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Classic CCR Box Set Choogles Back Into Print

October 7, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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A box set of Creedence Clearwater Revival's official studio and live discography, first released in 2001, is getting reissued again for the holiday box set season. Creedence Clearwater Revival was a six-disc set collecting all of the Southern (by way of California) rock band's studio albums - Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968), Bayou Country, Green River, Willy and the Poor Boys (all 1969), Cosmo's Factory, Pendulum (both 1970) and Mardi Gras (1972) - along with both of their posthumous live

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They Shall Be "Released": Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Joni Mitchell, U2, Peter Gabriel, Miles Davis on Amnesty International Box

October 7, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Since its founding in 1961, Amnesty International has endeavored “to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.”  The Nobel Peace Prize-winning international human rights organization has, naturally, attracted a number of high-profile supporters over the years.  In 1988, a number of those men and women took the road to spread Amnesty’s message and raise funds via the Human Rights Now!

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, DVD Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, Sting, The Police, U2

There It Comes Now: Velvet Underground's "White Light/White Heat" Box Set Arrives In December

October 2, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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UPDATED 10/4: "No one listened to it.  But there it is, forever - the quintessence of articulate punk.  And no one goes near it."  So commented the rather articulate Lou Reed in a statement for Rolling Stone regarding Universal's upcoming 45th anniversary 3-CD box set of The Velvet Underground's sophomore effort, White Light/White Heat.  Due on December 3, the new set follows last year's 6-CD super deluxe edition of the band's debut Velvet Underground & Nico from Universal as well as the

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 30/October 1

October 1, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Most titles this week are already out in the States, on account of Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 hitting stores on Monday. So without further ado... Rush, The Studio Albums 1989-2007 / Vapor Trails Remixed (Atlantic/Rhino) All of the Canadian rock gods' albums for Atlantic in one box, with 2002's Vapor Trails newly remixed (and available separately). The Studio Albums: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vapor Trails Remixed: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Bongos, Phantom Train /

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Old 97's, Patrice Rushen, Patti Page, Perry Como, Poco, Richard Barone, Rush, Sarah McLachlan, The Bongos, The Grateful Dead, The Lords of the New Church, Waylon Jennings

Back to Ocean Boulevard: Eric Clapton's "Give Me Strength: The '74/'75 Recordings" Expands Three Vintage Albums

September 30, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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What’s better than one deluxe edition of an Eric Clapton album?  How about three?  And how about if they’re housed in one package? On November 26 December 10, Universal Music Group will unveil the 5-CD/1-Blu-ray box Eric Clapton – Give Me Strength: The '74/'75 Recordings, featuring remastered and expanded versions of 461 Ocean Boulevard, There’s One in Every Crowd and E.C. Was Here, plus additional material and a Blu-ray of surround mixes.  Housed in a hardbound 60-page book, the box set is an

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Hey, Ho, Let's Go: Rhino Boxes Up Some Ramones Records on CD

September 30, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Rhino continues its affordable/collectible album box set streak with New York's own Ramones. The Sire Years 1976-1981 is just that: a box collating Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy and (from 1978's Road to Ruin onward) Marky's first six albums for Seymour Stein's label - three hours of classics from one of the defining bands of the punk rock movement. Ramones (1976), Leave Home, Rocket to Russia (both 1977), Road to Ruin, the Phil Spector-produced End of the Century (1980) and Pleasant Dreams (1981)

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Everything is (More Than) Everything: Unreleased Donny Hathaway Works Compiled on New Box Set (UPDATED 9/26)

September 26, 2013 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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UPDATE (9/26/2013): After initially posting this was to be released in France, we were pleased to receive confirmation that this box, in fact, will be released stateside as well! We have amended the release date and pre-order links accordingly. AMENDED POST (9/23/2013): Several years after a great career-spanning box set from France, Rhino is releasing another new box by the late soul legend Donny Hathaway, with two discs of unreleased studio and live content. Never My Love: The Anthology

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Roberta Flack

Positively Bob Dylan: "Complete Album Collection" Box Set Arrives In November

September 26, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Is it rolling, Bob? Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings certainly have the ball rolling on the remarkable ouevre of Bob Dylan.  Hot on the heels of Another Self Portrait, the rapturously-received tenth installment of The Bootleg Series, the labels have just confirmed the November 5 release of a Dylanologist’s dream: The Complete Album Collection Volume One.  Yes, they’re all here – each one of the core, full-length live and studio albums released by the former Robert Allen Zimmerman on the

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American Tunes: Legacy Announces Complete Paul Simon Box, New Single-CD Anthology [UPDATED 9/24]

September 24, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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UPDATED 9/24/13 [UPDATES IN BOLD TO ORIGINAL POST OF 8/19]: And here’s to you, Mr. Simon. There isn’t much that Paul Simon hasn’t accomplished in his 50+ years as a professional musician, singer, and songwriter.  Born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Queens, New York, Simon has racked up 12 Grammy Awards, an Emmy, a Kennedy Center Honor, the first-ever Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, and Academy Award, Golden Globe and Tony nominations.  That’s not to mention being one-half of the most

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

Release Round-Up: Week of September 24

September 24, 2013 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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Nirvana, In Utero: 20th Anniversary Edition (DGC/UMe) The grunge icon's final album is greatly expanded in numerous formats for its two-decade mark, with B-sides, a new mix of the album and the band's Live and Loud concert feature from MTV on CD and DVD. Check the post above to figure out which one suits you best! 1CD Standard remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1CD Expanded remaster: Target (U.S.) 2CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3CD/1DVD Super Deluxe Box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, DVD Tags: Lenny Kravitz, Nirvana, The Band, The Mamas and The Papas, The Waitresses, Vinyl

Release Round-Up: Week of September 17

September 17, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The Band, LIve at the Academy of Music: The Rock of Ages Concerts (Capitol/UMe) This five-disc box set (four CDs and a DVD) features selections from The Band's famed four-night run in New York in 1971. Though these shows would create the live Rock of Ages album, this box instead features highlights from the shows on two discs (including guest appearances by Bob Dylan), another two discs of the complete soundboard mix of the final concert on New Year's Eve 1971, and a DVD with 5.1 surround mixes

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Matt Monro, Oscar Peterson, Roy Orbison, The Alan Parsons Project, The Band, The Grateful Dead, Vinyl

Best of Their Love: Eagles LPs Boxed Up on Vinyl

September 12, 2013 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

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Some seven months after packing up all of the Eagles' studio albums in one CD box set, Rhino's at it again, doing the same for those six albums on vinyl. The Studio Albums 1972-1979 collects all of the Asylum-era LPs - Eagles (1972), Desperado (1973), On the Border (1974), One of These Nights (1975), Hotel California (1976) and The Long Run (1979) - and replicates the original packaging almost entirely to the letter of the original releases. We say "almost" thanks to two upgrades made by Rhino

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 10

September 10, 2013 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

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The Clash, Sound System / Hits Back / 5 Studio Album Box Set (Columbia/Sony Music/Legacy) Coming from the U.K., a new double-disc Clash compilation, a simple box of the band's classic albums in new mini-LP packaging (The Clash (U.K.), Give 'Em Enough Rope, London Calling, Sandinista! and Combat Rock) and a deluxe swag-filled set featuring those five albums, three discs of non-LP tracks and unreleased rarities and a DVD full of more rare treats. Hits Back (2CD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Hits

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Legacy Plans Jimi Hendrix Bonanza With "Miami Pop Festival" and "Hear My Train A Comin'"

September 9, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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There continues to be plenty to experience from Jimi Hendrix. On August 20, Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix restored the original 2000 “purple box” to the catalogue in a new reissue adding four bonus tracks (B-side “The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam’s Dice,” “Peace in Mississippi” from the “Valleys of Neptune” CD single, and live versions of “Burning of the Midnight Lamp” and “Like a Rolling Stone”) to the original 4-CD configuration.  On November 5, the ongoing Hendrix campaign

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Who Do They Think They Are? Two Deep Purple Box Sets, '80s Live Show To Be Released

September 9, 2013 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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Deep Purple fans - particularly fans of the almighty Mk. II lineup of the ever-changing British rock pioneers - brace yourselves (and your wallets): no less than three catalogue/collectible projects are due for 2013. Though Deep Purple enjoyed early stateside success with a trio of psych-prog LPs in the late 1960s, it was the crystallization of the Mk. II lineup - guitarist Richie Blackmore, keyboardist Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice alongside new members Ian Gillan (lead vocals) and Roger

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Cowboy In Sweden, And Everywhere Else: LITA Boxes "Lee Hazlewood Industries"

September 5, 2013 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

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If you’ve been following Light in the Attic’s ongoing Lee Hazlewood Archive Series, you’ve discovered a treasure trove of wild ‘n’ wooly music from the country-pop maverick.  But the past releases in the series are proving to be delicious appetizers for the just-announced main course.  On November 26, Light in the Attic will unveil There’s a Dream I’ve Been Saving: Lee Hazlewood Industries 1966-1971.  This seven-years-in-the-making deluxe box set will be available as a 4-CD/1-DVD/1-flexidisc

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Legacy is Miles Ahead on Davis' Mono CD Box Set

September 4, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings are getting Miles Ahead with a new box set due on November 12.   Miles Davis’ The Original Mono Recordings is a definitive portrait – in crisp monaural sound – of the legendary trumpeter’s earliest, era-defining period at Columbia Records.  Its nine albums, recorded between 1956 and 1961 (and released between 1957 and 1964), include some of the greatest landmarks in recorded jazz as well as a couple of lost treasures: ‘Round About Midnight (1957) Miles

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Couldn't Love Him More: John Martyn Box Set Due This Month

September 4, 2013 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

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Universal's U.K. arm has made a nice habit in recent years of exhaustive box sets devoted to one artist. The Moody Blues' Timeless Flight was an 11CD/6DVD overview of the British rock band; this fall includes box sets devoted to Sparks and Tears for Fears' The Hurting. The upcoming The Island Years, an exhaustive box devoted to folk icon John Martyn, is 18 discs - 17 CDs and one DVD - that looks to be quite the knockout for anyone's shelf. Martyn was a notable figure in the British folk scene

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 3

September 3, 2013 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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Rod Stewart, Rarities (Mercury/UMe) It's Rod at his rarest: two discs of outtakes, non-LP singles and other good stuff, including two unreleased BBC session tracks. (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Jefferson Starship, Live in Central Park NYC May 12, 1975 / Claudia Lennear, Phew! / Ponderosa Twins Plus One, 2+2+1=Ponderosa Twins Plus One / Jo Ann Campbell, All the Hits--Her Complete Cameo Recordings / Joanie Sommers, Come Alive!--The Complete Columbia Recordings / Stonewall Jackson, Original

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Mike Oldfield, Poco, Rod Stewart, Rush, Stonewall Jackson, The Breeders, The Paley Brothers, Vinyl

Go To The Mirror! The Who To Reissue "Tommy" In Super Deluxe Style

August 29, 2013 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

The amazing journey is about to continue. Following the massive box sets accorded Live at Leeds and Quadrophenia, The Who have confirmed a Super Deluxe set of 1969's Tommy just in time for the holidays.  The 3-CD/1-BD set, due in the U.K. on November 11 and in the U.S. on November 12, will include a newly remastered edition of the original album on one CD, a second disc of previously unissued demos and outtakes, a third CD of a 1969 live performance (drawn from numerous shows), and a Blu-ray

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Review: Sly and the Family Stone, "Higher!"

August 29, 2013 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

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Sly Stone was a sponge. After leading Bobby "Do You Wanna Dance" Freeman to a hit record with 1965's "C'mon and Swim," the writer-producer-artist formerly known as Sylvester Stewart knew he had hit on a good thing.  Hence, "I Just Learned to Swim."  Then, "Scat Swim."  But on the latter, Stone was already showing off his stylistic diversity, interrupting the beat to "slow it down a little so everybody can swim" and then speeding it back up again.  He had soaked up the fertile creative

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Sly & The Family Stone

Review: Bob Dylan, "The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait"

August 28, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Who is Bob Dylan? Today, he might identify himself as “a song and dance man,” a noble profession if there ever was one.  But for decades, the man born Robert Zimmerman has been much, much more.  Resistant though he might have been to the tag of “spokesman of a generation,” said generation could have done much worse.  To describe Dylan’s role in the 1960s is certainly to paint with broad brushstrokes.  But it can be said with some measure of truth that Dylan liberated popular music from the

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Midnight Special: Sweet "Rocky Horror" Reissues on Tap

August 28, 2013 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

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A toast! A famed box set of music from The Rocky Horror Show is coming back into print, as well as a new reissue of the original film soundtrack on CD and vinyl, 40 years after the show first Time Warped into the hearts of fans. There comes a time in many music and theatre enthusiasts' lives when they encounter The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O'Brien's raucous cult musical, which first premiered in London's West End in the summer of 1973. More than 35 years after it was adapted into The Rocky

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: Meat Loaf

Review: The Beach Boys, "Made in California"

August 27, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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If everybody had an ocean... Rarely have five simple words in pop music held such promise.  The message at the time was an invitation squarely aimed at teens: “If everybody had an ocean, across the USA/Then everybody’d be surfin’ like Califor-ni-a...”  But ultimately, the promise and California dream embodied by Hawthorne, CA’s native sons came to mean so much more than mere surfin’.  The sound of The Beach Boys – Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine, David Marks,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

Release Round-Up: Week of August 27

August 27, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The Beach Boys, Made in California (Capitol/UMe) Six discs of career-spanning tunes - hits and rarities aplenty - from the best band to come out of Hawthorne, California. (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Bob Dylan, Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 (Columbia) Revisit one of the most polarizing periods of Dylan's career with the latest Bootleg Series entry, featuring outtakes from Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait and New Morning. A deluxe version includes Dylan and The

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Mario Lanza, Naked Eyes, Nina Simone, Robert Palmer, Sly & The Family Stone, The Band, The Beach Boys, Vinyl

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