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Everybody's Still Talkin': Omnivore Preps Unreleased Harry Nilsson Album for November

September 25, 2019 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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Nilsson fans (and who isn't?), rejoice! On November 22, the late singer-songwriter's final recordings will at last see the light of day on CD, vinyl, and digital formats from Omnivore Recordings. Losst and Founnd is the first new album of original material from Harry Nilsson since 1980's Flash Harry. Nilsson was working on the album at the time of his death at the age of 52 in January 1994 with producer Mark Hudson (Ringo Starr, Aerosmith). Two of the songs, "U.C.L.A." and "Animal Farm," were

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

Soundtrack Watch: Intrada Delivers Two John Barry Classics, La-La Land Lights Fuse on "Mission: Impossible"

September 24, 2019 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Fans of John Barry have double the delight coming their way this week, with two hugely expanded scores from the late British composer. First up is one of the weirdest films Barry's got his name on: the critically-maligned, George Lucas-produced adaptation of Marvel Comics' Howard The Duck. The film, co-starring Lea Thompson as Howard's...uh...human love interest, was scored by Barry and re-scored in part by composer Sylvester LeVay. Part of Barry's score ended up on the second side of a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Danny Elfman, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Thomas Dolby

A SECOND DISC INTERVIEW! Mike McCartney Talks "McGear" Deluxe Reissue

September 23, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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TSD's own Sam Stone recently had a chance to speak with the enduring artist behind the U.K.'s Christmas chart-topper of 1968, The Scaffold's "Lily the Pink," as well as the top ten smash "Thank U Very Much" and the solo hit "Leave It." Mike McCartney, a.k.a. Mike McGear just happens to be Paul McCartney's younger brother, but has a lifetime of his own musical history to share. In this wide-ranging conversation, he offers stories of the making of his classic album McGear, recently reissued by

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Categories: Interviews, News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Mike McCartney, Mike McGear, Paul McCartney, Wings

Isn't It Rich: Edsel Collects Nine Judy Collins Classics on "The Elektra Albums Volume Two"

September 23, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Demon Music Group's Edsel label has followed up its July release of Judy Collins' The Elektra Albums Volume One (1961-1968) with a second volume available now. The Elektra Albums Volume Two (1970-1984) finishes up the artist's Elektra Records tenure, comprising these nine releases on CD in their original sequences: Whales and Nightingales (1970) Living (1971) True Stories and Other Dreams (1973) Judith (1975) Bread and Roses (1976) Hard Times for Lovers (1979) Running for

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Judy Collins

United 'Nation': Nine Digital Remix EPs Celebrate 30th Anniversary of Janet Jackson Classic

September 21, 2019 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

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After putting much of Janet Jackson's classic catalogue on vinyl out this year, UMe keeps the party going with a whopping nine new digital EPs to celebrate this week's 30th anniversary of Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814. The label is premiering nearly 100 rare and digitally unavailable edits, instrumentals and remixes spanning Rhythm Nation's incredible run of hit singles for more than a year. Seven tracks - "Miss You Much," "Rhythm Nation," "Escapade," "Alright," "Come Back To Me," "Black

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Shep Pettibone

To The End of Love: Leonard Cohen's Final Recordings Collected on "Thanks For the Dance"

September 20, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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When Leonard Cohen passed away in November 2016, he left behind fifty years of words and music, including his final album, You Want It Darker.  Now, Columbia and Legacy have announced a new collection, "a continuation of the master's final work" called Thanks For The Dance. Due on November 22, Thanks For The Dance was produced by Cohen's son Adam, who followed Leonard's wishes to complete the musical sketches that remained after You Want It Darker.  Contributions came from many of Leonard's

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Leonard Cohen

A Whole Lotta Ground: "Motown Unreleased 1969" Features Supremes, Temptations, Smokey, Marvin Gaye, Kiki Dee, More

September 20, 2019 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Motown Unreleased 1969

This weekend, Motown fans and alumni are descending on Detroit for the ultimate celebration of Hitsville, USA's 60 years of music and memories culminating in the Hitsville Honors gala. But the label doesn't want fans elsewhere to be left out in the cold. In a surprise, the annual digital collection of Motown Unreleased won't be arriving in December, but instead is available now. To mark 60 years, Motown Unreleased 1969 boasts 60 tracks, all recorded in 1969 and left unheard - until now. The

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Diana Ross and The Supremes, Earl Van Dyke, Edwin Starr, Ivy Jo Hunter, Kiki Dee, Marvin Gaye, Rare Earth, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Originals, The Spinners, Valerie Simpson, Various Artists

Rhythm of My Heart: Rod Stewart Joins Royal Philharmonic For New Album, Two New Songs

September 19, 2019 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

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Following in the footsteps of artists ranging from Aretha Franklin to The Beach Boys, Rod Stewart has announced a collaboration with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. You're in My Heart: Rod Stewart with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, like those other projects, takes classic vocals and pairs them with lush, newly-orchestrated accompaniment. Stewart is sweetening the pot, however, by premiering two new vocals: a duet of Motown favorite "It Takes Two" with Robbie Williams and a new solo track,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Rod Stewart, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Lay Lady Lay: Dylan's Nashville Period Chronicled In New 'Bootleg Series' Volume

September 19, 2019 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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Bob Dylan has travelled to many locales, but few have inspired him as powerfully as Nashville, Tennessee. On November 1, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will chronicle Dylan's 1967-1969 recordings in Music City - including those made with a very special guest - on the latest volume of the artist's long-running Bootleg Series. Bob Dylan (featuring Johnny Cash) - Travelin' Thru: 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 will be released in 3CD, 3LP, and digital configurations, all of which

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash

Curse You Red Barrel: XTC's Dukes Of Stratosphear Years Remixed by Steven Wilson For New Collection

September 18, 2019 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

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XTC's next Steven Wilson remix project is coming soon...only it's not really XTC at all. The beloved surround engineer and Porcupine Tree frontman has worked his magic on several albums by the British rockers (Drums and Wires, Black Sea, Skylarking, Oranges and Lemons and Nonsuch) - and this year, he now turns his attention to The Dukes Of Stratosphear, the group's beloved psychedelic project. The band's core group (Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory), along with Dave's brother

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: XTC

Ghost Meets Ghoul: Real Gone's Halloween Slate Includes Munsters Album, Occult Rock From Coven, and Music for Monsters

September 17, 2019 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

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Real Gone Music has a reputation for releasing cult classic albums, but this October, they'll take "cult" a step further.  The label's eclectic lineup of Halloween-themed releases for October 11 includes early satanic/occult rock by Coven, a collection of ghoulish TV classics by Milton Delugg and His Orchestra, and a Wrecking Crew-backed tie-in album by everyone's favorite family of monsters, The Munsters. First up is a delightfully strange pair of albums by the early occult rock band

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Coven, Milton Delugg, The Munsters, The Wrecking Crew

Get On Up: James Brown's 1969 Homecoming Show Remixed and Expanded For October Release

September 17, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Are you ready for Star Time? A new James Brown release, chronicling a 50-year-old homecoming show released in full for the first time, will surely do the trick. Live At Home With His Bad Self was in fact intended to be released not long after its recording. In the fall of 1969, Brown came to Augusta, Georgia's Bell Auditorium, hours from where Brown first sang gospel as a young man in Toccoa. He was backed by a stellar band that featured the talents of horn players Maceo Parker and Fred

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: James Brown

Nowhere To Run: Vinyl Me Please Announces "Women of Motown" Anthology Series

September 16, 2019 By Sam Stone 7 Comments

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The Motown news just keeps on coming! In April, vinyl subscription outlet Vinyl Me, Please featured Blue Note Records for the first volume in their immersive, multimedia series Vinyl Me, Please Anthology. Now, the label has announced their next installment: Vinyl Me, Please Anthology: The Women of Motown. VMP promises "an immersive journey into the storied label told through the music of the women who made it legendary." Subscriptions for the Anthology program will open on September 19 with

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Diana Ross, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Syreeta, The Supremes

Hermandad Fania: Craft Latino Announces Vinyl Reissues of Classics from Fania Label

September 16, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Craft Latino, a branch of Craft Recordings, will continue their celebration of the legendary Fania label with their first batch of vinyl reissues of classic titles from the label available just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month. On October 25, the label will reissue Celia Cruz and Tito Puente's Alma con alma (1970), Willie Colón's The Hustler (1968), The Fania All Stars' Live at Yankee Stadium (1973 - now presented as a double LP for the first time ever), and the Celia Cruz-Johnny Pacheco

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Jazz Tags: Celia Cruz, Fania All-Stars, Johnny Pacheco, Tito Puente, Willie Colon

Wake Up Everybody: Cherry Red, SoulMusic Collect Classic Philadelphia International Albums from Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes

September 16, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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If you don't know Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes by now, Cherry Red and SoulMusic Records have just the right collection for you. Be for Real: The PIR Recordings (1972-1975) brings together the four albums recorded by the group for Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records on two CDs, plus a six-song bonus disc. Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes came to Gamble and Huff's newly-formed label in 1972 after having bounced from label to label including Landa, Arctic, and

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Detour: The Who Announce New Album "WHO," Release Preview Track "Ball and Chain"

September 13, 2019 By Sam Stone 5 Comments

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UPDATE: Details have been announced about the bonus tracks for the upcoming deluxe edition. Read on for more! Today, legendary rockers The Who announced plans for their long-awaited new album, simply entitled WHO. It's their first studio effort in 13 years, due November 22 December 6 on CD, deluxe CD, digital, cassette, standard vinyl, and deluxe color vinyl. They've also unveiled the album's artwork - designed by frequent collaborator Peter Blake - and released a new single, "Ball and

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Who

Walk Through The Fire: Peter Gabriel Rarities Collected Digitally As 'Flotsam and Jetsam'

September 13, 2019 By The Second Disc 12 Comments

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Having brought his catalogue into the digital and streaming age on his own timeframe, Peter Gabriel is now offering more than 60 rare tracks in a new compilation. Flotsam and Jetsam, announced today as a digital album, offers B-sides, remixes and non-album tracks spanning Gabriel's extensive solo career from 1976 (a cover of The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" from the All This and World War II soundtrack) to 2016 ("The Veil," penned for the dramatic biopic Snowden). In between, there's

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Peter Gabriel

OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Reissue, Expand Three From Johnny Mathis

September 12, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Tomorrow, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue our celebration of Johnny Mathis' remarkable discography with another pair of expanded releases encompassing three classic albums from The Voice of Romance. 1976's I Only Have Eyes for You and 1977's Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me both reunited Mathis with a pair of his favorite collaborators, producer Jack Gold and arranger Gene Page, for silky renditions of the day's pop smashes as only Mathis could deliver them. Page brought the same

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Johnny Mathis

Just a Shot Away: ABKCO Reissues Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed" on LP, SACD for 50th Anniversary

September 12, 2019 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

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Yesterday, ABKCO announced the latest in its series of Rolling Stones anniversary box sets: a 50th anniversary set for the band's multi-platinum 1969 classic Let It Bleed. Produced by Jimmy Miller and featuring "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want," Let It Bleed was the Stones' eighth studio album in the U.K. and tenth in the U.S.; it reached No. 3 in America and No. 1 in England. Now, it's poised to return on November 1 in a 2-LP/2-Hybrid SACD set remastered in both stereo

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

Cosmik Debris: Frank Zappa's "Halloween '73" Shows Collected on 4-CD Box Set

September 11, 2019 By Sam Stone 7 Comments

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Just in time for Halloween, The Zappa Family Trust and UMe will release Halloween '73, a 4-CD box set featuring over four and a half hours of live material, recorded in Chicago on October 31, 1973.  Both of Zappa's live sets from that day - and a further disc of rehearsal tapes - will be collected in the elaborately designed set, which features a "costume box" that houses the four CDs and a "FRANKenZAPPA" mask and gloves set. On the music front, these legendary previously unreleased shows are

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Frank Zappa

The True One: 4AD Remasters, Reissues Gene Clark's "No Other" In Lavish Box Set

September 11, 2019 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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Fans of the late Gene Clark have long known that the singer-songwriter was, truly, like No Other - so it's appropriate that his 1974 cult classic of that name is getting the lavish, super deluxe treatment from the folks at 4AD Records. On November 8, the label will reissue No Other in four formats including: 3 SACD/1 Blu-ray/1 LP/1 7-inch single Limited Deluxe Box Set; CD; 2CD; and 1LP. No Other, recorded at West Hollywood's Village Recorder with producer Thomas Jefferson Kaye,

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Gene Clark

Rhino Plans Delirious 5CD/DVD Expansion of Prince's '1999'

September 10, 2019 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Prince 1999 Super Deluxe

Are you ready to party like it's 1999? On November 29, The Prince Estate, in association with Warner Records, will celebrate Prince's 1982 classic 1999 with a multi-format reissue encompassing the following versions: Super Deluxe Edition (5CD+DVD or 10LP+DVD / audio-only download and streaming) Deluxe Edition (2CD or 4LP 180g vinyl / download and streaming) Remastered album (1CD or 2LP 180g Purple Vinyl / download and streaming) Prince's fifth studio album and first to feature

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

BREAKING! Second Disc, Real Gone Release First-Ever Collection from Motown's Lost Superstar, Blinky

September 10, 2019 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

Blinky Heart Full of Soul The Motown Anthology

The story of Sondra "Blinky" Williams has long been shrouded in mystery. The soulful singer came to Motown Records in 1967 following stints at Vee-Jay and Atlantic, bringing her passionate and powerful deep soul sound to Hitsville, USA. Despite recording dozens of tracks between 1968 and 1973, only a small handful saw release: a mere four 45s plus an album of duets with Edwin Starr, two live cuts, and a couple of one-off recordings, including a key moment on the best-selling soundtrack of Lady

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: Blinky

The Sweetest Sounds: Matt Monro's Greatest Hits Paired With Lost Session on "Stranger In Paradise"

September 10, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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From bus driver to national treasure, London-born Matt Monro's success story is one for the ages.  From his humble beginnings, the man that even Sinatra effusively praised would go on to become a global superstar.  In his time, the crooner, with his rich baritone, sold upwards of 150 million records; worked with the likes of John Barry, Quincy Jones, Sir George Martin, Nelson Riddle and Michel Legrand; and released 13 top 50 U.K. singles.  Now, a new chapter of the Matt Monro story has been

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Matt Monro

Let 'Em Show You What It's All About: UMe Bows Rare Quad Mix of The Jackson 5's 'Greatest Hits' On Vinyl

September 9, 2019 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

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A half century after The Jackson 5 became a blockbuster R&B/pop act, UMe is reissuing their first greatest hits album on vinyl - with a special twist. The quintet's Greatest Hits is back on LP October 25, utilizing a stereo fold-down of a rare quadraphonic mix issued only in Japan in 1975. That mix featured alternate vocals and instrumentation on some tracks, making this release a true new way to hear some of the group's biggest hit songs. And what an incredible run of hits it was! The

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Jermaine Jackson, Michael Jackson, The Jackson 5

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