Dio's Magica album, released in 2000, is getting the deluxe treatment from the late singer's Niji Entertainment Group label. Long out-of-print and a favorite for fans, the album will be released in June as a double-disc set with rare studio extras and unreleased live tracks. Magica was a long time coming for Dio's core fan base, who'd seen him drift away from the more fantastical storytelling elements he'd become known for since his days in Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. Albums like Strange
Archives for April 16, 2013
Come Aboard, He's Expecting You: Vintage Jack Jones Albums Arrive From Zone Records
For eight seasons beginning in 1977, the voice of Jack Jones came into households singing the praises of The Love Boat via Paul Williams and Charles Fox's famous theme song. Yet long before The Love Boat, the smooth-voiced singer had established himself as a premier vocalist comfortable with both jazz and changing pop styles. To date, Jones has recorded over fifty albums, yet many of his finest album achievements still remain unreleased on CD. Zone Records is rectifying that with the reissue
Still Beating: Huey Lewis and The News Mark 30 Years of "Sports" with Expanded Set (UPDATED)
UPDATE (4/16/2013): Amazon's track list has further elaborated on the live bonus disc, and those who were less than thrilled with the contents may be even less so: only one recording is sourced from the Workin' for a Livin' Tour of 1983-1985. Most come from shows recorded from 1986 to 1989, and the album's last two tracks, "You Crack Me Up" and "Honky Tonk Blues," are represented as "newly recorded" versions on the bonus disc. We'll still be following this title closely, should anything
Release Round-Up: Week of April 16
Shuggie Otis, Inspiration Information/Wings of Love (Epic/Legacy) Nearly 40 years after Inspiration Information, Shuggie Otis' second and most recent LP, the R&B singer/songwriter/guitarist returns with a greatly expanded double-disc edition of that album featuring material recorded in the intervening years. (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) David Bowie, Aladdin Sane: 40th Anniversary Remaster (EMI) Ziggy goes back to America in this newly-remastered straight reissue of the 1973