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I Talk To The Wind: King Crimson Holds Court With Long-Awaited Box Set "The Complete 1969 Recordings" (UPDATED WITH LINKS!)

August 27, 2020 By Sam Stone 13 Comments

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Prog-rockers King Crimson are set to give their debut album the royal treatment, with an impressive 26-disc box set appropriately titled The Complete 1969 Recordings. The long-awaited set was previewed last year with a digestible 3-CD/Blu-ray edition of their game-changing debut In The Court of the Crimson King. The band had promised a copyright-extending mega-set to follow, and on October 23 it will hit shops. The Complete 1969 Recordings promises to provide "the complete audio history" of

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, DVD-Audio Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz Tags: King Crimson

Excitable Boy: Warren Zevon's "Stand in the Fire" Is Expanded by Run Out Groove; The Monkees and Lenny Kravitz Among Next Titles in Fan Vote

August 27, 2020 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

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Get ready to howl!  Run Out Groove has announced its latest fan-voted release, and it's from the late singer-songwriter Warren Zevon.  The label will press a limited and numbered Deluxe Edition of Zevon's live album Stand in the Fire - Recorded Live at The Roxy in a generously expanded format.  The original LP was originally released at the tail end of 1980 and was recorded over a five-night stand in August of that year at the famed West Hollywood venue.  It boasted ten tracks - including

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Lenny Kravitz, Louis XIV, The Monkees, Warren Zevon

Real Gone Music Announces Halloween Lineup, Including First Reissue of Cartoon Cult Classic "Groovie Goolies"

August 27, 2020 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Time may feel like it's at a standstill, but Halloween is just around the corner.  To celebrate, Real Gone Music will release a host of spooky-scary releases on October 2, including the first-ever CD and LP reissue of Groovie Goolies. The 1970 power pop album was the soundtrack to the popular CBS-TV music-themed Saturday morning cartoon show produced by Filmation.  Each episode included two original songs: one from The Monster Trio (Drac, Frankie, and Wolfie - see the album cover!) and one

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 45 Grave, Charles Bernstein, Coven, Filter, Gravediggaz, Groovie Goolies, John Zacherle, Megadeth, Melvins, Pantera, Roky Erickson, The Cramps, The Damned, The Munsters

The Way It Goes: Esoteric Collects Albums from David Gilmour-Produced Band Unicorn

August 27, 2020 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

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Unicorn went through a number of names before the band settled on that mystical creature: The Senders, The Pink Bear, The Late Edition, The Late, and just plain Late.  The band wasn't late at all - rather, they were right on time in combining their influences into a striking sound of their own.  They'd started as a beat group and put those skills to use backing Billy J. Kramer; then, the discovery of the Southern California sounds of CSN became a major influence.  Unicorn blended CSN-style

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: David Gilmour, Unicorn

John Lennon 80 Campaign Kicks Off With New Box Set "Gimme Some Truth"

August 26, 2020 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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On October 9, John Lennon would have turned 80 years old. To mark the occasion, Capitol and UMe will be releasing a new multi-format collection entitled Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes after his still-relevant 1971 protest single of that name. But this set - out on John's birthday - won't resemble the 2010 box of nearly the same title (celebrating his 70th). Instead, the Deluxe Edition release features 36 all-new mixes from the original multi-tracks of solo Lennon classics, remixed in

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: John Lennon, The Beatles, Yoko Ono

Steel Wheels Live: Atlantic City, NJ [Various Formats]

August 24, 2020 By

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Deluxe 3-CD/2-DVD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 4-LP black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 4-LP color vinyl: Rolling Stones Online Shop / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon

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

Rock Legends

August 24, 2020 By

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Irish rockers Thin Lizzy launch a new archival series with the release of Rock Legends, a career-spanning 6CD/1DVD box set that offers a new overview of their work through an almost entirely unreleased selection of tracks. The series celebrates their 50th anniversary as a band, but plans for a box on this scale have been gestating since 2012, when it was reported that Universal had acquired a decade's worth of tapes kept by Lynott featuring demos, alternate versions and outtakes. The final

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Morrison Hotel: Deluxe Edition

August 24, 2020 By

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The Doors went back to basics when they checked into Morrison Hotel for their 1970 studio album.  The band's fifth LP, it's now being reissued by Rhino as a 2-CD/1-LP 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.  This release follows the label's similar reissues for The Doors' first four albums including The Soft Parade which expanded their sound to include orchestration.  Morrison Hotel got them back to blues-rock in striking fashion.  CD 1 has the original mix newly remastered by the band's longtime

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

Play With Fire: The Rolling Stones Prep "Steel Wheels Live: Atlantic City, NJ" Featuring Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker, and Axl Rose

August 24, 2020 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

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Over thirty years ago, The Rolling Stones staged a show that would become one of the band's most renowned. The Atlantic City '89 concert, which took place on December 19, 1989 at the city's Convention Hall, was special for a number of reasons, but the main draw of the show was the special guests involved, who seemed to represent the past, present, and future. For this special show, The Stones called on their idol, John Lee Hooker for "Boogie Chillen," brought up their contemporary Eric Clapton

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Spread The Word Around: Long-Awaited Thin Lizzy Box Collects Trove Of Rarities

August 21, 2020 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

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It took literal years, but the boys are back in town. Irish rockers Thin Lizzy will launch a new archival series with the October 9 release of Rock Legends, a career-spanning 6CD/1DVD box set that offers a new overview of their work through an almost entirely unreleased selection of tracks. The series celebrates their 50th anniversary as a band, and yesterday's announcement coincided with what would have been the 71st birthday of late frontman/bassist Phil Lynott as well as the forthcoming

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Thin Lizzy

Release Round-Up: Week of August 21

August 21, 2020 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Norma Tanega, Walkin' My Cat Named Dog [Sky Blue Vinyl] (Real Gone Music)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Norma Tanega's 1966 folk-pop classic returns to vinyl in a re-pressing from Real Gone Music.  This new presentation replicates the original, utilizing the stereo mix and boasting the original artwork (which was replaced on prior CD issues).  It's pressed on sky blue vinyl.  Grab it fast, though: Walkin' My Cat Named Dog is a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Charles Bukowski, Cidny Bullens, George Winston, Jefferson Starship, Mandy Barnett, Norma Tanega, The Horace Tapscott Quartet, The Killers, Tom Tom Club, Vince Guaraldi

A Higher Place: Tom Petty's 'Wildflowers & All The Rest' Arrives In Multiple Formats This Fall

August 20, 2020 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

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Let's get to the point, let's roll another joint: the late, great Tom Petty's solo masterpiece Wildflowers will be revisited in a series of reissues out October 16. Wildflowers & All The Rest rounds up the original 1994 album alongside several bonus discs of outtakes and rarities. A standard 2CD/3LP edition adds 10 unheard tracks - intended for a much longer edition of the album at the time - while a 4CD/7LP deluxe box adds two volumes of solo home recordings and live cuts. A super deluxe

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Waiting for the Sun: The Doors' "Morrison Hotel" Goes Deluxe in October

August 20, 2020 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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The Doors went back to basics when they checked into Morrison Hotel for their 1970 studio album.  The band's fifth LP, it's now being reissued by Rhino on October 9 as a 2-CD/1-LP 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.  This release follows the label's similar reissues for The Doors' first four albums including The Soft Parade which expanded their sound to include orchestration.  Morrison Hotel got them back to blues-rock in striking fashion. The box set features original engineer Bruce Botnick's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Doors

We Were Half A Million Strong: Massive Woodstock Collection Arrives in High-Resolution Digital Formats

August 17, 2020 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

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Fifty-one years ago this past weekend, a crowd of half a million converged at Max Yasgur's Farm in Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The four-day event became a cultural touchstone and mythical ideal, strengthened even more by the Woodstock film and soundtracks that proliferated the marketplace during the early '70s and beyond. While performers, fans, and countless supposed attendees participated in even more myth-building, a small group of historians and researchers worked

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Arlo Guthrie, Bert Sommer, Blood Sweat and Tears, Canned Heat, Country Joe and The Fish, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, John Sebastian, Johnny Winter, Melanie, Mountain, Quill, Ravi Shankar, Richie Havens, Santana, Sha Na Na, Sly and the Family Stone, Sweetwater, Ten Years After, The Band, The Incredible String Band, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Who, Tim Hardin

Cruisin' for Love: Cherry Red, RPM Collect The Complete Kursaal Flyers on "Little Does She Know"

August 17, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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The Kursaal Flyers - founded in Southend-on-Sea, some 40 miles or 64 kilometers east of central London and so named for the town's famous building which once housed part of a famous amusement park - made their biggest splash with the 1976 single "Little Does She Know," produced by Mike Batt in thunderous Phil Spector style.  Cherry Red's RPM Records has recently chronicled the full Kursaal Flyers story as one of the imprint's final projects.  Little Does She Know: The Complete Recordings has

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Kursaal Flyers

Sinister Footwear II: Frank Zappa's "Halloween 81" Box Set Arrives In October

August 14, 2020 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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It wouldn't be Halloween without a little Frank Zappa...and this year, Zappa Records and UMe are delivering once again with a frightfully entertaining new box set.  October 2 will see the release of Halloween 81, following up the previous releases of Halloween 73 and 77.  The 6-CD box set boasts 78 previously unreleased live tracks from three concerts for more than seven hours of listening. The bandleader's New York Halloween shows were among his most anticipated as he blended his signature

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Frank Zappa, Steve Vai

Distortion 1989-2019

August 14, 2020 By

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24CD with exclusive signed print: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. British label Edsel is joining forces with punk icon Bob Mould to collect nearly everything he's ever released into a new CD box set.  Distortion 1989-2019 offers 24 discs of Mould's work after the dissolution of seminal hardcore outfit Hüsker Dü. It features all his studio albums credited to himself, '90s power trio Sugar and even dance-oriented side projects LoudBomb and Blowoff, plus four live sets

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Rock

The Studio Albums 1978-1991

August 14, 2020 By

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CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Dire Straits' studio discography will be released as a box set, aptly named The Studio Albums 1978-1991.  It's coming from Virgin/UMC in Europe and Warner/Rhino in the U.S., and contains the band's six original albums: Dire Straits (1978), Communiqué (1979), Making Movies (1980), Love Over Gold (1982), Brothers In Arms (1985) and On Every Street (1991). All of these releases reached the Top 5 of the

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

Release Round-Up: Week of August 14

August 14, 2020 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's Factory [Half-Speed Master] (Craft Recordings) LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP/merch bundle: Craft Recordings Online Shop Craft Recordings reissues Creedence Clearwater Revival's hit-filled fifth album - featuring "Lookin' Out My Back Door," "Run Through the Jungle," "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Travelin' Band," and "Up Around the Bend" - on 180-gram half-speed mastered vinyl (from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Britney Spears, Bruce Hornsby, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dolores Gray, Elvis Costello, Esther Phillips, Gloria Estefan, Jonathan Richman, Michael Friedman, Nils Lofgren, Rumer, The Duprees, The Rivieras

See a Little Light: Bob Mould Plans 'Distortion' Box Set, Vinyl Reissue Series

August 13, 2020 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

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Looking for a way to celebrate Bob Mould ahead of his next album, Blue Hearts, due next month? British label Edsel is joining forces with the punk icon to collect nearly everything he's ever released into a new CD box set. Distortion 1989-2019, available October 2, offers 24 discs of Mould's work after the dissolution of seminal hardcore outfit Hüsker Dü. It features all his studio albums credited to himself, '90s power trio Sugar and even dance-oriented side projects LoudBomb and Blowoff,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Rock Tags: Bob Mould, Hüsker Dü, Sugar

Sultans Of Swing: Dire Straits Albums Collected In New Box

August 12, 2020 By Mike Duquette 13 Comments

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That's the way you do it: Dire Straits' studio discography will be released as a box set this fall. The aptly-named The Studio Albums 1978-1991 will be released by Virgin/UMC in Europe and Warner/Rhino in the U.S. on October 9. It contains the band's six original albums: Dire Straits (1978), Communiqué (1979), Making Movies (1980), Love Over Gold (1982), Brothers In Arms (1985) and On Every Street (1991). All of these releases reached the Top 5 of the U.K. charts (with the latter three going

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler

The Next Step Is Love: New Box Set Chronicles 50 Years Of Elvis Presley's 'That's The Way It Is'

August 11, 2020 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

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Legacy Recordings' From Elvis in Nashville, focusing on The King's storied 1970 Music City sessions, isn't the only Elvis box set coming this year. Follow That Dream, the online-exclusive, collector-oriented Elvis label, also recently announced a massive collection: That's the Way It Is: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition is a new look at the live recordings which comprised part of the multimedia project That's the Way It Is. Over 8 CDs, the box presents 128 tracks and more than 450 minutes of

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Cum On Feel The Hitz: The Best of Slade

August 10, 2020 By

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2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cum On Feel The Hitz: The Best Of Slade collects more than 40 tracks across two discs from the Wolverhampton band, including 16 Top 10 hits released between 1970 and 1984. Six of them - the uniquely-spelled "Coz I Luv You," "Take Me Bak 'Ome," "Mama Weer All Crazee Now," "Cum On Feel The Noize," "Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me" and the holiday perennial "Merry Xmas Everybody" - all topped the chart, becoming

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How The Web Was Woven: Elvis Presley's Marathon 1970 Sessions Collected on "From Elvis in Nashville"

August 10, 2020 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

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On Friday, RCA and Legacy Recordings announced the release of From Elvis in Nashville, a 4-CD box set due on November 20 which promises to be the definitive chronicle of Presley's marathon Music City recording session fifty years ago. In June 1970, Elvis arrived at RCA's Studio B in Nashville to begin what would become a legendary five-night recording session. Along with an additional session on September 22, these tracks would form the core of three celebrated albums: That's the Way It Is,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Elvis Presley

Hand of Doom: Rhino Revisits Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" on 50th Anniversary Vinyl Box Set

August 7, 2020 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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50 years ago next month, Black Sabbath's breakthrough sophomore album Paranoid was released, becoming a key building block in the transition from "hard rock" to "heavy metal." On October 9, the Birmingham band's dark and innovative album will return to vinyl in a 50th anniversary 5-LP Super Deluxe Edition from Rhino featuring the vinyl debut of two 1970 concerts. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward followed up their self-titled debut album of early 1970 with Paranoid,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Black Sabbath

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