming out on November 28. These are among the most anticipated releases on the roster, with historic performances by legendary bands, represses of all-time classic albums, and rare recordings unheard by even
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Our preview of Record Store Day’s upcoming Black Friday event continues today with perhaps the most treacherous genre yet: hard rock and metal. There are some titles we’re very, very excited about in this batch... and there’s also a lot of dreck that seems produced solely to
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Welcome back to our preview series for Record Store Day’s Black Friday event. Today we’re looking at the hip-hop, R&B, funk, soul, and Latin releases that’ll be at independent record stores on Friday, November 28. It’s a wildly mixed array of stuff, of course,
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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
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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