The new 3-CD, 43-song set of live Todd Rundgren performances from Edsel is entitled For Lack of Honest Work: A Live History 1971-2006, after Todd's song "Honest Work." But all of his joking with the title aside, Rundgren's career has been all honest work - as he's doubtless remained true to himself through various musical incarnations over the past near-50 years. This set, the latest fine Rundgren release from the Edsel label, chronicles all of those "Rundgren variations" as captured between
Handle with Care: Traveling Wilburys Box to Be Reissued in June
A new business agreement will bring rock supergroup The Traveling Wilburys past the end of the line. The all-star quintet, consisting of George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne, is now represented by Concord Bicycle Music in a worldwide agreement that will include physical and digital reissues of the band's complete back catalogue--including, for the first time, streaming rights across Apple Music, Spotify and others--on June 3, as exclusively reported by
Not Like Everybody Else: "Kinked!" Kollects Kinks Kovers (And Sessions, Too!)
When it comes to songwriting, Ray Davies is doubtless one well-respected man. Yet, unbelievably, Ace Records' recent Kinked! Kinks Songs and Sessions 1964-1971 marks the first collection to explore in comprehensive fashion the early body of work created by Davies outside of his famous band. Its 26 tracks encompass songs not recorded by The Kinks, or first released by artists other than The Kinks, as well as a handful of contemporary cover versions, sessions featuring The Kinks on backup, and
Release Round-Up: Week of April 15
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Phil Collins, No Jacket Required and Testify: Deluxe Editions (Atlantic/Rhino) No Jacket Required 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada No Jacket Required LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Testify 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Testify LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Phil Collins' No Jacket Required, originally released in 1985 and still the artist's most commercially successful album,
Southern Nights: Allen Toussaint's Final Album To Be Released In June
When Allen Toussaint unexpectedly passed away last November at the age of 77 during a European tour, it was reported that the great producer-arranger-composer-pianist had completed one final album. Nonesuch has confirmed the release of American Tunes on June 10, the culmination of one of the most remarkable careers in popular music. American Tunes was recorded at two sets of sessions with producer Joe Henry: solo piano at Toussaint's New Orleans home studio in 2013, and with the rhythm
Maximum Consumption: Legacy Expands The Kinks' "Everybody's In Showbiz"
The Kinks' tenth studio album, 1972's double LP Everybody's in Showbiz, is about to get the Legacy Edition treatment from Sony's Legacy Recordings. On June 3, the classic studio/live hybrid album will be reissued along with a full disc's worth of previously unissued studio outtakes (recorded at London's Morgan Studios) and concert material (recorded March 2-3, 1972 during The Kinks' Carnegie Hall concert stand). Often seen as a transitional album pointing the way towards
Love T.K.O.: Big Break Reissues Two From Teddy Pendergrass
Big Break Records has recently reissued two albums from the late, great Teddy Pendergrass in remastered and expanded editions. 1980's TP, originally released on Philadelphia International Records, welcomed the smoldering soul man into the 1980s and premiered one of his most beloved recordings, "Love TKO." Eight years later, having survived a life-threatening accident, Pendergrass solidified his comeback with the Elektra LP Joy. By the time of 1980's platinum seller TP, the artist with the
Él Reissues Vintage Bossa Nova from Silvia Telles, Vocal Harmony Sound of The Johnny Mann Singers
Today's spotlight is on two releases from él Records from bossa nova legend Silvia Telles and easy-listening vocal group The Johnny Mann Singers! In recent years, the él label has issued bossa nova -centric reissues and anthologies from some of the genre's leading lights including Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Joao Donato, Vinicius De Moraes, and Luis Bonfá. The Cherry Red imprint has just added a new release from Silvia Telles to that list. Telles, who tragically died in a car
Some Velvet Morning: Ace Salutes Lee Hazlewood on "Shazam!"
The title of Ace's new entry in its Songwriter Series - Shazam! - doesn't refer to Captain Marvel's magic word or Gomer Pyle's favorite expression. Rather, the new compilation CD is titled after Duane Eddy's (naturally) twangy western gallop "Shazam!" penned by Eddy and maverick producer Lee Hazlewood and released in 1960. (Okay, Duane and Lee likely did take its name from C.C. Beck and Bill Parker's popular comic book superhero!) Shazam! and Other Instrumentals Written by Lee Hazlewood is
Release Round-Up: Week of April 8
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ronnie Spector, English Heart (Savoy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The one and only Ronnie Spector returns with an all-new studio album saluting her British Invasion friends. Expect Ronnie-ized renditions of the Jagger/Richards-written "I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys" (as "I'd Much Rather Be with the Girls") as well as "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying," "Tell Her No," "Girl Don't Come" and more! Amazon has an exclusive
Worldwide Epiphany: Esoteric Reissues Todd Rundgren's "Live at The Forum"
On the heels of 2015's new studio album Global, there's been a flurry of reissue activity surrounding Todd Rundgren. Edsel has reissued For Lack of Honest Work, a 3-CD, 43-song compendium originally released in 2010 spanning the years 1971-2006. Purple Pyramid has offered Box O' Todd, another 3-disc affair drawn from 1971-1973 radio broadcasts. Newly available from Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint is a new entry in Esoteric's Todd Rundgren Archive Series: Live at the Forum - London
Feel Like Makin' Love: Rhino Readies Live Bad Company For April
More Bad Company is on the way from Rhino! On April 29, the label will release the band's first-ever official live album: Live in Concert 1977 & 1979. This 2-CD set from the original line-up of Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell includes more than two-and-half hours of unreleased music, all culled from 24-track tapes in the band's archives. The label notes that the "music heard on this live collection features absolutely no enhancements or overdubs, nothing but the
Finder Of Lost "Love": Dionne Warwick Releases "Tropical Love" From The Vaults
Dionne Warwick joined Arista Records in 1978, inaugurating a sixteen-year tenure at the label which would see many of her greatest triumphs including the Grammy-winning hits "I'll Never Love This Way Again," "Déjà Vu" and "That's What Friends are For." At Arista, Dionne teamed with Barry Manilow, Luther Vandross, and Barry Gibb; reunited with Burt Bacharach and Hal David; released one Platinum and two Gold albums; and earned her first No. 1 on the Hot 100 in over a decade. Her final album for
RPM Is "Looking Stateside" with Sons of Champlin, Knickerbockers, Joe Tex, Chuck Jackson, More
Cherry Red's RPM Records label has been doing a lot of Looking with its series of themed mini-box sets dedicated to such pop subgenres as freakbeat, mod, and girl group soul. The latest set in the Looking series, established in 2011, is Looking Stateside. This volume is dedicated to U.S. R&B Mod, Soul and Garage Nuggets, and contains 80 such selections on its three packed CDs. Though limited to American recordings, the focus is otherwise diverse. As the compilers explain in the thick
Release Round-Up: Week of April 1
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Go-Go's, Beauty and the Beat / Vacation / Talk Show: Deluxe Editions (Edsel) Beauty and the Beat: Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vacation: Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Talk Show: Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Edsel has expanded editions of the three classic albums by The Go-Go's originally released between 1982 and 1984. While none of the bonus material here is unreleased, these reissues do serve
Listen To What The Man Said: "Pure McCartney" Career-Spanning Box Arrives In June
Paul McCartney has just announced a new, solo career-spanning anthology. On June 10, Pure McCartney will arrive in 4-CD (67 tracks), 4-LP (41 tracks) and 2-CD (39 tracks) formats. This non-chronologically sequenced compilation draws on solo and Wings material from 1970's homemade McCartney through 2014's "Hope for the Future," featured on the Destiny video game. The collection, curated by the legendary artist, includes both familiar hits and lesser-known album tracks as well as material from
Review: Brett Harris, "Up in the Air"
The Second Disc welcomes back Ted Frank as he takes a sonic journey with one of his favorite albums so far of 2016, Brett Harris' Up in the Air! It may not be a reissue, but Harris' spin on vintage pop sounds make this release a must-listen. Listening to Brett Harris' newest album Up in the Air is an intimate experience. The southern storyteller sings to the listener with a bit of a weathered whisper and appears seasoned beyond his years. While the North Carolina-based singer-songwriter
Paint It Black: RPM Collects The Tomcats' Raw Sixties Rock On "Running at Shadows"
Collectors of rare psychedelia likely know the band July and its self-titled 1968 album on the Major Minor label featuring "My Clown," "Dandelion Seeds," and "The Way." But few remember that the psych cult heroes of July began their career as members of The Tomcats. Cherry Red's RPM label has recently collected the Ealing band's rare Spanish EPs, plus previously unreleased tracks, on Running at Shadows: The Spanish Recordings 1965-66. Tom Newman (lead vocals), Peter Cook (guitar), Alan
Miles In The Sky: Davis' 90th Celebrated With New Film Soundtrack and Glasper Collaboration
May 26, 2016 would have been Miles Davis' 90th birthday. Though the legendary musician died in 1991 at just 65 years of age, his body of work has hardly left the spotlight. Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings have recently announced two upcoming projects to mark Davis' landmark birthday. First, on Friday, April 1, the labels will issue the soundtrack to the biopic Miles Ahead, directed, co-written by and starring Don Cheadle. Then on May 27, Everything's Beautiful arrives. This release,
But Never Ever On A Sunday: él Collects Greek Cinema Classics, Early Michel Legrand
For the past seven decades, Michel Legrand has been composing rich melodies for film, stage, television and records. The three-time Academy Award winner and co-writer of such songs as "The Windmills of Your Mind," "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life" and "Happy (Love Theme from Lady Sings the Blues)" has been a prolific recording artist since the 1950s, and now Cherry Red's él label has recently reissued some of his earliest work on Bonjour Paris/Le Joli Mai/Rendez-vous a Paris. The
Sarah Vaughan's "Live at Rosy's" Premieres 1978 Concert On CD
"Live from Rosy's...The Divine One, Sarah Vaughan!" So begins Resonance Records and NPR Music's new release, Live at Rosy's. It would take an extraordinary talent to live up to that sobriquet, but throughout her career, Sarah Vaughan certainly did. Live at Rosy's is the first commercial release of Vaughan's May 31, 1978 performances at the New Orleans nightspot, recorded for NPR's Jazz Alive program and presented here as remastered from the original eight multitrack reels. Vaughan was backed
Release Round-Up: Week of March 25
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall (Audio Fidelity) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall comes to hybrid 5.0 multichannel SACD for the first time. Audio Fidelity's release will boast a full booklet (as on the original standard CD release) and is playable in stereo on all CD players. Read more here! Various
With a Little Help From Their Friends: Esoteric Reissues "McGough and McGear" In Mono and Stereo
The original 1968 LP issue of McGough and McGear reprinted a handwritten list of "People on a Train." These famous people included Jimi Hendrix, Spencer Davis, Gary Leeds of the Walker Brothers, Dave Mason, John Mayall, Graham Nash, Paul Samwell-Smith, Jane Asher and a certain Paul McCartney. The train, in fact, was the studio where Roger McGough and Mike McGear - real name, Mike McCartney - recorded their only album as a duo. The unconventional yet accessible art-rock classic, produced in
Made For These Times: TRACK LISTING REVEALED For The Beach Boys ' "Pet Sounds 50"
On June 10, Capitol/UMe will reissue The Beach Boys' 1966 masterwork Pet Sounds in a variety of formats to mark its 50th anniversary. If you haven't read our previous story on the upcoming 4-CD/1-Blu-ray box set and more, do not pass go, do not collect $200...just go right here! Now, without further ado, here's the complete, newly-confirmed track listing and pre-order links for the various iterations of Pet Sounds 50! The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
De-Luxe: Cherry Red Chronicles The Sound of Shoegaze On "Still in a Dream" Box Set
Noise-rock, dream-pop, post-punk, drone-rock, neo-psychedelia...all of these musical subgenres and more became components of the shoegaze sound. The term itself was rather derisively coined by the press to describe a certain group of musicians' tendencies to stare down at their feet while performing - partly out of introspection, partly out of necessity to operate guitar effects pedals. But the "shoegaze" term stuck, and so did the music. Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze, a lavish,
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