GOOD TASTE Records News Blog
Nov 9, 2026
John Coltrane on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
John Coltrane moved from a single Blue Note date to the Atlantic years to the Impulse quartet in under a decade. Here is where to start among the nine albums we carry, from Blue Train and Giant Steps to A Love Supreme.
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Boldy James on Vinyl: A Guide to the One-Producer Albums, Real Bad Boldy to Criminally Attached
Boldy James has built his catalog almost entirely out of one-producer albums, from Real Bad Boldy with Real Bad Man to Fair Exchange No Robbery and Criminally Attached with Nicholas Craven. Here is where to start with the eleven titles we carry, and where to go next.
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Nov 8, 2026
Thundercat on Vinyl: A Guide to Drunk, It Is What It Is, and Distracted
Stephen Bruner went from session bassist for Suicidal Tendencies and Erykah Badu to one of Brainfeeder's defining voices. Here is the whole run, from The Golden Age of Apocalypse through Drunk and It Is What It Is to 2026's Distracted.
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Stevie Wonder on Vinyl: A Guide to Talking Book, Innervisions, and Songs in the Key of Life
Signed to Tamla at eleven, free of the Motown assembly line at twenty-one, and unstoppable by 1972. A guide to the five Stevie Wonder records we carry, from Talking Book and Innervisions to the fiftieth year of Songs in the Key of Life.
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Project Pat on Vinyl: A Guide to Ghetty Green and the Hypnotize Minds Years
Juicy J's older brother spent the 1990s as the most-featured voice in Hypnotize Minds before Ghetty Green made him a headliner. A guide to the five Project Pat records we carry, from that 1999 debut through Mista Don't Play and Layin Da Smack Down to the 2017 return.
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Nov 4, 2026
Essential House Music on Vinyl: A Starter's Guide
Ten essential house records on vinyl, from Frankie Knuckles and Mr. Fingers to Disclosure and Kaytranada. A starter's guide to four decades of house music, straight from our racks.
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Ministry on Vinyl: A Guide to the Industrial Years, Twitch to Dark Side of the Spoon
Ministry spent the 1980s turning a Chicago synth-pop band into the template for industrial metal. This guide walks the five albums in the racks here, from Twitch and The Land of Rape and Honey through Psalm 69 to the Rocktober reissues of Filth Pig and Dark Side of the Spoon.
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Sufjan Stevens on Vinyl: A Guide to Michigan, Illinois, and Carrie & Lowell
Sufjan Stevens went from a state-by-state song cycle to the quietest grief record of the 2010s. A clerk's walk through Michigan, Illinois and Carrie & Lowell, plus Javelin and the new Christmas set.
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Nov 4, 2026
Aphex Twin on Vinyl: Where to Start and Where to Go Next
Richard D. James went from teenage cassettes in Cornwall to the most studied catalog in electronic music. A clerk's walk through Selected Ambient Works 85-92, the Richard D. James Album, Drukqs and Syro, and where to go once they land.
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New Album Releases & Arrivals November 6, 2026
The first Friday of November brings the holidays early: Sufjan Stevens' Worst Christmas Ever! on Rudolph red and the Spice Girls' 30th anniversary singles box. Behind them, a Japan wall two shelves deep, Ron Trent's new double album leading a Rush Hour house section, Evanescence's Open Door at twenty, The Avalanches back in print and the Menace II Society soundtrack on 180g. All new, all sealed, all in GOOD TASTE.
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Onra on Vinyl: A Guide to the Chinoiseries Trilogy and the Albums That Followed
Onra turned a crate of Vietnamese records bought in Saigon into Chinoiseries, then spent a decade following that thread through Pt. 2 and Pt. 3. Here is the full run we carry, from those beat albums to the Thai samples of Nosthaigia and the late-night soul of After Dark.
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Nov 2, 2026
Mobb Deep on Vinyl: Where to Start with the Queensbridge Duo
Havoc and Prodigy spent thirty years turning Queensbridge into a sound, from the cold piano of The Infamous through Hell on Earth and Murda Muzik to the 2025 finale Infinite. Here is what each record on our shelf gives you, and which one to reach for first.
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