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What Memories We Make: The Complete MainMan Recordings 1971-1974 [2-CD]

April 1, 2019 By

DanaGillespie WhatMemoriesWeMake CD

Dana Gillespie first made a splash on the U.K. charts with a run of singles for Pye and a couple albums on Decca and London in the mid-'60s. In 1971, the actress-singer-musician signed to RCA under the aegis of MainMan, the management company headed by Tony Defries that famously included David Bowie on its roster. Now, all of Gillespie's RCA/MainMan recordings and a wealth of previously unissued material feature on a new artist-approved 2-CD compilation from Cherry Red, What Memories We Make:

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Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Pop, Rock

The Rocket Years [5-CD]

April 1, 2019 By

Kiki Dee The Rocket Years

The Edsel label has long championed Kiki Dee's work on various reissues; now, they're bringing all of her Rocket Records repertoire together on one new, book-style box set. The 5-CD The Rocket Years includes all five of her Rocket LPs plus ten bonus tracks, including the CD premiere outside of Australia of the rare B-side "Snow Queen" penned by Kiki with Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Davey Johnstone, and David Nutter. Available on March 29 in the U.K. and April 5 in North America. Exclusive

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Songs [12-CD]

April 1, 2019 By

Michael Nesmith Songs

Since 1968, Michael Nesmith has released 16 solo albums in between stints as a Monkee. Now, 12 of those recordings, every album from 1970-1994 including the compilation The Newer Stuff have been collected in the Songs box set from Edsel. The 12-CD set brings together Nesmith's complete RCA and Pacific Arts output for the very first time. Get all the details on this monumental Mike Nesmith celebration here! Available today in the U.K. and next Friday in North America.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Another Time and Place: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

April 1, 2019 By

Donna Summer Another Place and Time 30th

This expanded 3-CD edition of Donna Summer's 14th studio album (from 1989, produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and featuring her hit "This Time I Know It's for Real") includes the original album plus two CDs of bonus material including single mixes, edits, and more. Five unreleased mixes are featured among the total 35 tracks. Available March 29 in the U.K. and April 5 in North America.

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

Poppies: Assorted Finery from the First Psychedelic Age

April 1, 2019 By

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Following their announcement of a Record Store Day color-vinyl edition of the title, Craft Recordings have unveiled further details about their new compilation of hard-to-find gems from the psychedelic era, entitled Poppies: Assorted Finery from the First Psychedelic Age. In addition to the orange-vinyl RSD version, which will be in independent shops on April 13, Poppies will also be released on CD and on digital download platforms on April 19. The 13-track collection - the first in a series

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk

When You Walk in the Room: The Complete Pye Recordings 1963-67

April 1, 2019 By

The Searchers Complete Pye

Cherry Red's Grapefruit label presents an impressive tribute to The Searchers with When You Walk in the Room: The Complete Pye Recordings 1963- 67. The new 6-CD box set contains expanded mono and stereo editions of the group's five original Pye albums - Meet the Searchers (1963), Sugar and Spice (1963), It's the Searchers (1964), Sounds Like Searchers (1965), and Take Me For What I'm Worth (1965) - as well as a full disc of non-LP singles and EP tracks.  The albums are presented with original

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

The Epic Archive, Vol. 3 (1984-1992) [CD]

April 1, 2019 By

CheapTrick EpicArchiveVol3 CD

The Epic Archive, Vol. 3 (1984-1992) is the last installment of the Cheap Trick rarities series. Originally released as a digital compilation in 2015, the new, resequenced collection will arrive on CD for the first time, on the heels of the Record Store Day-exclusive red vinyl version. Compiled by Timothy J. Smith, the CD includes 16 hard-to-find tracks from the final years of Cheap Trick's Epic run, featuring rare alternate mixes, single edits, alternate takes, international tracks, and tracks

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Just For A Moment: Music, 1973-1997 [Various Formats]

April 1, 2019 By

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6-CD: Amazon U.S. (not yet live) / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD 1-CD: Amazon U.S. (not yet live) / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD 2-LP: Amazon U.S. (not yet live) / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD On May 17, UMC will release the much-anticipated Ronnie Lane box set, Just For a Moment: Music, 1973-1997. The 6-CD collection boasts 118 tracks that span three decades and promises to be a comprehensive look at the music and legacy of Ronnie Lane. Just For a Moment: The

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings [CD]

April 1, 2019 By

Wes Montgomery Back on Indiana Avenue

Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordingsdue on limited edition 2-LP vinyl on Record Store Day, Saturday, April 13, with 2-CD and digital versions arriving one week later on April 19.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz

Evans In England [CD]

April 1, 2019 By

Bill Evans Evans in England

Evans in England is due on limited edition 2-LP vinyl on Record Store Day, Saturday, April 13, with 2-CD and digital versions arriving one week later on April 19. The album transports listeners back to 1969, when the introspective Evans (1929-1980) was joined in his familiar trio setting by bassist Eddie Gomez and guitarist Marty Morell for a stand at Ronnie Scott's in December 1969. The recording was captured a year into the tenure of what would become Evans' longest-running Trio. In the

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz

HONK [Various Formats]

April 1, 2019 By

TheRollingStones honk plain

1-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-CD deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP standard: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4-LP deluxe color vinyl: The Rolling Stones' Online Shop Various music/apparel bundles: The Rolling Stones' Online Shop Honk is a new compilation album from The Rolling Stones that focuses on the rock titans' post-1971 output. It will be released in a variety of configurations: 1-CD, 3-CD deluxe, 2-LP, and 4-LP deluxe editions, as

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

Sugar and Spice: Cherry Red Collects The Searchers' "Complete Pye Recordings" On New Box

March 29, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Searchers Complete Pye

Last year, John McNally and Frank Allen of The Searchers announced that the Merseybeat band would be retiring in 2019, some 60 years after McNally co-founded the group and 55 years after Allen first joined up.  The Searchers will play their final show on Sunday in Milton Keynes, about 50 miles northwest of London.  But the music lives on, and today, Cherry Red's Grapefruit label releases an impressive tribute to the band's body of work with When You Walk in the Room: The Complete Pye Recordings

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: The Searchers

Release Round-Up: Week of March 29

March 29, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up. Here's what's due for March 29! John Coltrane, Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings [5 CD] (Craft Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The year 1958 was a breakout one for saxophone legend John Coltrane. It marked the year when Coltrane--already well-established as a talented sideman--began to make a name for himself as a solo musician and developed his signature "sheets of sound" style while exploring many other routes.  To

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ben Folds, Brandi Carlile, Chaka Khan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Diana Krall, Donna Summer, Emmylou Harris, Frank Zappa, Glen Hansard, Graham Nash, James Taylor, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Keith Richards, Kiki Dee, KISS, Kris Kristofferson, Los Lobos, Marvin Gaye, Michael Nesmith, Norah Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Seal, Simple Minds, Stevie Nicks, The Searchers, Tina Turner

Doin' That Rag: Rhino Expands Grateful Dead's "Aoxomoxoa" for 50th Anniversary

March 28, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Grateful Dead Aoxomoxoa

Rhino has just announced the third title in Grateful Dead's ongoing series of 50th anniversary reissues.  Like all the albums in this ongoing series including the previous releases of The Grateful Dead (2017) and Anthem of the Sun (2018), Aoxomoxoa will be released approximately 50 years after its anniversary date as a 2-CD deluxe edition that includes the newly-remastered original album plus a bonus disc of previously unreleased live recordings. Aoxomoxoa will also be reissued as a 12-inch

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

Revolutionary Songs: Cherry Red Reissues David Bowie Curio, "Just a Gigolo"

March 28, 2019 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Just a Gigolo OST

David Bowie followed up his otherworldly performance in 1976's The Man Who Fell to Earth with a decidedly more grounded role, that of Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski, a Prussian officer-turned-gigolo, in the 1978 film Just a Gigolo.  Unlike The Man Who Fell to Earth, Bowie did contribute to the soundtrack of director David Hemmings' movie; now, that soundtrack has finally come to CD in expanded form from Cherry Red Records. The West German comedy-drama's story began in 1918.  The picture

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Soundtracks Tags: David Bowie, Marlene Dietrich, The Manhattan Transfer

Motown Did It First: Japan's Motown 60 Campaign Reissues Supremes, Temptations, Four Tops, Gladys, Martha, Brenda, and More

March 27, 2019 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

Motown 60

Motown Did It First! That's the campaign slogan for Universal Japan's ongoing program celebrating the venerable label's 60th anniversary.  And indeed, the influence of Motown - still the most successful African-American-founded record label of all time - can't be underestimated when considering the current music scene. A number of physical releases have already been released in Japan to mark the anniversary, most of which are available as affordable imports and include titles not commonly

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Brenda Holloway, Four Tops, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Kiki Dee, Lionel Richie, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Rick James, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Commodores, The Jackson 5, The Supremes, The Temptations

In Memoriam: Scott Walker (1943-2019) - Back Tracks: Part II (1975-2018)

March 27, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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"Imagine Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen," The Guardian once wrote of the amazing journey of Scott Walker.  The pop idol turned crooner turned shocking avant-garde auteur died this week at age 76, but not before leaving behind one of the most fascinating catalogues of the rock era.  An American and child actor on Broadway who found his success in England as one third of The Walker Brothers, Scott could have been content reliving his glory days of "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine

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Categories: Features Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop Tags: Scott Walker

You'll Want It: Real Gone Announces Cheap Trick Rarities Set "Epic Archive Vol. 3" and Reissue of Nitro's "O.F.R."

March 26, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

CheapTrick EpicArchiveVol3 CD

Real Gone Music has announced its latest releases - due on April 26 - which celebrate rock of the '80s and '90s. First up is the 1989 album O.F.R. by the late-'80s hair metal group Nitro, which will appear on limited-edition red and yellow explosion vinyl. Real Gone will also release a CD edition of the third and final volume of Cheap Trick's vault-dive series with The Epic Archive, Vol. 3 (1984-1992). This follows the previously announced red vinyl edition for Record Store Day. Both titles will

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Cheap Trick, Nitro

In Memoriam: Scott Walker (1943-2019) - Back Tracks: Part I (1967-1974)

March 25, 2019 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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"Imagine Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen," The Guardian once wrote of the amazing journey of Scott Walker.  The pop idol turned crooner turned shocking avant-garde auteur died this week at age 76, but not before leaving behind one of the most fascinating catalogues of the rock era.  An American and child actor on Broadway who found his success in England as one third of The Walker Brothers, Scott could have been content reliving his glory days of "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine

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Categories: Features Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Scott Walker

Tell Everyone: Ronnie Lane Rarities and Fan Favorites Collected on "Just For A Moment: Music, 1973-1997," Due in May

March 25, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Universal Music Catalogue has announced the May 17 release of a much welcomed Ronnie Lane box set that's chock full of rarities and fan favorites from across his solo career. Entitled Just For a Moment: Music, 1973-1997, the 6-CD box set boasts 118 tracks that span three decades. Ronnie Lane was always something of a maverick, a creative tour de force who was wager to blaze his own path and break away from the pressures of the industry. He first garnered acclaim as the bassist for The Small

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Ronnie Lane

Review: Kate Bush, "Remastered in Vinyl" Boxes 3 and 4, CD Box 2

March 22, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Kate Bush The Other Sides

When Kate Bush returned to music in 2005 after a 12-year absence, about all that could be expected was the unexpected...and the sonic auteur, naturally, delivered.  Her 21st century work and assorted ephemera has been collected by Parlophone as one box of remastered CDs and two box sets of remastered vinyl LPs. Aerial opens Parlophone's CD Box 2, and Remastered in Vinyl Box 3.  The record was conceived as two halves, one on each disc.  The first, A Sea of Honey, is a collection of

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Pop Tags: Donovan, Elton John, Kate Bush

Whatever Lola Wants: "Spotlight on Gwen Verdon" Arrives from Stage Door

March 22, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Spotlight on Gwen Verdon

On April 9, the FX network will premiere Fosse/Verdon, a new miniseries chronicling the tumultuous romantic and creative relationship and marriage of director-choreographer Bob Fosse and superstar dancer-actress Gwen Verdon (encompassing such classic musicals as Damn Yankees, Chicago, and Sweet Charity).  Before that, the U.K.'s Stage Door label is celebrating the late, great Verdon with a new anthology, many of the tracks on which resulted from her partnership with Fosse. Spotlight on Gwen

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon, Richard Kiley

Release Round-Up: Week of March 22

March 22, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

Van Morrison The Healing Game Deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up.  Here's what's on the way today, March 22! Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings (Rhino/Atlantic Catalog Group) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings presents Aretha Franklin's iconic concerts at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles during January 1972 in full.  Both the Thursday night and Friday night sets are accounted for, spread across four 180-gram LPs.  For

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aretha Franklin, Bernard Herrmann, Bill Evans, John Lennon, Kate Bush, Megadeth, Motley Crue, New Order, Randy Bachman, Robin Trower, Van Morrison, Whitesnake, Yoko Ono

Take No Prisoners: Megadeth Celebrates 35 Years With "Warheads On Foreheads"

March 21, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

Megadeth WOF 4LP 3CD plain

Metal titans Megadeth will ring in their 35th anniversary this year, and they're letting fans in on the celebration with a new, 35-song career retrospective called Warheads On Foreheads.  Due on March 22 from Capitol/UMe, the anthology includes tracks from their entire studio career, from their debut, Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good, to their 2017 Grammy winner, Dystopia.  It will be availble in a 3-CD configuration; digital download and streaming; a standard, black vinyl 4-LP

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Megadeth

Take It On The Run: HNE Compiles REO Speedwagon's Hit Era On Extras-Laden Box Set

March 20, 2019 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

REO Speedwagon Classic Years

Last October, Cherry Red/Hear No Evil released the 8-CD The Early Years 1971-1977, chronicling REO Speedwagon's beginning on Epic Records.  And now they're back with the follow-up set: The Classic Years 1978-1990, containing the group's seven remaining Epic albums and a bonus live disc across 9 CDs, highlighting the period when REO Speedwagon became a household name. The first album in the box, 1978's You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish, found REO Speedwagon at a time of change. 

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: REO Speedwagon

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