For his first live album, the 1978 double-LP Back to the Bars, singer/songwriter/sonic auteur Todd Rundgren returned to his roots with a collection of lean, tight, intimate performances recorded in the clubs of New York, Los Angeles, and Cleveland. This was Rundgren at his most accessible, playing his most universally beloved songs over his first decade of music-making, with a band including Utopia veterans Mark "Moogy" Klingman, John Siegler, and Willie Wilcox, plus his old friends from
Who's On First? April Brings Premiere of "The Who Live at the Fillmore East 1968," Townshend's Expanded "Who Came First"
Attention fans of The Who: Mark your calendars for April 20, as that's the day UMe will release not one, but two titles, related to the rock legends: the 2-CD or 3-LP premiere of The Who Live at the Fillmore East 1968, just in time for its 50th anniversary, and a 2-CD expanded edition of Pete Townshend's solo debut, Who Came First. On April 5 and 6, 1968, The Who took the stage at Bill Graham's late, lamented Fillmore East in New York City. The first British rock band to play the
Release Round-Up: Week of February 16
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Choir, Artifact: The Unreleased Album (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Omnivore premieres an unreleased album from pre-Raspberries group The Choir, recorded in 1969 by one of the final iterations of the popular Cleveland band. These ten ultra-rare recordings have been restored for this release by the team of Tommy Allen and Ducky Carlisle (The Raspberries' Pop Art Live), and Choir fan Eric Carmen has provided liner
More Ch-Ch-Changes: Parlophone Reissues David Bowie's "Changestwobowie," "Aladdin Sane"
Following the 40th anniversary reissue of David Bowie's Changesonebowie in 2016, Parlophone is readying a CD, LP and DD edition of its 1981 followup: Changestwobowie. This will arrive on April 13, to be followed a week later by a special 45th anniversary vinyl edition of the artist's seminal Aladdin Sane. Changestwobowie returns to CD after a three-decade absence. Originally released on LP in 1981 and on CD in 1985 by RCA, it features 10 songs spanning the period between Hunky Dory (1971)
Take Me Back to Chicago: Band Celebrates 50 Years with "Chicago: VI Decades Live" Box Set
Chicago is turning 50, and the band is celebrating the landmark anniversary with a new box set looking back on its remarkable onstage history. On April 6, Rhino will release Chicago: VI Decades Live (This is What We Do), featuring 4 CDs and 1 DVD of previously unreleased live music recorded between 1969 and 2014. This exciting new collection coincides with the group's current tour in which they're playing the complete Chicago II every night before a lengthy encore set of greatest hits. The
Review: Fleetwood Mac, 'Fleetwood Mac: Deluxe Edition'
Take away all the artifice and ephemera of the new deluxe edition of Fleetwood Mac's 1975 self-titled album (Reprise R2 559454) and you're still left with an intriguing and endlessly challenging question: how? How did a British blues band with only fleeting chart success in their home country metamorphose into one of the greatest rock bands of the 20th century's back half, architects of 18 Top 40 hits and eight platinum or multiplatinum records? And how did they do so with their ninth lineup? As
Release Round-Up: Week of February 9
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Stax Singles Vol. 4: Rarities and Best of the Rest (Stax/Craft) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Craft Recordings boxes up a fourth volume of rare singles from the Stax vaults. Volume Four lives up to its subtitle, collecting odds and ends from Stax and its various imprints by artists including not just the label's usual heavy hitters but also Big Star, Billy Eckstine, Delaney and Bonnie, and others. 80 pages of
Hello Again: Rhino to Expand, Reissue Two Albums by The Cars
Following expansions of The Cars' Candy-O and Panorama, the classic New Wave group (one of this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees) will expand two more in their classic discography in the spring. Rhino Records will release 1981's Shake It Up and 1984's Heartbeat City with rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks on March 30. CD and double LP editions will be available, and will utilize the 2016 remasters overseen by co-lead singer Ric Ocasek as well as art direction overseen by
Good Rockin' Tonight: Soundtrack to New Elvis Documentary Announced
A new Elvis Presley documentary is heading to television screens this April, and an accompanying soundtrack album will arrive in a variety of formats that same month from Legacy Recordings and RCA Records. Elvis Presley: The Searcher, directed by Emmy and Grammy winner Thom Zimny and written by author/journalist Alan Light, traces the artistic evolution of the artist from his R&B and country beginnings through his final Jungle Room recording sessions at Graceland. The three-hour, two-part
Cherry Red Bespoke Puts Vinyl Reissues in Fans' Hands
It's no secret: sometimes, reissue fans and collectors know what they want better than anyone - market analysis be damned. U.K. label Cherry Red is giving fans the opportunity to forecast some vinyl reissues with their new Cherry Red Bespoke initiative! Similar to Run Out Groove's methodology, Cherry Red Bespoke invites fans to have a look at some possible reissue titles and vote with your funds as to which ones you'd like to have as part of your collection! Track selection and packaging have
Andmoreagain: Rhino Marks 50th Anniversary of Love's "Forever Changes" with Massive Box Set
Released just months after the so-called Summer of Love, Forever Changes was the third studio album by the group simply and boldly called Love. But more than just that four-letter word was on the mind of bandleader/songwriter Arthur Lee, who saw beyond sunshine and flowers that summer. Love traded in the punchy electric guitar sound of the group's first two albums (and successful singles like "7 and 7 Is" and a cover of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "My Little Red Book") for a denser, more
He's Ready: Chess and Universal to Release New Muddy Waters Collection
Universal Music Catalogue will issue a new collection celebrating the work of the bluesman born McKinley Morganfield but known the world over as Muddy Waters. Can't Be Satisfied: The Very Best of Muddy Waters 1948-1975 presents 40 classic tracks from across the singer/guitarist's tenure on the Chess label. Waters recorded for Chess for most of his life, after being discovered by Alan Lomax in the early 1940s for his Library of Congress-sanctioned sojourn to discover and record local country
Clear Sailin': Omnivore Reissues Lost Classics from Chris Hillman, NRBQ, and The Choir
Among its many exciting releases, Omnivore has a trio of albums due soon from three very different rock artists: Chris Hillman, pre-Raspberries band The Choir, and NRBQ. Last year, Chris Hillman (veteran of groups including The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Desert Rose Band, and supergroup The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band) released the acclaimed album Bidin' My Time - only his seventh solo album. Produced by Tom Petty (one of the late superstar's last projects), the LP reaffirmed
Back to the Garage: Metallica Re-Revisits Classic EP on Multiple Formats
While you're waiting for the next exhaustive, extras-packed Metallica album reissue, the legendary metal group is reissuing a classic EP in April. Originally released in 1987, The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited found the quartet in a reflective mood, covering some of their favorite hard rock and punk groups like Diamond Head, Budgie, Killing Joke and the Misfits. The band was also looking forward: Garage Days Re-Revisited featured vocalist/rhythm guitarist James Hetfield, lead guitarist
Release Round-Up: Week of February 2
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ron Wood and Ronnie Lane, Mahoney's Last Stand: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Faces' Ronnie Lane and Ron Wood teamed up to pen the score, consisting of country/folk-flavored songs and instrumental tracks, for this 1972 low-budget Canadian film. Real Gone brings it back to CD with new liner notes by Richie Unterberger. Read more here! Roxy Music, Roxy Music: Super Deluxe
Am I Dreaming? Cherry Red's RPM Label Collects Pop, Soul, Prog, and More on Collector-Aimed Box Sets
Cherry Red's RPM imprint has recently touched on a variety of genres in a trio of 3-CD box sets which are small in size but chock full of rare musical offerings. Am I Dreaming? 80 Brit Girl Sounds of the '60s draws on a diverse range of Brit girl styles including pop, rock, folk, mod, R&B, and psychedelia. It showcases how Motown and the Brill Building sounds traveled across the Atlantic, as well as uniquely homegrown British sounds. RPM previously chronicled this era on eight volumes
Going to California: Led Zeppelin Goes Super Deluxe with "How the West Was Won"
Fifteen years ago, Led Zeppelin issued How the West Was Won, premiering performances from the band's June 25 and 27, 1972 concerts at the Los Angeles Forum and Long Beach Arena. Now, those seminal tracks have been newly remastered under the supervision of Jimmy Page for a surprise addition to the band's Super Deluxe library - as well as in a variety of formats, all of which are due from Atlantic/Swan Song on March 23 including the first-ever Blu-ray Audio and vinyl editions. The remastered How
Rhino Collects 25 Years of Trips with Grateful Dead Live Compilation
The Grateful Dead played more than 2,300 concerts during their lifespan. Of those, it's estimated that some 2,200 of those shows were taped by the band and their loyal fans. The good-natured California group allowed them to be freely distributed from the beginning, and every Deadhead has a favorite. But where would you start with the live history of such an esteemed band? The Dead and Rhino are offering an answer to that question this spring with The Best of The Grateful Dead Live, a 2CD or 2LP
WE HAVE OUR WINNERS! Varese Victories For Eight Great Years
Congratulations! Our special 8th anniversary giveaway was a sterling success, thanks to our awesome readers who entered! And now, we've got the list of prize winners. The following 15 friends have won a bundle of Chuck Berry's Rockit (1979) and the 40th anniversary soundtrack of Smokey and The Bandit and its sequel, both courtesy of Varese Sarabande: Marty Brandt Gary Dunaier Brian Edmiston Scott Fraley Emile Gardette Marc Hiatt Adrian Hickman Heath Holland Rusty Houston Dan
Pure Hysteria: Def Leppard Allow Download, Streaming of Classic Catalogue for the First Time
Step inside, walk this way: British rockers Def Leppard have finally allowed their most popular albums to stream or download for the first time. Ahead of a major co-headlining tour with Journey, fans old and new can finally take the hits of Def Leppard along with them wherever digital music is found, thanks to the band's label, Bludgeon Riffola, and Universal Music Enterprises, who distributes much of the group's catalogue. "Given a bit of time to sit down and think about it and read and do
Release Round-Up: Week of January 19
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac [Various Formats] (Reprise/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD/DVD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 1975 debut album by the Fleetwood Mac line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood arrives in a variety of deluxe formats, including a 3CD/DVD/LP box with the remastered album on CD
It Takes Two to Tango: Analog Spark Reissues Two Todd Rundgren Classics on SACD
Since the dawn of the CD era, Todd Rundgren's classic Bearsville LPs have appeared and re-appeared with regularity - yet they had never appeared in the physical format for which they're most ideally suited: high-resolution audio. Thanks to Analog Spark, that's all changed. The label has just released hybrid stereo SACDs of the singer-songwriter-producer's third and fourth Bearsville LPs - the career-defining Something/Anything (1973) and its daring successor, A Wizard, A True Star (1974).
Salad Days (Are Here Again): Esoteric Plans Multi-Disc, Audio-Visual Procol Harum Anthology
"You'll cry out for mercy, but still there'll be more..." So proclaimed English prog rockers Procol Harum on their fourth album, 1970's Home. Three years before, the group burst onto the scene with the baroque-inspired "A Whiter Shade of Pale," an international hit that topped the British charts and reached No. 5 in America. And the group presses on, having released their 12th album, Novum, in April - a month shy of 50 years since "Pale" first landed in U.K. shops. To celebrate this
Give Me Peace On Earth: Craft Reissues 'Concert For George' In Various Formats
George Harrison would have been 75 years old next month, and Craft Recordings is celebrating that milestone with the ultimate tribute to the former Beatle: a multi-format reissue of 2002's Concert For George. Available February 23, two days before Harrison's birthday, Concert For George will bow in five different physical configurations - the most enormous of which is an online-only box set, limited only to 1,000 copies worldwide and featuring the star-studded tribute show on two CDs, two
For Your Love: Herman's Hermits, Yardbirds, Hollies Featured on "The Graham Gouldman Songbook"
Ace's latest addition to its Songwriter Series, Listen People: The Graham Gouldman Songbook 1964-2005, appropriately enough begins with a track written by Gouldman, "That's How (It's Gonna Stay)." But the track is also significant in that it was performed by Gouldman, as well - as part of his early group The Mockingbirds. Throughout his career, he's worn many hats - as a songwriter, as a band member, as a solo artist - and all of them are touched upon on this fine celebration of a largely
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