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What's Love Got to Do with It (30th Anniversary Edition)

February 22, 2024 By

What's Love Got to Do with It box

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, Parlophone and Rhino will reissue another one of the late Queen's classic albums in several deluxe formats: 1993's What's Love Got to Do with It.  The companion album to the biopic of the same name, the 4CD/1DVD set will include the remastered original album - including

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Complete Collection

February 22, 2024 By

Emerson Lake & Powell Complete Collection

Cherry Red, in partnership with Spirit of Unicorn Music, will issue Emerson, Lake & Powell's studio and live material as Complete Collection, a 3CD set. It will include the prog trio's self-titled 1986 album (including two CD-only bonus tracks and a single edit of "The Score") and two self-released titles on ELP's Manticore label: Live in Concert (recorded during the group's U.S. tour) and The Sprocket Sessions, a collection of live-in-studio rehearsals for said tour. Andy Pearce has

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

This Close to You: Expanded Edition

February 22, 2024 By

Luther This Close to You

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Everybody rejoice! Legacy and Primary Wave restore both albums by Luther - the legendary Vandross' quintet featuring Anthony Hinton and Diane Sumler (both from the group Shades of Jade), Theresa V. Reed and Christine Wiltshire (of disco outfits Class Action and Phreek) - to print in CD, LP, and digital editions.  Luther (1976) and This Close to You (1977) were originally issued by the Cotillion label

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

Luther: Expanded Edition

February 22, 2024 By

Luther LP

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Everybody rejoice! Legacy and Primary Wave restore both albums by Luther - the legendary Vandross' quintet featuring Anthony Hinton and Diane Sumler (both from the group Shades of Jade), Theresa V. Reed and Christine Wiltshire (of disco outfits Class Action and Phreek) - to print in CD, LP, and digital editions.  Luther (1976) and This Close to You (1977) were originally issued by the Cotillion label

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

Too Late the Hero: Edsel Collects John Entwistle's Solo Work in 'The Ox Box Set'

February 22, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

John Entwistle The Ox

John Entwistle's solo material - between and after his time as founding bassist of The Who - will be compiled into a new box set from Edsel. The Ox, due May 10, collects six of his solo albums - Smash Your Head Against the Wall (1971), Whistle Rymes (1972), Rigor Mortis Sets In (1973), Mad Dog (1975), Too Late the Hero (1981) and The Rock (1996) - along with 29 previously released bonus tracks, including demos, B-sides and other rarities. (The track lists mirror individual reissues of these

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Joe Walsh, John Entwistle, Peter Frampton, The Who, Zak Starkey

Great Design: The Call Reissue Early Albums, Plan 'Lost Tapes' and Unreleased Live Sets

February 22, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

The Call Kickstarter

A bit of quick maneuvering through this story will get you access to some classic and unheard material from one of the more underrated bands of the '80s: The Call. Famously championed by Peter Gabriel as "the future of American music" (and featured with Simple Minds' Jim Kerr on the single "Everywhere I Go"), The Call (chiefly comprised of frontman Michael Been, guitarist Tom Ferrier, keyboardist Jim Goodwin and drummer Scott Musick) were best known for the modern rock favorites "I Still

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

Everybody Rejoice: Long-Unavailable Luther Vandross Projects Coming to CD, LP, Digital

February 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Luther LP

Legacy Recordings has announced plans to deepen the legend of Luther Vandross with the first-ever expanded reissue of two long-unavailable albums recorded mononymously as Luther in the mid-'70s. Luther (1976) and This Close to You (1977) were originally issued by the Cotillion label but near impossible to find after Vandross finally found solo success in the 1980s, as he bought the rights to both releases back. With 2024 poised to be a big rediscovery year for the late icon - the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Luther Vandross

Feel a Whole Lot Better: Liberation Hall's RSD Slate Includes Gene Clark, Flying Burrito Brothers, "Los Nuggetz"

February 21, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Flying Burrito Brothers Live in Amsterdam

Continuing our ongoing look at this year's massive Record Store Day list, here is a glance at all three releases from Liberation Hall.  All descriptions are taken directly from the label.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca.  CD fans, rejoice:

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country Tags: Gene Clark, Record Store Day, The Flying Burrito Brothers

Lay Down Your Guns: Emerson, Lake & Powell Collection and Carl Palmer Anthology Due Soon

February 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Carl Palmer Fanfare for the Common Man

Fans of ELP - whether that stands for Emerson, Lake & Palmer or Emerson, Lake & Powell - have some new compilations to look forward to this spring. Cherry Red, in partnership with Spirit of Unicorn Music, will issue Emerson, Lake & Powell's studio and live material as Complete Collection, a 3CD set due April 12. It will include the prog trio's self-titled 1986 album (including two CD-only bonus tracks and a single edit of "The Score") and two self-released titles on ELP's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Asia, Carl Palmer, Cozy Powell, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Emerson Lake and Powell, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, Mike Oldfield

RE:VIEW

February 17, 2024 By

Melissa Manchester REVIEW

Melissa Manchester celebrates 50 years since her 1973 album debut Home to Myself with this new studio album, her first since 2017's The Fellas.  RE:VIEW looks back on that extraordinary career with new arrangements and renditions of her classic songs, including "Midnight Blue" with Dolly Parton and "Whenever I Call You Friend" with her co-writer Kenny Loggins and saxophonist Dave Koz.  Melissa also debuts her own recording of "Confide in Me," originally recorded by Diana Ross.  Gerald Albright

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

Release Round-Up: Week of February 16

February 16, 2024 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Melanie One Night Only

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. Melanie, One Night Only: The Eagle Mountain House (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 1984 concert recorded at The Eagle Mountain house in Jackson, New Hampshire features some of the late singer-songwriter's classics including "Brand New Key," "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)," and "Look What They've Done

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aaron Copland, Béla Fleck, Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour, Melanie, Paul Collins, Steeleye Span, Steve Hackett, The Immediate Family

Rhino's Record Store Day Lineup Features Doors, Talking Heads, Faces, Todd Rundgren, Linda Ronstadt, Four Seasons, Dio, More

February 15, 2024 By The Second Disc 10 Comments

Linda Ronstadt Asylum Years

It's that time of year again!  Record Store Day announcements are coming fast and furious in anticipation of the big day, Saturday, April 20.  As usual, Rhino's slate is a packed one, with a whopping 39 titles including releases from The Doors and Dwight Yoakam on CD as well as vinyl.  Click here for a list of participating independent record stores.  All descriptions below are provided by the label.  (*) denotes worldwide units. AIR - Kelly Watch the Stars Limited Edition of 5,500* copies;

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, David Bowie, Dio, Dwight Yoakam, Faces, Fleetwood Mac, Foghat, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Grateful Dead, Jimmy Cliff, Linda Ronstadt, Lowell George, Ramones, Record Store Day, Talking Heads, The Cure, The Doors, The English Beat, The Notorious B.I.G., The Replacements, Todd Rundgren, Willie Nelson, Yes

Save Some for Thee: Cherry Red, Esoteric Reissue Family's "Fearless"

February 15, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Family Fearless

During its relatively short existence, British rock band Family went through a number of personnel and stylistic changes.  Cherry Red's Esoteric label has been expanding the Family catalogue, with the band's fifth album, Fearless, having arrived in a 3CD edition late last year.  A re-press of the 2CD expanded edition of their third album, A Song for Me, is due on March 1. Family had its origins in Leicester, largely putting the East Midlands city on the British rock map.  Vocalist Roger

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Family

Right Between the Eyes: Garbage to Reissue and Expand 'Bleed Like Me'

February 14, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Garbage Frank Ockenfels III (2)

Garbage closed a chapter of their career in 2005 with the release of their fourth album, Bleed Like Me, in 2005. Now, they're reopening that chapter with a new deluxe edition of the album, due out in April. The deluxe Bleed Like Me follows similar expansions of the group's early discography on the Almo/Interscope/Geffen labels, where the post-grunge group - frontwoman Shirley Manson, multi-instrumentalists Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, and drummer Butch Vig - rose to fame in the '90s with

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Garbage

The Kind You Make Your Wishes On: Tina Turner's 'What's Love Got to Do with It' Gets Box Set from Rhino

February 14, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

What's Love Got to Do with It box

Rhino's celebration of Tina Turner knows no limits! Just months after the career-spanning compilation The Queen of Rock and Roll, the label will reissue another one of her classic albums in several deluxe formats: 1993's What's Love Got to Do with It. The companion album to the biopic of the same name, the 4CD/1DVD set (available April 26) will include the remastered original album - including two tracks left off U.S. pressings - along with a bonus disc of remixes and rarities, including an

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Tina Turner

Soundtrack Watch: Intrada's 'Inchon' Re-Introduction, La-La Land's Next 'Trek'

February 13, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Inchon Intrada 2024

La-La Land and Intrada are reaching into their archives for a pair of new releases out this month. Coming from La-La Land is the fourth entry of Star Trek: The Original Series - The 1701 Collection, a series of six volumes drawn from 2012's box set of music from the iconic television show. This 2CD set features music from seven episodes released in 1968 and 1969, as scored by original series theme composer Alexander Courage, along with music by Jerry Fielding, Gerald Fried and Ivan Ditmars.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alexander Courage, Jerry Fielding, Jerry Goldsmith

All That is Her Own: Early Nico Albums Due for CD, Vinyl Reissue in March

February 13, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Nico The Marble Index

Anyone who thought they had the sound of German actress/singer Nico figured out from her work on 1967's The Velvet Underground & Nico and Chelsea Girl would not have expected what she did next - chapters in a musical career that will be explored on new reissues by Domino Recording Company. On March 29, the label will issue newly remastered versions of 1969's The Marble Index and 1970's Desertshore on CD and vinyl, featuring unseen photos of the artist in the liner notes. The Marble Index

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: John Cale, Nico

Peace in the Valley: Barbara Mandrell's "Precious Memories" Returns to CD

February 12, 2024 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Barbara Mandrell Precious Memories

Though Barbara Mandrell retired from performing and recording in 1997, the country superstar remains beloved.  In 2022, she made a rare public appearance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her induction into the Grand Ole Opry; an all-female lineup of artists including Carrie Underwood, Suzy Bogguss, Linda Davis, Connie Smith, Mandy Barnett, and CeCe Winans paid tribute.  Mandrell offered her warm appreciation but did not sing; for the past 25 years, she's restricted any singing activities to

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Gospel Tags: Barbara Mandrell

The Weekend Stream: February 10, 2023

February 10, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts. A light release week combines three unlikely bedfellows: a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-inducted rapper, a classic pop crooner, and a hero of alternative rock. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (10th Anniversary Edition) (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) Eminem's eighth album from 2013 served as a sequel of sorts to his acclaimed third album from

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Andy Williams, Eminem, Mark Mulcahy

Play for Today: The Cure's "Paris" Returns in Expanded 30th Anniversary Edition

February 9, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

The Cure Paris

The Cure's 1993 double live album Paris is getting a slightly belated 30th anniversary edition courtesy of Rhino. On March 22, Paris will return in 2LP and 1CD expanded editions premiering two bonus tracks, all newly remastered by frontman Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. The black vinyl edition has been cut by Showell. Paris arrived in stores in October 1993 - the group's third live release in just over two years. This set arrived only one month after Show, both of which

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: The Cure

Yes It Is: Grapefruit Collects 85 Beatles Covers on "We Can Work It Out"

February 9, 2024 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

We Can Work It Out

Over the years, there have been countless collections of Beatles covers.  Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint threw its hat into the ring late last year with a fulsome new 3-CD set.  We Can Work It Out: Covers of The Beatles 1962-1966 concentrates only on the Fab Four's first years, arranging its 85 songs in the order of the original Beatles song releases.  Most, though not all, of the versions are contemporaneous, making this set a particularly enjoyable tour through the rapidly shifting pop music

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Cilla Black, Jackie Trent, Jan and Dean, Joe Cocker, José Feliciano, Liza Minnelli, Mary Wells, Peter and Gordon, Petula Clark, The 5th Dimension, The Beatles, The Mamas and The Papas, The Supremes, Various Artists

Leave a Light On: Belinda Carlisle's Third 'Decades' Box Collects Single Mixes, B-Sides and More

February 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Belinda Carlisle Decades Cornucopia

Last year, Edsel Records - the longtime custodian of The Go-Go's singer Belinda Carlisle's solo works - released the box set Decades Volume 1, a 4CD set collecting reissues of her first four studio albums: Belinda (1986), Heaven on Earth (1987), Runaway Horses (1989) and Live Your Life Be Free (1991). As all four of these had been remastered and expanded by the label in the last decade - some more than once - it sort of got lost in the shuffle, as did a similar volume that offered her other four

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle

The Bell Records Story

February 8, 2024 By

Davy Jones 7a

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Deep Discount (U.S.) LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Deep Discount (U.S.) 7a Records reissues and expands the late Davy Jones' second solo LP, 1971's Davy Jones as part of the artist's The Bell Records Story.  The album was in a sunshine pop-meets-bubblegum vein, but it carried on the spirit of the early Monkees with strong tunes including some from songwriters who had written for the group (David Gates, Neil Sedaka). Davy

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Chaka

February 8, 2024 By

Chaka Khan Chaka

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Barnes & Noble Chaka Khan announced her solo freedom with "I'm Every Woman," the euphoric opening track on 1978's Chaka. At 25 years old, Khan was already a veteran of the funk-rock band Rufus with whom she had recorded landmark hits like "Tell Me Something Good" and "Sweet Thing," but Chaka took her emotive style in a new, mainstream R&B direction. The Warner Bros. album, produced by the

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

Machine Head: Super Deluxe Edition

February 8, 2024 By

Deep Purple Machine Head

Deep Purple's 1972 album Machine Head remains the venerable hard rock band's most commercially successful album.  The third LP from the Mk. II lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice introduced one of rock's most famous riffs with "Smoke on the Water," and influenced a generation of rock and metal musicians.  Rhino is revisiting Machine Head as a 3CD/1LP/1Blu-ray Super Deluxe Edition with various versions of the album plus bonus material: 2024 Dweezil

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock

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