Acclaimed Brooklyn rockers Grizzly Bear broke a three-year gap between albums with last year's beloved Shields. This fall, they will deepen the experience of that album with a double-disc, demo-packed expanded edition. After a brief band hiatus following the promotion of 2009's Veckatimest, the quartet began sessions for Shields in Marfa, Texas, before ultimately moving back to the same Cape Cod property that gave 2006's sophomore album Yellow House its name. The band began to write and record
Archives for September 18, 2013
UMe Says "Respect the Classics" with Hip-Hop Reissue Series
Perhaps no genre is as underrepresented in the catalogue world as modern hip-hop. Remastered and expanded editions are hard to come by, for whatever reason - be it sample clearance, market demand and the like. Universal Music Enterprises is doing their best to change that this year with a new wave of multi-format reissues called "Respect the Classics." "Respect the Classics" draws from critically-acclaimed titles in the Def Jam, Interscope, Priority, and Virgin Records discographies and
Hangin' Out with Henry Mancini and Ferrante and Teicher: Intrada, Vocalion Revisit 1970s Gems
For fans of the legendary composer Henry Mancini, these really are the days of wine and roses. The soundtrack specialists at Intrada have just announced the CD release of Mancini's score to the 1974 adventure film The White Dawn for the very first time in a deluxe edition with bonus material. And the U.K.-based Vocalion label is looking to the same decade with the reissue of two of Mancini's never-before-on-CD RCA albums plus another pair from piano duo Arthur Ferrante and Lou