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Under The Influence of Love: Two Barry White-Associated Groups Get New Compilations

June 11, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Love Unlimited Uni MCA 20th Singles

This Friday, Mercury and UMe will unveil the second round of collections this year celebrating the late Barry White.  The series kicked off earlier this year with The Complete 20th Century Singles (1973-1979) on CD, The 20th Century Singles (1973-1979) on vinyl, and Love's Theme: The Best of the 20th Century Singles on CD.  Now, the labels are looking to Love Unlimited - the vocal trio and the orchestra - for another pair of releases. Love Unlimited, the vocal group, was formed in 1969 by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Barry White

One Up, One Down: Lost 1963 John Coltrane Album Premieres In June

June 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

John Coltrane Both Directions at Once Standard

2018 has already seen the announcement of never-before-heard recordings by the late legends Prince and Bobby Darin.  Now, a third artist joins that elite club with Impulse! Records' discovery of 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, 1963 session that will see release on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: John Coltrane

Stunt: 20th Anniversary Edition

June 8, 2018 By

Barenaked Ladies Stunt

CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Barenaked Ladies revisit the band's 1998 breakthrough album Stunt in a new CD/DVD edition with three audio bonus tracks (the outtakes "She's On Time" and "Long Way Back Home," first heard as hidden tracks on the limited edition version of the album, plus "Get in Line" from the soundtrack to the animated television series King of the Hill).  The DVD includes The Stunt Tour and Barenaked in

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

Secret Messages [Deluxe 2-LP Edition]

June 8, 2018 By

ELO Secret Messages

35 years after its first appearance, Electric Light Orchestra's Secret Messages returns to vinyl in a new edition moving closer to founder Jeff Lynne's original vision for the album.  Legacy Recordings will reissue Secret Messages on double 150-gram vinyl restoring all but one of the tracks which were cut from the original LP release.  Alas, that outtake - the near-legendary "Beatles Forever" - is still missing in action, but six more tracks have been reinstated in the album's original running

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Piano & A Microphone, 1983

June 8, 2018 By

Prince Piano and a Microphone

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/LP Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Digital: Amazon U.S. The Prince vaults are open!  Piano & A Microphone 1983 - a nine-track, 35-minute album - features a previously unreleased home studio cassette recording of the solo Prince at his piano in that epochal year including renditions of "Purple Rain," Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You," the folk spiritual "Mary, Don't You

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Daydream Believing: 7a Records Celebrates Davy Jones with New Single "Rainbows"

June 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Davy Jones Rainbows

Though it's been over six years since his untimely passing at the age of 66, the music of Davy Jones still endures.  7a Records, the U.K.-based label devoted to all things Monkees-related, has just delivered another treat for longtime fans of the band and its charismatic, perennially boyish singer with the mop top.  "Rainbows" b/w "You Don't Have to Be a Country Boy to Sing a Country Song" is a limited edition (500 units) 7-inch, 45 RPM single pressed on red vinyl. Both sides of the single

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Davy Jones, The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of June 8

June 8, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Johnny Mathis Youve Got a Friend

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Close to You/Love Story: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue their journey through Johnny Mathis' seventies catalogue with this expanded, remastered two-fer of Mathis' 1970 and 1971 albums.  Close to You finds the singer reinterpreting hits by Bacharach and David, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Beatles, and even Santana, while Love Story

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Davy Jones, Dennis Coffey, Eric Clapton, Johnny Mathis, Keely Smith, Mick Ronson, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Violent Femmes

Flaming Lips Treat Fwends To New Warner-Era Compilation

June 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Flaming Lips Greatest Hits Volume 1

Earlier this year, The Flaming Lips announced plans to anthologize their early, pre-Warner Bros. recordings on two collections.  Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of The Flaming Lips, with 19 tracks from the alternative band, arrived in April, while the 6-CD box set Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990 is on the schedule for June 29.  (Read about both releases here.)  Joining that pair of titles is a new compilation out now focusing on the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: The Flaming Lips

One Nite Alone: Unreleased Prince Home Recordings to Be Released in September

June 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Prince Piano and a Microphone

Today would have been Prince's 60th birthday.  Warner Bros. Records and the Prince estate are marking the occasion by swinging the vault doors wide open.  Following such posthumous releases as the "Nothing Compares 2 U" single, the expanded Purple Rain, and the Prince 4Ever collection with one unreleased track, Warner Bros. has just announced an archival album to be released on September 21 in CD, LP, and CD/LP Deluxe formats, as well as digitally. Piano & A Microphone 1983 - a

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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

Rock 'N' Roll Is King: ELO's "Secret Messages" Comes to Double Vinyl in August

June 6, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

ELO Secret Messages

35 years after its first appearance, Electric Light Orchestra's Secret Messages is returning to vinyl in a new edition moving closer to founder Jeff Lynne's original vision for the album.  On August 3, Legacy Recordings will reissue Secret Messages on double 150-gram vinyl restoring all but one of the tracks which were cut from the original LP release.  Alas, that outtake - the near-legendary "Beatles Forever" - is still missing in action. 1983's Secret Messages was originally conceived by

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne

Call and Answer: Rhino Reissues, Expands Barenaked Ladies' "Stunt" For 20th Anniversary

June 5, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Barenaked Ladies Stunt

Between June 1 and July 15, Barenaked Ladies will be taking to the road alongside Better Than Ezra and K.T. Tunstall.  Their Last Summer on Earth tour is one part of a banner year for the band which has also seen their induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.  The celebration continues with the upcoming release of Stunt: 20th Anniversary Edition, an expanded edition of their most successful studio album.  It's due on July 6 digitally, with physical CD/DVD and 2-LP vinyl editions following

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Barenaked Ladies

Anger Is An Energy: New Public Image Ltd. Box Set Forthcoming

June 4, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Public Image Is Rotten

BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COMJohn Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten's post-punk band Public Image Ltd. turns 40 years old in 2018.  The anniversary was anticipated by a cheekily-titled documentary film, The Public Image Is Rotten, which premiered at last year's Tribeca Film Festival.  A 36-date tour is currently underway of Europe and Japan.  Now a box set is due on July 20 from UMC (U.K.) anthologizing the band which has notched five U.K. top 20 hit singles and five top 20 albums.  The Public Image Is

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Public Image Ltd., Sex Pistols

Things to Remember: The Pamper Demos

June 1, 2018 By

Willie Nelson The Pamper Demos

Real Gone Music journeys to the beginning of Willie Nelson's remarkable career with this collection of 28 publishing demos recorded by Willie for Ray Price's Pamper Music company including such seminal future standards as "Crazy," "Night Life," "Pretty Paper," "Funny (How Time Slips Away)," and "Hello Walls."  Available on 1 CD and 2-LP vinyl.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country

Mixed Up: Deluxe Edition

June 1, 2018 By

The Cure Mixed Up Deluxe

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 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, as newly remastered by Smith.  The second disc, Remixes 1982-1990: Mixed Up Extras 2018, has eleven remastered period remixes, and the third disc, Torn

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Formats: CD, Vinyl

The Complete Sessions at West 54th

June 1, 2018 By

Ben Folds Five Sessions at West 54th

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone Music has the audio debut of Ben Folds Five's June 9, 1997 performance for PBS' Sessions at West 54th of 15 songs including "Brick," "Kate," and "Battle of Who Could Care Less."  Available on CD and vinyl.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of June 1

June 1, 2018 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Michelle Phillips Victim of Romance

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Michelle Phillips, Victim of Romance: Expanded Edition (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) "Mama" Michelle Phillips' 1977 solo album, produced by Jack Nitzsche, returns to CD in a new expanded edition collecting the artist's complete sessions with Nitzsche.  It adds three outtakes from the album sessions, including a Bee Gees cover ("Had a Lot of Love Last Night"), Dennis Lambert and Fil Spina's "Practice What You Preach,"

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Cheap Trick, Cowboy, Def Leppard, Emmylou Harris, Jethro Tull, Keely Smith, Living Colour, Michelle Phillips, Paul Simon, Roger Daltrey, The Mamas and The Papas, The Quick, The Temptations, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, ZZ Top

Heading Somewhere: Real Gone to Premiere Ben Folds Five's "Sessions at West 54th" on CD and Vinyl in July

May 31, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Ben Folds Five Sessions at West 54th

Real Gone Music has just announced another title in its July slate, this one a little more modern than some of their other titles.  Hailing from 1997, Real Gone will release the CD and vinyl debut of The Complete Sessions at West 54th from longtime TSD favorites Ben Folds Five.  It will be released on July 13, just a few weeks after the release of Folds' career-spanning box from Edsel. (And to be clear, the Real Gone Sessions at West 54th material is not in that box). Sessions at West 54th

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five

Run Out Groove Round-Up: Dr. John's "Funknology" and Marshall Crenshaw's Live "Thank You"

May 31, 2018 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Dr. John Professor Bizarres Funknology

Today, we're looking at two of Run Out Groove's most recent releases!  Now is also the time to order the label's next release: Vagabonds: Expanded Edition, from Gary Louris of The Jayhawks!  Pre-orders close on June 7, so don't miss out, and don't forget to vote on ROG's next release.  Will it be Luna's Lunafied, Fred Neil's Bleecker & MacDougal, or Billy Byrd's Lonesome Country Songs?  Vote now! It's not called Funknology for nothing!  Run Out Groove's recent release from Dr. John,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dr. John, Marshall Crenshaw

Yellow Submarine [7-Inch Single]

May 31, 2018 By

Yellow Submarine Single

The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" b/w "Eleanor Rigby" returns to 7-inch vinyl as a picture disc single to mark the 50th anniversary of the animated film classic.  It will be housed in a die-cut card sleeve.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

And The Band Begins To Play: The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" Celebrates 50 With New Single Release

May 30, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Yellow Submarine Single

On July 6, The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" will be reissued as a 7-inch picture disc vinyl single to mark the 50th anniversary of the beloved animated film of the same name which was originally released on July 17, 1968. The Capitol/UMe single release will coincide with new theatrical screenings of the movie, featuring a 4K restoration by Paul Rutan Jr., Triage Motion Picture Services, and Eque Inc;, and a 5.1 surround remix by Peter Cobbin at Abbey Road. The vinyl single will be housed

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beatles

I've Waited Hours For This: The Cure Expand 'Mixed Up' With New and Vintage Remixes

May 29, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

The Cure Mixed Up Deluxe

The Cure kicked off the 1990s with the release of Mixed Up, an album collecting the band's rarer 12-inch mixes.  It wasn't just a straightforward anthology, however, as two songs ("A Forest" and "The Walk") weren't just remixed, but re-recorded, and a wholly new track ("Never Enough") was also recorded.  As Robert Smith comments, Brian "Chuck" New's dub style remix of "Pictures Of You" inspired him: "That mix turned the music on its head, but at the same time left the essential heart of the song

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: The Cure

Short Takes: Reissues Due from Janis Ian, CCR's Tom Fogerty and Doug Clifford, Social Distortion

May 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Janis Ian Between the Lines

Five classic albums from singer-songwriter Janis Ian have just been reissued on CD and vinyl from Sony Legacy's U.K. arm.  Stars (1974), Between the Lines (1975), Aftertones (1976), Miracle Row (1977), and Night Rains (1979), all originally released on Columbia Records, represent the peak of Ian's commercial success.  Between the Lines yielded Ian's most successful single, the touching "At Seventeen," a No. 3 Pop/No. 1 AC hit.  The song netted the artist a Grammy Award and was performed by her

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Janis Ian, Social Distortion, Tom Fogerty

Appetite For Destruction

May 26, 2018 By

appetite for destruction2

Guns N' Roses' 1987 classic returns in a variety of formats from a single-disc remaster to a super deluxe box set containing 4 CDs and 1 Blu-ray, and for those with truly extravagant tastes, a website-exclusive set with 4 CDs, 1 BD, 7 LPs, and 6 vinyl 7-inch singles!  See our full article for links to all versions!

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes

May 26, 2018 By

Yes Steven Wilson Remixes

As part of Yes' 50th anniversary celebration, Rhino delivers a new five-album box bringing Steven Wilson's recent, acclaimed remixes of the band's storied catalogue to vinyl.  Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes features Wilson's remixed versions of: The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971), Close To The Edge (1972), the double album Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973), and Relayer (1974). Each remixed album is a vinyl debut, having previously appeared only in deluxe CD/Blu-ray or DVD-Audio packages.

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

From The Vault: No Security - San Jose 1999

May 26, 2018 By

Rolling Stones No Security 1999

2CD/SD-Blu-Ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD DVD: Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD The Rolling Stones revisit a 1989 performance from their No Security tour which extended from the band's Bridges to Babylon outing.  This title will be released on DVD, 2CD/SD (Standard Definition) Blu-ray, 2CD/DVD, 3 LP, and digital audio and video platforms.  Whew!  (The 1998 concert

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

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