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Welcome Each New Day: Real Gone Goes Rocksteady with Limited Vinyl Editions from Ken Boothe and Phyllis Dillon In March

January 29, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Ken Boothe Freedom Street

We've already told you about most of Real Gone's March slate of titles, including Johnny Mathis and Oak Ridge Boys titles from our Second Disc Records imprint.  Now, word has come out about the final two items on Real Gone's March 2 list: a pair of vinyl reissues in the rocksteady style.  Rocksteady is a genre created in Jamaica that rose out of ska and served as a precursor to reggae in the mid to late 1960s.  It is characterized by offbeat rhythms with a particular drumming style and slower

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Reggae Tags: Ken Boothe, Phyllis Dillon

The Best of The Grateful Dead Live

January 28, 2018 By

Best of The Grateful Dead Live

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2LP (The Best of The Grateful Dead Live, Vol. 1 1969-1977): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) How to distill the Grateful Dead's enormous live legacy into one collection?  Rhino gives the massive undertaking its best shot with this new 2-CD anthology, featuring 19 tracks drawn from live albums released on Warner Bros. and Arista during the group's tenure, as well as several select archival titles released after

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

How the West Was Won [Multiple Formats]

January 28, 2018 By

Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won

3 CDs: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4 Vinyl LPs: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Super Deluxe Edition (3 CD/4 LP/1 DVD):  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Led Zeppelin's 2003 concert album chronicling the band's June 25 and 27, 1972 concerts at the Los Angeles Forum and Long Beach Arena returns in a new, remastered edition available in multiple formats.

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

The Colpix Singles

January 28, 2018 By

Nina Simone Colpix Singles

Nina Simone's 1959-1964 time at the Colpix label  is collected on the 2-CD, 27-track The Colpix Singles (also available in a 14-track highlights edition on vinyl).  At Colpix, Simone recorded some of the most sly, sultry, and incendiary music of her career, touching on folk, blues, jazz, and soul - all of which are reflected on this compendium of original single versions.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Jazz, R&B/Soul

Mood Indigo: The Complete Bethlehem Singles

January 28, 2018 By

Nina Simone Complete Bethlehem Singles

Mood Indigo: The Complete Bethlehem Singles collects the earliest recordings of Nina Simone.  The 14-track CD version follows the chronology of the original mono singles, while the vinyl LP version has "Porgy (I Loves You Porgy)" and "Love Me or Leave Me," Simone's debut single, on a bonus 7-inch replica 45 rather than on the LP.  Additionally, Barnes & Noble will have an exclusive blue vinyl version.  Ashley Kahn's new liner notes draw on a fresh interview with drummer Al "Tootie" Heath,

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul

Release Round-Up: Week of January 26

January 26, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

ABBA The Album Half Speed

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! ABBA: The Album - 40th Anniversary Edition (Polar/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) ABBA revisits its fifth studio album (released in December 1977 in Scandinavia and January 1978 in the U.K.) - a tie-in to ABBA: The Movie - as a deluxe 2-LP, 45 RPM, half-speed mastered set.  Featuring "The Name of the Game," "Take a Chance on Me," and "Thank You for the Music," the chart-topping LP has been a favorite of the band's discography. 

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABBA, Andrew Ridgeley, Luther Russell, Martika, Ohio Players, Wes Montgomery

New Coat of Paint: Anti- to Remaster Tom Waits' Elektra/Asylum Catalogue in 2018

January 25, 2018 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Tom Waits Closing Time

Having remastered his catalogue for Anti- Records spanning from 1999 to 2011 last year for CD and vinyl, iconoclastic singer Tom Waits will next partner with the label by turning his attention to the seven albums he released on the Asylum label during the first portion of his career. Waits and his wife and creative partner Kathleen Brennan have remastered all of Waits' studio and live output between 1973 and 1980 for CD and 180-gram LP, bringing many of the albums back into physical print

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Folk, Rock Tags: Tom Waits

Sugar In My Bowl: Bethlehem, Rhino Plan Singles Collections Honoring Nina Simone

January 24, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Nina Simone Colpix Singles

Few artists have had the impact on pop, soul, rock and jazz as the iconoclastic Nina Simone.  Simone (1933-2003) played by her own rules in life and art, recording some of the most electric and eclectic music imaginable in any genre.  It wasn't uncommon on a Simone album to find politically charged protest music alongside popular Broadway hits and reworkings of contemporary rock songs.  This April, she will enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, though she preferred to call her singular fusion of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Nina Simone

Going to California: Led Zeppelin Goes Super Deluxe with "How the West Was Won"

January 24, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won

Fifteen years ago, Led Zeppelin issued How the West Was Won, premiering performances from the band's June 25 and 27, 1972 concerts at the Los Angeles Forum and Long Beach Arena.  Now, those seminal tracks have been newly remastered under the supervision of Jimmy Page for a surprise addition to the band's Super Deluxe library - as well as in a variety of formats, all of which are due from Atlantic/Swan Song on March 23 including the first-ever Blu-ray Audio and vinyl editions.  The remastered How

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

Rhino Collects 25 Years of Trips with Grateful Dead Live Compilation

January 23, 2018 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Best of The Grateful Dead Live

The Grateful Dead played more than 2,300 concerts during their lifespan. Of those, it's estimated that some 2,200 of those shows were taped by the band and their loyal fans. The good-natured California group allowed them to be freely distributed from the beginning, and every Deadhead has a favorite. But where would you start with the live history of such an esteemed band? The Dead and Rhino are offering an answer to that question this spring with The Best of The Grateful Dead Live, a 2CD or 2LP

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Grateful Dead

Concert for George [Various Formats]

January 22, 2018 By

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2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2CD/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) The star-studded 2002 concert celebration of the life of George Harrison - featuring Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, and other luminaries - returns in a variety of formats from Craft Recordings.

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

Release Round-Up: Week of January 19

January 19, 2018 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac [Various Formats] (Reprise/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD/DVD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 1975 debut album by the Fleetwood Mac line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood arrives in a variety of deluxe formats, including a 3CD/DVD/LP box with the remastered album on CD

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After, Todd Rundgren, Winfield Parker

Give Me Peace On Earth: Craft Reissues 'Concert For George' In Various Formats

January 17, 2018 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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George Harrison would have been 75 years old next month, and Craft Recordings is celebrating that milestone with the ultimate tribute to the former Beatle: a multi-format reissue of 2002's Concert For George. Available February 23, two days before Harrison's birthday, Concert For George will bow in five different physical configurations - the most enormous of which is an online-only box set, limited only to 1,000 copies worldwide and featuring the star-studded tribute show on two CDs, two

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Monty Python, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Run Out Groove Round-Up: The Dream Syndicate, The Stooges, Secret Machines and Morphine

January 17, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dream Syndicate Complete Live at Rajis

Today, we're taking a look at four recent titles pressed for audiophile-level vinyl excellence by the Run Out Groove label! Run Out Groove embraces the Paisley Underground with the vinyl premiere of The Dream Syndicate's The Complete Live at Raji's.  Recorded on January 31, 1988 (not 1989, as indicated on the original CD release of the truncated album), the set captured the underground heroes prior to the release of their Ghost Stories album - and a year prior to their breakup.  But the

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Morphine, Secret Machines, The Dream Syndicate, The Stooges

Review: The Monkees, "More of The Monkees: Super Deluxe Edition"

January 16, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Monkees More of The Monkees

January is barely over yet, but 2018 is already shaping up to be another banner year for The Monkees.  Davy, Peter, Michael, and Micky have just met The Archies in a zany time-travelling comic book adventure, and fans have had the perfect soundtrack: the new, 3-CD/1-45 RPM single super deluxe box set edition of sophomore album More of The Monkees (Rhino Handmade R2 560125) - in time to mark 51 years since the LP was first released, in January 1967.  This sixth installment of the long-running

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of January 12

January 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dionne Odds and Ends

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Dionne Warwick, Odds and Ends: Scepter Records Rarities (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) From 1962 to 1971, Dionne Warwick, working primarily with songwriters/producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David, notched over twenty Top 40 hits on the Scepter label and garnered two Grammy Awards.  Yet while there have been numerous reissues of Warwick's work at Scepter, some material has been overlooked.  This new collection

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classical/Opera, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Big Star, Denny Doherty, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Leonard Bernstein, Melissa Manchester, Petula Clark, The Main Ingredient, The Mamas and The Papas, The Remains, The Rising Storm

The Last of the Mohicans: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Limited "Sepia-Toned" Vinyl Edition)

January 10, 2018 By

Last of the Mohicans OST

Real Gone has a new 2-LP limited edition vinyl release (on sepia-toned vinyl) of Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman's original soundtrack to director Michael Mann's 1992 classic, The Last of the Mohicans.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks

Way Out West: Deluxe Edition

January 10, 2018 By

Sonny Rollins Way Out West

Craft Recordings celebrates the 60th anniversary of Sonny Rollins' 1957 classic Way Out West with a 2-LP slipcased box set adding an entire second album of bonus material.  Past CD releases have included three alternate takes ("I'm an Old Cowhand," "Way Out West," and "Come, Gone") as bonus tracks.  This new vinyl reissue ups the ante by including those as well as four more previously unreleased tracks on a second vinyl LP: two fly-on-the-wall spoken word bits from the studio; an alternate

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Everybody Needs Somebody to Love: Run Out Groove Preps New Solomon Burke Anthology

January 10, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Solomon Burke Best of Atlantic Soul

Run Out Groove is heating up 2018 with its first release of the year.  The label, which allows fans to vote every month on its next audiophile-quality deluxe vinyl title drawn from the Warner Music Group vaults, recently announced the rarities-packed collection Professor Bizarre's Funkology from New Orleans' one and only Dr. John, as well as unsung R&B great Lou Johnson's Sweet Southern Soul, and the first vinyl reissue of Ministry's Greatest Fits from the Industrial band.  Now, ROG will

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Solomon Burke

Rhino "Starts Your Ear Off Right" with Aretha Franklin, Dio, Alice Cooper, More

January 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare

Rhino's "Start Your Ear Off Right" campaign is back for 2018, and this year's crop of titles is a happily eclectic one ranging from classic R&B to rock, metal, hip-hop, and beyond.  These limited edition vinyl reissues will be released every Tuesday beginning tomorrow, January 9, and continuing through the 23rd.  We can't think of a better way to start our year off right than visiting a local record store, and Rhino agrees - so all of these titles will be exclusively available at

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Cooper, Aretha Franklin, Dio, Golden Smog, John Prine, Richard and Linda Thompson, The Notorious B.I.G., Vangelis, ZZ Top

Release Round-Up: Week of January 5

January 5, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bowie Beauty and the Beast Single

Welcome to the first Release Round-Up of the new year! David Bowie, Beauty and the Beast [7-Inch Vinyl Single] (Parlophone/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) David Bowie's series of 40th anniversary series continues with the picture-disc release of "Beauty and the Beast" from Heroes, backed with a live version of "Blackout" from Berlin's Deutschlandhalle on May 16, 1978.  The A-side boasts a photo of Bowie from Japan 1977, while the flip has him in NYC in

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Daryl Hall and John Oates, David Bowie, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Meat Loaf, Michel Legrand, Natalie Dessay

I'm an Old Cowhand: Sonny Rollins' "Way Out West" Arrives In Deluxe Edition with Unreleased Tracks

January 4, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sonny Rollins Way Out West

For more than six decades, the legendary Sonny Rollins has epitomized style, skill, and musicianship as one of jazz's leading lights.  Though a diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis has led the 87-year old Kennedy Center Honoree to hang up his saxophone, he remains active.  In the last year alone, he's donated his personal archives to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and has endowed The Sonny Rollins Jazz Ensemble Fund at Oberlin College.  Touchingly, he revealed to an interviewer

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Sonny Rollins

Top of the World: Real Gone's February Slate Includes Ronnie Lane and Ron Wood, Grateful Dead and "Last of the Mohicans" Soundtrack

January 4, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Ron Wood and Ronnie Lane Mahoneys Last Stand

After the rush of the holiday season and the New Year, we now settle into the winter months, but that still doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of music to talk about.  Today, we've got new of some of Real Gone's titles hitting just under a month from now on February 2. First up is a CD reissue of an obscure title featuring two members of the Faces: Mahoney's Last Stand - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Ronnie Lane and Ron Wood.  If you have never seen or heard of the film, that's not

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Grateful Dead, Randy Edelman, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Trevor Jones

Everything's Coming Up Posies: Power Pop Group Work with Omnivore, PledgeMusic on Expanded Reissues

January 3, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Power pop masterminds The Posies will celebrate their 30th anniversary this year by teaming up with Omnivore Recordings and PledgeMusic for reissues of three albums recorded for DGC Records in the mid-'90s. Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, the core members of the group, released the first Posies album, Failure, in 1988. (That self-released title was reissued by Omnivore in 2014.) Signing to Geffen's rock subsidiary in 1990 (where they'd count Nirvana and Weezer as labelmates), the group's

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Big Star, The Posies

Beauty and the Beast [7-Inch Vinyl Single]

January 2, 2018 By

Bowie Beauty and the Beast Single

David Bowie's series of 40th anniversary series continues with the picture-disc release of "Beauty and the Beast" from Heroes, backed with a live version of "Blackout" from Berlin's Deutschlandhalle on May 16, 1978.  The A-side boasts a photo of Bowie from Japan 1977, while the flip has him in NYC in 1978.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

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