1995: Bill Clinton was President of the U.S., John Major was Prime Minister of the U.K., phones weren't yet smart, Braveheart won Best Picture, the O.J. trial was on everyone's mind, Jerry Garcia died, and the biggest songs of the year were Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" (U.S.) and Robson and Jerome's "Unchained Melody/White Cliffs of Dover" (U.K.). In November, the band that changed pop music forever launched its first major archival project at a time when such vault deep dives weren't yet (so)
And Then I Wrote... The First Three Albums of the '90s
This 4CD box set from the Bakersfield country hero (also available on 4 LPs for Record Store Day Black Friday) includes a full LP of rarities from the era including covers of "Things We Said Today," "Suspicious Minds," and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love."
Release Round-Up: Week of November 21
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Beatles, Anthology Collection (Capitol/Apple/UMe) 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 12LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store The Beatles' Anthology Collection premieres remastered editions of the original three collections of rarities and outtakes compiled by George
Juvenilia: The Columbia Years
Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Site (with signed print) Prolific pop/rock/soul singer/songwriter Sananda Maitreya is set to release an artist-approved colored vinyl box set featuring remastered and slightly redesigned editions of his early albums for Columbia, originally released under the name Terence Trent D'Arby but now issued under his current name. Includes Into the Hardline According to... (1987 - translucent green), Neither Fish Nor Flesh: A Soundtrack of Love,
Sign Your Name: Sananda Maitreya's Early Works Due for Vinyl Box Set
What's in a name? The world didn't know Sananda Maitreya as such in the '80s and '90s, but his arresting early works will finally be remastered and reissued on vinyl next year under the moniker he is now known by. Juvenilia: The Columbia Years, available February 6, offers on six LPs the four albums Maitreya released in the U.S. and the U.K. under the name Terence Trent D'Arby: Introducing the Hardline According to... (1987), Neither Fish Nor Flesh: A Soundtrack of Love, Faith, Hope and
Holiday Gift Guide Review: Split Enz, 'Encyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2'
It's kind of a minor miracle that Enzyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2 (Chrysalis CRC/CRV1899) - the first in what we hope is an ongoing reissue campaign for Antipodean rock icons Split Enz - exists at all. Their catalogue is probably a tough sell if you live outside of Australia or New Zealand (none of their discography is consistently available worldwide), and their best-known work, where they became a razor-sharp, New Wave-adjacent ensemble, doesn't come until years after what's covered in this
Release Round-Up: Week of November 14
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Nicolette Larson, Look in My Direction: The Warner Bros. Recordings (Cherry Red/Lemon/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) Look in My Direction: The Warner Bros. Recordings from Cherry Red's Lemon imprint and TSD presents all of the late Nicolette Larson's original studio and live albums for Warner
Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Monkees, "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd." [Super Deluxe Edition]
Next year marks the 60th anniversary of The Monkees, an occasion soon to be commemorated by last Monkee standing Micky Dolenz with a new tour. The group's home of Rhino Records has started the party early with the recent release of the latest (and last?) of the label's series of lavish album reissues. 1967's Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. has been expanded as a comprehensive 4CD/1-7" box set by producer/annotator Andrew Sandoval, and as usual, the result is manna for longtime
Sweet and Lovely: Bill Evans' Trio Explorations Revisited in New Set from Craft
Craft Recordings is revisiting a halcyon period of The Bill Evans Trio. Due on November 21, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Recordings collects the complete studio recordings by the Bill Evans Trio lineup of Evans (1929-1980), bassist Scott LaFaro (1936-1961), and drummer Paul Motian (1931-2011). The 3CD or 5LP set presents the complete albums Portrait in Jazz (1960) and Explorations (1961) plus 26 alternate takes - a full 17 of which are previously unreleased. Evans, a pioneer in the
Better Off Dancing: Real Gone Reissues The Donnas' 'Bitchin'' on a 2-LP Set with Bonus Tracks
Since 2020, Real Gone has been reissuing albums from The Donnas catalog. On Friday, the label revisited the group's final studio album, 2007's Bitchin', in an expanded 2-LP edition. The band formed in California in 1993. Brett Anderson (lead vocals), Allison Robertson (guitar, backing vocals), Maya Ford (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Torry Castellano (drums, percussion, backing vocals) met when they were in the eighth grade. The self-taught musicians formed a band to perform at a
Got to Choose: Weeks After Expanding 'Dressed to Kill,' KISS' 'Alive!' Gets Its Own Deluxe Box
Only a few weeks after unveiling a deluxe box set of their third studio album Dressed to Kill - which featured, in part, overdub-free versions of shows utilized for their breakthrough concert album Alive! - KISS have revealed that they will, in fact, release a whole box set for Alive! as well, confirming previous rumors and reports. Available on four CDs or eight LPs and a Blu-ray Audio disc, Alive! features the original double album (here for the first time pressed on one CD) along with two
Feel the Heat: Supergroup The Power Station Goes Deluxe on New Box Set
Fans of Duran Duran and supergroups will multiply for this one: Rhino is expanding the self-titled debut from The Power Station into a 4CD box set next year. The Power Station DLX includes the remastered album (featuring the hits "Some Like It Hot" and a cover of T. Rex's "Get It On (Bang a Gong)") alongside three discs of bonus material, including unreleased "raw instrumental" versions, single mixes and live material, including the band's performances from the charity concert Live Aid and an
Release Round-Up: Week of November 7
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Wings, Wings [Various Formats] (MPL/Capitol/UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada On November 4, Paul McCartney released Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, an oral
High the Memory: Rhino Sets Yes' 'Tales from Topographic Oceans' As First Major Box of 2026
Having released arguably more reissues and box sets than any major label in 2025, Rhino has already set sights on their first catalogue title of 2026. Might you be interested? In a word: Yes. Following a deluxe box set of Close to the Edge this past spring, the label will next give the lavish treatment to 1973's Tales from Topographic Oceans. Available February 6, this 12CD/2LP/Blu-ray box set will offer more than a dozen unreleased outtakes and live tracks alongside a suite of new mixes of
Step Into Christmas: UMe Preps Holiday Singles Box, Expansion of Connie Francis' Holiday Album
With the spookiest holidays of the fall now in the rear view mirror (that's right: Halloween and Election Day!), there's nothing wrong with looking ahead to the Christmas music season and checking out a pair of now-available titles from Universal Music Group spotlighting some of their classic holiday hits and an album by one of catalogue's biggest success stories this year. UMe is selling a nifty collection of more than a dozen seasonal 7" singles in a collectible carrying case. This Classic
A Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Recordings
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada With little to prove by this point in her singular career, 1993's A Single Woman found Nina Simone in fine form, delivering eclectic song choices from behind her piano, augmented here with a 50-piece orchestra. Featuring fare from Marilyn and Alan Bergman and Michel Legrand ("Papa, Can You Hear Me?" as written for Barbra Streisand in the film Yentl), Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein ("The People Who
Warning: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Green Day's sixth album, 2000's Warning, arrived nearly three years after the band's multi-platinum Nimrod. It built on the expansive sound of Nimrod by incorporating even more varied textures drawing on pop and folk styles. The 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Warning follows the basic format and box style (a clamshell for the CDs) of past Super Deluxe sets from the band's discography including
Green Day Re-Live Without 'Warning' on New Box Set
Green Day's sixth album, 2000's Warning, arrived nearly three years after the band's multi-platinum Nimrod. It built on the expansive sound of Nimrod by incorporating even more varied textures drawing on pop and folk styles. Now, 25 years later, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool are revisiting Warning in a new Super Deluxe Edition (available on both vinyl and CD) due November 14 from Reprise Records. With longtime producer Rob Cavallo moving up to the executive producer's
Release Round-Up: Week of October 31
Happy Halloween! Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window (Columbia/Legacy) 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The beginnings of Bob Dylan's long and extraordinary career are being revisited by
Review: Frank Zappa, "Halloween 78"
"Happy Halloween, everybody!" Greeting his audience at New York's late, lamented Palladium on October 31, 1978, Frank Zappa promised the enthusiastic crowd. "This is it...this is the big one!" He wasn't kidding. The composer-guitarist and his band - drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, bassists Arthur Barrow and Patrick O'Hearn, keyboardists Peter Wolf and Tommy Mars, singer-guitarist Denny Walley, and percussionist Ed Mann - delivered perhaps the most epic show of their annual New York holiday
Review: Elvis Presley, "Sunset Boulevard"
It was late March 1972 when Elvis Presley first entered RCA's Studio C at 6363 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood - The King's first time recording at the Hollywood venue. Most of RCA's marquee artists, from Jefferson Airplane to Henry Mancini, had already made their mark there, as the studio had opened in 1964. Presley had previously rehearsed for his Las Vegas engagements in the 32 x 22' space (the smallest of the building's three studios) and now, the March 27-30 sessions would be his first
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
The acclaimed motion picture starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, chronicling the making of Nebraska, now yields a soundtrack CD with White's performances of such songs as "Highway Patrolman," "Born in the USA," "Atlantic City," and "I'm on Fire." Nashville uber-producer Dave Cobb helmed the sessions which also feature Jake Kiszka and Sam F. Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet. Available on CD, "Asbury Gray" double vinyl, and digitally.
Release Round-Up: Week of October 24
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska '82 (Columbia/Legacy) 4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada It's no surprise that, as Hollywood recounts the story of Bruce Springsteen's most striking solo release with the film Deliver Me from Nowhere (out today), a box set tells the
Tonight's the Night 50
1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Clear Vinyl: Greedy Hand Store Neil Young's sixth album, released in 1975 but mostly recorded two years earlier, was the closer to his "Ditch Trilogy." It remains one of his darkest works, responding in real time to the overdose deaths of Crazy Horse's Danny Whitten and friend and roadie Bruce Berry with bleak songs and wearied vocals. This reissue features a redesigned cover and six bonus tracks,
Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with postcards) / Madonna.com (with postcards) Vinyl EP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with postcards) / Madonna.com (with postcards) Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada After teasing it last year - and not long after this year's release of a similar Ray of Light-era remix collection - Madonna will explore rare and unreleased material tied to another one of her most celebrated albums of the
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