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Release Round-Up: Week of August 2

August 2, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

Davy Jones Live in Japan

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Davy Jones, Live in Japan (7a Records) 2CD/DVD Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Keymail Records (U.K.) / Deep Discount (U.S.) 3LP Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Keymail Records (U.K.)/ Deep Discount (U.S.) 7a Records releases a Davy Jones treasure trove on Live in Japan, available in both 2CD/DVD and 3LP formats. The 2CD/DVD set presents both of Jones' officially released (and long-unavailable)

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bad Company, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Davy Jones, John Lee Hooker, Linda McCartney, Lonnie Liston Smith, My Morning Jacket, Paul McCartney, Richard Thompson, Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Jams of the Year: Legacy Announces Next Batch of Prince CD/LP Reissues

August 1, 2019 By Sam Stone 7 Comments

Prince Versace

On September 13, The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings will release the next batch of exciting Prince reissues from his later career: The VERSACE Experience (PRELUDE 2 GOLD), Chaos and Disorder, and Emancipation. The three titles will be available individually on CD, LP, or as bundles through the Official Prince Store. Originally released in July 1996, Chaos and Disorder is a collection of spontaneous and tight playing that reached No. 14 on the U.K. Album Chart and No. 26 stateside, all

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Funk, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Young and Innocent Days: The Kinks Prep "Arthur" 50th Anniversary Box Set

July 30, 2019 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

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50 years ago, The Kinks released Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire, a concept album which continued in the quintessentially British vein of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society but carved out its own musical identity.  Building on the success of last year's Village Green box set, BMG has just announced a similarly expansive - make that Kink-size - set for Arthur, loaded with previously unreleased tracks and mixes and incorporating "the great lost Dave Davies

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Dave Davies, The Kinks

Make That Move: Hits, Rarities from Shalamar Collected on New "Gold"

July 26, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Shalamar Gold

"Make That Move," "I Can Make You Feel Good," "A Night to Remember," "The Second Time Around": these are just a few of the hits that put Shalamar on the musical map.  One of the leading lights of impresario Dick Griffey's SOLAR (Sounds Of Los Angeles Records), Shalamar placed over 20 twenty entries on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart and more than 10 on the Pop survey; across the pond, the group scored 19 hits on the U.K. Singles Chart.  Now, the group's towering accomplishments have been

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Shalamar

Release Round-Up: Week of July 26

July 26, 2019 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Control The Remixes

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Janet Jackson, Control: The Remixes (A&M/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscover Store (color variant) Fans looking for some rare or hard-to-find content from Janet Jackson will flip for a new pressing of Control: The Remixes on 2LP and CD. Originally released in Europe and Japan in 1987, this pressing features all the tracks of the former territory's releases

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barbara Cook, Climax Blues Band, Ethel Merman, Janet Jackson, Jonathan Larson, Sammy Davis Jr., Soft Machine, Soundgarden, Sugar Ray, Tubby Hayes Quartet

Let's Dance: Ramones' "It's Alive" Expanded for 40th Anniversary

July 24, 2019 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Ramones Its Alive Deluxe

Rhino's ongoing series of deluxe box sets celebrating the Ramones' legacy continues on September 20 with a fifth entry: the 40th anniversary 4CD/2LP edition of the band's 1979 live album It's Alive.  Recorded in London on New Year's Eve 1977 and released in April 1979, It's Alive featured blistering takes on songs from the band's first three studio albums.  Only the Ramones could have fit 28 songs onto less than 54 minutes of vinyl. Limited to 8,000 units, the It's Alive Deluxe Edition is

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

Lightning Crashes: Live Reissue "Throwing Copper" With Bonus Tracks, Live Woodstock Set

July 23, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

Live Throwing Copper

In April 1994, the alternative rock heroes Live released Throwing Copper.  The band already had a reputation as one of the most powerful and dynamic of the alternative rock scene off the heels of their 1991 debut, and when Throwing Copper topped the Billboard 200 chart in 1995, their renown only grew.  The Jerry Harrison-produced album spawned two No. 1 singles on the Modern Rock Charts, "Lightning Crashes" and "Selling the Drama," and eventually, the record would be certified 8x Platinum by the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Live

Trick or Treat! "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" Coming to Vinyl in August

July 23, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!  The Emmy-nominated 1966 television special was the third overall for Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts series and the second to be holiday-themed, after A Charlie Brown Christmas.  It earned a whopping 49 share in the ratings and was so successful that CBS re-aired it every year through 2000, with ABC picking up the tradition after that.  Yet despite a beloved score by Vince Guaraldi (who else?), a soundtrack album to Great Pumpkin had never been released in any

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Soundtracks Tags: Vince Guaraldi

Midnight Rider: Gregg Allman's "Laid Back" Gets Deluxe, Expanded Edition, "Gregg Allman Tour" Is Reissued

July 23, 2019 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Gregg Allman Laid Back

Two classics from the late, great Gregg Allman are returning to print this August from Mercury/UMe.  Allman's 1973 solo debut Laid Back and his 1974 live LP The Gregg Allman Tour will both be reissued on vinyl, while Laid Back will be greatly expanded as a 2-CD Deluxe Edition. Laid Back first arrived in stores on the Capricorn label a few months following the release of The Allman Brothers Band's acclaimed Brothers and Sisters. While both albums were recorded roughly concurrently, with the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Gregg Allman

Review: David Bowie, "The Mercury Demos"

July 22, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

David Bowie The Mercury Demos

David Bowie collectors with a taste for vinyl have had much for which to be grateful this year.  Parlophone and Rhino recently unveiled the third in a series of vinyl box sets this year, The Mercury Demos.  (The just-released fourth such box commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of "Space Oddity.")  An LP rather than a collection of singles, The Mercury Demos officially premieres ten early, one-take recordings from the future superstar, recorded on a Revox reel-to-reel tape machine in Bowie's

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: David Bowie

Straighten Up and Fly Right: Resonance Collects Nat "King" Cole's Earliest Years on New Box Set

July 22, 2019 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Nat King Cole Hittin the Ramp

The career of Nat "King" Cole has been exceedingly well-represented in the CD era, whether via numerous, expanded original album reissues or the hefty box sets released by the Bear Family and Mosaic labels.  But one period of King Cole's career has been rather overlooked: the recordings he made prior to signing with Capitol Records, the label with which he would spend more than two decades.  Now, Resonance Records is addressing that situation with a remarkable, comprehensive new box set that

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Nat King Cole

The Best of Morrissey [2-LP Vinyl Edition]

July 19, 2019 By

The Best of Morrissey

Rhino is reissuing 2001's 21-song compilation The Best of Morrissey for the first time ever on vinyl as a 2-LP set.  The edition going to general retail will be pressed on black vinyl while Rhino.com offers an exclusive clear vinyl version limited to 500 units.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

Always Returning: Brian Eno Collaboration "Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks" To Be Expanded on LP, CD, and Deluxe Book Set

July 19, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks is one of the most recognizable ambient pieces of Brian Eno's career. The album was a collaboration with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno that provided the soundtrack to Al Reinert's feature-length Apollo 11 documentary, For All Mankind.  Since then, the tracks have appeared in numerous other films, along with television programs, commercials, and even the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. Now, an extended edition of Apollo: Atmospheres &

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else Tags: Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno

Inherit the Earth: The Replacements' New Box Set Premieres Unreleased Tracks, Including Tom Waits Session, Live Concert, and More

July 19, 2019 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

The Replacements Dead Mans Pop

Don't tell a soul?  The Replacements are releasing their first-ever box set.  The hell-raising Minneapolis rockers have proudly told the story of stealing a clutch of tapes from their onetime home of Twin/Tone Records and chucking them into the Mississippi River back in 1987.  But happily, the band was more careful about subsequent masters, and the year later, held onto a stash of tapes that now will provide the basis of Dead Man's Pop, a 4-CD/1-LP set reimagining their sixth album and third for

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Replacements

Release Round-Up: Week of July 19

July 19, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

James Taylor The Warner Bros. Albums

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! James Taylor, The Warner Bros. Albums 1970-1976 (Warner/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Rhino has a newly remastered box, supervised by Peter Asher, of James Taylor's six studio albums for the label including Sweet Baby James (1970), Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (1971), One Man Dog (1972), Walking Man (1974), Gorilla (1975); and In the Pocket (1976).  Available on CD,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Grover Washington Jr., James Taylor, Judy Collins, Lesley Duncan, Live, Mike Love, Mike McCartney, Shalamar, Steve Goodman

Tell All the People: Rhino Expands The Doors' "The Soft Parade" For 50th Anniversary Box Set

July 18, 2019 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

The Doors The Soft Parade 50th

Rhino is continuing its ongoing series celebrating the music of The Doors with a new 50th anniversary edition of the band's fourth studio album, The Soft Parade.  Originally released 50 years ago today on July 18, 1969, The Soft Parade introduced the hit "Touch Me" and became Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger, and Densmore's fourth consecutive Top Ten album.  The Soft Parade was further distinguished by the presence of orchestral arrangements for the first time on a Doors record.   On October 18,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Doors

The Pleasure Principle: Janet Jackson Albums Coming To Vinyl, Plus Expanded 'Control: The Remixes'

July 18, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Janet vinyl

When a new pressing of Janet Jackson's breakthrough album Control was announced earlier this year, we speculated that perhaps the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and R&B/pop legend would finally be the subject of some catalog activity. That wish seems to be coming true: four more of Janet's albums are coming to vinyl on July 24, along with an expanded edition of a remix album to be released in America for the first time! A&M/Virgin/UMe will press Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989),

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

Been Way Too Long: Soundgarden's "Live From the Artists Den" Album and Movie Arriving

July 17, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Soundgarden, the estate of Chris Cornell, and UMe have announced a new partnership with the acclaimed TV program Artists Den which will bring the band's 2013 appearance on the show to the homes of fans everywhere on July 26. On February 17, 2013, Soundgarden wrapped up their King Animal winter tour with a show at L.A.'s Wiltern Theatre. Over the course of nearly two and a half hours, the band performed 29 songs: their biggest hits, new material, and many songs never performed before, all in

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Soundgarden

Shop Around: "Motown: Greatest Hits" Arrives From Universal U.K.

July 16, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Motown Greatest Hits

Back in March, we filled you in about Universal Japan's plans for Motown's 60th anniversary campaign, which included a series of reissues and a 3-CD, 60-song collection.  We recently reviewed the U.S.' reissue of the definitive Motown: The Complete No. 1s box set.  Now, the U.K. is getting into the act with a different 3-CD, 60-song anthology of its own. Motown: Greatest Hits arrives on August 16.  Like the Japanese set, it boasts 60 classics from the label on three CDs, but the selection is

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Diana Ross, Four Tops, Lionel Richie, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, The Commodores, The Supremes, The Temptations, Various Artists

The Bizarre Years [Purple Vinyl]

July 16, 2019 By

Screamin Jay Hawkins The Bizarre Years

Real Gone presents an album's worth of the wackiest rock from Screamin' Jay Hawkins.  This 10-song collection from the "I Put a Spell on You" man captures the cream of the crop of Hawkins' tenure at Bizarre Records. With such strange and lurid tunes as "Shut Your Mouth When You Sneeze" and "Sherilyn Fenn" to a pair of unexpected Tom Waits covers, the music is bound to please any fan that hasn't already found this collection.  For this vinyl edition limited to 1,000 units, Real Gone has

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Rock

Cosmic Funk [Gold Vinyl Edition]

July 16, 2019 By

Lonnie Liston Smith Cosmic Funk

Lonnie Liston Smith's 1974 sophomore album on the Flying Dutchman label also gets the Real Gone Music treatment for a new vinyl pressing on gold vinyl, limited to 1,000 units.

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Astral Traveling [Blue Eternity Vinyl Edition]

July 16, 2019 By

Lonnie Liston Smith Astral Traveling

Real Gone Music brings jazz keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith's 1973 debut on the Flying Dutchman label back to vinyl in a limited edition pressed on "blue eternity" vinyl and limited to 1,000 units.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Woodstock: Sunday, August 17, 1969

July 16, 2019 By

Just in time for the festival's 50th anniversary, Real Gone Music brings Jefferson Airplane's complete Woodstock performance (issued on CD in 2009) to vinyl for the very first time.  The 3-LP set will be pressed on "new dawn" blue vinyl, and decked out with Henry Diltz's photographs and Richie Unterberger's liner notes.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Mothermania: The Best of The Mothers [Vinyl Reissue]

July 16, 2019 By

FrankZappa Mothermania LP

LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Music/merch bundles:  Zappa Store Originally assembled by Frank Zappa 50 years ago, Mothermania features numerous exclusive mixes and edits of Mothers of Invention classics from Freak Out!, Absolutely Free, and We're Only In It For the Money. The album will now be back in print on vinyl for the first time since 1972, boasting all-analog remastering by Bernie Grundman from the original master tapes. Like Orchestral Favorites , the new edition of

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else

Orchestral Favorites: 40th Anniversary

July 16, 2019 By

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3-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Music/merch bundles:  Zappa Store Orchestral Favorites is an odd release in the Zappa catalogue - one that started its life in a very different configuration. The music, recorded live in September 1975 with a full orchestra and Terry Bozzio on drums, was intended to be released as part of a larger project called Läther (posthumously released in 1996).  But after a series of lawsuits surrounding

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else

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