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Gems

March 18, 2025 By

Josh Groban Gems

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.  / Amazon Canada Josh Groban looks back on his still-thriving career with Gems, a new collection boasting 16 favorites from his discography alongside two new songs, "Be Alright" and "Open Hands." Not long after the May 2 CD and digital release, a double-vinyl edition will appear on June 13 with two exclusive bonus tracks: "Broken Vow" and "Remember When It Rained," both from 2003's Closer.   As an Amazon affiliate,

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Record Store Day the U.K. Way: British Labels Line Up Vinyl Exclusives

March 18, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

RSD Cooking Vinyl Demon

Our ongoing Record Store Day 2025 guide has covered the exclusive titles coming on April 12 from Universal Music Group, Sony's Legacy Recordings, Warner Music's Rhino, BMG and Craft Recordings, as well as titles from favorite indie licensors like Real Gone Music and Omnivore. Next up, we're taking a look at international releases from two of our favorite U.K. labels! British label and artist services hub Cooking Vinyl has planned a half-dozen titles for RSD, running the gamut from stalwarts

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Alison Moyet, Camper Van Beethoven, Cowboy Junkies, Dead or Alive, Pixies, Record Store Day, Roger Waters, Status Quo, Suede, T Rex, The Alan Parsons Project, The Mission

My Heart Skips a Beat: Omnivore Premieres Long-Lost Buck Owens Concert

March 17, 2025 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Version 1.0.0

Hey Buckaroos!  Omnivore Recordings has unearthed what they're describing as the earliest full concert recording of Buck Owens and his legendary band onstage, and they're bringing it to fans on March 28.  The Exciting Sounds of Buck Owens and His Buckaroos Live from Richmond, Virginia, 1964 arrives on vinyl - no CD version has been announced yet - with eighteen cuts from the Bakersfield group. The album captures Owens, Don Rich, Doyle Holly, Tom Brumley, and Willie Cantu at the peak of their

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Buck Owens

Hand of Doom: Rhino Hi-Fi Reissues Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," Alice Cooper's "Love It to Death"

March 14, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Alice Cooper Love It to Death Hi Fi

This morning, Rhino announced the latest two titles in its Rhino High-Fidelity series, and both titles are available now for shipping directly from Rhino.com.  With Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Alice Cooper's Love It to Death both newly remastered with lacquers cut by Kevin Gray for the audiophile-standard series, hard rock is the order of the day.  Both titles are pressed on 180-gram vinyl and limited to 5,000 units each. Black Sabbath's 1970 LP Paranoid remains a watershed release, auguring

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath

Release Round-Up: Week of March 14

March 14, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Jimmy Page Black Crowes Live at The Greek

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes, Live at the Greek (Silver Arrow) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A rare concert team-up between one of the great blues-rock bands of the last four decades and one of the greatest

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chaka Khan, Goo Goo Dolls, Jimmy Page, Rufus, The Black Crowes, The Smithereens, World Party

You Raise Me Up: Reprise Collects Josh Groban's "Gems" on New Collection

March 13, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Josh Groban Gems

On May 9, Josh Groban will kick off Gems, a five-night run in Las Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.  One week earlier, the superstar actor-singer will commemorate the concert stand with a companion album of the same name.  Arriving on Reprise Records, Gems features 16 classics from Groban's discography alongside two new songs, "Be Alright" and "Open Hands." The Los Angeles native was just sixteen years old when he was introduced by his vocal coach to David Foster.  Foster enlisted him

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Josh Groban, Kelly Clarkson

Attics of My Life: Grateful Dead Mark 60 Years with Massive Box of Unreleased Live Performances

March 12, 2025 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

Grateful Dead Enjoying the Ride

It's little surprise that Rhino is going all-out for the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. The label today announced a 60CD box set due this spring that will premiere material from some 20 shows across a quarter-century of the band's tenure. Enjoying the Ride, available May 30 exclusively from Dead.net, is a comprehensive 450-track set (nearly entirely unreleased, though a full track list has not been made available) limited to 6000 individually numbered copies. Sourced from recordings

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

What the World Needs Now

March 11, 2025 By

Smokey Robinson What the World Needs Now

Smokey Robinson's newest studio album finds him singing such warm favorites as "Lean on Me," "What a Wonderful World," "Be Thankful for What You Got," and "What the World Needs Now Is Love."  Available on CD, LP, and digital/streaming.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

Review: Yes, "Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition"

March 10, 2025 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Yes Close to the Edge

The cover of Yes' Close to the Edge was a relatively simple one, with Roger Dean's freshly-minted "bubble type" logo atop a color gradient from black to green.  But the contents within the jacket - Yes' fifth album overall, and final LP of the decade to feature drummer Bill Bruford - were anything but simple.  Building on the sound and style of 1971's Fragile, Close to the Edge was an even more ambitious suite crafted by lead vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, drummer Bruford,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Yes

Release Round-Up: Week of March 7

March 7, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Neil Young Oceanside Countryside

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Yes, Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition (Rhino/Atlantic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with signed lithograph) Yes' fifth album, Close to the Edge, returns as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set anchored by new surround (Dolby Atmos and 5.1) and stereo remixes by Steven Wilson. This Super Deluxe box follows in the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Electronic, Pop, Rock Tags: A.J. Croce, Benmont Tench, Eric Burdon, Fernando Perdomo, Jethro Tull, Kraftwerk, Lady Gaga, Neil Young, The Move, Van Halen, War, Yes

Last Flash of Rock 'n Roll: Rhino Remasters, Expands Robert Hunter's "Tiger Rose"

March 5, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Robert Hunter Tiger Rose

Following last year's expanded reissue of Grateful Dead collaborator Robert Hunter's Tales of the Great Rum Runners, the late lyricist is once again being celebrated by Rhino with a new deluxe edition. On March 28, the label will revisit 1975's Tiger Rose for its 50th anniversary.  The album has been remastered for all formats by David Glasser using the Plangent Processes for tape restoration and speed correction.  It will be available as an expanded 2CD set, a 1LP remaster of the original

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter

Live at the Greek

March 5, 2025 By

Jimmy Page Black Crowes Live at The Greek

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A rare concert team-up between one of the great blues-rock bands of the last four decades and one of the greatest guitarists of all time is getting revisited in a new 3CD or 6LP set (with 2LP highlights also available).  Originally released in 2000, less than a year after it was recorded, Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes' Live At The Greek was a double

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

March 5, 2025 By

SLY LIVES

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy releases the soundtrack to the latest documentary by The Roots' drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, who picked up an Academy Award for his work on 2021's Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) .  This new companion album to this highly-anticipated look at the life and legacy of Sly Stone features 21 favorite hits and album cuts, about half of which are unreleased

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters

March 5, 2025 By

Kenny Burrell On View Complete Masters

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A celebrated jazz guitarist, cornerstone of the Blue Note roster in the late '50s and early '60s and still-standing link to a thriving era in American jazz, Kenny Burrell will be celebrated this spring with a deluxe revisitation of his first live release.  On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters collects the original 1960 album, recorded in New York City with a killer quintet line-up,

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Looking Back: Living the Years

March 5, 2025 By

Mike + The Mechanics Looking Back Living the Years

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Looking Back - Living the Years is a new 16-track collection culling from nearly every one of Genesis co-founder Mike Rutherford's albums with side project Mike + The Mechanics, for which he is the sole consistent member. (Every one of the band's many vocalists will be represented on the set.) Marking 40 years since the group's self-titled debut in 1985 - the same year Genesis bandmate Phil Collins'

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

A New 'View': Celebrated Kenny Burrell Live Set Gets Expanded

March 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Kenny Burrell On View Complete Masters

A celebrated jazz guitarist, cornerstone of the Blue Note roster in the late '50s and early '60s and still-standing link to a thriving era in American jazz, Kenny Burrell will be celebrated this spring with a deluxe revisitation of his first live release. On View At the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters collects the original 1960 album, recorded in New York City with a killer quintet line-up, along with nine additional tracks from the same club dates - six of which are being released for

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell

Live in Dallas 1991

March 5, 2025 By

Van Halen Live in Dallas 1991

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In summer 2024, Rhino continued a surprising amount of catalogue from the latter portion of Van Halen's celebrated career - the period in the mid '80s and '90s when former Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar took over for original singer David Lee Roth - with an expansion of the group's 1991 effort For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. The 2CD/2LP/Blu-ray set offered the remastered album with an audiovisual

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Sentient

March 5, 2025 By

Santana Sentient

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than 25 years after a collaboration-heavy album rocketed Carlos Santana back into the spotlight, the guitar legend is releasing another - albeit one assembled from an assortment of solo tracks and guest spots spanning his last five decades of work.  Sentient brings together joint tracks with Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson, and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of Run-DMC, along with select

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Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Millennium 2.0

March 5, 2025 By

Backstreet Boys Millennium 2 0

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The pop quintet's 1999 blockbuster Millennium will be celebrated for its belated 25th anniversary with a new 2CD, 2LP and digital set that pairs the original album with a baker's dozen rare and unreleased tracks, including B-sides, demos, live cuts, and the new track "Hey." The album will be out July 11 (yes, roughly five months from its Valentine's Day announcement), to time with the group's summer

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop

The Complete Albums 1983-1993

March 5, 2025 By

Dio Complete Albums 1983 1993

Dio's The Complete Albums 1983-1993, a U.K. vinyl collection, chronicles the seven original studio and live releases from the legendary metal vocalist and his band. (Vertigo/Mercury distributed all the albums overseas, while Warner Music continues to handle this portion of the catalogue stateside.) The box offers new pressings of Holy Diver (1983), The Last in Line (1984), Sacred Heart (1985), the live EP Intermission (1986), Dream Evil (1987), and double-vinyl editions of 1990's Lock Up the

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Hungry for Heaven: Dio's First Seven Albums Get U.K. Vinyl Box Set Release

March 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Dio Complete Albums 1983 1993

One of heavy metal's major icons will be celebrated with a new U.K. vinyl collection. UMR will release Dio's The Complete Albums 1983-1993, chronicling the seven original studio and live releases from the legendary heavy metal vocalist and his band. (Vertigo/Mercury distributed all the albums overseas, while Warner Music continues to handle this portion of the catalogue today.) The box, available March 28, offers new pressings of Holy Diver (1983), The Last in Line (1984), Sacred Heart

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Dio, Ronnie James Dio

Soundtrack Watch: 'Hook,' 'Goofy' and 'Lost' Make Vinyl Appearances in April

March 4, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Hook MOV LP

Fans of soundtrack reissues on vinyl have three very different titles to potentially look forward to in April: a mid-'90s Disney animated flick, a crown jewel in John Williams' discography, an a beloved television work from one of today's most prolific film composers. Walt Disney's major motion picture event of 1995 was Pocahontas, a fairly dramatized tale of Native Americans in the early colonial days - but it was neither their only animated feature of the year nor, retrospectively, the most

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Carter Burwell, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Tevin Campbell

Larger Than Life: Backstreet Boys Reboot 'Millennium' with Bonus Disc

March 3, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Backstreet Boys Millennium 2 0

A new reissue from Legacy Recordings - one with an extremely long lead time - will revisit the ascendance of the Backstreet Boys to the top of a crop of late '90s and early '00s boy bands. The quintet's 1999 blockbuster Millennium will be celebrated for its belated 25th anniversary with a new 2CD, 2LP and digital set that pairs the original album with a baker's dozen rare and unreleased tracks, including B-sides, demos, live cuts and the new track "Hey." The album will be out July 11 (yes,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Backstreet Boys

That's How We Choose to Remember It

February 28, 2025 By

Version 1.0.0

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rilo Kiley is reuniting, and on May 9 - the day before the band takes the stage at the Just Like Heaven Festival in Pasadena, CA - they'll follow up a reissue of The Execution of All Things with That's How We Choose to Remember It, an 11-track collection drawing from their four studio albums and one early EP from 1999-2007.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.​

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

The Execution of All Things: Frozen Lake Edition

February 28, 2025 By

Rilo Kiley Execution of All Things Frozen Lake

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Saddle Creek Store (with bonus 7") Rilo Kiley - singer/keyboardist Jenny Lewis, lead guitarist Blake Sennett, bassist Pierre "Duke" de Reeder, and drummer Jason Boesel - is reuniting for a tour, and revisiting 2002's The Execution of All Things on vinyl for the first time with updated artwork (a die-cut sleeve and poster) billed as the "Froken Lake Edition." The standard vinyl product will be

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

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