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Make It Fast, Make It Urgent: Foreigner Add More to '4'

July 2, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Foreigner 4 box set

Foreigner is bringing 4 to the fore with a new deluxe box set devoted to their blockbuster fourth album. Available September 12, this new edition of 4 will include a new remix of the original 1981 album and three discs of unreleased material, including studio outtakes, unheard songs from the recording sessions, instrumental mixes and selections from the band's world tour of 1981-1982. A Blu-ray Audio will include the album remix (plus the newly-released "Fool If You Love Him," available as

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Foreigner

No Jacket Required (Fully Tailored)

July 2, 2025 By

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4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Following a similar recent deluxe set for Both Sides, the Genesis drummer/singer's most commercially successful solo album, 1985's No Jacket Required, is being revisited for its 40th anniversary in two new formats. There's a new "Fully Tailored" 4LP set that offers a new half-speed master of the album, cut at Abbey Road Studios and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, along with three discs including all the

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Inside Out: Phil Collins Plans 40th Anniversary Vinyl Box, Blu-ray Audio for 'No Jacket Required'

July 2, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Phil Collins No Jacket Required Fully Tailored 3D Packshot

Phil Collins is taking his Jacket to the cleaners and coming back with a whole new cut. Following a similar recent deluxe set for Both Sides, the Genesis drummer/singer's most commercially successful solo album, 1985's No Jacket Required, is being revisited for its 40th anniversary in two new formats. There's a new "Fully Tailored" 4LP set that offers a new half-speed master of the album, cut at Abbey Road Studios and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, along with three discs including all the live

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Phil Collins

Party on the Patio: ZZ Top Doubleback on New Limited Vinyl Box from Rhino High Fidelity

July 1, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

ZZ Top RHF box 2

ZZ Top are revisiting their biggest hitmaking days on vinyl. From the Top (1979-1990) is a new limited 5LP box set as part of Rhino's High-Fidelity initiative, featuring new pressings of the Texas trio's most pop-friendly material: Degüello (1979), El Loco (1981), Eliminator (1983), Afterburner (1985) and Recycler (1990). (it follows a similar set issued last year.) All vinyl masters have been cut from the original stereo tapes by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal. The luxe

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: ZZ Top

Made In Japan: Super Deluxe Edition

June 30, 2025 By

Deep Purple Made in Japan deluxe Rhino

5CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 10LP: Deep Purple Store / Rhino.com 2LP: Amazon U.K. Coming from Rhino on August 15 - 52 years since the first of the concerts represented on the original LP were staged - a new super deluxe edition of Made in Japan, spanning 5CD/1 Blu-ray or 10 LPs, offers new mixes by Steven Wilson of the original album and the complete trio of concerts it came from, complete with bonus encores and a few original single edits. The band's longtime

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Joni's Jazz

June 30, 2025 By

Joni Mitchell Joni's Jazz

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada What is jazz?  The question has been debated often, but now we know how Joni Mitchell might answer.  The legendary singer-songwriter's Archives series is continuing with its first themed compilation, appropriately entitled Joni's Jazz.  These 61 selections - available on 4 CDs or 8 LPs - draw from nearly every core album in the Mitchell discography with just a couple of exceptions (Clouds, Ladies of

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Stand Inside Your Love: Smashing Pumpkins Revisit 'Machina' Duo in New Vinyl Box

June 30, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Machina box

The Smashing Pumpkins are revisiting the material that initially marked their final bow with a sprawling, unusual box set. 2000's Machina/The Machines of God will be remastered and reissued on CD and double vinyl from UMe on August 22. Additionally, a new box set, Machina (Aranea Alba Editio), will offer a remixed and resequenced, 48-track quintuple-album drawing from Machina, its sequel Machina II/The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music and assorted B-sides, plus a further three LPs of 32

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Smashing Pumpkins

Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Rhino Boxes Ramones Albums in Atmos on "1-2-3-4!"

June 27, 2025 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Ramones 1 2 3 4

Gabba gabba hey!  Today, Rhino has unveiled a new box set bringing Ramones into a new frontier: that of immersive audio.  1!2!3!4! The Ramones Atmos Collection brings Queens' favorite band into the realm of Dolby Atmos with new immersive mixes of their first four albums on Blu-ray Audio: 1976's Ramones; 1977's Leave Home and Rocket to Russia; and 1978's Road to Ruin.  Limited to just 2,000 copies, this set is available exclusively at Rhino.com and Warner Music's international storefronts. The

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Ramones

Release Round-Up: Week of June 27

June 27, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Tracks II

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. Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums 1983-2018 (Columbia/Legacy) 7CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Lost and Found: Selections from the Lost Albums (Columbia/Legacy) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Buck Owens, Clifton Chenier, Frank Zappa, Idina Menzel, James Taylor, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Melanie, Motörhead, Paul McCartney, Randy Newman, Robin Trower, Rod Stewart, The Bluebells, The Rolling Stones

That's What Makes Us Humans Being: Van Halen's 'Balance' Set for Deluxe Edition

June 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Van Halen Balance expanded

Van Halen's catalogue is attaining further Balance with an expanded edition of the band's final album recorded with second lead singer Sammy Hagar. The band's 10th studio album, released in 1995, will be reissued August 15 as a 2CD/2LP/Blu-ray set offering the remaster featured in 2023 box set The Collection II, three studio rarities, eight unreleased live tracks and a half-dozen music videos (including another live performance from the vault). Standalone 2CD and 2LP editions will be

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Eddie Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Van Halen

Impossible Dreamer: Joni Mitchell Collects "Joni's Jazz" on New Box Set

June 25, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Joni Mitchell Joni's Jazz

What is jazz?  The question has been debated often, but now we know how Joni Mitchell might answer.  On September 5, the legendary singer-songwriter's Archives series continues with its first themed compilation, appropriately entitled Joni's Jazz.  These 61 selections - available on 4 CDs or 8 LPs - draw from nearly every core album in the Mitchell discography with just a couple of exceptions (Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon) and reflect the breadth of the artist's immersion into the jazz idiom in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Joni Mitchell, Kyle Eastwood, Wayne Shorter

Alive and Kicking: Simple Minds Reissues Reconfigured 'Once Upon a Time' Box

June 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Simple Minds OUAT 40

A reconfigured version of a Simple Minds box set released a decade ago will be released this fall to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band's biggest international success, Once Upon a Time. Available October 17, this 5CD edition offers the original 1985 album (featuring the singles "Alive and Kicking," "Sanctify Yourself," "All the Things She Said" and "Ghost Dancing") alongside two discs of single edits, remixes and B-sides and the 1987 concert album Live in the City of Light. The discs

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From Japan to 'Rapture': Deep Purple Remix, Expand Albums from Mk. II and VIII Line-Ups

June 23, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Deep Purple Made in Japan deluxe Rhino

Two very different albums from Deep Purple's long history will be remixed and reissued this summer: 1975's Made in Japan and 2005's Rapture of the Deep. Coming from Rhino on August 15 - 52 years since the first of the concerts represented on the original LP were staged - a new super deluxe edition of Made in Japan, spanning 5CD/1 Blu-ray or 10 LPs, offers new mixes by Steven Wilson of the original album and the complete trio of concerts it came from, complete with bonus encores and a few

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 20

June 20, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Christopher Cross

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. Christopher Cross, Christopher Cross: Expanded Edition (Omnivore) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Omnivore will offer an expanded reissue of the self-titled debut album from Christopher Cross, the unforgettable 1979 release that became a commercial juggernaut and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Christopher Cross, Cockney Rebel, Gregg Allman, Jeff Bridges, Joey Molland, John Mellencamp, Melanie, Natural Gas, Steve Harley, The B-52's

To Cut a Long Story Short: Spandau Ballet's Early Years Compiled for New Box

June 19, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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A new box set will trace the early years of U.K. New Wave icons Spandau Ballet - offering three formats in one package. Everything is Now - Vol. 1: 1978-1982 will collect albums, singles, live material, demos and videos from the group's earliest period as a 6CD/Blu-ray/2LP set. The box will offer new vinyl pressings of the band's first two LPs, Journeys to Glory (1981) and Diamond (1982); collections of 7" and 12" material from each album on CD; a rare full remix of Diamond issued on a 12"

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Spandau Ballet

Love Will Keep Us Alive: Cherry Red, Esoteric Reissue Jim Capaldi Tribute with Steve Winwood, Pete Townshend, Cat Stevens, Joe Walsh, More

June 17, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Jim Capaldi Dear Mr Fantasy Tribute

Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings has revisited the 2007 concert release Dear Mr. Fantasy: A Celebration for Jim Capaldi in a new 2CD/1Blu-ray edition.  Following the singer-songwriter-drummer's death on January 28, 2005 at the age of 60 from stomach cancer, many of his friends came together on January 21, 2007 at the Roundhouse in London's Camden Town to pay tribute and support one of his favorite charities, The Jubilee Action Street Children Appeal.  This release preserves that extraordinary

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Bill Wyman, Cat Stevens, Jim Capaldi, Joe Walsh, Jon Lord, Paul Weller, Pete Townshend, Steve Winwood

For Earth Below: 50th Anniversary Edition

June 16, 2025 By

Robin Trower For Earth Below

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Last year, Chrysalis reissued Bridge of Sighs, Robin Trower's second album following his departure from Procol Harum, in an expanded edition timed to its 50th anniversary.  Now, the label is turning its attention to the guitar hero's third solo set and highest-charting album in the U.S., 1975's For Earth Below.  The expanded edition, due in 4CD, 2LP, and digital formats, is built around the newly

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Tracks II: The Lost Albums 1983-2018

June 16, 2025 By

Tracks II

Tracks II: The Lost Albums 1983-2018 (Columbia/Legacy, 2025) 7CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Lost and Found: Selections from the Lost Albums (Columbia/Legacy, 2025) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than a quarter century after releasing his first major vault project, Bruce Springsteen is back with a sequel that's even bigger.  True to its name, Tracks II:

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

The Warner Reprise Years

June 16, 2025 By

B 52s Warner Reprise Years Cover

8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP: Rhino A new box set from Rhino offers nearly all the studio material of Athens, Georgia alt-rock icons The B-52's.  The Warner Reprise Years brings together the six albums and two EPs the quirky quintet put together between 1979 and 1992 - a period where they went from cult favorites to unlikely hitmakers. The collection will feature the group's 1979 self-titled debut, 1980's Wild Planet, the 1981 and 1982 EPs Party

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Pieces of My Life: Elvis' L.A. Recordings Anthologized in New Box Set

June 16, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Elvis Presley Sunset Boulevard

Last year's Elvis Presley box set was Memphis, devoted to the King's lengthy history with recording studios in the Tennessee city that became his home. Ahead of another annual Elvis Week at his Graceland estate, the next box set will trace his connections to a recording studio on the West Coast. Sunset Boulevard, available August 1, is a 5CD set featuring Presley's work at RCA Records' Studio C in Hollywood - one of the more important studios he'd record in through his final recording years

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You Can't Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos

June 15, 2025 By

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You Can't Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos collects more than 160 tracks from the late, legendary songwriter, who died in 1991 at the age of 65 and was subsequently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Blues Hall of Fame. Over 120 of these demos are previously unreleased, while still others are making their CD and digital debuts.  Many of these songs are familiar, while others never received an official recording.  What they share in

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Release Round-Up: Week of June 13

June 13, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Version 1.0.0

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. Grateful Dead, Gratest Hits (Grateful Dead/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino assembles a single-CD or single-LP, nine-song Gratest Hits [sic] from Grateful Dead, marking the band's 60th anniversary with the original studio versions of such classics as "Truckin'," "Sugar Magnolia," and "Touch of Grey."  Read

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alice Ripley, Grateful Dead, Metallica, Neil Sedaka, Neil Young, New Kids on the Block, Oasis, Queen, Tom Kitt, Ultravox, Van Morrison

These Magic Moments: Omnivore Collects Doc Pomus Demos on New Box Set

June 9, 2025 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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Over a career spanning five decades, Doc Pomus - born Jerome Solon Felder in 1925 - penned some of the most memorable songs of all time: "Viva Las Vegas." "Save the Last Dance for Me."  "Lonely Avenue."  "Can't Get Used to Losing You."  "Sweets for My Sweet."  "This Magic Moment."  "Hushabye."  With hits performed by the likes of Ray Charles, The Drifters, Andy Williams, Dolly Parton, Bobby Darin, and, of course, Elvis Presley, Pomus' songs transcended genre and era.  Bob Dylan dedicated his

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Doc Pomus, Ellie Greenwich, Kenny Rankin, Mort Shuman, Neil Sedaka, Toni Wine

The Kinds U Find in a Secondhand Store: Paisley Park Celebration Hints At Posthumous Prince Releases

June 9, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

ATWIAD gatefold

This weekend's digital release of another unreleased Prince track could indicate the gears of the late artist's estate could start moving once again. At a panel for the annual Celebration fan event in and around Prince's hometown of Minneapolis and Chanhassen recording complex Paisley Park, representatives for the estate and distributing partner Legacy Recordings discussed potential box sets, vinyl releases and digital initiatives - as well as some frank discussion on the infamously-canned

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

Stay Hungry: Rhino Rebuilds Talking Heads' 'Buildings and Food' for Box Set Release

May 29, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

More Songs About Buildings and Food deluxe

Rhino is taking Talking Heads fans to the river with their next deluxe edition: a 3CD/Blu-ray edition of the group's 1978 sophomore album More Songs About Buildings and Food. Available July 25, the box will include the remastered album alongside a bonus disc of rare studio material (including four unreleased alternate takes and a host of material included on previous expansions) and a live set recorded at the Entermedia Theatre in New York City, just about a month after the album was

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Talking Heads

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