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The Seeds of Love: Deluxe Edition [Various Formats]

August 24, 2020 By

TFF Seeds of Love Deluxe

4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: uDiscover Music The Seeds Of Love, British duo Tears for Fears' 1989 release, will be made available from UMC in a number of deluxe formats. The crown jewel is a 4CD/Blu-ray box featuring a new remaster of the album by Andrew Walter at Abbey Road, rare B-sides and remixes, 23

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock

Steel Wheels Live: Atlantic City, NJ [Various Formats]

August 24, 2020 By

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Deluxe 3-CD/2-DVD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 4-LP black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 4-LP color vinyl: Rolling Stones Online Shop / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Rock Legends

August 24, 2020 By

Thin Lizzy Rock Legends

Irish rockers Thin Lizzy launch a new archival series with the release of Rock Legends, a career-spanning 6CD/1DVD box set that offers a new overview of their work through an almost entirely unreleased selection of tracks. The series celebrates their 50th anniversary as a band, but plans for a box on this scale have been gestating since 2012, when it was reported that Universal had acquired a decade's worth of tapes kept by Lynott featuring demos, alternate versions and outtakes. The final

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Wildflowers & All The Rest [Various Formats]

August 24, 2020 By

Wildflowers All The Rest

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4CD Deluxe Edition (above plus Home Recordings & Wildflowers Live): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7LP Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5CD Super Deluxe Edition (above plus Finding Wildflowers): TomPetty.com 9LP Super Deluxe Edition: TomPetty.com 9LP Ultra Deluxe Edition: TomPetty.com The late Tom Petty's long-awaited box dedicated to the gestation of his

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Morrison Hotel: Deluxe Edition

August 24, 2020 By

The Doors Morrison Hotel 50th

The Doors went back to basics when they checked into Morrison Hotel for their 1970 studio album.  The band's fifth LP, it's now being reissued by Rhino as a 2-CD/1-LP 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.  This release follows the label's similar reissues for The Doors' first four albums including The Soft Parade which expanded their sound to include orchestration.  Morrison Hotel got them back to blues-rock in striking fashion.  CD 1 has the original mix newly remastered by the band's longtime

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

Play With Fire: The Rolling Stones Prep "Steel Wheels Live: Atlantic City, NJ" Featuring Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker, and Axl Rose

August 24, 2020 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

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Over thirty years ago, The Rolling Stones staged a show that would become one of the band's most renowned. The Atlantic City '89 concert, which took place on December 19, 1989 at the city's Convention Hall, was special for a number of reasons, but the main draw of the show was the special guests involved, who seemed to represent the past, present, and future. For this special show, The Stones called on their idol, John Lee Hooker for "Boogie Chillen," brought up their contemporary Eric Clapton

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Spread The Word Around: Long-Awaited Thin Lizzy Box Collects Trove Of Rarities

August 21, 2020 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

Thin Lizzy Rock Legends

It took literal years, but the boys are back in town. Irish rockers Thin Lizzy will launch a new archival series with the October 9 release of Rock Legends, a career-spanning 6CD/1DVD box set that offers a new overview of their work through an almost entirely unreleased selection of tracks. The series celebrates their 50th anniversary as a band, and yesterday's announcement coincided with what would have been the 71st birthday of late frontman/bassist Phil Lynott as well as the forthcoming

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Thin Lizzy

Release Round-Up: Week of August 21

August 21, 2020 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Norma Tanega, Walkin' My Cat Named Dog [Sky Blue Vinyl] (Real Gone Music)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Norma Tanega's 1966 folk-pop classic returns to vinyl in a re-pressing from Real Gone Music.  This new presentation replicates the original, utilizing the stereo mix and boasting the original artwork (which was replaced on prior CD issues).  It's pressed on sky blue vinyl.  Grab it fast, though: Walkin' My Cat Named Dog is a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Charles Bukowski, Cidny Bullens, George Winston, Jefferson Starship, Mandy Barnett, Norma Tanega, The Horace Tapscott Quartet, The Killers, Tom Tom Club, Vince Guaraldi

A Higher Place: Tom Petty's 'Wildflowers & All The Rest' Arrives In Multiple Formats This Fall

August 20, 2020 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Wildflowers All The Rest

Let's get to the point, let's roll another joint: the late, great Tom Petty's solo masterpiece Wildflowers will be revisited in a series of reissues out October 16. Wildflowers & All The Rest rounds up the original 1994 album alongside several bonus discs of outtakes and rarities. A standard 2CD/3LP edition adds 10 unheard tracks - intended for a much longer edition of the album at the time - while a 4CD/7LP deluxe box adds two volumes of solo home recordings and live cuts. A super deluxe

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Waiting for the Sun: The Doors' "Morrison Hotel" Goes Deluxe in October

August 20, 2020 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

The Doors Morrison Hotel 50th

The Doors went back to basics when they checked into Morrison Hotel for their 1970 studio album.  The band's fifth LP, it's now being reissued by Rhino on October 9 as a 2-CD/1-LP 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.  This release follows the label's similar reissues for The Doors' first four albums including The Soft Parade which expanded their sound to include orchestration.  Morrison Hotel got them back to blues-rock in striking fashion. The box set features original engineer Bruce Botnick's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Doors

Review: Joel McNeely, 'Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire'

August 19, 2020 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Star Wars Shadows of the Empire

For the 42 years Star Wars has been a pop cultural force, musical oddities have followed in the wake of its starship engines. Sure, legendary composer John Williams put an interstellar jazz number in the middle of his almost operatic score to the original 1977 film, but that didn't predict a chart-topping disco song, or Christmas albums, or quirky EDM, or various other ephemera in the ensuing decades. When Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire was released in 1996, amid a major comeback for that

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Joel McNeely, John Williams

Be True to Yourself

August 19, 2020 By

Joey Molland Be True to Yourself

Badfinger's Joey Molland releases his first album of original material in nearly a decade.  Be True to Yourself features ten new Molland songs and guest appearances from Micky Dolenz, Jason Scheff, Wings' Steve Holley, and Julian Lennon (who also provided the front and back cover photography).

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

True to Themselves: Omnivore Announces New Album from Badfinger's Joey Molland and Wax Cylinder (!) from Dom Flemons

August 19, 2020 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Joey Molland Be True to Yourself

As the only living member of the original Badfinger quartet, it's fallen to Joey Molland to keep the torch burning brightly for his old band.  But in addition to touring as Joey Molland's Badfinger, the Liverpool-born singer-songwriter-guitarist/rock and roll survivor has recorded a number of solo albums since 1984.  Last year, he appeared in the well-received tour of It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: A Tribute to The Beatles' White Album alongside such talents as Todd Rundgren, Micky Dolenz,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Rock Tags: Badfinger, Dom Flemons, Jason Scheff, Joey Molland, Julian Lennon, Micky Dolenz

Tears For Fears Sow 'The Seeds Of Love' With New Surround Remix, Deluxe Box

August 19, 2020 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

TFF Seeds of Love Deluxe

Time to eat all your words, swallow your pride, open your eyes: Tears For Fears are finally giving their third album the deluxe treatment. The Seeds Of Love, the British duo's 1989 release, will be made available October 9 from UMC in a number of formats. The crown jewel is a 4CD/Blu-ray box featuring a new remaster of the album by Andrew Walter at Abbey Road, rare B-sides and remixes, 23 previously unreleased demos, mixes, outtakes and rehearsal audio, plus a long-awaited 5.1 surround remix

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Tears for Fears

Yardbird Suite: Universal Celebrates Charlie Parker's Centennial With "Bird 100" Campaign

August 18, 2020 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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August 29 will mark what would have been the 100th birthday of Charlie Parker.  The alto saxophonist is a pillar of jazz as we know it, transforming the genre as a leader of the bebop sound.  To celebrate, Universal Music Group's UMe arm is continuing its Bird 100 campaign to include vinyl reissues of his Clef Records material, a new collection of Los Angeles sessions in the '40s and '50s, a new book of complete music scores, a graphic novel by Z2 Comics (publisher of Grateful Dead: Origins), a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Charlie Parker

A Holly Dolly Christmas

August 18, 2020 By

Dolly Parton A Holly Dolly Christmas

Dolly Parton is spreading the sunshine this Christmas with an all-new holiday album.  A Holly Dolly Christmas features her renditions of "A Holly Jolly Christmas," "Pretty Paper," and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" alongside duets with Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Dolly's brother Randy Parton.  Available on CD and vinyl.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Holiday

Ultimate Christmas

August 18, 2020 By

Peggy Lee Ultimate Christmas

Capitol and UMe continue the Peggy Lee centennial celebration with this new anthology featuring 22 of her beloved Christmas recordings.  Tracks include "Winter Wonderland," "The Christmas Waltz," "I Like a Sleighride (Jingle Bells)," "Peace on Earth," and many more.  Available on CD and 2-LP vinyl.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

It's Magic: Crimson Collects "Gold" from Doris Day, Neil Sedaka, Tammy Wynette, The Foundations

August 18, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Neil Sedaka Gold

Today, we're rounding up a quartet of recent additions to Crimson Productions' ever-growing library of 3-CD Gold collections! The Foundations occupy a place in history as the first multi-racial band to score a U.K. No. 1 single in the 1960s.  While the pop-soul group's run of hits was relatively short-lived, their classics "Build Me Up, Buttercup" and "Baby, Now That I've Found You" still remain in the rotation on oldies stations everywhere.  Crimson's Gold volume proves that The Foundations'

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Doris Day, George Jones, Johnnie Ray, Neil Sedaka, Tammy Wynette, The Foundations

All Rise: New Box Set Anthologizes Herb Alpert's Discography

August 17, 2020 By Mike Duquette 17 Comments

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There are truly few in the music business like Herb Alpert. A trumpet player, songwriter, label co-founder, sculptor and philanthropist - Alpert is all these things and more, and they're all due to be on display in a forthcoming documentary, appropriately titled Herb Alpert Is..., slated to premiere October 1. Just one day later, a new overview of his storied musical career is due. The box set Herb Alpert Is..., to be released through his own Herb Alpert Presents label, will compile 63 tracks

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Hugh Masekela, Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

Herb Alpert Is...

August 17, 2020 By

Herb Alpert Is

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Herb Alpert Is...a trumpeter, songwriter, producer, artist, entrepreneur, philanthropist.  The list goes on.  To tie in with director John Scheinfeld's documentary of that name premiering this fall, Alpert's own Herb Alpert Presents label is releasing a 3-CD or 5-LP deluxe box set tracing his career from the birth of A&M Records (which he founded with Jerry Moss) to the present day.  The

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

This Dream of You

August 17, 2020 By

Diana Krall This Dream of You

Diana Krall is back with a new studio album culled from her final recording sessions in 2016-2017 with late, great producer Tommy LiPuma.  This Dream of You is named after the recent Bob Dylan song, and the album also includes such classic standards as "Almost Like Being in Love," "Autumn in New York," "That's All," and "How Deep Is the Ocean."  Settings vary, with ensemble, quartet, and duo performances.  Available on CD, vinyl, and streaming.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

Hey Clockface

August 17, 2020 By

Elvis Costello Hey Clockface

Elvis Costello has followed up his Grammy-winning Look Now with a new LP recorded in Helsinki, Paris, and New York with various collaborators including Bill Frisell, Wilco's Nels Cline, and The Imposters' Steve Nieve. The album includes all three of his solo Helsinki tracks released digitally this summer including "No Flag," "Hetty O'Hara Confidential," and "We Are All Cowards Now." Available on CD, 2-LP vinyl, and digital/streaming.

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Cruisin' for Love: Cherry Red, RPM Collect The Complete Kursaal Flyers on "Little Does She Know"

August 17, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Kursaal Flyers Little Does She Know

The Kursaal Flyers - founded in Southend-on-Sea, some 40 miles or 64 kilometers east of central London and so named for the town's famous building which once housed part of a famous amusement park - made their biggest splash with the 1976 single "Little Does She Know," produced by Mike Batt in thunderous Phil Spector style.  Cherry Red's RPM Records has recently chronicled the full Kursaal Flyers story as one of the imprint's final projects.  Little Does She Know: The Complete Recordings has

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Kursaal Flyers

Sinister Footwear II: Frank Zappa's "Halloween 81" Box Set Arrives In October

August 14, 2020 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Frank Zappa Halloween 81

It wouldn't be Halloween without a little Frank Zappa...and this year, Zappa Records and UMe are delivering once again with a frightfully entertaining new box set.  October 2 will see the release of Halloween 81, following up the previous releases of Halloween 73 and 77.  The 6-CD box set boasts 78 previously unreleased live tracks from three concerts for more than seven hours of listening. The bandleader's New York Halloween shows were among his most anticipated as he blended his signature

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Frank Zappa, Steve Vai

Any Man Of Hers: Shania Twain Expands 'The Woman In Me'

August 14, 2020 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

The Woman In Me Diamond

Country superstar Shania Twain is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her breakthrough album The Woman In Me with a multiformat reissue in October. The Woman In Me: Diamond Edition will be available as a 2CD edition or 3CD box set, each packed with rare and unreleased tracks. Both versions feature a disc of rare single-only remixes and live tracks, both from earlier in her career (a pair of live B-sides from a 1998 concert in Dallas recorded for a DirecTV special) and from just a few months

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop

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