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Hello, loyal subscribers. You may remember not long ago when my Vinyl Cut partner Ned promised that this post would be our last word on Record Store Day 2026. Well, much like Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III, just when we thought we were done, we got pulled back
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This is our last Record Store Day post, we swear. Well, at least until Black Friday comes around in November. We realized it could be helpful to have an index of all the reviews we’ve written in one place. So here’s an alphabetical list with links to all
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Including the Grateful Dead, John Prine, the Tears, Yusef Lateef, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Mal Waldron, Stalk-Forrest Group, Ahmad Jamal, Roy Hargove, Ike White, Joe Henderson, and Magia Brasileira. We did it. We’ve reached the last batch of our Record Store Day vinyl reviews, in which we
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Including Ween, David Bowie, Ramones, Rod Stewart, Muse, the Sisters of Mercy, Bad Brains, Motörhead, the Stranglers, Todd Rundgren’s Runt, Primal Scream, John Frusciante, and Westbound Records. Welcome back to our continuing onslaught of Record Store Day reviews. We’ve been deep in the RSD vinyl trenches, spinning every
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Including the Doors, the Cure, Steely Dan, Talking Heads, Black Sabbath, Joni Mitchell, George Jones, Electronic, Professor Longhair, and a Lowell George tribute album. We’ve got a big, beefy batch of Record Store Reviews today, and we’ll continue to shovel them out all week long. In case it’
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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