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Let There Be More Light: Pink Floyd Launches New Vinyl Reissue Campaign

May 6, 2016 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Pink Floyd Piper LP

As one of the most iconic bands in rock history, Pink Floyd has a had a long and storied career from their 1967 debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn all the way through to 2014's The Endless River.  Along the way they've also released live albums, compilations and, of course, reissues.  The last major reissue campaign for the band came in 2011 with their Why Pink Floyd line which included three levels of releases from straight album reissues to deluxe album "Immersion" box set editions of The

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

Release Round-Up: Week of May 6

May 6, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

The Cars Moving in Stereo

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring Second Disc Records' very first title of 2016, plus more fantastic releases from our partners at Real Gone Music and titles from Brian Wilson, The Cars, and more! Bobby Darin, Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We know that you all know about this one...it's the ultimate celebration of Bobby Darin's time at Motown Records on 2 CDs, newly remastered from the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bobby Darin, Brian Wilson, Cactus, Cannonball Adderley, Cyndi Lauper, Dan Fogelberg, Grateful Dead, Johnny Paycheck, Ryan Adams, The Beau Brummels, The Cars, The Move, The Rides, The Staple Singers

The Many "Sides" Of Anthony Phillips: Esoteric Expands Genesis Guitarist's Albums in Stereo, Surround

May 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Anthony Phillips Wise

Esoteric Recordings has continued its series of definitive reissues from Genesis members Anthony Phillips, Tony Banks and Steve Hackett with two new mini-box sets dedicated to Phillips' solo albums Wise After the Event (1978) and Sides (1979). These 3-CD/1-DVD-A releases follow Esoteric's 2015 box set expansion of his pastoral solo debut The Geese and the Ghost as well as the label's compendium of his Private Parts and Pieces volumes. Wise After the Event remains Phillips' only album on which

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD-Audio Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Anthony Phillips, Genesis

Wild Nights: Legacy Expands Van Morrison's "It's Too Late to Stop Now"

May 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Van Morrison Its Too Late to Stop Now Volumes II

Following last year's releases of The Essential Van Morrison and The Complete Them 1964-1967, Legacy Recordings continues to mine the Van Morrison back catalogue with the June 10 releases of the remastered 2-CD or 2-LP It's Too Late to Stop Now and the 3-CD/1-DVD box set It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volumes II, III, IV & DVD. It's Too Late to Stop Now, of course, is Morrison's 1974 double album with his Caledonia Soul Orchestra, capturing concert recordings from his May to July 1973 tour

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Van Morrison

Think Again: Ace Revisits, Expands Elektra Psych Rock Classic "Clear Light"

May 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Clear Light Clear Light

Clear Light only released one album, but the psychedelic rockers' 1967 album remains a definitive statement of the genre as well as a highlight of the classic Elektra Records catalogue.  Featuring future CSNY drummer Dallas Taylor, future Utopia keyboardist Ralph Schuckett and Doors session bassist Doug Lubahn, Clear Light left behind a small but vibrant discography of pure California rock.  Ace's Big Beat imprint has recently revisited the self-titled Clear Light in an impressive new edition

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Clear Light

Even The Nights Are Better: Real Gone's June Slate Features Petula Clark, Air Supply, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Fairport Convention, More

April 29, 2016 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Petula Clark Natural Love

With spring having just begun, it might be hard to believe that summer is going to be here before we know it.  But the year marches on and Real Gone Music is kicking off the summer with its June 3rd  slate of titles.  As per usual with the label, there are a wide variety of genres being represented, including one that Real Gone has never dipped into before. We'll begin with the two titles that feature liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese.  The first is a collection from sixties British

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Air Supply, Fairport Convention, Grateful Dead, Loudon Wainwright III, Maynard Ferguson, Petula Clark, The D.O.C., The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

The Traveling Wilburys [Various Formats]

April 29, 2016 By

Traveling Wilburys

Concord Bicycle has a straight reissue of The Traveling Wilburys Collection, a multi-disc audiovisual box set that gathers expansions of both Wilburys albums, Vol. 1 (1988) and Vol. 3 (1990) with bonus video content. As with the original Rhino Records release in 2007, the box will be available as a standard 2CD/1DVD set; a deluxe, numbered edition; a vinyl box set (including three extended versions that were otherwise unavailable) and hi-res download options. Amazon U.S.: 2CD/1DVD Standard

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

Release Round-Up: Week of April 29

April 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rock Hall Live Volume One

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Here Today: The Songs of Brian Wilson (Vinyl) (Ace) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Ace brings its acclaimed 2015 Here Today: The Songs of Brian Wilson compilation to 180-gram white vinyl in a slimmed-down form (12 tracks vs. 25 on the CD) with all of Ace's deluxe hallmarks of packaging and annotation!  The album features Darian Sahanaja of The Brian Wilson Band and The Wondermints along with Kirsty MacColl, Carmen

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Bad Company, Barbara Dickson, Brian Wilson, Cream, Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, Linda Ronstadt, Various Artists

Now More Than Ever: Chicago Collects Early Albums in Surround, Stereo on Blu-ray Audio Box

April 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese 32 Comments

Chicago Quadio

A massive new box set is coming your way from new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Chicago - and this surprise release is one sure to delight longtime fans. Chicago: Quadio arrives on June 17 from Rhino Records on nine Blu-ray Audio discs.  This landmark release 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.  This lavish celebration of the Windy City's favorite band is

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

Everybody's In Show-Biz: Legacy Edition

April 27, 2016 By

The Kinks Everybodys In Showbiz

Legacy expands The Kinks' 1972 classic Everybody's In Show-Biz to a 2-CD Legacy Edition.  The studio/live hybrid album gains a full disc's worth of previously unissued studio outtakes (recorded at London's Morgan Studios) and concert material (recorded March 2-3, 1972 during The Kinks' Carnegie Hall concert stand).  The Legacy Edition will also be released on vinyl with an abridged selection of bonus tracks.

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

Lumpy Money

April 27, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Lumpy Money

UMe/Zappa Records returns 2008's Lumpy Money "Project/Object" deluxe edition - celebrating Frank Zappa's seminal albums Lumpy Gravy and We're Only In It for the Money - to print in a wide-release edition.  The set features 72 tracks on 3 CDs, as well as liner notes by David Fricke and the late Gail Zappa.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of April 22

April 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Best of the Impressions

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Impressions, The Best of The Impressions: The Curtom Years (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Varese Vintage has an impressive line-up of releases this week!  First up, the label has brought together 18 prime cuts from the premier purveyors of Chicago soul, Curtis Mayfield and the legendary Impressions. This set features singles released on the Curtom label between 1968 and 1976 including the R&B hits "Fool for

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Bill Evans, Doris Day, Earth Wind and Fire, Eric Carmen, Jethro Tull, Marvin Hamlisch, Sandy Denny, The Impressions

Bang The Drum All Day: Edsel Reissues Todd Rundgren's "For Lack of Honest Work"

April 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Todd Rundgren For Lack of Honest Work

The new 3-CD, 43-song set of live Todd Rundgren performances from Edsel is entitled For Lack of Honest Work: A Live History 1971-2006, after Todd's song "Honest Work."  But all of his joking with the title aside, Rundgren's career has been all honest work - as he's doubtless remained true to himself through various musical incarnations over the past near-50 years.  This set, the latest fine Rundgren release from the Edsel label, chronicles all of those "Rundgren variations" as captured between

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Handle with Care: Traveling Wilburys Box to Be Reissued in June

April 19, 2016 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Traveling Wilburys

A new business agreement will bring rock supergroup The Traveling Wilburys past the end of the line. The all-star quintet, consisting of George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne, is now represented by Concord Bicycle Music in a worldwide agreement that will include physical and digital reissues of the band's complete back catalogue--including, for the first time, streaming rights across Apple Music, Spotify and others--on June 3, as exclusively reported by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty

Release Round-Up: Week of April 15

April 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Metallica Ride the Lightning

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Phil Collins, No Jacket Required and Testify: Deluxe Editions (Atlantic/Rhino) No Jacket Required 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada No Jacket Required LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Testify 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Testify LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Phil Collins' No Jacket Required, originally released in 1985 and still the artist's most commercially successful album,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Carly Simon, Foghat, Frank Sinatra, Graham Nash, Metallica, Phil Collins, Santana, Various Artists

Maximum Consumption: Legacy Expands The Kinks' "Everybody's In Showbiz"

April 13, 2016 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

The Kinks Everybodys In Showbiz

The Kinks' tenth studio album, 1972's double LP Everybody's in Showbiz, is about to get the Legacy Edition treatment from Sony's Legacy Recordings.  On June 3, the classic studio/live hybrid album will be reissued along with a full disc's worth of previously unissued studio outtakes (recorded at London's Morgan Studios) and concert material (recorded March 2-3, 1972 during The Kinks' Carnegie Hall concert stand). Often seen as a transitional album pointing the way towards

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

Saturday On My Mind: Varese Has Easybeats, Moody Blues, "Dark Shadows" and More For Record Store Day

April 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Easybeats Good Friday

Vampires! Dragons! Keanu Reeves! Plus two revered pop-rock classics: Varese Sarabande has a little bit of everything on its five-title Record Store Day slate arriving this Saturday, April 16, in finer independent stores everywhere. Record Store Day may take place on a Saturday, but thanks to The Easybeats, it's a Good Friday. Varese has the first-ever U.S. release of the Australian band's debut U.K. album originally issued on United Artists Records.  Good Friday was issued in the U.S. as

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: John Powell, Record Store Day, Robert Cobert, The Easybeats, The Moody Blues

Live in Concert 1977 & 1979

April 6, 2016 By

Bad Company Live

This 2-CD set from the original line-up of Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell includes more than two-and-half hours of unreleased music, all culled from 24-track tapes in the band's archives. Live in Concert 1977 & 1979 boasts two previously unreleased concerts, with one additional bonus track taken from the group's June 26, 1979 show in Washington, DC.   The first disc captures the band's May 23, 1977 show at the Summit House in Houston, Texas, recorded during the tour

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock

Pure McCartney

April 6, 2016 By

Pure McCartney

Paul tells his own musical story on this new personally-curated, non-chronologically-sequenced collection drawing on his solo and Wings work.  It's available in 4-CD (67 tracks), 4-LP (41 tracks) and 2-CD (39 tracks) formats, and features material spanning between 1970's homemade McCartney through 2014's "Hope for the Future," featured on the Destiny video game.

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

Feel Like Makin' Love: Rhino Readies Live Bad Company For April

April 6, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bad Company Live

More Bad Company is on the way from Rhino! On April 29, the label will release the band's first-ever official live album: Live in Concert 1977 & 1979.  This 2-CD set from the original line-up of Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell includes more than two-and-half hours of unreleased music, all culled from 24-track tapes in the band's archives. The label notes that the "music heard on this live collection features absolutely no enhancements or overdubs, nothing but the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bad Company

Review: Stealers Wheel on Vinyl: "Stealers Wheel" and "Ferguslie Park"

April 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Stealers Wheel LP

Intervention Records launched in 2015 with a simple mission statement: "To provide archive-quality LPs of music we love," with the goal that "each record we do must be the single definitive, final version of that album, the one real music lovers will seek out."  Happily, the label's early releases have all more than lived up to those lofty goals!  The first two albums from Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan's Stealers Wheel might not have been the most expected titles for vinyl reissue in 2016, but

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Gerry Rafferty, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Stealers Wheel

RPM Is "Looking Stateside" with Sons of Champlin, Knickerbockers, Joe Tex, Chuck Jackson, More

April 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Looking Stateside

Cherry Red's RPM Records label has been doing a lot of Looking with its series of themed mini-box sets dedicated to such pop subgenres as freakbeat, mod, and girl group soul.  The latest set in the Looking series, established in 2011, is Looking Stateside.  This volume is dedicated to U.S. R&B Mod, Soul and Garage Nuggets, and contains 80 such selections on its three packed CDs.  Though limited to American recordings, the focus is otherwise diverse.  As the compilers explain in the thick

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Chuck Jackson, Joe Tex, The Knickerbockers, The Sons of Champlin, Timi Yuro, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of April 1

April 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Go Gos Vacation

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Go-Go's, Beauty and the Beat / Vacation / Talk Show: Deluxe Editions (Edsel) Beauty and the Beat: Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vacation: Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Talk Show: Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Edsel has expanded editions of the three classic albums by The Go-Go's originally released between 1982 and 1984.  While none of the bonus material here is unreleased, these reissues do serve

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bill Wyman, Earth Wind and Fire, Martha and the Vandellas, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, The Go-Go's, The Miracles, The Replacements, The Supremes, Todd Rundgren

Listen To What The Man Said: "Pure McCartney" Career-Spanning Box Arrives In June

March 31, 2016 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Pure McCartney

Paul McCartney has just announced a new, solo career-spanning anthology.  On June 10, Pure McCartney will arrive in 4-CD (67 tracks), 4-LP (41 tracks) and 2-CD (39 tracks) formats.  This non-chronologically sequenced compilation draws on solo and Wings material from 1970's homemade McCartney through 2014's "Hope for the Future," featured on the Destiny video game.  The collection, curated by the legendary artist, includes both familiar hits and lesser-known album tracks as well as material from

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Paul McCartney, Wings

Paint It Black: RPM Collects The Tomcats' Raw Sixties Rock On "Running at Shadows"

March 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tomcats Running at Shadows

Collectors of rare psychedelia likely know the band July and its self-titled 1968 album on the Major Minor label featuring "My Clown," "Dandelion Seeds," and "The Way."  But few remember that the psych cult heroes of July began their career as members of The Tomcats.  Cherry Red's RPM label has recently collected the Ealing band's rare Spanish EPs, plus previously unreleased tracks, on Running at Shadows: The Spanish Recordings 1965-66. Tom Newman (lead vocals), Peter Cook (guitar), Alan

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Tomcats

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