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You Don't Know How Bad I've Got It: Cherry Red Preps Nik Kershaw Box Set

May 15, 2024 By Mike Duquette 17 Comments

Nik Kershaw The MCA Years

An oft-discussed Nik Kershaw box set has been added to Cherry Red's summer release schedule. The MCA Years, available July 26, offers the most complete look at the British pop/rocker's career in the '80s, offering four remastered studio albums, four discs of B-sides and remixes, two discs of mostly unreleased live material and a DVD of music videos and concert material. The MCA Years comes 40 years on from the release of Kershaw's earliest work for the label. Born into a musical family in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Nik Kershaw

There'll Come a Time: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Team for Loleatta Holloway Box Set "We're Getting Stronger"

May 14, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Loleatta Holloway We're Getting Stronger

Stardom had been predicted for Loleatta Holloway from the time she'd emerged as a solo artist with her 1971 recording of Curtis Mayfield's "Rainbow." Her voice, homegrown from singing gospel with her mother's choir and experience on the road with Albertina Walker's group The Famous Caravans, easily transitioned to R&B with her no-holds-barred, heart-on-her-sleeve approach. With two albums under her belt and a Top 10 R&B hit with "Cry to Me" in 1975, she was signed to Salsoul Records by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Bunny Sigler, Dan Hartman, Loleatta Holloway, The Salsoul Orchestra

I'll Love You Forever: 7a Reissues, Expands Davy Jones' "Incredible!" Album

May 13, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Davy Jones Incredible

Davy Jones' "lost" album, Incredible!, is finally seeing a wide, authorized release from our friends at 7a Records.  This Friday, May 17, the label will issue the album on both CD and limited edition, 180-gram, LP pressed on blue vinyl. Incredible! has taken on almost mythical status among Monkees collecting circles.  Jones recorded the original 10-song set at the height of the '80s wave of Monkeemania when new fans were discovering Davy, Mickey, Peter, and Mike through MTV, syndication, and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Davy Jones

Release Round-Up: Week of May 10

May 10, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Queen Rock Montreal

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. Queen, Queen Rock Montreal (Hollywood/EMI) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store (Exclusive - Blue) 4K UHD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Jerry Lee Lewis, John Entwistle, Keane, Queen, The Staple Singers, Todd Rundgren

Can You Hear Me Now: Duran Duran's '80s Studio Catalogue Back in Print in July

May 9, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Duran 2024 CDs

Look now, look all around: Duran Duran's five studio albums from the '80s were stunningly out of print physically, but that changes this summer. Warner Music, who acquired Duran Duran's Capitol/EMI catalogue as part of Parlophone Records in 2013 after it was divested in EMI's sale to Universal Music Group, will release new CD and vinyl pressings of Duran Duran (1981), Rio (1982), Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983), Notorious (1986) and Big Thing (1989). They will utilize the same remasters

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Duran Duran

Go Insane: Lindsey Buckingham's Early Solo Albums Collected in New Box Set

May 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

20th Century Lindsey

Lindsey Buckingham's earliest solo works are getting a box set from Rhino this summer. True to its name, 20th Century Lindsey will feature remastered versions of the three albums the Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist issued during the 20th century - 1981's Law and Order, 1984's Go Insane and 1992's Out of the Cradle - plus a newly compiled disc of eight rarities. The set showcases Buckingham's restless creative spirit that fueled a good portion of Fleetwood Mac's discography, blossoming into

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks

Beautiful Music: Barry Manilow's "Live in Britain" Returns to CD

May 7, 2024 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Barry Manilow Live in Britain

Barry Manilow hasn't been resting on his laurels. In recent months, the superstar entertainer saw his musical Harmony finally make it to Broadway, continued his record-breaking residency in Las Vegas, sold out New York's Radio City Music Hall, and announced from the stage of Carnegie Hall that he had re-entered the studio at the instigation of Clive Davis to record Peter Allen and Dean Pitchford's anthem "Once Before I Go" for a new single on which he collaborated with producer Babyface. Manilow

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop Tags: Barry Manilow

What's So Funny: Cherry Red, Lemon Collect Brinsley Schwarz Albums on "Thinking Back"

May 6, 2024 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Brinsley Schwarz Thinking Back

Brinsley Schwarz, the band, may be best-remembered today as the launching pad for singer-songwriter Nick Lowe and as a prime exemplar of the U.K. pub rock scene.  The band's studio albums, though, reveal diverse influences and a vibrant sound that more than holds up today.  In recent months, Cherry Red's Lemon Recordings imprint brought together the band's seven albums plus more than 60 bonus tracks on the whopping 7-CD box set Thinking Back: The Anthology 1970-1975. Guitarist Brinsley

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Brinsley Schwarz, Ian Gomm, Nick Lowe

Release Round-Up: Week of May 3

May 3, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

H D H Detroit 1969 1977

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. Belinda Carlisle, Decades Vol. 3: Cornucopia (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Edsel continues its chronological collections of Belinda Carlisle's albums with this Cornucopia. The 4-CD book-style box starts off with two discs of mostly "orphaned" tracks released largely between 1987 and 2021: B-sides, non-album

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Belinda Carlisle, Elaine Brown, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Indigo Girls, Maurice White, Melanie, The Dixie Cups, Thomas Newman, Tweet

Can't Outrun a Memory

May 1, 2024 By

Joe Grushecky Can't Outrun a Memory

Can't Outrun a Memory is Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers' first studio set since 2017's More Yesterdays Than Tomorrows.  Grushecky states in the press release of this new LP, "This one was a long time coming, but we worked through, never losing sight that we were creating one of our best records. I believe we captured the band at its peak."  Omnivore's release, available on CD, 2 LPs, and digital formats, includes a quartet of bonus tracks illuminating the songs' development.

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

Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology

May 1, 2024 By

Joe Grushecky Houserocker

Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology is an all-encompassing look at the singer, songwriter, and bandleader, covering 40 years of music from The Iron City Houserockers, Joey G., Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers, and Grushecky solo.  Available on 2 CDs and digitally, the anthology culls 36 key tracks from Grushecky's discography, as newly remastered by Michael Graves.  The compilation has been produced by Omnivore's Cheryl Pawelski along with Joe's son (and current Houserocker) Johnny

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

One Hand Clapping

May 1, 2024 By

One Hand Clapping

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP/7": Official Store One of Paul McCartney's oft-bootlegged live performances will finally get an official release this summer: the soundtrack to his 1974 "rockumentary" One Hand Clapping.  This acclaimed performance with Wings, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in the wake of the release of Band on the Run, will be available on two CDs or two LPs, featuring the 15 songs used in the special and

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

Songwriter

May 1, 2024 By

Johnny Cash Songwriter

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (Smoke Color Variant with Lithograph) Songwriter features 11 vocals cut by Johnny Cash in 1993 at LSI Studios in Nashville, augmented by recently-recorded new backing tracks at the Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee by Cash's son John Carter Cash and co-producer David "Fergie" Ferguson. Every one of the tunes was composed solely by Cash himself, from lead single "Well Alright"

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

The Asylum Albums 1976-1980

May 1, 2024 By

Joni Mitchell The Asylum Albums 1976 1980

5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) arrives on 5 CDs, 6 LPs, and digital formats, completing the Asylum period of Mitchell's extraordinary career.  Whereas 1972-1975 represented the peak of Mitchell's hitmaking years, 1976-1980 captured her in innovative, experimental mode.  Following the tour for 1975's The Hissing of Summer Lawns, she embarked on a period of personal rediscovery

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

Get Up and Boogie: The Worldwide Singles

May 1, 2024 By

Silver Convention Get Up and Boogie The Worldwide Singles

Seventeen of Eurodisco group Silver Convention's most sought-after 45s from around the world, originally issued on various labels and often featuring exclusive mixes and edits unique to each country, are collected for the very first time on Get Up & Boogie: The Worldwide Singles.  The anthology also showcases the development of Silver Convention's sound, which incorporated soul, R&B, and pop as well as disco and dance.  Among the many highlights on this floor-filling collection are "Get

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

Take Me Higher: Omnivore Preps Maurice White Rarities, Silver Convention Singles

May 1, 2024 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Silver Convention Get Up and Boogie The Worldwide Singles

Today, we're taking a look at two upcoming titles in a soul and R&B vein from Omnivore Recordings! This Friday, May 3, our friends at Omnivore have a treat for fans of Earth, Wind & Fire.  The visionary founder and leader of EWF, the late Maurice White (1941-2016), only released one proper solo album in his lifetime (1985's Maurice White).  Working on the R&B and Dance chart-topper "System of Survival" for EWF's album Touch the World, White inaugurated a friendship and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Maurice White, Preston Glass, Silver Convention

Dreamland: Joni Mitchell's "The Asylum Albums (1976-1980)" Arrives in June

April 30, 2024 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Joni Mitchell The Asylum Albums 1976 1980

Hot on the heels of the release of Joni Mitchell's The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) in "Quadio" quadraphonic surround, another entry in the singer-songwriter's acclaimed Archives series is on the way.  On June 21, The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) will arrive on 5 CDs, 6 LPs, and digital formats, completing this chapter of Mitchell's extraordinary career. Whereas 1972-1975 represented the peak of Mitchell's hitmaking years, 1976-1980 captured her in innovative, experimental mode.  Following the tour

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop Tags: Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell

Rock and Roll Heart: Omnivore Celebrates Joe Grushecky with Career Anthology, New Album

April 29, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Joe Grushecky Houserocker

The title of the 1979 debut album from Joe Grushecky and The Iron City Houserockers proclaimed Love's So Tough.  The Pittsburgh native and his band captured their city's blue-collar milieu, recalling a harder-edged E Street Band.  The group took their sound an expansive step further with 1980's Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive!, a bar-band classic which welcomed guests including Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, and Stevie Van Zandt.  That album introduced "Pumping Iron" which quickly became the band's

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Joe Grushecky, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers

King of the Monsters: Universal Japan to Reissue More Than 20 Godzilla Film Scores for Franchise's 70th Anniversary

April 26, 2024 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Godzilla 2024 OST

Seven decades ago, the mighty Godzilla first rose from the sea to become one of Japanese film's most legendary characters. This summer, with interest in the character still at an all-time high, Universal Music Group's Japanese arm will reissue nearly two dozen classic soundtracks from the film series. UMG will newly remaster and repress on SHM-CD the scores to the 15 Shōwa-era Godzilla films released between 1954 and 1975, as well as the seven Heisei-era pictures which came out between 1984

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Akira Ifukube

Well Alright: New Johnny Cash Album 'Songwriter' Culled from Unreleased 1993 Recordings

April 26, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Johnny Cash Songwriter

Death can't stop The Man in Black: UMe will release a new Johnny Cash album this summer, drawn from unheard recordings from more than 30 years ago. Available June 28, Songwriter features 11 vocals Cash cut in 1993 at LSI Studios in Nashville, augmented by recently-recorded new backing tracks at the Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee by Cash's son John Carter Cash and co-producer David "Fergie" Ferguson. Every one of the tunes was composed solely by Cash himself, from lead single "Well

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings

Release Round-Up: Week of April 26

April 26, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Tina Turner What's Love Got to Do with It Cover

Welcome to this week's post-Record Store Day Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Tina Turner, What's Love Got to Do with It: 30th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone) 4CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Just months after the career-spanning compilation The Queen of Rock and Roll,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Art Tatum, Billy Idol, Bonnie Tyler, Cannonball Adderley, Chet Baker, Def Leppard, Dr. John, Jack Sheldon, Jeff Larson, Laufey, Little Richard, Neil Young, Pet Shop Boys, Sonny Rollins, Tina Turner

Slow Dancin': Cherry Red, Esoteric Return to Anthony Phillips' "Slow Dance"

April 24, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Anthony Phillips Slow Dance

If you missed out on the 2017 Esoteric/Cherry Red expanded reissue of founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips' 1990 Slow Dance, you're in luck.  The label has just reissued Slow Dance as a 2CD set, dropping the DVD component but otherwise replicating the earlier package at a lower price. Slow Dance, a two-part orchestral suite, was recorded by Phillips in 1988 and 1989.  The follow-up to Tarka, his collaborative album with Harry Williamson, Slow Dance became Phillips' first "proper" solo

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else Tags: Anthony Phillips

For Seiji: John Williams' 2023 Tokyo Concert is Latest Live Album from The Maestro

April 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

John Williams in Tokyo

John Williams' latest overseas trip will form another new album from the celebrated composer. John Williams in Tokyo, recorded in 2023 with the Saito Kinen Orchestra and featuring a very special tribute to one of the country's most beloved conductors, will be released May 10 by Deutsche Grammophon on multiple formats including standard CD and vinyl and a deluxe 2CD/Blu-ray set. An arguable highlight of Williams' continued tenure as film score's elder statesman is his semi-annual trip outside

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams, Seiji Ozawa

Feats Don't Fail Me Now: Deluxe Edition

April 23, 2024 By

Little Feat Feats Don't Fail Me Now

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Last year, Rhino reissued Little Feat's seminal second and third albums, Sailin' Shoes (1972) and Dixie Chicken (1973), as deluxe, expanded editions.  Now, the label is following those with a similar presentation of the California group's fourth LP, 1974's Feats Don't Fail Me Now, on 2 CDs or 3 LPs.  Both versions feature a remastered edition of the original album plus rare and previously unreleased

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

Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition

April 23, 2024 By

Jethro Tull Bursting Out

Jethro Tull's first released live album, 1978's Bursting Out, hit stores in September 1978.  It was recorded just a few months earlier as Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Glascock, John Evan, Dee Palmer, and Barriemore Barlow toured behind their eleventh studio album, Heavy Horses.  It's now returning from Rhino in a new 3CD/3DVD book-style edition featuring new remixes by Steven Wilson and an array of bonus material. Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition contains: CD 1: Jethro Tull Live:

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

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