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Release Round-Up: Week of November 20

November 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Beach Boys Party Uncovered and Unplugged

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up which continues this autumn's tradition of having each week packed with box sets from heavy hitters - in this case, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Queen, Grateful Dead, Frank Sinatra, and they're still not all!  Plus: CD and vinyl reissues, anthologies, and much more! The Beach Boys, Beach Boys' Party: Uncovered and Unplugged (Capitol) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The first disc of this 2-CD, 81-track set features the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Carly Simon, Frank Sinatra, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jo Jo Gunne, John Coltrane, Lee Michaels, Love, Queen, Roger Waters, The Beach Boys, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Timi Yuro, Weather Report

Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die

November 19, 2015 By

Jethro Tull Too Old

Jethro Tull's 1976 LP is expanded to 2-CD/2-DVD form as part of Chrysalis' ongoing book-style series dedicated to the band's albums, including: An unreleased, alternate version of the complete album recorded for a British television special and remixed by Steven Wilson; Bonus tracks (18 previously unreleased), all mixed to 5.1 surround and stereo by Wilson; Flat transfer of the original LP mix on CD and on DVD at 96/24; Commercial debut of footage from the television

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Formats: Box Sets, DVD, DVD-Audio Genre: Classic Rock

Live 1971 and 1973

November 18, 2015 By

Jo Jo Gunne Live

RockBeat brings together Jo Jo Gunne's first ever performance at the Hollywood Palladium from 1971 with a "live in the studio" session from the band in 1973. The booklet for the set features over twenty previously unseen photographs from 1971 and 1972.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock

Coming Through To You: The Live Recordings 1970-2004

November 17, 2015 By

Arthur Lee and Love Coming Through to You

Rockbeat boxes up four discs of live rarities from the late Arthur Lee and Love: Disc 1 for the 1970s (including shows at the Fillmore East and West), Disc 2 for the 1990s, Disc 3 for the 2000s, and Disc 4 (entitled "A Fan's View") rounding up performances between 1977 and 1994.  Each volume is housed in an individual sleeve, and a 16-page booklet boasts liner notes from journalist David Fricke, The Doors' Robby Krieger and Baby Lemonade's Mike Randle (who joined Lee in later iterations of

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Heighty Hi: The Best of Lee Michaels

November 17, 2015 By

Heighty Hi The Best of Lee Michaels

This new 20-song compilation collects the best of Lee Michaels' A&M Records recordings originally released between 1968-1973, including his 1971 Top 10 hit single "Do You Know What I Mean" and the FM radio favorite "Heighty Hi." All of the tracks have been remastered from the original master tapes, and an 8-page booklet adds comprehensive liner notes and quotes from the artist.  This single-disc anthology also serves as a companion to Manifesto's 7-CD box set The Complete A&M Album

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

The Complete A&M Album Collection

November 17, 2015 By

Lee Michaels The Complete AM Album Collection

The music of Lee Michaels ("Do You Know What I Mean," "Heighty Hi") returns on Manifesto's splendid new 7-CD box set reissuing his long-out-of-print, complete A&M albums!  Each title is housed in a digipak replicating the original vinyl presentation, and a 40-page booklet with vintage memorabilia reproductions and copious new liner notes for each album is also included within the slipcase!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

From the Vault: Roundhay Park - Live in Leeds 1982

November 16, 2015 By

Rolling Stones Live in Leeds

The Rolling Stones' latest From the Vault release comes from the band's performance at Roundhay Park in Leeds, England on July 25, 1982 - the final show to feature Ian Stewart on piano.  The footage has been restored and the sound has been newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this first official release. Available in various formats iincluding DVD/2CD, Standard Definition BD/2CD and DVD/3 LP. SD-BD/2-CD: Amazon U.S. DVD/2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD/3-LP: Amazon U.K. DVD: Amazon

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

A Night At The Odeon

November 16, 2015 By

Queen A Night at the Odeon

Queen's December 24, 1975 performance at London's Hammersmith Odeon is captured on a new release available in a variety of formats including CD, Standard Definition BD, DVD, CD/DVD, CD/SD-BD, vinyl LP, and Super Deluxe Edition. Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Standard Definition BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. CD/SD-BD: Amazon U.K. CD/DVD: Amazon U.K. The Super Deluxe box set features: * 1 CD, 1 SD

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

The Complete Matrix Tapes

November 16, 2015 By

Velvet Underground Matrix Tapes Cover

UMe delivers the second major Velvet Underground release this fall with The Complete Matrix Tapes.  In 1969, The Velvet Underground played a residency at San Francisco club The Matrix, and performances from these shows were recorded on a tape deck by guitarist Robert Quine. Now, for the first time, the tapes are being released in full on 4 CDs.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of November 13

November 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Aretha Atlantic Albums Collection Cover

It may be Friday the 13th, but today's choice releases are hardly scary, with box sets, archival releases, new music from veteran artists, and much, much more! Aretha Franklin, The Atlantic Albums Collection (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 19-CD box set brings together 16 of the Queen of Soul's Atlantic albums as previously released on CD including the deluxe 2-CD Live at Fillmore East, the 2-CD Rare & Unreleased Recordings From The Golden Reign Of The Queen Of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: A Tribe Called Quest, Aretha Franklin, Buck Owens, Ellie Greenwich, Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne's ELO, King Crimson, Kurt Cobain, Marvin Gaye, Nat King Cole, Neil Young, Paul Butterfield, Paul Davis, The Knickerbockers, The Staple Singers

Archives Vol. 1

November 11, 2015 By

America Archives

America opens up its vaults for the first volume of an Archive series featuring demos, rehearsals and alternate versions of familiar hits like "Ventura Highway," "I Need You," "Sister Golden Hair" and "A Horse with No Name" among other rarities from the period of 1971-1975. 1. Ventura Highway (Alternate Mix - The Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA, 1972) 2. Daisy Jane (Rehearsal The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 1975) 3. It's Life (Alternate Mix - The Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA, 1973) 4.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

More Than "Lies": Sundazed Collects The Knickerbockers' "Challenge Recordings" On New Box Set

November 11, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Knickerbockers Challenge

"Eighty tracks from a band with exactly one hit single?"  That's the question Sundazed Records is posing of its soon-to-be-released box set from The Knickerbockers.  The hitmakers behind the British Invasion-esque "Lies" will be celebrated by Sundazed with the 4-CD, 80-track box The Challenge Recordings.  It's due in stores this Friday, November 13. The Top 20 hit "Lies" - and seminal inclusion in the original Nuggets - is just one of the tracks on this collection.  Brothers Beau and John

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Knickerbockers

Slowhand at 70: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

November 9, 2015 By

Eric Clapton Slowhand at 70

In May 2015, Eric Clapton performed his 200th concert at London's Royal Albert Hall fifty years after his first performance there with The Yardbirds. Throughout his seven-night run, Clapton played both vintage blues songs and his own rock classics and Eric Clapton classics; this release commemorates these landmark shows. Available on 2-CD/DVD, 2-CD/BD (not available in the U.K.), 3-LP/DVD, standalone DVD and BD (U.K. only), and a deluxe 2-CD/2-DVD book-style edition adding a bonus DVD of Clapton

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock

Review: Bob Dylan, "The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Volume 12"

November 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Dylan Best of Cutting Edge

I. Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan On Wednesday, January 13, 1965, Bob Dylan recorded "Love Minus Zero/No Limit," destined to become the fourth track on the first side of the troubadour's fifth studio album, Bringing It All Back Home.  The album, released on March 25, would effectively alter the course of both Dylan's career and of pop music itself, featuring one electric side and one acoustic side.  When he "plugged in" at the Newport Folk Festival months later on July 25 to the sound

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, The Band

Review: Beatles, "Beatles 1+" (Various Editions)

November 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 20 Comments

Beatles 1 Plus CD 2 BD

Yeah, yeah, yeah! That's the only logical response to the release of Beatles 1+, the modestly-named collection available today in a host of audio, video and combined formats.  By presenting a newly-remixed and remastered edition of the familiar Beatles 1 album with a collection of remarkably-restored short films and video clips for each song (numbering 27 for the standard editions and 50 for the deluxe editions), also in newly-mixed 2.0 stereo and 5.1 surround sound, 1+ offers an

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beatles

Release Round-Up: Week of November 6

November 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Dylan Best of Cutting Edge

This week's Release Round-Up brings the year's most eagerly-anticipated box set, a stunning new collection from the Fab Four, a Christmas feast including two titles from Second Disc Records, and more! Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series: Volume 12 - The Cutting Edge (Columbia/Legacy) The Best of the Cutting Edge 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Best of the Cutting Edge 3-LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Cutting Edge 6-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Cutting Edge: Collector's

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Bobby Vinton, Glen Campbell, Jim Nabors, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Mathis, King Crimson, Lynn Anderson, New Order, Ronnie Spector, The Alan Parsons Project, The Beatles, The Four Seasons, The Living Voices, Yes

G-L-O-R-I-OUS: Legacy Announces New Set Featuring Van Morrison's Complete Recordings with Them

November 5, 2015 By Randy Fairman 6 Comments

Complete Them

It has been a pretty big year for Van Morrison, both with new recordings and reissues.  At the beginning of 2015, he released his latest studio effort, Duets- Re-Working the Catalogue.  In August, it was announced that Sony/Legacy Recordings had acquired the rights to the majority of his catalogue.  The label quickly released an Essential volume and put 33 albums up on digital services with the promise of more projects to come.  Then, just last week, Rhino released expanded editions of two of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Them, Van Morrison

Tusk: Deluxe Edition

November 2, 2015 By

Fleetwood Mac Tusk

Rhino expands Fleetwood Mac's 1979 magnum opus as a 5-CD/1-DVD-A/2-LP Deluxe Edition box set or a 3-CD Expanded Edition, while also offering a single-CD remastered edition of the original album only.  Full details can be found here! Deluxe Edition box set: Amazon U.S. /Amazon U.K. Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album Remastered Edition: Amazon U.S. /Amazon U.K.

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

Our Big Record Store Day Black Friday Round-Up Featuring McCartney, Bowie, Wilson, Queen, Ronstadt, More

October 30, 2015 By Randy Fairman 12 Comments

Paul McCartney Say Say Say

Over the past couple of weeks, we've told you about the 2015 Black Friday Record Store Day offerings from Legacy, Omnivore and Real Gone Music.  Well, the full list of releases which are coming out on November 27 has been announced and we've got the details below including new titles from Rhino, Varese Sarabande, Hear Music and more! The entire list is over 125 items long, so we've just highlighted some entries below in which you might be interested.  The full listing can be seen at

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Brian Wilson, Garbage, Janis Joplin, Linda Ronstadt, Otis Redding, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Queen, The Kinks, The Zombies, Wes Montgomery

Honey Hi: Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" Deluxe Box Set Due In December

October 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Tusk

Those aren't just rumo(u)rs!  After one week of premature reporting all around the 'net, Rhino has confirmed the long-awaited news this morning: Fleetwood Mac's 1979 magnum opus Tusk is coming in a 5-CD/1-DVD/2-LP Deluxe Edition, a 3-CD Expanded Edition and a 1-CD remaster on December 4! Reportedly the most expensive rock album ever made, the sprawling, 20-track double album followed up the record-shattering success of Rumours and confounded observers expecting another collection of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD-Audio Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Fleetwood Mac

Call Him The Space Cowboy: Steve Miller Band's Live "Joker" Gets Wide Release From Edsel

October 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Steve Miller Band Joker Live

The Edsel label has recently continued its association with the catalogue of the Steve Miller Band with the first wide release of 2014's The Joker - Live in Concert. Miller commented in 2014 of the release, "When several friends and colleagues reminded me that it was the 40th birthday of the Joker album, I smiled--and started playing the whole album's songs live again.  And at the end of the last tour realized we had a great new record that we wanted to share with our fans. We hope you like

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Steve Miller Band

Fragile (CD/Blu-ray)

October 25, 2015 By

Yes Fragile

Fragile is the fourth in a series of remixed and expanded Yes Classics. The classic original album has been remixed for 5. 1 Surround Sound from the original multi-track masters by Steven Wilson and is fully approved by Yes. The CD features a completely new stereo album mix by Wilson plus bonus tracks.  The all-region Blu-ray has 5.1 PCM Surround Sound and High Resolution Stereo mixes in 96/24 and in DTS-HD MA 5. 1.  The Blu-ray also features the original album mix in a high resolution flat

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, DVD-Audio Genre: Classic Rock

Octopus (CD/Blu-ray Audio)

October 25, 2015 By

Gentle Giant Octopus

Originally released in 1972, Octopus is Gentle Giant's fourth album, and features Gary Green (guitars, percussion), Kerry Minnear (keyboards, vibraphone, percussion, cello, vocals), Derek Shulman (vocals, alto saxophone), Phil Shulman (saxophones, trumpet, mellophone, vocals), Ray Shulman (bass violin, guitar, percussion, vocals) and John Weathers (drums, percussion, xylophone). Remix engineer extraordinaire Steven Wilson has remixed the original album as well as a bonus mix of 15-minute concert

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Thrak [Limited Edition Box Set]

October 25, 2015 By

King Crimson Thrak

1995's Thrak arrives as the tenth release in the King Crimson 40th Anniversary series.  The first full album to feature the 'Double Trio' incarnation of the group, Thrak is being expanded to a whopping 16 (!) discs: 12 CDs, 1 DVD-A, 1 DVD & 2 Blu-ray discs, featuring studio & live recordings, many previously unreleased, from the earliest band rehearsals to their final gathering in Nashville in 1997. 

In addition, much of the material is presented in new 5.1 Surround & Hi-Resolution

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

The Challenge Recordings

October 23, 2015 By

Knickerbockers Challenge

Tracing the stylistic development of The Knickerbockers from their garage-rock roots through psychedelic explorations and beyond, the 4-CD, 80-track box set The Challenge Recordings presents the albums and singles recorded for the label plus never-before-released material including demos discovered in the vaults of 4-Star Publishing as well as songs from Beau Charles' personal collection of acetates.  Content from these personal scrapbooks has been reprinted in the 40-page book which accompanies

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

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