It was unlike anything audiences had heard or seen: four leather jacket-clad, shaggy-haired ne'er do wells from Forest Hills, Queens, offering loud bursts of sneering rock and roll as grimy as the streets they stumbled across. Almost no one knew it then, but this was a musical movement, as potent as Elvis Presley's first swivel or the first haze over Woodstock. Four decades later, Rhino Records celebrates the incredible legacy of the self-titled debut album by the Ramones with a 3CD/1LP box
This is My Happy Hour: Perth Punks The Scientists Anthologized in New Numero Box
Punk rock's coming up from down under on the newest box set from The Numero Group, dedicated to Australian punk pioneers The Scientists. Born in Perth in 1978, The Scientists, fronted by teen singer/guitarist Kim Salmon, were Australia's answer to The Stooges or The Velvet Underground, offering snotty rebellion and jagged, melodic riffs in their music. Moving from Oz to England, the group found several of their releases on Au Go Go Records, including the EP This Heart Doesn't Run on Blood,
Adam & The Ants' "Kings of the Wild Frontier" to Invade Stores Once More
Unplug the jukebox! Adam & The Ants' classic Kings of the Wild Frontier is coming back as an expansive deluxe edition, to initiate another Ants invasion. Kings of the Wild Frontier remains a pivotal album in post-punk history, as well as a major turning point for Ant himself. Having attained nominal success with his debut Dirk Wears White Sox in 1979, Adam Ant had to start from square one when producer Malcolm McLaren spirited away his original Ants to form Bow Wow Wow. Ant and producer
Glam Slam: Warner Bros. Plans Vinyl Bonanza for Prince
The world continues to reel from the passing of Prince on April 21, but fans have also taken to listening to his amazing catalogue however they can. And thanks to the folks at Prince's former home at Warner Bros. Records, the entire year will see a spate of vinyl (and--believe it or not, cassette) reissues. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that 11 of Prince's original Warner Bros. albums will be repressed on vinyl throughout 2016. In 2011, four of the artist's most enduring albums from
All Over the Place: Early Bangles Collection Gets Physical Release from Omnivore
Before they ascended to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986 with the Prince-penned "Manic Monday"--heck, before they were even signed to Columbia Records, where they made three killer power-pop records in one of pop's most interesting decades--The Bangles were at the forefront of a subset of Los Angeles rock music known as the "Paisley Underground." A new compilation released on Omnivore Recordings will lift the curtain on those often-overlooked years. As they were originally known, The
Hang In Long Enough: "...But Seriously," Revised "Going Back" Complete Phil Collins Reissue Campaign
The Take a Look At Me Now campaign has featured reissues of all of Collins' solo albums, each with a disc of bonus material personally selected by Collins, featuring mostly unreleased demos and live material. While Collins' participation has added some panache to the whole proceedings, with his creative album cover reshoots only recently going viral, some fans have been rightly perplexed as to what was left off from the campaign. To wit, the voluminous B-sides and demos released through
In Memoriam: Prince (1958-2016)
The Second Disc joins the world in mourning the unexpected loss of Prince, a true American original. Please welcome our founder, Mike Duquette, in sharing his memories of this visionary artist. First U Have 2 Purify Yourself I'm 16 years old in the Menlo Park Mall in Edison, New Jersey. It's 2004, and the Sam Goody is liquidating. Sometimes, at such an age, you do things that don't make sense to yourself, or to anyone else. You remember the reasons you give, and maybe you don't question
Cherry Pop Goes Plus One on Double-Disc Haircut One Hundred Reissue
Fans of the sumptuous '80s pop of British outfit Haircut One Hundred are in for a treat with Cherry Pop Records' exhaustive double-disc edition of the band's 1982 debut album, Pelican West. Fronted by singer/songwriter Nick Heyward, Haircut One Hundred blended New Wave, jazz and funk into a dazzling sonic package, all biting guitar chords and propulsive bass lines chased with expressive saxophone lines and horn charts for a little cosmopolitan extra. In the band's home country, they logged
Handle with Care: Traveling Wilburys Box to Be Reissued in June
A new business agreement will bring rock supergroup The Traveling Wilburys past the end of the line. The all-star quintet, consisting of George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne, is now represented by Concord Bicycle Music in a worldwide agreement that will include physical and digital reissues of the band's complete back catalogue--including, for the first time, streaming rights across Apple Music, Spotify and others--on June 3, as exclusively reported by
Say I Had a Lovely Time: Miracle Legion's Final LP Gets Digital, Vinyl Reissues
Looking for a dose of much-needed jangle in your record collection? Let Miracle Legion do the trick with an exciting reissue of their lesser-known (and, to date, final) album, Portrait of a Damaged Family. Released in 1996, Portrait of a Damaged Family found the New Haven, Connecticut quartet in somewhat of a different place than when they first burst onto the college rock scene more than a decade prior. Singer/songwriter Mark Mulcahy and guitarist Mr. Ray Neal had been the nucleus of the
Breathe Me: Sia's "Colour the Small One" Gets Vinyl Debut
Before Sia hit it big, both as a pop songwriter for Rihanna, Beyonce and Britney Spears and an enormous-voiced singer of tunes like "Titanium," "Chandelier" and recent hit "Alive," she was a quirky, tuneful indie-pop artist whose albums became critical darlings if not commercial successes. One such project, her third album Colour the Small One, is being reissued this spring, as both a digital expanded edition and, for the first time, a vinyl offering. Colour the Small One was, upon release in
Love is the Drug: Grace Jones' "Warm Leatherette" Gets Expanded
"See the breaking glass in the underpass..." Universal will expand Grace Jones' influential fourth album Warm Leatherette this summer with a variety of formats. Jones' tenure on Island Records has been the subject of some fascinating reissues in recent years. Her 1981 masterpiece Nightclubbing was expanded in 2014, and the following year saw the release of Disco, a box set compiling her first three albums with producer Tom Moulton, released between 1977 and 1979. Warm Leatherette is the
Intrada Declares War on Records with "Titans," "Rocky" LPs
It seems like no one's safe from the vinyl bug--not even soundtrack giant Intrada, who this week announced vinyl versions of two of their best action scores: Laurence Rosenthal'sClash of the Titans and Vince DiCola's Rocky IV. Desmond Davis' Greek myth epic Clash of the Titans was part Hollywood throwback, part modern action film for 1981. Harry Hamlin, as Perseus (the son of the god Zeus, as portrayed by Laurence Olivier), fights a brilliant array of monsters created by stop-motion animation
Can't Seem to Get My Mind Off of You: Go-Go's Reissues Coming to U.K.
Following a successful run of reissues for Belinda Carlisle (including two waves of album expansions, a compilation and a singles box set), Edsel Records is now turning toward the band that first made her famous, planning deluxe editions of all three albums by The Go-Go's in March. Formed in the nascent Los Angeles punk scene and soon crystallizing their sound into the rising tide of New Wave, The Go-Go's--vocalist Carlisle, guitarist/keyboardist Charlotte Caffey, rhythm guitarist Jane
For Whom The Bell Tolls: Metallica Catalogue Project Begins with Two Deluxe Box Sets
Years after Metallica took control of their own masters through their Blackened Records imprint, the metal masters will begain a super deluxe rollout of their classic hard rock albums. The band announced details for extensive reissues of their first two albums, Kill 'Em All (1983) and Ride the Lightning (1984), vault-clearing affairs that offer the remastered original albums alongside rare and unreleased B-sides, demos, rough mixes and video footage across CD, DVD and vinyl. Altogether, there
Milan Records Rebuilds "Terminator" for CD and LP
He said he'd be back! Milan Records will reissue Brad Fiedel's long out-of-print score to The Terminator on LP and CD this spring. James Cameron's 1984 sci-fi/noir film about a cyborg sent back through time to kill the mother of a man who'd save humanity after a nuclear apocalypse and artificial intelligence uprising remains a high watermark of the genre. With a captivating mythology, groundbreaking makeup effects by Stan Winston Studio and command performances by Linda Hamilton, Michael
Cry Wolf: New a-ha Compilation Combines Hits, Remixes on Two Discs
Last year was chock full of reissue news for fans of a-ha, with a 30th anniversary edition of the band's landmark debut Hunting High and Low and reissues of the band's third, fourth and fifth albums for Warner Bros. Records. This all came alongside a surprise brief reunion of the Norwegian trio, five years after their 2010 dissolution, for a new album and subsequent tour of Europe. With that tour set to kick off in Russia on March 6, the band have announced another compilation, Time and
What About Now: Daughtry Announces Hits Compilation
The idea of a greatest hits album seems to get smaller and smaller as the music business does, so it's always noteworthy when a newer artist releases one. Such is the case for Chris Daughtry, the American Idol runner-up who remained a consistent pop-rocker after his time on the show had ended. The forthcoming It's Not Over...The Hits So Far chronicles that decade in one succinct package. Daughtry, who finished the singing competition in fourth place behind winner Taylor Hicks and runner-up
SPECIAL FEATURE! "The Grease Megamix" Is the Word: Inside an Unlikely International Hit
In the 45 years since Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey premiered their musical Grease in a trolley barn-turned-blues club in Chicago, the show has taken on a life unlike any other theatrical production in America, or even the world. There have been 11 different major productions of the show throughout the U.S. and U.K., including a record-breaking 3,388-performance run on Broadway, five runs on London's West End between 1979 and 2007 and three national tours; an internationally-acclaimed film
Let the Good Times Roll: New Cars Box and Compilation Announced
Though The Cars didn't make it into this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class, it's always a good time to remember the Boston-based New Wave icons--and a new box set and compilation aim to do just that. On March 11, Rhino will release The Elektra Years 1978-1987, a six-disc box set offering all six of the band's albums--The Cars (1978), Candy-O (1979), Panorama (1980), Shake It Up (1981), Heartbeat City (1984) and Door to Door (1987)--all newly remastered. (This marks the first time that
Oughta Know By Now: Second Wave of Phil Collins Reissues Due in February
The first entries in Phil Collins' long-awaited "Take a Look At Me Now" reissue campaign were delayed from November to the end of this January, but there's even more excitement on the horizon: Rhino Records today announced the second wave of the eight-album reissue plan will hit stores February 26. The next titles are Phil's second album, Hello, I Must Be Going! (1982) and sixth studio effort, Dance Into the Light (1996). On Hello, Collins modified the formula that made solo debut Face Value
Rhino Charges Into January with New Colored Vinyl Titles, CD Box Sets
Rhino Records has quite the cure for the usual January doldrums that hit the release calendar, announcing more than a dozen new and reissued titles available exclusively through participating physical stores. The "Start Your Ear Off Right" initiative, featuring titles available January 19, encompass some of the best-known names in Rhino's back catalogue, including The Grateful Dead, The Monkees, Devo, The Cars and The Replacements. From colored vinyl variants to CD box sets, there's virtually
Here Comes The Sun! Beatles Catalogue to Stream Worldwide
While some Beatlemaniacs will be eagerly anticipating the newly revised 1+ compilation under the tree, with remixed audio and hours of rare video performances, The Fab Four have one more present to give the world: starting December 24, the band's bestselling catalogue will be available for streaming across nine major services. The Beatles' entry into the digital landscape is, like so many events befitting the most popular rock band of all time, often an event unto itself. In 2010, a year
It Happened Today: Concord Acquires R.E.M.'s Warner Bros. Albums for Future Reissues
That's Concord Bicycle Music in the spotlight: Billboard exclusively reports that the indie label will handle distribution for R.E.M.'s bestselling Warner Bros. Records catalogue, spanning from 1988 to their 2011 dissolution. Beginning in 2016, Concord will be the home for the band's Green (1988), Out of Time (1991), Automatic for the People (1992), Monster(1994), New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996), and Up (1998). Reveal (2001), Around the Sun (2004), Accelerate (2008) and Collapse Into
Into the Void: Rhino Reissues International Black Sabbath Expansions Ahead of Final Tour
As Black Sabbath get ready to bid farewell with their The End Tour in 2016, Rhino will say hello to a set of deluxe Sabbath reissues available in the U.S. for the first time on January 22. The label will reissue the band's first three albums--Black Sabbath (1970), Paranoid (1970) and Master of Reality (1971)--as deluxe 2CD and 2LP sets, along with the 2002 live collection Past Lives. These collections feature the original albums, as remastered by Rhino in 2012, alongside bonus discs of rare
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