GOOD TASTE Records News Blog
Snoop Dogg on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Snoop Dogg went from Dr. Dre's most quoted guest to a catalog spanning Death Row, No Limit and his own imprint. Here is the run GOOD TASTE carries, from Doggystyle and Tha Doggfather through Tha Last Meal, Bush and the Dre reunion on Missionary.
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Herbie Hancock on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Herbie Hancock spent six decades moving from Blue Note post-bop to the Mwandishi electronics to the funk band that cut Head Hunters. Here is the run GOOD TASTE carries, from Empyrean Isles and Maiden Voyage through Sextant, Thrust and The New Standard.
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Sault on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Sault appeared in 2019 with no interviews and no press photos, then built one of the deepest catalogs in modern British soul. Here is the run GOOD TASTE carries, from the debut 5 through the 2022 five-album drop to Acts of Faith and Chapter 1.
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Sep 2, 2026
Essential 2000s Hip-Hop on Vinyl: A Starter's Guide
From Supreme Clientele to Tha Carter III, these are the ten essential 2000s hip hop vinyl records that tell the decade's whole story, picked from the racks at our Boston shop.
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Sep 2, 2026
Massive Attack on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Massive Attack turned a Bristol sound system into five albums that reset the terms every time. A guide to Blue Lines, Mezzanine, 100th Window and the Mad Professor dub companions GTR carries.
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Sep 1, 2026
New Album Releases & Arrivals September 4, 2026
September opens with a Melbourne punk record made in a bedroom with no internet, the first Massive Attack music in six years with Tom Waits on the microphone, and Angelo Badalamenti's Blue Velvet score turning forty. Behind them: a Zambian album that never got past the test-press stage in 1977, a Cuban landmark at thirty, and a shelf that has MadVillainy, Donuts, and a pair of Tatsuro Yamashita imports on it.
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Sep 1, 2026
J Dilla on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
J Dilla spent a decade reshaping how rap drums feel, then left a catalog deeper than his short discography suggests. A guide to Donuts, The Shining, Ruff Draft and the beat collections that followed.
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Aug 31, 2026
De La Soul on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
De La Soul turned Long Island in-jokes into a language hip-hop still borrows from. A guide to the Tommy Boy run from 3 Feet High and Rising to Stakes Is High, and the long road back to Cabin in the Sky.
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Aug 31, 2026
Common on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Common spent thirty years moving rooms, from No I.D.'s Chicago boom bap to the Soulquarians to a late run with Pete Rock. A record by record guide to the catalog we carry, from Resurrection through Be and The Auditorium Vol. 1.
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Aug 28, 2026
Eminem on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
From a Detroit basement to the center of hip-hop, Eminem reshaped rap through his alter ego Slim Shady. Here is where to start on vinyl, from The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP to the 2024 return The Death of Slim Shady.
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Aug 28, 2026
Amerigo Gazaway on Vinyl: A Guide to the Soul Mates Blend Albums
Nashville producer Amerigo Gazaway builds blend albums that never happened, splicing legends into records that play like lost collaborations. Start with Fela Soul, Yasiin Gaye, and Bizarre Tribe.
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Aug 28, 2026
Kool Keith on Vinyl: Where to Start with Hip-Hop's Great Shape-Shifter
Kool Keith has spent forty years rapping as somebody else, from Ultramagnetic MC's through Dr. Octagon, Black Elvis, and a late run nobody saw coming. A record by record guide to the catalog we carry.
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