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The Tragically Hip's 'Up to Here' Goes Up to There in New Box Set

June 20, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Up to Here box set

Beloved Canadian rockers The Tragically Hip planned a year devoted to opening the archives (like a live set released for Record Store Day this spring) and celebrating the 40th anniversary of their founding. This fall, they'll put out a greatly expanded version of Up to Here, their first full-length album, originally released in 1989. Available November 8 on three CDs or four LPs and a Blu-ray Disc, the Up to Here box includes the original remastered album, audio and video of a beloved live

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Tragically Hip

Review: David Bowie, "Rock 'N' Roll Star"

June 18, 2024 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

David Bowie Rock N Roll Star

"So Long, '60s," David Bowie proclaims on the first track of the new 5CD/1BD Parlophone box set Rock 'N' Roll Star.  Strumming his 12-string at a San Francisco Holiday Inn, the future superstar was embracing the new decade and its immense possibilities: "I'll kick you in the ass, you rascal, you!"  Its verse melody and the barest wisp of the lyric ("keep your mouth shut!") would make it to a new composition, "Moonage Daydream," the third song on his fifth album.  That LP was The Rise and Fall of

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: David Bowie

Promised Land: 'Memphis' Box Set Celebrates Elvis' Connection to a Legendary Rock City

June 17, 2024 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Elvis Memphis box 2024

On July 18, 1953, an 18-year-old truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi named Elvis Presley walked into the Memphis Recording Service at Sun Records. He paid $3.98 to record a double-sided acetate, allegedly a belated birthday gift for his mother. Thus began not only an incredible singing career that changed the edifices of popular music, but a relationship with Tennessee's second most-populous city - one that would last the rest of his life. This summer, a new box set from Legacy Recordings will

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Elvis Presley

Release Round-Up: Week of June 14

June 14, 2024 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

One Hand Clapping

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. David Bowie, Rock 'n' Roll Star (Parlophone/Rhino) 5CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new 5CD/1Blu-ray collection from the late David Bowie follows 2019's Conversation Piece (which shed light on the 1968-1969 David Bowie/Space Oddity era) and 2022's Divine

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, George Benson, Jack Tempchin, Janis Siegel, Little Feat, Melanie, Mike Campbell, Paul McCartney, Seal, The Hollywood Stars, Truth, Will Butler, Wings

The World Is a Ghetto: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition

June 10, 2024 By

War The World Is a Ghetto

On last November's Record Store Day Black Friday event, Rhino revisited WAR's 1972 classic The World Is a Ghetto for its 50th anniversary on five newly-remastered 140-gram LPs; a four-channel surround Quadio release followed on Blu-ray.  The hard-hitting, socially-conscious soul-jazz-funk-blues-rock-psychedelia best-seller was the California band's fifth album and third following the departure of vocalist Eric Burdon of The Animals.  Now, the landmark 5LP box featuring previously unreleased

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

Synchronicity: Limited Edition

June 10, 2024 By

Synchronicity 40

6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Official Store 1LP Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than 40 years after the release of their final album, The Police offer a massive expansion of their fifth studio effort, 1983's blockbuster Synchronicity.  The set will be available in multiple formats, each showcasing a wealth of rare studio and live bonus content.

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

Heart to Hang Onto: Seven Out-of-Print Pete Townshend Live Albums Released in New Box Set

June 7, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Townshend Live box

A long out-of-print trove of Pete Townshend live shows is coming back into print in one deluxe box set. Live in Concert 1985-2001, available July 26, brings together more than 15 years' worth of shows from the legendary songwriter/guitarist for The Who. These sets, recorded in America and England and arranged chronologically, were all originally released in the early years of the millennium on Townshend's short-lived Eel Pie label. For this set, available as a 14CD set or a digital product,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: David Gilmour, Pete Townshend, The Who

Good Lovin': Massive Rascals Collection Offers Group's Entire Atlantic Catalogue, Plus Unreleased Tracks

June 6, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

The Rascals It's Wonderful

A new collection from Now Sounds offers a most comprehensive look at blue-eyed soul band The Rascals. It's Wonderful: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings, released May 31, offers expanded editions of the group's seven studio albums issued between 1966 and 1971, including four albums in stereo and mono mixes and a selection of bonus tracks including single versions and 14 unreleased studio recordings. Produced and mastered by Alec Palao, the set includes a new essay on the group by Richie

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: The Rascals

Edsel Box Set Round-Up: "SAM: The Sound of New York City," "Sean Rowley Presents Guilty Pleasures: 20th Anniversary"

June 3, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Sean Rowley's Guilty Pleasures

When brothers Hy and Sam Weiss passed in 2007 and 2008, respectively, the Romanian-born immigrants to Brooklyn were eulogized as the last of the golden age record men.  The Weiss brothers formed their first record label in 1949; in 1953, they launched Old Town Records which Hy would take on as his own in 1956.  Many of Old Town's classic hits are still favorites today, such as The Capris' "There's a Moon Out Tonight," Billy Bland's "Let the Little Girl Dance," and "Remember Then" by The Earls. 

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Andrew Gold, Carole Bayer Sager, Doris Duke, Electric Light Orchestra, John Davis and The Monster Orchestra, Nicolette Larson, Olivia Newton-John, Rupert Holmes, Seals and Crofts, Various Artists

Back Tracks: Split Enz

June 3, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Spit Enz

It's always a good time when Neil Finn has something to say. The legendary New Zealand singer-songwriter has been making the rounds promoting Gravity Stairs, the newly released album from Crowded House - and in an hourlong chat with countryman Zane Lowe for Apple Music, he said some exciting things for fans of Finn's first band Split Enz, which he was a part of with his older brother Tim. "There's various things happening with Split Enz at the moment, which I'm really happy about," he

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Categories: Features Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Neil Finn, Split Enz, Tim Finn

Release Round-Up: Week of May 31

May 31, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Salsoul Orchestra It's Good for the Soul

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. The Salsoul Orchestra, It's Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (SoulMusic/Cherry Red/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) It's Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978) is the definitive, first-ever box set collecting The Salsoul Orchestra's groundbreaking albums produced, arranged, and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Black Sabbath, Crowded House, Cyndi Lauper, Howard Jones, Lowell George, Richard Thompson, Ringo Starr, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Silver Convention, The Rascals, The Rolling Stones, The Salsoul Orchestra, Willie Nelson

Where Was You At: WAR Releases 50th Anniversary "World Is a Ghetto" Box on CD, Reissues "Greatest Hits"

May 30, 2024 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

War The World Is a Ghetto

On last November's Record Store Day Black Friday event, Rhino revisited WAR's 1972 classic The World Is a Ghetto for its 50th anniversary on five newly-remastered 140-gram LPs; a four-channel surround Quadio release followed on Blu-ray.  The hard-hitting, socially-conscious soul-jazz-funk-blues-rock-psychedelia best-seller was the California band's fifth album and third following the departure of vocalist Eric Burdon of The Animals.  On July 19, the landmark 5LP box featuring previously

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk Tags: War

Fortune and Glory: 'Indiana Jones' Scores Hit Vinyl, New Soundtrack Box Available

May 29, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Indiana Jones CD box packshot

With the rights to the Indiana Jones series now part of The Walt Disney Company's portfolio, the Mouse House has planned several reissues of the five-film series' iconic scores on CD and vinyl. Harrison Ford took his last ride as the cinematic archaeologist last summer, in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fourth and final sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Regardless of audiences' opinion on those sequels, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's collaboration is one of each filmmaker's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

Many Miles Away: The Police Plan 'Synchronicity' Box with Unreleased Demos, Outtakes and Live Material

May 29, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Synchronicity 40

More than 40 years after the release of their final album, The Police will offer a massive expansion of their fifth studio effort, 1983's blockbuster Synchronicity. Available July 26, the set will be available in multiple formats, each showcasing a wealth of rare studio and live bonus content. The centerpiece of the campaign is a 6 CD limited edition box set featuring B-sides and four discs of unreleased material, including demos, alternate mixes and takes, instrumentals, never-before-heard

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland, Sting, The Police

Right Now, You're Reading About a Van Halen Reissue

May 24, 2024 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

Van Halen For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

For the first time ever, Rhino is expanding a Van Halen studio album. On July 12, the label will release a 2CD/2LP/Blu-ray edition of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, the group's ninth album and penultimate with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who'd taken over from David Lee Roth in 1985. As a major upstart rock act of the late '70s and one of the biggest of the '80s, Van Halen had something to prove on their first disc of the '90s - and this set delivers some intriguing bonus material from the era.

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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

20th Century Lindsey

May 17, 2024 By

20th Century Lindsey

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) Lindsey Buckingham's earliest solo works are getting a box set from Rhino this summer.  True to its name, 20th Century Lindsey features remastered versions of the three albums the Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist issued during the 20th century - 1981's Law and Order, 1984's Go Insane and 1992's Out of the Cradle - plus a newly compiled disc of eight rarities. The set showcases

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We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982)

May 17, 2024 By

Loleatta Holloway We're Getting Stronger

We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) presents, on 5 CDs, all of the late, great Loleatta Holloway's albums for Gold Mind and Salsoul (all newly remastered by Nick Robbins) plus a host of bonus tracks, both on the individual albums and on a newly-curated disc, Remixes and Reincarnations.  The collection, filled with the sound of Philadelphia disco-meets-southern soul, has been designed by Ray Curenton, and produced and annotated by Tim Dillinger.  We're Getting

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

The MCA Years

May 17, 2024 By

Nik Kershaw The MCA Years

Nik Kershaw's long-awaited The MCA Years offers the most complete look at the British pop/rocker's career in the '80s, offering four remastered studio albums, four discs of B-sides and remixes, two discs of mostly unreleased live material, and a DVD of music videos and concert material. Both Human Racing and The Riddle were expanded in the early 2010s by UMC with remixes and live material. The MCA Years includes all of that and more: a dedicated disc of eight non-LP B-sides, a collection of 18

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Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection

May 17, 2024 By

John Lennon Mind Games Ultimate Collection

6CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP/6CD/2BD Super Deluxe Box: Official Store 2CD (includes contents of CD 1 and 6, below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (includes contents of CD 1 and 6, below): Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) John Lennon's fourth solo album Mind Games will receive a deluxe box set this summer packed with new mixes of the album's contents as well as a dozen unreleased outtakes.  The 6CD/2BD box will take a new,

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Fragile: Super Deluxe Edition

May 17, 2024 By

Yes Fragile

Rhino is following last year's Super Deluxe Edition of 1971's The Yes Album with a similar set for the prog legends' fourth album. Fragile arrived later that same year, introducing Rick Wakeman as keyboardist and kicking off a new era of Yes history. The box set follows the same 4CD/1LP/1BD format as The Yes Album, featuring Steven Wilson's newly remastered and remixed audio, rare and previously unreleased live and studio tracks, and a Dolby Atmos mix.

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PRE-ORDER UPDATE: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Team to Celebrate The Salsoul Orchestra on New Box Set

May 16, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Salsoul Orchestra It's Good for the Soul

Last Christmas, The Second Disc teamed with SoulMusic Records and Cherry Red for The Salsoul Orchestra's Christmas Jollies: The Extra Jolly Edition, celebrating the best-selling album in the entire Salsoul catalogue.  On May 31, we'll follow that set up with It's Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978), the definitive, first-ever box set collecting The Salsoul Orchestra's groundbreaking albums produced, arranged, and conducted by Vincent Montana, Jr.!  U.S. customers: pre-orders

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: The Salsoul Orchestra, Vincent Montana Jr.

We Have Heaven: Rhino Reissues, Expands Yes' "Fragile" with New Mixes

May 15, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Yes Fragile

Rhino is following last year's Super Deluxe Edition of 1971's The Yes Album with a similar set for the prog legends' fourth album. Fragile arrived later that same year, introducing Rick Wakeman as keyboardist and kicking off a new era of Yes history. The upcoming box set, due on June 28, follows the same 4CD/1LP/1BD format as The Yes Album, featuring Steven Wilson's newly remastered and remixed audio, rare and previously unreleased live and studio tracks, and a Dolby Atmos mix. Fragile was

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

Journey to Nutopia: John Lennon's 'Mind Games' Set for Expansion This Summer

May 15, 2024 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

John Lennon Mind Games Ultimate Collection

John Lennon's fourth solo album Mind Games will receive a deluxe box set this summer packed with new mixes of the album's contents as well as a dozen unreleased outtakes. Available July 12, the 6CD/2BD box will take a new, immersive look at Lennon's sessions at New York's Record Plant in the summer of 1973, a turbulent time that resulted in a somewhat divisive effort in his post-Beatles discography. Included in the set are many assemblies of the original 12-track album, produced by Lennon and

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: John Lennon, Yoko Ono

You Don't Know How Bad I've Got It: Cherry Red Preps Nik Kershaw Box Set

May 15, 2024 By Mike Duquette 17 Comments

Nik Kershaw The MCA Years

An oft-discussed Nik Kershaw box set has been added to Cherry Red's summer release schedule. The MCA Years, available July 26, offers the most complete look at the British pop/rocker's career in the '80s, offering four remastered studio albums, four discs of B-sides and remixes, two discs of mostly unreleased live material and a DVD of music videos and concert material. The MCA Years comes 40 years on from the release of Kershaw's earliest work for the label. Born into a musical family in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Nik Kershaw

There'll Come a Time: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Team for Loleatta Holloway Box Set "We're Getting Stronger"

May 14, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Loleatta Holloway We're Getting Stronger

Stardom had been predicted for Loleatta Holloway from the time she'd emerged as a solo artist with her 1971 recording of Curtis Mayfield's "Rainbow." Her voice, homegrown from singing gospel with her mother's choir and experience on the road with Albertina Walker's group The Famous Caravans, easily transitioned to R&B with her no-holds-barred, heart-on-her-sleeve approach. With two albums under her belt and a Top 10 R&B hit with "Cry to Me" in 1975, she was signed to Salsoul Records by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Bunny Sigler, Dan Hartman, Loleatta Holloway, The Salsoul Orchestra

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