The Wax Museum
Jared SmithThe record-mendation newsletter. \ud83c\udfb6 Vinyl discovery, curated mixtapes, new music.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 156 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 16 days ago |
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Cheers to SPRITZCORE 🍹
Welcome inside The Wax Museum, broadcasting from Orlando, where the heat index will hit 110° today. Mamma mia!
Weather like this calls for bubbly drinks and bubbly music, so I went looking for songs that felt sun-drunk.
Before long, I had...
2026 Best So Far: 50 Albums, 50 Sentences
The Wax Museum is billed as the record-mendation newsletter, and today we’re making good on that promise: fifty great albums of 2026, reviewed in one sentence each. For listeners with a growing backlog and limited free time.
To make it eas...
Your New Favorite Summer Playlist Is Here 😎
Photo by Peyman Shojaei on Unsplash
After rigorous testing on patios, porches, pools, decks, and folding chairs, the PATIO GROOVES playlist is back, and better than ever (I mean it this time).
For the newcomers: every season, your esteeme...
The 15 Best Album Debuts of 2026 So Far
The Wax Museum Freshmen Class of 2026! Liner notes and a playlist awaits.
Today is a big day. In fact, it might be the best new release day of the year so far.
My Blind Buy Records of Spring 2026
Pre-ordering an album after hearing just one single is either a sign of great taste, complete degeneracy, or a total lack of impulse control. Possibly all three. But this is the life vinyl collectors have chosen for themselves.
If I could...
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