Vinyl Reviews
Greetings, fellow vinyl fiends. As with our previous posts this week, we’re taking today to get caught up with some reissues that were temporarily pushed to the side in the past few weeks. This time around, we’re looking into the three most recent releases from ECM’s fancier-schmancier
Vinyl Reviews
Charting the breakthroughs on Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18, 1956–1963. We’re still catching up on all the great things that have come out over the past few weeks, particularly the larger box sets that take a bit of extra time to absorb. Today we
Vinyl Reviews
We indulged in the fancy new pressings of Purple Rain and Wildflowers. As December plows forward, the seasonal deluge of reissues and box sets is tapering off. So we’re taking the opportunity to catch up on some major releases that we missed earlier. Today we’re dissecting the two
Giveaways!
We have been promising that paid subscribers will be eligible for our first-ever vinyl giveaway. Well, that day has arrived—it’s giveaway time at last, and that’s just the beginning, as we’re planning to hold similar giveaways for our paid subscribers every month going forward. The prize
Vinyl Reviews
New vinyl pressings of Enter: The Conquering Chicken, Aurora Gory Alice, Wholesale Meats and Fish, and The Collection. We’ve got three reviews for you today, for four new records. But first, a quick reminder that tomorrow our paid subscribers will have the chance to enter our December vinyl giveaway
New Releases
Hello, hello, and welcome back to The Vinyl Cut. The wave of reissues timed for the holiday season seems to finally be cresting, but there are still lots of good things coming out this week. First: If you’re interested in vinyl reissues, you’re probably interested in the analog
Vinyl Reviews
We dig into the rest of the Vinylphyle starting lineup, including Exodus, Northern Lights–Southern Cross, and The Christmas Song. Two weeks back, we jumped on one of the first four titles of Universal’s new all-analog Vinylphyle series. Today we’ve got reviews of the remaining three. * Bob Marley
Vinyl Reviews
Black Friday has come and gone, but there’s still plenty of new vinyl to listen to. Today we go long on a few new reissues of note: The 50th anniversary double-LP edition of Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night, and the four inaugural albums in a terrific new
RSD
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
Vinyl news and in-depth reviews.
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,
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
Inside the new Anthology Collection and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness megaboxes. Christmas came a little early for us at The Vinyl Cut. We got the chance to check out two ridiculously mammoth box sets that drop today, and here our our impressions so that you can judge whether
Hello again, and welcome back to The Vinyl Cut. It’s our usual Thursday rundown of all the new reissues coming out this week, and since we’re more or less into the holiday shopping season, there’s a lot. We’ll get to that in a second, but first,
The Vinylphyle edition of The Velvet Underground & Nico, and a worthy reissue of Fire of God’s Love. We’ve got two vinyl reviews for you today, including our first look at the ballyhooed Vinylphyle series, and a loving reissue of a gentle, inspirational oddity. The Velvet Underground &
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
1985’s Songs from the Big Chair gets a 2-LP vinyl reissue. Songs from the Big Chair is one of those albums that you can’t examine too closely or it falls to pieces. By all metrics, it shouldn’t work. The 1985 album is a deliberately plotted, swing-for-the-fences effort
We spin vinyl copies of the new ENZyclopedia Volumes One & Two, Swimming by Moonlight, and Sire Session 1979. Today we’ve got reviews of three new archival releases that came out on vinyl. First up is the 3-LP set that collects the early work of New Zealand band Split
Many, many new vinyl re-releases to get to this week, but first we just want to shout out the excellent reporting by Zach Schonfeld, whose piece “Who Got Screwed When Vinyl Me, Please Went Bust?” is up over at Stereogum and is a must-read for anyone interested in vinyl or
The 50th anniversary reissue of Horses includes an all-analog cut of Smith’s 1975 debut and a second LP of outtakes. Few debuts are as striking and complete a statement of purpose as Horses, the first full-length from Patti Smith, released on Arista Records precisely 50 years and two days
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
Bill Fay and Time of the Last Persecution are back on vinyl, plus three from the psychobilly originators. We’ve got two reviews today to kick off your week. First up are the two incredible albums Bill Fay recorded in the early ’70s, newly reissued by UK’s Proper Records.
