Craft Recordings is revisiting a halcyon period of The Bill Evans Trio. Due on November 21, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Recordings collects the complete studio recordings by the Bill Evans Trio lineup of Evans (1929-1980), bassist Scott LaFaro (1936-1961), and drummer Paul Motian (1931-2011). The 3CD or 5LP set presents the complete albums Portrait in Jazz (1960) and Explorations (1961) plus 26 alternate takes – a full 17 of which are previously unreleased. Evans, a pioneer in the area of modal jazz (in which the solos build from the key, not – as…
Do You Realize?? These Rhino RSD Titles Are Also Coming Soon to CD
Rhino’s Record Store Day Black Friday schedule is packed with some 35 titles available as limited edition vinyl releases. But CD lovers take heart: six of these titles – most featuring previously unreleased material – will be available the same day on our favorite portable physical format! Here’s a look at each title, alphabetically by artist. Recent years have seen Rhino acquire distribution rights to beloved British ska outfit The Beat (known in America as The English Beat), with expanded editions of the group’s studio albums distributed through the label. You…
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Better Off Dancing: Real Gone Reissues The Donnas’ ‘Bitchin” on a 2-LP Set with Bonus Tracks
Since 2020, Real Gone has been reissuing albums from The Donnas catalog. On Friday, the label revisited the group’s final studio album, 2007’s Bitchin’, in an expanded 2-LP edition. The band formed in California in 1993. Brett Anderson (lead vocals), Allison Robertson (guitar, backing vocals), Maya Ford (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Torry Castellano (drums, percussion, backing vocals) met when they were in the eighth grade. The self-taught musicians formed a band to perform at a school dance. The quartet initially started a group called The Electrocutes which had a metal queen…
Got to Choose: Weeks After Expanding ‘Dressed to Kill,’ KISS’ ‘Alive!’ Gets Its Own Deluxe Box
Only a few weeks after unveiling a deluxe box set of their third studio album Dressed to Kill – which featured, in part, overdub-free versions of shows utilized for their breakthrough concert album Alive! – KISS have revealed that they will, in fact, release a whole box set for Alive! as well, confirming previous rumors and reports. Available on four CDs or eight LPs and a Blu-ray Audio disc, Alive! features the original double album (here for the first time pressed on one CD) along with two more complete shows (plus some relevant rehearsal audio and…
Feel the Heat: Supergroup The Power Station Goes Deluxe on New Box Set
Fans of Duran Duran and supergroups will multiply for this one: Rhino is expanding the self-titled debut from The Power Station into a 4CD box set next year. The Power Station DLX includes the remastered album (featuring the hits “Some Like It Hot” and a cover of T. Rex’s “Get It On (Bang a Gong)”) alongside three discs of bonus material, including unreleased “raw instrumental” versions, single mixes and live material, including the band’s performances from the charity concert Live Aid and an unissued full set from nearly a month later at…
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Soundtrack Watch: La-La Land Gets a ‘Clue’ and a ‘Ladder,’ Intrada Turns the ‘Tide,’ and Re-Recordings Galore
As film score fans edge ever closer to the inevitably killer archival score reissues typically made available around the holiday shopping season, a host of great soundtrack re-releases are already newly available from some of our favorite specialty labels, including some must-hear, classic re-recordings. La-La Land Records takes a brief break from Bond to make available two seasonally appropriate scores. First up is Maurice Jarre’s score to the haunting cult classic Jacob’s Ladder, a psychological thriller about a Vietnam veteran caught between a harrowing past experience that seems to be affecting reality in…
High the Memory: Rhino Sets Yes’ ‘Tales from Topographic Oceans’ As First Major Box of 2026
Having released arguably more reissues and box sets than any major label in 2025, Rhino has already set sights on their first catalogue title of 2026. Might you be interested? In a word: Yes. Following a deluxe box set of Close to the Edge this past spring, the label will next give the lavish treatment to 1973’s Tales from Topographic Oceans. Available February 6, this 12CD/2LP/Blu-ray box set will offer more than a dozen unreleased outtakes and live tracks alongside a suite of new mixes of the original album by acclaimed engineer Steven Wilson. Building…
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Step Into Christmas: UMe Preps Holiday Singles Box, Expansion of Connie Francis’ Holiday Album
With the spookiest holidays of the fall now in the rear view mirror (that’s right: Halloween and Election Day!), there’s nothing wrong with looking ahead to the Christmas music season and checking out a pair of now-available titles from Universal Music Group spotlighting some of their classic holiday hits and an album by one of catalogue’s biggest success stories this year. UMe is selling a nifty collection of more than a dozen seasonal 7″ singles in a collectible carrying case. This Classic Holiday Singles Box features Christmas perennials spanning from the ’40s to…
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Fighting My Way Back: Thin Lizzy Revisit the Mid-’70s on New Box
Thin Lizzy are turning back the clock. Following last year’s set 1976 – chronicling the breakthrough albums Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox – the Irish band will, on November 21, release ’74-’75, a deep dive into Nightlife and Fighting. The 7CD box set chronicles the making of those two seminal albums which were the first to feature the “classic” quartet line-up with guitarists Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson joining frontman/bassist Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey. Nightlife came first in 1974, produced by Lynott and Ron Nevison, whose credits would grow to…
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Green Day Re-Live Without ‘Warning’ on New Box Set
Green Day’s sixth album, 2000’s Warning, arrived nearly three years after the band’s multi-platinum Nimrod. It built on the expansive sound of Nimrod by incorporating even more varied textures drawing on pop and folk styles. Now, 25 years later, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool are revisiting Warning in a new Super Deluxe Edition (available on both vinyl and CD) due November 14 from Reprise Records. With longtime producer Rob Cavallo moving up to the executive producer’s position, Green Day self-produced Warning – their first self-produced major label effort. (R.E.M….
The Mystery of Your Gift: Josh Groban’s “Hidden Gems” Collects Deep Cuts, Rarities
Earlier this year, Josh Groban debuted Gems, a new collection that coincided with his Las Vegas residency of the same name. Now, just in time for the holiday season, the crossover superstar is unveiling a companion album. On November 14, Groban will release Hidden Gems, an eleven-track single-CD or digital compilation bringing together one new song, two tracks new to CD, and eight rarities released on various albums and exclusive editions over the years. Hidden Gems spans 2004 through the present day, with the earliest track being Groban’s contribution to the soundtrack…
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I Wanna Be a Rocker: Think Like a Key Premieres “The Shirts Live Featuring Annie Golden”
Think Like a Key Music has been making quite the splash lately with a stellar lineup of releases including Play On: A Raspberries Tribute; Babies of War Babies, a tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates’ adventurous album produced by Todd Rundgren; and titles from psych group Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera and supergroup British Lions (which teamed members of the post-Ian Hunter lineup of Mott the Hoople with Medicine Head’s John Fiddler). Now, the label has turned its attention to a cult-favorite band from the CBGB’s scene: New York’s own Shirts. The…
Memories: Light in the Attic Remasters, Expands Nancy Sinatra’s “Nancy”
After a yearlong hiatus, Light in the Attic’s Nancy Sinatra Archival Series is continuing on December 5 with an expanded and remastered reissue of 1969’s Nancy on both CD and LP. Her sixth and final studio album for the label, the Billy Strange-helmed LP offered a cross-section of rock, pop, soul, and country tunes as only Sinatra could have delivered them. Nancy arrived in the wake of producer-songwriter Lee Hazlewood’s unexpected move to Sweden. Hazlewood had produced all of Nancy’s Reprise albums to that point (including the soundtrack to her television special…
Mellow My Mind: Neil Young Revisits “Tonight’s the Night” at 50 with Previously Unreleased Tracks
Neil Young’s sixth studio album, 1975’s Tonight’s the Night, closed out the singer-songwriter’s so-called Ditch Trilogy. 1972’s country-rock landmark Harvest catapulted Young to superstardom, yielding the chart-topping single “Heart of Gold” and becoming the U.S.’ best-selling album of 1972. But he wasn’t comfortable with everything that fame brought, and his successive albums replaced the wistful glow and commercial sheen of Harvest with something altogether darker. Tonight’s the Night followed Time Fades Away (1973) and On the Beach (1974) in the trilogy, though Beach was actually recorded after Tonight’s. Now, on November 28,…
Who Was It? 7a Records Collects Davy Jones Rarities on “Music and Memories: The MGM Recordings”
On November 14, 7a Records will fill in a missing chapter of the Davy Jones story. Music and Memories: The MGM Recordings premieres on CD the handful of singles recorded by the Monkees’ resident song-and-dance man for the MGM Records label – including both mono and stereo mixes and a rare Japan-only single side – and, for good measure, adds all of Jones’ tracks recorded for the original London cast recording of Harry Nilsson’s The Point. This release follows the label’s 2015 collection of Micky Dolenz’s MGM output. After Jones and Micky…
Rock and Roll All Nite: KISS Suit Up New Deluxe Box for ‘Dressed to Kill’
KISS’ third album – the edge of their commercial breakthrough – is getting done up to the nines for its 50th anniversary. The rock legends will reissue Dressed to Kill as a super deluxe set, available exclusively through the band’s official store on five CDs or eight LPs and a Blu-ray. The 1975 release, featuring “C’mon and Love Me” and, arguably the group’s signature song “Rock and Roll All Nite,” has been newly remastered by Bernie Grundman and, on the Blu-ray, remixed from the original multitracks in Dolby Atmos and 5.1 surround by…
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Ants Invasion: Sony U.K. Plans New Singles Set for Adam Ant
Here’s your pass to join the insect nation: Sony Music’s U.K. arm is releasing a new compilation devoted to post-punk heroes Adam and The Ants. The simply-titled Singles, available October 31 in the U.K. and a week later in America, collects 20 tracks on CD or two LPs (pressed on red and white vinyl) that served as A-sides for the ’80s iconoclast. Split about evenly between the classic Ants lineup and Adam’s solo material, it features all the classics you’d expect, from “Kings of the Wild Frontier,” “Antmusic,” “Prince Charming” and “Stand…
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Baby’s Got a Secret: Madonna Expands ‘Bedtime Stories’ with ‘Untold Chapter’ EP
After teasing it last year – and not long after this year’s release of a similar Ray of Light-era remix collection – Madonna will explore rare and unreleased material tied to another one of her most celebrated albums of the ’90s, Bedtime Stories, with another EP of unissued tracks. Bedtime Stories – The Untold Chapter, available November 28, will offer eight remixes, demos and outtakes from the Queen of Pop’s sixth album, originally released in 1994. In addition to previously released mixes of the singles “Secret” and “Human Nature,” the EP includes…
Smile Happy: Rhino Unveils New Quadio Batch with America, WAR, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship
Earlier today, Rhino unveiled a new batch of Quadio reissues, reissuing vintage quadraphonic mixes on Blu-ray Audio. This time, it’s all classic rock, with three titles celebrating their 50th anniversaries and one just shy of that milestone: America’s Hearts (1975), Hot Tuna’s America’s Choice (1975), WAR’s Why Can’t We Be Friends? (1975), and Jefferson Starship’s Spitfire (1976). The WAR mix is previously unreleased in any format. All Blu-rays also include a high-resolution stereo mix, with both presentations sourced from the original analog tapes. America’s Hearts was reissued earlier this year in an…
A Dream That Can Last: Neil Young’s Latest ‘Official Release Series’ Box Further Enters the ’90s
After a 2+-year break, Neil Young is continuing his Official Release Series with new box sets on both CD and LP rounding up another four albums from the 1990s. ORS Vol. 6 arrives October 24 on the Reprise label with newly remastered editions of Harvest Moon (1992, ORS Disc 26), Unplugged (1993, ORS Disc 27), Sleeps with Angels (1993, ORS Disc 28), and Mirror Ball (1995, ORS Disc 29). Each disc of the limited and numbered box sets will contain the four albums with original artwork; the vinyl versions will be on…
Pack Up Your Sorrows: Judy Collins’ “The ’60s Singles” Arrives in December from Real Gone Music, Second Disc Records
It’s no exaggeration to state that Judy Collins transformed the sound of folk music. With a crystalline voice and a songbook blurring traditional genre lines, the Seattle native came to prominence in the fertile Greenwich Village stomping grounds of New York City. The luminous Collins – a classical piano prodigy, talented guitarist, gifted adapter and later, songwriter, and singer with a three-octave range – signed with Jac Holzman’s Elektra Records in 1961 and remained an Elektra artist for nearly two-and-a-half decades. On December 5, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records will revisit…
The Best That He Can Do: Omnivore Preps Christopher Cross Singles Set
Once in your life you find them: an artist whose impossibly smooth music had a major impact on a generation of listeners. After honoring Christopher Cross’ landmark debut album with an expanded edition earlier this year, Omnivore Recordings will now expand their focus to all of his major label work on a new compilation. All Right: The Worldwide Singles 1980-1988 offers 20 classic tracks – many in rare single edit or mix form – from Cross’ tenure on the Warner Bros. and Reprise labels, along with a few curios for compilations. The…
Happy Halloween, Everybody: Frank Zappa’s “Halloween 78” Presents Epic NYC Concert, More
Frank Zappa’s annual Halloween concerts in New York City were far more treat than trick. Now, following similar releases for his shows in 1973, 1977, and 1981, Zappa Records and UMe are releasing Halloween 78 on October 24 in a variety of formats. The nearly four-hour long, marathon October 31, 1978 show at the late, lamented Palladium (now the home of a New York University dormitory) will be available as part of a 5CD set also including a bonus show from the beginning of the Palladium run, on October 27, 1978. The…
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Release Round-Up: Week of October 10
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. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Power to the People (Capitol/UMR) 9CD/3BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Official Store 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store One of the most incendiary periods of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life together is being explored anew in a new 9CD/3Blu-ray box set. Power to…
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Record Store Day Black Friday Round-Up: BMG, Omnivore, and Real Gone Music
As we gear up for Record Store Day’s Black Friday event on Friday, November 28, we’re sharing the lists from BMG, Omnivore Recordings, and Real Gone Music. Click here for a list of participating retailers! First up is BMG’s slate… George Harrison, Living in the Material World (50th Anniversary Mix) (Dark Horse) (Zoetrope LP; 7,600 copies – reprises mix from the 2024 box set) John Lee Hooker, Chill Out (30th Anniversary) (LP; 1,500 copies – remastered reissue of album featuring Van Morrison, Carlos Santana, Booker T. Jones, and Charles Brown) Billy Idol, “77” (Dark Horse) (12″ Picture Disc;…
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