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Our weekly roundup of new #vinyl reissues is here—check out what's coming to your record store tomorrow, including lots of undersung classics. Plus we've got the latest news on the Vinylphyle series and a forthcoming reissue campaign of Warner titles from Acoustic Sounds/Analogue Productions.
New vinyl reissues: January 16, 2026
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 remem...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Our weekly roundup of new #vinyl reissues is here—check out what's coming to your record store tomorrow, including lots of undersung classics. Plus we've got the latest news on the Vinylphyle series and a forthcoming reissue campaign of Warner titles from Acoustic Sounds/Analogue Productions.
Today we tuck into two more of the latest Rhino Reserve #vinyl reissues: Charles Mingus's Blues & Roots and Sturgill Simpson's A Sailor's Guide to Earth. How do these new cuts stack up? Only one way to find out! (...It's by clicking on the link and reading our reviews. But you probably knew that.)
Reviews: Charles Mingus | Sturgill Simpson
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...
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January 14, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Today we tuck into two more of the latest Rhino Reserve #vinyl reissues: Charles Mingus's Blues & Roots and Sturgill Simpson's A Sailor's Guide to Earth. How do these new cuts stack up? Only one way to find out! (...It's by clicking on the link and reading our reviews. But you probably knew that.)
In today's newsletter, we review two of the latest Rhino Reserve titles: #vinyl reissues of the Flaming Lips' Clouds Taste Metallic and John Prine's Sweet Revenge. As per usual with the Rhino Reserves, they sound pretty darn sweet.
Reviews: The Flaming Lips | John Prine
Vinyl reviews of the Flaming Lips' Clouds Taste Metallic and John Prine's Sweet Revenge.
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January 13, 2026 at 7:20 PM
In today's newsletter, we review two of the latest Rhino Reserve titles: #vinyl reissues of the Flaming Lips' Clouds Taste Metallic and John Prine's Sweet Revenge. As per usual with the Rhino Reserves, they sound pretty darn sweet.
Our roundup of new vinyl reissues this week includes the next batch of titles from Rhino's Start Your Ear Off Right series (including Rhino Reserve pressings of Mingus, Roland Kirk, and Gordon Lightfoot), plus Fanny, Morton Feldman, Steely Dan, Robyn Hitchcock, a bunch of analog jazz, and more!
New vinyl reissues: January 9, 2026
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 Of...
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January 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Our roundup of new vinyl reissues this week includes the next batch of titles from Rhino's Start Your Ear Off Right series (including Rhino Reserve pressings of Mingus, Roland Kirk, and Gordon Lightfoot), plus Fanny, Morton Feldman, Steely Dan, Robyn Hitchcock, a bunch of analog jazz, and more!
Today's #vinyl reviews include Sub Pop's reissue of '90s noise rockers Six Finger Satellite and Crammed Disc's 45th anniversary edition of experimental post-punk band Tuxedomoon's Desire LP. Read and subscribe!
Reviews: Six Finger Satellite | Tuxedomoon
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 un...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Today's #vinyl reviews include Sub Pop's reissue of '90s noise rockers Six Finger Satellite and Crammed Disc's 45th anniversary edition of experimental post-punk band Tuxedomoon's Desire LP. Read and subscribe!
Today we shake hands with the deluxe 50th anniversary set of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. There are some fascinating outtakes and live stuff, including a full 1975 show via legendary taper Mike Millard that's exclusive to the Blu-ray. But how's the #vinyl, you ask? Read on and find out!
Review: Pink Floyd in 1975
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 ...
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January 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Today we shake hands with the deluxe 50th anniversary set of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. There are some fascinating outtakes and live stuff, including a full 1975 show via legendary taper Mike Millard that's exclusive to the Blu-ray. But how's the #vinyl, you ask? Read on and find out!
Happy 2026! We're kicking off the new year with our usual weekly roundup of new #vinyl reissues. But it's a slow week, so we also put together a last-minute look back at a few things that brought joy to our turntables last year. And now we never need to speak of 2025 again.
New vinyl reissues: January 2, 2026, plus some last-minute 2025 superlatives
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 begin...
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January 1, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Happy 2026! We're kicking off the new year with our usual weekly roundup of new #vinyl reissues. But it's a slow week, so we also put together a last-minute look back at a few things that brought joy to our turntables last year. And now we never need to speak of 2025 again.
We close out 2025 with #vinyl reviews of the two latest Rhino High Fidelity reissues: Devo's Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! and T. Rex's Electric Warrior. They're cut from analog tape and presented in shiny gatefold jackets, but how do they sound?
Reviews: Devo and T. Rex on Rhino High Fidelity
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 foll...
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December 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We close out 2025 with #vinyl reviews of the two latest Rhino High Fidelity reissues: Devo's Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! and T. Rex's Electric Warrior. They're cut from analog tape and presented in shiny gatefold jackets, but how do they sound?
In lieu of a Best-of-the-Year list, here's an Every-Damn-Thing-We-Reviewed list! In the past four months we've reviewed more than 100 #vinyl reissues over at The Vinyl Cut. Read, and subscribe to get a front-row seat to the next 100.
A year in review
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 ...
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December 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
In lieu of a Best-of-the-Year list, here's an Every-Damn-Thing-We-Reviewed list! In the past four months we've reviewed more than 100 #vinyl reissues over at The Vinyl Cut. Read, and subscribe to get a front-row seat to the next 100.
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The vinyl reissue train is slowing down as we reach the end of 2025. We at @vinylcut.net still found some titles worth exploring. Dig...
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New vinyl reissues: December 19, 2025
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 t...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The vinyl reissue train is slowing down as we reach the end of 2025. We at @vinylcut.net still found some titles worth exploring. Dig...
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We reviewed four of the titles in Universal's recently launched Definitive Sound Series: R.E.M., Beck, A Perfect Circle, and Nat King Cole. These high-end one-step #vinyl pressings are pricy, but boy do they sound good.
Review: Universal’s Definitive Sound Series
Fancy one-step pressings of R.E.M.’s Chronic Town and Murmur, Beck’s Morning Phase, A Perfect Circle’s Mer de Noms, and Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song.
A couple of weeks back, we checked out two ...
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December 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We reviewed four of the titles in Universal's recently launched Definitive Sound Series: R.E.M., Beck, A Perfect Circle, and Nat King Cole. These high-end one-step #vinyl pressings are pricy, but boy do they sound good.
In today's newsletter, we plant our juicy lips on the Rolling Stones' deluxe box set for their 1976 album, Black and Blue. Wait, come back. That was just a figure of speech. Our lips are not juicy and they didn't touch anything. We wrote a review, that's all! #vinyl #vinylsky #rollingstones
Review: The Rolling Stones in 1976
A deluxe box set explores the Black and Blue era.
Hello again. Today we continue to play catch-up with all those fancy vinyl box sets that came out during the past couple of months to seduce gift-giv...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In today's newsletter, we plant our juicy lips on the Rolling Stones' deluxe box set for their 1976 album, Black and Blue. Wait, come back. That was just a figure of speech. Our lips are not juicy and they didn't touch anything. We wrote a review, that's all! #vinyl #vinylsky #rollingstones
The new Jimi Hendrix Experience box set does the unthinkable: It finds previously unreleased Hendrix stuff that's absolutely worth hearing. We reviewed the #vinyl set, which charts the making of 1967's Axis: Bold as Love and also includes phenomenal-sounding pressings of the LP.
Review: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
A new box set charts the course of 1967’s Axis: Bold as Love.
We’re still catching up on the many vinyl reissues, re-releases, and box sets that have landed this fall, and today we dig into the new d...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The new Jimi Hendrix Experience box set does the unthinkable: It finds previously unreleased Hendrix stuff that's absolutely worth hearing. We reviewed the #vinyl set, which charts the making of 1967's Axis: Bold as Love and also includes phenomenal-sounding pressings of the LP.
We thought the year-end deluge of #vinyl reissues was tapering off. WE THOUGHT WRONG. Check out our weekly roundup, which includes R.E.M. and Beck one-steps, Pink Floyd, J Dilla, Blur, the Pogues, Counting Crows, Keith Jarrett, Gary Numan, some wonderful Brazilian stuff, and so. much. jazz.
New vinyl reissues: December 12, 2025
Greetings, and welcome back to The Vinyl Cut! Y’know, I thought the year-end deluge of reissues and re-releases was slowing down, but this week has proven otherwise. There’s just a staggering amount o...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We thought the year-end deluge of #vinyl reissues was tapering off. WE THOUGHT WRONG. Check out our weekly roundup, which includes R.E.M. and Beck one-steps, Pink Floyd, J Dilla, Blur, the Pogues, Counting Crows, Keith Jarrett, Gary Numan, some wonderful Brazilian stuff, and so. much. jazz.
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Spent some time listening to the three most recent releases in ECM's Luminessence series.
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Review: ECM's Luminessence Series - Zakir Hussain | Garbarek/Brahem/Hussain | Tord Gustavsen Trio
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 a...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Spent some time listening to the three most recent releases in ECM's Luminessence series.
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In today's newsletter, we reviewed the #vinyl edition of the recent Bob Dylan box set, Through the Open Window, which collects some of his earliest recordings and charts his meteoric development from 1955 to 1963. It's a whirlwind, and far from a museum piece. Read & subscribe! #vinylsky #bobdylan
Review: Bob Dylan's Earliest Years
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 ...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We caught up with the recent fancy-pants one-step pressings of Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain and Tom Petty's Wildflowers. They sound darn good. Are they worth the $$$? #vinyl #vinylsky
Reviews: Because Sound Matters one-steps of Prince and Tom Petty
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 catc...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In today's Vinyl Cut, we reviewed the new #vinyl reissues of the Gits, Letters to Cleo, and Ultravox. Plus we're giving away a copy of the 8-LP Neil Young box set Official Release Series #6 to one of our paid-tier subscribers! Get in on that action—read and subscribe!
Reviews: The Gits | Letters to Cleo | Ultravox
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 ...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In today's Vinyl Cut, we reviewed the new #vinyl reissues of the Gits, Letters to Cleo, and Ultravox. Plus we're giving away a copy of the 8-LP Neil Young box set Official Release Series #6 to one of our paid-tier subscribers! Get in on that action—read and subscribe!
This week's rundown of new #vinyl reissues includes the launch of an exciting Sun Records cut-from-analog series, the Gits, Faust, the Hold Steady, Circle Jerks, two new Blue Note Tone Poets, Letters to Cleo, Ace Records' 50th anniversary, and more. Read and subscribe! #vinylsky #musicsky
New vinyl reissues: December 5, 2025
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: I...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In today's Vinyl Cut newsletter, we review three of the titles in Universal's upscale, all-analog Vinylphyle series: Bob Marley and the Wailers' 'Exodus,' The Band's 'Northern Lights–Southern Cross,' and Nat King Cole's 'The Christmas Song.' Read and subscribe! #vinyl #vinylsky #musicsky
Reviews: Vinylphyle editions of Bob Marley, The Band, and Nat King Cole
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 Universa...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Today's reviews include the 50th anniversary edition of Neil Young's legendary 'Tonight's the Night' and a sterling crop of new reissues from Ray Charles that uncovers lost gems from his extensive catalog. If you like #vinyl, this is the newsletter for you—read and subscribe! #vinylsky #musicsky
Reviews: Neil Young | Ray Charles
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...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We've got a few more #RSD Black Friday #vinyl reviews, this time for Bob Dylan, Big Head Todd, WITCH, and the sunshine-pop comp Flowers in the Afternoon. Plus, some Saturday thoughts about rampant consumerism this time of year. Read and subscribe!
Just a few more Black Friday reviews, and some thoughts about consumerism
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...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Our weekly rundown of new #vinyl reissues comes at you a day early for turkey-related reasons. PLUS we've got our top 5 picks for #RSD Black Friday. Read & subscribe!
New vinyl reissues: November 28, 2025 | PLUS our top five RSD Black Friday picks
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...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We've got reviews of LOTS of upcoming #RSD Black Friday #vinyl, including Fleetwood Mac, the Doors, Joni Mitchell, Grateful Dead, Love, Tom Petty, Talking Heads, Curtis Mayfield, the English Beat, Ramones, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bad Brains, Bill Evans, B.B. King, Son Volt, INXS, Yusef Lateef & more!
We reviewed every last piece of RSD Black Friday vinyl we could get our hands on
Vinyl reviews of 29 reissues coming out on Record Store Day Black Friday 2025.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In today's #vinyl newsletter we reviewed the new #Beatles Anthology Collection megabox AND the new Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie megabox. Now, does anyone know a good chiropractor? Those things are heavy. #vinylsky #musicsky #smashingpumpkins
Reviews: The Beatles | The Smashing Pumpkins
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 mammot...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
In today's #vinyl newsletter we reviewed the new #Beatles Anthology Collection megabox AND the new Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie megabox. Now, does anyone know a good chiropractor? Those things are heavy. #vinylsky #musicsky #smashingpumpkins