GOOD TASTE Records News Blog
Suicideboys on Vinyl: A Guide to the New Orleans Duo's Studio Albums
Two cousins from New Orleans turned a run of self-released tapes into their own label and six studio albums in eight years. Here is the full G59 run on vinyl, from I Want to Die in New Orleans through New World Depression to Thy Will Be Done.
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Oct 19, 2026
Quincy Jones on Vinyl: A Guide to the Mercury and A&M Solo Years
Quincy Jones arranged for big bands, scored films, then produced the biggest pop records ever made. These six are the albums under his own name, from the 1962 session that gave us Soul Bossa Nova through Walking in Space, Body Heat and The Dude.
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Nintendo Soundtracks on CD and Vinyl: A Guide to Zelda, Mario, and the Famicom Era
Nintendo has run one of the steadiest in-house music departments in any medium, from Koji Kondo's Famicom themes to the five-disc Breath of the Wild score. A clerk's guide to the official releases on our shelf: Nintendo Famicom Music, the Super Mario Bros. and Zelda 30th anniversary sets, Skyward Sword, and the Laced Records vinyl box.
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Oct 19, 2026
Tricky on Vinyl: A Guide to the Bristol Trip-Hop Innovator's Albums
Tricky walked out of the Wild Bunch to invent his own corner of the Bristol sound, and three decades on he has never repeated himself. A guide to the six albums we carry, from the 1995 debut Maxinquaye to Different When It's Silent.
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Oct 15, 2026
Nightmares on Wax on Vinyl: A Guide to the Leeds Downtempo Pioneer
George Evelyn has been slowing records down in Leeds for Warp since 1988, and the catalog still holds up. A guide to Smokers Delight, Carboot Soul, In A Space Outta Sound and the new Echo45 Sound System.
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Oct 15, 2026
Essential Electronic Music on Vinyl: A Starter's Guide
Ten records that trace electronic music from Dusseldorf's robot pop to the modern dance floor. The essential electronic vinyl worth starting with, straight from our racks.
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Oct 13, 2026
Kikagaku Moyo on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Five friends started busking in Tokyo in 2012, built a sitar-led psychedelic catalog on their own label, and stopped after exactly five albums. Here is the whole finished run GOOD TASTE carries, from the 2013 debut through House In the Tall Grass and Masana Temples to Kumoyo Island.
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New Album Releases & Arrivals October 16, 2026
This Friday builds in walls: a Jay-Z wall with Reasonable Doubt at thirty and The Blueprint at twenty-five, a Rocktober wall of Joni Mitchell, Motorhead, Pretenders and ZZ Top in brick-and-mortar colors, and a Japan wall running five Studio Ghibli scores deep with Takanaka live at Budokan beside them. Fontaines D.C. and The Avalanches lead the new releases, and two splattered horror soundtracks arrive just in time for the season. All new, all sealed, all in GOOD TASTE.
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Oct 12, 2026
RSD Black Friday 2026: Store Hours and Event Details
RSD Black Friday 2026 lands Friday, November 27. GOOD TASTE Records opens early at 9am and stays open until 6pm at 4 Thacher St in Boston's North End. All 185 RSD Black Friday titles are sold in-store that day, first come, first served, one copy per title per person. We're also putting out new releases and a fresh wave of used inventory. Anything left goes online Saturday morning, November 28, and we're open normal hours all weekend.
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Oct 12, 2026
LL Cool J on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Def Jam's first full-length album was his, and he kept reinventing the job for four decades. Here are the six records GOOD TASTE carries, from Radio and Bigger and Deffer through Mama Said Knock You Out to the Q-Tip produced The Force.
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Oct 12, 2026
Kid Cudi on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Day 'n' Nite went around the blogs in 2008 and Cudi turned that opening into five act concept albums a decade of singing rappers learned from. Here are the six records GOOD TASTE carries, from Man on the Moon: The End of Day through Indicud to INSANO.
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Oct 10, 2026
Justin Timberlake on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
From the Neptunes snap of Justified to the seven minute suites of The 20/20 Experience, Timberlake spent twenty years building pop around two production partnerships. Here are the six solo albums GOOD TASTE carries, plus the NSYNC records that started it.
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