artist guide
Sep 22, 2026
Rihanna on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Eight albums in eleven years, each one a hard turn away from the last: Good Girl Gone Bad, Rated R, Loud and the long, slow Anti. Here is every Rihanna record we carry and where to start.
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Sep 22, 2026
Lupe Fiasco on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
He arrived in 2006 with a skateboard, a concept and Jay-Z in his corner, spent years fighting his own label, and has been independent ever since: Food & Liquor, The Cool, Tetsuo & Youth and Samurai. Here is every Lupe Fiasco record we carry and where to start.
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Sep 22, 2026
Earl Sweatshirt on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Earl Sweatshirt went from Odd Future prodigy to the most quietly influential rapper of his generation, and the catalog shows the whole turn: the dense debut Doris, the grief-loop experiment of Some Rap Songs, and the warmth of Live Laugh Love. Here is every record we carry and where to start.
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2Pac on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Four studio albums in five years, and a fifth finished before he died. Our guide walks 2Pac's catalog from 2pacalypse Now to All Eyez on Me, and points you where to go next.
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Sep 22, 2026
Sly and the Family Stone on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
An integrated, mixed-gender band from the Bay Area who made the late sixties sound joyful and then made 1971 sound exhausted. A guide to Greatest Hits, There's a Riot Goin' On and Fresh on vinyl.
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Sep 20, 2026
Too Short on Vinyl: Where to Start with the Oakland Original
Too Short went from selling custom cassettes out of an Oakland trunk to a thirteen-year run on Jive. A guide to Born to Mack, Life Is...Too Short and Get in Where You Fit In on vinyl.
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Sep 20, 2026
Robert Glasper on Vinyl: A Guide to Black Radio and the Trio Years
Robert Glasper came out of Houston churches and the New School with two bands, one acoustic and one electric, and spent twenty years refusing to choose. A guide to Canvas, In My Element and the Black Radio trilogy on vinyl.
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Sep 18, 2026
Lil Wayne on Vinyl: A Guide to Tha Carter Series and Beyond
Lil Wayne signed to Cash Money at eleven and turned Tha Carter into a twenty-year franchise. A guide to the series on vinyl, from 2004's Tha Carter through Tha Carter III and Tha Carter V to 2025's Tha Carter VI, plus the I Am Music compilation.
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Sep 17, 2026
Freddie Gibbs on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Freddie Gibbs turned a shelved major label debut into one of the most durable catalogs in modern rap, first with Madlib, then with the Alchemist. Start with Piñata, follow it through Bandana and Alfredo, and finish on the 2025 sequel Alfredo 2.
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Sep 16, 2026
Three 6 Mafia on Vinyl: Where to Start with the Memphis Originators
Three 6 Mafia built Memphis rap on their own equipment and their own labels, then handed the blueprint to crunk, trap and phonk. Start with the 1995 debut Mystic Stylez, then follow the arc through Chpt. 2: World Domination to the major-label turn of Most Known Unknown.
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Sep 15, 2026
Hiroshi Sato on Vinyl: Where to Start with the City Pop Synth Pioneer
Hiroshi Sato went from Tokyo session keyboardist to one-man studio, and the six albums we carry trace the whole turn. Start with the 1982 synth landmark Awakening, then work back to Super Market and Orient.
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Sep 14, 2026
Thievery Corporation on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Two DJs, one basement bar in Washington, and thirty years of dub, bossa nova and downtempo. Here is every Thievery Corporation record we carry, from The Mirror Conspiracy to Saudade, and where to start.
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