A little over a month since the last release, a new installment in Bruce Springsteen’s live archive series has been released: Ippodromo Delle Capannelle, Rome, Italy, 2013. This concert from July 13, 2013 comes at the tail end of the Wrecking Ball Tour which had begun over a year earlier in March of 2012. A concert from right before this tour began, from March 9, 2012 at the Apollo Theater in New York, has been previously released by the Springsteen archive. Also previously released are numerous concerts from the High Hopes Tour which…
Review: Alanis Morissette, “Jagged Little Pill: Collector’s Edition”
As time marches on, nostalgia of course goes along with it. So, with the passage of time, we’ve arrived at an era of nostalgia for the 1990s. Hard as it may be for some to believe, 20th and 25th anniversaries for major releases in the ’90s keep occurring – and items are released in commemoration. Thus, Rhino has recently reissued Alanis Morissette’s 1995 smash album Jagged Little Pill in a variety of iterations including a 2-CD version and a 4-CD Collector’s Edition. When Morissette traveled to Los Angeles in the early ’90s…
G-L-O-R-I-OUS: Legacy Announces New Set Featuring Van Morrison’s Complete Recordings with Them
It has been a pretty big year for Van Morrison, both with new recordings and reissues. At the beginning of 2015, he released his latest studio effort, Duets- Re-Working the Catalogue. In August, it was announced that Sony/Legacy Recordings had acquired the rights to the majority of his catalogue. The label quickly released an Essential volume and put 33 albums up on digital services with the promise of more projects to come. Then, just last week, Rhino released expanded editions of two of Morrison’s albums, Astral Weeks and His Band and Street…
Our Big Record Store Day Black Friday Round-Up Featuring McCartney, Bowie, Wilson, Queen, Ronstadt, More
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve told you about the 2015 Black Friday Record Store Day offerings from Legacy, Omnivore and Real Gone Music. Well, the full list of releases which are coming out on November 27 has been announced and we’ve got the details below including new titles from Rhino, Varese Sarabande, Hear Music and more! The entire list is over 125 items long, so we’ve just highlighted some entries below in which you might be interested. The full listing can be seen at recordstoreday.com. As usual, with so many…
Don’t Fear the Reaper: “Now!” Series Releases a Halloween Volume
We’ve reported on several Christmas reissues being released in the lead-up the yuletide season. And when it comes to holidays throughout the year, Christmas certainly reigns supreme in terms of the quantity of music devoted to it. However, some other holidays and occasions throughout the year have music devoted to them. One of the more popular ones is Halloween which is coming up this weekend. To provide a soundtrack to your Halloween parties or trick-or-treating, Legacy Recordings, in association with Universal, has recently released Now That’s What I Call Halloween! This 18-track…
You’ve Got the Touch: Legacy’s 2015 Black Friday RSD Slate includes Presley, Cash, Hendrix, Isley Brothers and “Transformers” Soundtrack
Announcements about this year’s Black Friday Record Store Day event have been trickling out. A couple of days ago we brought you news of Omnivore’s titles and before that, of Real Gone’s Dictators release! Now we can tell you about Legacy’s slate for the day after Thanksgiving. The titles run the gamut in size from 7″ singles to 12″ 2-LP sets, and also range in genre from rock to country to hip-hop. Several soundtracks are being released including a single from the 1960s Batman TV show, the film Garden State and…
Long Time Comin’: Next Bruce Springsteen Live Archive Release Highlights 2005 “Devils & Dust” Tour
The next installment in Bruce Springsteen’s live archive series has been revealed: Schottenstein Center, Columbus, Ohio 2005. The show for this release is from July 31, 2005 and falls in the middle of Springsteen’s Devils & Dust Tour. Devils & Dust was released in April of that year, debuting at Number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It was his first album following 2002’s The Rising which had reunited Springsteen with the E Street Band for the first time on a new studio record in nearly 20 years. For Devils & Dust, he returned…
It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas: Real Gone Unwraps Seven Christmas Titles in November From Johnny Mathis, Glen Campbell and More
Real Gone Music’s October slate kicked off the label’s yearly celebration of the music of Christmas including classic albums by George Melachrino, The Soulful Strings and The Three Suns – and that continues into November when the label releases a whopping seven titles for the holiday season! We’ve already told you this morning about our two Second Disc Records releases: Jim Nabors – The Complete Columbia Christmas Recordings and an expanded edition of Lynn Anderson’s The Christmas Album. Real Gone’s remaining five titles run through a variety of genres while all containing festive holiday…
Do You Hear What I Hear?: Legacy Adds Four New Entries to “Classic Christmas Album” Series
Legacy Recordings is getting into the Christmas spirit this year by continuing its Classic Christmas Album series. On October 2, four new entries will be released featuring artists who had their biggest successes in the ’70s (Earth, Wind & Fire), ’80s (a various artists compilation), ’90s (Sarah McLachlan) and 2000s (Celtic Thunder). The majority of the material on these compilations is of a relatively recent vintage. The exception is The Classic Christmas ’80s Album which obviously covers material from that decade and runs the gamut in genres, featuring some of the bigger…
You Oughta Know: Rhino Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill” with 4-CD Box
This October, Rhino is celebrating one of the biggest albums of the 1990s: Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill. To commemorate the album’s 20th anniversary, a newly remastered 4-CD Collector’s Edition and 2-CD Deluxe edition will be released on October 30. Alanis Morissette’s first two albums did not indicate the direction her music would take for her biggest smash record. Released on MCA in her native Canada, 1991’s Alanis and 1992’s Now is the Time had critics comparing her to Debbie Gibson or Tiffany. While Alanis was a hit, Now is the Time did…
Turn It Up: Cherry Red Reissues Ted Nugent’s “Free-For-All” Featuring Meat Loaf
Cherry Red imprint Hear No Evil Recordings has recently released a new reissue from a classic 1970’s hard-rocker: Ted Nugent’s second solo album for Epic Records, Free-For-All. This also follows in HNE’s line of Meat Loaf reissues as the Bat Out of Hell superstar is a prominent guest on the album singing over half of the songs. Ted Nugent, hailing from Detroit, got his start in music at a young age. After performing in several bands, he formed the Amboy Dukes when his family moved to Chicago in the mid-1960s. The initial line-up did…
Sixteen Tons, What Do You Get?: Bear Family Releases Tennessee Ernie Ford 5-CD Box Set
For years, Germany’s venerable Bear Family label has been curating large box sets focusing on country, pop and early rock-n-roll. These vast collections offer up a complete look at an artist’s recordings during a specific period. The label is continuing in this tradition by compiling a box set to coincide with the 60th anniversary of this artist’s biggest hit. On September 25, 2015, Tennessee Ernie Ford: Portrait of An American Singer (1949-1960) will be released in the U.S., marking the six decades since “Sixteen Tons” became a #1 smash. Born Ernest Jennings Ford, Tennessee Ernie…
Christmas Joy: Real Gone Kicks off the Holidays with Four Seasons and More in October
It may be hard to believe, but the holiday season will be here sooner than we think! To prove that point, Real Gone Music is getting Christmas started early with its October slate of releases featuring five yuletide gems along with three titles good for year-round enjoyment. This batch of Christmas classics kicks off with the 4 Seasons’ The 4 Seasons Greetings, continuing Real Gone’s series of mono Seasons reissues which began in September. Next, you’ve got holiday tunes from crooner and actor John Gary with his lone RCA Christmas LP. Rounding out…
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Paint With All the Colors of the Wind: Latest Disney Legacy Collection Release Features “Pocahontas”
This past Friday, Walt Disney Records continued its Legacy Collection series. Like the most last release, Toy Story, it celebrates a film marking its 20th anniversary: 1995’s Pocahontas. The new 2-CD set features the entire score along with several demos and alternate versions of songs. Pocahontas, Disney’s 33rd animated film, was a departure from some of the films in the studio’s past repertoire in that is was based on history and not a fairytale. The movie chronicles the story of Native American Pocahontas and her encounters with Englishman John Smith and other English settlers surrounding the establishment of…
Happy in the Morning: Sony Masterworks Reissues Lauren Bacall, Mickey Rooney Musicals and More
Last week, we told you about Masterworks Broadway’s search for suggestions of cast albums to reissue on vinyl. This week, the label has just announced three new releases in their ongoing download/CD-R program. The first up on July 17 (this Friday) is the 1957 television cast of Pinocchio starring Mickey Rooney. This is not the Disney musical, but a version of the story featuring music by Alec Wilder and lyrics by William Engvick. It has only been available on CD before by public domain sources, such as Sepia’s 2008 edition. Next, on August 14th,…
Takin’ It To the Streets: Rhino Announces 10-CD Doobie Brothers Box Set Collecting 1971-1983 Albums
Rhino Records is continuing to release complete album box sets of artists in their catalog. We’ve recently told you about sets for Chicago, Alice Cooper, and America and the label has just announced another similar box for The Doobie Brothers. The Warner Bros. Years 1971 -1983 features the band’s 10 albums recorded during that period, and it’s set to be released in under two weeks on July 24. The core of The Doobie Brothers was formed when drummer John Hartman and guitarist/singer/songwriter Tom Johnston decided to start a band in California in 1969. The two…
Give My Regards to Broadway: Sony Masterworks Seeks Votes on Vinyl Reissues
Are you a vinyl enthusiast? Do you enjoy the music of Broadway? If so, then you might be interested in the poll being conducted right now by Sony Masterworks’ Broadway division. The label has just announced that it’s seeking suggestions for Broadway cast album to reissue on vinyl. By going to this link at Masterworks’ website, you can vote on which titles you would like to see. The 14 titles on which you currently can vote encompass musicals by some of Broadway’s biggest names including Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb, Stephen Sondheim,…
A Brilliant Disguise: Springsteen Live Archive Series Spotlights Los Angeles, 1988
The next release in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s live archive series has just been announced: LA Sports Arena, California, 1988. Coming toward the end of the U.S. leg of the Tunnel of Love Express Tour, this concert is from April 23, 1988 – the second night of a five-night stand in Los Angeles. Performances from other nights in this stand have shown up on Springsteen videos over the years. The Tunnel of Love Express Tour marked several changes for Springsteen. Most significantly, musically-speaking, his association with the E Street…
Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Edsel to Release Belinda Carlisle Singles Box Set
Following a series of deluxe reissues and a career-spanning box set, Edsel is once again turning to the catalogue of Belinda Carlisle. A new 29-CD box set has just been announced which collects the songs and edits released in the U.S. and U.K. across her entire solo recording career for IRS, Virgin, Chrysalis and up to the new song from her UMe Icon entry. Belinda Carlisle: The CD Singles 1986-2014 is due to be released on August 21, 2015. The California-born Carlisle rose to fame as the lead singer of the iconic…
End of the Long, Strange Trip? Final Grateful Dead Reunion Shows Arrive From Rhino in November
Over the weekend, the remaining members of the Grateful Dead kicked off their reunion “Fare Thee Well” concerts in Santa Clara, California. These concerts are billed as the last time that Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart and Bob Weir will perform under the name of the Grateful Dead. The final three highly-anticipated shows begin on July 3 at Soldier Field in Chicago. Rhino Records has just announced that these final shows will all be recorded and available in a variety of formats on November 20. The original line-up of the Grateful…
A Friend In Me: Randy Newman’s “Toy Story” Up Next in Disney’s Legacy Collection
Walt Disney Records’ Legacy Collection marches on. The next project in the series spotlights a movie of relatively more recent vintage than some of the other releases this year. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Toy Story will be the recipient of the 2-CD soundtrack treatment which is due out on July 10. Who would have thought in 1995, just one year after Disney’s blockbuster The Lion King that the direction of the animated studio would be forever altered by a computer-animated film about talking toys with songs written by the man who composed…
You’re The Inspiration: Rhino to Release 10-CD Box Collecting Chicago’s Studio Albums From 1979-2008
Rhino is following up its box set news of last week from America and Alice Cooper with even more news this week. They have just announced a new box set celebrating the second half of Chicago’s career: The Studio Albums 1979-2008 to be released on July 10th. This set follows 2012’s The Studio Albums 1969-1978 which collected the first ten studio albums from the band. That set is being re-pressed in conjunction with the new box. The end of the 1970s saw Chicago in a time of transition. The band had enjoyed massive…
I’ll Remember Erroll: Garner’s Classic “Concert by the Sea” Expanded To 3 CDs
Nearly sixty years to the day after it was recorded, Sony Legacy and Octave Music Publishing will release, on September 18, an expanded edition of jazz piano legend Erroll Garner’s best-selling live LP, Concert by the Sea. The new 3-CD set will present a nearly-doubled presentation of the concert together with a newly remastered version of the original LP release. Recorded on September 19, 1955 at a military base near Carmel, California, Concert by the Sea was never intended to be recorded or released. Only when Garner’s manager saw a fan recording…
School’s Out for Summer: Rhino Announces Alice Cooper’s New 15-CD “Studio Albums 1969-1983” Box Set
Yesterday, we told you about a new box set focusing on America’s complete Warner Bros. studio albums. Well, today, Rhino has announced a similar set focusing on shock-rocker Alice Cooper to be released July 31. The Studio Albums: 1969-1983 is a fifteen-disc set containing the fifteen Alice Cooper Band and Alice Cooper solo studio recordings in that 14-year period. The band Alice Cooper began performing in the late 1960s with their first LP being 1969’s Pretties for You on Frank Zappa’s Straight label. The band consisted of Vincent Furnier on vocals and harmonica,…
No Time To Cry: Rhino Celebrates The Sisters of Mercy With Vinyl Box
Among the many titles celebrating a 30th anniversary this year is the album debut from the British rock band The Sisters of Mercy. To commemorate that milestone, Rhino Records has just announced a new 4-LP box set due for release on July 24: the First and Last and Always Vinyl Collection. Coming out of the independent U.K. rock scene of the early 1980s, The Sisters of Mercy signed their record deal with WEA in 1983 and their first album was released two years later: First and Last and Always. However, behind the scenes problems…
