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Vive Le Miles! Eighth Volume of 'Bootleg Series' Spotlights Davis' Second Quintet in France

September 13, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Miles Bootleg 8 packshot

Two years after its last entry, Legacy Recordings revives the Miles Davis Bootleg Series with a deep dive into some early '60s live recordings that showcase the birth of his second great quintet. Miles in France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 brings together five sets on six CDs or eight LPs: three performances from the Festival Mondial du Jazz in the summer of 1963 and two performances over a day at the Paris Jazz Festival in October 1964. (The 1964 material - which features the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter

Release Round-Up: Week of September 13

September 13, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Frank Zappa Apostrophe

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. Louis Armstrong, Wonderful World: The Best of Louis Armstrong (Verve/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 13-song sampler draws on Satchmo's 1951-1967 recordings for the Decca, Verve, Kapp, and ABC-Paramount labels and includes many of his most beloved songs as

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Amy Grant, Continental Drifters, Frank Zappa, Lightnin' Hopkins, Louis Armstrong, Nick Lowe, Sonny Terry, Tori Amos, Vince Gill

Donna Summer's Classic 'On the Radio' Collection Gets Turned Up

September 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 46 Comments

Donna Summer On the Radio expanded

At the end of the '70s, to cap an incredible run as one of disco's biggest divas, Donna Summer issued On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II, a double album collecting more than a dozen of her biggest singles to date. This fall, Summer's reissue label Driven by the Music will revisit that set in a whole new way, creating a career-spanning, radio-ready overview of her complete career. On the Radio: Greatest Hits (Expanded), due out November 15, is a 2CD set offering 40 of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Donna Summer

Look Out, Ol' Frankie's Back: Sinatra's Final Solo Album Gets Remixed and Expanded for 40th Anniversary

September 12, 2024 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Frank Sinatra LA Is My Lady

Start spreading the news!  Frank Sinatra may have taken John Kander and Fred Ebb's timeless "(Theme From) New York, New York" to the charts, but the Chairman of the Board also had a soft spot for the City of Angels.  In 1984, he teamed with the legendary Quincy Jones, fresh off a little 1982 album called Thriller, to craft what would become the final solo studio album of Sinatra's extraordinary career.  On October 25, Frank Sinatra Enterprises and UMe will reissue L.A. Is My Lady in a remixed

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones

Keep Yourself Alive: Queen Announce Deluxe Edition of Debut with Remixes, Outtakes and More

September 11, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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Queen will go 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 Fredriksson; demos and studio outtakes; instrumental versions and live recordings. (A 2CD cut-down will include the new mix and the set's third disc, featuring studio alternates.) The box

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

Review: Faces, "Faces at the BBC: Complete BBC Concert and Session Recordings 1970-1973"

September 11, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Faces at the BBC

Between the summer of 1969 and the fall of 1975, a joyful noise emerged whenever Faces took the stage.  Ronnie Lane (bass), Kenney Jones (drums), and Ian McLagan (keyboards) had emerged from the ashes of pop's Small Faces, while Rod Stewart (vocals) and Ronnie Wood (guitar) were blues-rock veterans of the first iteration of The Jeff Beck Group in which Wood played bass.  When they came together, they created a sound unlike either of those earlier groups: rough-and-tumble, raw, ramshackle,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Faces, Rod Stewart

Return of the Acid Queen: Rhino Brings Tina Turner's Early Works Back to CD, Vinyl

September 10, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Tina Turns the Country On half speed

A half-century after her solo career began, the late, great Tina Turner's earliest albums will come back into print this fall - including the premiere CD release of her first solo album. Rhino, who digitally reissued Tina's four solo albums for United Artists last year, will press Tina Turns the Country On! (1974), Acid Queen (1975), Rough (1978) and Love Explosion (1979) on CD and vinyl. It's the first time the latter three have been in print in more than 20 years. The LP of Tina Turns the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Tina Turner

Joy in Repetition: Cherry Red's 'Dearly Beloved' Pays Tribute to Prince, the Songwriter

September 10, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Dearly Beloved Prince Songbook

Between the muted 40th anniversary celebration of Purple Rain and the bizarre drama over an estate-sanctioned Netflix documentary on his life and career, Prince fans could probably use a win lately. A new compilation from Cherry Red looks like it might finally offer one. Dearly Beloved - A Prince Songbook is an unexpectedly robust-looking 3CD set that will pay tribute to the Minneapolis icon as a songwriter - one whose classic hits have become pop standards, with so much talent overflowing

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Amanda Palmer, Andre Cymone, Crystal Waters, Dead or Alive, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Rogers, Maceo Parker, Martika, Patti Labelle, Paula Abdul, Prince, Robyn, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, Sheena Easton, Stephanie Mills, The Bangles, The Pointer Sisters, Valerie Carter

Weezer Awaken Ancient Feelings with Box Set Edition of Debut Album

September 9, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Version 1.0.0

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 by UMe on November 1 as a 3CD set or vinyl equivalent spanning four LPs, a 10" EP and a 7" single. Both physical (and all digital) formats come with 40 bonus

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Weezer

Shot Right Through with a Bolt of Blue: New Order Outline Definitive Edition of 'Brotherhood'

September 6, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Version 1.0.0

New Order will release the latest in their Definitive Edition series of album reissues: their fourth album, 1986's Brotherhood. Available November 22, Brotherhood (Definitive Edition) will follow the previous three release formats, offering the remastered album on CD and vinyl along with a bonus disc of material (including nine previously unreleased tracks) and two DVDs of unseen video footage, including live concerts and TV appearances. As with previous releases, the Definitive Edition will

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, Rock Tags: New Order

Release Round-Up: Week of September 6

September 6, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Neil Young Archives III 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. Neil Young, Archives Vol. III (1976-1987) (NYA/Reprise) 17CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17CD/5BD Deluxe Set: Official Store This week's biggest release is the long-awaited third volume of Neil Young's long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), spans in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 10000 Maniacs, America, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Faces, Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, King Crimson, Nancy Sinatra, Neil Young, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Marriott, Sylvester, Vince Guaraldi, Vincent Price

The Ghostman Always Rings Twice: Real Gone Reissues Frankie Stein and His Ghouls and Vincent Price for Halloween

September 5, 2024 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Frankie Stein Complete Ghoul Lection

Halloween is just around the corner and Real Gone is getting into the spirt of things with several reissues hitting store shelves tomorrow, September 6. The first and most expansive release is Frankie Stein and His Ghouls: The Complete Ghoul-Lection which collects the five albums from the group released in 1964 and 1965.  These albums were aimed at children and were released on Power Records, an imprint of Peter Pan Records.  Aside from novelty records like these, Peter Pan and Power released

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop Tags: Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, Vincent Price

When All is Said and Done: ABBA Plot New Compilation with All the A-Sides

September 5, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

ABBA Singles 50 vinyl packshot

ABBA are set to release their latest - and as of a few years ago, truly - career-spanning compilation this fall. Available October 25 on two CDs or four LPs, 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

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Step Right Up: SoulMusic Records, TSD Celebrate Blue Magic on "Stop to Start" Box Set

September 4, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Blue Magic Stop to Start

Throughout 2024, SoulMusic Records has teamed with The Second Disc to celebrate the sound of Philadelphia with a number of comprehensive box sets: The Salsoul Orchestra's It's Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978); Double Exposure's My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979); First Choice's Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980); Loleatta Holloway's We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982); and Spinners' Keep on Keepin'

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Blue Magic

Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)

September 4, 2024 By

Joni Archives 4 cover

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 through the latter half of the '70s, peeling away from her always-eclectic folk-pop sound, venturing into territory inspired by jazz and fusion. Sourced from variously assembled materials, from rare multitrack tapes to radio recordings

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

Archives Vol. III (1976-1987)

September 4, 2024 By

Neil Young Archives III packshot

17CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17CD/5BD Deluxe Set: Official Store This week's biggest release is the long-awaited third volume of Neil Young's long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), spans in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and five Blu-rays boasting a broad array of songs and film footage: 15 unreleased songs, 121 unreleased tracks, and 11 full-length films (four of them unreleased). Housed in a box identical to Archives Vol. I (1963-1972) (2009)

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

Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings

September 4, 2024 By

Miles 54

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Craft Recordings will commemorate seven decades since one of Miles Davis' most pivotal early years with a new 2CD or 4LP compilation that brings everything he recorded in that period together.  Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings offers 20 tracks from several unforgettable sessions, with luminaries like pianists Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and

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

Turning Back the Time

September 4, 2024 By

Foreigner Turning Back the Time

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada To celebrate their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year, Foreigner will release a new greatest hits collection, including a previously unreleased track that reunites the group's two most notable members. Turning Back the Time brings together 18 of the group's most notable radio staples, including "Feels Like the First Time," "Cold As Ice," "Hot Blooded," "Urgent," "Waiting

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In Session: Deluxe Edition

September 4, 2024 By

SRV Albert King In Session

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada An intergenerational meeting between two late blues guitar gods - Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan - will be revived on CD and vinyl in a new expanded package.  Originally recorded in 1983 and first released in 1999, In Session features the six-stringers trading licks on a Canadian television program of the same name, when King was a 60-year-old living legend and Vaughan a young upstart who'd

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues

Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed At Pickwick Records 1964-1965

September 4, 2024 By

Lou Reed Pickwick

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Light in the Attic (Oxblood/Gold Vinyl) Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed At Pickwick Records 1964-1965 serves as the first official anthology (blessed by both Reed's estate and his widow, musician Laurie Anderson) covering Reed's first gig in the music business: as a songwriter and sometime musician for the budget-minded Pickwick label collective. Despite the obscurity of the material - and the

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

Red Roses For Me: 40th Anniversary Edition

September 4, 2024 By

Pogues Red Roses

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Red recycled LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada To mark 40 years since their unconventional sound was loosed on the European record buying public, The Pogues' debut album Red Roses for Me is being reissued by Rhino. The package will be available as a red LP on recycled vinyl - featuring a 2013 remix of the album that was first pressed on wax two years later - or a 2CD set that will make the remix available on the format for the first

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Long After Dark: Deluxe Edition

September 4, 2024 By

Tom Petty Long After Dark deluxe

2CD/Blu-ray Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/Blu-ray Audio (with Amazon-exclusive stickers): Amazon U.S. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Tom Petty Store (Exclusive) 1LP: Links TBD Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' fifth studio album is getting a deluxe makeover.  Geffen/UMe revisit 1982's oft-overlooked Long After Dark, originally released on Backstreet Records, in various formats including 1LP (various color variants), 2LP, and 2CD+Blu-ray. The bonus

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Paul Robeson's Glorious Voice Gets Its Due on New Box Set

September 3, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Paul Robeson Voice of Freedom

As an actor, singer, linguist and political thinker, Paul Robeson was one of the most accomplished Black men in America. A newly-released box set will finally give him the attention his work deserves. Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings is a lavish 14CD box set that serves at the definitive account of Robeson on record: a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance whose expressive bass-baritone preserved scores of American spirituals and folk songs, and a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Everything Else, Folk, Gospel, Soundtracks Tags: Paul Robeson

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' 'Long After Dark' Gets Lucky on New Deluxe Edition

August 30, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Tom Petty Long After Dark deluxe

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' fifth studio album is getting a deluxe makeover.  On October 18, Geffen/UMe will revisit 1982's oft-overlooked Long After Dark, originally released on Backstreet Records, in various formats including 1LP, 2LP, and 2CD+Blu-ray. Petty was joined by Mike Campbell (lead guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Stan Lynch (drums), and new recruit Howie Epstein (bass/backing vocals) as well as co-producer Jimmy Iovine for Long After Dark.  The third and final of Petty's

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Boys from the County Hell: The Pogues' Debut Goes Deluxe for Its 40th Anniversary

August 30, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Pogues Red Roses

To mark 40 years since their unconventional sound was loosed on the European record buying public, The Pogues' debut album Red Roses for Me will be reissued by Rhino this fall. The package will be available as a red LP on recycled vinyl - featuring a 2013 remix of the album that was first pressed on wax two years later - or a 2CD set that will make the remix available on the format for the first time, along with a bonus disc of six B-sides and a dozen live sessions for the BBC. (Those 12 tracks

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

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