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Joe Strummer 001

August 8, 2018 By

Joe Strummer 001

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/4LP/7″/Cassette Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new collection shines a deserved light on the late Clash frontman's work outside of his famous band - solo, with former bandmate Mick Jones, and with his 101ers and The Mescaleros.  001 will be available in a variety of formats, including 2CD, 2CD Deluxe, 4LP,

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Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

The Girl from Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters

August 8, 2018 By

Bobbie Gentry Girl from Chickasaw County

The career of the enigmatic Bobbie Gentry is celebrated on a remarkable new box set.  The 8-CD collection The Girl from Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters collects all seven of Gentry's 1967-1971 Capitol Records studio albums plus more than 75 previously unreleased recordings.  This treasure trove of lost material includes a completed "jazz" album, outtakes, demos, and other rarities including the live performances from her BBC show of 1968-1969.  (Some of these were issued on vinyl

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country, Pop

You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll [Deluxe Edition]

August 8, 2018 By

Twisted Sister You Cant Stop Rock n Roll

Twisted Sister's 1983 sophomore album gets a 2-CD expansion. The newly remastered original album is joined by three bonus tracks from a 1983 EP ("One Man Woman," "Four Barrel Heart of Love," and "Feel the Power") as well as an entire concert from London's Marquee Club, recorded in March 1983.  Live at the Marquee was previously released in 2011 as a limited edition on the Rhino Handmade imprint, and features most of the songs from the band's debut Under the Blade plus Twisted-style covers of The

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

Dipped in Moonlight: Real Gone Reissues Grateful Dead, L7 and Pentangle in September

August 8, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Pentangle Sweet Child

Real Gone Music has announced three more reissues hitting shelves on September 7, joining previously-announced titles from Alice Coltrane, The Munsters, and more! First up is a vinyl reissue of Pentangle's 1968 double-album Sweet Child, celebrating its 50th anniversary.  The British folk-jazz group came together in 1967 and consisted of Jacqui McShee (vocals), John Renbourn (guitar and vocals), Bert Jansch (guitar and vocals), Danny Thompson (double bass) and Terry Cox (drums).  Their first

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Rock Tags: Grateful Dead, L7, Pentangle

Time of the Season: Varese Collects The Zombies' "Greatest Hits"

August 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Zombies Greatest Hits

It's the time of the season for The Zombies' Greatest Hits to arrive on CD from Varese Vintage.  This new anthology, co-produced by Cary E. Mansfield and Andrew Sandoval and newly remastered for CD by Chas Ferry, premiered in 2017 on vinyl and makes for an ideal introductory overview to the short-lived but still-beloved band. The 16 tracks on Greatest Hits encompass the band's key singles as originally released between 1964 and 1969, most in their original mono single versions.  Naturally,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Zombies

Rhythm of Love: Cherry Red, SoulMusic Collect Marlena Shaw's Columbia Years

August 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Marlena Shaw Go Away Little Boy

Throughout her career, Marlena Shaw has traversed the worlds of jazz, R&B, soul, pop, funk, and dance with equal aplomb.  Following stints at Chess Records offshoot Cadet and the venerable Blue Note label, Shaw made her boldest bid for the mainstream at Columbia Records.  Her time at the label has recently been rediscovered by Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint on the 2-CD set Go Away Little Boy: The Columbia Anthology. Shaw joined Columbia in 1977, remaining on the label for three

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: Marlena Shaw

A Party Tonight in London: Bruce Springsteen Releases 1981 "The River" Tour Concert with Tributes to Elvis Presley

August 6, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Bruce Springsteen Wembley 1981

BUY NOW FROM NUGS.NETBruce Springsteen is continuing his ongoing Archive series.  Last month, he released a concert from 1978 that was promoting the Darkness on the Edge of Town album.  This month, he jumps forward three years to a gig to promote The River album: June 5, 1981 at Wembley Arena in London, England. The River was released on October 17, 1980.  Springsteen and the E Street Band spent nearly a year on tour to promote the double album which had been their first to top the charts.  The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Give Me More, More, More: Bear Family Compiles The Ultimate Lefty Frizzell Box Set

August 6, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Lefty Frizzell An Article from Life

The venerable Bear Family label is no stranger to the music of William Orville "Lefty" Frizzell (1928-1975), one of the most influential honky-tonk singers of all time.  The German reissue specialists first compiled the Lefty oeuvre in 1984 as a 14-LP box set, updating that in 1992 on 12 CDs.  Now, more than 25 years later, the Bears are returning to the Texas-born troubadour's career for the most comprehensive chronicle ever.  An Article from Life: The Complete Recordings is due in the U.S. on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country Tags: Lefty Frizzell

Release Round-Up: Week of August 3

August 3, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Ben Folds Brick Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ben Folds, Brick: The Songs of Ben Folds 1996-2012 (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 13-CD box Brick: The Songs of Ben Folds 1996-2012 brings together nearly all of Folds' core studio albums together with a live album and various other odds and ends.  It traces his career from the first Ben Five Folds record through his solo recordings to the Five's reunion album in 2012, for a total of 194 tracks!  And yes - it's shaped

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Electric Light Orchestra, Hampton Grease Band, Merry Clayton, Monk Higgins, The Alan Parsons Project, The Doors

Fill My Little World: Cherry Red Reissues The Feeling's "Twelve Stops and Home" In Deluxe Box

August 1, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Feeling 12 Stops

The Feeling burst onto the scene from Horsham, West Sussex, England in early 2006 when their single "Sewn" became a top ten hit in their native United Kingdom.  Across the pond, the song was featured on television's Medium and One Tree Hill, and worldwide, it was heard as part of the soundtrack to the football (or soccer)-themed video game FIFA 07.  The melodic rock piano ballad had both a current radio-friendly sheen and a retro vibe reminiscent of pop's halcyon days.  It was included in June

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

Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day: Bobbie Gentry's Complete Capitol Masters Collected On New Box Set

July 31, 2018 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Bobbie Gentry Girl from Chickasaw County

Why did Billie Joe McAllister jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge?  It's almost as big a mystery as why Bobbie Gentry vanished from view after 1981.  Happily, the enigmatic singer-songwriter left behind an enduring and diverse body of work which is now being celebrated on a comprehensive box set from Universal's U.K. arm.  On September 21, the 8-CD collection The Girl from Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters will collect all seven of Gentry's 1967-1971 Capitol Records studio albums plus

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell, Kelly Gordon

Love Kills: Joe Strummer's Solo Material Highlighted In New Collection

July 30, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Joe Strummer 001

When it comes to Joe Strummer, 001 is the number to watch.  That's the name of the upcoming box set that shines a deserved light on the late Clash frontman's work outside of his famous band - solo, with former bandmate Mick Jones, and with his 101ers and The Mescaleros.  001 arrives on September 28 from Ignition Records in an array of formats, including 2CD, 2CD Deluxe, 4LP, and a 2CD/4LP/7"/Cassette Super Deluxe edition. The first CD of 001 compiles 20 eclectic, previously released sides

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, The Clash

Ride Like the Wind: "California Groove IV" Box Set Captures Sounds of Summer

July 27, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

California Groove 4

Warner Music France is providing a breezy soundtrack for summer with the fourth installment of California Groove.  Arriving seven years after Volume 3, this impressive 6-CD box set is a little bit country, a little bit-rock-and-roll - not to mention filled with pop, lounge, jazz, dance, R&B, soul, and beyond.  It's too eclectic to be filed under "yacht rock," though many of that so-called genre's bright lights are here, including Christopher Cross and Steely Dan.  What it is, however, is a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: America, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross, James Taylor, Jeff Larson, Nicolette Larson, Steely Dan, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of July 27

July 27, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Bob Dylan Live Copyright 1962 1966

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections (Columbia/Legacy)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The new 2-CD set Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections draws on Dylan's previously issued limited edition "copyright extension" collections to offer a sampler of Dylan onstage, from a pair of songs recorded on April 16, 1962 at Gerdes Folk City in New York ("Blowin' in the Wind" and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Boz Scaggs, Michael Nesmith, Thomas Dolby, Various Artists

Robinsongs Round-Up, Part One: SOLAR Spotlight on The Whispers, Shalamar, Midnight Star

July 26, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Whispers Whisper In Your Ear

Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint continues to unleash classic funk and soul albums on CD in two, three, and four-for-one packages.  The label has been reissuing classic albums from such marquee names as The Whispers, Shalamar, Midnight Star, The Bar-Kays, Lakeside, and Crown Heights Affair.  Today's Part One looks at the new and upcoming releases from the first three of those groups! The Whispers' first three albums on Dick Griffey and Don Cornelius' Soul Train and SOLAR (Sound of Los Angeles

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: Midnight Star, Shalamar, The Whispers

East Side Sound: Bob Seger and The Last Heard's Rare Singles Collected By ABKCO

July 25, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bob Seger The Last Heard art

Before burning up the charts with the likes of "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man." "Night Moves," and "Still the same," Bob Seger honed his craft in a number of Detroit's finest rock-and-roll bands.  That early period of his life culminated in the formation of Bob Seger & The Last Heard.  On September 7, all of the group's long-unavailable recordings for the Cameo label will be reissued in one CD, vinyl, or digital package from ABKCO.   Heavy Music: The Complete Cameo Recordings 1966-1967 reissues all

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Seger

My Precious: Rhino Reissues 'Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers' Box Set on CD, Blu-ray, Vinyl

July 25, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lord of the Rings Two Towers Vinyl

Rhino is taking another journey to Middle-earth this Friday, July 27, with the reissue of the second soundtrack from director Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - The Complete Recordings, composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Howard Shore, follows the reissue earlier this year of the Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack.  Like that set it will be available in two deluxe physical formats: a 5-LP vinyl box set and a 3-CD/1-Blu-ray Audio

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Howard Shore

A Million Miles of Fun: Real Gone Celebrates "Dazed and Confused," "True Romance," "Go" and "The Munsters" in September

July 24, 2018 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

The Munsters

We've told you about one of Real Gone's September releases: the first-ever collection of Alice Coltrane's complete Warner Bros. recordings.  Now we've got the news on a quartet of soundtrack releases also slated for the month. The first release actually hits one day before September, on August 31.  It is a vinyl reissue of Even More Dazed and Confused, the second soundtrack album from Richard Linklater's 1993 film Dazed and Confused.  The high school coming-of-age film takes place primarily

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: The Munsters, Various Artists

Thomas Dolby Goes 'Hyperactive' On New Compilation, Upcoming Tour

July 23, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Thomas Dolby Hyperactive

Thomas Dolby chronicled his singular life in the 2016 memoir The Speed of Sound.  He detailed his career trajectory from "one hit wonder" new wave singer-songwriter (who, in fact, charted sixteen songs in the U.K. and three in the U.S.) to Silicon Valley entrepreneur.  He's lately been spending his days as a university professor (decades after turning his back on the "family business" of academia), but this summer he's taking a break from the classroom to headline a short U.S. tour.  To coincide

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Thomas Dolby

Loving the Alien [1983-1988]

July 20, 2018 By

David Bowie Loving the Alien Cover

11CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 15LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  The fourth annual volume of Parlophone's ongoing series of box sets dedicated to the late David Bowie, Loving the Alien (1983-1988), arrives on 11 CDs or 15 vinyl LPs.  This lavish set is filled with more exclusive material than any of its predecessors, as only three studio albums are included, all in newly remastered editions: Let's Dance (1983), Tonight (1984), and Never Let Me Down (1987). 

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Plays Well with Others

July 20, 2018 By

Phil Collins Plays Well with Others

Phil Collins has always been a collaborative artist - and now 59 of his favorite tracks recorded with other artists are being collected on a new 4-CD or digital box set!  These discs represent a "Who's Who" of talent, with Collins' friends including Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, The Bee Gees, Four Tops, Collins' Genesis bandmate Peter Gabriel, and many more.

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Lay the Music Down: Cilla Black's Expanded Reissue Series Begins Today From Cherry Red

July 20, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Cilla All Mixed Up Two Fer

Surprise, surprise...it's Cilla here!  Today's the day on which Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment has launched a new series dedicated to remastering and expanding Cilla Black's discography.  These deluxe, lavishly expanded reissues go a long way in upgrading the late superstar's catalogue on CD.  The first 2-CD set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay (Cliff Richard, Blue Mink, The New Seekers).  The

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Cilla Black

Release Round-Up: Week of July 20

July 20, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Soul Asylum Made to Be Broken

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Cilla Black, Surround Yourself with Cilla/It Makes Me Feel Good [Expanded Edition] (Cherry Red/SFE) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cherry Red celebrates the late, great Cilla Black with a new reissue campaign.   The first 2-CD set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay (Cliff Richard, Blue Mink, The New Seekers).  22 bonus tracks (13 new to CD) are

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Cilla Black, John Fogerty, Lalomie Washburn, Marianne Faithfull, Public Image Ltd., Soul Asylum

Her Music Is Hot: Cherry Red, Robinsongs Reissue Rare R&B from Lalomie Washburn

July 19, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Lalomie Washburn My Music Is Hot

My Music Is Hot: Lalomie Washburn exuded confidence with the very title of her 1977 LP debut.  With a husky voice entrenched in the spirit of the blues and a keen sense of herself as both a singer and songwriter, she seemed a prime candidate for soul stardom.  While solo fame eluded Washburn, she left behind a great legacy of music that's gone overlooked for far too long.  Happily, Cherry Red's Robinsongs label has just resuscitated My Music Is Hot for its first-ever CD version.  This edition is

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Lalomie Washburn

Modern Love: Bowie's 'Loving The Alien' Box Chronicles His Wild '80s

July 19, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bowie 83

  For David Bowie, the 1980s were years of tremendous ch-ch-changes, in which the stylistic chameleon went mainstream to great success, experienced some artistic disappointments, and solidified his place in the pantheon as a legend of rock.  Now, this era is being looked back upon in the fourth annual volume of Parlophone's ongoing series of box sets dedicated to the late superstar. Loving the Alien (1983-1988) will arrive on October 12 in 11CD and 15LP vinyl configurations. This

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: David Bowie

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