'A Ghost' is Re-Born: Wilco Expand 2004 Album Into New Box Set

By Mike Duquette | November 20, 2024 | 0 Comments

Following an acclaimed, Grammy-winning deluxe edition of Wilco's mainstream breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the same creative team will assemble a similar set for 2004 follow-up A Ghost is Born. The deluxe set - made up of either nine CDs or nine LPs and four CDs - packages the album alongside 65 previously unreleased tracks, including two […]

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Longer After Dark: Third Man Prep Vinyl Bootleg of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' 1982 Tour

By Mike Duquette | November 20, 2024 | 1 Comment

This fall, Tom Petty's estate approved an expanded reissue of Petty and The Heartbreakers' cult favorite Long After Dark as well as a limited theatrical reissue of Heartbreakers Beach Party, a legendary lost documentary created for MTV by Cameron Crowe in his directorial debut. But the party isn't over yet: the estate is teaming up with Third […]

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Gotta Get In to Get Out: Genesis' 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' Set for Deluxe Edition Next Year

By Mike Duquette | November 20, 2024 | 3 Comments

Genesis will revisit one of their most beloved albums - and their final bow with original vocalist Peter Gabriel - in a new box set next year. Announced almost 50 years to the day of its original release in 1974, a new deluxe version of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway will be a multi-disc celebration - […]

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Ike's Mood: Isaac Hayes' "Hot Buttered Singles 1969-1972" Arrives from Ace

By Joe Marchese | November 19, 2024 | 0 Comments

Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks? If you answered "Shaft," you're damn right!  When Isaac Hayes picked up the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1972 for the "Theme from Shaft," he was only the third African-American to win an Oscar - and the first in the […]

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Holiday Gift Guide Review: Elvis Costello, "King of America and Other Realms"

By Joe Marchese | November 18, 2024 | 3 Comments

It was a fine idea at the time/Now it's a brilliant mistake... Elvis Costello delivered a powerful surprise in 1986 when he shed his backing band, The Attractions, and teamed up with T Bone Burnett for King of America.  Originally credited in the U.K. to The Costello Show (Featuring The Attractions and Confederates) and in […]

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