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

November 20, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Petty Edinburgh Gennaro

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 Man Records to release a vinyl-only live set for the first time. Live in Edinburgh 1982: The Gennaro Tapes is a triple album capturing a set at the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

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

November 20, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Genesis Lamb Box

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 - four CDs or five LPs, a Blu-ray Audio disc and a download card - of the group's acclaimed work. Inside the box will be a new remaster of the original mix of the album, done by Miles Showell with

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Genesis, Mike Rutherford, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks

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

November 19, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Singles

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 field of music.  Shaft remains the best-selling album in the Stax Records catalogue and one of the most successful soundtracks of all time; for Isaac Hayes, it was a triumph that built on the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Funk, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Isaac Hayes

The Last Word: Real Gone's First November Releases Include 30th Anniversary Edition of Mary Chapin Carpenter's "Stones In The Road" Plus Misery Signals, The Unfolding

November 14, 2024 By Randy Fairman 7 Comments

Mary Chapin Carpenter Stones in the Road

As usual, Real Gone's first releases in November are an eclectic bunch.  The label is releasing the 30th anniversary edition of a contemporary country classic album, a psychedelic exploitation record from the 1960s, and a 20th anniversary edition of a metalcore album.  Read on for more details for these releases all hitting store shelves tomorrow, November 15. In 1994, Mary Chapin Carpenter was at the pinnacle of country music.  The singer-songwriter's fourth album for Columbia, Come On Come

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Misery Signals, The Unfolding

Try to See Things Their Way: Ace Preps 'Here, There and Everywhere,' Third Collection of Beatles Covers Through a Black Lens

November 14, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Here There and Everywhere

As fans prepare for the release of the new Disney+ documentary Beatles '64, chronicling The Fab Four's legendary inaugural trip to America, U.K. label Ace Records has an exciting release coming that same weekend, featuring nearly two dozen Black artists paying tribute to a series of songbooks that owed so much to soul music and rhythm and blues traditions. Here, There and Everywhere: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, available November 29, is the seventh of Ace's "Black

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Paul, Carmen McRae, Donny Hathaway, Esther Phillips, Four Tops, George Harrison, John Lennon, Keb' Mo', Linda McCartney, Margie Joseph, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Natalie Cole, Paul McCartney, Randy Crawford, Sarah Vaughan, Stevie Wonder, Syreeta, The Beatles, The Chiffons, The Drifters, The Supremes, The Three Degrees, Wings

Almost Unreal: Roxette's Fifth Album Set for December Expansion

November 14, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Roxette Crash Boom Bang 30

Before the year is out, Swedish duo Roxette will commemorate the 30th anniversary of their fifth album, 1994's Crash! Boom! Bang!, with a demos-packed 2CD reissue. The album, which represented a slight change-up in style for the duo, featured fan favorite singles "Sleeping in My Car," "Fireworks," "Vulnerable" and the title track. This expanded edition will offer 26 bonus tracks: three non-album tracks included on a 2009 expansion of the album, including the underrated 1993 single "Almost

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

I Just Found Out: Robert Gordon's Expanded, Remastered "Rock Billy Boogie" Arrives on Friday from 7a Records

November 13, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Robert Gordon Rock Billy Boogie

This Friday, 7a Records celebrates a late, great rockabilly revivalist with the expanded reissue of Rock Billy Boogie from Robert Gordon on both 180-gram vinyl and CD.  The 1979 album, featuring the lead guitar of Chris Spedding, marked Gordon's major label breakthrough and remains perhaps his finest (half) hour on record. Far more so than many of the so-called "new Elvises" that cropped up, the Maryland native captured the young Presley's rebel spirit and joyful swagger.  He had musically

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Chris Spedding, Link Wray, Robert Gordon

Make My Wish Come True: Vinyl, Singles, SACD to Commemorate 30 Years of Mariah Carey's 'Merry Christmas'

November 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Mariah Carey Merry Christmas 30 packshot

With the run-up to Christmas approaching full speed, the holiday's musical queen is looking to take back her crown. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Carey's Merry Christmas and its unforgettable, cross-generational hit single "All I Want for Christmas is You," the Elusive Chanteuse will deliver an expanded version of the album on vinyl, featuring material from its most recent reissue and a 24-page booklet in a hardbound package with some holiday surprises. To boost "All I Want for

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Mariah Carey

Got You Where I Want You: Dwight Twilley, Max Werner Reissues Arrive This Friday from Iconoclassic

November 12, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Dwight Twilley Twilley

This Friday, November 15, Iconoclassic Records will release its two latest titles - the third album in its ongoing Dwight Twilley reissue series and a long-lost gem from Kayak drummer-singer Max Werner. Twilley, the power pop hero's first solo album following two acclaimed albums with The Dwight Twilley Band, originally arrived in 1979 on Arista Records in the United States.  The late singer-songwriter (1951-2023) was joined by a core band including Bill Pitcock IV on lead guitar, Jim Lewis

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Dwight Twilley, Max Werner

An Ennio Morricone Score Expansion Worth 'A Few Dollars More'

November 11, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Few Dollars More packshot

The Man with No Name is back! Following a recent deluxe expansion of Ennio Morricone's unforgettable score to Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the Italian label Beat Records will follow suit with a generous CD and vinyl expansion of its predecessor and the second film in the "Dollars Trilogy": 1965's For a Few Dollars More. This hour-plus presentation offers both the original eight-cue soundtrack program issued by RCA Records in Europe on a double bill with selections from

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Ennio Morricone

Country Sunshine: Morello Reissues Four Albums from Late Country Queen Dottie West

November 7, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dottie West Country Sunshine Four Fer

After nearly a decade, Cherry Red's Morello imprint has returned to the discography of late country songstress Dottie West with a new 4-albums-on-2-CDs release. After pairing West's first two RCA albums on CD (1965's Here Comes My Baby and Dottie West Sings) in 2016, Morello has jumped ahead to 1971-1972 for a collection featuring Careless Hands, Have You Heard...Dottie West, I'm Only a Woman, and Country Sunshine. After penning Jim Reeves' 1963 hit "Is This Me," Dottie auditioned and signed

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Dottie West

Sugar Town: Light in the Attic Reissues, Expands Nancy Sinatra's "Sugar" and "Country, My Way"

November 6, 2024 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Nancy Sinatra Sugar

Light in the Attic is accelerating its Nancy Sinatra Archival Series with the November 29 reissue of the singer's fourth and fifth studio albums, both from 1967: Sugar and Country, My Way.  Both of these expanded editions will be available on CD, LP, and digitally. Sugar capped off an incredibly prolific year for Sinatra.  The fourth album she recorded in 1966, Sugar was nominally named for the sweet and seductive, Lee Hazlewood-penned "Sugar Town," a top 5 Pop/No. 1 AC hit.  Though album

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra

Fortuosity: Stage Door Pop Brings Rare Tommy Steele Recordings to CD in November

November 5, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tommy Steele On Air

Tommy Steele may be best remembered today for his starring role on both sides of the Atlantic as Arthur Kipps in the 1963 musical Half a Sixpence - one which he repeated for its film adaptation - or for such motion pictures as Finian's Rainbow and Walt Disney's The Happiest Millionaire.  Considered to be Britain's first teen idol, the London native with the toothy grin and big talents scored such early rock-and-roll hits as "Rock with the Caveman," "Butterfingers," "Water, Water," "Nairobi,"

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Tommy Steele

In Memoriam: Quincy Jones (1933-2024)

November 4, 2024 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Quincy Jones Walking in Space

Quincy Delight Jones was just 14 years old when he introduced himself to Ray Charles.  Though the pianist-singer was just two years older, he was already an inspiration to the younger musician.  Charles had the gift of synthesizing the various strains of music - jazz, folk, country, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, and gospel, among them - into a sound both wholly new and wholly American.  Jones was struck by how Charles overcame adversity, and their shared ethos became one which shaped young

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Categories: News Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soundtracks Tags: Quincy Jones

Super Sequel Soundtracks Are La-La Land's Black Friday Focus for 2024

November 4, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

The Godfather Part II LLL

Before announcing their typically grandiose year-end slate of archival soundtrack titles, there were rumblings in the film score fan community that La-La Land - whose release schedule offered everything from Star Trek to James Bond to the first Steven Spielberg-John Williams collaboration in 2024 - might do things a little differently. It turns out those rumors were correct: ahead of their usual Black Friday blowout, the label has instead announced three titles approved for license from major

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Danny Elfman, Don Davis, John Debney, John Williams, Nino Rota, Randy Newman

A Cool Yule: Verve Expands Ella Fitzgerald's 'Swinging Christmas' for Vinyl, Plans Gift Set with Louis Armstrong's Christmas Collection

November 1, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Ella Louis Swinging Holiday box

You've hung up your costumes and sorted through all your Halloween candy - now it's time to get excited for the holiday gift-giving season, packed with great reissues under your tree and spirited carols on the stereo. Two new vinyl products from Verve Records feature both: some of the most beloved holiday hits from two of the label's most iconic voices. Verve will release a special gift set this season: Ella & Louis Wish You a Swinging Holiday - a 2LP set that brings together a bona fide

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong

Shattered: The Rolling Stones' 1999 Shepherd Bush Gig Arrives in November from Mercury Studios

October 31, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Rolling Stones Welcome to Shepherd's Bush

The Rolling Stones have long been famed for their "secret shows."  One of those took place on June 8, 1999 when Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, and company took the stage at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, a 1903 music hall in the West London suburb.  In front of an 1,800-capacity crowd including such luminaries as Anita Pallenberg, Pete Townshend, Jerry Hall, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and Bob Geldof, the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band strutted their stuff just days

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Sheryl Crow, The Rolling Stones

Fanny Walked the Earth: Cherry Red's "The Reprise Years 1970-1973" Expands All-Female Band's First Four Albums

October 30, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Fanny The Reprise Years

When Fanny - a.k.a. June Millington (guitar), Jean Millington (bass), Alice De Buhr (drums), and Nickey Barclay (keyboards) - came to Reprise Records in 1969, the foursome became the first all-female rock band to be signed to a major label.  Championed by Richard Perry, Fanny went on record four albums for Reprise, notch two top 40 singles, open for acts including Humble Pie, Jethro Tull, and Slade, and even back Barbra Streisand on a couple of songs.  Their catalogue has been well-served over

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Fanny, Richard Perry, Todd Rundgren

Alice Cooper's 'Muscle of Love' Has Never Been Sold Before (Like This)

October 29, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Muscle of Love deluxe packshot

Alice Cooper's final album - well, the final album with Cooper's original band of the same name - is getting a deluxe treatment this year. Available on 2CD/Blu-ray and pink double vinyl exclusively at Rhino.com, 1973's Muscle of Love gets expanded with unreleased alternate versions of every track on the album and lengthy, track-by-track liner notes by writer Jaan Uhelszki, drawing from new interviews with Cooper and his surviving bandmates (rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Alice Cooper

Hogwarts Forever! Rhino Plans Massive Box Set of 'Harry Potter' Soundtracks

October 29, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Harry Potter Rhino box

More than 20 years after the first Harry Potter novel was adapted into a film, Rhino is planning a little magic of its own with a heavy-duty vinyl box set of soundtracks to all eight of the films. Limited to 3000 copies worldwide on Rhino.com and other select retailers, Harry Potter: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks I-VII will feature the original album releases of the blockbuster franchise, as composed by John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper and Alexandre Desplat. The 16LP box

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

Maybe This Year: Steve Perry Plots Third Reissue of Holiday Album 'The Season'

October 28, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Steve Perry The Season 3

Until a few years ago, fans wondered if Steve Perry - the best known voice of blockbuster rock band Journey - would ever sing again after a lengthy absence from the public eye. After a celebrated comeback album in 2018, Perry ended his shortest gap between solo releases three years later, with the holiday album The Season; this Christmas, it's being reissued a third time on a new label, with even more new material. True to its name, The Season 3 is the third iteration of Perry's holiday

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday Tags: Journey, Steve Perry

In Memoriam: Phil Lesh (1940-2024)

October 28, 2024 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Phil Lesh Promo Photo

And it's just a box of rain/Or a ribbon for your hair/Such a long, long time to be gone/And a short time to be there... With the passing on Friday of Phil Lesh at the age of 84, another chapter of Grateful Dead's long, strange trip has come to a close.  A founding member of the Dead, Lesh positioned his bass as a crucial element of the band's sound.  Even as his fluid lines complemented the rhythms of Bob Weir's guitar and the thunderous boom of Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart's drums, Lesh

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh

So Amazing: Companion Album to Luther Vandross Documentary Features Unreleased Songs

October 28, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Never Too Much Greatest Hits

One of this year's documentary darlings at the Sundance Film Festival, a look at the life and career of Luther Vandross, makes its theatrical debut in select cities this week. Ahead of its wider, planned streaming release in 2025, Legacy Recordings will issue a new double-disc anthology of his work, accompanied by several rare and unreleased tracks. Never Too Much: Greatest Hits, available December 13, offers 20 tracks on two CDs that represent the cream of Vandross' solo career. In addition

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Beyoncé, Luther Vandross, Mariah Carey

In Memoriam: Jack Jones (1938-2024)

October 25, 2024 By Joe Marchese 32 Comments

Jack Jones Sings

Music was Jack Jones' birthright.  The singer's singer - best-known for "Wives and Lovers," "Lollipops and Roses," "The Race Is On," and, yes, the theme to The Love Boat - was born to actors Allan Jones and Irene Hervey in 1938 and grew up in the world of show business, eventually reaching its heights himself.  Jones has died at 86 after a battle with leukemia, and while his passing closes another chapter of The Great American Songbook, his extraordinary body of work will continue to

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Categories: News Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Jack Jones

Release Round-Up: Week of October 25

October 25, 2024 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

CSNY Live at the Fillmore East

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Blue Magic, Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings (SoulMusic/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) Let the sideshow begin!  SoulMusic Records and TSD are proud to unveil a new 6-CD box set dedicated to the sweet 'n funky soul stylings of Philly quintet Blue Magic ("Sideshow," "Three Ring

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABBA, Andrea Bocelli, Ben Folds, Blue Magic, Bryan Ferry, Charlie Parker, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Duran Duran, Graham Parker, Green Day, Iain Matthews, Melanie, Queen, Tears for Fears, The Oak Ridge Boys

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