Yesterday, we told you about a new box set focusing on America’s complete Warner Bros. studio albums. Well, today, Rhino has announced a similar set focusing on shock-rocker Alice Cooper to be released July 31. The Studio Albums: 1969-1983 is a fifteen-disc set containing the fifteen Alice Cooper Band and Alice Cooper solo studio recordings in that 14-year period. The band Alice Cooper began performing in the late 1960s with their first LP being 1969’s Pretties for You on Frank Zappa’s Straight label. The band consisted of Vincent Furnier on vocals and harmonica,…
Review: Robin Gibb, “Saved by the Bell: The Collected Works 1968-1970”
Give me a smile! With the new release of Robin Gibb’s Saved by the Bell: The Collected Works of Robin Gibb 1968-1970 (R2 549315), Rhino/Reprise has unveiled the most significant archival collection related to The Bee Gees in nearly a decade. Not since 2006’s The Studio Albums 1967-1968 has the vault door been opened to reveal such a remarkable wealth of pop treasure from an artist with the surname of Gibb – in this case, the late Robin. This three-CD set, produced with stunning attention to detail by Andrew Sandoval, includes the recordings Robin…
Release Round-Up: Week of June 16
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring the return of a veteran artist, celebrations of the renowned musicians of Nashville and Los Angeles, a classic Disney soundtrack, and much more! Various Artists, Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Legacy teams with the Country Music Hall of Fame for this 2-CD, 36-song companion soundtrack to the Nashville museum’s current exhibit chronicling Music City’s fusion of country of rock. One previously unreleased cut by Bob Dylan joins both familiar and rare tracks by Johnny Cash,…
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The Monsanto Years
Neil Young teams with Promise of the Real (Lukas Nelson (vocals/guitar), Micah Nelson (guitar, vocals), Anthony Logerfo (drums), Corey McCormick (bass) and Tato Melgar (percussion)) for this hard-rocking album drawing on environmental and ecological themes. Available as a CD/DVD edition and on digital platforms including, of course, Young’s Pono.
Jim Peterik, Don Dixon, Jules Shear, Justin Currie, Julian Velard Fight Cancer on “You Can’t Live on Love Alone”
Many of you reading this might know Popdose as one of your favorite pop-culture hangouts on the Internet. Recently, our good friends at Popdose have curated a special digital-only release that not only features an array of remarkable artists, but helps a great cause, too. You Can’t Live on Love Alone: Songs for the Fight Against Multiple Myeloma arrived on Amazon last week, on June 2. This 19-track compendium is headlined by artists ranging from veterans (Jim Peterik of The Ides of March and Survivor; Justin Currie of Del Amitri; Kenny Loggins,…
Drifted: In the Beginning and Beyond
Omnivore collects two discs’ worth of music from the Los Angeles-to-New-Orleans musical collective The Continental Drifters, whose roster has included Vicki Peterson (Bangles), Susan Cowsill (The Cowsills), Peter Holsapple (The dBs, R.E.M.), and many more–including the only member who has been with them from the beginning, Mark Walton (Giant Sand, The Dream Syndicate). This definitive anthology presents, per the label, rarities and previously unreleased music which add up to an “inspiring blend of both original and seminal cover songs with a southern fried blue-eyed soul approach that couldn’t be beat.”
Release Round-Up: Week of June 9
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, headlined by the long-awaited return of The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers in a variety of formats and editions! The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers (UMe) 3-CD/1-DVD Super Deluxe Edition Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-CD Standard Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-LP Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Rolling Stones revisit their 1971 classic featuring “Wild Horses,” “Brown…
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Coda [Various Editions]
The Led Zeppelin remastered reissue campaign has reached the band’s final studio album, 1982’s Coda, available in various formats: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
In Through the Out Door [Various Editions]
The Led Zeppelin remastered reissue campaign marches on with 1979’s In Through the Out Door, the band’s final album recorded before John Bonham’s untimely passing. It’s available in a number of formats: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
Presence [Various Editions]
Led Zeppelin’s 1976 Presence arrives in a variety of remastered and expanded formats: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
They’re Gonna Groove: Led Zeppelin Reissues Final Three Albums On July 31 In Variety of Formats
Come this July, worldwide release day shifts to Friday. And with this morning’s announcement from Led Zeppelin, it looks like Friday, July 31, will be the mightiest of the month – and perhaps even the summer! On that date, the band will conclude its deluxe edition series with a plethora of reissues for its three final studio albums: Presence, In Through the Out Door and Coda. As with the previous deluxe editions, Presence, In Through The Out Door, and Coda have been newly remastered by Jimmy Page and are accompanied by companion…
30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965-1995
Rhino celebrates 30 years of live Dead with this career-spanning anthology featuring 31 tracks – one song from the Dead’s earliest recording session, in 1965, and 30 from 30 concerts, one for each year from 1966-1995. This set is a 4-CD or DD highlights version of the 80-CD or USB box set 30 Trips Around the Sun (pre-ordering exclusively at dead.net) presenting the 30 concerts in full.
Not Fade Away: Rhino Celebrates Live Grateful Dead With 4-CD and 80-CD Box Sets
With the ongoing celebration of the band’s 50th anniversary and the upcoming reunion shows at Chicago’s Soldier Field, the Grateful Dead have arguably been more visible in 2015 than in any point since the passing of Jerry Garcia in 1995. The long strange trip continues this fall with Rhino Records’ release of the band’s most lavish release to date. 30 Trips Around the Sun, due on September 18, is a whopping collection of never-before-released live Dead. It will be available both as an 80-CD box set and a lightning bolt-shaped USB drive….
Release Round-Up: Week of June 2
This week’s Release Round-Up is headlined by a legendary singer-songwriter’s first appearance on Second Disc Records, plus an array of box sets, reissues and beyond from across the musical spectrum! Paul Williams, A Little on the Windy Side: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The newest release from our very own Second Disc Records imprint of Real Gone Music is here! The first-ever American reissue of Paul Williams’ 1979 Portrait Records album has been newly remastered and features four bonus tracks – three previously unreleased outtakes and one…
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Going to the Country: “Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats” Chronicles Birth of Music City Country-Rock
Two legendary artists headline a new anthology arriving on June 16, 2015 from Legacy Recordings. Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City, a 2-CD, 36-track compilation, serves as an audio companion and soundtrack to the exhibit of the same name currently on display at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame through December 31, 2016. Like the exhibit, this new release explores the timeless sounds created at the intersection of country, folk and rock in Nashville between, roughly speaking, 1964 and 1975. Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash formed a mutual…
Midnight Mission: Expanded Edition
The Textones’ 1984 debut album, featuring appearances by Gene Clark, Ry Cooder, Don Henley, and co-producer Barry Goldberg, is expanded by Omnivore in a new edition with 5 bonus tracks – including 2 previously unissued live cuts!
Cedar Creek: Expanded Edition
The second album by Carla Olson’s band The Textones (featuring guest appearances by Ian McLagan, Howie Epstein and The Waters) gets expanded by Omnivore with an eight-song concert from Santa Cruz, CA recorded on November 20, 1987.
Endless Highway: The Band’s “Capitol Rarities 1968-1977” Compiled On New Release
With last year’s complete release of Bob Dylan and The Band’s The Basement Tapes, and the recent Record Store Day “official bootleg”-style vinyl LPs of music from those seminal sessions, the music of The Band is once again, happily, enjoying a high profile. Fans of The Band might have noticed a new compilation quietly released last week by Capitol Records. Capitol Rarities 1968-1977 features 33 tracks and over two hours of music from the legendary group of Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel. This digital-only release has…
Truancy: The Very Best of Pete Townshend
The Who’s legendary leader premieres two new songs on this 17-track remastered solo career overview. Truancy kicks off a new campaign from UMe dedicated to Townshend’s solo catalogue.
Let’s See Action: Pete Townshend Collects Solo Work, Introduces New Songs on “Truancy”
Pete Townshend recently confessed to Rolling Stone, “I just hope that on my deathbed I don’t embarrass myself by asking someone, ‘Can you pass me my guitar? And will you run the backing tape of ‘Baba O’Riley’? I just want to do it one more time.” Yet Townshend still finds himself looking to the past even as he embraces the present and future. While on the road celebrating (for the final time?) the legacy of The Who with creative partner Roger Daltrey, Townshend will issue a new solo anthology as part of…
Release Round-Up: Week of May 19
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring a number of rock legends! Yes, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This whopping 14-CD box captures seven complete concerts from Yes circa 1972 – the same tour leading up to the performances preserved on Yessongs. For those who don’t need 14 discs, 2-CD and 3-LP Highlights distillations are also available (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) ! Jeff Beck, Live+ (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Guitar hero Jeff Beck returns with a new live album culled from his 2014…
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Dancing in the Dark: Bruce Springsteen’s Archive Series Revisits 1984, New Jersey
Just a few weeks following the release of their New Year’s Eve show from Nassau Coliseum on December 31, 1980, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have confirmed the latest volume in their ongoing live archive series. Pre-orders are open now for Brendan Byrne Arena, New Jersey 1984. The release is a bittersweet one for New Jerseyans; the Byrne Arena (later the Continental Airlines Arena and the Izod Center) opened in July 1981 in East Rutherford’s Meadowlands and earlier this year was closed, likely for the final time. Springsteen and the…
Release Round-Up: Week of May 12
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! We kick off with a quartet of releases drawing on never-before-released live material! Leonard Cohen, Can’t Forget: A Souvenir of The Grand Tour (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Leonard Cohen offers ten selections – including two songs never previously recorded and a pair of covers – from his recent world tour. Andrew Gold, The Late Show – Live 1978 (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) You’ll say “thank you for being a friend” to Omnivore Recordings for this first-ever release of Andrew Gold’s 1978 concert at West…
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#1 To Infinity
The pop diva returns with this collection of nineteen chart-toppers. Read more here, including the full track listing.
Django and Jimmie
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard team up for an all-new set with a title paying tribute to legends Django Reinhardt and Jimmie Rodgers. The 14 tracks include “Django and Jimmie,” “It’s All Going to Pot” (about one of Willie’s favorite subjects), “Missing Ol’ Johnny Cash” featuring Bobby Bare, Merle’s “Somewhere Between” sung by Willie, and Willie’s “Family Bible” sung by Merle!
