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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
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I Want You on Vinylphyle, plus half-speed masters of Breakfast in America and more. Before we get into today’s vinyl reviews, here’s just a reminder/warning that we’re in the thick of Record Store Day season. For those of you with short memories, Monday’s post
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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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The two vinyl reviews we have today could not be more different. One is for a box set that is the very definition of excessive: a single album stretched out to multiple discs, with alternate mixes, live tracks, videos, and all kinds of tchotchkes to fill out the package. The
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Two new reviews for you today, for a pair of pretty playful albums—one of which you will definitely know if you were listening to rap in the early ’90s, and one an indescribable jazz-Indian-fusion obscurity that even the most seasoned Impulse! Records collectors might not be familiar
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Plus, news of the different Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds' reissues.
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We’d like to help you ease into your weekend with some leisure reading in the form of two extended vinyl reviews. So we went long on some new releases that have been spending time on our turntables in recent weeks. * Van Morrison: Moondance [Rhino Reserve] * The Beach Boys: We
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Today’s record reviews cover recent reissues from the Hamburg, Germany, label Tapete Records and its electronic-music-focused sister imprint, Bureau B. The first album is from the longtime UK band Comet Gain, who have made a virtue of their disparate sound, with acoustic folk and abrasive punk sharing
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A look at recent entries in Universal's all-analog reissue series.
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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