2018 is already shaping up to be a great year for music documentaries; one such movie, Elvis Presley: The Searcher, recently debuted on HBO to rapturous notices. Soundtracks to two more probing films are on the way from Universal On June 8, the label will deliver both Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars and Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story. No single compilation can successfully capture the entirety of Eric Clapton's remarkable career, though many from various labels have tried. Life in 12
Release Round-Up: Week of April 13
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Changestwobowie (Parlophone) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada David Bowie's 1981 compilation spanning the period between Hunky Dory and Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) returns to print for the first time in three decades in a newly remastered edition. Its ten tracks include "Starman," "Oh! You Pretty Things," single versions of "Fashion," "Ashes to Ashes," and
Release Round-Up: Week of April 6
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, and one of the biggest Release Fridays of the year to date! Chicago, VI Decades Live: This is What We Do (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Chicago celebrates 50 years on the road with this expansive new box set featuring 4 CDs and 1 DVD of previously unreleased live music recorded between 1969 and 2014. This set includes two complete concerts - The Isle of Wight, 1970 on CD and a Rockpalast broadcast from Germany in 1977 on
Sweetheart of the Rodeo: Emmylou Harris' "The Ballad of Sally Rose" Goes Deluxe in June
Today is Emmylou Harris' birthday, and Rhino is celebrating the songbird's illustrious career with a brand-new 2-CD remastered and expanded edition of one of her most cherished albums. On June 1, the label will reissue 1985's The Ballad of Sally Rose, a concept album inspired by Harris' short but blazing time spent with the late Gram Parsons. This deluxe edition will also be available as a digital download, on streaming services, and as a 2-LP vinyl set. (The vinyl release will also be
Summer: The Original Hits
UMe/Island Def Jam has a companion CD to the new Broadway musical Summer, about the life and career of disco superstar Donna Summer. This CD collection features 17 tracks (in various edits and versions) from the Summer catalogue, including all but three of her U.S. top ten Pop hits with an additional three bonus tracks on the digital and Target-exclusive CD editions. Tracks are sequenced in the order that they are heard onstage every night on Broadway!
Release Round-Up: Week of March 30
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Cars, Shake It Up: Expanded Edition (Elektra/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Cars reissue their 1981 LP featuring the hit title track "Shake It Up" on CD and double vinyl, featuring eight bonus tracks including previously unreleased demos and alternate and early versions. The Cars, Heartbeat City: Expanded Edition (Elektra/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon
Dim All The Lights: New Donna Summer Compilation Coming Ahead of Broadway Musical
Last night, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical began previews at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre starring not one, not two, but three actresses as the beloved superstar. The musical directed and co-written by Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys) chronicles the life of the Boston-born artist from her days touring abroad in Hair to disco stardom to her untimely death in 2012 at the age of 63. While a cast recording has not yet been announced, UMe and Island/Def Jam are collecting 17 of Summer's classics on
Short Takes, Broadway Edition: Kritzerland, Stage Door, Harbinger, Verve Celebrate Classic Musicals with Host of Releases
Fans of cast recordings can look forward to plenty of exciting releases due in the coming weeks! Kritzerland has recently announced two new limited edition titles! First up is a two-for-one release with a pair of classic television specials. NBC's 1973 presentation of Cole Porter in Paris starred Perry Como, Diahann Carroll, Connie Stevens and others in a rousing celebration of the legendary songwriter's work. It was directed by Martin Charnin (Annie) and featured arrangements by Como's
Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass? Omnivore Collects Volume 2 of Buck Owens' Complete Capitol Singles
Omnivore Recordings is headed back to Bakersfield with a new collection from the late, great Buck Owens due on May 11 in both CD and digital formats. The Complete Capitol Singles: 1967-1970 picks up where Omnivore's last volume (1957-1966), released in late 2016, left off. This 2-CD, 36-track set chronologically features every A- and B-side released by the Bakersfield, CA singer-songwriter at Capitol between 1967 and 1970, including fourteen top ten hits. In his lifetime, Buck Owens accrued
Release Round-Up: Week of March 23
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Miles Davis and John Coltrane, The Final Tour: Bootleg Series Vol. 6 (Columbia/Legacy) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Copenhagen LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This latest volume of Miles Davis' Bootleg Series brings together five performances by Davis and John Coltrane recorded during the Spring 1960 Jazz at the Philharmonic European Tour, Coltrane's final such outing as a sideman: two shows from Paris's
Dock of the Bay Sessions
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD Dock of the Bay Sessions is a new reconstruction of an album that never was, built around the song that became America's first posthumous chart-topper and Otis Redding's only No. 1 hit, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay." Although it will never be definitively known what Redding had planned for his new LP, Dock of the Bay Sessions collects the recordings Redding made during this final
Baby Blue Eyes...May the First Voice You Hear Be Mine
Baby Blue Eyes...May the First Voice You Hear Be Mine is a 20-track collection curated by Sinatra's daughter Tina from his recordings on Capitol, Reprise, and Columbia. The set is designed as a child's introduction to Sinatra's world, with songs emphasizing Sinatra's role as father to his beloved children. Tracks include "High Hopes," "Pocketful of Miracles," "Bein' Green," "Yes Sir, That's My Baby," "Isn't She Lovely," and more. It's due on CD, 2-LP vinyl, and all digital platforms.
Girly-Sound to Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Box Set
7LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD Girly-Sound to Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Boxset, a 7-LP or 3-CD (or digital) collection, traces singer-songwriter Liz Phair's artistic evolution from her three privately-pressed, pre-Matador demo cassettes (originally released under the name of Girly-Sound) to her acclaimed debut album. A comprehensive book is also included, and a version with actual cassettes can also be
Luck Be a Lady: Unreleased Sinatra Concerts Arrive on "Standing Room Only"
Spring's about to get a lot more swingin', thanks to an upcoming release from the one and only Chairman of the Board. On May 4, Capitol Records and UMe will drop Frank Sinatra: Standing Room Only, a new 3-CD collection of rare or previously unreleased live concerts from three decades of the great man's storied career. This set begins with the January 28. 1966 second show with The Count Basie Orchestra and conductor Quincy Jones at The Sands in Las Vegas. This concert is making its CD debut,
Release Round-Up: Week of March 16
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Andrew Lloyd Webber: Unmasked - The Platinum Collection (Polydor/UMC) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Let the memory live again! Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates his 70th birthday and provocative new memoir Unmasked with this 4-CD, 71-track box set of the same name. The career-spanning anthology features many of the composer's most famed songs from Phantom of
Watchin' the Tide Roll Away: Rhino Collects Otis Redding's Final Recordings on "Dock of the Bay Sessions"
Rhino is revisiting the final recordings of Otis Redding on a new set due on May 18. Dock of the Bay Sessions is the label's reconstruction of an album that never was, built around the song that became America's first posthumous chart-topper and Redding's only No. 1 hit, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay." That song, produced and co-written by Steve Cropper, reached the pop zenith 50 years ago this Friday, March 16, 1968. Following his blazing performance in June 1967 at the Monterey Pop
Seeing The Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990
This six-CD box set contains all four of The Flaming Lips' Restless studio albums, originally issued between 1986 and 1990: Hear It Is (1986), Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips (1987), Telepathic Surgery (1989) and In A Priest Driven Ambulance (With Silver Sunshine Stares) (1990). Like the compilation, all of these have been remastered from the original master tapes. Two discs of rarities collect up odds and ends from this period, including B-sides, flexidiscs, and one-offs from various
Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of The Flaming Lips
This single-CD compilation features 19 tracks from the first iteration of the band. It spotlights the music recorded by the band's original lineup including leader Wayne Coyne's brother Mark on vocals. It includes the band's first and second cassette demos plus their 1984 debut EP, newly remastered from the original analog tapes. This is the first time these seminal recordings have been collected in one place. Showcasing the band's influences, the set is peppered with covers such as The
Release Round-Up: Week of March 9
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Jimi Hendrix, Both Sides of the Sky (Legacy/Experience Hendrix) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The latest collection of posthumously-released material from Jimi Hendrix arrives in CD, vinyl, and digital formats, featuring 13 songs recorded between January 1968 and February 1970 - ten of which are previously unreleased, including performances with Stephen Stills of Joni Mitchell's
Release Round-Up: Week of February 23
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Concert for George [Various Formats] (Craft Recordings) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/2DVD/2BD/4LP Limited Online Exclusive Box Set: George Harrison Shop The star-studded 2002 concert celebration of the life of George Harrison - featuring Paul McCartney,
Release Round-Up: Week of February 16
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Choir, Artifact: The Unreleased Album (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Omnivore premieres an unreleased album from pre-Raspberries group The Choir, recorded in 1969 by one of the final iterations of the popular Cleveland band. These ten ultra-rare recordings have been restored for this release by the team of Tommy Allen and Ducky Carlisle (The Raspberries' Pop Art Live), and Choir fan Eric Carmen has provided liner
Johnny Cash - Forever Words
The lost words of Johnny Cash - from poems, letters, and other unpublished writings - are set to music for the very first time and performed by a "Who's Who" of artists including Johnny's daughter Rosanne Cash, his stepdaughter Carlene Carter, fellow Highwaymen Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp, T Bone Burnett, Allison Krauss, The Jayhawks, and others. John Carter Cash has helmed the project at Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Available in CD,
Changestwobowie
David Bowie's 1981 compilation spanning the period between Hunky Dory and Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) returns to print for the first time in three decades in a newly remastered edition. Its ten tracks include "Starman," "Oh! You Pretty Things," single versions of "Fashion," "Ashes to Ashes," and "D.J.," and more. Available on CD, DD, and LP. The first LP run only will be pressed on both blue and black vinyl, to be packaged randomly.
More Ch-Ch-Changes: Parlophone Reissues David Bowie's "Changestwobowie," "Aladdin Sane"
Following the 40th anniversary reissue of David Bowie's Changesonebowie in 2016, Parlophone is readying a CD, LP and DD edition of its 1981 followup: Changestwobowie. This will arrive on April 13, to be followed a week later by a special 45th anniversary vinyl edition of the artist's seminal Aladdin Sane. Changestwobowie returns to CD after a three-decade absence. Originally released on LP in 1981 and on CD in 1985 by RCA, it features 10 songs spanning the period between Hunky Dory (1971)
I'll Still Love You: Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash, John Mellencamp, More Sing Unheard Johnny Cash on "Forever Words"
Previously unheard words of Johnny Cash are coming to new life on April 6 with Legacy Recordings' release of Forever Words, an album of new songs built around the late Man in Black's unknown poems and writings. In the spirit of similar projects like The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams and Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes (setting new melodies to lost lyrics by Hank Williams and Bob Dylan, respectively), Forever Words features an all-star array of talent placing Cash's words in an
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