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My Human Gets Me Blues: Third Man Readies Vault Package For Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica"

April 4, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

captain beefheart trout mask

It's fair to say that there's never been an album quite like Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica - and this time, it's complete with, well, a trout mask replica!  The singular 1969 album is being reissued as part of Third Man Records' Vault series.  Every quarter (March, June, September, December), the label sends subscribers a limited edition package of exclusive vinyl with various swag.  The 36th such set, due in June, is Trout Mask Replica, with subscriptions open until

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Frank Zappa

So Sweet, It Makes Your Mouth Water: Cherry Red Plans Bow Wow Wow Box

April 2, 2018 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Bow Wow Wow Pet Set

This May, Cherry Red is looking back to New Wave music of the early 1980s with a collection focused on the band Bow Wow Wow.   The 3-CD Your Box Set Pet: The Complete Recordings 1980-1984, due May 25, rounds up all of the group's recordings for EMI and RCA during their heyday. After the breakup of The Sex Pistols, their manager, the controversial impresario Malcolm McLaren, was approached to manage Adam and the Ants.  He took the job, but soon convinced three of the band members, Matthew

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Adam and The Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Malcolm McLaren

The Album Collection Vol. 2, 1987-1996

March 30, 2018 By

Springsteen Album Collection Vol 2

Bruce Springsteen boxes up the second set of his albums in chronological order, remastered by Bob Ludwig and Toby Scott.  At this time, the collection is only available on vinyl. LPs 1-2: Tunnel of Love (Columbia OC 40999, 1987) LPs 3-4: Human Touch (Columbia C 53000, 1992) LP 5: Lucky Town (Columbia C 53001, 1992) LPs 6-7: In Concert/MTV Plugged (Columbia CK 68730, 1993) ** LP 8: The Ghost of Tom Joad (Columbia C 67484, 1995) LP 9: Chimes of Freedom (Columbia 4C 44445, 1988) LP 10:

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

Living Proof: New Springsteen Vinyl Box Details Life After E Street (UPDATED With CD Details 5/8)

March 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Springsteen Album Collection Vol 2

UPDATE (5/8/18): CDJapan is now taking orders for a CD version of the box. Fans have certainly been vocal in their desire for such a release, but we cannot yet confirm that the box will be released in any other market.  Amazon, however, is currently taking pre-orders for the CD version, as well: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada! ORIGINAL POST (3/29/18): Bruce Springsteen is riding high.  Following a remarkable tour in which he performed some of the longest concerts of his career (4+

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Sounds From Beyond: Cherry Red Collects Psych, Pop, Rock, and the 101 Strings (!) On New Box Set

March 28, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

I Said She Said Ah Cid

I Said, She Said, Ah Cid: With this delightfully offbeat release, Cherry Red's Grapefruit label has turned in one of the year's most intriguing releases.  Ah cid, or acid, is in the air on this trippy 3-CD jaunt through the vaults of Alshire Records, the California-based budget label best known for the long-running 101 Strings series.  As the subtitle - The Exploito Psych World of Alshire Records 1967-1971 - indicates, this set is focused squarely on the brief period in which Al Sherman's

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop Tags: 101 Strings, Various Artists

Forever Changes: 50th Anniversary Edition

March 24, 2018 By

Love Forever Changes 50th

Love's 1967 psych-rock classic Forever Changes goes super deluxe in a 12 x 12 hardbound book-style format, containing 4 CDs, 1 DVD, and 1 LP.  The original stereo album will be featured on Disc One in a new remaster by original engineer Bruce Botnick, while the original mono mix makes its official CD premiere on Disc Two.  The third disc has the alternate mix of the entire album that premiered on the 40th anniversary reissue in 2008 plus outtake "Wonder People (I Do Wonder)" in the mix first

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

Release Round-Up: Week of March 23

March 23, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Miles Coltrane Bootleg 6

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Miles Davis and John Coltrane, The Final Tour: Bootleg Series Vol. 6 (Columbia/Legacy) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Copenhagen LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This latest volume of Miles Davis' Bootleg Series brings together five performances by Davis and John Coltrane recorded during the Spring 1960 Jazz at the Philharmonic European Tour, Coltrane's final such outing as a sideman: two shows from Paris's

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop Tags: Grateful Dead, John Coltrane, Langley Schools Music Project, Led Zeppelin, Michael Nesmith, Miles Davis, Procol Harum, Steve Gadd, The Claudettes, Tom Waits

Yachts Rock: Cherry Red Collects Complete Recordings of New Wave Band

March 22, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Yachts Complete Collection

Cherry Red Records has set sail with a three-CD retrospective dedicated to Yachts, the British power pop/new wave band that left behind two LPs on Radar Records in 1979 and 1980.  Suffice to Say: The Complete Yachts Collection features both of those albums as well as a disc of 19 singles and rarities originally released on the Radar, Stiff, Demon, and Eric's Records labels.  It's due tomorrow, March 23! Liverpool Art College students J.J. Campbell (lead vocals), Martin Watson (guitar/vocals),

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

Standing Room Only

March 21, 2018 By

Frank Sinatra Standing Room Only

This new 3-CD, book-style box set features rare or previously unreleased live concerts from three decades of Frank Sinatra's storied career, including the January 28. 1966 second show with The Count Basie Orchestra and conductor Quincy Jones at The Sands in Las Vegas, making its CD debut; and two previously unreleased shows: October 7, 1974 at Philadelphia's Spectrum, and October 24, 1987 at Dallas' Reunion Arena.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Girly-Sound to Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Box Set

March 21, 2018 By

Liz Phair Girly Sound to Guyville

7LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD Girly-Sound to Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Boxset, a 7-LP or 3-CD (or digital) collection, traces singer-songwriter Liz Phair's artistic evolution from her three privately-pressed, pre-Matador demo cassettes (originally released under the name of Girly-Sound) to her acclaimed debut album.  A comprehensive book is also included, and a version with actual cassettes can also be

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

Above the Clouds: The Collection

March 21, 2018 By

Glenn Frey Above the Clouds

The 3-CD/1-DVD Above the Clouds: The Collection celebrates the musical legacy of Eagles' Glenn Frey, presenting key tracks from Frey as a solo artist on 2 CDs as well as the long-awaited, official CD premiere of Longbranch/Pennywhistle, his early collaboration with friend J.D. Souther, and a live concert DVD, Strange Weather/Live in Dublin, previously available only on VHS.

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

Everybody Dance Now! Cherry Red's Soul Time Imprint Collects Northern Soul, Detroit Rarities

March 20, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Soul on Fire

Cherry Red's Soul Time imprint is on fire!  The crate-digging team there unearthed two box sets' worth of R&B rarities in the final months of 2017 that we're happy to spotlight now! Mr. M's Northern Soul 1974-1981 is a 3-CD set celebrating the "oldies room" at the Wigan Casino, the late, fondly-remembered club in Wigan, England famous for its northern soul all-nighters held each Saturday from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. Sunday morning.  Mr. M's was born out of necessity in 1974, a "club within a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Bunny Sigler, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Marv Johnson, Ronnie Milsap, The Contours, The Falcons, Tony Joe White, Various Artists

Caught Up In The Action: Universal Plans Career-Spanning Glenn Frey Box

March 19, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Glenn Frey Above the Clouds

Though he passed away at far too young an age in 2016, the late Glenn Frey remains a looming presence as the Eagles embark on a new North American tour that will take the reconstituted band - now featuring Frey's son Deacon as well as country superstar Vince Gill - on the road through October.  Now, even as his music is being sung nightly by his bandmates, Geffen Records is celebrating his career with a new box set.  The 3-CD/1-DVD Above the Clouds: The Collection arrives on May 11, highlighting

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Eagles, Glenn Frey, J.D. Souther

Return To 'Guyville': Liz Phair Packs Unreleased Demos Into New Box Set

March 18, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Liz Phair Girly Sound to Guyville

Singer-songwriter Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville is about to turn 25, and Matador Records is making sure that anniversary doesn't go unnoticed.  On May 4, the label will issue Girly-Sound to Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Boxset, a 7-LP or 3-CD (or digital) collection tracing her artistic evolution from her three pre-Matador demo cassettes (originally released under the name of Girly-Sound) to her acclaimed debut album. Girly-Sound to Guyville kicks off with each of the three privately-pressed

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Liz Phair

Luck Be a Lady: Unreleased Sinatra Concerts Arrive on "Standing Room Only"

March 16, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Frank Sinatra Standing Room Only

Spring's about to get a lot more swingin', thanks to an upcoming release from the one and only Chairman of the Board.  On May 4, Capitol Records and UMe will drop Frank Sinatra: Standing Room Only, a new 3-CD collection of rare or previously unreleased live concerts from three decades of the great man's storied career. This set begins with the January 28. 1966 second show with The Count Basie Orchestra and conductor Quincy Jones at The Sands in Las Vegas.  This concert is making its CD debut,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra

Release Round-Up: Week of March 16

March 16, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Andrew Lloyd Webber Platinum Collection

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Andrew Lloyd Webber: Unmasked - The Platinum Collection (Polydor/UMC) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Let the memory live again!  Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates his 70th birthday and provocative new memoir Unmasked with this 4-CD, 71-track box set of the same name.  The career-spanning anthology features many of the composer's most famed songs from Phantom of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Gospel, Pop Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Muddy Waters, NRBQ, Spirit, The Oak Ridge Boys

Suede: 25th Anniversary Silver Edition

March 12, 2018 By

Suede 25 front

This 4-CD/1-DVD set is the ultimate presentation of the group's chart-topping, Mercury Prize-winning, best-selling 1993 debut. It features the original album, a disc of B-sides, an assortment of demos and outtakes (including material not included on Edsel's initial deluxe edition of the album from 2011), unreleased BBC sessions, a live show from Sheffield recorded a month before the album's release and a DVD of rare TV performances (including the band's first appearances on British airwaves) and

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Rock

Keep It Thoro: Legacy Announces Record Store Day Slate with Dylan, Cash, Mathis, Elvis, Pink Floyd, More

March 6, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Johnny Mathis I Love My Lady

Record Store Day is a little over a month away - Saturday, April 21 - and record labels large and small are celebrating in high style.  Legacy Recordings is looking to make this the biggest and best RSD yet, with a line-up of nearly 30 titles in genres including classic rock, pop, jazz, R&B, hip-hop, comedy, and beyond. Many of the label's heavy hitters are represented, including Johnny Cash (an expanded vinyl box set of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition), Jimi Hendrix (a new

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Big Audio Dynamite, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Eurythmics, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Johnny Mathis, Marvin Gaye, Pink Floyd, Record Store Day, The Allman Brothers Band, The Grateful Dead, Van Morrison

Review: "Stax Singles Vol. 4: Rarities and the Best of the Rest"

March 6, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Stax Singles 4 cover

Stax Records is rightfully renowned for its catalogue of deep southern soul straight from the heart of Memphis.  But, like its famous Detroit competitor Motown, the label founded by Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton released music in a variety of sounds and styles.  The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (released in 1991 and reissued by Rhino in 2016 was the first major archival box to begin to address the Stax legacy in record-by-record fashion.  It was followed by The Complete Stax-Volt Soul

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Barbara Lewis, Big Star, Billy Eckstine, Carla Thomas, Delaney and Bonnie, Isaac Hayes, O.B. McClinton, Rufus Thomas, Various Artists

UPDATE: Massive Toto Box Set "All In" to Also Include All Albums on CD

March 5, 2018 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Toto All In

Are you ready to go All In with Toto?  The band has just announced a limited edition 17-LP/13-CD/1-BD box set due on October 12 from Legacy Recordings.  This one-of-a-kind collection, exclusively available through the band's website now through April 10 only (for fall delivery), will offer a complete portrait of the band's Columbia Records years, plus some previously unreleased extras.  All In features the following albums on seventeen LPs and thirteen CDs: Toto (1978) Hydra (1979)

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Toto

Free Ride: Edgar Winter's Solo and Band Albums Collected on Two New Box Sets

March 2, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Edgar Winter Ive Got News for You

With his long mane of white hair, Edgar Winter has long cut one of the most striking profiles in rock.  Like his older brother Johnny, Texas-born Edgar was steeped in the blues.  Emerging onto the scene with the 1970 Epic album Entrance, Winter fused blues with many of the styles with which he would become known, including rock, pop, soul, and jazz.  Funk and even disco would come later, but one thing remained constant in whatever genre Edgar Winter was recording: virtuosic musicianship.  A

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dan Hartman, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer

Release Round-Up: Week of March 2

March 2, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Johnny Mathis Bacharach and Kaempfert

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music, and much, much more! Johnny Mathis, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Johnny Mathis' 1970 album - featuring the songs of Bacharach and David, Paul Simon, Jimmy Webb, George Harrison and others - gets its first-ever expanded CD reissue from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music.  And

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Axe, Bert Kaempfert, Burt Bacharach, Charles Wright, Debbie Reynolds, Jackie DeShannon, Jethro Tull, Johnny Mathis, Ken Boothe, Pet Shop Boys, Phyllis Dillon, The King's Singers, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Sherman Brothers

Insatiable One: Suede Expand Debut Album for 25th Anniversary

March 1, 2018 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Suede 25 front

In 1992, before Suede had even issued a single song, Melody Maker put the London group on its cover, deeming them "The Best New Band in Britain." With praise like that - and considering everything that followed - it's no surprise Edsel is reissuing the album as a multi-disc box set for its 25th anniversary in March. Suede: 25th Anniversary Silver Edition is the ultimate presentation of the group's chart-topping, Mercury Prize-winning, best-selling 1993 debut. It features the original album, a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Rock Tags: Suede

'Bring It On' Again: Gomez Plan Deluxe Edition of Debut Album

March 1, 2018 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Gomez Bring It On 20

British rockers Gomez are bringing out their critically acclaimed debut album Bring It On in a whole new way for its 20th anniversary this year, with a multi-format reissue in May and a North American tour to follow. While the group's debut album was a modest chart success, just missing the U.K. Top 10 albums chart and yielding only one Top 40 single, "Whippin' Piccadilly" - critics and fans alike made the LP a hearty slow-burner, eventually going platinum in its native England. The lo-fi

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Flaming Lips Collect Early Recordings for New Box Set, Compilation

February 28, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Flaming Lips Scratching the Door

Before signing with Warner Bros. Records in 1991, the outré Oklahoma band The Flaming Lips paid their musical dues with a series of releases beginning in 1984 with a self-released EP and continuing through a series of albums on the Restless label.  Beginning in April, the Grammy-winning band will revisit their earliest years via a new reissue program from Warner Bros. and Rhino. On April 20, Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of the Flaming Lips will arrive.  This single-CD compilation

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