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Release Round-Up: Week of March 18

March 18, 2014 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Elvis Presley, Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis: Legacy Edition  The King's 1974 live gig in his home turf is remastered and paired with a show in Richmond, Virginia from two days before and a handful of RCA studio rehearsals in Hollywood. (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Belinda Carlisle, The Anthology / The Collection (Edsel/Demon) Edsel did a great job of expanding Belinda's solo catalogue last year; now, they've prepped a CD/DVD hits set and 3CD/2DVD box for the fans, with singles, rarities,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Robert Goulet

R.E.M. "Unplugged" Set to Complicate Your Life on Record Store Day

March 17, 2014 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

A then-unheard of gap of three years stood between R.E.M.'s first two albums for Warner Bros. Records - 1988's Green and 1991's Out of Time - so there's still time to go before the departed band's ongoing 25th anniversary album remaster campaign enters the 1990s. With that, Warner Bros. is instead releasing, for the first time, two complete live sets the band recorded for the beloved MTV Unplugged series. Both sets will first be available in a single, four-disc vinyl box set to be released on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Record Store Day, REM, Vinyl

Rhino Gets the Led Out with Deluxe Zeppelin Remasters

March 13, 2014 By Mike Duquette 20 Comments

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After endless speculation fueled by former guitarist Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin and Atlantic/Swan Song today announced the first wave in a new reissue campaign from one of the world's most acclaimed rock bands. Starting on June 3, with the first three Led Zeppelin albums from 1969-1970 - all self-titled, with Roman numerals appended to each "sequel" - Page has overseen remastered and expanded versions of each of the band's albums, all featuring a disc's worth of unreleased vault content,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Led Zeppelin, Vinyl

Out of the Dungeons: Numero Collects Dark Fantasy Rock, Creates "Darkscorch" Game

March 4, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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In past years, Numero Group’s Wayfaring Strangers series has taken adventurous listeners along to hear Ladies from the Canyon, Guitar Soli and Lonesome Heroes, drawing on rare or privately-pressed folk music and casting it in a new light.  With its latest release, however, Numero is traversing even more unexpected territory.  The punningly-titled Warfaring Strangers volume entitled Darkscorch Canticles will immerse listeners in a world of mystics and mages, devils and demons, and yes, dungeons

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Vinyl

Release Round-Up: Week of March 4

March 4, 2014 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Little Feat, Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990 (Warner Bros./Rhino) The eclectic rock band's near two-decade run on Warner Bros. is celebrated in this new box set, featuring all the band's original studio albums, an expanded edition of the live Waiting for Columbus and a bonus disc of recordings sourced from the band's 2000 box set Hotcakes & Outtakes. (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Grass Roots, The Complete Original Dunhill/ABC Hit Singles / Irma Thomas, Full Time

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, DVD Tags: Bob Dylan, Charley Pride, Little Feat, Rufus Wainwright, SACD, T Rex, The Grass Roots, Vinyl

Neil Young's "Time Fades Away" to Be Reissued on Record Store Day

March 3, 2014 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

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He's called it "the worst record I ever made," but Neil Young's putting his 1973 live album Time Fades Away back into print for only the second time, as part of a limited box set for Record Store Day. The Neil Young Official Release Series Discs 5-8 box set, limited to 3,500 copies at participating independent retailers on this year's Record Store Day events on April 19, will feature 180-gram reissues of Time Fades Away, On the Beach (1974), Tonight's the Night (1975) and Zuma (1975), newly

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Neil Young, Vinyl

Working Men: Rush Announce Deluxe Vinyl Reissue of Debut LP

March 3, 2014 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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A little over four decades after its first release, Canadian rockers Rush will reissue their first album on high-quality vinyl in April. Rush, the band's self-titled debut on the band's own label Moon Records, was a primitive but promising start for the band. Singer/bassist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer John Rutsey (who, within a year's time, would be replaced by current drummer Neil Peart) turned out a low-fidelity but enthusiastic batch of originals bearing a stronger

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Review: Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin, "The King of Soul" and "The Queen of Soul"

March 3, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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All hail The King and Queen. The careers of Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin have been inextricably linked since Franklin entered New York’s Atlantic Studios on Valentine’s Day, 1967, with producer Jerry Wexler to record Redding’s “Respect.”  Even before that pivotal moment, however, the two artists shared a label in Atlantic Records (distributor of Redding’s Stax records) and an ability to invest any song with raw honesty and unvarnished emotion.  Atlantic and Rhino Records have recently

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Review: Johnny Winter, "True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story"

March 3, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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If there’s some truth to the importance of being in the right place at the right time, Johnny Winter might attest to it.  The slide guitar virtuoso came up in the ranks of show business when blues-rock was rising in popularity.  He embodied an American alternative to Clapton, Page or Mayall, and offered a grittier take than Hendrix, more of the earth than the cosmos.  Since debuting in 1969, Winter has rarely strayed from his signature style even as he’s stretched its boundaries, remaining True

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Deep Purple Revisit "Made in Japan" in a Big Way

February 27, 2014 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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Deep Purple's monstrous power as a live act was solidified more than four decades ago with the release of their first live album, Made in Japan. This May, a tidal wave of Made in Japan reissues are surging your way, from remasters to expansions to box sets on CD, vinyl and Blu-Ray. (Whew!) In 1972, Deep Purple were flying higher than ever. The quintet - at the time, singer Ian Gillan, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, bassist Roger Glover, keyboardist Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice - had just

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Rock 'N' Roll Stars Revisited: Oasis Announce Catalogue Expansion

February 26, 2014 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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Britpop band Oasis may never be reuniting again thanks to the hilariously toxic relationship between brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, but the band's 20th anniversary will be celebrated with several deluxe reissues, the first of which was announced today. This year, all three of the band's albums released in the 1990s will be remastered and expanded, starting with 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe, to be reissued in May. (The set's being referred to as the "Chasing the Sun Edition," to quote a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Oasis, Vinyl

Won't You Come: Soundgarden Announce "Superunknown" Box Set

February 25, 2014 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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Grunge legends Soundgarden will honor their most successful album, 1994's Superunknown, with a sprawling five-disc box set. The first band of the Seattle explosion to sign with a major label, A&M Records, in 1988, Soundgarden broke through the commercial mainstream with the release of third album Badmotorfinger in 1991, arguably the holy trinity of the genre alongside fellow 1991 albums Nevermind by Nirvana and Ten by Pearl Jam. Superunknown saw the band experimenting with an expanded sonic

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 25

February 25, 2014 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Morrissey, Your Arsenal: Definitive Master (Parlophone) We don't hate it when Moz becomes successful, as was the case with his third non-compilation album from 1992, which now comes with an unreleased live show on DVD. CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Johnny Winter, True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story (Columbia/Legacy) A four-disc tribute to the influential blues guitarist, who turned 70 on Sunday. (Amazon U.S./ Amazon U.K.) Bob Mould, Workbook: 25th

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Morrissey, Patti Labelle, Silversun Pickups, The S.O.S. Band, Vinyl

Still Surfing: Joe Satriani's "Complete Studio Recordings" Collected on New Box Set

February 24, 2014 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Close your eyes and think about Joe Satriani.  Chances are if you’re not picturing the guitar hero himself, you’re picturing his sophomore album, 1987’s Surfing with the Alien.  The artwork adorning the album, majestically drawn by Marvel Comics legend John Byrne for a 1982 comic book, depicts Marvel Comics’ noble Silver Surfer astride his surfboard as he travels through the farthest reaches of space.  Though Satriani hasn’t explored any new galaxies (yet), he has traveled many sonic avenues. 

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Too Much Heaven: Bee Gees' "Warner Bros. Years" Box Set Premieres Unreleased Tracks, Complete Concert

February 18, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Following the release of 1981’s Living Eyes, The Bee Gees effectively called it a day.  The band reportedly clashed during the making of the album, and its lack of chart success convinced Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb to pursue non-band projects for a time.  Solo albums and soundtrack recordings arrived, and the Barry Gibb/Karl Richardson/Albhy Galuten team worked its magic on releases by Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers and Diana Ross (featuring numerous songs co-written by all three brothers, of

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He Wears It Well: Long-Delayed Rod Stewart Box Set Back On Track For March Release

February 18, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

2014’s gonna be alright for fans of Rod Stewart. Following 2012’s sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll memoir Rod: The Autobiography and the 2013 release of Rarities (largely culled from the box set The Rod Stewart Sessions: 1971-1998), the one-time Rod the Mod and all-time superstar is still in a reflective mood.  Stewart will look back on three decades of concert performances with the March 18 release from Warner Bros. Records of Live 1976-1998: Tonight’s the Night.  This long-rumored box set consists

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Bear Family Making Plans for Box Set of Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton Recordings

February 17, 2014 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

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Johnny and June. George and Tammy. Porter and Dolly. The world of country music had some of its greatest successes in pairs - duets whose songs projected all the joy and pain of love and loss, just like any good country song should. Whether the joy or pain was real or simply projected very well is another matter, as anyone who's seen Walk the Line can attest. In the case of Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, their relationship was never romantic and often turbulent, but it did yield one of the

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Edsel is Still Mad About Belinda Carlisle with New Anthologies

February 14, 2014 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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After a series of great expanded CD/DVD reissues, Edsel will release not one but two career-spanning anthologies dedicated to former Go-Go's frontwoman/pop icon Belinda Carlisle. The Anthology collects three CDs and two DVDs worth of hits and rare content from the singer, whose late '80s run of singles included such impressive pop gems as "Mad About You," "Heaven is a Place on Earth," "I Get Weak," "Circle in the Sand" and "Leave a Light On." While Carlisle has been relatively quiet since

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle, The Go-Go's

Just the Way You Like It: Hits, Videos Compiled on Tabu Box Set

February 11, 2014 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

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After more than a year of reissues of the Tabu Records catalogue by Edsel - reissues that have been relatively lavish but particularly divisive for their occasional lapses in audio quality - the label has prepped a thorough career-spanning box set. The Tabu Records Box Set is a 6CD/1DVD affair collecting tracks from all of the label's major releases between 1977 and 1991. Each disc will be broken down by theme; the first focuses on early soul albums by the likes of The S.O.S. Band and

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WIN! WIN! WIN! New Box Sets from OTIS REDDING and ARETHA FRANKLIN!

February 6, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Otis Redding

Review: Michael Bloomfield, "From His Head to His Heart to His Hands"

February 5, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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“I think we’ve exploited you enough.  I just want you to know I’m signing you!”  With those words, spoken by John Hammond Sr. and heard on the first disc of Legacy Recordings’ new 3-CD/1-DVD box set From His Head to His Heart to His Hands, Michael Bloomfield became a Columbia Records recording artist.  Though he died in 1981 at the age of 37, the blues guitarist extraordinaire left behind a substantial body of work in a variety of musical settings.  Perhaps he never fulfilled the entirety of his

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 4

February 4, 2014 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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Burt Bacharach, Together? — Original Soundtrack Recording / Toomorrow: From the Harry Saltzman-Don Kirshner Film “Toomorrow” — Original Soundtrack Recording / The Mamas and the Papas, A Gathering of Flowers / Brotherhood, The Complete Recordings / Smith, A Group Called Smith/Minus-Plus / Troyka, Troyka / Jim Reeves, A Beautiful Life — Songs of Inspiration / The Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks Vol. 20 — Capital Centre, Landover, MD 9/25/76 — Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, NY 9/28/76 (Real

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Bob Dylan, Burt Bacharach, Michael Bloomfield, Otis Redding, Rainbow, Small Faces, The Dream Syndicate, The Grateful Dead, The Mamas and The Papas, Tina Turner, Vinyl

Good Morning, Captain: Slint's "Spiderland" Gets Super Deluxe Treatment

January 31, 2014 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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Spiderland, the second and final full-length album by Louisville, Kentucky post-rockers Slint, is getting expanded in a big way this spring with a multi-disc box set. Considered to be one of the best records of its subgenre, brimming with shifting dynamics and intense, narrative lyrics (rumors circulated that the brief, tense sessions that birthed the record sent at least one of the band's members into a psychiatric hospital for a stay), Spiderland was nonetheless ignored by many upon first

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Slint, Vinyl

I Can Read Your Mind: The Alan Parsons Project's "Complete Albums" Box Arrives In March

January 30, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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On March 31, The Alan Parsons Project’s many tales of mystery and imagination will come to life anew on Arista Records and Legacy Recordings’ 11-CD box set The Alan Parsons Project - The Complete Albums Collection.  This new set marks the first time that the Project’s complete discography has been assembled in one place, from 1976’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination to 1987's Gaudi.  Sweetening the pot will be the first-ever release of the APP’s fifth album The Sicilian Defence. The Complete

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Say Hello, Hello: UMe Pays Lavish Tribute to Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"

January 30, 2014 By Mike Duquette 18 Comments

It's an odd irony that Elton John began his seventh and most ambitious studio album with a piece he imagined would play in the event of his death. The singer-songwriter-pianist was one of the most alive rockers on the planet at that point; with a dazzlingly theatrical stage presence, a cracking live band and an increasing string of successes (his most recent album at that point, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player, was released at the top of 1973 and was both his second No. 1 album in the

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