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Maximum As & Bs: The Complete Singles

August 2, 2017 By

The Who Maximum As and Bs

The Who's complete singles from 1964-2015 are collected on a new 5-CD box set, which also contains a 48-page booklet featuring track-by-track annotations on each single.

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

Review: Santana and The Isley Brothers, "Power of Peace"

July 31, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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In 1965, Hal David first made the observation, "What the world needs now is love, sweet love...it's the only thing that there's just too little of."  Over fifty-two years later, there's still just too little love, and it's a situation which Carlos Santana has aimed to remedy.  The guitar hero was inspired by seeing the velvet-voiced Ron Isley, longtime lead singer of The Isley Brothers, performing with Burt Bacharach in a 2004 television special promoting their collaborative album Here I Am. 

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Santana, The Isley Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of July 28

July 28, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Boy From Tupelo LP

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elvis Presley, A Boy From Tupelo - The Complete 1953-55 Recordings (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete Recordings 1953-1955 journeys back to the birth of rock-and-roll to feature, on three CDs and digitally, every known Elvis Presley Sun Records master and outtake.  In addition, the collection also contains Elvis' four earliest, privately-pressed sides, and vintage radio and concert

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: 10cc, Alice Cooper, Arthur Alexander, Elvis Presley, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Herb Alpert, Jessica Molaskey, John Pizzarelli, Pet Shop Boys, Santana, The Cars, The Delfonics, The Isley Brothers

Turn to Stone: Electric Light Orchestra's "Out of the Blue" Returns to Vinyl with Picture Disc

July 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

ELO Out of the Blue Picture Disc

Electric Light Orchestra's sprawling seventh studio album Out of the Blue landed with four sides melding impeccably-crafted, widescreen pop and symphonic rock.  Written and produced by Jeff Lynne, the LP went multi-platinum and introduced some of the band's most enduring songs including "Turn to Stone," "Sweet Talkin' Woman," and most especially, "Mr. Blue Sky."  It's returning to vinyl on September 29 from Legacy Recordings in a new picture disc edition. This 2LP collector's picture disc

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne

A Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

July 27, 2017 By

Aretha and the Philharmonic

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Aretha Franklin's arrival at Atlantic Records in 1967 after departing Columbia Records.  Her twelve year-tenure there would produce some of the most iconic soul and R&B recordings of all time.  To celebrate this anniversary, Rhino Records is taking a cue from the Elvis Presley playbook and combining her classic vocals with new orchestral backing tracks.  A Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will hit stores on November

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

Bidin' My Time

July 25, 2017 By

Chris Hillman Bidin My Time

Chris Hillman (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, Desert Rose Band) returns with an all-new album produced by Tom Petty and executive produced by Herb Pedersen.  In addition to Petty, guest appearances are made by artists including Hillman's Byrds bandmates David Crosby and Roger McGuinn; The Heartbreakers' Benmont Tench, Mike Campbell, and Steve Ferrone; and Desert Rose Band's John Jorgenson, Pedersen, and Jay Dee Maness.  The strains of Hillman's past run through this

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

Give More Love

July 25, 2017 By

Ringo Give More Love

On Ringo's newest solo album - his nineteenth - the legendary Beatle is joined by Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Don Was, Steve Lukather, and other pals for a romp through new songs as well as reworkings of "Photograph," "Don't Pass Me By," "You Can't Fight Lightning," and "Back Off Boogaloo."  Available on CD, LP, and DD.  Peace and love!

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

Roll with the Punches

July 25, 2017 By

Van Morrison Roll with the Punches

Van Morrison's 37th studio album, Roll with the Punches finds the Caledonia soul man covering some of his favorite R&B classics (by the likes of Bo Diddley, Mose Allison, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Lightnin' Hopkins among others) alongside five new, original songs.  Chris Farlowe, Georgie Fame, Jeff Beck, Paul Jones and Jason Rebello join Van for this new release.  Available on CD, LP, and DD.

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

Give Your Propers: New Aretha Franklin Project Combines Classics with New Orchestral Backing

July 25, 2017 By Randy Fairman 14 Comments

Aretha and the Philharmonic

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Aretha Franklin's arrival at Atlantic Records in 1967 after departing Columbia Records.  Her twelve year-tenure there would produce some of the most iconic soul and R&B recordings of all time.  To celebrate this anniversary, Rhino Records is taking a cue from the Elvis Presley playbook and combining her classic vocals with new orchestral backing tracks.  A Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will hit stores on November

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin

Dark Matter

July 23, 2017 By

Randy Newman Dark Matter

Randy Newman returns with his first studio album of new material since 2008's Harps and Angels.  Songs include "Putin," "Sonny Boy," "Wandering Boy," and "Lost Without You."  A vinyl release arrives on August 18.

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The Queen Is Dead: Deluxe Edition

July 21, 2017 By

The Queen is Dead 2017

The Smiths' The Queen is Dead - a towering album of '80s British rock and arguably the definitive statement by the Manchester band - gets the deluxe, expanded treatment from Rhino.  This reissue has been approved by Morrissey, who offered in a statement, "You cannot continue to record and simply hope that your audience will approve, or that average critics will approve, or that radio will approve. You progress only when you wonder if an abnormally scientific genius would approve-and this is the

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

Release Round-Up: Week of July 21

July 21, 2017 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Leave Home

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ramones, Leave Home: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Sire/Rhino) 3CD/1LP box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 1CD remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.  A new  3CD/1LP edition of Ramones' 1977 sophomore album boasts the album in original and newly-remixed form, as well as a 33-track disc loaded with previously unreleased session material and a 1977 CBGBs concert recording! In addition to the above material on CD,

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: 10cc, Billy Ocean, Eric Stewart, Johnny Rivers, Marillion, Ramones, The Beach Boys, The Stylistics

Release Round-Up: Week of July 14

July 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dusty Springfield Brand New Me Complete

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, A Brand New Me: The Complete Philadelphia Sessions (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Dusty Springfield's 1970 A Brand New Me LP (her follow-up Atlantic effort to the landmark Dusty in Memphis) found Dusty traveling to Sigma Sound in Philadelphia to work with Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell, architects of the orchestrated soul known as "The Philadelphia Sound."  Springfield would have a #3 AC

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dusty Springfield, Eagles, k.d. lang, Lifehouse, Nick Lowe, The Grateful Dead, Yoko Ono

Simple Dreams: 40th Anniversary Edition

July 10, 2017 By

Linda Ronstadt Simple Dreams

Linda Ronstadt's 1977 multi-platinum smash album featuring "Blue Bayou," "It's So Easy" and "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" is remastered and expanded by Rhino in a new edition featuring three bonus live versions of the above-mentioned songs, first heard in a 1980 HBO television special.  Available on CD, LP, DD and streaming.

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

I'm Goin' Back Someday: Linda Ronstadt's "Simple Dreams" Gets Expanded In September

July 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese 20 Comments

Linda Ronstadt Simple Dreams

Trivia: What album replaced Fleetwood Mac's Rumours on top of the Billboard Album Chart after its 29-week stay?  The answer: Linda Ronstadt's Simple Dreams.  Ronstadt's eighth studio album, it became one of her most successful and most beloved.  Now, on the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the Grammy Award-winning Simple Dreams is receiving an expanded edition from Rhino Records.  It's due on CD, vinyl LP, DD, and streaming platforms on September 22. The multi-platinum smash was Ronstadt's

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt

Release Round-Up: Week of July 7

July 7, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Laura Nyro A Little Magic A Little Kindness

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring our latest Second Disc Records title and much, much more! Laura Nyro, A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to present, for the first time on CD, the ultra-rare, original mono mixes of Laura Nyro's first two albums: More Than a New Discovery (Verve Folkways, 1967) and Eli

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Charley Pride, Chris Bell, Del Shannon, Delegation, Eddy Arnold, Keely Smith, Laura Nyro, Radiohead, Rosanne Cash, Tim Buckley, Weather Report

Review: The Beach Boys, "1967: Sunshine Tomorrow" and "Wild Honey" (Stereo LP)

July 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Beach Boys Sunshine Tomorrow

There's nothing quite nice as a kiss of wild honey... Carl Wilson - the angelic voice from on high of "God Only Knows" - unleashed his inner soul man with a fury on "Wild Honey," the title track of The Beach Boys' second album of 1967.  The funky, Theremin-driven ode to a "girl with the sweetness of a honey bee" opened the LP which turned out to be one of the most singular in the band's storied catalogue.  Its fusion of pulsating R&B and raw rock-and-roll, anchored by nine Brian

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: The Beach Boys

Filet of Soul Redux: The Rejected Master Recordings

July 3, 2017 By

Jan and Dean Filet of Soul Redux

In 1966, Liberty Records rejected a new album from Jan and Dean - a blend of music and comedy the duo entitled Filet of Soul.  Months later, with Jan Berry in recovery from his tragic car accident, the label issued a version of the LP created without the duo's participation.  Now, decades later, Dean Torrence has partnered with Omnivore Recordings to release the original, rejected version of Filet of Soul for the first time.  Available in CD and DD formats.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop

Release Round-Up: Week of June 30

June 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Beach Boys Sunshine Tomorrow

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Beach Boys, 1967: Sunshine Tomorrow (Capitol/Brother/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Beach Boys' Sunshine Tomorrow, a new 2-CD and digital collection, not only premieres the first-ever true stereo mix of 1967's Wild Honey, but also premieres a whopping 54 rarities recorded that year including the live album Lei'd in Hawaii, session material from both Wild Honey and Smiley Smile, and further live recordings (spanning

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Art Pepper, Beach House, Harry Nilsson, Peggy March, The Beach Boys, The Beau Brummels, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of June 23

June 23, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Radiohead OKNOTOK 2 CD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Prince, Purple Rain: Music from the Motion Picture (various formats) (Warner Bros.) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 3CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. At long, long last - a deluxe, expanded Purple Rain arrives in various formats, including a 2-CD iteration with 11 previously unreleased outtakes and a 3-CD/1-DVD version adding a third CD of 15 single edits and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello, Glenn Morrow, Neil Young, Prince, Radiohead, Willie Nile

Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology

June 21, 2017 By

Brian Wilson Playback

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Coinciding with the legendary Beach Boy's 75th birthday year and current, sold-out tour, Rhino offers the first-ever anthology of Brian Wilson's solo recordings from 1988 through the present day, including two previously unreleased tracks, "Some Sweet Day" and "Run, James, Run."  Available on CD, double vinyl LP, and digital platforms.

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Love and Mercy: Rhino Collects Solo Brian Wilson For New Anthology, Premieres Two Songs

June 20, 2017 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Brian Wilson Playback

Brian Wilson turns 75 years young today - and hot on the heels of a well-received biopic and a record-breaking concert tour that continues through this fall, the legendary artist is looking back on his solo career for a new compendium arriving on September 22 from Rhino Records.  Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology captures, via 18 tracks, the Beach Boy's extraordinary journey from his 1988 Sire Records solo LP debut through 2015's No Pier Pressure.  Two never-before-released tracks will also

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

Review: "Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Deluxe Edition"

June 19, 2017 By Ted Frank 1 Comment

Singles Deluxe Edition

A Tribute Told in Vignettes... Well, I don't like to reduce us to just being part of the "Seattle Sound." I'd like to think of us as expanding more. Like, we're huge in Europe right now. I mean, we've got records... uh, a big record just broke in Belgium.    -Cliff Poncier, Singles A Cameron Crowe film tends to have a "killer" soundtrack.  Listening to a Crowe soundtrack is an intriguing adventure filled with carefully curated juxtapositions.  In fact, the experience is a lot like the

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Cameron Crowe, Chris Cornell, Paul Westerberg, Various Artists

Still the Same: Classic Bob Seger Albums Make Streaming Debut

June 16, 2017 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Seger GH

As the music business increasingly adopts streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music into their strategies for success, it becomes painfully clear when albums (or whole catalogues, even) are missing from the digital realm. This year, we've already seen the triumphant return of Prince's Warner Bros.-era masters beyond the Tidal platform, ahead of next week's Purple Rain reissue. On Friday, one of the most famous holdouts finally relented. Bob Seger, the iconic Detroit rocker, and Capitol

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 16

June 16, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

David Bowie Cracked Actor

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Cracked Actor: Live in Los Angeles 1974 (Parlophone/Rhino) (Amazon U.S./ Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cracked Actor: Live in Los Angeles 1974 is the first authorized release of Bowie's Philly Dogs Tour show at Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheatre, from September 1974.  First released earlier this year on vinyl only, some of this performance was featured in Alan Yentob's BBC documentary also known as Cracked Actor.  The original tapes

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Big Star, Blue Cheer, Cheap Trick, David Bowie, Randy Newman, Rosebud, Spirit, The Commodores, The Dustbowl Revival, The Rolling Stones

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