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Hand of Doom: Rhino Hi-Fi Reissues Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," Alice Cooper's "Love It to Death"

March 14, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Alice Cooper Love It to Death Hi Fi

This morning, Rhino announced the latest two titles in its Rhino High-Fidelity series, and both titles are available now for shipping directly from Rhino.com.  With Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Alice Cooper's Love It to Death both newly remastered with lacquers cut by Kevin Gray for the audiophile-standard series, hard rock is the order of the day.  Both titles are pressed on 180-gram vinyl and limited to 5,000 units each. Black Sabbath's 1970 LP Paranoid remains a watershed release, auguring

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath

Release Round-Up: Week of March 14

March 14, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Jimmy Page Black Crowes Live at The Greek

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes, Live at the Greek (Silver Arrow) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A rare concert team-up between one of the great blues-rock bands of the last four decades and one of the greatest

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chaka Khan, Goo Goo Dolls, Jimmy Page, Rufus, The Black Crowes, The Smithereens, World Party

You Raise Me Up: Reprise Collects Josh Groban's "Gems" on New Collection

March 13, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Josh Groban Gems

On May 9, Josh Groban will kick off Gems, a five-night run in Las Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.  One week earlier, the superstar actor-singer will commemorate the concert stand with a companion album of the same name.  Arriving on Reprise Records, Gems features 16 classics from Groban's discography alongside two new songs, "Be Alright" and "Open Hands." The Los Angeles native was just sixteen years old when he was introduced by his vocal coach to David Foster.  Foster enlisted him

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Josh Groban, Kelly Clarkson

Attics of My Life: Grateful Dead Mark 60 Years with Massive Box of Unreleased Live Performances

March 12, 2025 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

Grateful Dead Enjoying the Ride

It's little surprise that Rhino is going all-out for the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. The label today announced a 60CD box set due this spring that will premiere material from some 20 shows across a quarter-century of the band's tenure. Enjoying the Ride, available May 30 exclusively from Dead.net, is a comprehensive 450-track set (nearly entirely unreleased, though a full track list has not been made available) limited to 6000 individually numbered copies. Sourced from recordings

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

Bright New Way: Cherry Red's Grapefruit Label Collects Complete Recordings of Noel Redding's Fat Mattress

March 12, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Fat Mattress How Can I Live

Compilation producer David Wells' liner notes to Fat Mattress' How Can I Live? Complete Recordings on Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint kick off with two provocative quotes.  Guitarist/singer Noel Redding, best known as bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "We had to play his songs, and he'd never consider listening to any of mine."  Fat Mattress' manager and Jimi Hendrix producer/mentor Chas Chandler: "It was one of the most confusing times of my life.  The first Mattress album knocked me out

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Fat Mattress, Noel Redding

Watch Out! Joe Grushecky's Iron City Houserockers' "Blood on the Bricks" Gets Expanded by Omnivore

March 11, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Following last year's releases of Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology and the singer-songwriter's newest album, Can't Outrun a Memory, Omnivore Recordings is returning to the Grushecky discography on March 28 with the worldwide CD premiere of The Iron City Houserockers' 1981 album, Blood on the Bricks.  The band's third album, it's been newly remastered and expanded with 11 previously unreleased bonus tracks.  The expanded edition will also be available digitally. Blood on the Bricks

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, Steve Cropper

Moments of a Visionary: Tangerine Dream Plan 'Phaedra' 50th Anniversary Box

March 6, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Tangerine Dream's breakthrough album will be celebrated in a box set that features a host of audiovisual material taken from a bigger box set. Virgin/UMR will reissue the German group's 1974 hit Phaedra as a 5CD/Blu-ray box set featuring all the relevant album-related material featured in 2019's 16 CD/2BD In Search of Hades (The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979). Beyond the remastered album, extras include two discs of outtakes, the band's first U.K. concert and some 5.1 surround and stereo

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Electronic Tags: Steven Wilson, Tangerine Dream

Baby, You Give Me a Feeling: Robinsongs Collects Five Albums from Roy Ayers' Ubiquity

March 6, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Roy Ayers Ubiquity Five Classic Albums

Last evening, TSD learned that jazz legend Roy Ayers had passed away at the age of 84.  Prior to the sad news, we had completed and scheduled this news item on Cherry Red and Robinsongs' recent collection of five albums he recorded with the loose collective he called Ubiquity.  We dedicate this piece to Roy Ayers and celebrate his enormous legacy.​ When vibraphonist-composer Roy Ayers moved to the Polydor label in 1970, he titled his debut album Ubiquity.  In an interview quoted in the new

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Funk, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Roy Ayers, Ubiquity

Last Flash of Rock 'n Roll: Rhino Remasters, Expands Robert Hunter's "Tiger Rose"

March 5, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Robert Hunter Tiger Rose

Following last year's expanded reissue of Grateful Dead collaborator Robert Hunter's Tales of the Great Rum Runners, the late lyricist is once again being celebrated by Rhino with a new deluxe edition. On March 28, the label will revisit 1975's Tiger Rose for its 50th anniversary.  The album has been remastered for all formats by David Glasser using the Plangent Processes for tape restoration and speed correction.  It will be available as an expanded 2CD set, a 1LP remaster of the original

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter

A New 'View': Celebrated Kenny Burrell Live Set Gets Expanded

March 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Kenny Burrell On View Complete Masters

A celebrated jazz guitarist, cornerstone of the Blue Note roster in the late '50s and early '60s and still-standing link to a thriving era in American jazz, Kenny Burrell will be celebrated this spring with a deluxe revisitation of his first live release. On View At the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters collects the original 1960 album, recorded in New York City with a killer quintet line-up, along with nine additional tracks from the same club dates - six of which are being released for

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell

Hungry for Heaven: Dio's First Seven Albums Get U.K. Vinyl Box Set Release

March 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Dio Complete Albums 1983 1993

One of heavy metal's major icons will be celebrated with a new U.K. vinyl collection. UMR will release Dio's The Complete Albums 1983-1993, chronicling the seven original studio and live releases from the legendary heavy metal vocalist and his band. (Vertigo/Mercury distributed all the albums overseas, while Warner Music continues to handle this portion of the catalogue today.) The box, available March 28, offers new pressings of Holy Diver (1983), The Last in Line (1984), Sacred Heart

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Dio, Ronnie James Dio

Frantic Four x 4: Edsel Remixes Shows That Made Status Quo's 'Live!'

March 4, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Status Quo Live box

A deluxe edition of Status Quo's first concert album will pair the original album - never a favorite of the band's leader - with the full, newly-remixed shows that it was assembled from. 1977's Live! found the Quo's "Frantic Four" - vocalists/guitarists Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, bassist Alan Lancaster and drummer John Coghlan (plus longtime touring keyboardist (and future full-time member) Andy Bown and tour manager Bob Young on harmonica) - wowing crowds over three nights at the Apollo

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Status Quo

Soundtrack Watch: 'Hook,' 'Goofy' and 'Lost' Make Vinyl Appearances in April

March 4, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Hook MOV LP

Fans of soundtrack reissues on vinyl have three very different titles to potentially look forward to in April: a mid-'90s Disney animated flick, a crown jewel in John Williams' discography, an a beloved television work from one of today's most prolific film composers. Walt Disney's major motion picture event of 1995 was Pocahontas, a fairly dramatized tale of Native Americans in the early colonial days - but it was neither their only animated feature of the year nor, retrospectively, the most

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Carter Burwell, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Tevin Campbell

'Reivers' Revival: Pivotal John Williams Score Expanded by La-La Land

March 3, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

The Reivers LLL

Less than a year after the premiere release of John Williams' score to 1974's The Sugarland Express, La-La Land Records will expand another pivotal soundtrack essential to the composer's transition into a Hollywood heavyweight: his work for the Mark Rydell film The Reivers. Adapted from the final novel published in William Faulkner's lifetime (which won him a second Pulitzer Prize), The Reivers is a lighthearted, nostalgic turn-of-the-century yarn starring Steve McQueen as a rakish thief in

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

Larger Than Life: Backstreet Boys Reboot 'Millennium' with Bonus Disc

March 3, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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A new reissue from Legacy Recordings - one with an extremely long lead time - will revisit the ascendance of the Backstreet Boys to the top of a crop of late '90s and early '00s boy bands. The quintet's 1999 blockbuster Millennium will be celebrated for its belated 25th anniversary with a new 2CD, 2LP and digital set that pairs the original album with a baker's dozen rare and unreleased tracks, including B-sides, demos, live cuts and the new track "Hey." The album will be out July 11 (yes,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Backstreet Boys

Bloody Well Right: Mercury Studios Reissues Supertramp's "Live in Paris '79"

February 27, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Supertramp Live in Paris '79

With the release of 1979's Breakfast in America, Supertramp ascended to superstar status. The U.K. group's sixth studio album, Breakfast was one of the year's best-selling albums.  It yielded four international hits with "The Logical Song" (No. 6 U.S./No. 7 U.K.), "Take the Long Way Home" (No. 10 U.S.), "Goodbye Stranger" (No. 15 U.S./No. 57 U.K.) and "Breakfast in America" (No. 62 U.S./No. 9 U.K.).  The LP won two Grammy Awards and was certified quadruple Platinum in the United States where it

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Supertramp

Echoes Through the Ruins: Pink Floyd's Pompeii Gig to Be Remixed and Reissued

February 27, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Pink Floyd Pompeii

More than half a century after its release, Pink Floyd's arresting 1972 concert film - recorded in the ancient amphitheater of Pompeii - will be revisited as an audio and video product from Legacy Recordings. Pink Floyd At Pompeii - MCMLXXII restores Adrian Maben's original film in 4K quality from recently located original footage, with new audio mixes by Steven Wilson. All versions - a 2CD, a 2LP, a DVD and a Blu-ray - will be released May 2, shortly after public screenings of the film on April

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

Happiness Is: Vince Guaraldi's First Charlie Brown Album to Be Expanded by Craft Recordings

February 26, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown packshot

Happiness is many things to many people: good friends, childlike wonder, catchy tunes...and, perhaps, a warm puppy. From Craft Recordings comes a new reissue that includes all four: a newly expanded edition of 1964's Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the first in a series of fateful collaborations between jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi and Charles M. Schulz's lovable Peanuts characters. The 2CD set, available April 4, offers a fresh remaster of Guaraldi's initial nine compositions

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Soundtracks Tags: Vince Guaraldi

With Arms Outstretched: A Reunited Rilo Kiley Plans New Compilation, Reissue of Breakthrough Album

February 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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One of the year's most exciting indie-rock reunions is coming with a few new releases: Rilo Kiley will reissue their sophomore album The Execution of All Things along with a new career-spanning compilation to commemorate their upcoming tour. The acclaimed quartet - singer/keyboardist Jenny Lewis, lead guitarist Blake Sennett, bassist Pierre "Duke" de Reeder and drummer Jason Boesel - will embark on the Sometimes When You're On, You're Really F**king On tour, traversing North America in May

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Rilo Kiley

Soundtrack Watch: 'Cape Fear' Remake Score Rises from the Depths at Quartet

February 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Cape Fear Quartet

Quartet Records will revisit a special musical approach to a remake of a classic suspense thriller: Martin Scorsese's 1991 adaptation of Cape Fear. The 2CD set, will include a remastered and expanded presentations of Elmer Bernstein's score to the remake, adapted from the original 1962 film's music by Bernard Herrmann. Produced by Neil S. Bulk and Mike Matessino (who also remasters the score from engineer Shawn Murphy's original six-track mixes), the set features both the expanded score

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein

Goldsinger: Cherry Red Collects Rare and Unreleased Shirley Bassey on New Compilation

February 25, 2025 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Shirley Bassey The Singer

Cherry Red is getting the party started with Dame Shirley Bassey.  On April 18, the label's Strawberry imprint will release The Singer, a 3-CD collection filled with previously unreleased tracks, hits, and rarities primarily drawn from the "Goldfinger" chanteuse's period with United Artists Records (1966-1980).  It's been fully authorized by Dame Shirley herself. The project's roots stretch back nearly 15 years.  In 2011, plans began to release two CDs of rarities from the UA years and one

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Shirley Bassey

In Memoriam: Roberta Flack (1937-2025)

February 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

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Even Robert Christgau couldn't get it right all the time. The self-professed "dean of American rock critics" sniffed at Roberta Flack's Quiet Fire in 1971 thusly: "Flack is generally regarded as the most significant new black woman singer since Aretha Franklin, and at moments she sounds kind, intelligent, and very likable. But she often exhibits the gratuitous gentility you'd expect of someone who says 'between you and I.'" At this juncture, Flack was three albums into a tenure with Atlantic

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack

Bits of Blue Sky: Godley & Creme's Duo Discography Collected for New Box Set

February 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Godley Creme Parts of the Process packshot

Between their time as half of the head-turning British rock band 10cc and a whole new career as innovative music video directors, Godley & Creme carved out a unique discography as a duo. It's one that Edsel will revisit in a soon-to-be-released box set called Parts of the Process: The Complete Godley & Creme. Due for release this Friday, February 28, Parts of the Process is an 11CD set that offers the duo's seven studio releases - Consequences (1977), L (1978), Freeze

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: 10cc, Godley and Creme

Let the Guitar Play: Santana's New 'Sentient' Revisits Collabs with Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Michael Jackson and More

February 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Santana Sentient

More than 25 years after a collaboration-heavy album rocketed Carlos Santana back into the spotlight, the guitar legend will release another - albeit one assembled from an assortment of solo tracks and guest spots spanning his last five decades of work. Sentient, hitting stores on March 28, brings together joint tracks with Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of Run-DMC, along with select deep cuts that make for a retrospective distinct from well known

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Paolo Rustichelli, Santana, Smokey Robinson

CD Alert: Small Disc Breakouts from Box Sets and More Coming from Warner

February 21, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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Rather than update our original posts, we felt this Friday was a good time to inform readers of a trio of modest CD sets that represent some great archival audio from bigger releases by Rhino and Warner Music in the past few years. Last summer, Rhino continued a surprising amount of catalogue from the latter portion of Van Halen's celebrated career - the period in the mid '80s and '90s when former Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar took over for original singer David Lee Roth - with an expansion

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Neil Young, The Replacements, Van Halen

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