Release Round-Up: Week of January 9
Welcome to our first Release Round-Up of 2026, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
The Doobie Brothers, The Captain & Me: Audiophile Edition (Warner/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Rhino’s Audiophile Edition of The Doobie Brothers’ smash 1973 album featuring “Long Train Runnin’” and “China Grove” includes four unique mixes: the original quadraphonic mix (previously available on the Doobies’ Quadio box set), surround guru Elliot Scheiner’s 5.1 mix originally released in 2001, a new Dolby Atmos mix, and the original album mix in high-resolution stereo. Read more here.
Van Halen, Live at Wembley 1995 (Warner/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
This concert was previously featured on CD as part of the deluxe edition of Balance released in 2025 and then issued on standalone vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday. Now it’s widely available on both CD and vinyl formats.
Fanny, Mothers Pride (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music)
Real Gone continues its Fanny reissue campaign with this new vinyl version of the group’s 1973 album. It would be Fanny’s final LP for Reprise. Having worked with Richard Perry on their earlier albums, Fanny turned to Todd Rundgren to produce their latest effort. But tension grew between the producer and band when he wouldn’t let them be involved in the final mix of the record. But despite that the album became a hit in the UK. Fanny would go through some lineup changes and move to Casablanca for their next album. Real Gone’s new edition is the first time the album has been reissued on vinyl. It includes a two-page insert featuring lyrics and a reproduction of the promotional flyer which was included with some original 1973 pressings. The reissue has been remastered by Mike Milchner and comes on pink vinyl.
Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel/For Frank O’Hara (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music)
Morton Feldman, an influential composer in 20th century classical music, released these two pieces on LP in 1976 on the Columbia Odyssey label. Feldman associated with abstract and expressionist painters in the 1950s and 1960s and his work reflected their aesthetic. His pieces were concerned more with tonal color than the traditional structure of music and employed silence as part of the composition. The first piece on this LP is inspired by painter Mark Rothko (his famous Chapel adorns the cover) and the second by writer and critic Frank O’Hara. For this 50th anniversary reissue, Real Gone has pressed the 180-gram vinyl at Gotta Groove Records from a new tape transfer. A very limited Wax Mage edition is also available at Real Gone’s website.
Kiss of the Spider-Woman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Vinyl] (Lakeshore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Following its digital and CD releases, Lakeshore and Center Stage Records premiere the full soundtrack to writer-director Bill Condon’s recent big-screen adaptation of Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb’s Kiss of the Spider Woman on vinyl. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna, and Tonatiuh, the soundtrack features both classic songs from the original musical and “new” songs written for the show but originally unused in the final production including “Never You,” “An Everyday Man,” and “I Will Dance Alone.” The film failed to meet commercial expectations, but its score remains as potent and powerful as ever.
Luciano Pavarotti, The Lost Concert: Live at Llangollen 1995 (Decca)
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After a delay from November, Decca premieres Luciano Pavarotti’s recital recorded in Llangollen, North Wales in 1995 on an audio-only format for the very first time. The concert commemorated 40 years since Pavarotti and his fellow choir members from Modena won first prize in the Choral Competition at the International Eisteddfod in 1955. The 75-minute program features operatic arias from Cavalleria Rusticana, Il trovatore, Macbeth, Manon Lescaut, and La traviata, and his beloved Neapolitan songs. It also includes what are believed to be the earliest recordings ever of Pavarotti, both from 1955, and an interview/audio documentary with the late tenor reflecting on his choir’s competition win. Recorded with the BBC Philharmonic (conducted by Leone Magiera), the Corale Rossini, and soprano Atzuko Kawahara, this concert preserves one of the superstar’s most moving performances. The two hybrid SACD set (playable on all CD players) includes a 100-page, LP-sized book with interviews, essays, and photos. Also available on 2 LPs.
Joan Sutherland, The Complete Decca Recordings: The Operas 1971-1988 (Decca) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Dame Joan Sutherland (1926-2010) – the celebrated coloratura soprano and first Australian artist to ever receive a Grammy Award – is saluted on this 46-CD box set which completes her three-volume series of Complete Decca Recordings. This volume features her tour de force singing four roles in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann (1971), as well as Turandot with Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballe, and Zubin Mehta conducting (1972); Sutherland never sang Turandot onstage but her recording has become a go-to for the opera. The box also showcases a plethora of Verdi operas and concludes with Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (1988).
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A revised version of the Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians album A Globe of Frogs was also released today both digitally and on LP.