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Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker's "Bird in LA" Vinyl Box Gets Wide Release

May 18, 2023 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Charlie Parker Bird in LA

Following its sold-out release for Record Store Day Black Friday in 2021, Charlie Parker's Bird in LA is returning to vinyl in a general release from Verve/UMe tomorrow, May 19.  On the same day, it will be released to streaming and digital services.  This collection of the legendary saxophonist's historic first three trips to Los Angeles remains available in the CD format, as well. Kansas City, Missouri native Parker (1920-1955) was a key player in the development of bop, and while he's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Buddy Rich, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Nat King Cole

Two Alice Cooper Classics Get Killer Reissues in June

May 15, 2023 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Alice Cooper School's Out

School's in on June 9 when Rhino revisits two early classics from Alice Cooper in 2-CD or 180-gram 3-LP expanded editions.  Both 1971's Killer and 1972's School's Out will be reissued with bonus studio and live material. Killer, released in November 1971, was the fourth album from the original Alice Cooper band line-up of singer Alice Cooper, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. But it was the group's second

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Alice Cooper

Now

May 14, 2023 By

Graham Nash Now

Graham Nash reflects on his present-day life on Now, a collection of original songs also including his unique recording of "Buddy's Back" with longtime Hollies pal Allan Clarke. Available on CD, LP, and digial formats.

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

The Weekend Stream Extra: Legacy Announces Doris Day Digital Campaign

May 14, 2023 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Doris Day Greatest Hits

Last April, the Doris Day centennial celebration kicked off.  It's since encompassed a rarities collection on CD and the vinyl premiere of Doris' final studio album, My Heart, from Real Gone Music as well as a beautiful coffee table book from Hermes Press, various film and television screenings on Turner Classic Movies, and a flurry of charitable work benefiting the Doris Day Animal Foundation.  As a finale to the celebration, Sony's Legacy Recordings has committed to refreshing the late

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Doris Day

The Weekend Stream: May 13, 2023

May 13, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Two soul legends, a soundtrack from one of Hollywood's greatest composers, and a never-before-heard single from the ZTT vaults are all ready for you to hear! Diana Ross, Last Time I Saw Him (Deluxe Edition) (Motown/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) To commemorate 50 years of Diana Ross' sixth solo album

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Connie Smith, Diana Ross, Edgar Winter, Hubert Laws, J.D. Souther, James Brown, Jimmy Buffett, John Williams, Lyle Lovett

Release Round-Up: Week of May 12

May 12, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Rick Springfield Springfield

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Daft Punk, Random Access Memories: 10th Anniversary Edition (Columbia) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Daft Punk's final album, 2013's disco-flavored, multiple Grammy-winning Random Access Memories, welcomed such all-time luminaries as Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams, Giorgio Moroder, Paul Jackson, Jr., Nathan East, John "J.R."

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: APB, Bryan Adams, Cal Tjader, Celine Dion, Daft Punk, Michael Martin Murphey, Miles Davis, Rick Astley, Rick Springfield, The Kingsnakes, The Moody Blues

Every Fairy Tale Comes Real: Joni Mitchell's "At Newport" Arrives in July

May 11, 2023 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Joni Mitchell At Newport

Less than one year ago, on July 24, 2022, Joni Mitchell took the stage of the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island for her first full concert set in two decades.  Word quickly spread, usually attached to adjectives such as "thrilling," "moving," and "extraordinary."  Since then, the Mitchell renaissance has continued unabated.  Earlier this year, she received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, following in the footsteps of such greats as Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop Tags: Brandi Carlile, Celisse, Joni Mitchell, Marcus Mumford, Wynonna Judd

Discover Who I Am: The Fontana Years London 1966-1970

May 10, 2023 By

Blossom Dearie Discover Who I Am

Universal Music Recordings celebrates an often-overlooked period of jazz-pop chanteuse Blossom Dearie's career with the release of Discover Who I Am: The Fontana Years London 1966-1970. The 6-CD box set includes all four original albums which Dearie released on Fontana (each one of which is expanded with non-LP singles) plus two bonus discs with 27 previously unreleased recordings including renditions of contemporary songs from Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dave

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Sweet Western Sound

May 10, 2023 By

Tanya Tucker Sweet Western Sound

Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings produce Tanya Tucker's first album of new music since 2019.  Sweet Western Sound's ten tracks promise to evoke the sound of classic West Coast country-rock.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

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

Not That Fancy

May 10, 2023 By

Reba McEntire Not That Fancy

Reba McEntire releases a new collection to coincide with the publication of her book, also entitled Not That Fancy.  The 14-song set, available on CD, 2 LPs, and digitally, reprises the Revisited portion of her 2021 triple album Revised, Remixed, Revisited with new recordings made after that album including the new single "Seven Minutes in Heaven" and reworkings of "If You See Him/If You See Her" with Brooks and Dunn, "Till You Love Me," and "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia."

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

Rockstar

May 10, 2023 By

Dolly Parton Rockstar

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Target-Exclusive 4LP: Target.com VMP-Exclusive 4LP: Vinylmeplease.com Indie-Exclusive 4LP: RoughTrade.com Dolly Parton has unveiled the rock album she promised us...and it's no small affair! Rockstar, a whopping 2-CD or 4-LP collection with 30 songs, welcomes Sting, Lizzo, Elton John, Melissa Etheridge, Simon Le Bon, Steven Tyler, Stevie Nicks, Miley Cyrus, Steve Perry, John Fogerty, Peter

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

She Is the Champion: Dolly Parton Unveils "Rockstar," Featuring All-Star Cast Including Elton John, Peter Frampton, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Lizzo, Miley, Many More

May 9, 2023 By Joe Marchese 32 Comments

Dolly Parton Rockstar

"If I'm gonna be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I'm going to have to earn it," Dolly Parton commented upon her 2022 induction into the Cleveland hall.  She promised that a rock and roll album was on the way, and today, she made good on that promise...with what essentially amounts to two such records!  On November 17, Dolly's own Butterfly Records in association with Big Machine will release Rockstar, a whopping 2-CD or 4-LP collection with 30 songs featuring some of the biggest names in the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Ann Wilson, Brandi Carlile, Debbie Harry, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Joan Jett, John Fogerty, Michael McDonald, Mick Fleetwood, Miley Cyrus, Pat Benatar, Paul McCartney, Peter Frampton, Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow, Steve Perry, Stevie Nicks, Sting

Pretty Woman: The Musical

May 9, 2023 By

Bryan Adams Pretty Woman

Bryan Adams performs his score (co-written with Jim Vallance) to the 2018 Broadway musical Pretty Woman which is currently enjoying a run in the West End of London through June 23.  Previously available digitally, the album now makes its CD debut.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Rock

The Weekend Stream: May 6, 2023

May 6, 2023 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Today's might be our biggest and best round-up of the spring: classic rock remixes, classic soul legends, rising rap icons, all kinds of '80s pop, a classic Broadway album making its belated digital debut - plus two urgent social causes we really want you to know about. David Bowie, Golden Years

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Book of Love, Chance The Rapper, Daryl Hall and John Oates, David Bowie, Doris Day, Edgar Winter, James Brown, Les Brown, Oingo Boingo, Robyn Hitchcock, Squeeze, Stephen Sondheim, Tavares, The Hooters, Zero Mostel

Dig My Mood: 25th Anniversary Edition

May 5, 2023 By

Dig My Mood 25

Yep Roc reissues Nick Lowe's tenth studio album and second indie release.  This new reissue of Dig My Mood, available on blue vinyl or digitally, will come with a yellow 10" EP of bonus material from the period. All five tracks - a studio track called "I'll Give You All Night to Stop" and four live recordings from Japan in support of Dig My Mood - come from a Lowe box set and have never been released on vinyl or digitally.  It's limited to just 1,500 copies.

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

Release Round-Up: Week of May 5

May 5, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Olivia Newton John Just the Two of Us

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Olivia Newton-John, Just the Two of Us: The Duets Collection Vol. 1 (Primary Wave/Green Hill) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17 favorite duets with Olivia Newton-John are featured on this new collection.  The late artist's duet partners include Dolly Parton ("Jolene"), Michael McDonald ("Act of Faith"), Barry Gibb ("Face to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ben Platt, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Henry Franklin, Jeff Tweedy, Olivia Newton-John, Paul Young, Queen, Rodney Crowell, The Donnas, The Reverend Horton Heat, Unruly Child

Man That He's Become: Yep Roc Expands Nick Lowe's 'Dig My Mood'

May 4, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Dig My Mood 25

Yep Roc Records, custodian of NIck Lowe's noteworthy catalogue, will expand and reissue a late '90s album of his this summer. Dig My Mood, issued in 1998, was the U.K. singer/songwriter's 10th studio album and second independent release. Here, after leaving behind his detached power-pop style on 1994's The Impossible Bird, Lowe once again swung for the fences with his songcraft, while still wrapping it all in his signature rock sound. (Lowe would later bill The Impossible Bird, DIg My Mood

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Nick Lowe

Wave That Flag: Grateful Dead Mega-Box "Here Comes Sunshine" Features 1973 Shows, Trucks and Betts Encore

May 3, 2023 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Grateful Dead Here Comes Sunshine

A new Grateful Dead mega-box is on the way - and it's rewinding the years all the way back to 1973.  50 years ago, the band's tour culminated in a pair of performances at Washington, DC's Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium as co-headliners with The Allman Brothers Band.  The June 10 show, in particular, remains one of the Dead's best ever: an almost five-hour mega-concert with an encore featuring Dickey Betts and Butch Trucks of the ABB sitting in.  On June 30, both of the Washington, DC shows

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

The Weekend Stream: April 29, 2022

April 29, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. A short round-up this week, featuring expanded albums from the Godfather of Soul and a late '90s R&B star, another ZTT rarity, a classic rock remix and an LP from a screen legend. James Brown, Gravity (Expanded Edition) (Volcano/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) The success of "Living in

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Heaven 17, James Brown, Mae West, Mya, Propaganda, Steppenwolf, The Lennon Sisters

Willin': Little Feat's "Sailin' Shoes" and "Dixie Chicken" Get Remastered, Expanded

April 28, 2023 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Little Feat Dixie Chicken

"When Lowell [George] and I first got together," Little Feat co-founder Bill Payne remembered to author Bob Mehr in 2022, "our philosophical discussions became about what kind of band we want to be in.  We're not going to be a blues band...but we'll play some blues. We're not going to be a country band...but we'll play some country.  The idea was that it was supposed to be eclectic and not just one thing."  That ethos guided Little Feat for seven studio albums on Warner Bros. Records through

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Little Feat

Release Round-Up: Week of April 28

April 28, 2023 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Stephen Stills Live in Berkeley 1971

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Stephen Stills, Live at Berkeley 1971 (Omnivore/Iconic) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Box: Stephen Stills Webstore Omnivore and Iconic Artists are serving up a previously unreleased 14-song live album drawn from Stephen Stills' concerts at the Berkeley Community Theater in Berkeley, CA, on August 20 and 21, 1971. 

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Ace of Base, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Rickie Lee Jones, Rush, Smokey Robinson, Sonny Stitt, Stephen Stills

Craft Recordings Plans Staggering Box of Stax Demos

April 27, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stax demos box

How do you follow up an essential document like this year's comprehensive Wattstax box set? If you're Craft Recordings, you plan a trip deep into the unheard history of the legendary Memphis label, through dozens of demos released for the first time anywhere. Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos is an impressive 7CD anthology including 146 demo versions of enduring Stax hits and fan favorites, songs written by label songwriters that ended up elsewhere as well as a number of songs

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd, Rufus Thomas, Steve Cropper, The Newcomers, The Staple Singers, William Bell

Going for It: New Wham! Compilations Offer Singles, New to CD Mixes and More

April 27, 2023 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Wham singles box

More than 40 years after they took the U.K. - and then the world - by storm, the story of pop duo WHAM! will be told in a multi-format compilation, issued just after a new documentary set for release this summer. The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven is arguably the most comprehensive look at the work of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley as they combined their glossy good looks with an almost unsuspecting penchant for pop brilliance. In just five short years, the pair notched nearly a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Andrew Ridgeley, George Michael, Wham!

Pieces of Treasure

April 26, 2023 By

Rickie Lee Jones Pieces of Treasure

Rickie Lee Jones' fifteenth studio album, Pieces of Treasure features the singer's renditions of such classic standards as "Just in Time," "There Will Never Be Another You," "September Song," and "On the Sunny Side of the Street."  The album, available on CD, digital/streaming, and vinyl, reunites Jones with producer Russ Titelman.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Gasms

April 26, 2023 By

Smokey Robinson Gasms

Smokey Robinson returns with his first full album of original material in almost 15 years, featuring such suggestively-titled songs as "I Wanna Know Your Body," "Roll Around," and "I Fit in There."  Available on CD and digital/streaming.

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

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