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The 20th Century Records Singles (1973-1975)

February 23, 2018 By

Barry White Singles Box

Following a complete 3-CD set dedicated to Barry White's 20th Century singles, and a 1CD/2LP highlights version, The 20th Century Records Singles (1973-1975)  boasts 10 recreated 45 RPM singles from White's early tenure on the label in one box set, with replica labels and sleeves and a four-page booklet of liner notes.

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul

The Complete 20th Century Records Singles (1973-1979)

February 23, 2018 By

20th Century Singles 3CD

The triple-disc The Complete 20th Century Records Singles (1973-1979) features not only every complete solo A-side from Barry White's tenure with the label (including six Top 10 pop hits and a dozen Top 10 R&B singles, all in their original edits or mixes) but a host of sides that never made it past their original vinyl release. This includes both instrumental B-sides featuring the unforgettable Love Unlimited Orchestra arrangements (11 in total), rare U.K.-only single versions, and a

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul

The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring - The Complete Recordings

February 23, 2018 By

LOTR vinyl box

3CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) Howard Shore's Academy Award-winning 2005 soundtrack to The Lord of The Rings - The Fellowship of The Ring is returning to print in two deluxe editions from Rhino.  The four-disc The Fellowship of The Ring box set released in 2005 featured a greatly expanded, composer-supervised (not technically complete but certainly definitive) presentation to match the extended edition of the film,

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks

The Road to Utopia: The Complete Recordings 1974-1982

February 23, 2018 By

Utopia The Road to Utopia

Friday's new box set celebrating Todd Rundgren's Utopia has all six of the band's studio and live albums as originally released between 1974 and 1982 as newly remastered by the label's Joe Reagoso from the Warner/Bearsville tapes.  Each album will be housed in an individual gatefold digipak with original art elements from each LP including inner sleeves and inserts.  Rundgren, Sulton, Wilcox, and Powell have all made written contributions to this set, as well.  Fifteen bonus tracks are spread

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

Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War

February 23, 2018 By

Battleground Korea

Bear Family collects four discs' worth of songs and sounds (totaling 121 tracks) from the Korean War, complete with a lavish 160-page hardcover book.  Features artists including  Gene Autry, Ernest Tubb, Tex Ritter, Red Foley, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, The Louvin Brothers, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe (among others, of course)!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

Review: Sonny Rollins, "Way Out West: Deluxe Edition"

February 23, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Sonny Rollins Way Out West

The musical power of Sonny Rollins' Way Out West may have been eclipsed by its most famous component - that famous William Claxton cover photo, depicting the nattily-attired saxophonist in a ten-gallon hat, with holster, gun belt, and yes, saxophone.  All joking aside, the New York-born Rollins was way out west, having recorded the LP on his first trip to California.  The cover was shot in the Mojave Desert, which could have stood in for the setting of any of the cowboy films he loved as child. 

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Sonny Rollins

Release Round-Up: Week of February 23

February 23, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Concert for George

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Concert for George [Various Formats] (Craft Recordings) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/2DVD/2BD/4LP Limited Online Exclusive Box Set: George Harrison Shop The star-studded 2002 concert celebration of the life of George Harrison - featuring Paul McCartney,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Belinda Carlisle, David Bowie, Edgar Winter, George Harrison, Glen Campbell, Hawkwind, Isaac Hayes, Neil Young, Nina Simone, Precious Wilson, Rupert Holmes, The Doors, Todd Rundgren

Bear Family Chronicles The Forgotten War On "Battleground Korea" Box Set

February 22, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Battleground Korea

Having previously tackled the music and sounds of The Vietnam War on a comprehensive box set, the Bear Family label has turned its attention to chronicling another conflict.  Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War, arriving from the label in the U.S on March 23, is a lavish 4-CD anthology from the historically-minded musical specialists, bringing into the sharp focus the soundtrack of the Korean War. Over 121 tracks, the Bear team brings together songs in the various

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Ernest Tubb, Fats Domino, Gene Autry, Lloyd Price, Red Foley, Tex Ritter, The Louvin Brothers, Various Artists

Gonna Take a Lot: Toto Take Pre-Orders for Massive Columbia-Era Box

February 22, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Toto All In

Are you ready to go All In with Toto?  The band has just announced a limited edition 17-LP/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: Toto (1978) Hydra (1979) Turn Back (1981) IV

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

Love is the Answer: Friday Music Collects "The Complete Todd Rundgren + Utopia: 1974-1982" On New Box Set, Coincides with Reunion Tour

February 22, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Utopia The Road to Utopia

Friday Music is traveling The Road to Utopia with an upcoming 7-CD box set from Todd Rundgren's progressive band.  The April 20 release of The Road to Utopia: The Complete Recordings 1974-1982 will coincide with the long-awaited reunion tour of Rundgren, Kasim Sulton (who toured with his own iteration of Utopia earlier this year), Willie Wilcox, and Ralph Schuckett which kicks off this April and runs through June. The new box set will trace Utopia's evolution from its 1974 debut album -

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Todd Rundgren, Utopia

To Rule Them All: Inaugural 'Lord of The Rings' Score Gets Vinyl, Blu-ray Reissue

February 21, 2018 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

LOTR vinyl box

From the gentlest ranges of The Shire to the highest point of Mount Doom, Peter Jackson's epic three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings books is the kind of one-in-a-million success that you couldn't dare to imagine. Nearly 20 years after the inaugural film in the series, The Fellowship of The Ring, was released to theaters, Rhino Records is bringing back a crucial archival portion of LoTR lore on April 6: a generously expanded edition of Howard Shore's acclaimed,

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Howard Shore

Love In Action: Todd Rundgren's "All Sides of the Roxy" Presents Complete, Star-Studded 1978 Concert

February 21, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

For his first live album, the 1978 double-LP Back to the Bars, singer/songwriter/sonic auteur Todd Rundgren returned to his roots with a collection of lean, tight, intimate performances recorded in the clubs of New York, Los Angeles, and Cleveland.  This was Rundgren at his most accessible, playing his most universally beloved songs over his first decade of music-making, with a band including Utopia veterans Mark "Moogy" Klingman, John Siegler, and Willie Wilcox, plus his old friends from

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Daryl Hall and John Oates, Rick Derringer, Stevie Nicks, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Cheech & Chong Light Up New Deluxe Edition of 'Up In Smoke' with Blu-ray, CD and Vinyl Soundtrack

February 15, 2018 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Up In Smoke Product Shot

Hey man, we've got some news for fans of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong: their breakthrough film, Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke, is being reissued on Blu-ray for its 40th anniversary - and a deluxe edition will feature a trifecta of reissued product from Rhino Records. Comedians Richard "Cheech" Marin and Tommy Chong had met in Canada during the '60s; Marin was there to evade the Vietnam War draft, while Chong, a native of the country, had been performing with his band, The Vancouvers. (The

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Soundtracks Tags: Cheech & Chong

Oh, What a Groove: Barry White's 20th Century Sides Compiled On New Sets

February 14, 2018 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

Barry White Singles Box

Barry White's final album, released in 1999, was fittingly titled Staying Power--and with a career that stretched across three decades and produced some of the most enduring pop-soul of the disco era and beyond, it's as good as any a description for the late, great White's discography. Just in time for Valentine's Day, UMe puts fans in the mood for love with an assortment of new compilations devoted to his tenure on 20th Century Records Born Barry Eugene Carter in Galveston, Texas, the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Barry White, Love Unlimited Orchestra

The Searcher: The Original Soundtrack

February 12, 2018 By

Elvis The Searcher

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD RCA and Legacy have the soundtrack to director Thom Zimny's upcoming documentary on Elvis Presley coming in a variety of formats: an 18-track soundtrack CD, a 2-LP gatefold 12-inch vinyl edition, and a 3-CD collectible deluxe box set with additional music from Presley and those who inspired him.  The film traces the artistic evolution of the

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

VI Decades Live (This Is What We Do)

February 12, 2018 By

Chicago VI Decades Live

Chicago celebrates 50 years on the road with this new box set featuring 4 CDs and 1 DVD of previously unreleased live music recorded between 1969 and 2014.  This set includes two complete concerts - The Isle of Wight, 1970 on CD and a Rockpalast broadcast from Germany in 1977 on DVD - plus two discs of concert highlights.

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

Take Me Back to Chicago: Band Celebrates 50 Years with "Chicago: VI Decades Live" Box Set

February 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Chicago VI Decades Live

Chicago is turning 50, and the band is celebrating the landmark anniversary with a new box set looking back on its remarkable onstage history.  On April 6, Rhino will release Chicago: VI Decades Live (This is What We Do), featuring 4 CDs and 1 DVD of previously unreleased live music recorded between 1969 and 2014.  This exciting new collection coincides with the group's current tour in which they're playing the complete Chicago II every night before a lengthy encore set of greatest hits. The

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Review: Fleetwood Mac, 'Fleetwood Mac: Deluxe Edition'

February 12, 2018 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Fleetwood Mac packshot

Take away all the artifice and ephemera of the new deluxe edition of Fleetwood Mac's 1975 self-titled album (Reprise R2 559454) and you're still left with an intriguing and endlessly challenging question: how? How did a British blues band with only fleeting chart success in their home country metamorphose into one of the greatest rock bands of the 20th century's back half, architects of 18 Top 40 hits and eight platinum or multiplatinum records? And how did they do so with their ninth lineup? As

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD-Audio, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks

Release Round-Up: Week of February 9

February 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Stax Singles 4 cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Stax Singles Vol. 4: Rarities and Best of the Rest (Stax/Craft) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Craft Recordings boxes up a fourth volume of rare singles from the Stax vaults.  Volume Four lives up to its subtitle, collecting odds and ends from Stax and its various imprints by artists including not just the label's usual heavy hitters but also Big Star, Billy Eckstine, Delaney and Bonnie, and others.  80 pages of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chris Hillman, Mitch Miller, Nina Simone, Oscar Peterson, Ringo Starr, The Nazz, Todd Rundgren, Toto

Good Rockin' Tonight: Soundtrack to New Elvis Documentary Announced

February 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Elvis The Searcher

A new Elvis Presley documentary is heading to television screens this April, and an accompanying soundtrack album will arrive in a variety of formats that same month from Legacy Recordings and RCA Records.  Elvis Presley: The Searcher, directed by Emmy and Grammy winner Thom Zimny and written by author/journalist Alan Light, traces the artistic evolution of the artist from his R&B and country beginnings through his final Jungle Room recording sessions at Graceland.  The three-hour, two-part

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Elvis Presley, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

All Sides of the Roxy

February 6, 2018 By

Todd All Sides of the Roxy

Cherry Red's Esoteric imprint is going Back to the Bars with this new 3-CD box from Todd Rundgren.  That 1978 live album drew on the artist's concert tour of intimate venues in Cleveland, New York, and Los Angeles; this set greatly expands the L.A. material by presenting, on two discs, the complete final concert from his Roxy residency on May 23, 1978 (as simulcast to a then-record-breaking radio audience).  The third disc reissues the 2011 archival collection Another Side of the Roxy, compiling

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Andmoreagain: Rhino Marks 50th Anniversary of Love's "Forever Changes" with Massive Box Set

February 6, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Love Forever Changes 50th

Released just months after the so-called Summer of Love, Forever Changes was the third studio album by the group simply and boldly called Love.  But more than just that four-letter word was on the mind of bandleader/songwriter Arthur Lee, who saw beyond sunshine and flowers that summer.  Love traded in the punchy electric guitar sound of the group's first two albums (and successful singles like "7 and 7 Is" and a cover of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "My Little Red Book") for a denser, more

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Love

Release Round-Up: Week of February 2

February 2, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Roxy Music packshot

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ron Wood and Ronnie Lane, Mahoney's Last Stand: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Faces' Ronnie Lane and Ron Wood teamed up to pen the score, consisting of country/folk-flavored songs and instrumental tracks, for this 1972 low-budget Canadian film.  Real Gone brings it back to CD with new liner notes by Richie Unterberger.  Read more here! Roxy Music, Roxy Music: Super Deluxe

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Country Joe and The Fish, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, John Oates, John Williams, Randy Edelman, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Roxy Music, The Bee Gees, The Sherman Brothers, Trevor Jones

Roxy and (More Than) Elsewhere: Zappa's Legendary 1973 Shows Collected On New Box Set Released Tomorrow

February 1, 2018 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Zappa Roxy

Fans of the uncompromising rock composer Frank Zappa have a special jewel to add to their collections tomorrow: a definitive set chronicling his 1973 stand at The Roxy in Hollywood. The Roxy Performances is a 7CD box set that offers material from four incredible nights from December 8-12, 1973, as heard on 1974's Roxy & Elsewhere (in overdubbed form), 2014's Roxy By Proxy (which featured alternate performances sans overdubs) and 2015's Blu-ray/CD combo Roxy The Soundtrack. In addition to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Frank Zappa

Check Out Your Mind: Cherry Red, SoulMusic Collect Complete Recordings of Soul-Funk Band Maxayn

February 1, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Maxayn Reloaded

Cherry Red's SoulMusic imprint has recently delivered a heaping helping of rare R&B with a powerful 3-CD box set collecting the albums of Maxayn, the band fronted by vocalist Maxayn Lewis.  Reloaded: The Complete Recordings 1972-1974 presents the three albums recorded by Maxayn for Capricorn Records, all of which pushed the envelope of soul, funk, and rock. The Oklahoma-born, prodigiously gifted singer born Paulette Parker joined the Ike and Tina Turner Revue in 1967.  Upon "graduation"

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: Maxayn

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