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Out On The Run Tonight: Bruce Springsteen to Release Companion Album to Autobiography With 5 Unreleased Tracks

July 28, 2016 By Randy Fairman 6 Comments

Bruce Springsteen Chapter and Verse

Being in the public eye for over 40 years and being one of the biggest rock stars on the planet for much of that time, there has been much written and documented about Bruce Springsteen - from articles to interviews to documentaries to books.  But despite some of his songs having some personal content, The Boss had never sat down to tell his own story.  Happily, this fall, Springsteen's autobiography Born To Run is released by Simon and Schuster on September 27. Four days before that, on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Let There Be More Light: Pink Floyd Announces Massive Box Set Tracing Band's Early Years

July 28, 2016 By Randy Fairman 10 Comments

Pink Floyd Creation

Back in May we told you about Pink Floyd's vinyl reissue campaign for this year.  At the time, there was no word on any further CD reissues.  But all that changed this morning when word came out about what may be the most expansive Pink Floyd project yet:  the 27-disc The Early Years 1965-1972.  Due to be released on November 11 from Pink Floyd Records/Sony, the set contains 6 CD/DVD or Blu-ray book-style packages (which will be released separately) and a 7th "Extra" CD/DVD or Blu-ray package

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

Greatest Hits (Stereo Hybrid SACD)

July 26, 2016 By

BST Greatest Hits

Blood Sweat & Tears' original 1972 Greatest Hits collection, featuring 11 songs including "You've Made Me So Very Happy," "Spinning Wheel," "And When I Die," "I Can't Quit Her," "Lucretia MacEvil" and more, arrives on hybrid stereo SACD from Audio Fidelity.  This disc from the jazz-rock pioneers can be played on any CD player but will play in high-resolution on SACD players.

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Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Ring of Changes

July 26, 2016 By

Gary Wright and Wonderwheel Ring of Changes

Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings premieres the long-lost 1972 A&M album recorded by "Dream Weaver" Gary Wright and his band Wonderwheel, featuring  guitarist-singer Mick Jones, later of Foreigner, as well as bassist Tom Duffey and drummer Bryson Graham. George Harrison guest stars on this prime slice of classic rock recorded at Apple Studios on Savile Row in London!  This release also includes three bonus tracks - two related singles and one outtake!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Dream Weaving: Gary Wright's Lost "Ring of Changes" Premieres, Features George Harrison and Mick Jones

July 26, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Gary Wright and Wonderwheel Ring of Changes

In a career spanning seven decades, there's little Gary Wright hasn't accomplished.  Having earned a role on Broadway before hitting his teenage years, the musically-talented New Jersey native moved to London, formed Spooky Tooth, befriended George Harrison, played on hit records from Harrison, Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson, and launched his own successful career with smashes like "Dreamweaver" and "Love is Alive."  But one chapter of the Gary Wright story has been long lost: his 1972 album Ring

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Gary Wright, George Harrison, Mick Jones

Let's Go Out Tonight: David Bowie's "Who Can I Be Now" Box Set Arrives In September

July 25, 2016 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

David Bowie Who Can I Be Now

Hot on the heels of last Friday's announcement that the next David Bowie box would include the unreleased album The Gouster, the details of what will be in the box have been released from Parolphone.  Coming on September 23 in CD, vinyl and digital download editions, David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976) will contain the following albums: Diamond Dogs (Remastered) 1-CD David Live (Original Mix) (Remastered) 2-CD David Live (2005 Mix) (Remastered) 2-CD The Gouster (Previously

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Can You Hear Me: Upcoming David Bowie Box To Premiere Unreleased Album "The Gouster"

July 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

David Bowie The Gouster

What is The Gouster? Parlophone Records has the answer with the upcoming release of the second in the series of David Bowie's complete albums box sets, Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976). The label promises a full announcement next week of the set which will follow last year's Five Years (1969-1973), but in the meantime, a special addition to the box has been confirmed: the unreleased album The Gouster, an embryonic version of 1975's "plastic soul" classic Young Americans which found Bowie

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: David Bowie

Release Round-Up: Week of July 22

July 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bobby Darin Story

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Dio, A Decade of Dio 1983-1993 (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A Decade of Dio 1983-1993 collects all six studio albums released by Warner Bros. and Reprise in the first decade of the band Dio's soaring career. Formed by Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny Appice after their split from Black Sabbath in 1982, the group first gained prominence with the title track of debut Holy Diver, a staple of MTV and a recurring metal cult

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Bill Wyman, Bobby Darin, Dio, Perry Como, The Allman Brothers Band, Tucky Buzzard, Velvet Crush

The Complete BBC Sessions

July 20, 2016 By

Led Zeppelin Complete BBC Sessions

This new collection expands the original double-disc set, from 1997, which was culled from the band's appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. This updated version has been fully and newly remastered under the supervision by Jimmy Page, and expanded with eight unreleased BBC recordings, including three rescued from a previously "lost" session from 1969. Following in the footsteps of Led Zeppelin's acclaimed catalogue reissues, The Complete BBC Sessions will be available in multiple

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Live at The Hollywood Bowl

July 20, 2016 By

Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four's legendary catalogue.  That's about to change with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via Apple/UMe.  The newly-retitled, remixed, remastered and expanded Live at the Hollywood Bowl will arrive one week in advance of the September 16 premiere of director Ron Howard's documentary film Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years which

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

Ticket to Ride: The Beatles' "Live at The Hollywood Bowl" Arrives In September

July 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese 21 Comments

Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four's legendary catalogue.  That's about to change with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via Apple/UMe.  The newly-retitled, remixed, remastered and expanded Live at the Hollywood Bowl will arrive one week in advance of the September 16 premiere of director Ron Howard's documentary film Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years which

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That's The Way: Led Zeppelin's "Complete BBC Sessions" Coming In September

July 19, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Led Zeppelin Complete BBC Sessions

A whole lotta love is coming from Led Zeppelin this fall with the release from Atlantic/Swan Song of The Complete BBC Sessions on September 16.  This new collection expands the original double-disc set, from 1997, which was culled from the band's appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. This updated version has been fully and newly remastered under the supervision by Jimmy Page, and expanded with eight unreleased BBC recordings, including three rescued from a previously "lost" session

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Led Zeppelin

Release Round-Up: Week of July 15

July 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Little Richard Mono Box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!   Little Richard, Mono Box: The Complete Specialty and Vee-Jay Albums (Concord/Specialty) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This new, 5-LP vinyl box set collects all of the studio albums that Little Richard recorded for both the Specialty and Vee-Jay labels between 1957 and 1965. The mono albums, each replicating the original label and jacket art, have been remastered from analog tapes. A 16-page booklet featuring new liner

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Diana Ross, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Little Richard, Marvin Gaye, Maynard Ferguson, Nina Simone, Sonny and Cher, The Hollywood Brats

Mother's Pride [Expanded Edition]

July 9, 2016 By

Fanny Mothers Pride

Real Gone has an expanded edition of 1973's Mother's Pride from the all-female rock group Fanny.  Produced by Todd Rundgren, this would be their final album for Reprise Records.  After the record's release, founding members June Millington and Alice de Buhr quit the band.  A reconstituted group would record one album for Casablanca Records in 1974 before dissolving for good in 1975 (ironically after "Butter Boy" became their highest-charting single).  Real Gone's expanded edition adds 8 bonus

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of July 8

July 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

The Monkees The Complete Series

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! John Coltrane, The Atlantic Years in Mono (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino's new box set, available on both CD and LP, includes original mono mixes of Trane's Giant Steps; Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson); Ole Coltrane; Coltrane Plays The Blues and The Avant Garde (with Don Cherry) plus one disc of outtakes.  All of these remastered albums are housed in replica jackets and a 32-page

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Carly Simon, Charlie Parker, David Bowie, John Coltrane, Sid and Marty Krofft, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, The Rave-Ups

Review: Chicago, "Quadio"

July 5, 2016 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

Chicago Quadio

Surround yourself with Chicago!  With the recent release of Rhino's immense - and immensely enjoyable - new box set Quadio, it's possible to enjoy the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-honored band's classic 1969-1976 albums with added dimension: that of 4.0-channel quadraphonic sound.  The nine Blu-ray Audio discs on Quadio (playable on all Blu-ray players) present every one of Chicago's studio albums from Chicago Transit Authority through Chicago X, plus IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits, in remastered

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Chicago

Release Round-Up: Week of July 1

July 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Delfonics 40 Classic Soul Sides

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  We've got the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music as well as plenty more that we know you won't want to miss! Eddy Arnold, Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Our newest release brings together two seminal, never-before-reissued albums by Eddy Arnold on one CD, both from 1970. Love and Guitars captured Arnold

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Betty Davis, Brook Benton, Burt Bacharach, Chet Atkins, Davy Jones, Eddy Arnold, Eric Clapton, Harry Nilsson, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Lee Hazlewood, Micky Dolenz, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Sea Level, Survivor, The Delfonics

Born to Love You: Freddie Mercury's Solo Singles Collected on New Set

June 27, 2016 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Freddie Mercury The Singles Cover

A new Freddie Mercury anthology will be released this fall, chronicling the late Queen singer's solo tracks on two CDs and 13 vinyl singles. Messenger of the Gods: The Singles features 25 tracks recorded by Mercury and released between 1973 and 1993--several of which were never released in America, or released widely on CD. Among the set's rarer treasures is Mercury's first "solo" single, credited to Larry Lurex in 1973. The single, featuring covers of Phil Spector's "I Can Hear Music"

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Freddie Mercury, Queen

Release Round-Up: Week of June 23

June 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Marvin Gaye Volume 2

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Bangles, Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles! (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles!, first released digitally in 2014, features all of the band's pre-Columbia studio material, plus four unreleased demos, two live tracks and other odds and ends!  It arrives in stores from Omnivore just before Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson and Debbi Peterson hit the road again!  Read more here! Laura

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Barbara Cook, Henry Mancini, Jeff Wayne, Laura Nyro, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young, Steve Vai, The Bangles

The Three Fates: BMG Prepares Emerson, Lake and Palmer Reissues, New Anthology

June 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Emerson Lake and Palmer Anthology

A new round of reissues dedicated to progressive titans Emerson, Lake and Palmer are on the way from the BMG label beginning this July and continuing through 2016 and 2017.  This new campaign promises to encompass not only ELP's nine studio albums but also the band's live recordings and compilations.  The reissues will arrive in a variety of formats including CD (with new liner notes by Chris Welch drawing on 2016 interviews with Greg Lake and the late Keith Emerson); standard, mastered for

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Crossroads Revisited: Selections From The Crossroads Guitar Festivals

June 21, 2016 By

Eric Clapton Crossroads Revisited

On this new 3-CD set, Eric Clapton is joined by a cadre of top guitar heroes including Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr., Robert Cray, Billy Gibbons, Vince Gill, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, John Mayer, Carlos Santana, Joe Walsh, Ronnie Wood, and Jimmie Vaughn.  Crossroads Revisited features 41 tracks of landmark performances from all four Crossroads Guitar Festivals, which were held in 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013 - and most of these selections have not previously appeared on CD.

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Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock

Rust Never Sleeps

June 21, 2016 By

Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps DVD

The film Rust Never Sleeps, chronicling Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1978 tour and directed by Young himself, arrives on DVD and BD restored from the original negative and in 5.1 surround and stereo sound.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

The Crux of the Biscuit

June 20, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Crux

Zappa Records revisits Frank Zappa's 1974 best-selling album Apostrophe' with this new, 15-track release.  As part of the ongoing Project/Object Audio Documentary Series, it presents rare alternate mixes, live performances & studio session outtakes from the Apostrophe' era.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Frank Zappa For President

June 20, 2016 By

Frank Zappa For President

The late Frank Zappa throws his hat in the ring with this new archival release!  Zappa Records promises that Frank Zappa for President  "gives us a glimpse into what could have been. This album is comprised of unreleased compositions realized on the Synclavier along with other relevant tracks mined from the Vault with a political thread tying it all together. Don t forget to Register and Vote!"

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

In The Midnight Hour: Real Gone August Slate Includes Wilson Pickett, The B-52's, Dusty Springfield, Diamond Rio, More

June 17, 2016 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Wilson Pickett Complete Atlantic Singles Volume One

With summer nearly upon us, we're all beginning to make plans for the next few months.  Real Gone is doing the same, having just revealed what its releases are going to be for middle of summer in August! The first item on the list is the first of an eventual three-volume collection chronicling Wilson Pickett's tenure at Atlantic Records.  Pickett released a total of 66 single sides at the label and The Complete Atlantic Singles Vol. 1 collects the first 22 of these.  When Pickett moved to

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys, Diamond Rio, Dusty Springfield, Fanny, Marty Robbins, Mitch Miller, The B-52's, The New Christy Minstrels, Wilson Pickett

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