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This Is Your Captain Speaking...Your Captain Is Dead: The Albums and Singles 1970-1974

March 2, 2015 By

Hawkwind Box

This 11-CD box from the prog-rock masters contains Hawkwind's United Artists Records catalogue in replica sleeves plus a bonus CD of single edits and mixes.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

The Island Years: An Anthology 1967-1974

March 2, 2015 By

Spooky Tooth Island

Universal U.K. offers a 9-CD box set featuring the Island albums by the English rock group Spooky Tooth, including Supernatural Fairy Tales by ART (the band's earlier incarnation), plus rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks including a full concert from April 1972, recorded in Germany (Disc 9).  The vinyl iteration presents straight reissues of the eight proper albums in replica original packaging. It also includes a full-size repro of the extremely rare 'Art' Island promotional poster

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

Straight Shooter: Deluxe Edition

February 24, 2015 By

Bad Company Straight Shooter

The sophomore album from supergroup Bad Company gains a second disc of rarities on CD - 13 previously unreleased session tracks and one non-LP single!  A 2-LP vinyl edition features the remastered original album plus selected rarities.

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

Bad Company: Deluxe Edition

February 24, 2015 By

Bad Company

The debut album from supergroup Bad Company is expanded with an entire second disc of rarities on CD - 10 previously unreleased session tracks and two non-LP singles!  A 2-LP vinyl edition features the remastered original album plus selected rarities.

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

Can't Get Enough: Deluxe 2-CD Bad Company Reissues On the Way

February 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Bad Company

Today saw the reissue of Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin’s first album on the band’s own Swan Song Records label.  So it’s appropriate that Rhino chose today to announce the deluxe, expanded reissue for the very first album on Swan Song – the self-titled debut of British hard rock supergroup Bad Company.  That 1974 chart-topping album will be joined on April 7 by Bad Company’s 1975 sophomore effort, Straight Shooter in a similarly expanded edition.  These reissues, to be available on CD, LP and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, Paul Rodgers

Release Round-Up: Week of February 24

February 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti various editions (Atlantic/Swan Song) 2-CD Original Album: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-LP Original Album: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-LP Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Super Deluxe Edition (3-CD/3-LP): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Led Zeppelin's classic album turns 40 and gets the remastered treatment with never-before-heard content available in a plethora

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Camper Van Beethoven, Chicago, Lead Belly, Led Zeppelin, The Animals, The Manhattans

Winds of Change (Mono Edition)

February 21, 2015 By

Animals Winds of Change

Sundazed has Eric Burdon and The Animals' 1967 rock classic on CD and 180-gram vinyl in mono.  Includes "San Franciscan Nights," the title track and the band's take on "Paint It Black."

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Reviews: Two From Real Gone - John Hall and Ray Kennedy

February 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

john hall power

It’s telling that John Hall’s Wikipedia page identifies him as “John Hall (New York politician).” For despite a career that saw him found Orleans, pen such instantly identifiable pop hits as “Dance with Me” and “Still the One,” and organize the 1979 No Nukes concerts alongside such heavy hitters as Jackson Browne, Graham Nash and Bonnie Raitt, Hall may be best known today as a member of the House of Representatives for New York between 2007 and 2011 and as a longtime environmental activist. Real

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: John Hall, Ray Kennedy

Coming Back For You: Ronnie James Dio's "Elf" Returns

February 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Elf

Who’s that gleefully malevolent-looking elf? Why, it’s none other than the late Ronnie James Dio, legendary frontman of Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell and of course, Dio. Between 1972 and 1975, Dio (under his real name of Ronald Padavona) led the band Elf for three albums. The first of those LPs, the eponymous Elf, has just been reissued by Cherry Red’s Hear No Evil imprint in a newly-remastered edition. Singer/bassist Dio founded Elf in 1967 as The Electric Elves, alongside

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Elf, Ronnie James Dio

You Can't Use My Name: Curtis Knight & The Squires (Featuring Jimi Hendrix) - The RSVP/PPX Sessions

February 19, 2015 By

Curtis Knight You Cant Use My Name

Legacy and Experience Hendrix present the first-ever authorized release of Jimi Hendrix's pre-fame recordings with Curtis Knight and the Squires!  This 14-track anthology - promised as the first in a series - will be available on CD and 150-gram vinyl.

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

Hey Joe! Rare Early Jimi Hendrix Recordings Collected By Legacy, Experience Hendrix

February 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Curtis Knight You Cant Use My Name

With Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings having previously reissued Jimi Hendrix’s core catalogue as well as more unexpected offerings like The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge, where to go next? The answer is back to the very beginning – which, as always, is a very good place to start. You Can’t Use My Name: Curtis Knight & The Squires (Featuring Jimi Hendrix) The RSVP/PPX Sessions is the first in a series of releases intended to place the legendary guitarist’s pre-fame recordings in the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, R&B/Soul Tags: Curtis Knight and the Squires, Jimi Hendrix

Dick's Picks Vol. 9--Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 9/16/90

February 19, 2015 By

Dicks Picks 9

Real Gone reissues the first Dick's Picks volumes to feature a concert from the 1990s - in this case, the MSG show of September 16, 1990!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Dick's Picks Vol. 11--Stanley Theatre, Jersey City, NJ 9/27/72

February 19, 2015 By

Dicks Picks 11

Real Gone's reissue series from the Grateful Dead vault continues with this 1972 concert from Jersey City, New Jersey's Stanley Theatre (now a Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall)!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Craig Fuller/Eric Kaz

February 19, 2015 By

Fuller and Kaz

A lost classic of seventies California rock, featuring guests J.D. Souther, Russ & Leah Kunkel, Leland Sklar, Michael McDonald, and Leo Sayer, returns to CD!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Rhapsodies

February 19, 2015 By

Rick Wakeman Rhapsodies

The Yes keyboardist's final A&M solo album produced by Tony Visconti in 1979 gets the Real Gone treatment!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

A MusiCares Tribute to Paul McCartney

February 19, 2015 By

MusiCares Paul

2012's MusiCares gala tribute to Macca comes to DVD and BD, with performances including Neil Young and Crazy Horse's "I Saw Her Standing There," James Taylor and Diana Krall's "Yesterday" and "For No One," Sergio Mendes' "The Fool on the Hill," Coldplay's "We Can Work It Out," Alicia Keys' "Blackbird" and more!

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Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

Countdown To "Physical Graffiti" Begins: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page Does Q&A, Expanded Album Streams Tomorrow

February 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Physical Graffiti

The wait for the latest volume of Led Zeppelin's remastered and expanded reissue series is almost over! Tomorrow - Thursday, February 19 - Yahoo Live will stream the 40th Anniversary Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti Deluxe Edition Premiere. The complete, previously unreleased companion audio from the upcoming deluxe edition will be unveiled, followed by a live Q&A with legendary axeman and album producer Jimmy Page in front of a live audience at Olympic Studios in London, the same studio

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

Real Gone Has "Rhapsodies" In April From Dusty Springfield, Rick Wakeman, Jesse Winchester and More

February 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Dusty Springfield Faithful

One surefire cure for the winter blues is to think ahead to the warmer climates awaiting us in spring.  And Real Gone Music is seeing to it that April 2015 will shower not only with rain but with a full slate of new releases! This batch includes a sprawling set from Yes’ Rick Wakeman produced the great Tony Visconti, two more visits down memory lane with Grateful Dead, plus some rare music from underrated singer/songwriters Craig Fuller and Eric Kaz, and Jesse Winchester.  And that’s not

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Cannonball Adderley, Craig Fuller, Dusty Springfield, Eric Kaz, Jesse Winchester, Rick Wakeman, The Crumbsuckers, The Grateful Dead, Yes

Review: Chicago, "XXXIV: Live in '75"

February 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

chicago live 75

When they took the stage at Largo, Maryland's Capital Centre in June, 1975, nostalgia was foremost on the minds of the members of Chicago.  Early in the set preserved by Rhino on Chicago XXXIV: Live in '75, comments are made from the stage with a great deal of surprise: "[Here's] another blast from the past!"  "Nostalgia is in nowadays."  "We would like to be nostalgic."  Would the Robert Lamm, Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane and James Pankow of 1975 been able to conceive that they'd be playing

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Chicago, The Beach Boys

Release Round-Up: Week of February 17

February 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

pretenders box

  The Pretenders, 1979-1999 (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This mega-box features all of Edsel's expanded Pretenders reissues, totaling the band's eight Sire/Warner Bros. albums across 14 CDs and 8 DVDs (with six of the titles as 2-CD/1-DVD sets and two as 1-CD/1-DVD sets).  Wow!  All of the box set's albums are also available individually (see below)!  All track listings and discography can be found here. The Pretenders, 1979-1999 individual CD/DVD reissues

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Art Pepper, Bob Marley, Chicago, Glen Campbell, Kiki Dee, Pretenders, The Alan Parsons Project, The Box Tops

Minstrel in the Gallery: 40th Anniversary La Grande Edition

February 13, 2015 By

JT Minstrel

Jethro Tull's "Minstrel in the Gallery" celebrates its 40th with a 2-CD/2-DVD book-style edition including new 5.1 and stereo mixes of the original album, the original stereo and quadraphonic mixes, a previously unreleased concert in 5.1 and stereo, and more!

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

Jethro Tull Returns to "The Gallery" with New "Minstrel" 2-CD/2-DVD Box Set

February 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

JT Minstrel

Parlophone’s deluxe series of Jethro Tull reissues continues on May 5 with a book-style 2-CD/2-DVD set of the band’s eighth studio album, Minstrel in the Gallery.  This deluxe Minstrel, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the gold-certified album, follows last November’s reissue of Tull’s album No. 7, WarChild as well as expansions of Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play, Benefit and Aqualung.  (The latter received a super deluxe box treatment.)  Both Steven Wilson and Jakko Jakszyk are involved in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Jethro Tull

Spirit in the Night: Closing Night of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" Tour Comes To Archive Series

February 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 20 Comments

Bruce Tower Theater 1975

Bruce Springsteen is continuing his live Archive Series of CDs which began last year with the release of the Apollo Theater, New York City concert of March 12, 2012 and the Agora Theatre, Cleveland show of August 9, 1978 (from The Darkness on the Edge of Town tour).  The newest release, for which pre-orders began Tuesday, takes fans back to the Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, on December 31, 1975 when Springsteen and the E Street Band held the stage for an electrifying night. The last night of

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

Make Me Smile: Mobile Fidelity Brings "Chicago Transit Authority," "Chicago II" To SACD

February 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Chicago II

Does anybody really know what time it is?  Happily, it’s time for Mobile Fidelity to continue its series of limited edition hybrid stereo SACDs for the Chicago catalogue.  MoFi has previously issued 1973’s Chicago VI on SACD and 1984’s Chicago 17 on 24k Gold CD, but now the label has turned back the clock to the very beginning.  And when the very beginning is the one-two punch of 1969’s Chicago Transit Authority and 1970’s Chicago II on SACD, it’s a very good place to start, indeed. Long

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Categories: News Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Chicago

Release Round-Up: Week of February 3

February 3, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

tony joe white wb8

Tony Joe White: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / George Jones & Tammy Wynette: Songs of Inspiration (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Bobby Lance: First Peace/Rollin’ Man (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. ) / Jerry Williams: Gone (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Various Artists: Apollo Saturday Night/Saturday Night at the Uptown (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / John Hall: Power (Expanded Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Ray Kennedy: Ray Kennedy (Expanded

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bob Dylan, Diana Krall, George Jones, Grateful Dead, Tammy Wynette, Tony Joe White

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