Earlier this year, Josh Groban debuted Gems, a new collection that coincided with his Las Vegas residency of the same name. Now, just in time for the holiday season, the crossover superstar is unveiling a companion album. On November 14, Groban will release Hidden Gems, an eleven-track single-CD or digital compilation bringing together one new song, two tracks new to CD, and eight rarities released on various albums and exclusive editions over the years. Hidden Gems spans 2004 through the
Release Round-Up: Week of October 31
Happy Halloween! 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. Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window (Columbia/Legacy) 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The beginnings of Bob Dylan's long and extraordinary career are being revisited by
I Wanna Be a Rocker: Think Like a Key Premieres "The Shirts Live Featuring Annie Golden"
Think Like a Key Music has been making quite the splash lately with a stellar lineup of releases including Play On: A Raspberries Tribute; Babies of War Babies, a tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates' adventurous album produced by Todd Rundgren; and titles from psych group Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera and supergroup British Lions (which teamed members of the post-Ian Hunter lineup of Mott the Hoople with Medicine Head's John Fiddler). Now, the label has turned its attention to a cult-favorite
Review: Frank Zappa, "Halloween 78"
"Happy Halloween, everybody!" Greeting his audience at New York's late, lamented Palladium on October 31, 1978, Frank Zappa promised the enthusiastic crowd. "This is it...this is the big one!" He wasn't kidding. The composer-guitarist and his band - drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, bassists Arthur Barrow and Patrick O'Hearn, keyboardists Peter Wolf and Tommy Mars, singer-guitarist Denny Walley, and percussionist Ed Mann - delivered perhaps the most epic show of their annual New York holiday
Review: Elvis Presley, "Sunset Boulevard"
It was late March 1972 when Elvis Presley first entered RCA's Studio C at 6363 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood - The King's first time recording at the Hollywood venue. Most of RCA's marquee artists, from Jefferson Airplane to Henry Mancini, had already made their mark there, as the studio had opened in 1964. Presley had previously rehearsed for his Las Vegas engagements in the 32 x 22' space (the smallest of the building's three studios) and now, the March 27-30 sessions would be his first
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
The acclaimed motion picture starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, chronicling the making of Nebraska, now yields a soundtrack CD with White's performances of such songs as "Highway Patrolman," "Born in the USA," "Atlantic City," and "I'm on Fire." Nashville uber-producer Dave Cobb helmed the sessions which also feature Jake Kiszka and Sam F. Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet. Available on CD, "Asbury Gray" double vinyl, and digitally.
Release Round-Up: Week of October 24
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska '82 (Columbia/Legacy) 4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada It's no surprise that, as Hollywood recounts the story of Bruce Springsteen's most striking solo release with the film Deliver Me from Nowhere (out today), a box set tells the
Music and Memories: The MGM Recordings
Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada U.S.: ImportCDs.com / U.K.: Amazon U.K. A crucial missing link for any Monkee fan, this newly-remastered 13-track collection features all of Davy Jones' output for the MGM label, including a smattering of singles from 1972 and 1973 plus his turns on a 1978 London cast recording of Harry Nilsson's The Point! (Friend and bandmate Micky Dolenz guests on their take on Nilsson's "Gotta Get Up.") The liner notes include unpublished photos and a new essay
Tonight's the Night 50
1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Clear Vinyl: Greedy Hand Store Neil Young's sixth album, released in 1975 but mostly recorded two years earlier, was the closer to his "Ditch Trilogy." It remains one of his darkest works, responding in real time to the overdose deaths of Crazy Horse's Danny Whitten and friend and roadie Bruce Berry with bleak songs and wearied vocals. This reissue features a redesigned cover and six bonus tracks,
All Souls
Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Originally released on vinyl and digital in 2022, this compilation from goth-rockers Siouxsie and The Banshees now gets a limited edition CD release. All Souls, compiled by frontwoman Siouxsie Sioux in celebration of the autumnal equinox, offers hits like "Spellbound" and "Peek-a-Boo" alongside rarer cuts like the non-LP B-sides "El Dia de Los Muertos" and an off-the-wall cover of Ben E. King's "Supernatural Thing."
Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with postcards) / Madonna.com (with postcards) Vinyl EP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with postcards) / Madonna.com (with postcards) Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada After teasing it last year - and not long after this year's release of a similar Ray of Light-era remix collection - Madonna will explore rare and unreleased material tied to another one of her most celebrated albums of the
Best of The Other Sides
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Kate Bush's Best of the Other Sides rounds up 11 odds and ends from her catalogue which were previously included on the 2018-2019 collections The Other Sides. These versions have been remastered and certain tracks (including "Experiment IV," "You Want Alchemy," and "Walk Straight Down the Middle") have been slightly tweaked and/or edited. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Memories: Light in the Attic Remasters, Expands Nancy Sinatra's "Nancy"
After a yearlong hiatus, Light in the Attic's Nancy Sinatra Archival Series is continuing on December 5 with an expanded and remastered reissue of 1969's Nancy on both CD and LP. Her sixth and final studio album for the label, the Billy Strange-helmed LP offered a cross-section of rock, pop, soul, and country tunes as only Sinatra could have delivered them. Nancy arrived in the wake of producer-songwriter Lee Hazlewood's unexpected move to Sweden. Hazlewood had produced all of Nancy's
Mellow My Mind: Neil Young Revisits "Tonight's the Night" at 50 with Previously Unreleased Tracks
Neil Young's sixth studio album, 1975's Tonight's the Night, closed out the singer-songwriter's so-called Ditch Trilogy. 1972's country-rock landmark Harvest catapulted Young to superstardom, yielding the chart-topping single "Heart of Gold" and becoming the U.S.' best-selling album of 1972. But he wasn't comfortable with everything that fame brought, and his successive albums replaced the wistful glow and commercial sheen of Harvest with something altogether darker. Tonight's the Night
Early Steps
Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Following a welcome box set of BBC recordings last year, Faces go back to the beginning with a disc of 10 previously unreleased alternates, outtakes and rehearsals that led to the group's 1970 debut First Step. These tracks feature the classic line-up of three Small Faces (drummer Kenny Jones and the sorely missed keyboardist Ian McLagan and bassist Ronnie Lane) and two veterans of The Jeff Beck Group (singer Rod Stewart and future Rolling
Who Was It? 7a Records Collects Davy Jones Rarities on "Music and Memories: The MGM Recordings"
On November 14, 7a Records will fill in a missing chapter of the Davy Jones story. Music and Memories: The MGM Recordings premieres on CD the handful of singles recorded by the Monkees' resident song-and-dance man for the MGM Records label - including both mono and stereo mixes and a rare Japan-only single side - and, for good measure, adds all of Jones' tracks recorded for the original London cast recording of Harry Nilsson's The Point. This release follows the label's 2015 collection of
Rock and Roll All Nite: KISS Suit Up New Deluxe Box for 'Dressed to Kill'
KISS' third album - the edge of their commercial breakthrough - is getting done up to the nines for its 50th anniversary. The rock legends will reissue Dressed to Kill as a super deluxe set, available exclusively through the band's official store on five CDs or eight LPs and a Blu-ray. The 1975 release, featuring "C'mon and Love Me" and, arguably the group's signature song "Rock and Roll All Nite," has been newly remastered by Bernie Grundman and, on the Blu-ray, remixed from the original
Dressed to Kill (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
5CD/Blu-ray: Official Store 8LP/Blu-ray: Official Store KISS' third album was one of their most down 'n' dirty, recorded over 10 days at Electric Lady Studios (with Casablanca president Neil Bogart as de facto co-producer alongside the band themselves) and clocking in at a taut 30 minutes (with long, silent grooves between each song on the original vinyl). While audiences had yet to really push the made-up camp-rockers into the mainstream, Dressed to Kill was one of the strongest arguments
The Decca Years
Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Before breaking through as a dependable club act in the U.K. during the mid-'80s, Hazell Dean inked a contract with Decca in the U.K. from 1975 to 1978, issuing a series of commercially obscure but artistically striking singles with songwriter/producer/Eurovision stalwart Paul Curtis. Astoundingly, none of these tracks - 14 tracks on seven 7" singles, plus two planned for an ultimately cancelled release - have ever made it onto CD until this release,
Different Class (30th Anniversary Edition)
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Released in 1995, Pulp's fifth album became a classic of the '90s Britpop movement. It debuted atop the U.K. charts, put four singles in the Top 10 (including "Common People" and "Disco 2000") and won the Mercury Music Prize in 1996. For its 30th anniversary - less than a week shy of its date of original release - and following the release of their latest studio LP More. in June, Different Class has
Ants Invasion: Sony U.K. Plans New Singles Set for Adam Ant
Here's your pass to join the insect nation: Sony Music's U.K. arm is releasing a new compilation devoted to post-punk heroes Adam and The Ants. The simply-titled Singles, available October 31 in the U.K. and a week later in America, collects 20 tracks on CD or two LPs (pressed on red and white vinyl) that served as A-sides for the '80s iconoclast. Split about evenly between the classic Ants lineup and Adam's solo material, it features all the classics you'd expect, from "Kings of the Wild
Baby's Got a Secret: Madonna Expands 'Bedtime Stories' with 'Untold Chapter' EP
After teasing it last year - and not long after this year's release of a similar Ray of Light-era remix collection - Madonna will explore rare and unreleased material tied to another one of her most celebrated albums of the '90s, Bedtime Stories, with another EP of unissued tracks. Bedtime Stories - The Untold Chapter, available November 28, will offer eight remixes, demos and outtakes from the Queen of Pop's sixth album, originally released in 1994. In addition to previously released mixes
Release Round-Up: Week of October 17
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. Randy Newman, Trouble in Paradise: Expanded Edition (Warner/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino Reserves LP: Rhino.com We Love It! Rhino reissues Randy Newman's seventh studio album, Trouble in Paradise, as a 2CD expanded edition featuring previously unreleased demos and a rare concert performance. With
A Dream That Can Last: Neil Young's Latest 'Official Release Series' Box Further Enters the '90s
After a 2+-year break, Neil Young is continuing his Official Release Series with new box sets on both CD and LP rounding up another four albums from the 1990s. ORS Vol. 6 arrives October 24 on the Reprise label with newly remastered editions of Harvest Moon (1992, ORS Disc 26), Unplugged (1993, ORS Disc 27), Sleeps with Angels (1993, ORS Disc 28), and Mirror Ball (1995, ORS Disc 29). Each disc of the limited and numbered box sets will contain the four albums with original artwork; the vinyl
Review: David Bowie, "I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016)"
C'mon, Let's Go Slip Away For in truth, it's the beginning of nothing/And nothing has changed/Everything has changed... After a period of nearly four years, David Bowie's series of "Eras" box sets has continued with its sixth and final volume. I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016), from ISO Records and Parlophone, concludes the career-spanning chronicle of the shape-shifting superstar on 13 CDs or 18 LPs. Picking up where 2021's Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) left off, it vividly