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UPDATED: Edsel Collects Kiki Dee’s “The Rocket Years” on New Box Set

May 15, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

When Kiki Dee was signed in 1973 to Elton John's Rocket Records label, the 26-year old was already a veteran of the music business as an in-demand background singer and a solo artist for Fontana and Motown. The former Pauline Matthews of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England had proven herself a versatile vocalist at both of those labels, but at Rocket she would finally take flight as a top-tier blue-eyed soul singer.  The Edsel label has long championed Kiki's work on various reissues; now, they've

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Elton John, Kiki Dee

Happy With What You Have: King Crimson Celebrates ’90s and ’00s Work With “Heaven and Earth” Mega-Set and Breakout Reissues, Due May 31

May 14, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

When it comes to raiding the vaults for lavish box sets, few have embraced the task quite like King Crimson, who have released six such sets which typically include remixed studio albums, outtakes, and live recordings galore. Now, the band has announced its seventh mega-set, entitled Heaven & Earth. It's due out on May 31 and can be pre-ordered directly from Inner Knot/DGMLive (U.S.) and Burning Shed (U.K.). On the same day, more digestible versions of The ReconstruKction of Light (in its

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD-Audio Genre: Rock Tags: King Crimson, Tool

Release Round-Up: Week of May 10

May 10, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Cilla Black, Cilla/In My Life (SFE/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment imprint has two more reissues in the ongoing series of definitively remastered and expanded Cilla Black albums. First up is the late vocalist's debut album Cilla (1965) with In My Life (1974), the latter of which is making its premiere on CD in full.  This 2-CD set adds 26 bonus tracks, three of which are new to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Allen Toussaint, Bonnie Raitt, Cher, Cilla Black, David Newman, Howard Jones, Professor Longhair, Rare Earth, The Neville Brothers, Thomas Newman

Can You Hear Me? David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” Single Gets 50th Anniversary Box Set Reissue

May 9, 2019 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

"Space Oddity" is among the most iconic and enduring of David Bowie's many timeless tracks. Major Tom's trek in a tin can has captured imaginations for fifty years and has become part of popular culture since it became Bowie's breakthrough single. On the heels of Parolophone's ongoing vinyl series, the label is set to release another new box set, one that celebrates the golden anniversary of "Space Oddity." The new Space Oddity 50th Anniversary Edition single box set arrive July  12 and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: David Bowie

DEVELOPING: Rhino Celebrates Woodstock 50th with Massive, Complete 38-CD Box Set (UPDATED WITH ORDER LINKS)

May 8, 2019 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Rolling Stone has broken the news this morning that Rhino Records is getting back to the garden in a big (make that BIG) way. Woodstock 50 - Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive, due August 2, will live up to its name as the last word on the legendary festival.  This 38CD/1BD set, limited to 1,969 copies, will include every note performed onstage by every act at Yasgur's Farm over those three days of peace and music, save two tracks by Jimi Hendrix (omitted at the request

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, Sly and the Family Stone, The Band, The Who

UPDATED: Different Drummer: Edsel Collects Michael Nesmith’s RCA and Pacific Arts Years on New Box Set

May 8, 2019 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

And the Hits Just Keep On Comin'.  Michael Nesmith titled his 1972 RCA album ironically - when it "bubbled under" the Billboard 200 at No. 208, it actually bested its predecessor by three slots - but the LP did feature the once and future Monkee's rendition of one major favorite, "Different Drum."  The 1965 tune became an enduring hit for the Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt in 1967, establishing Nesmith outside of The Monkees.  Since 1968, he's released 16 studio albums.  Recently, 12 of

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Michael Nesmith

Running Back: Esoteric Revisits Van Der Graaf Generator’s “The Aerosol Grey Machine” With 50th Anniversary Box Set

May 7, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has recently released a new box set that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the debut from British prog-rockers Van Der Graaf Generator.  Their first album, The Aerosol Grey Machine has been released in an expanded, 2-CD/LP/7" box set. The progressive pioneers originally formed in 1967 with Peter Hammill on vocals and guitar, Chris Judge Smith on drums and vocals, and Nick Pearne on keyboards.  By the time their debut was released on Mercury in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Van Der Graaf Generator

Review: David Bowie, “Spying Through a Keyhole (Demos and Unreleased Songs)”

May 6, 2019 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Can you hear me, Major Tom?  In the late 1960s, David Bowie was an artist deeply hoping to be heard.  A handful of singles and an album on Deram Records had failed to rocket him to the stars.  But Bowie continued writing, recording, and shopping his songs around in hopes of the elusive next deal that would take him to the next level.  As such, Bowie left a great many demo recordings behind.  Due to current EU copyright laws, right holders have been required to release previously unissued

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: David Bowie

True Grit: Capitol Reissues, Updates “Glen Campbell: The Legacy” Box Set For June Release

May 2, 2019 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Since going out of print, Capitol Records' 2003 box set Glen Campbell: The Legacy [1961-2002] has been regularly commanding three-figure sums on the secondhand market.  Yesterday, the label delivered some great news to fans of the late superstar.  On June 21, Capitol and UMe will issue a new, updated version of the box set in slimmer, digipak packaging, and with a completely new Disc Four bringing the story of Campbell's incredible career to its completion. The first three CDs of the original

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country, Gospel, Pop Tags: Anne Murray, Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell, Rita Coolidge, Steve Wariner

In the Mood for Love: Cherry Red Collects Early Blossom Dearie in New Box Set

May 2, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

This past weekend - April 28, to be exact - would have marked the 95th birthday of Blossom Dearie.  The singer-pianist-songwriter with the recognizably wispy, coquettish voice recorded over 30 albums for labels including Verve, Capitol, and Fontana, and collaborated with talents including Johnny Mercer, Michel Legrand, and Bob Dorough.  Cherry Red's El label has just celebrated Dearie's early years with a new 3-CD set, The Adorable Blossom Dearie (superseding the label's previous single-disc

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Blossom Dearie, Bobby Jaspar

Salt of the Earth: ABKCO Revisits “The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus” With Expanded Deluxe Sets

May 1, 2019 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is one of those great time capsules of the rock and roll era. Filmed at the Intertel TV Studio in Wembley on December 11, 1968 and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the movie was part rock show and part sideshow. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus featured the original lineup of The Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman - who served as the main music draw and the night's hosts. They were joined by a

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Tags: Eric Clapton, Jethro Tull, John Lennon, Marianne Faithfull, Taj Mahal, The Dirty Mac, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Yoko Ono

To the Valley Below: Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue Celebrated With Documentary and Box Set

April 26, 2019 By Sam Stone 14 Comments

Preliminary details have begun to emerge about an upcoming multi-disc box set and Martin Scorsese-directed Netflix documentary celebrating the 1975 leg of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour.  As first reported in Variety, Dylan's legendary tour will be commemorated on June 7 with a 14-CD, 148-track live box set.  The mammoth collection brings together all five professionally recorded Dylan sets from October and November 1975, as well as recently discovered rehearsals recorded at New York's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Dylan

Modal Mood: Vinyl Me Please and Blue Note Present Sold-Out VMP Anthology, “The Story of Blue Note”

April 22, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

The LP subscription club Vinyl Me, Please and legendary jazz label Blue Note Records recently announced a new collaboration called The Story of Blue Note Records, the centerpiece of which is a 7-LP box set. While its strictly limited 1,000 units sold out almost immediately upon release - sadly before our coverage could go to print - we thought it'd be best to let readers know about the release, should it be pressed again or made available elsewhere. The first "VMP Anthology" endeavor, The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Horace Silver, Sabu

You Can Do Magic: America’s Capitol Years Collected on New Box Set

April 22, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

After seven albums in as many years, Dan Peek departed America, leaving Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell to carry on in the band the trio formed.  The first release from the new duo line-up was 1977's Live, but it also marked the end of an era as America's final album on Warner Bros. Records.  Following that LP, Beckley and Bunnell briefly retreated from the studio; the pair didn't return with a new studio album for almost two years.  When they did, it was at a new label: Hollywood's venerable

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: America

Return To West Grand Boulevard: ‘Motown: The Complete No. 1s’ Box Gets Expanded Reissue

April 19, 2019 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

For its 60th anniversary year, Universal Music Enterprises has begun reminding fans that "Motown Did It First"; now, the label that launched The Sound Of Young America is revisiting a box set that was released in celebration of its 50th anniversary a decade ago. Motown: The Complete No. 1s is being reissued and expanded on June 28. Motown: The Complete No. 1s featured more than 200 international chart-toppers, plus a handful of bonus masters that went to No. 1 through cover versions or

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Funk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Boyz II Men, Brenda Holloway, Charlene, Dazz Band, DeBarge, Dennis Edwards, Diana Ross, Eddie Kendricks, Edwin Starr, El DeBarge, Erykah Badu, Four Tops, Giorgio, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Jermaine Jackson, Jimmy Ruffin, Johnny Gill, Jr. Walker, Lionel Richie, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Wells, Michael Jackson, Profyle, Rare Earth, Rick James, Rockwell, Shanice, Siedah Garrett, Smokey Robinson, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stacey Lattislaw, Stevie Wonder, T.G. Shepard, Tammi Terrell, The Boys, The Commodores, The Contours, The Guinn Family, The Isley Brothers, The Jackson 5, The Marvelettes, The Miracles, The Originals, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Undisputed Truth, Thelma Houston, Today, Val Young

Force Majeure: Tangerine Dream Classics, Outtakes, and Surround Mixes Abound on “In Search of Hades” Box

April 19, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

Tangerine Dream was among the "true pioneers of electronic and ambient music, and the albums they recorded for Virgin Records between 1973 and 1979 remain classics of the genre" - so says progressive rocker and remixer extraordinaire, Steven Wilson.  And he should know, as Wilson has been heavily involved in a Tangerine Dream box set that spotlights the era, entitled In Search of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979. Due from UMC/Virgin on June 14, In Search of Hades celebrates Tangerine

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else Tags: Tangerine Dream

Mardi Gras In New Orleans: Macca-Sponsored Professor Longhair Concert “Live On The Queen Mary” Available on CD and LP

April 17, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

In March of 1975, Professor Longhair, the New Orleans blues singer and piano player extraordinaire, gave a concert aboard the Queen Mary ocean liner at a special Venus and Mars album release party organized by Paul McCartney and Wings in Long Beach, CA.  Three years later, a recording of the concert was released on Harvest Records.  On Friday, April 5, Live On The Queen Mary arrived back on shelves, reissued by Harvest and MPL in a number of configurations: CD, 2-LP, and a special "Long Live

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz Tags: Paul McCartney, Professor Longhair

Only Wanna Be With You: Hootie and the Blowfish Celebrate 25th Anniversary of “Cracked Rear View” With Deluxe Reissues

April 16, 2019 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

'90s pop superstars Hootie and the Blowfish are set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their 21x platinum smash Cracked Rear View with a 2-CD Expanded Edition and 3-CD/DVD Deluxe Edition. Both configurations are due from Rhino on May 31 and boast a wealth of unreleased and hard-to-find content. The classic album was originally recorded at L.A.'s NRG Studios with Don Gehman producing. The result was an infectious collection that spawned four successful singles ("Hold My Hand," "Only Wanna Be

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Hootie and The Blowfish

Feelin’ Alright: Traffic’s Classic Recordings Collected in Vinyl Box Set, “The Studio Albums: 1967-1974”

April 10, 2019 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

During the mid-1960s and early 1970s, British rock group Traffic made some of the most creative and pioneering music of the day. The band was led by ex-Spencer Davis Group singer and guitarist Steve Winwood and featured Jim Capaldi on drums, Chris Wood on woodwinds, and at various times, Dave Mason on guitar and assorted Indian instruments, Rebop Kwaku Baah on percussion, Rosko Gee on bass, and members of the Muscle Shoals studio band, among others. From 1967 to 1974, Traffic navigated through

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New Sunrise: Simple Minds Celebrates 21st Century Albums with “Rejuvenation 2001-2014” CD/DVD Box

April 5, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

Simple Minds' Rejuvenation 2001-2014 - previously released on LP in 2018 - is now available as a 7CD/1-DVD box set, courtesy of Edsel.  The set boasts expanded versions of five of the band's 21st century albums: Neon Lights (2001), Cry (2002), Black and White 050505 (2005), Graffiti Soul (2009) and Big Music (2014).  Fans can expect 25 bonus tracks, as well, including the hard-to-find covers set Searching For the Lost Boys, which was previously a bonus disc housed with Graffiti Soul.  There's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Simple Minds

Release Round-Up: Week of April 5

April 5, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs is the new box set with four seven-inch vinyl singles of some of Bowie's earliest material.  It will feature nine rare, monaural recordings, including mostly solo vocal-and-guitar versions of familiar songs ("Space Oddity" in its earliest known version, "London Bye Ta Ta,"

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barry White, David Bowie, Don Felder, Ian Hunter, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Meat Loaf, Mike + the Mechanics, New Order, Reba McEntire, The Searchers, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

It’s A Good Thing: Cherry Red Collects The Complete Plastic Penny with Future Elton John Drummer Nigel Olsson

April 3, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Nowadays, drummer extraordinaire Nigel Olsson can be found behind the kit for Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, supporting the same superstar artist with whom he's been associated for nearly fifty years.  Before his association with Elton, however, Nigel was plying his trade as one-fifth of Plastic Penny, a group which briefly straddled the worlds of pop, R&B, and underground psychedelia.  The band also boasted future members of UFO, Cochise, and The Troggs.  Cherry Red's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Elton John, Nigel Olsson, Plastic Penny

Sugar and Spice: Cherry Red Collects The Searchers’ “Complete Pye Recordings” On New Box

March 29, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Last year, John McNally and Frank Allen of The Searchers announced that the Merseybeat band would be retiring in 2019, some 60 years after McNally co-founded the group and 55 years after Allen first joined up.  The Searchers will play their final show on Sunday in Milton Keynes, about 50 miles northwest of London.  But the music lives on, and today, Cherry Red's Grapefruit label releases an impressive tribute to the band's body of work with When You Walk in the Room: The Complete Pye Recordings

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Tell Everyone: Ronnie Lane Rarities and Fan Favorites Collected on “Just For A Moment: Music, 1973-1997,” Due in May

March 25, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

Universal Music Catalogue has announced the May 17 release of a much welcomed Ronnie Lane box set that's chock full of rarities and fan favorites from across his solo career. Entitled Just For a Moment: Music, 1973-1997, the 6-CD box set boasts 118 tracks that span three decades. Ronnie Lane was always something of a maverick, a creative tour de force who was wager to blaze his own path and break away from the pressures of the industry. He first garnered acclaim as the bassist for The Small

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Review: Kate Bush, “Remastered in Vinyl” Boxes 3 and 4, CD Box 2

March 22, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

When Kate Bush returned to music in 2005 after a 12-year absence, about all that could be expected was the unexpected...and the sonic auteur, naturally, delivered.  Her 21st century work and assorted ephemera has been collected by Parlophone as one box of remastered CDs and two box sets of remastered vinyl LPs. Aerial opens Parlophone's CD Box 2, and Remastered in Vinyl Box 3.  The record was conceived as two halves, one on each disc.  The first, A Sea of Honey, is a collection of

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Pop Tags: Donovan, Elton John, Kate Bush

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