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Short Takes: Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen Share Details on Future Box Sets

September 21, 2020 By Mike Duquette 11 Comments

Springsteen Costello

Over the past few days, two rock legends dished on some upcoming catalogue projects while discussing their latest musical works. On Friday, in a new interview with Billboard, Elvis Costello talked about next month's Hey Clockface, releasing October 30 - but also let slip some details about another series of reissues around his first decade of material: Recently I went to a meeting at a record company for the first time since the '90s [at Universal, which last year renewed its global license

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

Review: Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets "Live At The Roundhouse" Takes Audiences Back In Time

September 18, 2020 By Sam Stone 7 Comments

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It's been said that music is the closest thing we have to time travel. Case in point: the new live album and concert film from Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets. Released today, September 18, Live At The Roundhouse captures the former Pink Floyd drummer and his supergroup of talented friends - guitarists Lee Harris and Gary Kemp, keyboardist Dom Beken, and longtime Floyd associate Guy Pratt on bass - as they tackle some of Pink Floyd's earliest deep cuts in the famed London venue. The 22-song

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock Tags: Nick Mason

Flaunt It: Deluxe Edition

September 18, 2020 By

SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK Flaunt It

Cherry Red is launching the debut album by Sigue Sigue Sputnik back into orbit with a greatly-expanded 4CD set.  Flaunt It, the group's 1986 album introduction after several years of hype and a pair of Top 20 hits in the U.K., will be expanded to feature two discs of B-sides and remixes and a previously unreleased live-in-studio set at Abbey Road Studios. All the material is remastered from the original tapes and assembled with input by original group bassist Tony James and guitarist Neal X.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, Rock

Love Songs

September 18, 2020 By

Whitesnake Love Songs

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Continuing a series of compilations that kicked off earlier this year, Whitesnake will release a new collection, Love Songs, through Rhino.  Love Songs is the middle act in the British rock group's "Red, White and Blues" trilogy that kicked off with The Rock Album back in June. (The closer, The Blues Album, will hit stores next year.) Like that collection, Love Songs is centered on a theme - romance,

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

2nd Wave

September 18, 2020 By

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop LP clear with black swirl: Real Gone Music Online Store LP transparent orange with black swirl: Vinyl Me Please Real Gone Music continues its Black Jazz reissue series with this 1975 album from keyboardist Roland Haynes.  The hard-to-find album features notable sidemen in the ace rhythm section composed of drummer Carl Burnett (whose credits include

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

The Lost Berlin Tapes

September 18, 2020 By

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CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ella Fitzgerald's March 25, 1962 Berlin concert (during which she was supported by the trio of pianist Paul Smith, bassist Wilfred Middlebrooks, and drummer Stan Levey) at the city's Sportpalast was recorded by her producer-manager Norman Granz, but never issued...until now.  Verve/UMe has it on both CD and LP, with seventeen swingin' songs including "Jersey Bounce," "Hallelujah, I Love Him So,"

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

Jewel Box

September 18, 2020 By

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8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deep Cuts 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rarities & B-Sides 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada And This Is Me... 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John is reaching deep into the vault with Jewel Box, a new, super-sized collection of rare and unreleased material.  The British pop legend's deep dive into his expansive, five-decade-plus archive features 148 tracks on 8 CDs, approximately 63 of

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

Is This Love: Whitesnake Remix Romantic Tracks For 'Love Songs' Collection

September 18, 2020 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Whitesnake Love Songs

Continuing a series of compilations that kicked off earlier this year, Whitesnake will release a new collection, Love Songs, through Rhino on November 6. Love Songs is the middle act in the British rock group's "Red, White and Blues" trilogy that kicked off with The Rock Album back in June. (The closer, The Blues Album, will hit stores next year.) Like that collection, Love Songs is centered on a theme - romance, as you could guess from the title - and like The Rock Album, every track on here

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

Release Round-Up: Week of September 18

September 18, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

LittleRichard RillThing

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! John Coltrane, Giant Steps: 60th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada John Coltrane's 1960 Atlantic debut was entitled Giant Steps, and indeed, that's what the saxophonist took on this groundbreaking album.  Intense, dark, probing: the color of his saxophone was all his own.  Rhino is celebrating 60 years of Giant Steps with a multi-format anniversary edition

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac, Heatwave, John Coltrane, John Prine, Little Richard, Neil Young, Nick Cordero, Nick Mason, Roy Clark, The New Seekers, Thelonious Monk

Shoot It Up: Cherry Red Expands Sigue Sigue Sputnik's Debut

September 17, 2020 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK Flaunt It

Cherry Red is launching the debut album by Sigue Sigue Sputnik back into orbit with a greatly-expanded 4CD set. Flaunt It, the group's 1986 album introduction after several years of hype and a pair of Top 20 hits in the U.K., will be expanded to feature two discs of B-sides and remixes and a previously unreleased live-in-studio set at Abbey Road Studios. All the material is remastered from the original tapes and assembled with input by original group bassist Tony James and guitarist Neal

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, Rock Tags: Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Asleep In The Deep: Mastodon Celebrates 20 Years With "Medium Rarities" Collection

September 17, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

Mastadon MediumRarities

It might be hard to believe, but the hard rockers of Mastodon are celebrating their 20th year together.  And they're doing so in style with a new collection of audio treasures available now on CD wherever fine music is sold and across digital platforms.  Entitled Medium Rarities, the 16-track album is comprised of non-album singles, covers, soundtrack recordings, instrumentals, and live performances collected together for the first time ever.  You'll hear the band take on  "A Commotion" by

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

Pour Down Like Silver: Richard and Linda Thompson Box Out Tomorrow in U.S.

September 17, 2020 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Richard and Linda Thompson Hard Luck Stories

Though they've been separated personally and professionally for almost four decades, Richard and Linda Thompson are still recognized as one of the most significant musical duos of their generation. Fairport Convention co-founder Richard first teamed with Linda as a member of folk-rock group The Bunch, releasing one album in 1972; in October of that year, they became husband and wife. From a purely musical standpoint, the marriage of guitarist-songwriter Richard to vocalist Linda was a completely

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Linda Thompson, Richard and Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson

Burn Down The Mission: Elton John Collects Rarities On New Box Set

September 17, 2020 By Mike Duquette 23 Comments

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Elton John is reaching deep into the vault with Jewel Box, a new, super-sized collection of rare and unreleased material. The British pop legend will release the new eight-disc collection on November 13, providing the deepest dive yet into his expansive, five-decade-plus archive. Approximately 63 of the set's 148 songs are previously unreleased, and three dozen B-sides are being compiled here for the first time. There are four themes across the discs, which will carry over to a trio of

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Great Gosh A'Mighty: Two More Little Richard Albums Expanded by Omnivore

September 17, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Little Richard The Second Coming

This Friday, September 18, Omnivore will release two expanded editions from the one and only Little Richard.  But those reissues of The Rill Thing and The King of Rock and Roll aren't all the label has coming from the piano-pounding pioneer.  On October 23, Omnivore will continue mining Richard's Reprise discography with 1972's The Second Coming and jump ahead to 1986 for the Warner Bros. release Lifetime Friend, both in newly expanded and remastered form. The Second Coming, Little Richard's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Preston, Little Richard

Riding On The Metro: Berlin's 'Pleasure Victim' Expanded by Rubellan Remasters

September 16, 2020 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Pleasure Victim

Earlier this month, the Rubellan Remasters label issued their latest expanded CD - a bonus-track packed version of Berlin's breakthrough album, Pleasure Victim. Released in 1982, Pleasure Victim found the California band (no Europeans here, despite the name) bouncing back from a few years of difficulties on the club scene. In 1979, lead singer Teri Nunn had left the band, leaving the rest of the group's members to record a debut album with another vocalist. When Nunn rejoined, the group began

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Berlin

Medium Rarities [CD]

September 16, 2020 By

Mastadon MediumRarities

Mastodon celebrates 20 years together with a new collection of non-album singles, covers, soundtrack recordings, instrumentals, and live performances collected together for the first time ever. From covers of songs originally popularized by Feist, The Flaming Lips, or Metallica to soundtrack contributions and non-album singles, Medium Rarities is sure to please hard rockers everywhere.  The LP edition arrives October 16 on black vinyl and online-store exclusive pink vinyl.

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C'est Magnifique: Ella Fitzgerald's "The Lost Berlin Tapes" Arrive in October

September 16, 2020 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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Over 58 years ago, Ella Fitzgerald took the stage at Berlin's Sportpalast for a swinging set.  The March 25, 1962 date, part of an extensive European tour, found her supported by the trio of pianist Paul Smith, bassist Wilfred Middlebrooks, and drummer Stan Levey.  She was no stranger to Berlin; her February 1960 concert at the city's Deutschlandhalle was released as Mack the Knife: Ella in Berlin and won two Grammy Awards.  There had been no audio document of her 1962 show...until now. On

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Ella Fitzgerald

Varese Boots Up Expanded 'Hackers' Soundtrack

September 15, 2020 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Hackers 25

Audiences and critics may not have fully understood Hackers when it was released exactly 25 years ago - but the cyber-cult classic continues to be a touchpoint in the public's early understanding of the nascent Internet. Next week, its original soundtrack is being expanded for its anniversary, complete with some surprising cameos from a classic rock legend. The film followed a group of young, elite, underground programmers who accidentally stumble upon a computer virus-assisted plot to

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: David Gilmour, Massive Attack, Prodigy, Squeeze

Funky Mama: Hard-To-Find Roland Haynes Album "2nd Wave" To Be Reissued by Real Gone Music

September 15, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

The deep-dive into Black Jazz Records' catalogue continues! Real Gone Music has announced new CD and vinyl reissues of Roland Haynes' only album, 2nd Wave, due on October 23.  The hard-to-find album features notable jazz sidemen like the ace rhythm section composed of drummer Carl Burnett (whose credits include Cal Tjader, Vince Guaraldi and Gene Harris and The Three Sounds), and bassist Henry 'The Skipper' Franklin (who's recorded with Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Hugh Masekela, and many

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Roland Haynes

A Miracle Happened: "A Cellarful of Motown" Returns with Gems from The Temptations, Martha and The Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Kim Weston, Blinky, and More

September 15, 2020 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Cellarful of Motown 5

The classic Motown vaults are, once again, open.  This Friday, the U.K.'s Caroline label will release the long-anticipated fifth volume of A Cellarful of Motown, the rarities series which last saw a volume in 2010.  But this 2-CD, 43-song collection promises to have been worth the wait as it features previously unreleased and new-to-CD tracks from such household name artists as Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, Gladys Knight and The Pips, and The (Detroit) Spinners

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Billy Eckstine, Blinky, Brenda Holloway, Chuck Jackson, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Kim Weston, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, The Spinners, The Temptations

Goddamn Electric: Pantera's 'Reinventing The Steel' Gets Remixed and Expanded

September 15, 2020 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Pantera Reinventing 20

Rhino is reinventing Pantera's final album as a remixed and expanded edition this fall, for its 20th anniversary. Reinventing The Steel, released in the spring of 2000, is coming back October 30 as a bonus-packed 3CD set that pairs the remastered original album with a brand-new remix by the band's longtime producer Terry Date. (This album was one of their only heavy metal works not to be produced by Date, who had collaborated with the group since 1990's Cowboys From Hell.) The set also

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

Dirty Old Town: The Pogues' 'BBC Sessions' RSD Release To Be Expanded On CD

September 14, 2020 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Pogues BBC

Rhino is expanding one of their recent Record Store Day "drop" vinyl sets for CD: a collection of BBC performances by Celtic-punk group The Pogues. The BBC Sessions 1984-86 features six sets recorded over three years by the raucous ensemble, including a 1984 set for John Peel's radio program when they were still going by the full name of Pogue Mahone (a rough approximation of the Gaelic phrase for "kiss my ass"). Two Peel sets, one each for David "Kid" Jensen and Phil Kennedy (released for

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Review: July, "The Complete Recordings" Traces Over 50 Years of the Beloved Psych-Rock Band

September 14, 2020 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

They might not be a household name, but July is a band you ought to know.  The U.K. psych-rockers have garnered a cult following since the release of their self-titled 1968 record.  Original mono copies sell for more than three grand online, but its not just the scarcity and desirability of the album that raises eyebrows; it's the high quality of the music.  Though their singles may not have charted back in the day, the five-piece Ealing-based group is still considered by psych-rock enthusiasts

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: July

Mind Blowing Decisions: Crimson Collects Three Discs of Heatwave

September 14, 2020 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Heatwave Gold

Autumn's almost here, but Demon's Crimson imprint is planning a Heatwave with the impending release of a 3CD collection in the label's Gold series that covers the U.K. R&B group in detail. Though they were based in England and signed to the country's GTO label (with Epic handling their works in the U.S.), Heatwave showcased the potential of soul, funk and R&B in the disco era to connect with a global audience. At the core of the band were two Americans (singers Johnnie Wilder, Jr. and

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

Joni Mitchell Archives - Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) [5-CD]

September 11, 2020 By

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The first in a series of box sets, Joni Mitchell Archives - Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) features nearly 6 hours of unreleased material - 119 tracks across 5 CDs - all from the period prior to the commencement of her recording career. You'll hear her first-ever recorded performance, intimate and newly unearthed coffeehouse concerts, home demos, and much more. There's a total of 29 previously unheard Joni Mitchell songs, among them "Jeremy," "Free Darling," and "Gemini Twin," which had

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