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Reviews: Verve Vault reissues
A look at recent entries in Universal's all-analog reissue series.
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Reviews: The Velvet Underground | Sigh
Loaded comes to Rhino High Fidelity, plus two reissues from the Japanese black-metal band. Today’s newsletter contains a pair of reviews for you. The first is for the recently released Rhino High Fidelity edition of the Velvet Underground’s 1970 swan song, Loaded, cut from the original tape by
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Reviews: Blink-182 | Lionel Richie
The Definitive Sound Series gives Enema of the State and Can’t Slow Down the one-step treatment. Back in December, we reviewed four installments in the Definitive Sound Series (DSS), Interscope-Capitol’s ultra-high-end reissue series of one-step pressings. Refreshingly, the series seems to be primarily focused on the ’80s, ’90s,
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Reviews: Jellyfish, Heart, Erykah Badu, and Peter Frampton on Vinylphyle
Today we’ve got a quartet of vinyl reviews for you, exploring the four most recent releases from Universal’s budding Vinylphyle imprint. We dug into the first four Vinylphyle reissues at the end of last year (read those reviews here and here) and we were impressed, to say the
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Review: Johnny Cash on Sun Records
Some musicians exist outside of a genre even as they define it. “Country music” doesn’t quite seem a fitting descriptor for what Johnny Cash did, and yet he was one of its most representative practitioners in the second half of the 20th century. The term is simply too limiting
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Review: The Jimi Hendrix Experience on UHQR
It was scarcely three months ago that we were treated to a definitive box set of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s sophomore album, 1967’s Axis: Bold as Love. That box, containing analog cuts of the album’s mono and stereo mixes plus three LPs of bonus material and a
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Reviews: The Power Station | The Black Heart Procession
Hello once again to our fellow wax fanatics. We are back after a small but necessary break with some new reviews for you to dig into. Musically, these albums couldn’t be more different, but they both represent projects from musicians looking for creative outlets outside of their better-known bands.
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Reviews: Donny Hathaway | Sam & Dave
New Rhino Reserve pressings of Donny Hathaway’s 1972 Live album and Sam & Dave’s 1966 debut full-length. Today we’ve got reviews of the two remaining soul albums Rhino Reserve has reissued at part of Black History Month. (If you missed our reviews of Otis Redding’s Pain
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Reviews: Grupo Um | The Emotions
What do a Brazilian jazz fusion band and a Chicago vocal-soul trio have in common? Not a whole lot, as it turns out, except that we’re reviewing reissues of both of them this week. First up, we’ve got a never-before-released 1977 recording from Grupo Um, the intensely ambitious
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Review: Hōzan Yamamoto, plus a look at Beatball Music
Today I’m reviewing a fascinating reissue of Japanese jazz, released by the South Korean label Beatball Music. I was unfamiliar with the label until its owner, Bongsoo Lee, emailed The Vinyl Cut to inform us of their projects. Based in Seoul, the label is one of the most esteemed
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Reviews: Otis Redding on Rhino Reserve
New analog cuts of the Stax classics Pain in My Heart and The Soul Album. As our regular readers know all too well, we’re pretty high on Rhino Reserves these days. Rhino has used the line to carve out a more affordable alternative to their Rhino High Fidelity series
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Reviews: The Monkees | Bayeté | The Temprees
We spin the new Monkees singles compilation and two reissues from Real Gone Music. Start your weekend with three piping-hot vinyl reviews—just don’t burn your fingers. Today we catch up on the last of Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right campaign from January and also get on