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Back In The Old School: Rhino Releases New Digital CHIC Rarities Compilation

June 11, 2019 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

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Looking for something to make you dance this summer? Rhino's rolling out individual vinyl editions of three classic CHIC albums, and has also brought more than a dozen mixes and bonus tracks from the legendary disco band to digital channels for the first time. CHIC co-founder, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and legendary producer Nile Rodgers oversaw remasters of CHIC's early classic work on CD and vinyl last year for a handsome box set. On June 21, the three main albums in that box - 1977's

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: CHIC, Nile Rodgers

Still Remains: Stone Temple Pilots Celebrates 25 Years of "Purple" With Box Set and Expanded Remaster

June 11, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Rhino has announced plans for a new, 25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of Stone Temple Pilots' multi-platinum album Purple.  The album was the group's second long-player, the follow-up to their Grammy-winning Core.  While some bands struggle to capture any magic with their sophomore effort, Stone Temple Pilots delivered the goods with Purple. Scott Weiland, Dean DeLeo, Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz recorded the majority of Purple in Atlanta with Brendan O'Brien handling production duties.

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Stone Temple Pilots

50th Anniversary: The Collection

June 10, 2019 By

America 50th Anniversary Collection

50th Anniversary: The Collection (3-CD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 50th Anniversary: The Collection [2-LP] (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD) 50th Anniversary: Golden Hits (Single CD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Almost fifty years ago in London, Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and the late Dan Peek first joined their voices together in song - beginning a musical journey as the band America that continues to this day.  In anticipation of

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Voulez-Vous [Various Formats]

June 10, 2019 By

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Half Speed Master (2LP) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Voulez-Vous - The Singles (Polar/UMG, 2019) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) ABBA's 1979 album Voulez-Vous, the pop masters' sixth studio album, is beloved today for such classic songs as "I Have a Dream," "Does Your Mother Know," and "Chiquitita."  Now, for its 40th anniversary, UMG and Polar Music are marking the occasion with a new array of reissues: Half-Speed Mastered 2-LP set pressed on 180-gram vinyl,

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Lilyhammer - The Score Vol. 2: Folk, Rock, Rio, Bits and Pieces

June 10, 2019 By

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Volume 2: Folk, Rock, Rio, Bits and Pieces from the soundtrack of the Netflix original series starring Steven Van Zandt collects a whopping 36 tracks from a variety of genres, including the theme song and cues inspired by Norwegian folk, rock-and-roll, surf, Latin sounds, Brazilian music, and beyond.  Van Zandt plays guitar on all but one of the tracks on this album, and was inspired by diverse artists ranging from Tito Puente and Antonio Carlos Jobim to Ennio Morricone.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Folk, Rock, Soundtracks

Lilyhammer - The Score Vol. 1: Jazz

June 10, 2019 By

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Volume 1: Jazz collects together 13 of the best jazz-oriented compositions from the Netflix original series which starred Steven Van Zandt.  Little Steven and his musical compatriots assembled a soundtrack featuring vintage standards, instrumental cues, and original songs. Van Zandt even took a page from Sinatra in his new renditions of "All Of Me," "Ring-a-Ding Ding!" and "My Kind Of Town." 

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

Running on Empty

June 10, 2019 By

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CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Jackson Browne's legendary, seven-times-platinum 1977 album - featuring such classics as "Running On Empty" and "The Load-Out / Stay" - returns to CD, vinyl, and digital formats from Asylum/Rhino, featuring a fresh remaster by Gavin Lurssen of Lurssen Mastering on CD/digital.  The vinyl edition, meanwhile, was mastered by Ron McMaster and will be presented on 180-gram vinyl pressed at Pallas.

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

The Direction Albums

June 10, 2019 By

Bobby Darin The Direction Albums

Demon is bringing together Bobby Darin's recordings for his own Direction Records label on one box set with three 180-gram LPs.  The Direction Albums collects Darin's 1968 LP Born Walden Robert Cassotto and the 1969 Commitment (credited to Bob Darin) with an album of Rare Darin from this period in which the singer-songwriter expressed his social conscience via a radically different folk-rock sound.  The two core albums are being reissued for the very first time on LP in their original gatefold

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop

Back to the Swamp: Run Out Groove Announces Tony Joe White's "Monument Rarities" For Next Release

June 10, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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The Swamp Fox is back!  Today, Run Out Groove announced that late singer-songwriter Tony Joe White is the winner of its latest fan vote.  Swamp Music: Monument Rarities is confirmed to be the next official limited, numbered ROG release, and pre-orders are now open! This 180-gram, 3-LP collection had its genesis in Rhino Handmade's 2006 3-CD box set Swamp Music: The Complete Monument Recordings.  The new vinyl release culls all of the alternate takes, demos, and rarities from that long

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Tony Joe White

Jingle Jangle Jungle: Demon Collects Bobby Darin's "The Direction Albums" in July

June 10, 2019 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Bobby Darin The Direction Albums

The opening song of Bobby Darin's 1967 album Sings Doctor Dolittle was entitled "At the Crossroads."  The Leslie Bricusse song, introduced by Samantha Eggar (dubbed by Diana Lee) in the big-screen musical, expressed the viewpoint of a young woman constrained by the time in which she lived, wanting more.  The tune was quickly adopted and refashioned by singers from Petula Clark in a slow-burning, stoic and determined version, to Sammy Davis, Jr. in exuberantly hyper-charged "Yes I Can!" mode. 

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Bobby Darin

Another Town Along the Road: Jackson Browne's "Running On Empty" To Be Remastered on CD, Vinyl, Digital in July

June 7, 2019 By Sam Stone 17 Comments

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Few singer-songwriters embodied the late-'70s California sound as much as Jackson Browne.  He started out writing for others in the previous decade, but broke onto the scene as a solo artist with his 1972 self-titled debut (sometimes referred to as Saturate Before Using).  Five years later, he made waves with Running On Empty, a collection of 10 new songs recorded live during his 1977 tour.  Several tracks were taken from the band's performance at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland and the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Jackson Browne

Release Round-Up: Week of June 7

June 7, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - a packed one, for sure! Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Just in advance of the June 12 debut of director Martin Scorsese's documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Columbia and Legacy unveil a new 14-CD box set that promises to be the ultimate chronicle of the initial leg of Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder Revue from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Airto, America, Bob Dylan, Cole Porter, David Yazbek, Eddie Perfect, Elmer Bernstein, Gary Nicholson, Genesis, Grateful Dead, James Taylor, Janet Jackson, Luciano Pavarotti, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Norma Tanega, Peter Frampton, Santana, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue

June 6, 2019 By

Bob Dylan Bootleg Series 5

The Rolling Thunder Revue CD box set will also be joined by a reissue of the long out-of-print 3-LP edition of The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue.  The 3-LP set was originally released in 2003 by Classic Records; that edition now commands high prices on the secondary market.  Legacy's slipcased reissue has the discs housed in printed inner sleeves alongside a a 64-page booklet and a download code. (Note that Bootleg Vol. 5 presented a composite show drawn

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Ace Explores Rock, Jazz Through the Lens of History with "Three Day Week" and "If You're Not Part of the Solution"

June 5, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Ace Records, as always, has delivered some of 2019's finest collections including Songwriter Series volumes dedicated to Eddie Hinton, Leonard Cohen and Merle Haggard, and celebrations of producer Mickie Most and musician Reggie Young.  Today, we're taking a look at a pair of the label's other recent releases. Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs present Three Day Week: When the Lights Went Out 1972-1975 (Ace CDCHD 1542) is another sublimely curated compilation focusing on a particular period of

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Rock Tags: Adam Faith, Clifford Jordan, Hawkwind, Joe Henderson, Johnny Hammond Smith, Mungo Jerry, The Kinks, The Troggs, Various Artists

His Kind of Town: Little Steven Releases Songs, Score from "Lilyhammer" in July

June 4, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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Between 2012 and 2014, Steven Van Zandt starred in Netflix's first exclusive television series.   A co-production with Norwegian network NRK1, Lilyhammer cast the singer-songwriter-musician as Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano, a gangster making a new life in Lillehammer, Norway.  Van Zandt not only acted in, co-wrote, and co-produced the series for three seasons, but he also composed most of the show's music.  For the first time, the music of Lilyhammer will be released on July 12 by Van Zandt's own

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Little Steven

Off The Handle: Rory Gallagher Rarities Collection "Blues" Arrives From UMC

June 3, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Eric Clapton once described Rory Gallagher as "the man who got me back into the blues." Though he never reached the same "household name" fame as Clapton or other contemporaries, Irish guitar legend Gallagher led a movement back to blues roots that began with his band Taste and continued on throughout his solo career from 1971 to 1994. To commemorate 50 years since Gallagher began his recording, UMC has released a new collection that mines the vaults of the celebrated singer and instrumentalist

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: Albert King, Jack Bruce, Lonnie Donegan, Muddy Waters, Rory Gallagher

A Question of Time: Depeche Mode Continues 12" Singles Series With "Black Celebration" and "Music For The Masses" Volumes Due May 31

May 31, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Depeche Mode has continued its series of 12" single box sets today with two new collections: Black Celebration: The 12" Singles and Music For The Masses: The 12" Singles. Released in 1986 and 1987, respectively, the two albums saw Depeche Mode shifting directions into darker musical territory and reaching a wider audience than ever before. To supplement the albums, Depeche Mode also released several 12" singles that included rare mixes, extended versions, and exclusive live recordings of their

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Depeche Mode

Aoxomoxoa: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

May 31, 2019 By

Grateful Dead Aoxomoxoa

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Picture Disc Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Following the previous releases of The Grateful Dead (2017) and Anthem of the Sun (2018), Aoxomoxoa will be released approximately 50 years after its anniversary date as a 2-CD deluxe edition that includes the newly-remastered original album plus a bonus disc of previously unreleased live recordings (recorded January 24-26, 1969 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, CA). Like

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

Release Round-Up: Week of May 31

May 31, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Hootie & The Blowfish, Cracked Rear View: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) 3-CD/DVD Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD Expanded: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Hootie and the Blowfish are revisiting their 21x platinum smash Cracked Rear View with a new 3-CD/DVD Deluxe Edition and 2-CD Expanded Edition. The Deluxe Edition includes a new

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, DVD-Audio, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Atlanta Rhythm Section, Buck Owens, Depeche Mode, Four Tops, Hootie and The Blowfish, King Crimson, Rory Gallagher, Susan Boyle

Get a Tiger By the Tail: Omnivore Offers Sealed, Original Buck Owens LPs from Buck's Own Collection

May 30, 2019 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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Tomorrow, May 31, Omnivore Recordings releases the third and final volume of country legend Buck Owens' Capitol Records singles - the most recent in a long-running series of releases on Omnivore from the late Bakersfield, California-based artist, songwriter, musician, and bandleader.  Now, the label is teaming with Owens' estate for a special initiative also beginning Friday. Forty original, vintage, sealed Buck Owens LPs will be made available for sale exclusively through Omnivore's

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Buck Owens, Don Rich, The Buckaroos

Does Your Mother Know: ABBA Celebrates 40 Years of "Voulez-Vous" with New Reissues

May 29, 2019 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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ABBA's 1979 album Voulez-Vous, the pop masters' sixth studio album, is beloved today for such classic songs as "I Have a Dream," "Does Your Mother Know," and "Chiquitita."  Now, for its 40th anniversary, UMG and Polar Music are marking the occasion with a new array of reissues.  On June 14, Voulez-Vous will return to the marketplace in the following formats: Half-Speed Mastered 2LP set pressed on 180-gram vinyl, mastered at Abbey Road Studios, and cut at 45 RPM; Colored vinyl 7-inch vinyl

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: ABBA

Soul Explosion

May 27, 2019 By

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In just a few months during 1969, Stax and its artists released a staggering 27 albums and 30 singles during what's been called the "Soul Explosion," which is also the name of a 1969 compilation arriving on vinyl for the first time since its original release. The 28-song, 2-LP sampler brings together hits from the likes of The Staple Singers, Albert King, Eddie Floyd, and The Mad Lads.  These are paired with rarer songs, some of which are exclusive to this collection.  Among them are The

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

Cracked Rear View: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

May 27, 2019 By

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3-CD/DVD Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD Expanded: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Hootie and the Blowfish are revisiting their 21x platinum smash Cracked Rear View with a new 3-CD/DVD Deluxe Edition and 2-CD Expanded Edition. The Deluxe Edition includes a new remaster of the album, plus rare and unreleased studio recordings on CD 2, a live show from Pittsburgh in 1995 on CD 3, and a DVD with music videos,

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

UPDATED WITH ORDER LINKS: Let The Sunshine In: Rhino Celebrates Woodstock Era With "Summer of '69" Vinyl Reissue Series, New Woodstock Compilations

May 24, 2019 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

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On the heels of their announcement of the expansive Woodstock 50 campaign, Rhino has announced a new series celebrating The Summer of '69: Peace, Love, and Music. Beginning on July 9, the campaign will feature a three-week-long roll-out of limited-edition vinyl releases of classic recordings from the Woodstock era by the likes of Van Morrison; The Monkees; Grateful Dead; Crosby, Stills & Nash; and many more. These LPs will be available in participating brick-and-mortar stores only.  Online

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Arlo Guthrie, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills and Nash, Graham Nash, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Love, The Monkees, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Tim Buckley, Van Morrison

Paul Is Live: McCartney Premieres "Amoeba Gig," Reissues Classic Live Sets on CD and LP

May 24, 2019 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

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Paul McCartney is back on the road again!  Last night, he kicked off the North American leg of his Freshen Up tour, with dates currently scheduled through July 13.  This morning, the legendary artist announced a look back at his past live performances with four new titles: reissues of Wings Over America, Choba B CCCP, and Paul Is Live, plus the world premiere of the complete Amoeba Gig.  All four albums will be released on July 12 from MPL/Capitol/UMe in digital formats, on CD, and on both black

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Paul McCartney

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