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Live at Goose Lake: August 8, 1970

August 5, 2020 By

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CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop Clear LP: Your Local Record Shop Purple LP: Rough Trade [Pre-orders sold out online, but copies may be available at Rough Trade's NY and London retail stores] Third Man has unearthed Live at Goose Lake, August 8th, 1970, the only known soundboard-sourced live recording of the original Stooges.  Here, the band play through all of Fun House, with Dave

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Rumor Has It: 30th Anniversary Edition

August 5, 2020 By

Reba McEntire Rumor Has It

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD & Vinyl Merchandise Bundles (Including Autographed Bundles): Reba McEntire Store Exclusive Orange Vinyl: Wal-Mart Reba McEntire expands her 1990 album in a new anniversary edition with two bonus tracks on CD (an acoustic take of Bobbie Gentry's "Fancy" recorded at the Ryman Auditorium and a dance remix of the song by Dave Audé) and one on vinyl (the acoustic recording).

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country

Sing and Perform "Funny Girl": The Ultimate Edition

August 5, 2020 By

Diana Ross and The Supremes Funny Girl Ultimate

Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records debut Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl": The Ultimate Edition, a deluxe 2-CD celebration of the classic 1968 Motown-meets-Broadway gem.  Greatly building upon the digital-only Expanded Edition issued in 2014, The Ultimate Edition boasts: The original U.S. stereo mix, The rare U.K. mono mix (with an extended version of Diana's tour de force "People" which composer Styne called "equal in every way to Streisand's or anyone

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Don't Rain on Their Parade: Diana Ross and The Supremes' "Funny Girl" Comes to Deluxe CD from Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music

August 5, 2020 By The Second Disc 28 Comments

Diana Ross and The Supremes Funny Girl Ultimate

Nobody - no, nobody was gonna rain on Diana Ross and The Supremes' parade. With new member Cindy Birdsong joining Miss Ross and Mary Wilson, the group released no fewer than five albums in 1968, all of which showcased their extraordinary versatility.  One of those LPs was to be their only full-length tribute to a classic Broadway score - and what a tribute it was from three of Motown's "greatest stars."  Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl" featured the group's dynamic

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bob Merrill, Diana Ross, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Jule Styne, The Supremes

Feel The Noize: New Slade Collection Due In September

August 5, 2020 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Slade Hitz

One of England's most successful rock bands is compiling their hits for a new collection this fall. Cum On Feel The Hitz: The Best Of Slade collects more than 40 tracks across two discs from the Wolverhampton band, including 16 Top 10 hits released between 1970 and 1984. Six of them - the uniquely-spelled "Coz I Luv You," "Take Me Bak 'Ome," "Mama Weer All Crazee Now," "Cum On Feel The Noize," "Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me" and the holiday perennial "Merry Xmas Everybody" - all topped the chart,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Slade

Phone Rings, Door Chimes, In Comes Company: Vocalion Releases Quad Mixes of "Company" and "A Chorus Line" on SACD

August 4, 2020 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Company Quad

The U.K.'s Dutton Vocalion label is continuing its ongoing campaign reissuing quadraphonic albums on hybrid SACD (with a stereo layer playable on all CD players) with two classic Broadway cast recordings from the Columbia vaults.  Both were choreographed by Michael Bennett, feature the talents of Donna McKechnie, and have orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick.  Moreover, both merged classic Broadway with a powerful and contemporary sensibility. Much as Rodgers and Hammerstein had done before him,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Dean Jones, Donna McKechnie, Ed Kleban, Elaine Stritch, Marvin Hamlisch, Priscilla Lopez, Stephen Sondheim

Fancy: Reba McEntire's "Rumor Has It" Gets 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition

August 3, 2020 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Reba McEntire Rumor Has It

Late last year, Reba McEntire celebrated 25 years of her Read My Mind album with an anniversary expanded edition.  Now, she's following that up by revisiting her 3x platinum 1990 smash Rumor Has It in similar fashion.  On September 11, Rumor Has It will return from MCA Nashville in a new edition with two bonus versions of its top ten hit "Fancy": a live acoustic take recorded at Music City's famed Ryman Auditorium and a dance remix by Dave Audé (who recently remixed Barbara Mandrell's "Sleeping

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Bobbie Gentry, Reba McEntire

Review: Paul McCartney, "Archive Collection: Flaming Pie" 2-CD and 5-CD/2-DVD Box Set Editions

July 31, 2020 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Today sees the release of the latest in Paul McCartney's acclaimed Archive Collection series, Flaming Pie. Originally released in 1997, the album marked something of a comeback for McCartney, who was inspired by the spontaneous, more immediate recording techniques of The Beatles.  Many heralded it as a sort of return to form upon its release, and now fans can judge for themselves with this illuminating deep dive into the Macca vaults.  Like previous Archive Collection entries, Flaming Pie is

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Paul McCartney

The Rill Thing: Omnivore Returns Little Richard's Reprise Albums to CD in New Expanded Editions

July 31, 2020 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

LittleRichard RillThing

Rock and roll lost a founding father this year with the passing of Richard Penniman, a.k.a. Little Richard.  Now, the outrageous, charismatic, and ahead-of-his-time piano-pounder is being celebrated by Omnivore Recordings with the reissue of his first two Reprise albums originally released in 1970 and 1971.  Both titles are due in expanded editions on September 18. The 1960s saw the peripatetic Richard moving from label to label (and genre to genre) including Mercury, Atlantic, Specialty, Vee

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

Release Round-Up: Week of July 31

July 31, 2020 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Flaming Pie [Various Formats] (MPL/Capitol/UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe 5CD/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Super Deluxe 5CD/2DVD/4LP: Paul McCartney Online Shop 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Paul McCartney Archive Collection returns with a new volume dedicated to Macca's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock Tags: Airto, Alanis Morissette, Bobbie Gentry, Burt Bacharach, Cat Stevens, Daniel Tashian, Errol Dunkley, Irma Thomas, James Booker, Jon Anderson, Little Steven, Man, Paul McCartney, Pete Rodriguez, Soul Asylum, The Zombies

In Your Head: Cranberries Expand 'No Need To Argue' With B-Sides and Outtakes

July 30, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

No Need To Argue

No Need To Argue, the album that gave Irish rockers The Cranberries their biggest hit around the world, is getting expanded  this fall. As a tribute to frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan, who passed away unexpectedly in 2018, the surviving members of The Cranberries have remained active despite the band's formal dissolution, expanding their debut Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? later that year and wrapping up final album In The End in 2019. No Need To Argue continues that reissue

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: The Cranberries

Out Beyond The River - The Compulsion Years Anthology

July 30, 2020 By

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This 5CD/DVD set chronicles Big Country's musical journey with Chrysalis' Compulsion Records imprint.  The box includes previously expanded editions of 1993's The Buffalo Skinners and 1994's Without The Aid Of a Safety Net issued by EMI in 2005 (the latter of which was presented across two discs for a complete concert experience). Another two bonus discs collect The Buffalo Skinners' various, uncompiled B-sides, remixes and early versions, including unreleased instrumental demos and monitor

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Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock

Cross That Line: Expanded Deluxe Edition

July 30, 2020 By

Cross That Line Deluxe

3CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cherry Red's ongoing Howard Jones reissue campaign continues with his fourth album.  The 3CD/1DVD set features the original album alongside a whopping 34 bonus tracks - nearly two dozen of which are being released for the first time - along with a region-free DVD offering three original music videos (including a rare alternate version of "Everlasting Love") and a newly-recorded interview with

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Formats: CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

New York [3CD/2LP/DVD Edition]

July 30, 2020 By

Lou Reed New York

Rhino revisits Lou Reed's dark, visceral classic in a sprawling 3-CD/2-LP-1-DVD box set featuring 26 previously unreleased tracks.  The box has a remastered version of the album on the first CD.  The second disc has the entirety of New York as performed live in 1989.  The third disc might prove to be the most fascinating as it rounds up 14 rarities and previously unreleased tracks including rough mixes, work tapes, alternates, the single edit of "Romeo Had Juliette," the non-LP side "The Room,"

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

Everlasting Love: Cherry Red Expands Howard Jones' 'Cross That Line'

July 29, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Cross That Line Deluxe

Cherry Red's latest reissue in their ongoing Howard Jones campaign is one of the series' most expansive yet, offering a deeper look at the singer/songwriter/synthsmith's fourth LP, Cross That Line. Released in 1989, Cross That Line found Jones in an introspective, experimental mood. His first mostly self-produced album, it featured meditations on lost relationships ("Last Supper") and extended polemics on power ("Guardians Of The Breath") nestled within its tracks. There were also classic

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Howard Jones

We're Not In Kansas: Big Country's Early '90s Anthologized In New Cherry Red Box

July 29, 2020 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

BC Safety Net

Cherry Red's longtime association with Scottish rockers Big Country - which manifested in a release of the group's last album The Journey in 2013 and continued with deluxe reissues of latter-day and live bootleg material in 2017 and 2018 - continues with another multi-disc anthology project due this September. Out Beyond The River - The Compulsion Years Anthology showcases the group's journey through the mid-'90s as they released The Buffalo Skinners, their sixth album, in 1993. After seeing

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Big Country

Digging Deep: Subterranea

July 29, 2020 By

Robert Plant Digging Deep Subterranea

To coincide with the third season of his podcast Digging Deep with Robert Plant, the rock god has curated a new solo anthology with 30 tracks on two CDs (or streaming/digital) including three previously unreleased tracks.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Back to Dirty Blvd.: Lou Reed's "New York" Gets Deluxe Box Set Treatment in September

July 29, 2020 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Lou Reed New York

Lou Reed went back to basics for his fifteenth solo studio album and Sire Records debut, 1989's New York.  In contrast to the prevailing high-gloss, sleek, and electronic sound of the day, Reed opted for a primal sound with two guitars, bass, and drums that recalled his groundbreaking work two decades earlier with The Velvet Underground.  (In fact, the VU's Moe Tucker even played percussion on a couple of tracks.)  On September 25, Rhino will revisit the dark, visceral LP in a sprawling

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Lou Reed

Great Spirit: New Robert Plant Anthology Due in October

July 27, 2020 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Robert Plant Digging Deep Subterranea

Today, Robert Plant begins the third season of his podcast Digging Deep with Robert Plant on which he reflects on his storied career and shares the stories behind the music.  To coincide with the season premiere, Plant has announced a new career-spanning 2-CD set.  Due on October 2 from his own Es Paranza label, Digging Deep: Subterranea compiles 30 tracks on two CDs (or streaming/digital) from his solo body of work. Digging Deep: Subterranea will be the first 2-CD collection of the Led

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Folk, Rock Tags: Patty Griffin, Robert Plant

In Memoriam: Peter Green (1946-2020)

July 25, 2020 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Peter Green

Earlier today, it was confirmed that Peter Green - the wunderkind guitarist who played with john Mayall's Bluesbreakers and co-founded Fleetwood Mac as well as his own Splinter Group - died at the age of 73.  As a singer, songwriter, and electrifying guitar-slinger, Green pushed the boundaries of blues-rock and forged a thrilling, all-encompassing new sound reflected on such classic songs as "Black Magic Woman,"  "Albatross," "Oh Well," and "Man of the World."  Artists the caliber of B.B. King

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: Peter Green

Field of Eternity: Cherry Red, Esoteric Reissue and Expand Anthony Phillips "Living Room Concert"

July 24, 2020 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Anthony Phillips The Living Room Concert

Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has had a long relationship with composer/ex-Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips including numerous reissues and last year's release of his latest album, Strings of Light.  Now, Esoteric has reissued and expanded another treasured album from Phillips: his 1995 acoustic live set The "Living Room" Concert. The album was culled from Phillips' June 25, 1993 performance as part of the Living Room Concert Series on the U.S. public radio program Echoes.  As

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else Tags: Anthony Phillips

Release Round-Up: Week of July 24

July 24, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Diana Ross Supertonic

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul, Men Without Women [CD/DVD] (Wicked Cool/UMe)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Little Steven Van Zandt's 1982 debut with The Disciples of Soul, Men Without Women, remains a high watermark in the Jersey shore bar band sound with its fusion of classic rock and soul sounds.  Van Zandt was joined by members of The E Street Band, The Asbury Jukes, and The Miami Horns as well as pals like The

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: ABBA, Andrew Gold, Bill Kirchen, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Diana Ross, Doris Day, Little Steven, Nick Kamen, The Turtles, Vince Guaraldi

Spirit of the New Land

July 23, 2020 By

Carn

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop Clear/black swirl LP: Real Gone Music Online Store Doug Carn was the most prolific of the artists on the Black Jazz roster, releasing four albums.  Two featured his then-wife, future Philadelphia International Records star Jean Carn.  On Spirit of the New Land, he's joined by saxophonist George Harper, trumpeter Charles Tolliver, trombonist Garnett

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Hear, Sense, and Feel

July 23, 2020 By

TheAwakening

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop Clear/black swirl LP: Real Gone Music Online Store Black Jazz Records' only group, The Awakening had roots in the Chicago jazz movement as part of the AACM (the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians).  Featuring AACM members Reggie Willis (bass) and Ari Brown (tenor sax and flute), as well as Young-Holt Unlimited alumni Frank Gordon

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Coral Keys

July 23, 2020 By

WalterBishopJr

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop Clear/black swirl LP: Real Gone Music Online Store Orange/black swirl LP: Vinyl Me Please From Real Gone Music's Black Jazz Records reissue campaign comes this title from pianist Walter Bishop, Jr.  This soul-jazz classic features Bishop on piano, Harold Vick on flute and sax, Reggie Johnson on bass, Alan Schwartz Benger and Idris Muhammad on drums,

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

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