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Love is the Seventh Wave: Sting Digital Deluxe Editions to Make CD Debut in Japan

June 16, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Sting THe Dream of the Blue Turtles Expanded

Starting in 2021 and continuing annually, albums in Sting's solo catalogue have been reissued with bonus tracks for various anniversaries. This year, fans have asked themselves if that will continue, and, perhaps, if this material will ever receive a physical release. The answers appear to be "yes" and "yes, if you're willing to import from Japan." On July 11, Universal Music Group Japan will issue SHM-CD editions of the former Police frontman's ...Nothing Like the Sun (1987), The Soul

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Sting

Pieces of My Life: Elvis' L.A. Recordings Anthologized in New Box Set

June 16, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Elvis Presley Sunset Boulevard

Last year's Elvis Presley box set was Memphis, devoted to the King's lengthy history with recording studios in the Tennessee city that became his home. Ahead of another annual Elvis Week at his Graceland estate, the next box set will trace his connections to a recording studio on the West Coast. Sunset Boulevard, available August 1, is a 5CD set featuring Presley's work at RCA Records' Studio C in Hollywood - one of the more important studios he'd record in through his final recording years

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

Live at the Oval 1971

June 15, 2025 By

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Initially available as part of the band's revived Wholigan Fan Club, The Who's Live At The Oval 1971 is coming to general release.  The album finally canonizes the group's celebrated performance at "Goodbye to Summer," a British benefit concert for the people of Bangladesh. Featuring several songs from the band's just-released Who's Next, including "Behind Blue Eyes," "Won't Get Fooled Again," and "Bargain," the 15-track set was available for decades as a poor-quality bootleg until now; it's

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

You Can't Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos

June 15, 2025 By

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You Can't Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos collects more than 160 tracks from the late, legendary songwriter, who died in 1991 at the age of 65 and was subsequently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Blues Hall of Fame. Over 120 of these demos are previously unreleased, while still others are making their CD and digital debuts.  Many of these songs are familiar, while others never received an official recording.  What they share in

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Stax Revue Live in '65!

June 15, 2025 By

Stax Revue 65

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 2CD or 2LP Stax Revue: Live in '65! expands a pivotal pair of concerts undertaken at the 5-4 Ballroom in Los Angeles 60 summers ago when the Memphis label - newly bolstered by a distribution deal with Atlantic Records - took several of its marquee acts to the West Coast (many for the first time) for a spirited club set packed with favorites by William Bell ("You Don't Miss Your Water"), Rufus

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

Live From The Rainbow Theatre with Ray Cooper

June 15, 2025 By

Elton John Rainbow Theatre Ray Cooper

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) A 1977 archival live album from Elton John, released earlier this year for Record Store Day, is getting a wider release this summer.  Live from the Rainbow Theatre with Ray Cooper will come back to LP as well as bow on CD and digital, featuring all 12 tracks from the original release plus one extra, a disc-closing rendition of "Goodbye." The British piano pop icon, who released the

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

The Weekend Stream Extra: A Guide to 'MTV Unplugged' on Paramount+ (Part 4)

June 15, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Babyface Clapton Unplugged

Welcome to a special Sunday feature of The Weekend Stream, which takes a look at one of MTV's great live music programs thanks to a recent reissue of one of its best-known episodes. We're running a five-part deep-dive on every episode of MTV Unplugged that's currently streaming on the station's parent streaming network Paramount+! (Parts 1, 2 and 3 can be read here, here and here.) The seventh and eighth seasons of MTV Unplugged aired in 1996 and 1997, which were sort of its last years as a

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alice in Chains, Babyface, Bryan Adams, Chris Isaak, Hootie and The Blowfish, Jakob Dylan, Jewel, Oasis, Seal, Stevie Wonder, The Wallflowers, Tori Amos

Release Round-Up: Week of June 13

June 13, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

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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. Grateful Dead, Gratest Hits (Grateful Dead/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino assembles a single-CD or single-LP, nine-song Gratest Hits [sic] from Grateful Dead, marking the band's 60th anniversary with the original studio versions of such classics as "Truckin'," "Sugar Magnolia," and "Touch of Grey."  Read

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alice Ripley, Grateful Dead, Metallica, Neil Sedaka, Neil Young, New Kids on the Block, Oasis, Queen, Tom Kitt, Ultravox, Van Morrison

Where to Now, St. Peter? Elton John's RSD-Exclusive Rainbow Theatre Live Album Gets Wide Release

June 12, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Elton John Rainbow Theatre Ray Cooper

An archival live album from Elton John, released earlier this year for Record Store Day, is getting a wider release this summer. Live from the Rainbow Theatre with Ray Cooper will come back to LP as well as bow on CD and digital on July 25, featuring all 12 tracks from the original release plus one extra, a disc-closing rendition of "Goodbye." The British piano pop icon, who released the collaborative studio album Who Believes in Angels? with Brandi Carlile in April, curated the album, drawn

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Elton John

You Can't Sit Down: Craft Offers Rare Memphis Soul in Concert on 'Stax Revue: Live in '65!'

June 12, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stax Revue 65

The Southern soul of Stax Records truly knew no boundaries. This summer, a classic instance of its staying power, recorded live in concert, will be revisited on a new 2CD/2LP set. Stax Revue: Live in '65! expands a pivotal pair of concerts undertaken at the 5-4 Ballroom in Los Angeles 60 summers ago when the Memphis label - newly bolstered by a distribution deal with Atlantic Records - took several of its marquee acts to the West Coast (many for the first time) for a spirited club set packed

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Booker T. & The MG's, Carla Thomas, David Porter, Rufus Thomas, William Bell, Wilson Pickett

Laughter in the Rain: "Sedaka's Back" Returns on CD, LP, Digital Formats

June 12, 2025 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Neil Sedaka Sedaka's Back

Near the end of their Grammy-winning, chart-topping 1975 rendition of Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield's "Love Will Keep Us Together," Toni Tennille threw in an ad-lib not written by lyricist Greenfield: Sedaka is back...!  Indeed, the singer-songwriter who had begun his career in 1957 was enjoying a new string of successes including his own No. 1 that same year, "Laughter in the Rain."  Tomorrow, Friday, June 13, Sedaka's own label will reissue the Rocket Records album which relaunched his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Elton John, Neil Sedaka

Talkin' to the Trees

June 10, 2025 By

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Neil Young's latest album pairs the veteran singer-songwriter and bandleader with the group he's dubbed The Chrome Hearts: Spooner Oldham (organ); Micah Nelson (guitar/vocals); Corey McCormick (bass/vocals); and Anthony LoGerfo (drums).  Produced by Young and Lou Adler, the album features ten new compositions by Neil.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally. an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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

Next to Normal: Original Broadway Cast Recording [15th Anniversary Edition]

June 10, 2025 By

Next to Normal OBC 15th

Hot on the heels of a successful London revival, the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the 2009 Tony Award-winning musical Next to Normal is revisited for this special 2CD edition which premiered last year on digital services.  Composer Tom Kitt and co-producer Derik Lee have remixed the original album from the multitracks, bringing out new elements in both the orchestration and vocals, and revitalizing it with a newfound energy better reflective of the cathartic experience in the theatre. 

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These Magic Moments: Omnivore Collects Doc Pomus Demos on New Box Set

June 9, 2025 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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Over a career spanning five decades, Doc Pomus - born Jerome Solon Felder in 1925 - penned some of the most memorable songs of all time: "Viva Las Vegas." "Save the Last Dance for Me."  "Lonely Avenue."  "Can't Get Used to Losing You."  "Sweets for My Sweet."  "This Magic Moment."  "Hushabye."  With hits performed by the likes of Ray Charles, The Drifters, Andy Williams, Dolly Parton, Bobby Darin, and, of course, Elvis Presley, Pomus' songs transcended genre and era.  Bob Dylan dedicated his

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Doc Pomus, Ellie Greenwich, Kenny Rankin, Mort Shuman, Neil Sedaka, Toni Wine

The Kinds U Find in a Secondhand Store: Paisley Park Celebration Hints At Posthumous Prince Releases

June 9, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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This weekend's digital release of another unreleased Prince track could indicate the gears of the late artist's estate could start moving once again. At a panel for the annual Celebration fan event in and around Prince's hometown of Minneapolis and Chanhassen recording complex Paisley Park, representatives for the estate and distributing partner Legacy Recordings discussed potential box sets, vinyl releases and digital initiatives - as well as some frank discussion on the infamously-canned

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

Release Round-Up: Week of June 6

June 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

WAR Why Can't We Be Friends

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. Dusty Springfield, Longing (Real Gone Music) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone Music premieres a lost album from Dusty Springfield: 1974's Longing.  Produced by Brooks Arthur, the album features a number of singer-songwriter-oriented compositions including

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alden Shuman, Cynthia Erivo, Dusty Springfield, Eli Paperboy Reed, Joe Henderson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Megan Hilty, My Chemical Romance, Pulp, Rick James, Seth MacFarlane, Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, War, Woody Shaw

Corner of the Sky: Real Gone's June Line-Up Includes "Lost" Dusty Springfield Album Plus Jazz, Heavy Metal, Bluegrass, More

June 5, 2025 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

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As we roll into summer, Real Gone has another varied line-up for June.  It is anchored by an unreleased album by Dusty Springfield but also features a jazz rarity from Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw as well as metal, bluegrass, and even an adult film soundtrack.  All of these titles are being released tomorrow, June 6, and you can read on for more information. By the beginning of the 1970s, Dusty Springfield was at a career crossroads.  Although she remained on her U.K. label home Phillips, she

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alden Shuman, Blue Murder, Deicide, Dusty Springfield, J.D. Crowe and The New South, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw

Say You Will: New Ivy Album, Built from Unreleased Tracks, Due in September

June 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Ivy Traces of You

Five years after bidding a too-early farewell to one of pop's most stalwart songwriters, a new album from his second-best remembered (but first major) band is coming, built off contributions he left behind. Traces of You, due September 5, is the first new album in a dozen years from alternative pop band Ivy. The news might come as a shock, as one of the group's charter members, bassist/songwriter Adam Schlesinger, died in 2020 - an early victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. Happily, as a gift

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Adam Schlesinger, Ivy

It Was Only Yesterday: Robinsongs Collects Soul-Jazz From Eddie Harris, Larry Carlton

June 4, 2025 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Eddie Harris Five Classic Albums

Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint has been maintaining a busy 2025 schedule, with two new titles celebrating greats of jazz and soul. A 5 Classic Albums on 4 Discs collection from late saxophone titan Eddie Harris (1934-1996) offers all of Harris' albums for the Atlantic label originally released between 1974 and 1976 (with the exception of his album of off-color, spoken-word routines).  Harris enjoyed a versatile career before signing with Atlantic in 1965.  His first albums as a leader were

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Eddie Harris, Larry Carlton, Les McCann, Michael McDonald, Vince Gill

Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements

June 3, 2025 By

Seth MacFarlane Lush Life

For this new release, Family Guy star Seth MacFarlane has unearthed a dozen arrangements written by the legendary likes of Don Costa, Nelson Riddle, and Billy May for Frank Sinatra but never recorded by the Chairman.  MacFarlane and conductor John Wilson have finally brought these to life with a 70-piece orchestra of both American and British players, recording at Skywalker Sound.  Songs include "Lush Life," "A Wonderful Day Like Today," "When Joanna Loved Me," and "Give Me the Simple Life." 

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Something There: Remembering Jeffrey Foskett

June 3, 2025 By

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Omnivore Recordings has teamed with the late Beach Boys vocalist Jeffrey Foskett's estate to celebrate his extraordinary musical legacy on a new collection.  Something There - Remembering Jeffrey Foskett features a whopping 25 songs (16 of which are previously unreleased) from the singer's often-too-unheralded solo discography and beyond.  The guest list speaks for itself, including Brian Wilson, Mike Love, America's Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, Robert Lamm, David Pack, Los Straitjackets,

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Splash City: Omnivore Celebrates Jeffrey Foskett on "Something There" Featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, America, More

June 3, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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Jeffrey Foskett surely embodied the California Dream.  The San Jose native his dues gigging around the Golden State with such early bands as Reverie and The Pranks.  A knock on Brian Wilson's door in 1976 led to a long friendship with the Beach Boy, while Wilson's cousin Mike Love became a Foskett fan three years later upon hearing Reverie live in a Santa Barbara bar.  Love brought Foskett into the Beach Boys fold - first in The Endless Summer Beach Band, then in the Beach Boys themselves. 

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop Tags: America, Brian Wilson, Christopher Cross, Gerry Beckley, Henry Kapono, Jeff Larson, Jeffrey Foskett, Los Straitjackets, Mike Love, Papa Doo Run Run, Robert Lamm, The Beach Boys

Soundtrack Watch: Bond Back on Vinyl At La-La Land, Intrada Unsheathes Kamen's 'Three Musketeers'

June 2, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Goldfinger LP packshot

A new month kicks off with a bonanza of soundtrack reissues from La-La Land and Intrada - including more planned activity from the world of James Bond. La-La Land has made three archival titles available for sale from yesterday (June 1). First is a vinyl edition of their remastered CD of John Barry's score to Goldfinger. The third James Bond film (and the second to be scored by the British composer/arranger) scored big with the series' first-ever title theme, co-written by Barry, Anthony

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Anthony Newley, Bryan Adams, Cyril Mockridge, Elmer Bernstein, Franz Waxman, Harry Manfredini, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Louis Armstrong, Michael Kamen, Rod Stewart, Shirley Bassey, Sting, Victor Young

The Weekend Stream Extra: A Guide to 'MTV Unplugged' on Paramount+ (Part 3)

June 1, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Unplugged Collection Volume One

Welcome to a special Sunday feature of The Weekend Stream, which takes a look at one of MTV's great live music programs thanks to a recent reissue of one of its best-known episodes. We're running a five-part deep-dive on every episode of MTV Unplugged that's currently streaming on the station's parent streaming network Paramount+! (Part 1 and 2 can be read here and here.) With rock music undergoing a transformation after the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994, MTV Unplugged continued to settle

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, KISS, Lenny Kravitz, Live, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, Stone Temple Pilots, The Cranberries, Tony Bennett

Young Blood: UFO's 'No Place to Run' Gets Reissued with Remixed Concert Audio

May 30, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

UFO No Place to Run deluxe

A transitional album in the discography of British rockers UFO will be revisited in a deluxe edition this summer. The band's eighth album No Place to Run, originally released in 1980, will be reissued as a 2CD or 3LP set on August 15. It pairs a new remaster of the original album created at London's AIR Studios alongside selections from a concurrent live set at the Marquee Club in London. Some of the live material was reissued as bonus tracks on various sets between 2009 and 2013, but has

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

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