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Way Down In The Jungle Room

June 20, 2016 By

Elvis Way Down in the Jungle Room

Way Down in the Jungle Room is the first anthology dedicated to the master recordings and outtakes recorded at Graceland's famous Jungle Room by Elvis Presley and longtime producer Felton Jarvis during two now-legendary periods: February 2-8, 1976 and October 28-30, 1976.  The outtakes have been newly mixed by Grammy Award-winning engineer Matt Ross-Spang at Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, Tennessee.  For these intimate and raw, heartfelt sessions, Elvis was backed by many members of his

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Braver Than We Are

June 20, 2016 By

Meat Loaf Braver Than We Are

Meat Loaf's new studio album reunites him with Jim Steinman, the musical maestro behind Bat Out of Hell I & II.  Braver Than We Are features new renditions of Steinman songs never previously recorded by Meat Loaf including tracks from his musicals Tanz der Vampire, The Dream Engine, Rhinegold and More Than You Deserve. Ellen Foley and Karla DeVito guest on the album. Aside from the standard CD, Amazon is listing an exclusive autographed 2-LP vinyl and an exclusive CD/DVD version with the DVD

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway

June 20, 2016 By

Barbra Streisand Encore

Barbra Streisand goes "Back to Broadway" (again!) with this new duets album.  On this 10-song set, Streisand is joined by an eclectic array of talents including Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Melissa McCarthy, Chris Pine, Daisy Ridley and Anne Hathaway on songs by Marvin Hamlisch, Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe and others.  The Target-exclusive edition will boast four solo bonus tracks.

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

Close to You: Bacharach Reimagined

June 20, 2016 By

Close to You Bacharach Reimagined

Kyle Riabko's contemporary, guitar-infused take on the classic Burt Bacharach songbook is preserved on this London Cast Recording of his contemporary musical revue Close to You: Bacharach Reimagined.  Riabko and a cast of young musician-singers bring vitality to these modernized yet faithful renditions of Bacharach favorites with lyrics by Hal David and Carole Bayer Sager.  The 2-CD set features over ten demos as bonus tracks.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Cast Recordings

Release Round-Up: Week of June 17

June 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Chicago Quadio

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Chicago, Quadio (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD / Amazon Canada) This week's biggest and most hotly-anticipated release, Chicago's Quadio, brings together nine albums from the legendary band in remastered high-resolution 192/24 DTS-HD Master Audio in both their original quadraphonic and stereo mixes on nine Blu-ray discs.  This lavish celebration of the Windy City's favorite band is housed in a rigid two-piece box, with every album

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Chicago, Grace Jones, John Phillips, Keith Emerson, The Kingbees, Toni Braxton

King of the Jungle: Elvis' Jungle Room Sessions Collected On New 2-CD Set

June 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Elvis Way Down in the Jungle Room

On August 5, Elvis Presley will be heading Way Down in the Jungle Room thanks to the new release from RCA Records and Legacy Recordings.  This new 2-CD collection brings together The King's final studio recordings made in the famous Jungle Room at Graceland. Way Down in the Jungle Room is the first anthology dedicated to the master recordings and outtakes recorded at Graceland by Elvis and longtime producer Felton Jarvis during two now-legendary periods: February 2-8, 1976 and October 28-30,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Elvis Presley

Going All The Way Is Just The Start: Meat Loaf to Reunite with Jim Steinman on New Album

June 16, 2016 By Randy Fairman 10 Comments

Meat Loaf Braver Than We Are

Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman have been inextricably linked since the beginning of their careers with the release of the classic Bat Out of Hell in 1977.  The rock heroes have gone their separate ways in the four decades since that album's release but they always seem to come back together and they are doing it once again.  A new Meat Loaf album entitled Braver Than We Are has just shown up on Amazon for release on September 16 with the subtitle reading "All Songs By Jim Steinman." This album

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Ellen Foley, Jim Steinman, Karla DeVito, Meat Loaf

The Big Rock: Expanded Edition

June 15, 2016 By

The Kingbees The Big Rock

Omnivore expands The Kingbees' 1981 RSO swansong with four bonus tracks appearing for the first time on CD!  The Big Rock, celebrating its 35th anniversary, features The Kingbees' trademark blend of rock-and-roll, punk and country in full force.  After the original release of the album in 1981, The Kingbees disbanded. Shortly thereafter, Jamie James recorded four new songs with a brand new rhythm section. Those songs comprise the bonus tracks for this expanded edition.  James also supplies his

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock

Review: The Beach Boys, "Pet Sounds 50"

June 13, 2016 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Pet Sounds 50

50 years have passed since the original release of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, yet it still stands alone in the rock canon.  The talents of Brian Wilson, Tony Asher, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Bruce Johnston coalesced in one unforgettable place and time to create music's most exquisite realization of both the exultant joy and beautiful melancholy of adolescence. It took until the compact disc era for Pet Sounds to be fully appreciated; the album wasn't certified

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

Release Round-Up: Week of June 10

June 10, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Pet Sounds 50

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, with some of the most high-profile releases yet for 2016! The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds 50 (Various Editions) (Capitol/UMe) 4-CD/1-BD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD Deluxe Edition (CD 1 + highlights from 4-CD set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mono 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Stereo 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Beach

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Allen Toussaint, Charlie Faye and the Fayettes, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Coltrane, Kris Kristofferson, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison

Release Round-Up: Week of June 3

June 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Very Best of The Happenings

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up...it's one of the year's most eclectic yet, with heavy hitters from Pink Floyd to Petula Clark...including releases from The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Edgar Winter and more! Petula Clark, Natural Love: The Scotti Brothers Recordings (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In the early years of the 1980s, Petula Clark was signed to the Scotti Brothers label in the U.S. and starring in a revival of The Sound of Music

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: 10000 Maniacs, Air Supply, David Bowie, Edgar Winter, Fairport Convention, Gary Burton, Loudon Wainwright III, Paul Simon, Petula Clark, Pink Floyd, The D.O.C., The Happenings, The Kinks, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Traveling Wilburys

Reason To Believe: New Springsteen Live Archive Release from 1990 Features Two Acoustic Shows

June 2, 2016 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Springsteen Christic

For most of last year, Bruce Springsteen released archival concerts about once every month and a half.  That pace has slowed this year.  Perhaps this is due to Springsteen and the E Street Band's current The River tour, where each new show is soon ready for purchase shortly after its performance.  But a new archival concert has just become available as we hit nearly the halfway point of 2016. This release, from November 16 and 17, 1990 and is a slightly more low-key affair than some of the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Playing Favorites

June 1, 2016 By

10000 Maniacs Playing Favorites

10,000 Maniacs lives up to the title of this new release: Playing Favorites.  This hometown show from Jamestown, New York features 14 tracks, including hits and fan favorites from throughout the group's career. Current band members Jerome Augustyniak, Dennis Drew, Jeff Erickson, Steven Gustafson, John Lombardo and Mary Ramsey are joined by strings, horns, and backing vocalists on such songs as "More Than This," "Because the Night," "What's the Matter Here?" and "These Are Days."  Available on CD

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Laura Nyro, David Bromberg, Ann Wilson Headline Rounder's June Reissue Campaign

June 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Laura Nyro Looms Desire

The venerable Rounder Records label, currently enjoying its 45th anniversary, has long been a leading light in the realm of roots music and Americana.  But those terms need not be applied solely to one type of music.  This month, as part of its ongoing digital catalogue initiative, Rounder is reissuing a number of titles blurring the genre lines of roots-rock and Americana.  Some of the familiar names represented in this go-round include Ann Wilson of Heart, Laura Nyro, David

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Country, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Ann Wilson, David Bromberg, Laura Nyro, Martha Wainwright, NRBQ, Tiny TIm

The Essential Going Back: Deluxe Edition

May 27, 2016 By

Phil Collins The Essential Going Back

No stranger to the music of Motown, Phil Collins released Going Back in 2010 - an album packed with faithful covers of The Four Tops, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations and many more. With the assistance of both original members of Motown backing band The Funk Brothers and some crucial in-studio trickery (following a surgery on Collins' vertebrae, he was able to drum by taping his sticks to his hands), Going Back became an expansive love letter to The Sound of Young America.  In fact,

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

...But Seriously: Deluxe Edition

May 27, 2016 By

Phil Collins But Seriously Deluxe

1989's ...But Seriously found Phil Collins and longtime producer Hugh Padgham adopting a more organic sound as they tackled weighty issues in song, including homelessness, apartheid and other global crises. Eric Clapton, David Crosby, Steve Winwood and bassists Pino Palladino and Leland Sklar were among the guests on this hugely successful LP which spun off four U.S. Top 10 hits (the chart-topping "Another Day in Paradise," "I Wish It Would Rain Down," "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven"

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Review: The Monkees, "Good Times!"

May 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Monkees Good Times

Here they come...again!  The Monkees have just released their first new album in twenty years, and all is right with the world. That much is evident from the opening track which gives the LP its title.  "Good Times" was demoed by Harry Nilsson for The Monkees, never recorded by the group, and later released by Harry (and "The New Salvation Singers," natch) on Capitol's Tower imprint.  Now, the late Nilsson's happily un-ironic, churning pop nugget gains new life as a duet with his

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of May 27

May 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Monkees Good Times

Hey! Hey! Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Monkees, Good Times (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Good Times sure lives up to its name, and then some!  Here's a new Monkees album featuring Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith and the late Davy Jones, produced by Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger and featuring a slew of exciting new songs by Schlesinger, Noel Gallagher, Rivers Cuomo, Ben Gibbard, and Andy Partridge alongside newly-completed recordings

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Bob Marley, Edie Brickell, Frank Zappa, Lerner and Loewe, Miles Davis, Robert Glasper, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Steve Martin, The Monkees, The Muffs, The Wailers

Everything's Beautiful

May 25, 2016 By

Miles Davis Everythings Beautiful

Spearheaded by pianist-producer Robert Glasper, Everything's Beautiful incorporates original recordings by the late Miles Davis into new "collaborative soundscapes" by guest artists including Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Ledisi and John Scofield.  For these genre-bending journeys incorporating jazz, R&B, hip-hop, rap and soul, Davis tracks including "Blue in Green," "In a Silent Way," "The Ghetto Walk" and "Right Off" were sampled, isolating elements from the original multitracks and weaving

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Jazz

Release Round-Up: Week of May 20

May 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

ChangesOneBowie

Welcome to this week's packed Release Round-Up! David Bowie, ChangesOneBowie (Parlophone/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) ChangesOneBowie returns from Parlophone in a 40th anniversary edition available on vinyl, CD and digital formats.  Originally issued on RCA in May 20, 1976, ChangesOneBowie was the first key compilation album from superstar David Bowie.  Collecting songs dating back to 1969, the 11-track album introduced the single "John, I'm Only Dancing" on LP

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Adam & The Ants, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Dave Grusin, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, Marvin Hamlisch, Mudcrutch, The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson

This is My Happy Hour: Perth Punks The Scientists Anthologized in New Numero Box

May 19, 2016 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

The Scientists A Place Called Bad

Punk rock's coming up from down under on the newest box set from The Numero Group, dedicated to Australian punk pioneers The Scientists. Born in Perth in 1978, The Scientists, fronted by teen singer/guitarist Kim Salmon, were Australia's answer to The Stooges or The Velvet Underground, offering snotty rebellion and jagged, melodic riffs in their music. Moving from Oz to England, the group found several of their releases on Au Go Go Records, including the EP This Heart Doesn't Run on Blood,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Scientists

Live: American Outlaws

May 16, 2016 By

Highwaymen Live

Joining Legacy's release this week of The Very Best of The Highwaymen is this new 3-CD/1-DVD box.  Live: American Outlaws features three discs of never-before-heard concert performances from Messrs. Cash, Nelson, Kristofferson and Jennings including a complete performance from Nassau Coliseum in 1990 and selections from Farm Aid 1992 and 1993.  (A studio outtake version "One Too Many Mornings" is included here as a bonus track; it's also on the Very Best compilation.)  The DVD has the Nassau

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 13

May 13, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Grateful Dead Red Rocks 7 8 78

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Linda Ronstadt, Frenesi (Remastered Edition) (Elektra/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Linda Ronstadt's 1992 Spanish-language album Frenesi returns to CD in a newly-remastered edition with no additional content.  Consider this an appetizer for the upcoming expanded remaster of Trio! Allen Toussaint, The Complete Warner Recordings (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino has a reissue of its 2003

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Allen Toussaint, Grateful Dead, Henry Mancini, Linda Ronstadt, Miles Davis, The Blind Boys of Alabama

It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volume 1

May 12, 2016 By

Van Morrison Its Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison's classic 1974 live double album recorded in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and London gets the remastered treatment, while three CDs of additional material from the concerts is available as a stand-alone release.

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Mirage [Various Editions]

May 12, 2016 By

Fleetwood Mac Mirage

Fleetwood Mac's 1982 chart-topping album featuring "Hold Me" and "Gypsy" arrives from Rhino/Warner Bros. in a variety of formats: Deluxe Edition (3 CD/1 DVD/1 LP): Original album remastered, plus a disc of B-sides and rarities; the original album on vinyl; a disc of live performances; and a new 5.1 mix on DVD Expanded Edition (2 CD): Original album remastered, plus a disc of B-sides and rarities Remastered Edition (1 CD): Original album, remastered 3-CD/1-DVD/1-LP Deluxe Edition:

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

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