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Fairy Tale: Cherry Red, Grapefruit Reissue Rock Cult Classic from Amazing Blondel Predecessor Methuselah

October 16, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Methuselah

Before founding progressive folk group Amazing Blondel, John Gladwin and Terry Wincott played in various musical units and styles.  After honing their skills in beat, blues, R&B, soul, and even California-inspired psychedelic harmony pop, the British duo turned their sights to harder rock and changed their band's name from The Gospel Garden (inspired by both The 5th Dimension's Jimmy Webb-penned opus The Magic Garden and the 1963 recording of the Langston Hughes stage adaptation Black

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Methuselah

Review: Frank Zappa, "apostrophe ('): 50th Anniversary Edition"

October 15, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Frank Zappa Apostrophe

Strictly commercial?  Not quite.  Though Frank Zappa earned his first top ten record and first Gold record with apostrophe (') - the same LP that spun off his first single to make the Billboard Hot 100 - it would be difficult to argue that the singer-songwriter-bandleader had dramatically altered his art in an effort to hit the charts.  Sure, the material was a bit more focused and the album rather tight at 32 minutes in length.  Yeah, the cover artwork, with its instantly recognizable,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Frank Zappa, George Duke

Mama, Cradle Me Again: Madfish Collects Laura Nyro Albums, Rarities on New CD Box

October 14, 2024 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Laura Nyro Hear My Song

Over three years after the release of its 8LP vinyl box set American Dreamer 1967-1978, the Madfish label is returning to the discography of late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro for the December 6 release of Hear My Song: The Collection 1966-1995.  Whereas American Dreamer chronicled Nyro's first decade of music, the 19CD Hear My Song is a career-spanning appreciation of the artist who influenced such talents as Elton John, Barry Manilow, Todd Rundgren, Stephen Schwartz, Rickie Lee Jones, Melissa

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

Release Round-Up: Week of October 11

October 11, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Rory Gallagher BBC

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. Duran Duran, Danse Macabre: De Luxe (Tapemodern/BMG) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP Box Set: Official Store Duran Duran has reissued their 2023 album on CD and digitally with three new recordings: an original instrumental, "Masque of the Pink Death," that now opens the album; a cover of Electric Light

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Duran Duran, James Blunt, Lady Gaga, Melanie, Rory Gallagher

Ace Round-Up: Label Celebrates John Barry, Jackie DeShannon, Thom Bell, Paul Williams, Holland-Dozier-Holland

October 9, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

John Barry Something's Up

Today, we're rounding up five releases from Ace Records, all of which were released within the past few months by the U.K. label. Ace has followed up its 2022 collection dedicated to the oeuvre of composer John Barry, The More Things Change: Film TV, and Studio Work 1968-1972, with a new volume of the film maestro's works.  Something's Up!  Film, TV, and Studio Work 1964-1967 (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) hardly plays like a collection of runners-up, however.  Barry crafted so

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Holland-Dozier-Holland, Jackie DeShannon, John Barry, Paul Williams, Roger Nichols, Thom Bell, Various Artists

A "Runaway" Hit: Bon Jovi Prep Physical Deluxe Edition of Debut Album

October 7, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Bon Jovi packshot

Earlier this year, UMe celebrated the 40th anniversary of Bon Jovi's debut album with an extras-packed digital deluxe edition. Just in time for Christmas, that set is getting a physical 2CD release. The self-titled effort from the New Jersey rockers sports nine extra tracks, including previously unreleased early versions of debut single "Runaway" and new mixes of previously released live material from the band's longtime engineer Obie O'Brien. The set is packaged in a standard jewel case and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bon Jovi

Release Round-Up: Week of October 4

October 4, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Joni Archives 4 cover

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. Joni Mitchell, Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) (Rhino) 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) features six CDs (also available as a "highlights" set on four LPs) chronicling the Canadian icon's trek

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Afterimage, Barbra Streisand, Bob McFadden, Bobby Helms, Foreigner, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Lady Gaga, Pete Townshend, Rod McKuen, Rod Stewart

Sing Along With the Mummy: Real Gone's Halloween Line-Up Includes Rare 1959 Album From McFadden and McKuen with Second Disc Records, Rare Soundtracks

October 3, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Bob McFadden and Dor Songs Our Mummy Taught Us

Real Gone's Halloween line-up began last month and now that October has rolled around, the label is continuing the party with more reissues to play on October 31 filled with material from the 1950s to the 1980s.  All of these titles hit store shelves, tomorrow, October 5. First up is a Real Gone/Second Disc Records vinyl reissue: Songs Our Mummy Taught Us by Bob McFadden and Dor.   This one-of-a-kind LP was the creation of voiceover artist Bob McFadden - best-known as the voice of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Comedy, Everything Else, Soundtracks Tags: Bob McFadden, Jay Chattaway, Rod McKuen, Sean Bonniwell

Back to 'Back to Bedlam': James Blunt Expands Brilliant Debut

October 3, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

James Blunt Back to Bedlam 20th

Two decades ago, an earnest British singer-songwriter with a distinctive, keening voice had a hit that would, for better or worse, define the arc of his career as a musician. This month, James Blunt is gamely revisiting his debut album, Back to Bedlam, with a new deluxe edition and an outlandish promise of what he'll do if it's a chart success at home. Available on October 11, the remastered and expanded Bedlam will come with a bonus disc of demos of the entire album, plus four additional

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: James Blunt

Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision

October 1, 2024 By

Hendrix Electric Lady Studios box packshot

3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Among his final and most enduring acts as a musician, Jimi Hendrix purchased a Greenwich Village nightclub with the intention of transforming it into a recording studio. A new documentary tells that story of its creation, and the accompanying box set highlights an unreleased trove of recordings from his few but pivotal sessions there.  Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision,

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Can't Wait Till Tomorrow: Cherry Red Expands Sheena Easton's 'Do You'

October 1, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sheena Easton Do You

With 1984's A Private Heaven, Sheena Easton successfully followed in the footsteps of Olivia Newton-John in shedding her "girl next door" persona - so much so that future U.S. Second Lady Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center "honored" Sheena's Prince-penned "Sugar Walls" with a slot on its "Filthy Fifteen" list.  No wonder Gore and co. were threatened by the success of "Sugar Walls;" A Private Heaven became the singer's most successful album to date.  How to follow it up?  Enter Nile

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Nile Rodgers, Sheena Easton

Wild and Crazy: Rhino Collects Steve Martin's Comedy Albums

September 30, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Steve in a Box

There aren't many comedians funnier than Steve Martin. Though the gray-haired funnyman only spent the better part of a decade performing as a stand-up before pursuing acting, writing, and even bluegrass originals, Martin's brilliant blend of highbrow, lowbrow and absurdist humor made him one of the most head-turning entertainers of his generation. Rhino Records will celebrate his funniest sides with a new box set in November. Steve in a Box: The Warner Years (1977-1981) brings together all

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Comedy Tags: Steve Martin

All Around Man: Rory Gallagher's BBC Recordings Set for Heavy Duty Box

September 27, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Rory Gallagher BBC

The influential guitar work of Rory Gallagher will be celebrated next month in an exhaustive box that collects hours of his live recordings for the BBC. The BBC Collection, available October 11, is an 18CD/2 Blu-ray set that mines both the radio service and the late musician's personal archives to bring together his in-studio appearances, live concerts, television specials and even a radio documentary. This box, of course, supersedes a 1999 double-disc collection of BBC highlights, offering

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Rory Gallagher

The Jungle is Your Head: U2 Prep 'Atomic Bomb' Box

September 27, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

U2 Atomic Bomb box

Hello, hello: U2 will revisit their 11th album - and, depending on where you stand, the end of one era and the start of another - with a deluxe box set edition of How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. The set, available November 22 - exactly 20 years to the day of its original release - will feature five CDs or eight LPs of music: the original album, new collections of unreleased demos and vintage remixes, and the debut audio release of Vertigo 2005 - Live from Chicago, released on DVD in 2005 in

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 27

September 27, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Chicago Kennedy Center 1971

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. Chicago, Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) (Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bob Neuwirth, Chicago, Gavin DeGraw, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Lady Gaga, Melanie, Michael Bublé, Ray Charles, Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison

It's a Beautiful Day: Michael Bublé Collects Greatest Hits on "The Best of Bublé"

September 26, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Michael Buble Best of Buble

With nearly one dozen studio albums, three live sets, and numerous EPs, it's surprising that Michael Bublé is now announcing his first physical greatest hits collection.  With 75 million records sold and four Billboard No. 1 albums, he's the third best-selling Canadian artist of all time, behind only Celine Dion and Shania Twain. The Best of Bublé arrives tomorrow,  September 27, on CD and digital formats from Reprise Records, while 2LP vinyl editions (standard at all stores, clear at his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Michael Bublé

Hold Me Now: Thompson Twins Go Back 'Into the Gap' with Deluxe Reissue of Breakthrough Album

September 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Thompson Twins Into the Gap deluxe

Beloved British pop group Thompson Twins will revisit their seminal fourth album, 1984's Into the Gap, in a new deluxe edition from BMG this fall. Newly remastered by Frank Arkwright, the triple-disc set will include the original album - including U.K. Top 10s "Hold Me Now," "Doctor! Doctor!" and "You Take Me Up" - alongside 30 bonus tracks, including all the extras from the original British cassette edition of the album, nine B-sides and single edits making their CD/digital debuts, and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Thompson Twins

Pictures Came and Broke Your Heart: Cherry Red to Release Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club Collection

September 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Camera Club Definitive Anthology

Everyone knows the story: at the stroke of midnight on August 1, 1981, the new cable station Music Television (MTV) first aired, playing a steady stream of heretofore little-seen "music videos" that redefined pop music for the rest of the decade. Their first, of course, was The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star": a prescient choice, though not even a single from the '80s (it topped the U.K. charts and dented the U.S. Top 40 in 1979!) - and, as a new collection from Cherry Red underlines, The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Woolley, Geoff Downes, The Buggles, The Camera Club, Thomas Dolby, Trevor Horn

Crawling from the Wreckage: Omnivore Preps Double-Disc Collection of Dave Edmunds' Complete Swan Song Singles

September 24, 2024 By The Second Disc 11 Comments

Dave Edmunds Swan Songs

From his very first solo hit in 1970 (a cover of Dave Bartholomew's "I Hear You Knocking") to his final album release (2015's On Guitar...Rags and Classics), Welsh guitarist-singer-songwriter-producer Dave Edmunds proselytized for the power of pure rock-and-roll.  Whether stripping the sound down to basics or doing a spot-on emulation of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Edmunds emphasized the joy of the genre.  In January 1972, he released his first solo album: Rockpile.  Its title would augur

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Dave Edmunds, Huey Lewis and The News, Nick Lowe, Rockpile, The Stray Cats

Needless to Say: Al Stewart's "Past, Present and Future" Goes Deluxe From Esoteric

September 24, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Al Stewart Past Present and Future

Al Stewart fans have been rather well-served in recent years.  The historically-minded troubadour recently released a new live album with the band The Empty Pockets, preserving a concert set on 2 CDs.  Earlier this summer, Al received a volume of Rhino's Now Playing series of vinyl compilations.  Last year, TSD teamed up with Real Gone Music for Songs on the Radio: The Complete U.S. Singles 1974-1981, and in 2022, Madfish issued The Admiralty Lights, a massive 50-CD box set featuring (almost)

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Brotherhood: Definitive Edition

September 23, 2024 By

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Brotherhood (Definitive Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) State of the Nation b/w Shame of the Nation 12" (2024 Remaster) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Bizarre Love Triangle b/w Bizarre Dub Triangle 12" (2024 Remaster) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Touched by the Hand of God b/w Touched by the Hand of Dub 12" (2024 Remaster) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) New Order adds their fourth album, 1986's Brotherhood, to their Definitive

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

The Singles: The First 50 Years

September 23, 2024 By

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada ABBA's The Singles (The First Fifty Years) updates the concept of 1982's The Singles (The First Ten Years), a double album which collected 23 of the group's A-sides (including new tracks "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack," effectively the final works from the group after members Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad as well as Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog divorced.  The First Fifty

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Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings

September 23, 2024 By

Blue Magic Stop to Start

Let the sideshow begin!  SoulMusic Records and TSD are proud to unveil a new 6-CD box set dedicated to the sweet 'n funky soul stylings of Philly quintet Blue Magic ("Sideshow," "Three Ring Circus," "Welcome to the Club," "What's Come Over Me").  Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings brings together expanded editions of the group's five albums for the labels plus all of their released live performances at the Latin Casino with Margie Joseph and Major Harris: Blue Magic (1974) plus

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

Blue Album: 30th Anniversary Edition

September 23, 2024 By

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3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP/10"/7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Three decades after one of the quirkiest, catchiest rock albums of the '90s, Weezer will celebrate their self-titled debut with a box set packed with unreleased demos, studio and live material.  Known the world over as "The Blue Album" - one of six self-titled albums the band has issued with color-coded covers - the debut will be reissued as a 3CD set or vinyl equivalent spanning four LPs, a

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Queen I: Collectors Edition

September 23, 2024 By

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6CD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (CDs 1 and 3 of box set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP (Album Remix Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Queen are going back to the beginning of their recording career on a new box set edition of their debut.  The Collectors Edition of their 1973 self-titled effort - now retitled Queen I - will be a 6CD/LP set featuring a brand-new remix of the album by engineers Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris

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

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