Vinyl Reviews
We’ll jump right into the reviews—two for you today. One’s for an album that was lost to time due to record company interference, and the other is for a pair of albums that explored the merging of post-punk with rockabilly. * David Forman: Who You Been Talking To
News
Greetings, young (and not so young) vinyl lovers. We’ve got a lovely new edition of the newsletter for you today, but first... Congratulations to Allan, the winner of this month’s vinyl giveaway! He’ll soon be receiving the test pressings of the recently released Definitive Sound Series one-steps
Vinyl Reviews
As much of the US begins to plunge into a deep freeze, we figured what better time to cozy up with some records that we missed the first time around? This pair of vinyl reissues came out last November but got lost in the crazy shuffle of releases leading up
New Releases
Howdy, partners. We’ll jump right into this week’s reissue rundown in just a sec. First, we wanted to welcome all the readers who clicked on us from around the web. If you’re digging our coverage, please consider signing up for a subscription. Our subscribers are the coolest,
Vinyl Reviews
Hello, and happy Wednesday to you and yours. For the first time in over a week, we’ve got reviews of some fresh reissues that are not part of the Rhino Reserve series. Today we’re digging into a couple re-releases that hit record store shelves this past Friday, and
Vinyl Reviews
Hello again, and if you’re sick of reading our reviews about all of the new Rhino Reserve pressings—well, tough. Following up on yesterday’s newsletter and a pair from last week, we’ve got reviews of the remaining three Rhino Reserve titles that Rhino has released so far
Vinyl Reviews
The Rhino Reserve series continues apace with a definitive edition of Future Games. Not even a year old, the Rhino Reserve series has quickly become one of the most appealing and reliable vinyl reissue lines around. The formula is stupidly simple: Take a slightly less well-known album from the vast
Giveaways!
As promised, our January vinyl giveaway goes live today, and it’s a pretty incredible one, if we do say so ourselves. Every month we’re giving away free vinyl to our paid-tier subscribers, and each month we’ll endeavor to make the vinyl as special as possible. I’d
New Releases
There are lots of new records to talk about today, but first, two bits of news on the vinyl reissue scene: First, Universal’s Vinylphyle has announced the next title in their series. As you may remember, they launched the series at the end of last year with a quartet
Vinyl news and in-depth reviews.
More Rhino Reserves! This time we tuck into the new vinyl reissues of Blues & Roots and A Sailor’s Guide to Earth. We’ve got a couple more discs from Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right campaign to tell you about, and just like yesterday, these are in
Rhino Reserve gets their hands on Clouds Taste Metallic and Sweet Revenge. As part of their Start Your Ear Off Right campaign for January, Rhino has released a clutch of vinyl reissues in their Rhino Reserve series. And as you likely know already, the Rhino Reserves have all been pretty
Happy Friday, my fellow vinyl obsessives. Hope that you have been able to get out to your local shop and score some of the killer new wax out today. Or you're having a nice time waiting for your postal carrier to arrive with your new purchases. Whatever the
The onslaught of weekly new releases eased up a bit for the holidays, but now things are getting back to business as usual. It’s a Rhino-heavy week again, with 17 releases from their Start Your Ear Off Right series, but there’s plenty of other stuff to talk about
Happy Wednesday all. I trust this finds you as well as you can be considering, you know, everything. Today we are continuing to corral some of the stragglers from 2025 that we weren't able to cover until now. Trust us, we'll be getting deep into the
We shake hands with the 50th anniversary deluxe edition of Wish You Were Here. The new year is plowing along, but we’ve still got some last flashes of 2025 to catch, including the new deluxe reissue of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. I’ll get to that
Happy New Year! For our first post of the next year of your life, we’ve got our usual weekly new-reissue roundup. But... it’s a pretty slow week. In fact, the only game in town is Rhino, who are beginning their annual Start Your Ear Off Right campaign this
New all-analog vinyl editions of Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! and Electric Warrior. Just in time for the year’s end, we’ve got reviews of the latest two Rhino High Fidelity releases. These follow the established format of previous RHF productions, with thick glossy jackets,
As the holidays wrap up and the calendar comes to a close, it seems like the right time for a quick look back. We launched this newsletter at the beginning of September and are humbled and honored by the response we’ve gotten in just a few short months. Along
Exploring Rhino High Fidelity’s Coltrane 1960–1964 Mono box and a new mono version of A Love Supreme. Although the timing for the recent reissues of work from the mighty jazz saxophonist John Coltrane feels a tad off, there is logic to it. The November release of Coltrane 1960–
The new all-analog cut of 1957’s Dance Album of Carl Perkins does justice to a formative rock ’n’ roll text. It would be natural to start this review by rehashing Carl Perkins’ vital importance to the history of American popular music. But I’m finding it difficult to summarize
Our weekly rundown of new vinyl reissues is a little slimmer than usual this week, for an obvious reason: Record labels are gearing down for the holidays, letting shoppers catch up on all the bounty that’s been hitting stores the past couple of months. So while we don’t
