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Release Round-Up: Week of August 7

August 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dusty Come for a Dream

Welcome to another New Release Friday, and today's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, Come for a Dream: The U.K. Sessions 1970-1971  (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Earlier this year, Real Gone released Faithful - a collection of Dusty Springfield's complete sessions with producer-songwriter Jeff Barry, compiled for the first time as originally envisioned on one disc.  Now, the label has turned its attention to Dusty's 1970-1971 London sessions intended for the album See All

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alex North, Ben E. King, Dusty Springfield, Elvis Presley, Georgie Fame, Mike Bloomfield, Robbie Robertson, Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Rush

The Milk of Human Kindness: Esoteric Expands Third and Fourth Procol Harum Albums

August 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Procol Salty Dog

Esoteric Recordings has just continued its series of expanded Procol Harum reissues with A Salty Dog and Home, the band's third and fourth albums as originally released in 1969 and 1970, respectively, on the Regal Zonophone label.  As with Esoteric's reissues of Procol Harum and Shine On Brightly, both titles are available in single- and multiple-disc configurations with bonus tracks culled from past reissues plus previously unreleased material. After initial sessions held in Los Angeles

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Procol Harum

It Might As Well Be Spring: Esoteric Reissues Cult Favorite By Prog Rock Band

August 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Spring Spring

Esoteric Recordings, an imprint of the Cherry Red Group, continues to mine gold for fans of the more progressive sounds coming out of the fertile, late-1960s/early 1970s British music scene. The self-titled 1971 album by Spring (not to be confused with the group of the same name involving Brian Wilson's first wife Marilyn and sister Diane) was the sixth release by the short-lived RCA Neon label.  RCA had established Neon to compete with other prog-minded imprints like EMI's Harvest, Philips'

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Spring

You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975)

August 4, 2015 By

Faces You Can Make Me Dance

This long-awaited 5-CD box set includes Faces' First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse (1971), and Ooh La La (1973), and adds never-before-released bonus tracks to each album.  The set is topped off with a bonus disc containing non-LP selections.  In total, 17 bonus tracks are previously unreleased!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival

August 4, 2015 By

Hendrix Freedom

Legacy and Experience Hendrix have the first commercial release of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's historic set from the July 4, 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival on 2 CDs or 2 vinyl LPs.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Stone Free: The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival" Coming On CD and LP

August 4, 2015 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

Hendrix Freedom

Are you ready to get Experienced, once again?  45 years ago, The Jimi Hendrix Experience played to the largest American audience of its career on the stage of the Atlanta Pop Festival, alongside other artists including The Allman Brothers Band, Mott the Hoople, Procol Harum, Rare Earth, and even a company of Hair!  The now-legendary performance of Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox on July 4, 1970 will be chronicled this fall with a new documentary film and live album.  Legacy Recordings

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Review: Various Artists, "Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson"

August 3, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Here Today The Songs of Brian Wilson

The title of Ace Records' recent collection is Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson, after one of those famous Wilson songs off The Beach Boys' 1966 Pet Sounds.  But the fact of the matter is - as this enjoyably diverse set proves over the course of its 25 tracks - Brian Wilson's music is not only here today, but will be here for many tomorrows. Unlike Ace's 2003 volume Pet Projects: The Brian Wilson Productions, this anthology concentrates on Brian as songwriter.  But there are a couple of

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bobby Vee, Brian Wilson, Carmen McRae, Hugo Montenegro, Jan and Dean, Nick DeCaro, The Beach Boys, The Tokens, Three Dog Night, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of July 31

July 31, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Led Zeppelin Coda SDE

Led Zeppelin, Presence / In Through the Out Door / Coda [Various Editions] (Swan Song/Atlantic) Presence: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. In Through the Out Door: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Cooper, Ashford and Simpson, Led Zeppelin, Ray Parker Jr., The Band, Vince Guaraldi

Together In Perfect Harmony: Paul McCartney's "Tug of War" and "Pipes Of Peace" Join Archive Collection

July 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 33 Comments

Tug of War Deluxe

At last, we can say, say, say it's true: the next two volumes of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection are on their way for October 2 release in a variety of formats.  Macca's second and third albums of the 1980s, the platinum sellers Tug of War and Pipes of Peace, will arrive from Concord Records and MPL with the expected array of bonus material, highlighted by a complete 2015 remix of Tug of War. 1982's Tug of War marked McCartney's first album following the breakup of Wings.  It followed

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder

Celebration Day: Final Led Zeppelin Reissues Arrive TOMORROW, July 31!

July 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Led Zeppelin Presence

REMINDER!  Tomorrow, July 31, marks one month of Friday release days, and it's perhaps the most momentous yet - because tomorrow is when Led Zeppelin will conclude its much-heralded deluxe edition series with a plethora of reissues for its three final studio albums: Presence, In Through the Out Door and Coda.   As with the previous deluxe editions, Presence, In Through The Out Door, and Coda have been newly remastered by Jimmy Page and are accompanied by companion audio

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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 24

July 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Doobie Brothers Warner Years

Today's Release Round-Up features an array of high-resolution music, plus box sets, vintage reissues, live albums and more! Roger Waters, Amused to Death (Remixed Editions) (Columbia/Legacy) Roger Waters revisits his 1992 album Amused to Death, featuring contributions from Don Henley, Rita Coolidge, P.P. Arnold, Andy Fairweather Low and Michael Kamen, in a variety of formats featuring new stereo and 5.1 surround mixes.  Read our full coverage here. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Joe Walsh, Roger Waters, The Doobie Brothers, The Knack, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Various Artists

Return to "Battersea Power Station": Esoteric Reissues Debut of Junior's Eyes, Onetime Bowie Backing Band

July 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Juniors Eyes Battersea

Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has recently unearthed another rock cult classic.  Battersea Power Station, from Junior's Eyes, was produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T Rex) and appeared in June 1969 on EMI's Regal Zonophone label.  Alas, it was to be the band's only original album release.  Esoteric has dusted off Battersea Power Station and reinvigorated the album as a 2-CD set with a bonus disc of singles, demos and sessions, some previously unreleased. Junior's Eyes was led

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Junior's Eyes

Ooh La La! Rhino Boxes Up Expanded Editions Of Faces Albums

July 22, 2015 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Faces You Can Make Me Dance

It's been a long wait, but expanded editions of Faces' four studio albums are finally almost here.  On August 28, Rhino Records will release You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975), a 5-CD box set containing expanded editions of all four LPs by the legendary (and legendarily, happily shambolic) rock-and-roll lineup of Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan, plus a bonus disc. Expanded versions of the small but seminal Faces catalogue were first mooted

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Faces, Rod Stewart

Release Round-Up: Week of July 17

July 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring classic rock, soul and jazz box sets and more! Sly and the Family Stone, Live at the Fillmore East: October 4th and 5th, 1968 (Epic/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Dance to the music!  On October 4th and 5th, 1968, shortly after the release of the band's third album Life, Sly & The Family Stone took the stage for a two-night, four-show engagement at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York City.  Epic Records recorded all four of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: America, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Miles Davis, Sly and the Family Stone, The Continental Drifters

From the Vault: Hyde Park 1969

July 16, 2015 By

Rolling Stones Hyde Park 1969

The Rolling Stones' free concert of July 5, 1969 at London's Hyde Park is the latest to come to the band's From the Vault series - this time in DVD and BD formats. DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD

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Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

The Warner Bros. Years 1971-1983

July 16, 2015 By

Doobie Brothers Warner Years

Rhino boxes up 10 seminal albums by The Doobie Brothers, taking the band from southern rock to blue-eyed soul.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Satisfy Your Soul: RPM Collects Rare Rock and Soul from Larry's Rebels and Ronnie Jones

July 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Larrys Rebels

RPM Records, an imprint of the Cherry Red Group, continues to delve deep into the vaults for another pair of rare rock-and-roll releases. Larry's Rebels has long been a beloved band to fans in the group's native New Zealand; with RPM's release of I Feel Good: The Essential Purple Flashes of Larry's Rebels 1965-1969, the rest of the world can get hip to the Rebels, too!  Active for a rough five-year period during which time the band, like so many others, endured personnel changes, Larry's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Larry's Rebels, Ronnie Jones

Takin' It To the Streets: Rhino Announces 10-CD Doobie Brothers Box Set Collecting 1971-1983 Albums

July 13, 2015 By Randy Fairman 8 Comments

Doobie Brothers Warner Years

Rhino Records is continuing to release complete album box sets of artists in their catalog.  We've recently told you about sets for Chicago, Alice Cooper, and America and the label has just announced another similar box for The Doobie Brothers.  The Warner Bros. Years 1971 -1983 features the band's 10 albums recorded during that period, and it's set to be released in under two weeks on July 24. The core of The Doobie Brothers was formed when drummer John Hartman and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Michael McDonald, The Doobie Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of July 10

July 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Chicago Box Set 2

Welcome to today's Release Round-Up for the first international Friday release date!   Like you, we're still adjusting to the switch from Monday in the U.K./Tuesday in the U.S. to a worldwide Friday date.  Please sound off in the comments below on whether you would like to see us run this longtime feature each Friday, or earlier in the week (so that you may plan ahead for Release Day)! The Hollies, Changin' Times: The Complete Hollies, January '69 - March '73 (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. /

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Chicago, Jane Morgan, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Randy Newman, Shirley Bassey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Hollies, The King Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Van Halen

So What (Hybrid Stereo SACD)

July 9, 2015 By

Joe Walsh So What

Joe Walsh's 1974 solo album comes to hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players) from Audio Fidelity.

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Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock

Live in Hyde Park

July 7, 2015 By

ELO Hyde Park

The music of Electric Light Orchestra lives on!  Jeff Lynne's acclaimed performance in 2014 at London's Hyde Park comes to DVD and Blu-ray in a special edition also containing the documentary film Mr. Blue Sky -The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO.

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

Whiter Shades: Esoteric Kicks Off Deluxe Reissue Campaign For Procol Harum

July 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Procol Harum Procol Harum

Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint is skipping the light fandango with its new reissue campaign dedicated to the classic albums of Procol Harum.  Though these titles have been previously issued on CD before (including recent, now out-of-print deluxe editions from Salvo Music), Esoteric's new editions boast previously unreleased music and other new bonuses as well as copiously-annotated booklets and restored original album artwork.  The first two titles in the series, 1967's Procol Harum

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Procol Harum, Robin Trower

Can't Get It Out Of My Head: Jeff Lynne and ELO's 2014 Hyde Park Concert Gets Fall Release

July 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

ELO Hyde Park

Last September, 50,000 lucky spectators bore witness to Jeff Lynne's return to the concert stage when the Electric Light Orchestra frontman took the stage at London's Hyde Park for the most eagerly-anticipated performance of BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day.  Now, Lynne's performance - backed by his band (including ELO's Richard Tandy) and the BBC Concert Orchestra - is coming to DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats.  On September 11, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Live in Hyde Park preserving

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Digital Download, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne

Live at The Fillmore East: October 4th and 5th, 1968

July 2, 2015 By

Dance to the music!  On October 4th and 5th, 1968, shortly after the release of the band's third album Life, Sly & The Family Stone took the stage for a two-night, four-show engagement at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York City.  Epic Records recorded all four of the band's concerts (two shows per night) with plans to release a live album.  This new box includes all four sets with the group at its funkiest and most exciting!

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

End of the Long, Strange Trip? Final Grateful Dead Reunion Shows Arrive From Rhino in November

June 30, 2015 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well Complete

Over the weekend, the remaining members of the Grateful Dead kicked off their reunion "Fare Thee Well" concerts in Santa Clara, California.  These concerts are billed as the last time that Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart and Bob Weir will perform under the name of the Grateful Dead.  The final three highly-anticipated shows begin on July 3 at Soldier Field in Chicago.  Rhino Records has just announced that these final shows will all be recorded and available in a variety of formats on

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Grateful Dead

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