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Isn't It Time! Beach Boys Reissues Confirmed For U.S., Two "Greatest Hits" Sets Also Arriving! [UPDATED 9/10]

September 10, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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UPDATE 9/10: It appears that the mono/stereo catalogue remasters for The Beach Boys will now arrive from Capitol/EMI on October 9 in North America, alongside the two greatest hits sets, not the previously announced September 25.  As of today's date, we have not confirmed any change of date for the international releases.  Watch this space for any further updates! BREAKING NEWS 8/8: The Beach Boys have announced plans for the CD and digital release of two new commemorative hits collections by

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Tags: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" Is Coming to Take You Away

August 22, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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The Magical Mystery Tour is coming to take you away on October 9 when The Beatles’ 1967 feature film arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in a completely restored new edition!  Initially aired on BBC1 television in December, 1967, The Beatles starred in the film opposite a motley crew of performers including Ivor Cutler, Victor Spinetti, Jessie Robins, Nat Jackley, Derek Royle, and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.  Both the DVD and Blu-ray will sport a fully remixed soundtrack (5.1 and stereo) as well as

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beatles

Saturday Night Special: Lynyrd Skynyrd "Ultimate Collection" Offers New 5.1 Surround DVD-Audio

August 22, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Lynyrd Skynyrd’s thirteenth studio album, Last of a Dyin’ Breed, arrived in stores just yesterday, but another recent release may have fans of the Southern rock legends even more excited.  Southern Surroundings: The Ultimate Skynyrd Collection is a Wal-Mart-exclusive 1-CD/2-DVD set, selling at the retail giant’s locations for just $11.88.  (That is, if you can find it; your author visited four locations before procuring a copy!) Of its three discs, the third is the most unique, and it’s also

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Categories: News Formats: DVD Tags: Lynyrd Skynyrd

And I Want You For All Time: Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb Reunite For Vintage "Session"

August 15, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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What makes for the perfect marriage of songwriter and singer?  The magic is nearly indefinable when composer and lyricist meet a voice to serve as a muse; when two or three people, each with an inimitable gift, find themselves on a perfect, sympathetic and transcendent wavelength to bring each other’s music to life.  There have been many such marriages across all genes of music: Dionne Warwick with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Frank Sinatra with Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen; Petula Clark

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb

Details Revealed for Gabriel's Big Time "So" Box (UPDATED WITH TRACK LIST)

August 13, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The 1986 release of Peter Gabriel's So was, arguably, the apex of an iconic frontman's idiosyncratic career. Here was an artist taking everything he had offered the audience to date - introspective slice-of-life balladeering, cutting-edge dance-rock, polyrhythmic world music influences - and spinning it into a slickly produced tour de force that caught on with MTV-addled youths as well as an older, more mature generation familiar with his work, either solo or as the original frontman for

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, DVD Tags: Peter Gabriel, Vinyl

Review: Johnny Cash, "The Greatest" Series and "We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash"

August 9, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Saddle up!  This week has brought a veritable Johnny Cash bonanza from Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, and a trip to the Ponderosa isn’t even required!  As the Cash 80th birthday train continues its ride, the late artist’s longtime home is celebrating his career with four newly-curated compilations on compact disc as well as an all-star tribute concert available in DVD/CD and Blu-ray editions.  The new series The Greatest (the rare hyperbolic title that can stand up to scrutiny)

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One Vision: Queen Repackage Video Compilations for New Release

July 19, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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If news of the super deluxe edition of Freddie Mercury's Barcelona album didn't have enough Queen in it for you, you're in some luck now: a new compilation of the band's videos is headed to DVD at the end of the month. The band's Greatest Video Hits is a new repackaging of two earlier compilations on disc - Greatest Video Hits 1 (2002) and Greatest Video Hits 2 (2003). Together, they chronicle just about all of the band's promo videos from the 1970s and 1980s. All clips were remastered and

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Review: Jimi Hendrix, "Jimi Plays Berkeley" and "Live at Berkeley"

July 11, 2012 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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When Jimi Hendrix asked from the stage of the Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970 that his audience of approximately 3,500 patrons “forget about yesterday or tomorrow…this is our own little world tonight,” he wasn’t making such a request idly.  Just outside the walls of the intimate theatre, fans were trying to crash the gates, scale the walls and even gain entry via the roof.  For many, the pure, unfiltered and raw music created by Hendrix and his Experience was much-needed escapism, as

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They Walk The Line: Johnny Cash Celebrated By Crow, Nelson, Kristofferson, Plus Four New Compilations Due

June 28, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Much like the train Johnny Cash so often sang about, the celebration of what would have been his 80th birthday year rolls on.  Following the issue of Bootleg IV: The Soul of Truth earlier this year, Legacy Recordings has just announced the CD/DVD and Blu-ray releases of We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash.  Due on August 7, these preserve the concert held on Friday, April 20, 2012 at Austin, Texas’ Moody Theater in which a wide-ranging roster of musicians paid homage to

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Tags: Shelby Lynne, Sheryl Crow

Review: The Beatles, "Yellow Submarine" on Blu-Ray and DVD

June 19, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Picture yourself in a boat on a river…with tangerine trees and marmalade skies… Now, picture the evocative imagery of The Beatles’ most mind-bending lyrics transferred to a silver screen world where imagination and wonder run rampant.  The result might be something like the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine.  Out of print for some time on DVD, Yellow Submarine has just returned to DVD and Blu-Ray (5099962146098) in a painstakingly restored new edition from Apple Corps and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beatles

Short Takes: McCartney Readies "Rockshow," Rundgren's Live "Healing", Jay and the Americans' "Magic Moment" Revisited

June 19, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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As we kick off another week, we're catching up with a few news items that almost slipped between the cracks! Earlier this year, RockBeat and S'More Entertainment released Todd: Live, preserving on both CD and DVD editions a live performance by Todd Rundgren of his 1974 classic album Todd.  But Todd only told half of the story!  Joined by Utopia's Kasim Sulton (bass), The Cars' Greg Hawkes (keyboards), The Tubes' Prairie Prince (drums), Guitar Player Magazine's editor Jesse Gress (guitar),

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, DVD Tags: Paul McCartney, Todd Rundgren

Cool, Cool Summer: New Bananarama Compilation Due in July

June 12, 2012 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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Ironically, with news of the Stock Aitken Waterman/PWL box set also comes news of one of the SAW team's most prolific collaborators: U.K. girl group Bananarama, who are celebrating their 30th anniversary with a new CD/DVD compilation. The band initially consisted of childhood friends Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin and schoolmate Siobhan Fahey. The trio's mutual interest in tomboyish fashion and the burgeoning post-punk scene - leading to early gigs opening for The Jam and Iggy Pop and early

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Voodoo Child (Slight Return): Full Slate of Jimi Hendrix Releases Due in July on Blu-Ray, DVD, CD, Vinyl

June 1, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Believe it or not, Jimi Hendrix would have turned 70 this year. Though the groundbreaking guitarist died at just 27 years old in the fall of 1970, he continues to leave behind an invaluable legacy.  You don’t have to wait till what would have been his 70th birthday on November 27 to enjoy the latest releases in the partnership between Experience Hendrix and Sony’s Legacy Recordings.  The original documentary film Jimi Plays Berkeley, derived from the two concerts Hendrix performed at the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Tags: Vinyl

Under the Lavender Moon: Los Lobos' "Kiko" Gets Deluxe Reissue This Summer

May 17, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Their first compilation may have humbly seen them described as "just another band from east L.A.," but Los Lobos have remained one of the most richly diverse bands in a nearly 40-year lifespan. And this August, one of their most acclaimed LPs is getting expanded by Shout! Factory. 1992's Kiko was released some years after the band burst onto the scene with How Will the Wolf Survive? (1984) and their breakthrough contributions to the soundtrack to La Bamba in 1987. But many critics and fans -

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Review: Diana Ross, "Live in Central Park"

May 16, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The hair is the first thing you notice when Diana Ross emerges from a troupe of grass skirt-clad dancers on stage at Central Park in New York City on July 21, 1983. Miss Ross, as she's gotten older, is easily distinguished for that dark, curly mane, like a proud lioness. But while her hair was as resplendent as usual on this night, it was...askew. Musicologists and hardcore Diana fans know why without any explanation: Ross' Central Park concert had the unfortunate circumstance of being schedule

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 15

May 15, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Pantera, Vulgar Display of Power: 20th Anniversary Edition (ATCO/Rhino) One of the heaviest albums of the '90s, expanded with one bonus track from the vault and a bonus DVD of live material and music videos. Diana Ross, Live in Central Park (Shout! Factory) Both of Miss Ross' iconic nights in Central Park in 1983 - one with rain, one without - on DVD for the first time anywhere. The Tubes, Outside Inside: Expanded Edition (Iconoclassic) Step inside another world with The Tubes' most famous

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Categories: News Formats: DVD Tags: Pantera, The Tubes

All Together Now: The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" Remastered Songtrack and Blu-Ray to Bow in June [UPDATED]

May 7, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Last Tuesday saw the American release on Blu-Ray and DVD of Martin Scorsese's 2011 documentary on the life of George Harrison, Living in the Material World.  That notable title, however, isn't the only Beatles-related film coming to home video.  On June 5, the Fabs' delightfully trippy 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine will be reissued on DVD and make its Blu-Ray debut in a brand-new transfer.  That same day, the 1999 Yellow Submarine Songtrack CD will also see a remastered reissue.  Directed

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: The Beatles

Sister Act: Heart Gets Box Set Treatment This Summer

April 30, 2012 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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The wait is over for the first-ever career-spanning box set from Heart. Legacy Recordings will release Strange Euphoria, a 3 CD/1 DVD package, in stores on June 5. The set spans from the early phases of Ann and Nancy Wilson's musical career as members of "The Daybreaks" in 1967 all the way to their latest album, the Top 10 hit Red Velvet Car (2010). Along the way, there are plenty of hits and unreleased material, including demos of killer cuts like "Magic Man" and "Crazy on You," a live version

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An Off-the-Wall Compilation from Shout! Factory Celebrates Vans' Warped Tour

April 20, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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During the last boom era for the music industry, everything was big. Bigger than big, even. Whole festivals were taken on the road, rather than just anchored to one place. Lollapalooza popularized this idea in the early '90s, and the rolling festival concept hit its zenith in 1995, with the birth of the Vans Warped Tour. The tour, sponsored by the long-running skate shoe company, has catered to the ever-burgeoning scene of alternative and punk subcultures, welcoming both living legends of punk

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Categories: News Formats: DVD Tags: No Doubt, Sublime, The Specials

King of Cool: Career-Spanning Dean Martin Box Set "Collected Cool" Coming in June, Uncut Dino DVDs Arriving in May

April 16, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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How lucky can one guy be?  Although Dean Martin's exhaustive catalogue has been definitively anthologized on four massive box sets released by Germany's Bear Family label between 1997 and 2001, unheard material from the King of Cool continues to be discovered.  Reporting in February 2011 about the then-recent Cool Then, Cool Now 2-CD/book box set, this writer opined: "A true career retrospective box with material from each label and era would be essential for those Martin fans looking for more

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Dean Martin

Here She Comes Again: Cracker Barrel Offers Reissued Dolly Parton Live Set On CD/DVD

April 13, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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With a catalogue of over fifty studio albums, both solo and as a duet partner, and a reported 3,000+ songs, it's hard to dispute Dolly Rebecca Parton's standing as a reigning queen of country music.  Still, such an appellation sells Parton short, seeing as she's also an actress, author, entrepreneur and philanthropist with multiple Grammy Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, the National Medal of Arts, and Oscar and Tony nominations.  Even when crossing over onto the pop charts or courting a wide

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Happy Birthday, Doris Day! Screen Legend Celebrated With "Ultimate Collection" and TCM "Smile and a Song"

April 3, 2012 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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Doris Day made quite a splash in 2011 when My Heart, her first album of primarily original material in some seventeen years, entered the British album charts with a Top 10 placement.  The singer, actress and animal rights activist turns 88 today, April 3.  Day remains greatly beloved around the world, and our coverage of My Heart quickly became one of The Second Disc’s most-visited articles since our inception in January 2010.  Now, two new releases are looking back on her rich musical legacy. 

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Details Revealed For George Harrison Film "Material World" Deluxe Edition, CD To Feature Unreleased Recordings

March 6, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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UPDATE 3/5/12: Our friends at MusicTAP are reporting a May 1 release date for the American video premiere of Living in the Material World on both DVD and Blu-Ray.  Watch this space for details on whether the American editions will mirror the contents of the British releases, as described below! ORIGINAL POST (10/5/11): DVR Alert!  Martin Scorsese’s documentary Living in the Material World premieres on American television tonight on HBO, proving that – at least for tonight – it’s not TV; it’s

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Categories: News Formats: DVD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: The Beatles

Come Rain or Shine: Legendary Diana Ross Concert Debuts on DVD

March 1, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Time and taste have been kind to Diana Ross, recent recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award. From the moment The Supremes broke into the national consciousness, it was clear there was something special about that pretty lead singer with the unmistakable voice. And believe it or not, nothing can stop her - not even the elements, as a classic 1983 live event, bowing on DVD this spring from Shout! Factory, is quick to prove. On July 21, 1983, Miss Ross - at the time, two years into a

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Weekend Wround-Up - The Diva Edition: Midler, Streisand Releases Coming Soon

February 24, 2012 By Joe Marchese 25 Comments

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Welcome to today’s Weekend Wround-Up: The Diva Edition! Nobody – no, nobody! – is going to rain on Barbra Streisand’s parade.  Columbia Records, the singer’s home since 1963, has announced that Streisand will remain with the label that guided her to stardom.  Speculation had arisen some months back that the singer might decamp for a new artistic residence,  but those rumors have now officially been set to rest.  "From the day [legendary Columbia President] Goddard Lieberson signed me almost 50

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, DVD Tags: Barbra Streisand, Weekend Wround-Up

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