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Hunting High And Low: Rhino Announces Record Store Day 2019 Lineup

March 4, 2019 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

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Today, Rhino announced its offerings for the 2019 Record Store Day celebration, taking place at your local brick-and-mortar shop Saturday, April 13. Rhino's 33 releases highlight several genres of music - soul, rock, rap, comedy, disco, pop, jam bands, prog, and more - on an array of formats including LPs, CDs, picture discs, colored vinyl, and even cassette tapes. Here's the run-down on all their RSD titles! a-ha, Hunting High and Low: The Early Alternate Mixes - 1 LP - 6,000

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: a-ha, Angelo Badalamenti, Aretha Franklin, Cheech and Chong, CHIC, Craig Mack, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, David Bowie, David Lynch, Devo, Duran Duran, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Jefferson Starship, Jethro Tull, Lou Reed, Madonna, Prince, Ramones, Record Store Day, The Notorious B.I.G., Todd Rundgren, Van Morrison, Woodstock, Yes

Hey, Music Lover! Legacy Announces Record Store Day 2019 Exclusives

March 4, 2019 By Sam Stone 9 Comments

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Sony's Legacy Recordings has announced its offerings for this year's Record Store Day festivities, to be held on Saturday, April 13 at your local brick-and-mortar retailer!  As usual, it's an eclectic line-up with pop, rock, and R&B superstars all represented.  So without further ado, here's the label's full list! Jeff Buckley, In Transition - 1 LP - 3,000 copies In Transition is a compilation of seven previously unreleased studio performances from 1993 during the making of Jeff Buckley's

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Brian May, Dennis Wilson, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Jeff Buckley, Pink Floyd, Prince, Record Store Day, Roger Taylor, Sly and the Family Stone, Taylor Hawkins

Babe, It Ain't No Lie: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Celebrates Iconic Women in Folk With New Vinyl Reissues

March 2, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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The archivists and musical archaeologists at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings have been mining their mammoth catalogue of folk, world music, blues, jazz, frog sounds, educational recordings, early electronica, historical documentary, and so on to create new vinyl reissues of some of their shining gems. This week, in celebration of the start of Women's History Month, the label has put the spotlight on three releases by Folkways icons.  There's legendary guitar picker Elizabeth Cotten, whose

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Folk, Jazz Tags: Elizabeth Cotten, Lucinda Williams, Mary Lou Williams

Spotlight On: The Zombies' "In the Beginning" from Demon Music Group

March 1, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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On March 29, The Zombies will take the stage at Brooklyn's Barclays Center to celebrate their long overdue induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  The time has never been better to revisit the band's catalogue, a hugely influential one despite its small size.  Rediscovering The Zombies has been made easier with the recent release of two deluxe 5-LP vinyl box sets.  For the U.S., Varese Vintage has issued The Complete Studio Recordings, while in the group's native U.K., Demon Music Group

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Zombies

Release Round-Up: Week of March 1

March 1, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Tom Petty The Best of Everything

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, The Best of Everything (Geffen/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) On the heels of the release of the acclaimed rarities box set An American Treasure, a new career-spanning anthology arrives from the late Tom Petty.  The Best of Everything is subtitled The Definitive Career-Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016 and features 38 tracks from the soulful rock-and-roller, including two previously unreleased

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chaka Khan, Dennis Coffey, Gordon Lightfoot, John Hartford, The Gun, The Undisputed Truth, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Tommy Hunt

Record Store Day Spotlight: Craft Recordings Plans Violent Femmes, Stax Classics, Psych Pop Collections

February 28, 2019 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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Record Store Day announcements are coming fast and furious, and one of the first out of the gate hails from Craft Recordings.  The label has a variety of packages coming soon for the RSD festivities at your local independent retailer on Saturday, April 13! Here's the full list from Craft with descriptions provided by the label. Violent Femmes, Hallowed Ground (LP): Hallowed Ground is the follow up to the Violent Femmes' legendary self-titled 1983 debut. As with the first album, all of the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Albert King, Bingo Hand Job, Booker T. & The MG's, Otis Redding, Record Store Day, The Bar-Kays, The Beatles, Violent Femmes

Spotlight On: The Zombies' "Complete Studio Recordings" From Varese Vintage

February 28, 2019 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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On March 29, The Zombies will take the stage at Brooklyn's Barclays Center to celebrate their long overdue induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  The time has never been better to revisit the band's catalogue, a hugely influential one despite its small size.  Rediscovering The Zombies has been made easier with the recent release of two deluxe 5-LP vinyl box sets.  For the U.S., Varese Vintage has issued The Complete Studio Recordings, while in the group's native U.K., Demon Music Group

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Zombies

UPDATED WITH ARTWORK AND TRACK LISTING: Grateful Dead Announce New LP Compilation "Sage and Spirit" For Record Store Day

February 28, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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The official Record Store Day list is set to drop any day now, but Grateful Dead has announced one of their RSD 2019 offerings a bit early:  a limited-edition compilation LP called Sage & Spirit, which will be available in independent record shops Saturday, April 13. Sage & Spirit marks the latest chapter in the Grateful Dead's partnership with Dogfish Head Brewery, a company that's been a frequent supporter of Record Store Day.  The album boasts 10 tracks, a mix of live and studio

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Record Store Day, The Grateful Dead

Sky Blue [Various Formats]

February 28, 2019 By

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CD:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Townes Van Zandt is an icon of outlaw country, whose introspective and enigmatic songs have touched audiences for decades. On March 7 Fat Possum Records, working alongside the Townes Van Zandt Estate and their TVZ imprint, will add another chapter with a new collection of unreleased recordings called Sky Blue.  It's a collection of 11 newly unearthed recordings that were made with friend Bill

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country

Egypt Station: Traveller's Edition [Box Set]

February 28, 2019 By

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The "Traveller's Edition" of Paul McCartney's most recent LP, Egypt Station is set to leave the station on May 10.   It will be presented in a vintage-style suitcase loaded with music, including different configurations of the album, unreleased songs, a wealth of memorabilia, and "hidden rarities." A full list of the box set's known contents is below. The suitcases are limited to one pressing of only 3,000 copies and are currently only available through Paul McCartney's website at this link on a

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

Live At The Chicago Theatre [Various Formats]

February 28, 2019 By

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2-CD/DVD/Blu-Ray:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Limited-Edition Green Vinyl:  Cleopatra Records Last year, rock's wizard/true star Todd Rundgren reunited prog rockers turned power-pop legends Utopia, joining up with Kasim Sulton, Willie Wilcox, along with featured performer Gil Assayas.  It had been 32 years since the band's last performance, save a brief reunion in 1992.  Utopia trekked across the U.S. in the spring and summer and now one stop on the tour will be released as a

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

The Wedding Album [Various Formats]

February 28, 2019 By

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CD:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada White Vinyl Box Set:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD + LP + T-shirt bundle:  Secretly Canadian Online Store Clear Vinyl Edition:  Rough Trade Online Store On March 22, just over 50 years after the couple's marriage, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's avant-garde Wedding Album will be re-released.  The pair's previous albums saw them experimenting in musique concrete and piecing together audio diary snippets to provide a snapshot of their

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else

Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic [2-LP, Purple Vinyl]

February 28, 2019 By

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Coinciding with the release of the Ultimate Rave 2-CD/DVD box set, Legacy Recordings and NPG will release Prince's Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic as a 2-LP set on limited-edition purple vinyl. The album was originally released in 2001 as an update of its predecessor, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, with a modified track listing that added the previously unreleased track "Beautiful Strange," and new remixes and modified versions of the Un2 material.  In one of many examples of Prince embracing

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

Cleveland Rocks [Various Formats]

February 28, 2019 By

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CD:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cleveland's rock scene during the '70s was largely championed by Steve Popovich, a former Cleveland resident who ended up being the head of A&R at Epic.  In mid-1976, he left the corporate rock world and headed back home to Cleveland, where he set up Cleveland International Records, part record label, part management company, part marketing consulting group.  Throughout the '70s, Cleveland

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Etcetera (Tone Poet Audiophile LP Reissue)

February 28, 2019 By

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This year marks the 80th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the legendary label that continues to deliver some of the most striking jazz music ever recorded.  To mark the occasion, Joe Harley and Blue Note president Don Was have launched a new initiative called the Tone Poet Audiophile Reissue Series and they've included Wayne Shorter's Etcetera as one of the new titles. The new reissue is all-analog, mastered from the original master tapes, pressed onto 180-gram audiophile vinyl, and housed

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Glamoured (Tone Poet Audiophile LP Reissue)

February 28, 2019 By

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This year marks the 80th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the legendary label that continues to deliver some of the most striking jazz music ever recorded.  To mark the occasion, Joe Harley and Blue Note president Don Was have launched a new initiative called the Tone Poet Audiophile Reissue Series and they've included Cassandra Wilson's Glamoured as one of the new titles. The new reissue is all-analog, mastered from the original master tapes, pressed onto 180-gram audiophile vinyl, and

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Tone Poet Audiophile LP Reissue)

February 28, 2019 By

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This year marks the 80th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the legendary label that continues to deliver some of the most striking jazz music ever recorded.  To mark the occasion, Joe Harley and Blue Note president Don Was have launched a new initiative called the Tone Poet Audiophile Reissue Series and they've included Chick Corea's Now He Sings, Now He Sobs as one of the new titles. The new reissue is all-analog, mastered from the original master tapes, pressed onto 180-gram audiophile

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Contours (Tone Poet Audiophile LP Reissue)

February 28, 2019 By

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This year marks the 80th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the legendary label that continues to deliver some of the most striking jazz music ever recorded.  To mark the occasion, Joe Harley and Blue Note president Don Was have launched a new initiative called the Tone Poet Audiophile Reissue Series and they've included Sam Rivers' Contours as one of the new titles. The new reissue is all-analog, mastered from the original master tapes, pressed onto 180-gram audiophile vinyl, and housed in

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Remember A Day: Mono Mix of Pink Floyd's "Saucerful of Secrets" Arriving for Record Store Day

February 27, 2019 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

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Vinyl aficionados worldwide are gearing up for, or at least saving up for, Record Store Day.  The official list is set to drop any day now, but today Legacy Recordings has announced one highly anticipated release from the early days of Pink Floyd: the original mono mix of their second album, 1968's A Saucerful of Secrets.  The limited-edition LP will be a Record Store exclusive, available  from independent record shops on Saturday, April 13th. Saucerful is the only album to feature the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

Mellifluous Cacophony: Blue Note Celebrates 80th Anniversary With Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series

February 27, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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This year marks the 80th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the legendary label that continues to deliver some of the most striking jazz music ever recorded.  In recent years, Joe Harley spearheaded an audiophile vinyl reissue series called Music Matters which included many Blue Note classics.  Over a decade has passed since the inception of that project and now, Harley and Blue Note president Don Was  have launched a new initiative called the Tone Poet Audiophile Reissue Series. The series

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Cassandra Wilson, Chick Corea, Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter

Born on the Bayou: Craft Recordings Preps Half-Speed Mastered Editions of First Two CCR Albums

February 26, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Craft Recordings is continuing the 50th anniversary celebration of Creedence Clearwater Revival.  In 1968, John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook released their first album together, providing the perfect soundtrack for a tumultuous period in American history. Over just seven albums issued between 1968 and 1972, the band's rootsy rock-and-roll sensibility yielded such all-time classic hits as "Proud Mary," "Bad Moon Rising," "Green River," "Down on the Corner," "Who'll Stop the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Creedence Clearwater Revival

Precious Memories: Rhino Brings Aretha Franklin's Complete "Amazing Grace" to Vinyl

February 26, 2019 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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Fans of the late, legendary Aretha Franklin are often surprised to discover that The Queen of Soul's best-selling album isn't I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Lady Soul, or even Who's Zoomin' Who?  Rather, that honor goes to the Grammy-winning 1972 live album Amazing Grace - a fact that no doubt pleased Franklin.  In fact, it's recognized as the best-selling live gospel album of all time.  The 1999 expanded edition of the heartfelt, passionate gospel set will make its vinyl premiere from

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Gospel, R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin

Clareville Grove Demos

February 23, 2019 By

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Clareville Grove Demos features six 1969 home recordings (four previously unreleased) from the late David Bowie, all performed with singer/guitarist John "Hutch" Hutchinson, his former cohort in the trio Feathers (alongside then-girlfriend Hermione Farthingale). Several of these tracks were heard in final form on Bowie's self-titled 1969 album, including "Space Oddity," "An Occasional Dream" and "Cygnet Committee" (known here as "Lover To The Dawn"). A different demo of "Ching-a-Ling" appeared

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Ultimate Rave

February 23, 2019 By

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Ultimate Rave (2-CD/1-DVD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (Purple Vinyl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic (Purple Vinyl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD This new 2-CD/1-DVD collection brings together two of Prince's albums from the turn of the new millennium:  Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic from 1999 and Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic, a hard-to-find 2001 remix album that was only available to

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Stand Back: 1981-2017 [Multiple Formats]

February 23, 2019 By

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1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 3 CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 6 LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD Rhino looks back on the solo career of 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Stevie Nicks with a new anthology collecting hits and rarities. Stand Back 1981-2017 will be released in a variety of formats beginning on March 29 with a 1-CD release (also available on digital download and streaming).  Then, on April 19, a

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

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