Come April, Micky Dolenz will be returning to a place where he hasn’t appeared in 33 years. No, the performing mainstay won’t be discovering some new, far-flung venue. But he will be returning to the single shelves of record store racks with his first 45 RPM release since 1983. 7a Records, the label responsible for Dolenz’s The MGM Singles Collection and the recent An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz, will release “Chance of a Lifetime” b/w “Living on Lies” in conjunction with Europe’s Record Store Day festivities on Saturday, April…
Breathe Me: Sia’s “Colour the Small One” Gets Vinyl Debut
Before Sia hit it big, both as a pop songwriter for Rihanna, Beyonce and Britney Spears and an enormous-voiced singer of tunes like “Titanium,” “Chandelier” and recent hit “Alive,” she was a quirky, tuneful indie-pop artist whose albums became critical darlings if not commercial successes. One such project, her third album Colour the Small One, is being reissued this spring, as both a digital expanded edition and, for the first time, a vinyl offering. Colour the Small One was, upon release in 2004, an intriguing step in Sia’s budding solo career. The…
English Heart
The one and only Ronnie Spector returns with an all-new studio album saluting her British Invasion friends. Expect Ronnie-ized renditions of the Jagger/Richards-written “I’d Much Rather Be with the Boys” (as “I’d Much Rather Be with the Girls”) as well as “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying,” “Tell Her No,” “Girl Don’t Come” and more! Amazon has an exclusive CD/DVD edition as well as an exclusive autographed vinyl LP! You can access all formats from the links below!
Wouldn’t It Be Nice: “Pet Sounds” 50th Anniversary Celebrated in June With Multiple Editions Including 4 CD/Blu-ray Box Set
On May 16, 1966, one of the most acclaimed albums in pop/rock history was released: The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of this landmark album and it is being commemorated in several ways. Brian Wilson is embarking on a concert tour in a little under a week in which he and his band will play the album in its entirety for what’s being billed as the last time. And it has just been revealed that a new box set is due to be released on June 10 by Capitol/UMe…
Release Round-Up: Week of March 18
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring a host of titles on CD and vinyl! Elvis Presley, The Album Collection (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) To coincide with the 60th anniversary of his signing to RCA, Elvis Presley’s The Album Collection is a whopping 60-disc box set containing 57 RCA albums released during Presley’s lifetime (many with bonus tracks added) and 3 bonus discs of rarities, one disc each for the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. A 300-page hardcover book accompanies this landmark set. You’ll find more details here. Watch…
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Love Hit Me! Decca Beat Girls 1962-1970
Ace taps the Decca vaults for this new anthology celebrating the label’s best ’60s pop-rock girls! Lulu, Marianne Faithfull, Dana Gillespie, Elkie Brooks, Beryl Marsden, Billie Davis and others appear on this collection featuring the work of producers, arrangers and writers such as Mike Leander, Andrew Loog Oldham, Shel Talmy, Charles Blackwell and Tony Meehan. Available as a 24-song CD or a 12-song LP (retitled 1963-1970, for accuracy’s sake)!
Here Today: The Songs of Brian Wilson (Vinyl)
Ace brings its acclaimed 2015 Here Today: The Songs of Brian Wilson compilation to 180-gram white vinyl in a slimmed-down form (12 tracks vs. 25 on the CD) with all of Ace’s deluxe hallmarks of packaging and annotation! The album features Darian Sahanaja of The Brian Wilson Band and The Wondermints along with Kirsty MacColl, Carmen McRae, The Tokens, The Castells, Nick DeCaro, Betty Everett, Bobby Vee and more!
Love is the Drug: Grace Jones’ “Warm Leatherette” Gets Expanded
“See the breaking glass in the underpass…” Universal will expand Grace Jones’ influential fourth album Warm Leatherette this summer with a variety of formats. Jones’ tenure on Island Records has been the subject of some fascinating reissues in recent years. Her 1981 masterpiece Nightclubbing was expanded in 2014, and the following year saw the release of Disco, a box set compiling her first three albums with producer Tom Moulton, released between 1977 and 1979. Warm Leatherette is the latest link in that chain–her fourth record and her first of three recorded at…
A Reality Tour (Vinyl)
David Bowie’s 2010 live album capturing the 2003 Dublin performance of his Reality Tour comes to vinyl from Friday Music as a 3-LP, 33-track set pressed on 180-gram vinyl. It features career-spanning hits and fan favorites like “Heroes”, “Ziggy Stardust”, “Changes”, “Fame”, “Ashes to Ashes,” “Life on Mars?,” “All the Young Dudes,” and “Rebel, Rebel” as well as collaborations “Sister Midnight” and “Under Pressure.” This remastered, limited edition release will be housed in a sturdy box with two poster inserts featuring the 12″ x 12″ front cover image and a 12″ x 24″ double-sided poster featuring…
Hang On To Yourself: David Bowie’s “A Reality Tour” Comes To Vinyl
On October 7, 2003, David Bowie launched A Reality Tour in support of his 23rd studio album, Reality. The tour took the legendary artist to North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and The Bahamas for 112 electrifying shows before it was curtailed due to Bowie’s health. In October 2004, A Reality Tour was issued on DVD, capturing the Point Theatre, Dublin performances of November 2003. In 2010, the audio to the concerts was released on CD. On June 3 of this year, Friday Music will issue A Reality Tour on vinyl…
To Know Them Is To Love Them: Dolly, Emmylou and Linda Release “The Complete Trio Collection”
Individually, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris have created some of the most beautiful records of all time, blurring the lines between country, pop, folk, and rock-and-roll. Collectively, the threesome released two transcendent and heartfelt albums, Trio (1987) and Trio II (1999). The two landmark LPs garnered sales of over five million copies and three Grammy Awards and became beloved additions to all three artists’ discographies. Today, Rhino Records announced the September 9 release of The Complete Trio Collection, available in three formats. Emmylou Harris has produced The Complete Trio Collection, a 3-CD release…
Changesonebowie
ChangesOneBowie returns from Parlophone in a 40th anniversary edition available on vinyl, CD and digital formats. Originally issued on RCA in May 20, 1976, ChangesOneBowie was the first key compilation album from superstar David Bowie. Collecting songs dating back to 1969, the 11-track album introduced the single “John, I’m Only Dancing” on LP alongside highlights from his remarkable string of releases: David Bowie(“Space Oddity”), Hunky Dory (“Changes”), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (“Ziggy Stardust,” “Suffragette City”), Aladdin Sane (“The Jean Genie”), Diamond Dogs (the title track and…
Review: Jeff Buckley, “You and I”
In February 1993, the young Jeff Buckley entered producer Steve Addabbo’s Shelter Island Sound studio in New York City to record a series of demos for his new label, Columbia Records. On these tracks, Buckley explored a variety of material as he found his “voice” in the recording studio. Never intended for release, the Shelter Island demos were discovered during research for the 20th anniversary reissue of the late singer’s 1994 breakthrough Grace. Now, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings have released them from the vault on CD, digital download and vinyl as…
Release Round-Up: Week of March 11
This week’s Release Round-Up is filled with reissues and anthologies from favorite artists on both CD and vinyl! Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz, An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz (7a Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Today sees the U.S. release of one of the coolest titles so far of 2016! An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz captures the candid, intimate conversations between the rock legends recorded earlier this year. The first CD in this deluxe new package presents the conversation from January 7 recorded at Westbury,…
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Rhino Unveils Record Store Day Line-Up with a-ha, Monkees, Madonna, Doors, Coltrane, More
We’ve already filled you in on Rhino’s upcoming Record Store Day releases from the late David Bowie, but the label has now confirmed the rest of its vinyl offerings for the April 16 event! This year’s crop of 25+ titles is a diverse one, with a number of vinyl premieres, new entries in the label’s longtime “Side by Side” series, and more! You’ll find all details just below. a-ha – Hits South America 12-inch 180-gram vinyl Limited edition of 3000 copies, $14.98 AIR – Casanova 70 12-inch translucent splatter vinyl Limited edition of…
Smash Hits: Elvis, Miles, Jimi, Johnny Cash, Big Star Headline Legacy’s Record Store Day Slate
Record Store Day is coming up in a little more than a month, on Saturday, April 16, and the titles are starting to pour in for the annual celebration of brick-and-mortar record stores. Today, Legacy Recordings has just announced its slate! It’s a typically eclectic line-up of vinyl releases from some of the label’s heaviest hitters from rock-and-roll, country, jazz, and beyond, including Elvis Presley, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Big Star and many more! Big Star – Complete Columbia: Live At University of Missouri 4/25/93 2LP reissue of the newly…
Rebel Rebel: David Bowie Celebrated With Record Store Day Releases, “ChangesOneBowie” Reissue
There’s more on the way from the late David Bowie and Parlophone Records, beginning with two releases slated for release on Record Store Day, April 16, 2016 and continuing with a new reissue of 1976’s ChangesOneBowie set for May 20. Record Store Day 2016 brings two picture disc releases: a 40th anniversary edition of the single “TVC15” and a reissue of The Man Who Sold the World with its original German artwork. Originally released in 1976, “TVC15” was the second single to be taken from Station To Station. “TVC15” will be issued as a double…
Ride the Lightning (4-LP/6-CD/1-DVD Box)
Metallica’s deluxe box set of 1984’s Ride the Lightning includes the remastered album on LP and CD, plus four live sets from Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and England’s Castle Donington (the latter three making their physical debut after being offered as downloads on Metallica’s live archive site); a picture disc version of the “Creeping Death” single, featuring two non-LP B-sides; two more bonus CDs with radio interviews, demos and rough mixes; and a DVD featuring more pro-shot live footage for MTV, Danish TV and more. Physical swag in the box includes a hardback…
Kill ‘Em All (4-LP/5-CD/1-DVD Box)
Metallica revisits 1983’s Kill ‘Em All as a 4-LP/5-CD/1-DVD deluxe box set featuring remastered versions of the album on LP and CD augmented by three live sets from Paris, New Jersey and California on LP and CD; a picture disc recreation of the original “Jump Into the Fire” single (take heed: all offerings on vinyl will include download cards); plus a pair of bonus CDs featuring interviews, rough mixes and the contents of the “Whiplash” EP released in England. Another live set at Chicago’s Metro, released in part on a VHS compilation in 1987, debuts…
Raspberries (Vinyl)
Analog Spark, the audiophile imprint of Razor and Tie, has a 180-gram deluxe reissue of The Raspberries’ seminal debut featuring the hit “Go All the Way.” This limited edition vinyl reissue of Raspberries has been mastered and cut from the original stereo tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio; the 180-gram LP has been pressed and plated at RTI. Additionally, it’s housed in a classic-style Stoughton “tip-on” jacket.
The Sire Years
The 4-LP box set The Sire Years brings together all four of The Replacements’ albums for Seymour Stein’s fabled Sire label: Tim (1985), Pleased To Meet Me, (1987), Don’t Tell A Soul (1989) and All Shook Down (1990). It follows last year’s 4-LP box set The Twin/Tone Years which collected the band’s early albums on vinyl. All four albums feature the original album sequences with full original artwork. The set is limited to 8,700 numbered copies. Available March 29 as part of the “Vinyl Tuesdays” initiative.
Testify: Deluxe Edition
Phil Collins revisits 2002’s Testify, still his most recent collection of original material, as a 2-CD set. Co-produced by Collins and Rob Cavallo, Testify featured new songs (all composed by Collins save one co-written with longtime collaborator Daryl Stuermer) as well as a cover of Billy Nicholls’ “Can’t Stop Loving You,” a 1978 hit for Leo Sayer. The upcoming edition features ten bonus tracks including four B-sides, two demos, and four new-to-CD live tracks. The original album will be available on vinyl.
No Jacket Required: Deluxe Edition
Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required, originally released in 1985 and still the artist’s most commercially successful album, is expanded to 2 CDs with the addition of thirteen bonus tracks: ten new-to-CD live performances and three demos. The original album is also available on vinyl.
Release Round-Up: Week of March 4
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a host of titles on CD and vinyl! Fleetwood Mac, In Concert (Warner Bros./Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 3-LP concert album features 22 live recordings from Fleetwood Mac’s 1979-1980 tour, originally presented in December on the Tusk Deluxe Edition box set, for the very first time on vinyl. The music heard on In Concert was recorded at four stops (Wembley, Tucson, St. Louis, Omaha) during the band’s 111-show world tour promoting Tusk. This release has been pressed on 180-gram vinyl with Tusk-inspired…
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Take Me Home: Phil Collins’ “No Jacket Required” and “Testify” Go Deluxe In April
The next two titles in Phil Collins’ ongoing Take a Look at Me Now reissue program have been announced. On Friday, April 15, Deluxe Editions of No Jacket Required and Testify will arrive in stores, joining the previously issued quartet of Face Value (1981), Hello, I Must Be Going! (1982), Both Sides (1993) and Dance into the Light (1996). Nick Davis has newly remastered all titles which feature new cover photographs of Collins creating his famous cover poses. No Jacket Required, originally released in 1985, built on the Top 10 success of Hello, I Must Be Going! and attained chart-topping status in the…
