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Release Round-Up: Week of January 27

January 27, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Johnny Mathis, You Light Up My Life/Mathis Magic and The Best Days of My Life (Funky Town Grooves) You Light Up My Life/Mathis Magic: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Best Days of My Life: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Funky Town Grooves has not one, but two, releases from the legendary Johnny Mathis! You Light Up My Life (1978) joins the never-before-on-CD Mathis Magic (1979) on one disc, while FTG’s The Best Days of My Life expands the 1979 album with five bonus tracks, two of which are previously unreleased. The…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD

Genres:

Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Johnny Mathis, Johnny Winter, Paul Glass, Rainbow, Ron Nagle, Rush, T Rex, The Shadows of Knight, The Standells

Fly by Night (Blu-ray Pure Audio)

January 25, 2015 by Joe Marchese

This Blu-ray Pure Audio edition of Rush’s 1975 sophomore LP features the original album in high-resolution stereo and surround mixes previously only available on DVD-A as part of the Sector 1 box set.

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Blu-Ray Audio

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Classic Rock

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Sound Chaser: Steven Wilson Revisits Yes, Jethro Tull In Stereo and Surround

October 29, 2014 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

When it comes to new surround-sound mixes, one name has become closely associated with the format: Steven Wilson. Keeper of the progressive-rock flame and frontman for Porcupine Tree, Wilson has in recent years created definitive 5.1 remixes for artists like King Crimson, Yes, XTC, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Gentle Giant, and Jethro Tull. It was recently announced that Wilson would be extending his talents to an upcoming reissue from (non-prog!) rock band Tears for Fears, and we can also confirm that he is continuing his work with the catalogues of Yes and…

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News

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Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, DVD, DVD-Audio

Genres:

Classic Rock

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Jethro Tull, Yes

All That I Want: Bryan Adams Expands “Reckless” for 30th Anniversary

October 7, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Hot on the heels of his new studio album Tracks of My Years – a deluxe edition of which, with additional material, is due on October 27, Canadian rocker Bryan Adams is revisiting his past in another way. Tracks of My Years features Adams’ recordings of classic songs from which he found inspiration as a songwriter; on November 24, he will release an expanded 2-CD/1-DVD/1-BD edition of his 1984 breakthrough album Reckless. Produced by Adams and Bob Clearmountain and originally released on the A&M label on the artist’s 25th birthday, Reckless spawned…

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News

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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Pop, Rock

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Bryan Adams

“The Who Hits 50!”

October 3, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, the last men standing of the original Who, have confirmed that they won’t be spending their 50th anniversary lying down. The Who will be embarking on a celebratory jaunt, The Who Hits 50, beginning in November in Glasgow, and will be releasing a double-disc retrospective to tie in with the tour. The new compilation is set for U.K. release on October 27 and U.S. release one day later on October 28. The Who Hits 50 follows such past Who anthologies as 2002’s The Ultimate Collection, a 35-track…

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News

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Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock

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The Who

Release Round-Up: Week of July 29

July 29, 2014 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

The Allman Brothers Band, The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings (Mercury/UMe) The four shows in March 1971 that made up the band’s legendary breakthrough album are presented in full for the first time, along with the group’s closing set at the Fillmore East that following June. The Blu-ray version features the material in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound. 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 4LP Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Peggy Lipton, The Complete Ode Recordings / Gene Rains, Far Away Lands — The Exotic Music of Gene Rains /How to Stuff a Wild Bikini: Original Stereo Soundtrack / Cass Elliot, Don’t…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD

Genres:

Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Peggy Lipton, Sam Cooke, The Allman Brothers Band, The Dream Academy, The Shirelles, Van Dyke Parks

The Allman Brothers Band’s “Fillmore East” Goes Super Deluxe In New Box Set

July 16, 2014 by Joe Marchese | 14 Comments

2014 has been a year of upheaval for The Allman Brothers Band. Following word that Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks would be departing the venerable group at year’s end, Gregg Allman confirmed that he, too, would stop touring after 2014 – effectively ending the band that bears his name. Despite his claims that “this is the end of it,” Allman has left the door open to reunions down the road. “Who’s to say?,” he pondered in the pages of Relix. “We may get together every five years and just do one play…

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News

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock

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The Allman Brothers Band

Still Unforgettable: “The Extraordinary Nat King Cole” Collects Hits, Rarities, Unreleased Songs

June 2, 2014 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

The title of Capitol’s upcoming Nat King Cole compilation is a simple but accurate one: The Extraordinary Nat King Cole. In his too-short 45 years, Cole transformed himself from an acclaimed jazz pianist to one of America’s pre-eminent vocalists. His smooth-voiced baritone helped put Capitol Records on the map, and he broke down barriers previously unheard of for African-American entertainers. Cole’s posthumous 1991 duet on “Unforgettable” with daughter Natalie Cole earned him a new generation of fan, and his rendition of “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” keeps him…

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News

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Blu-Ray Audio, CD

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Popular Standards/Vocal

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Nat King Cole

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