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Release Round-Up: Week of June 17

June 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Chicago Quadio

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Chicago, Quadio (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD / Amazon Canada) This week's biggest and most hotly-anticipated release, Chicago's Quadio, brings together nine albums from the legendary band in remastered high-resolution 192/24 DTS-HD Master Audio in both their original quadraphonic and stereo mixes on nine Blu-ray discs.  This lavish celebration of the Windy City's favorite band is housed in a rigid two-piece box, with every album

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Chicago, Grace Jones, John Phillips, Keith Emerson, The Kingbees, Toni Braxton

Release Round-Up: Week of June 10

June 10, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Pet Sounds 50

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, with some of the most high-profile releases yet for 2016! The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds 50 (Various Editions) (Capitol/UMe) 4-CD/1-BD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD Deluxe Edition (CD 1 + highlights from 4-CD set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mono 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Stereo 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Beach

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Allen Toussaint, Charlie Faye and the Fayettes, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Coltrane, Kris Kristofferson, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison

Moving On: Esoteric Expands The Move's "Something Else" and "Looking On"

June 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

The Move Looking on

Esoteric Recordings has recently continued its series of Move reissues with expanded editions of the band's 1968 EP Something Else from The Move, and its 1970 studio album Looking On. Something Else began life as a 5-track mono EP culled from performances at London's Marquee Club on February 27 and May 5, 1968.  Between those two gigs, bassist Chris "Ace" Kefford had departed the group's roster, leaving it a four-piece consisting of Carl Wayne on vocals, Roy Wood on guitar/vocals, Trevor

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, The Move

Tutti Frutti! Little Richard Is Back On New "Mono Box"

June 7, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Little Richard Mono Box

Here's Little Richard!  Specialty Records is celebrating the career of the rock and roll pioneer with the July 15 release of Mono Box: The Complete Specialty and Vee-Jay Albums.  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 notes by Bill

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Little Richard

Just For a Thrill: Edsel Offers Third Box Set From Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings

June 7, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bill Wymans Rhythm Kings Volume 3

Edsel has continued its series of mini-box sets dedicated to Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings with a recently-released third volume.  The Kings of Rhythm Volume 3: Tell You a Secret collects four albums originally issued between 2003 and 2011 by the legendary Rolling Stones bassist's rhythm-and-blues-rock big band.  This new box follows previous releases in the label's Bill Wyman's Recording Archive series including White Lightnin': The Solo Box and The Complete Willie and the Poor Boys. The first

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bill Wyman, The Rolling Stones

Sea Level/Long Walk Off a Short Pier

June 6, 2016 By

Sea Level Long Walk Two Fer

Back in 2013, Real Gone reissued Sea Level's second (1977's Cats on the Coast) and third (1978's On the Edge) albums on a single CD.  Now they are following that up with a twofer of the southern rockers' first and fourth efforts: Sea Level/Long Walk Off A Short Pier.  Sea Level grew out of the breakup of the Allman Brothers band in 1976.  Brothers band members pianist/keyboardist/vocalist Chuck Leavell, bassist Lamar Williams and drummer Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson decided to strike out on

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

The Definitive Collection

June 6, 2016 By

Survivor The Definitive Collection

After The Ides of March went on hiatus in 1973, lead singer/guitarist Jim Peterik had to find a new direction.  He released a solo album on Epic in 1976 but soon decided to form a new group.  Recruiting bassist Dennis Keith Johnson, drummer Gary Smith, singer Dave Bickler and guitarist Frankie Sullivan, Survivor was born.  Though the group would undergo numerous line-up changes over the years, their status as pop-rock titans was never in doubt. The 2-CD Definitive Collection features 35 tracks

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Review: The Kinks, "Everybody's in Show-Biz: Legacy Edition"

June 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

The Kinks Everybodys In Showbiz

When Kinks bio-musical Sunny Afternoon took home the 2015 Olivier Award for Best Musical, it must surely have been a sweet moment for composer-lyricist and band frontman Ray Davies, whose concept albums and rock operas have long bore the hallmarks of strong theatrical storytelling.  (He's also written a handful of musicals over the years.)  By the time of 1972's Everybody's In Show-Biz, Davies was already pushing the envelope of his quintessentially British sound, incorporating rootsy American

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Kinks

Release Round-Up: Week of June 3

June 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Very Best of The Happenings

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up...it's one of the year's most eclectic yet, with heavy hitters from Pink Floyd to Petula Clark...including releases from The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Edgar Winter and more! Petula Clark, Natural Love: The Scotti Brothers Recordings (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In the early years of the 1980s, Petula Clark was signed to the Scotti Brothers label in the U.S. and starring in a revival of The Sound of Music

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: 10000 Maniacs, Air Supply, David Bowie, Edgar Winter, Fairport Convention, Gary Burton, Loudon Wainwright III, Paul Simon, Petula Clark, Pink Floyd, The D.O.C., The Happenings, The Kinks, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Traveling Wilburys

Milk And Honeyland: Esoteric Reissues Nick Mason-Produced "Round One" From Principal Edwards

June 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Principal Edwards Round One

Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has just rocketed into the orbit of Pink Floyd with the first time expanded U.K. reissue of Round One from the band Principal Edwards.  The 1974 Deram album from Belinda Bourquin (keyboard/violin/recorder/vocal), Root Cartwright (guitar/mandolin), Richard Jones (bass/vocals), David Jones (bongos/congas/percussion), Nick Pallet (lead vocals/guitar) and Geoff Nicholls (drums/percussion) was produced by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason. Principal Edwards emerged

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd, Principal Edwards

Eat a Peach: Massive Allman Brothers Band Vinyl Box Due This Summer

May 31, 2016 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Allman Brothers Vinyl Box

The Allman Brothers Band are remastering their breakthrough albums from the first decade of their career for a sprawling vinyl box set and hi-res download campaign this summer. Macon, Georgia's finest--founded in Jacksonville, Florida by brothers Duane (on slide guitar) and Gregg Allman (on vocals and keyboard), lead guitarist Dickey Betts, bassist Berry Oakley and drummers Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson--blended Southern rock and country with a jam-band approach in concert,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Allman Brothers Band

Release Round-Up: Week of May 27

May 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Monkees Good Times

Hey! Hey! Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Monkees, Good Times (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Good Times sure lives up to its name, and then some!  Here's a new Monkees album featuring Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith and the late Davy Jones, produced by Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger and featuring a slew of exciting new songs by Schlesinger, Noel Gallagher, Rivers Cuomo, Ben Gibbard, and Andy Partridge alongside newly-completed recordings

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Bob Marley, Edie Brickell, Frank Zappa, Lerner and Loewe, Miles Davis, Robert Glasper, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Steve Martin, The Monkees, The Muffs, The Wailers

La-La Means I Love You: The Delfonics, Survivor, Brook Benton and Sea Level Join Eddy Arnold On Real Gone's July Slate

May 26, 2016 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Delfonics 40 Classic Soul Sides

Yesterday we told you about Second Disc Records' and Real Gone Music's July 1 release of Eddy Arnold's Chet Atkins and Lee Hazlewood albums from 1970 and now we've got the news of the rest of Real Gone's line-up for right before Independence Day. First up is a compilation featuring notes by our very own Joe Marchese:  40 Classic Soul Sides from The Delfonics.  When Stan Watson introduced a group (including brothers William and Wilbert Hart and Randy Cain) he was managing to a young Thom Bell

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Brook Benton, Clint Eastwood, Eddy Arnold, Grateful Dead, Patty Duke, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Sea Level, Survivor, The Delfonics, The Electric Prunes, The Tubes, Thom Bell

Quadio

May 25, 2016 By

Chicago Quadio

Chicago: Quadio brings together nine albums from the legendary band in remastered high-resolution 192/24 DTS-HD Master Audio in both their original quadraphonic and stereo mixes on nine Blu-ray discs.  This lavish celebration of the Windy City's favorite band is housed in a rigid two-piece box, with every album presented in a replica sleeve promised to "replicate the original release down to the last detail, including mini-posters, and the iron-on that came with Chicago VIII." Albums

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Release Round-Up: Week of May 20

May 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

ChangesOneBowie

Welcome to this week's packed Release Round-Up! David Bowie, ChangesOneBowie (Parlophone/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 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

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Adam & The Ants, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Dave Grusin, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, Marvin Hamlisch, Mudcrutch, The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson

Walk On The Wild Side: Lou Reed's "RCA and Arista Album Collection" Arrives in October

May 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

lou reed rock animal3

Lou Reed's last project is finally seeing release this fall...and it may well be the last word on a major chunk of the late, influential singer-songwriter's career.  Rolling Stone reports that The RCA and Arista Album Collection is due on October 7 from Legacy Recordings.  This set spans sixteen albums and seventeen compact discs encompassing Reed's solo output from 1972-1986 - including such key LPs as the David Bowie-produced Transformer, Berlin and the controversial Metal Machine

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Lou Reed

All-Time Greatest Hits

May 16, 2016 By

Mitch Ryder All Time Greatest Hits

Varese Vintage has 16 prime cuts of Motor City-style blue-eyed soul via Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels! This collection (remastered by Steve Massie) features the original mono single versions of "Devil with a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly," "Sock it to Me, Baby" and "(You've Got) Personality/Chantilly Lace" plus other hits like "Jenny Take a Ride" and "Little Latin Lupe Lu."  In addition, you'll find three Mitch Ryder solo songs - and every track was produced, arranged and conducted by

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Got a Mind to Give Up Living - Live 1966

May 13, 2016 By

Paul Butterfield Got a Mind to Give Up Living

Real Gone Music releases, for the first time in legitimate fashion, a legendary bootleg that captures The Paul Butterfield Blues Band live at Boston's Unicorn Coffee House 50 years ago in May 1966, two months before the release of the group's landmark East-West.  Chris Morris' new liner notes feature fresh quotes from Elvin Bishop and Mark Naftalin, rare pictures and memorabilia, and editorial input from Mike Bloomfield aficionado and co-producer Toby Byron.  Mike Milchner has remastered the

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Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of May 13

May 13, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Grateful Dead Red Rocks 7 8 78

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Linda Ronstadt, Frenesi (Remastered Edition) (Elektra/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Linda Ronstadt's 1992 Spanish-language album Frenesi returns to CD in a newly-remastered edition with no additional content.  Consider this an appetizer for the upcoming expanded remaster of Trio! Allen Toussaint, The Complete Warner Recordings (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino has a reissue of its 2003

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Allen Toussaint, Grateful Dead, Henry Mancini, Linda Ronstadt, Miles Davis, The Blind Boys of Alabama

It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volume 1

May 12, 2016 By

Van Morrison Its Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison's classic 1974 live double album recorded in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and London gets the remastered treatment, while three CDs of additional material from the concerts is available as a stand-alone release.

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

It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volumes II, III, IV & DVD

May 12, 2016 By

Van Morrison Its Too Late to Stop Now Volumes II

Legacy revisits Van Morrison's seminal 1974 double live album with this release of additional material.  The CDs ofVolumes II-IV collect previously unreleased concert recordings from the dates that yielded the original album, while the DVD contains professionally-shot footage from the Rainbow Theatre stand which originally aired on the BBC in the U.K. but has never before been commercially available.  The original It's Too Late was compiled by Morrison and co-producer Ted Templeman from eight

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

Mirage [Various Editions]

May 12, 2016 By

Fleetwood Mac Mirage

Fleetwood Mac's 1982 chart-topping album featuring "Hold Me" and "Gypsy" arrives from Rhino/Warner Bros. in a variety of formats: Deluxe Edition (3 CD/1 DVD/1 LP): Original album remastered, plus a disc of B-sides and rarities; the original album on vinyl; a disc of live performances; and a new 5.1 mix on DVD Expanded Edition (2 CD): Original album remastered, plus a disc of B-sides and rarities Remastered Edition (1 CD): Original album, remastered 3-CD/1-DVD/1-LP Deluxe Edition:

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

It's Not Just A "Mirage": Fleetwood Mac Classic Gets Expanded To Box Set, More

May 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Mirage

On the heels of last year's deluxe box set of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Warner Bros. Records has just announced the legendary band's Mirage will be next to get the lavish treatment.  On July 29, the label will unveil the 1982 chart-topping smash in a variety of physical formats: Deluxe Edition (3 CD/1 DVD/1 LP): Original album remastered, plus B-sides and rarities; the original album on vinyl; a disc of live performances; and a 5.1 mix on DVD Expanded Edition (2 CD): Original album

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Fleetwood Mac

Hear The Grass Grow: Esoteric Expands Two From The Move

May 11, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

The Move The Move

The Move has seen no shortage of reissues over the years, but collectors can now finally embrace the definitive editions of the Birmingham band's classic self-titled album and follow-up Shazam! from Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint.  Esoteric has just reissued The Move in a 3-CD edition and Shazam! in a 2-CD expansion, both of which add copious previously unreleased material.  ("Highlights" versions are also available.)  These two titles kick off the Move campaign from Esoteric which

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Carl Wayne, Roy Wood, The Move

Joe Jackson's "I'm the Man" Returns On Vinyl From Intervention Records

May 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Joe Jackson Im the Man

Joe Jackson appears on the cover of his 1979 sophomore album, I'm the Man, as a "spiv": a British term for a peculiar kind of petty criminal "always trying to sell you a watch or something like that, real cheap," in the artist's words.  But Jackson didn't have to resort to any cheap come-ons to hawk I'm the Man, a solid follow-up to his impressive debut Look Sharp! which arrived just months after that seminal release.  Despite the quick turnaround, I'm the Man hailed from the same inspired

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Joe Jackson

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