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Essential New Wave on Vinyl: A Starter's Guide
Ten records that map new wave from the CBGB crossover to the synth era: Blondie, the Cars, Talking Heads, New Order, Depeche Mode, and more. The new wave vinyl worth starting with, straight from our racks.
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Sep 24, 2026
Leon Bridges on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Leon Bridges went from washing dishes in Fort Worth to five albums that refuse to sit still. A guide to the carried catalog, from the 1960s soul of Coming Home through Gold-Diggers Sound to the new Happiness Anytime, plus the Texas EPs with Khruangbin.
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Sep 23, 2026
Beyonce on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Beyonce does not repeat herself, and the catalog shows it. A guide to the six Beyonce records on our shelves, from the three-week rush of B'Day and its new 20th anniversary pressing through Lemonade, Renaissance and Cowboy Carter.
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Sep 22, 2026
New Album Releases & Arrivals September 25, 2026
September goes out counting anniversaries: B'Day at twenty, Buena Vista Social Club at thirty, Plantasia at fifty, and Alice in Chains' MTV Unplugged finally on vinyl. Leon Bridges goes coastal with Jungle's producers, KNEECAP's Irish-language debut hits wax, King Gizzard presses a live set onto a skull, and the DC hardcore shelf doubles down, plus everything still in the racks from the month's earlier drops. All new, all sealed, all in GOOD TASTE.
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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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