When Elvis Presley said Aloha from Hawaii 50 years ago, the whole world was watching - or close to it. The King, fashionably late, stepped onstage at Honolulu's International Center (capacity at the time: roughly 6,000) at 1:00 a.m. on January 14, 1973 for a scheduled 12:30 a.m. concert. Satellites were beaming the program to a reported audience of over one billion. Another fanciful claim by Colonel Parker? Perhaps. But Aloha was a technological achievement. It was the most expensive
Christmas Time Is Here
Johnny Mathis is back with his first album since 2017 and his first yuletide set in a decade. Christmas Time Is Here boasts ten newly-recorded tracks including those which premiered last year on the digital-only EP A Merry Little Christmas. It's Mathis' seventh full Christmas LP (not counting 1999's Listen! It's Christmas for Hallmark stores, on which he contributed six new recordings). Produced by longtime Mathis collaborators Jay Landers (Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler) and Fred Mollin
The Weekend Stream: August 12, 2023
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. A short but intriguing selection of digital debuts this week includes rare '00s rock, '80s soul, '30s jazz, a new take on a '60s prog classic and some new surround mixes from one of Broadway's greatest.3 Doors Down, Away from the Sun (Deluxe) (Republic/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) Debut album The Better
Merry Christmas, Baby: Johnny Mathis Celebrates the Holiday Season with New Studio Album "Christmas Time Is Here"
Johnny Mathis is known the world over as The Voice of Romance, but the legendary vocalist deserves another title, as well: The Voice of Christmas. Mathis' very first holiday album, 1958's Merry Christmas, sold over five million copies and remains one of the biggest-selling Christmas albums of all time. Now, Mathis is back with his first album since 2017 and his first yuletide set in a decade. Christmas Time Is Here arrives on October 13 in CD and digital formats from Legacy Recordings and
Release Round-Up: Week of August 11
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Elvis Presley, Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite: 50th Anniversary Edition (RCA/Legacy) 3CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elvis Presley's seminal 1973 returns for its 50th anniversary in a new box set. This edition takes its cues from the audio contents of last year's 3-CD release from the mail-order Follow That Dream label
Cover Me Up: Jason Isbell's 'Southeastern' Set for Expansion
Already enjoying a burgeoning solo career after his time with the alt-country group Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell established a presence as one of the genre's most intriguing performers with his fourth album Southeastern, released in 2013. Ten years later, he's revisiting the record in a deluxe edition. The remastered and expanded Southeastern will combine the original album with two alternate listens: a disc featuring demo versions of every track on the album and a set
I Ain't Gonna Worry: Motown Preps Digital Deluxe for 50th Anniversary of Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On'
No need to hold back for so long: Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On will be celebrated this month with a digital deluxe edition packed with unreleased tracks. Following the stirring social consciousness of his last album, 1971's What's Going On, Gaye used the musical canvas to dive deep into matters of the bedroom. Romance, carnal desire and the intersections between the two were explored in sessions split between Motown's Detroit studio - including contributions and their newly constructed
I'm Yours: Jason Mraz Revisits 'We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.' for New Deluxe Reissue
Jason Mraz's debut album Waiting for My Rocket to Come (2002), released amid a new wave of witty but sensitive acoustic rockers, became a major hit thanks to the irresistible single "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)." But the lead single to follow-up Mr. A-Z (2005), the self-effacing "Wordplay," pretty accurately predicted a sophomore slump. How would he bounce back? The answer, it turns out, was right in front of him. How that turnaround played out is the subject of a new deluxe reissue coming
In the Meantime
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Christine McVie's 2004 LP In the Meantime, recorded primarily with her nephew Dan Perfect, George Hawkins, and Steve Ferrone, proved that she still hadn't lost a step - once the secret weapon of Fleetwood Mac, now an assured soloist in her own right. This new edition adds one bonus track, the previously unreleased "Little Darlin'," on CD and LP. The vinyl edition is pressed on 2 LPs with a songbird
Christine McVie
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The late, great Christine McVie's 1984 solo album returns on CD and LP from Rhino. Produced by Russ Titelman, McVie led a band comprising guitarist Todd Sharp, bassist George Hawkins, and Average White Band drummer Steve Ferrone; she also welcomed guests including Steve Winwood (who co-wrote "Ask Anybody" and duetted on "One in a Million"), Eric Clapton, and bandmates Buckingham and Fleetwood. Proving
Permission to Land...Again
4CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Darkness is revisiting their earliest recordings with a new 20th anniversary box set. Permission to Land...Again includes the original album - a U.K. chart-topper for four straight weeks - a dozen rare single versions and B-sides, four unreleased demos, material from three live concerts recorded
Days Are Gone: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.K. Picture Disc: HAIM Store A decade after sister pop/rock trio HAIM became darlings of the music world with a lauded debut album - and not long after they opened a string of high-profile dates for friend Taylor Swift - they're revisiting the record with a newly expanded edition. Days Are Gone - the sleek first volume from the group, is getting the 10th anniversary treatment with a bonus disc of B-sides and remixes from the
Live at The Matrix 1967: The Original Masters
3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP/7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live At The Matrix 1967: The Original Masters is the last word on the band's pivotal dates at the San Francisco club The Matrix - among the earliest concert recordings of the group. The 3CD or 5LP/7" box set will include, for the first time, all of club owner Peter Abram's surviving original master tapes of the performances, remastered by the band's longtime engineer Bruce Botnick. The set will
Broadsword and The Beast: 40th Anniversary Edition
5CD/3DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 40th anniversary "Monster Edition"of the Jethro Tull classic will feature Steven Wilson's new mixes of the original album, a slew of rare and previously unreleased recordings, demos, early mixes, and a 1982 live set in Germany - all available in stereo across five CDs and in hi-resolution stereo and surround mixes on three DVDs. (A vinyl edition will include the remixed album, the
Who's Next / Life House
10CD/1BD: The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Album Only, Black Vinyl): The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Half-Speed Mastered Album Only): The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Transparent Blue Vinyl w/tip-on jacket): The Who Official
J50: Evolution of The Joker
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP/7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Steve Miller Band's J50: Evolution of The Joker eschews the typical album-plus-outtakes format for a mostly chronological journey through the history of the album, track-by-track. Over two CDs or three LPs and a 7" single, the original album will be reassembled with various live recordings, demos, and studio outtakes plus some commentary tracks from Miller himself - all previously unreleased.
Wake of the Flood: 50th Anniversary Edition
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl: BarnesandNoble.com Link TBD 1LP Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP Exclusive Vinyl: Dead.net The first release on the Grateful Dead Records label, Wake of the Flood is turning 50. Rhino's new anniversary 2CD and digital editions feature previously unreleased demo recordings of "Eyes of the World" and "Here Comes Sunshine." Recorded in
FYFTY
Official Store / uDiscoverMusic.com / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD The most comprehensive Lynyrd Skynyrd overview since 1991's 3-CD The Definitive Lynyrd Skynyrd Collection, the new 4-CD box set FYFTY is housed in 12x12 vinyl-style packaging. Its gatefold jacket houses a 40-page booklet with photos, opening notes by filmmaker-journalist Cameron Crowe, and track-by-track liner notes from music historian Gary Graff. The box's track listing draws on 14 studio albums plus
Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)
The Replacements have teamed up with Rhino for their fourth mega-box set edition of a classic album from their catalogue. After heavy-duty expansions of debut Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Pleased to Meet Me and a reorganized version of Don't Tell a Soul called Dead Man's Pop, the Minneapolis punk legends have announced the "Let It Bleed" edition of Tim, their first album for a major label and their last featuring the original band lineup. The 4CD/1LP box set will feature two editions
The Weekend Stream: August 5, 2023
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. From New Age to New Wave to creepy sound effects, children of famous songwriters and a whole lot more, there's a lot to enjoy. ABC, The Lexicon of Love (Steven Wilson Stereo and Instrumental Remixes) (Mercury/UMC) (iTunes / Amazon) The 40th anniversary vinyl box of The Lexicon of Love is finally
Left of the Dial: The Replacements' 'Tim' Gets Remixed and Expanded
The Replacements have teamed up with Rhino for their fourth mega-box set edition of a classic album from their catalogue. After heavy-duty expansions of debut Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Pleased to Meet Me and a reorganized version of Don't Tell a Soul called Dead Man's Pop, the Minneapolis punk legends have announced the "Let It Bleed" edition of Tim, their first album for a major label and their last featuring the original band lineup. The 4CD/1LP box set will hit stores on
Release Round-Up: Week of August 4
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Spinners, The Complete Atlantic Singles: The Thom Bell Productions 1972-1979 (Real Gone/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) This definitive 2-CD anthology from upcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Spinners presents every one of the quintet's beloved A- and B-sides helmed by the late, great Thom Bell on Atlantic Records, with each and
And This is How It Starts: The 1975 Celebrate 10 Years of Their Debut with Reissues
In today's pop music survey, an honest-to-God band succeeding is something of a rarity and worth celebrating. British iconoclasts The 1975 will do just that next month, celebrating the 10th anniversary of their self-titled debut album with a pair of deluxe editions on CD and vinyl. The LP that introduced the world to singer/songwriter Matty Healy, drummer/producer George Daniel, guitarist Adam Hann and bassist Ross MacDonald will be reissued in the U.K. by Universal Music Recordings on
Review: WHAM!, "The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven" (7" Vinyl Box Set)
WHAM! The dance-pop duo's name immediately called to mind the fantastical, onomatopoeic pop art exclamations that would appear on the '60s Batman television show. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley had everything going for them: good looks, great voices, and a knack for pure pop songcraft. In a mere handful of years, WHAM! launched nearly a dozen singles into the Top 10 of the U.K. singles chart. - a lucky seven entries. Their first album was entitled Fantastic; it was. The second was Make It
Review: Frank Zappa, "Funky Nothingness"
Frank Zappa's 1969 LP Hot Rats remains among the late composer-bandleader's most accessible albums. Blending bluesy electric rock with jazz, it makes a fine introduction to his sometimes-daunting discography. But those looking for more might not have known exactly where to start. Certain elements of the Hot Rats sound would crop up in the maestro's future discography, but a proper sequel was never released. It's only been recently revealed, however, that one was recorded...more or less.
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