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It's Not Just A "Mirage": Fleetwood Mac Classic Gets Expanded To Box Set, More

May 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Mirage

On the heels of last year's deluxe box set of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Warner Bros. Records has just announced the legendary band's Mirage will be next to get the lavish treatment.  On July 29, the label will unveil the 1982 chart-topping smash in a variety of physical formats: Deluxe Edition (3 CD/1 DVD/1 LP): Original album remastered, plus B-sides and rarities; the original album on vinyl; a disc of live performances; and a 5.1 mix on DVD Expanded Edition (2 CD): Original album

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Fleetwood Mac

People Get Ready: The Blind Boys of Alabama's Soul-Gospel Returns From Omnivore

May 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Blind Boys of Alabama Spirit

Since first coming together as children at the Alabama Institute for the Blind in 1939, The Blind Boys of Alabama have forged a singular musical path.  Forming professionally in 1944, the group has recorded over 60 albums, won five Grammy Awards, appeared in a Broadway musical, played on the world's stages and spread the joyful sound of gospel everywhere. Tomorrow, May 13, Omnivore Recordings has newly-expanded editions of two of the group's Grammy-winning albums: 2001's Spirit of the Century

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Gospel, R&B/Soul Tags: The Blind Boys of Alabama

WIN! WIN! WIN! Sentimental Journey: Doris Day's "The Love Album" Returns From Varese

May 10, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Doris Day The Love Album

When Doris Day sings, the title of one of her signature songs most definitely applies: "It's Magic."  The legendary vocalist, who celebrated her 92nd birthday on April 3, is the subject of a new reissue from Varese Vintage.  The Love Album, recorded over three sessions in May and June 1967, was first issued in the mid-1990s and has seen a couple of previous iterations on CD.  Varese's newly remastered edition adds stunning period photography and updated liner notes for the most compelling

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Categories: Giveaways!, News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Doris Day

Release Round-Up: Week of May 6

May 6, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

The Cars Moving in Stereo

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring Second Disc Records' very first title of 2016, plus more fantastic releases from our partners at Real Gone Music and titles from Brian Wilson, The Cars, and more! Bobby Darin, Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We know that you all know about this one...it's the ultimate celebration of Bobby Darin's time at Motown Records on 2 CDs, newly remastered from the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bobby Darin, Brian Wilson, Cactus, Cannonball Adderley, Cyndi Lauper, Dan Fogelberg, Grateful Dead, Johnny Paycheck, Ryan Adams, The Beau Brummels, The Cars, The Move, The Rides, The Staple Singers

Wild Nights: Legacy Expands Van Morrison's "It's Too Late to Stop Now"

May 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Van Morrison Its Too Late to Stop Now Volumes II

Following last year's releases of The Essential Van Morrison and The Complete Them 1964-1967, Legacy Recordings continues to mine the Van Morrison back catalogue with the June 10 releases of the remastered 2-CD or 2-LP It's Too Late to Stop Now and the 3-CD/1-DVD box set It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volumes II, III, IV & DVD. It's Too Late to Stop Now, of course, is Morrison's 1974 double album with his Caledonia Soul Orchestra, capturing concert recordings from his May to July 1973 tour

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

Rounder Records Celebrates Cajun and Zydeco Legacy With New Initiative

May 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas Steady Rock

Rounder Records, the pioneering American roots music label, is continuing its 45th anniversary celebration.  Over the past months, the Cambridge-founded, Nashville-based Rounder has been making titles from its deep catalogue available as digital downloads.  We've previously reported on Rounder's bluegrass initiative, and now Rounder is turning its attention to a digital roll-out of the label's diverse and rich Cajun and Zydeco catalogue. Rounder's VP of A&R, Scott Billington, comments,

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Everything Else, R&B/Soul Tags: Chris Ardoin, David Doucet, Michael Doucet, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas, The Magnolia Sisters

Release Round-Up: Week of April 29

April 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rock Hall Live Volume One

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Here Today: The Songs of Brian Wilson (Vinyl) (Ace) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Ace brings its acclaimed 2015 Here Today: The Songs of Brian Wilson compilation to 180-gram white vinyl in a slimmed-down form (12 tracks vs. 25 on the CD) with all of Ace's deluxe hallmarks of packaging and annotation!  The album features Darian Sahanaja of The Brian Wilson Band and The Wondermints along with Kirsty MacColl, Carmen

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Bad Company, Barbara Dickson, Brian Wilson, Cream, Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, Linda Ronstadt, Various Artists

Hang In Long Enough: "...But Seriously," Revised "Going Back" Complete Phil Collins Reissue Campaign

April 28, 2016 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Phil Collins Seriously and Going Back

The Take a Look At Me Now campaign has featured reissues of all of Collins' solo albums, each with a disc of bonus material personally selected by Collins, featuring mostly unreleased demos and live material. While Collins' participation has added some panache to the whole proceedings, with his creative album cover reshoots only recently going viral, some fans have been rightly perplexed as to what was left off from the campaign. To wit, the voluminous B-sides and demos released through

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Phil Collins

American Tunes

April 27, 2016 By

Allen Toussaint American Tunes

The final album by the late, great Allen Toussaint, American Tunes was recorded at two sets of sessions with producer Joe Henry: solo piano at Toussaint's New Orleans home studio in 2013, and with a rhythm section and guest artists in Los Angeles in 2015.  On his solo performances including "Mardi Gras in New Orleans," "Hey Little Girl" and "Big Chief," Toussaint pays tribute to his hero at the keys, New Orleans' Professor Longhair.  The album also features band arrangements of songs written

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

Everybody's In Show-Biz: Legacy Edition

April 27, 2016 By

The Kinks Everybodys In Showbiz

Legacy expands The Kinks' 1972 classic Everybody's In Show-Biz to a 2-CD Legacy Edition.  The studio/live hybrid album gains a full disc's worth of previously unissued studio outtakes (recorded at London's Morgan Studios) and concert material (recorded March 2-3, 1972 during The Kinks' Carnegie Hall concert stand).  The Legacy Edition will also be released on vinyl with an abridged selection of bonus tracks.

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

Release Round-Up: Week of April 22

April 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Best of the Impressions

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Impressions, The Best of The Impressions: The Curtom Years (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Varese Vintage has an impressive line-up of releases this week!  First up, the label has brought together 18 prime cuts from the premier purveyors of Chicago soul, Curtis Mayfield and the legendary Impressions. This set features singles released on the Curtom label between 1968 and 1976 including the R&B hits "Fool for

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Bill Evans, Doris Day, Earth Wind and Fire, Eric Carmen, Jethro Tull, Marvin Hamlisch, Sandy Denny, The Impressions

Handle with Care: Traveling Wilburys Box to Be Reissued in June

April 19, 2016 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Traveling Wilburys

A new business agreement will bring rock supergroup The Traveling Wilburys past the end of the line. The all-star quintet, consisting of George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne, is now represented by Concord Bicycle Music in a worldwide agreement that will include physical and digital reissues of the band's complete back catalogue--including, for the first time, streaming rights across Apple Music, Spotify and others--on June 3, as exclusively reported by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty

Release Round-Up: Week of April 15

April 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Metallica Ride the Lightning

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Phil Collins, No Jacket Required and Testify: Deluxe Editions (Atlantic/Rhino) No Jacket Required 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada No Jacket Required LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Testify 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Testify LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Phil Collins' No Jacket Required, originally released in 1985 and still the artist's most commercially successful album,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Carly Simon, Foghat, Frank Sinatra, Graham Nash, Metallica, Phil Collins, Santana, Various Artists

Southern Nights: Allen Toussaint's Final Album To Be Released In June

April 14, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Allen Toussaint American Tunes

When Allen Toussaint unexpectedly passed away last November at the age of 77 during a European tour, it was reported that the great producer-arranger-composer-pianist had completed one final album.  Nonesuch has confirmed the release of American Tunes on June 10, the culmination of one of the most remarkable careers in popular music. American Tunes was recorded at two sets of sessions with producer Joe Henry: solo piano at Toussaint's New Orleans home studio in 2013, and with the rhythm

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Allen Toussaint

Say I Had a Lovely Time: Miracle Legion's Final LP Gets Digital, Vinyl Reissues

April 14, 2016 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Miracle Legion Portrait of a Damaged Family

Looking for a dose of much-needed jangle in your record collection? Let Miracle Legion do the trick with an exciting reissue of their lesser-known (and, to date, final) album, Portrait of a Damaged Family. Released in 1996, Portrait of a Damaged Family found the New Haven, Connecticut quartet in somewhat of a different place than when they first burst onto the college rock scene more than a decade prior. Singer/songwriter Mark Mulcahy and guitarist Mr. Ray Neal had been the nucleus of the

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I Still Do

April 10, 2016 By

Clapton I Still Do

Eric Clapton has reunited with producer Glyn Johns for his 23rd studio album I Still Do.  Tracks include "I'll Be Seeing You" and "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine."  Available on CD, DD and LP.

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

Stranger to Stranger

April 10, 2016 By

Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger

Paul Simon returns with his 13th solo studio album and first since 2011's So Beautiful or So What.  Stranger has been co-produced by his longtime collaborator Roy Halee and features the first single "Wristband."  Simon says "sound is the theme of this album," and sessions featured dance and flamenco artists as well as inspiration from 20th century composer/theorist Harry Partch (maker of custom instruments in microtonal tunings).  Stranger to Stranger is available in standard and deluxe editions

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

Fallen Angels

April 10, 2016 By

Bob Dylan Fallen Angels

Bob Dylan returns to the standards milieu of Shadows in the Night with this new album featuring his renditions of "All or Nothing at All," "All the Way," "Young at Heart," "That Old Black Magic," and other tunes from The Great American Songbook.  Available on CD, LP and DD.

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 8

April 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Ronnie Spector English Heart

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ronnie Spector, English Heart (Savoy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The one and only Ronnie Spector returns with an all-new studio album saluting her British Invasion friends. Expect Ronnie-ized renditions of the Jagger/Richards-written "I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys" (as "I'd Much Rather Be with the Girls") as well as "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying," "Tell Her No," "Girl Don't Come" and more!  Amazon has an exclusive

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Deep Purple, Johnny Mandel, Nicolette Larson, Ronnie Spector, The Spinners, Tiny TIm

Live in Concert 1977 & 1979

April 6, 2016 By

Bad Company Live

This 2-CD set from the original line-up of Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell includes more than two-and-half hours of unreleased music, all culled from 24-track tapes in the band's archives. Live in Concert 1977 & 1979 boasts two previously unreleased concerts, with one additional bonus track taken from the group's June 26, 1979 show in Washington, DC.   The first disc captures the band's May 23, 1977 show at the Summit House in Houston, Texas, recorded during the tour

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Pure McCartney

April 6, 2016 By

Pure McCartney

Paul tells his own musical story on this new personally-curated, non-chronologically-sequenced collection drawing on his solo and Wings work.  It's available in 4-CD (67 tracks), 4-LP (41 tracks) and 2-CD (39 tracks) formats, and features material spanning between 1970's homemade McCartney through 2014's "Hope for the Future," featured on the Destiny video game.

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

A Surf and Monster Mash: "It's Monster Surfing Time" Returns!

April 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Its Monster Surfing Time

What happens when monsters meet rock-and-roll?  Vee-Jay Records answered that question in 1964 with the release of the fiendishly fun It's Monster Surfing Time.  The LP credited to The Deadly Ones (who else?) has, over the past decades, become a highly-collectable title in its original vinyl format.  On April 8, this slice of summery surf rock with a gleefully ghoulish slant will return to vinyl from Concord Records in a special translucent, slime-green pressing! It's Monster Surfing Time has

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Joe South, The Deadly Ones

Release Round-Up: Week of April 1

April 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Go Gos Vacation

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Go-Go's, Beauty and the Beat / Vacation / Talk Show: Deluxe Editions (Edsel) Beauty and the Beat: Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vacation: Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Talk Show: Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Edsel has expanded editions of the three classic albums by The Go-Go's originally released between 1982 and 1984.  While none of the bonus material here is unreleased, these reissues do serve

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bill Wyman, Earth Wind and Fire, Martha and the Vandellas, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, The Go-Go's, The Miracles, The Replacements, The Supremes, Todd Rundgren

Listen To What The Man Said: "Pure McCartney" Career-Spanning Box Arrives In June

March 31, 2016 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Pure McCartney

Paul McCartney has just announced a new, solo career-spanning anthology.  On June 10, Pure McCartney will arrive in 4-CD (67 tracks), 4-LP (41 tracks) and 2-CD (39 tracks) formats.  This non-chronologically sequenced compilation draws on solo and Wings material from 1970's homemade McCartney through 2014's "Hope for the Future," featured on the Destiny video game.  The collection, curated by the legendary artist, includes both familiar hits and lesser-known album tracks as well as material from

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Paul McCartney, Wings

Miles In The Sky: Davis' 90th Celebrated With New Film Soundtrack and Glasper Collaboration

March 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Miles Ahead Soundtrack

May 26, 2016 would have been Miles Davis' 90th birthday.  Though the legendary musician died in 1991 at just 65 years of age, his body of work has hardly left the spotlight.  Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings have recently announced two upcoming projects to mark Davis' landmark birthday.  First, on Friday, April 1, the labels will issue the soundtrack to the biopic Miles Ahead, directed, co-written by and starring Don Cheadle.  Then on May 27, Everything's Beautiful arrives.  This release,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Miles Davis, Robert Glasper

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