6CD/DVD: 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 This 6CD/DVD celebration of Marc Almond’s 1991 concept album Tenement Symphony includes the original album, B-sides, a trove of released and unheard remixes, demos, live versions, and a region-free DVD of music videos and BBC promotional appearances. The set also comes with a 32-page booklet featuring lyrics, listening notes and a fold-out poster. The set features every commercially released single side from the project, a…
Meet Me in My Dream: Marc Almond’s ‘Tenement Symphony’ Gets Box Set Edition
Fans of Marc Almond’s early ’90s solo album Tenement Symphony are in for a real treat this fall, with a new box set coming from the Cherry Red imprint Strike Force Entertainment that will cover the album in exhaustive detail. This 6CD/DVD set includes the original album, B-sides, a trove of released and unheard remixes, demos, live versions and a region-free DVD of music videos and BBC promotional appearances. The set also comes with a 32-page booklet featuring lyrics, listening notes and a fold-out poster. Conceived in part as a loose concept…
Release Round-Up: Week of August 25
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Shania Twain, Come On Over: Diamond Edition (Mercury/UMe) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP (U.S.): ShaniaTwain.com 3LP (International): ShaniaTwain.com 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Three years after revisiting one of her first major releases, 1995’s The Woman in Me, country-pop icon Shania Twain will do the same for her 1997 follow-up Come On Over – the album that made her a pop star. The Diamond Edition of Come On Over will encompass a number of formats, including 2CD/2LP standard…
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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 in 2003 and 2004 across England, and a treasure trove of videos, performance footage, and more on DVD. A 2CD deluxe edition will include the first two discs of the…
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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 associated recordings, and all the demos on four LPs.) The box set will also include a 164-page book offering new…
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Watching Me, Watching You: Jethro Tull Unsheath ‘Broadsword’ for Monster Box Set
Jethro Tull and remixer Steven Wilson are joining forces for another anniversary edition of an album in their discography, this time tackling 1982’s The Broadsword and The Beast. Available September 1, this 40th anniversary “Monster Edition” will feature 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 associated recordings, and…
The Definitive 24 Nights
The Definitive 24 Nights (Duck/Reprise/Rhino, 2023) 6CD/3BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP/3BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD 1-2/LP 1-3: 24 Nights: Rock 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD 3-4/LP 4-5: 24 Nights: Blues 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD 5-6/LP 6-8: 24 Nights: Orchestral 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino rolls out a series of releases telling an even deeper story of the period that birthed Eric Clapton’s classic 1991Gold-certified live set 24 Nights. The Definitive 24 Nights is a three-part box set, spread over six CDs or eight LPs and three Blu-rays,…
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Wonderful Tonight(s): Eric Clapton Announces ’24 Nights’ Box Set
Like Cheap Trick and Budokan or The Allman Brothers Band and the Beacon Theatre, Eric Clapton has a kind of bond with London’s Royal Albert Hall. He’s played there more than 200 times in the last 60 years – more than any other artist – and condensed two runs of shows at the venue into the live album 24 Nights in 1991, the start of a critical and commercial renaissance for the guitar legend. On June 23, Rhino rolls out a series of products telling an even deeper story of the period…
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Release Round-Up: Week of April 7
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today. Various Artists, Love Is the Message: The Sound of Philadelphia Volume 3 (Snapper/United Souls) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) After well over a year since the release of Satisfaction Guaranteed, United Souls’ series of box sets collecting the Philadelphia International label’s complete studio albums resumes with Love Is the Message: The Sound of Philadelphia Vol. 3. The third installment of the series promised to eventually encompass 15 volumes contains the following eight studio albums: The Ebonys, The Ebonys (Philadelphia International KZ…
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Release Round-Up: Week of March 24
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today. Elton John, Honky Château: 50th Anniversary Edition (Rocket/UMC) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Hot on the heels of his final U.S. live performances, Elton John is looking back with a 50th anniversary edition of his 1972 LP Honky Château. The reissue will feature the original album (boasting such classics as “Rocket Man,” “Honky Cat,” and “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters”) alongside nine session demos covering eight of the album’s tracks (including two versions of “Slave”) and…
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Live 1982
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Liberation Hall has rescued one of Darlene Love’s “comeback” performances recorded at Hop Singh’s in Marina Del Rey, California, on April 21, 1982 for release on both CD and DVD. This concert was originally issued in 1985 on the fledgling Rhino label as Darlene Love Live! with a CD arriving in Japan in 1992. Liberation Hall’s new edition drops one song from the program issued on Rhino (The Blossoms’ cover of Ike Turner’s “Goodbye,…
She’s a Rebel: Liberation Hall Brings Darlene Love’s “Live 1982” to CD, DVD
When “He’s a Rebel” skyrocketed to No. 1 in November 1962, America fell in love with the voice of Darlene Wright…but her name was nowhere to be found on the 45 which was instead credited to The Crystals. Ironically, it displaced Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s “Monster Mash” from the top spot; Darlene and her group, The Blossoms, had provided the background vocals for that record, too. A second “Crystals” smash followed for Darlene, “He’s Sure the Boy I Love,” and she joined The Blossoms’ Fanita James and Bobby Sheen as Bob B. Soxx…
GRRR! Live
3LP black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP red vinyl: uDiscoverMusic.com / Rolling Stones Store 3LP white vinyl: Barnes & Noble 2CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mercury Studios commemorates a special night on The Rolling Stones’ 50 & Counting tour with the release of GRRR Live!, a 24-song set recorded at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center on December 13 and 15, 2012. The concert arrives in a variety of formats including 3LP black vinyl, 3LP red vinyl, 3LP white vinyl, 2CD/Blu-ray, 2CD/DVD, 2CD, and digitally. The DVD, BD, and digital…
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The Dark Side of the Moon / Live at Wembley 1974
2CD/2LP/2BD/1DVD/2-7″ Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Live at Wembley 1974: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP Live at Wembley 1974: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pink Floyd’s 1973 landmark album is returning for its 50th anniversary in a new box set. The Dark Side of the Moon: 50 Years features the original Dark Side (in various mixes) and a 1974 live concert from the previous Immersion box while adding a vinyl component and new Dolby Atmos mix. The 2CD/2LP/2BD/1DVD set contains: Remastered original album on CD in gatefold sleeve with 12-page booklet; Remastered original album on 180-gram vinyl…
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Any Colour You Like: Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” Turns 50, New Box Set Is Coming
Over ten years after Pink Floyd celebrated Dark Side of the Moon in the expansive 3CD/2DVD/1BD Immersion Edition, the 1973 landmark album is returning for its 50th anniversary in a new box set. The Dark Side of the Moon: 50 Years, from Pink Floyd Records, carries over the original Dark Side (in various mixes) and a 1974 live concert from the previous Immersion box while adding a vinyl component and new Dolby Atmos mix. Due on March 24, the 2CD/2LP/2BD/1DVD set contains: Remastered original album on CD in gatefold sleeve with 12-page…
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Respectable: The Rolling Stones Release Star-Studded 50th Anniversary Show on “GRRR Live!”
Ten years ago, The Rolling Stones named their tour 50 & Counting which turned out not to be an exaggeration at all, considering The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band is still going strong today even after weathering the loss of drummer Charlie Watts. On February 10, Mercury Studios will commemorate a special night on that tour with the release of GRRR Live!, a 24-song set recorded at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center on December 13 and 15, 2012. The concert will be released in a variety of formats including 3LP black…
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Release Round-Up: Week of November 18
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles hitting stores today as the countdown to the holidays continues! Michael Jackson, Thriller 40 (MJJ/Epic/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The best-selling album of all time returns in a 2CD edition for its 40th anniversary. The second disc features 10 bonus tracks including the previously issued outtake “Sunset Driver,” “Got the Hots” (making its U.S. release debut), non-LP B-side “Can’t Get Outta the Rain,” the Michael Sembello-penned “Carousel,” and the previously unreleased “Who Do You Know,” “What a Lovely Way…
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Break Every Rule: Deluxe Edition
3CD/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (CD 1 & CD 2 Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Last year, Parlophone revisited Tina Turner’s 1989 triumph Foreign Affair in a deluxe edition. Now, the label is turning the clock back to 1986 for a similar presentation of the artist’s equally incendiary Break Every Rule. The 1986 album will be reissued as a 3CD/2DVD box as well as on vinyl and as a 2CD expanded edition. The box opens with the remastered original album. The second disc offers a selection of 10 B-sides, remixes, and…
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Harvest: 50th Anniversary Edition
3CD/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP/7-inch single/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Harvest, Neil Young’s most commercially successful album to date, is turning 50 – and the singer-songwriter is celebrating with new 3CD/2DVD and 2LP/7-inch/2DVD box sets. The boxes feature the original album on CD 1, with the second disc dedicated to a previously unreleased February 23, 1971 solo performance from the BBC’s In Concert series featuring album cuts such as “Heart of Gold,” “Old Man,” “A Man Needs a Maid,” and “Out on the Weekend,” as well as “Journey Through the Past” and “Dance, Dance,…
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She’ll Be Thunder: Tina Turner’s “Break Every Rule” Goes Deluxe in November
Last year, Parlophone revisited Tina Turner’s 1989 triumph Foreign Affair in a deluxe edition. Now, the label is turning the clock back to 1986 for a similar presentation of the artist’s equally incendiary Break Every Rule. The 1986 album will be reissued on November 25 as a 3CD/2DVD box as well as on vinyl and as a 2CD expanded edition. Break Every Rule followed Turner’s 1984 solo breakthrough, the four-time Grammy-winning Private Dancer (itself reissued as a 2CD Deluxe Edition in 2015). Though the lead single “Typical Male,” written by the team…
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Journey Through the Past: Neil Young Expands “Harvest” For 50th Anniversary
Neil Young’s fourth studio album, 1972’s Harvest, was a landmark for the artist. His first and only No. 1 album in the U.S. and U.K. to date, it spun off his only U.S. No. 1 single to date with the ballad “Heart of Gold,” and became the best-selling album in the U.S. of 1972 – only to remain the best-selling album in Young’s ever-growing catalogue. The 2015 Grammy Hall of Fame inductee has received numerous reissues including a 2002 DVD-Audio presentation and a 2009 remaster as part of Young’s Archives series. Now,…
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The Miracle: Collector’s Edition
5CD/BD/DVD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cassette / Picture Disc LP / All Bundles: Queen Online Store Queen’s thirteenth studio album, 1989’s The Miracle, is getting the super deluxe treatment from EMI/Hollywood as a 5CD/BD/DVD/LP box set adding alternate takes, demos, rough mixes, backing tracks, B-sides, and more to the original album (heard in Bob Ludwig’s 2011 remaster). Previously unreleased songs include the lead single “Face It Alone,” featuring a Freddie Mercury vocal. A 2CD “highlights” version pairs the 2011 Ludwig remaster with the 16-track disc of previously unreleased session material. …
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I Want It All: Queen’s “The Miracle” Gets Super-Sized in Upcoming Box Set
Queen’s thirteenth studio album, The Miracle, is coming back in a big way. On November 18, EMI (U.K.) and Hollywood Records (U.S.) will expand The Miracle into a 5CD/Blu-ray/DVD/LP box set adding alternate takes, demos, rough mixes, backing tracks, B-sides, and more. A 2-CD “highlights” edition will also be available as well as cassette and picture disc vinyl versions of the original album only. The marathon recording period commenced in December 1987 with the specter of Freddie Mercury’s HIV diagnosis (as yet unknown to the public) lingering over the band, and continued…
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Live at Budokan
Columbia/Legacy releases Willie Nelson’s 1984 Live at Budokan concert, previously available only on Laserdisc, as a 2CD/DVD set as well as digitally. Willie and his band – including sister Bobbie Nelson on piano, Paul English on drums, Grady Martin on guitar, Jody Payne on vocals and guitar, Bee Spears on bass, and Mickey Raphael (who also produced this new set) on harmonica – romp through such classics as “On the Road Again,” “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” and “Always on My…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 16
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Miles Davis, That’s What Happened 1982-1985: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 (Columbia/Legacy) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 3-CD box set (also available digitally) focuses on Miles Davis’ final years at the Columbia label with which he had been associated since 1955 and on the three albums that closed out his 30-year run: Star People (1983), Decoy (1984), and You’re Under Arrest (1985). The collection features studio outtakes as well as a complete live performance, What It Is: Montreal…
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