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Music to Eat

July 3, 2018 By

Hampton Grease Band Music to Eat

Real Gone has a limited vinyl release of the cult classic double LP Music To Eat by Hampton Grease Band.  The group's offbeat mix of Dadaist vocals and jazz/prog/psych instrumentation did not prove a hit with audiences, and the album is apocryphally said to be the second lowest-selling album in Columbia Records' history, after only a yoga-instructional album.  Yet, the one-of-a-kind Music to Eat has gained a healthy following over the years, and Real Gone's edition is the first vinyl reissue of

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else

Merry Clayton

July 3, 2018 By

Merry Clayton LP

Merry Clayton's self-titled 1971 Ode LP was produced by Lou Adler and featured arrangements by Billy Preston and labelmate Carole King.  The album features songs by Neil Young ("Southern Man"), Leon Russell ("A Song for You"), Bill Withers ("Grandma's Hands"), and James Taylor ("Steamroller").  Clayton would be rewarded with her highest R&B album chart placement at No. 36.  Now, Real Gone brings the super-charged voice of Merry Clayton back to vinyl in a limited edition of 1,200 copies

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul

Extra Soul Perception

July 3, 2018 By

Monk Higgins Extra Soul Perception

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone and its Dusty Groove imprint (affiliated with the mighty Chicago retail store) returns saxophone great Monk Higgins' oft-sampled 1968 album Extra Soul Perception to both CD and vinyl.  The CD reissue features liner notes by Skip Heller.  The vinyl version is limited to 1,000 copies and comes on translucent blue vinyl in a replica of the original "Unipak" jacket.  Both of these editions

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Hello, I Love You/Love Street [Single]

July 3, 2018 By

Doors Hello I Love You single

Prior to the September 14 release of the Waiting for the Sun box set, and 50 years to the day that it topped the Billboard pop chart, Rhino will release a 7-inch single of The Doors' "Hello, I Love You" and its original B-side, "Love Street," with the exclusive mono promotional mixes sent out to radio stations.  This version of "Hello, I Love You" was released last year on CD as part of The Singles, while the mix of "Love Street" is being issued on this single commercially for the first time.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Waiting for the Sun: 50th Anniversary Edition

July 3, 2018 By

Doors Waiting for the Sun Deluxe

The Doors' Waiting for the Sun is turning 50 with a new box set.  This 2-CD/1-LP box features Bruce Botnick's remastered version of the original stereo mix on both CD and 180-gram vinyl, plus a disc of 14 previously unreleased tracks including nine rough mixes and five live performances from Copenhagen on September 17, 1968. 

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

Music from Big Pink [Various Formats]

July 3, 2018 By

Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Pink Vinyl: uDiscoverMusic.com Just in time for its 50th anniversary, Capitol/UMe will reissue The Band's seminal exploration of Americana, Music from Big Pink, on CD, 2-LP vinyl, digital, and in a CD/BD/2-LP/1-7 inch single Super Deluxe Edition.  For its 50th, Big Pink has been spruced up by engineer Bob

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Back to Big Pink: The Band's "Music from Big Pink" Turns 50, Goes Super Deluxe

June 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Music from Big Pink Super Deluxe

The Band is returning to Big Pink for its 50th anniversary. On August 31, Capitol/UMe will reissue the seminal Music from Big Pink on CD, 2-LP vinyl, digital, and in a CD/BD/2-LP/1-7 inch single Super Deluxe Edition. Though few groups would have had the audacity to name themselves The Band, that's exactly what Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel did.  Big Pink was the album where the former Hawks (and former Bob Dylan backing band) crystallized the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Band

Release Round-Up: Week of June 29

June 29, 2018 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Supremes Sing HDH

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland: Expanded Edition (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Supremes' smash 1967 album featuring "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" gets a must-have 2-CD deluxe treatment, including the original mono and stereo albums, rarities, outtakes, remixes, and a live set from The Copacabana in 1967 featuring one of the last joint performances of Diana Ross, Mary

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Big Country, Buffalo Springfield, Chicago, David Bowie, Graham Nash, Guns N' Roses, John Coltrane, Procol Harum, Ray Davies, Smash Mouth, Social Distortion, The Feeling, The Flaming Lips, The Posies, The Supremes, Yes

The Exodus Has Begun: Prince Estate Strikes Catalog Deal With Sony Music

June 27, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Prince RRHOF

In what's certainly one of the year's biggest surprises, Sony Music's Legacy Recordings has just announced a comprehensive new deal with the Prince estate that will see Legacy assuming the reins for a considerable portion of Prince's remarkable discography. Sony will hold the worldwide licensing rights to the late superstar's core catalogue recorded from 1995 onward, covering some 19 major albums recorded by the Purple One during this time, as well as relevant singles, B-sides, live material,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Hello, I Love You: The Doors' "Waiting for the Sun" Gets 50th Anniversary Box in September

June 26, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Doors Waiting for the Sun Deluxe

Nearly 50 years ago, in July 1968, The Doors released their third studio album on Elektra Records.  Waiting for the Sun yielded the chart-topping hit "Hello, I Love You" and became the band's first album to top the album chart (not to mention a third platinum certification in under two years' time).  On September 14, Rhino will reissue Waiting for the Sun in a 2-CD/1-LP book-style box set, including previously unreleased material, following the label's anniversary reissues of The Doors and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Doors

The Sun in Your Eyes: Real Gone's August Slate to Include Alan Parsons Project, Merry Clayton, Monk Higgins, More

June 22, 2018 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky BD

Real Gone Music has just announced its slate for August, and the reissues are in a variety of genres and formats, all due on August 3. First up is a standalone release of the Blu-ray Audio edition of The Alan Parsons Project's 1982 hit album Eye in the Sky.  The Project's sixth album (and fifth on Arista Records) employed a variety of musical styles within a radio-friendly soft-rock framework to address typically lofty themes.  This Blu-ray reissue boasts a high-resolution stereo version of

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Merry Clayton, Monk Higgins, The Alan Parsons Project, The Hampton Grease Band

Release Round-Up: Week of June 22

June 22, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Garbage 2.0

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Cure, Mixed Up: Deluxe Edition (Universal (U.K.)/Elektra/Rhino (U.S.)) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mixed Up 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Torn Down 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Postponed from last week: The Cure revisits its 1990 remix album as a 3-CD deluxe edition.  The first disc of the new set contains the original Mixed Up album,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Chita Rivera, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Garbage, Leonard Bernstein, Miles Davis, The Cure, Tom Fogerty, William Grant Still

Where My Love Lies Asleep: Intervention Reissues Gene Clark's "White Light" on LP, Hybrid SACD

June 21, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Gene Clark White Light

Intervention Records, the eclectic label behind splendid and sonically-pristine reissues for artists ranging from Joe Jackson to Billy Squier, has announced the next title in its (Re)Discover Series: Gene Clark's 1971 A&M Records classic, White Light.  A stereo hybrid SACD (playable on all CD players) is due from the label on June 29, while the 180-gram vinyl release is due in September. The singer-songwriter and Byrds co-founder launched his solo career in 1967 on Columbia with Gene

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Gene Clark

The Song Remains the Same [Various Formats]

June 21, 2018 By

Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same Cover

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 2CD/4LP/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham took the famous stage at New York's Madison Square Garden on July 27-29, 1973 for the concerts that were captured in the film The Song Remains the Same.  Now that film's soundtrack, produced by Page and originally

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Soundtracks

Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album

June 21, 2018 By

John Coltrane Both Directions at Once Deluxe

1-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Impulse! Records has discovered a lost 1963 album from The John Coltrane Quartet.  Saxophone titan Coltrane was joined by Jimmy Garrison on double bass, Elvin Jones on drums, and McCoy Tyner on piano - the same group behind the monumental A Love Supreme and other Coltrane classics - for a March 6,

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Chicago: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture

June 21, 2018 By

Chicago OST

And all that jazz: Real Gone Music has the first-ever vinyl reissue of the original soundtrack to 2002's Academy Award-winning musical Chicago, starring Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, and Queen Latifah, and featuring a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb with Danny Elfman.  It's pressed on 2 LPs, in black and gold, and is limited to 1,500 units.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks

Unattended Luggage

June 21, 2018 By

Nick Mason Unattended Luggage

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pink Floyd founding member Nick Mason's three solo albums are rounded up in one CD or vinyl box set as Unattended Luggage.  The 3-LP or 3-CD set includes Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1981), Profiles (1985), and White of the Eye (1987), with the latter making its CD debut.  All three albums will also be available as digital downloads and for streaming.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock, Soundtracks

Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, 5/19/74

June 21, 2018 By

Grateful Dead Portland

The Grateful Dead is heading to the Pacific Northwest.  Grateful Dead's online-exclusive 19-CD box set Pacific Northwest '73-'74: The Complete Recordings, presenting six previously unreleased shows from two tours, is being cut down for two highlights editions: a 3-CD compilation drawn from the box set, and a 6-LP set of the complete Portland '74 show (May 19, 1974).  The 6-LP set, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, is limited to 7,500 copies.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Whole Lotta Love: Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains the Same" Gets Super Deluxe Treatment in September

June 21, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same Cover

The next Super Deluxe box set from Led Zeppelin was officially announced early this morning.  Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham took the famous stage at New York's Madison Square Garden on July 27-29, 1973 for the concerts that were captured in the film The Song Remains the Same.  Now that film's soundtrack, produced by Page and originally released on Swan Song in 1976, is getting the lavish reissue treatment on September 7. The Song Remains the Same follows the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Led Zeppelin

Ride Into The Sun: Run Out Groove Collects Luna's Covers on "Lunafied"

June 19, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Luna Lunafied

The fans have spoken, and Run Out Groove has announced its newest, audience-voted title: the 2-LP collection Lunafied, from the indie pop band Luna.  This set (expanded from a 2006 digital release) rounds up the band's cover songs recorded during their time at Elektra Records, many of which were originally released on singles outside the U.S. and have never been released previously on vinyl. Singer/guitarist Dean Wareham formed Luna in 1991 following the breakup of Galaxie 500.  Justin

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Luna

Different Drum: Michael Nesmith's First National Band Releases Live Album On 7a Records

June 18, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Michael Nesmith and First National Band Redux Live

Before embarking with Micky Dolenz on the acclaimed, currently-playing The Monkees Present: The Mike & Micky Show, Michael Nesmith staged another remarkable event earlier this year.  For five performances only in January, Nesmith reformed his pioneering country-rock group, The First National Band.  The FNB didn't venture out of California, but the sold-out concerts attracted worldwide attention.  Now, everyone will have a chance to hear what they missed when 7a Records - the label dedicated

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Michael Nesmith, The First National Band, The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of June 15

June 15, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Cure Mixed Up Deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Rolling Stones, The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This massive, limited edition vinyl box set collects the legendary band's 15 studio albums from Sticky Fingers (1971) to Blue and Lonesome (2016) on 20 meticulously-recreated LPs with original art elements, inserts, and more.  Each album, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, has been remastered and cut at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barry White, Gene Clark, Kirsty MacColl, Love Unlimited, The Allman Brothers Band, The Cure, The Killers, The Rolling Stones, The Rose Garden

Playing in the Band: Grateful Dead Issues Massive "Pacific Northwest" Box Set, Highlights Discs, More

June 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Grateful Dead Pacific Northwest

The Grateful Dead is heading to the Pacific Northwest with an upcoming box set.  While the band made frequent visits to cities like Portland and Seattle, and occasional visits to Vancouver, official live recordings from these locations have been infrequent.  Rhino and Dead.net are about to change that with the September 7 release of Pacific Northwest '73-'74: The Complete Recordings, a 19-CD box set boasting six previously unreleased shows from two tours.   Pacific Northwest also marks the first

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

In The Pink: Warner to Reissue Nick Mason's Three Solo Albums in New Box Set

June 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Nick Mason Unattended Luggage

Nick Mason, drummer and founding member of Pink Floyd, is the only member of that band to have performed on every one of their albums and all of their live concerts.  But he's still found time over the years to release a handful of solo projects.  On August 31, his three solo albums - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports, Profiles, and White of the Eye - will be reissued in both CD and vinyl boxed sets through Warner Music Group as Unattended Luggage.  These limited edition boxes will arrive just

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Carla Bley, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Rick Fenn

Give 'Em The Old Razzle-Dazzle: Real Gone To Reissue "Chicago" Soundtrack on Vinyl in July

June 11, 2018 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Chicago OST

We have told you about the nearly all of Real Gone's titles for this July, including Second Disc Records' compilation of Bobby Darin's unreleased Motown recordings.  Now, Real Gone has just announced the final reissue on their July slate: the first-ever vinyl reissue of the original soundtrack to 2002's Academy Award-winning musical Chicago, due July 13. The musical Chicago originally opened on Broadway on June 3, 1975 and is based upon the 1926 play of the same name written by reporter

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kander and Ebb, Queen Latifah

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