Winter is baaaack! Warm up with our latest vinyl picks for your lonely needle! 

Pavement LP (Low Price) Reissues

The budget LP returns! If you're OK with no-frills, medium-weight vinyl with a price averaging about $10 per record, you will be happy as hell to pick up these new Pavement LP reissues. Buy all five for the same price as two of them fancy-pants, "limited," "200-gram," "audiophile" vinyl jobbers. Now available: Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, Wowee Zowee, Terror Twilight, Watery Domestic and Brighten the Corners.

Various Artists - The Minimal Waves Tapes, Vol. 1

Minimal Wave was a genre of underground, DIY electronic music primarily made with analog synths and drum machines during the 1970s & 1980s. Cassette tapes were recorded in basements, promoted in fanzines, and traded and sold via snail mail. The Minimal Wave label was launched in 2005 with the purpose of unearthing the many lost treasures of this time. Now, Stones Throw Records' head Peanut Butter Wolf has teamed up with Minimal Wave to release this sampler. Double LP, only 500 numbered copies.

Various Artists - More Dirty Laundry: The Soul of Black Country, Vol. 2

Although technically not a new release (it was released in '09), this is definitely worth a major shout-out. While Ray Charles is generally recognized as the progenitor of "country soul," due to his groundbreaking 1962 album, Modern Sounds in Country & Western, it didn't end with him, as this compilation (and its equally outstanding first volume) certainly proves. This 24-track double LP provides example after example by the likes of Sammy Davis, Jr, Joe Tex, Arthur Alexander, Clyde McPhatter, James Brown, Andre Williams and many more.

Field Music - Field Music

Following a self-imposed three-year hiatus, the UK's Field Music returns with a new 20-track double-album of artful English pop. The new album is a gloriously rich LP that entwines the brothers' renewed love of the rock music canon with a rediscovery of some of pop's overlooked adventurers. 

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (Out 3/23)

180-gram exact reproduction of this groundbreaking 1970 classic. You already know how this album shaped the yet-to-be-named genre of heavy metal and was the foundation upon which grunge was built. So go buy it!