The first-ever live album from Van Halen to feature David Lee Roth, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert was recorded on June 21, 2013 in Japan with Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Wolfgang Van Halen, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert boasts 25 songs representing all seven of the band's albums with Roth, right up through 2012's A Different Kind of Truth. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain and mastered by Chris Bellman, it will be released in 2-CD, 4-LP and DD configurations.
Progeny: Highlights from Seventy-Two
If the 14-CD Progeny box is too much for you to say "Yes," how about this 2-CD or 3-LP distillation of highlights from the box chronicling Yes' 1972 tour?
Still Here: 1967-1973
Numero collects the best of the Chicago R&B vocal group, produced by Syl Johnson and Curtis Mayfield, illustrating the group's musical transition from smooth ballads to socially-conscious soul.
Short Takes: Yes' Massive Box Set, Metallica's Original Demo and Van Halen Remasters
There soon will be many more Yessongs. Progressive rockers Yes released the triple-LP live album Yessongs in 1973. It captured the band at the height of its powers, riding a wave of success thanks to the 1972 album Close to the Edge. In the weeks leading up to the recording of Yessongs, however, the band recorded a number of shows that are now being collected in Rhino's massive 14-CD box set Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two. The May 19 release contains seven complete shows recorded in
Ultimate Sinatra
The 100th birthday of The Chairman of the Board is celebrated with a variety of releases under the Ultimate Sinatra umbrella, including a 4-CD box set drawing on the RCA, Columbia, Capitol and Reprise eras, highlights on 2 LPs or 1 CD, and a digital download. Full track listings and details on bonus material can be found in our full article!
Perfectly Frank: Sinatra Celebrated With Career-Spanning Box Set "Ultimate Sinatra"
2015 is getting a lot more ring-a-ding-ding come April thanks to the release of Ultimate Sinatra. On April 21, Capitol/UMe will continue the Frank Sinatra centennial celebration in style with new career-spanning collections drawing on the Chairman of the Board’s historic tenures with the RCA Victor, Columbia, Capitol and Reprise labels. Available as a 25-track single CD, a 26-track digital album, a 24-track 180-gram double-vinyl set, and a deluxe, 101-track 4-CD or digital box set, Ultimate
Release Round-Up: Week of March 3
Welcome to the Release Round-Up for the week of March 3! The Staple Singers, Freedom Highway Complete: Recorded Live at Chicago's New Nazareth Church (Epic/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Staple Singers' 1965 LP celebrating that year’s historic civil rights marches from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama is generously expanded to complete form on Legacy's new reissue available on both CD and vinyl. Watch for a review here soon! The J. Geils
Walking in Memphis: Omnivore Revisits "Beale Street Saturday Night"
Omnivore Recordings is going back to Memphis. The label has already preserved a number of classic records drawing on the city’s rich musical landscape by artists including Big Star, Alex Chilton, Sandra Rhodes, and Sid Selvidge. On April 14, Omnivore will add to that collection with the reissue of Beale Street Saturday Night, produced and curated in 1979 by the late Jim Dickinson in celebration of the city’s blues mecca Beale Street. Produced for The Memphis Development Foundation (and
The Island Years: An Anthology 1967-1974
Universal U.K. offers a 9-CD box set featuring the Island albums by the English rock group Spooky Tooth, including Supernatural Fairy Tales by ART (the band's earlier incarnation), plus rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks including a full concert from April 1972, recorded in Germany (Disc 9). The vinyl iteration presents straight reissues of the eight proper albums in replica original packaging. It also includes a full-size repro of the extremely rare 'Art' Island promotional poster
Straight Shooter: Deluxe Edition
The sophomore album from supergroup Bad Company gains a second disc of rarities on CD - 13 previously unreleased session tracks and one non-LP single! A 2-LP vinyl edition features the remastered original album plus selected rarities.
Bad Company: Deluxe Edition
The debut album from supergroup Bad Company is expanded with an entire second disc of rarities on CD - 10 previously unreleased session tracks and two non-LP singles! A 2-LP vinyl edition features the remastered original album plus selected rarities.
Can't Get Enough: Deluxe 2-CD Bad Company Reissues On the Way
Today saw the reissue of Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin’s first album on the band’s own Swan Song Records label. So it’s appropriate that Rhino chose today to announce the deluxe, expanded reissue for the very first album on Swan Song – the self-titled debut of British hard rock supergroup Bad Company. That 1974 chart-topping album will be joined on April 7 by Bad Company’s 1975 sophomore effort, Straight Shooter in a similarly expanded edition. These reissues, to be available on CD, LP and
Release Round-Up: Week of February 24
Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti various editions (Atlantic/Swan Song) 2-CD Original Album: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-LP Original Album: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-LP Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Super Deluxe Edition (3-CD/3-LP): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Led Zeppelin's classic album turns 40 and gets the remastered treatment with never-before-heard content available in a plethora
The Twain Shall Meet (Stereo Edition)
The psychedelic rock of The Animals' 1968 album The Twain Shall Meet returns to CD and 180-gram vinyl from Sundazed.
Winds of Change (Mono Edition)
Sundazed has Eric Burdon and The Animals' 1967 rock classic on CD and 180-gram vinyl in mono. Includes "San Franciscan Nights," the title track and the band's take on "Paint It Black."
The Sound of Music: Original Soundtrack Recording
Analog Spark brings the original 1965 soundtrack to Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music to hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players) and 180-gram vinyl!
You Can't Use My Name: Curtis Knight & The Squires (Featuring Jimi Hendrix) - The RSVP/PPX Sessions
Legacy and Experience Hendrix present the first-ever authorized release of Jimi Hendrix's pre-fame recordings with Curtis Knight and the Squires! This 14-track anthology - promised as the first in a series - will be available on CD and 150-gram vinyl.
Hey Joe! Rare Early Jimi Hendrix Recordings Collected By Legacy, Experience Hendrix
With Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings having previously reissued Jimi Hendrix’s core catalogue as well as more unexpected offerings like The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge, where to go next? The answer is back to the very beginning – which, as always, is a very good place to start. You Can’t Use My Name: Curtis Knight & The Squires (Featuring Jimi Hendrix) The RSVP/PPX Sessions is the first in a series of releases intended to place the legendary guitarist’s pre-fame recordings in the
Strange Frontier
Roger Taylor's 1984 sophomore album gains five bonus tracks in Omnivore's new CD reissue. The original album will also be available on vinyl; the first pressing will be on translucent red vinyl.
Fun in Space
Roger Taylor's 1981 solo debut gains three single sides in Omnivore's expanded CD edition. The original album sequence will also be available on vinyl; the first pressing of the latter will be on clear vinyl!
Countdown To "Physical Graffiti" Begins: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page Does Q&A, Expanded Album Streams Tomorrow
The wait for the latest volume of Led Zeppelin's remastered and expanded reissue series is almost over! Tomorrow - Thursday, February 19 - Yahoo Live will stream the 40th Anniversary Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti Deluxe Edition Premiere. The complete, previously unreleased companion audio from the upcoming deluxe edition will be unveiled, followed by a live Q&A with legendary axeman and album producer Jimmy Page in front of a live audience at Olympic Studios in London, the same studio
Duets: Re-Working the Catalogue
No, this isn't April Fool's. Van Morrison has announced a newest release: a duets album! But in a typically Morrison-esque twist, he's not re-recording his past hits but rather a selection of largely unheralded tracks from his discography. Guests include Michael Bublé , Natalie Cole, George Benson, Steve Winwood, Mark Knopfler, P.J. Proby, Georgie Fame, Mick Hucknall, Mavis Staples and the late Bobby Womack.
Postcards from Paradise
Ringo Starr's eighteenth album arrives just in time for his solo induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Guest musicians include members of Starr's most recent All-Starr Band, all of whom co-wrote one track with Starr: Todd Rundgren, Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie, Richard Page, Warren Ham and Gregg Bissonette. Guest appearances are also promised from Joe Walsh, Richard Marx, Peter Frampton and Dave Stewart.
No Pier Pressure (Deluxe Edition)
Brian Wilson returns with his long-anticipated eleventh studio album featuring Al Jardine, David Marks and Blondie Chaplin of The Beach Boys, plus Nate Ruess of fun., She & Him, Kasey Musgraves, Sebu Simonian of Capital Cities, Peter Hollens, Mark Isham, and longtime members of Wilson's band. Wilson and Joe Thomas (The Beach Boys' That's Why God Made the Radio) have produced. The standard CD edition will include 13 songs, while a deluxe CD edition has been promised with 16. The 2-LP
Release Round-Up: Week of February 17
The Pretenders, 1979-1999 (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This mega-box features all of Edsel's expanded Pretenders reissues, totaling the band's eight Sire/Warner Bros. albums across 14 CDs and 8 DVDs (with six of the titles as 2-CD/1-DVD sets and two as 1-CD/1-DVD sets). Wow! All of the box set's albums are also available individually (see below)! All track listings and discography can be found here. The Pretenders, 1979-1999 individual CD/DVD reissues