What do Brian Wilson, MC Lyte and Sam Phillips have in common? All three are among the artists and producers represented on Omnivore Recordings’ trio of delicious vinyl offerings for this April 18’s upcoming Record Store Day! Sessions ’64!! is so exciting that no less than two exclamation points will do!! This groovy 10-inch slab of translucent gold vinyl transports listeners back to 1964. It includes nine tracks produced by Brian Wilson and Jimmy Bowen for the Warner Bros. and Reprise Records labels, with arrangements from Wilson, Sandra Glantz (a.k.a. Ginger…
Legacy’s Record Store Day Slate Includes Simon and Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, More
Today was the big announcement day for Record Store Day 2015, scheduled for Saturday, April 15 at the finest independent retailers across the U.S. and beyond! A press conference was held at Brooklyn’s outpost of Rough Trade giving the details on the many titles to expect next month. We’re kicking off our coverage with a look at the releases due from Legacy Recordings; watch this space for more news as it comes! Legacy’s eclectic line-up has some of the label’s heaviest hitters – Bruce Springsteen, Simon and Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash…
Box Set Watch: Hawkwind, Fotheringay, Spooky Tooth Get Deluxe Collected Treatment
Formed in 1969, “space rock” group Hawkwind recorded its debut album in 1970. Forty-five years later, an iteration of the band is still performing, but Parlophone’s U.K. division is turning the clock back with a new box set to celebrate Hawkwind’s earliest years. This Is Your Captain Speaking…Your Captain Is Dead: The Albums and Singles 1970-1974 arrives on March 23 in the U.K. and one week later in the U.S., and brings together the band’s entire United Artists catalogue on 11 CDs in replica sleeves. The set encompasses the following releases: Hawkwind, In…
Deluxe (Tokyo Dome Live in Concert + Remasters)
Van Halen boxes up its new concert release featuring David Lee Roth with remastered editions of the band’s debut and his (first) farewell, 1984. Available on 4 CDs or 6 LPs.
1984 (Remastered Edition)
David Lee Roth’s (first) swansong with Van Halen is remastered, with no additional material, on CD, DD and LP.
Van Halen (Remastered Edition)
Van Halen’s debut album returns in a remastered edition with no additional material on CD, DD and LP.
Tokyo Dome Live in Concert
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 the fall of 1972 as Jon Anderson,…
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 Sinatra is the first initiative in over twenty years to bring together tracks from these three…
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 Band, Bloodshot (Vinyl Edition) (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The J….
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 with proceeds today going to benefit the Beale Street Caravan, a non-commercial radio…
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 (designed by psychedelic artists Hapshash and the Coloured Coat) and a download card entitling the purchaser to all the tracks, including…
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 digital download, have been remastered from the original multi-track…
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 of formats! Read the track listing and full details here. Lead Belly, The Smithsonian Folkways Collection (Folkways) (Amazon…
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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 context of his subsequent career. This fourteen-track collection,…
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.
