John Lydon’s first, best known band, The Sex Pistols, were recently the subject of a four-disc live box set. But Lydon’s most lasting ensemble, Public Image Ltd., will celebrate two of their most beloved albums as newly expanded deluxe editions this fall. On October 28, PiL and Universal will release expanded editions of 1979’s Metal Box and 1986’s Album. Each will be presented as 4CD or 4LP boxes, featuring the remastered albums, B-sides, rare live tracks, alternate mixes and outtakes. Metal Box, featuring Lydon, guitarist Keith Levene and bassist Jah Wobble, who’d…
Review: Judy Henske and Jerry Yester, “Farewell Aldebaran”
Hello, Aldebaran…or more accurately, welcome back! Farewell Aldebaran first arrived in 1969 on Frank Zappa’s Straight Records label from the duo of Judy Henske and Jerry Yester. Henske was the onetime “Queen of the Beatniks” whose distinctive, bluesy and big voice earned her legions of fans on the folk circuit. In 1963, Henske married Jerry Yester, a member of The Modern Folk Quartet and veteran of The New Christy Minstrels. When the MFQ broke up, Yester busied himself as a producer, helming albums by Tim Buckley and his brother Jim’s band The…
A Message from The Meters – The Complete Josie, Reprise & Warner Bros. Singles 1968-1977
A Message from The Meters-The Complete Josie, Reprise & Warner Bros. Singles 1968-1977 collects the legendary New Orleans group’s smoking-hot singles for all three labels, now for the first time on vinyl outside of a limited edition Record Store Day release. Featuring productions from the late, great Allen Toussaint, funky R&B doesn’t get much better than this.
There In The Spotlight: R.E.M. Expands “Out of Time” for Its 25th Anniversary
Back in December, it was announced that Concord Bicycle Music had picked up the rights to R.E.M.’s Warner Bros. catalogue. Now, the first major reissue project from that deal has been announced: a remastered 25th anniversary deluxe edition of the band’s most successful album Out of Time to be released on November 18. This new package will be released in several configurations: a 3 CD/1 Blu-ray set, a 2-CD set, a 3-LP set, a single LP of the original album and as a digital download. Out of Time was R.E.M.’s second Warner Bros. album,…
Release Round-Up: Week of August 26
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Beach Boys, Becoming The Beach Boys: The Complete Hite and Dorinda Morgan Sessions (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 2-CD set, a tie-in with Jim Murphy’s recent book Becoming The Beach Boys 1961-1963, chronicles the earliest years of America’s Band. Featuring 62 tracks (over 40 previously unreleased), Omnivore’s CD is released in conjunction with The Beach Boys’ Brother Records, and features all of the extant session material and masters for the band’s earliest recordings (including embryonic versions of “Surfin’,” “Surfer Girl” and “Surfin’ Safari”). Watch for…
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Steppin’ Out: Intervention Records Reissues Two From Joe Jackson
Look Sharp! Joe Jackson certainly did as nattily attired on his debut release of that name. Joined by Graham Maby on bass, Gary Sanford on guitar and Dave Houghton on drums, pianist-singer Jackson delivered a record for the ages. Both Look Sharp! and Night and Day, Jackson’s fifth album for A&M Records, have recently been reissued as deluxe audiophile vinyl editions by the team at Intervention Records. Happily, they’re sonically every bit the equal of the label’s stellar reissue earlier this year of the artist’s sophomore disc, I’m the Man. The jagged,…
Ramseur Reissues Josh White’s Elektra Classic “Josh At Midnight” On Vinyl
Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman once said of Josh White, “Josh was his own man in a time before it became fashionable.” Indeed, White (1914-1969) had a remarkable career. He recorded blues, gospel and folk on so-called “race records” in the 1920s and 1930s before moving on to headline at New York’s Café Society, and appearing on radio, in motion pictures and in four Broadway productions. He played stages around the world, singing before royalty. Yet the career of the pioneering African-American troubadour and friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was very…
A Taste of Honey: 25 Herb Alpert Albums Come to CD on September 9
Herb Alpert is about to release his latest studio album, Human Nature, on September 30, and it looks to be an exciting set even by the high standards of the eternally youthful trumpeter. His fourth album in three years, Human Nature features five original songs plus reworkings of Steve Porcaro and John Bettis’ “Human Nature” (the 1983 Michael Jackson hit), Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “Alfie” and “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” and a world premiere composition from Bacharach and Elvis Costello, “Look Up Again.” But before that, Alpert is taking his…
Release Round-Up: Week of August 19
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Turtles, The Complete Original Album Collection (Manifesto/FloEdCo) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The definitive Turtles box set is here! The Complete Original Albums Collection presents all six albums released by The Turtles between 1965 and 1970, expanded with rare bonus material. Each of the group’s first three albums — It Ain’t Me Babe, You Baby and Happy Together — is presented in its original mono and stereo mixes, while each of the remaining three — The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, Turtle Soup and Wooden Head -boast rare bonus tracks, including previously…
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Try a Little Tenderness: Otis Redding’s “Dictionary of Soul” Expanded On CD and LP
Otis Redding famously ran the gamut of soul from A to Z on his 1966 album Complete and Unbelievable…The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul. Well, now the dictionary is getting even more complete on October 7 with Rhino’s release of a 50th anniversary edition! This 2-CD deluxe edition features both the stereo and mono mixes of the original album plus eight bonus tracks. The 1966 album, Redding’s fifth album, was cut in the summer of 1966 at Stax Studios in Memphis. Redding was joined by Isaac Hayes as well as The Memphis…
A Capitol Arrangement: Paul McCartney Returns To Venerable Label
Paul McCartney is coming full circle. After years at Concord Records, successor to Hear Music, McCartney has signed a worldwide deal with Universal Music Group’s Capitol Records label. This new agreement brings all of the superstar’s solo works beginning with 1970’s McCartney to the Capitol fold, and also encompasses a new solo album that is currently in the works. McCartney commented in a statement: “This is genuinely exciting for me. Not only was Capitol my first U.S. record label, but the first record I ever bought was Gene Vincent’s ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’ on the…
Space Oddity: “The Man Who Fell To Earth” Soundtrack Premieres On CD
2016 marks the 40th anniversary of The Man Who Fell to Earth, director Nicolas Roeg’s trippy cult classic starring the late David Bowie as the stranded alien Newton. Prior to his untimely death earlier this year, Bowie revisited Newton and the milieu of the film in his only musical theatre piece, Lazarus. With the musical about to open in London, StudioCanal is revisiting the original film in a new four-disc Blu-ray box set due in the United Kingdom on October 24. (No U.S. plans for the set have been revealed yet.) Prior…
Thank You, Friends: Omnivore Presents Big Star’s “Complete Third” In October
Omnivore Recordings has kept the legend of Big Star alive with a number of projects over the years including the release of frontman Alex Chilton’s Free Again: The 1970 Sessions, the soundtrack to the acclaimed documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, and Big Star: Live in Memphis. Now, the label has turned its attention to its most expansive Big Star release yet: a definitive look into the making of the band’s third album. The 3-CD collection Complete Third, due on October 14, includes every demo, rough mix, outtake, alternate take and…
Release Round-Up: Week of August 12
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Anthology (BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The new 3-CD/DD release of Emerson, Lake & Palmer – The Anthology rounds out this first wave of titles from BMG including reissues of Emerson Lake & Palmer, Tarkus and Pictures at an Exhibition. Produced by Greg Lake, this career-spanning set has 39 tracks from the years 1970 to 1998, the choice of material approved by all three band members. It’s housed in a deluxe casebound book format with Chris Welch’s…
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Out of Their Heads: Stones Plan Mono Box Set
With an expansion of their acoustic live album Stripped, a gallery exhibition and a South American documentary all bowing this year, The Rolling Stones aren’t letting up in 2016. Now, it looks like we can add one more to their busy year: a box set of the band’s ABKCO-controlled discography, all released in mono. The Rolling Stones in Mono captures, on 15 CDs or 16 LPs, the original mono albums released on both sides of the Atlantic between 1964 and 1969. While The Beatles waited for some time before differentiating the international…
Wild Music: Lost Erroll Garner Recordings Unearthed For September Release
Following the success of last year’s Complete Concert by the Sea, Legacy Recordings has another special release planned for fans of late jazz legend Erroll Garner. On September 30, the label will release Garner’s Ready Take One, presenting fourteen previously unreleased selections by Garner released between 1967 and 1971. This is the first album of all-new Garner material to be released in almost 25 years. The performances on Ready Take One have been culled from seven sessions held in 1967, 1969 and 1971 in locales including New York City and Chicago. The…
This Girl’s in Love: A Bacharach and David Songbook
Rumer pays tribute to legendary songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David with this new 12-song collection featuring many of the duo’s most beloved songs including “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” “Walk On By,” “A House is Not a Home” and the title track “This Girl’s in Love with You.” Bacharach himself makes a special appearance accompanying Rumer on the latter. Available on CD and vinyl LP, with autographed editions of both currently available from Amazon U.K. only. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Autographed CD: Amazon U.K. Vinyl LP: Amazon…
The Studio Collection
This new 11-LP set covers all of Sting’s eight solo albums between 1985 and 2013 in deluxe fashion, featuring meticulously recreated packaging, new vinyl masters cut at Abbey Road Studios for all albums, and the debuts of both Brand New Day (2000) and Sacred Love (2003) on the vinyl format. The box comes ahead of Sting’s ninth solo LP, the rock-oriented 57th & 9th (which the press release states will “complete” The Studio Collection – we’re currently unclear if that means there’s room for it in the box when it debuts November 11).
The Black Parade/Living with Ghosts: 10th Anniversary Edition
The 10th anniversary of My Chemical Romance’s dark concept album The Black Parade will be celebrated as a deluxe 2CD or 3LP set, featuring a bonus disc of 11 unreleased demos and outtakes entitled Living with Ghosts. Final versions of “My Way Home is Through You” and “Kill All Your Friends” were issued as B-sides, and lead track “The Five of Us Are Dying” is an early version of the title track.
Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69
On December 31, 1969 and January 1, 1970, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox and Buddy Miles took New York’s Fillmore East by storm with four exhilarating, adventurous performances fusing R&B, soul and hard rock with an improvisatory sensibility. Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69 presents the first of the group’s four sets, complete and in sequence for the very first time. Newly mixed from the original one-inch 8-track master tapes by Eddie Kramer, this landmark release, produced by Janie Hendrix, John McDermott and Kramer, will arrive on CD, 180-gram vinyl, SACD…
The Complete Trio Collection
This 3-CD release brings together newly remastered versions of both exquisite original albums by the Trio of Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt (from 1987 and 1999) plus a disc of 20 rare and previously unreleased recordings. On the same date, Rhino will also issue the single “highlights” CD My Dear Companion: Selections from The Trio Collection as well as Farther Along, a 2-LP vinyl presentation of all the bonus material from the complete edition. In addition, Trio II will be released on vinyl for the first time. Whew!
Power of Soul: Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys Revisited On “Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show”
On December 31, 1969 and January 1, 1970, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox and Buddy Miles took New York’s Fillmore East by storm with four exhilarating, adventurous performances fusing R&B, soul and hard rock with an improvisatory sensibility. On September 30, Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix will release the first of the Band of Gypsys’ four sets for the very first time as Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69. Newly mixed from the original one-inch 8-track master tapes by Eddie Kramer, this landmark release, produced by Janie Hendrix, John McDermott and Kramer,…
Farewell Aldebaran
The 1969 cult classic by Judy Henske and Jerry Yester, originally released on Frank Zappa’s Straight label, gets an authorized CD release for the very first time via Omnivore Recordings. For the occasion, this genre-bending favorite has been remastered from the original master tapes, with liner notes by Barry Alfonso and five previously unissued demo recordings. A vinyl reissue will be released simultaneously, presenting the original album sequence on multi-colored vinyl. Taking in styles from baroque pop to rock and psychedelia, Farewell Aldebaran is in a class of its own.
Saviors of the Broken: My Chemical Romance Expand “The Black Parade,” 10 Years On
Ten years after My Chemical Romance released their magnum opus The Black Parade, the New Jersey emo-punk heroes will revisit it in a special double-disc set featuring a host of demos and outtakes. After the success of their major-label breakthrough, 2004’s dark, hook-filled Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, My Chemical Romance went a little deeper for their follow-up. Inspired by Queen and Pink Floyd sonically and The Beatles and David Bowie in terms of visualization, the band effectively morphed into the titular band for a concept album about a cancer patient’s last…
All This Time: Sting to Issue Vinyl Box Set
Can’t get enough of the vinyl resurgence? Looking to bone up on the solo works of Sting ahead of his first rock album in nearly 15 years? A new box set has got you covered. A&M/Interscope will release The Studio Collection, an 11-LP set covering all of Sting’s eight solo albums between 1985 and 2013, on September 30. The set, which features meticulously recreated packaging, new vinyl masters cut at Abbey Road Studios and the debuts of both Brand New Day (2000) and Sacred Love (2003) on the format, comes ahead of…
