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Listen To The Music: Doobie Brothers Catalogue Expanded In The U.K.

September 2, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Are you ready to listen to the music? If you are, you're in for quite a treat.  The U.K.'s Edsel label has just launched a series of expanded Doobie Brothers remasters, encompassing the band's first eight studio albums (1971-1978) as four 2-CD packages.  Doobie Brothers/Toulouse Street and The Captain and Me/What Once Were Vices were just released this past Monday, while Stampede/Takin' It to the Streets and Livin' On The Fault Line/Minute by Minute follow on September 26.  These eight albums

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

BREAKING NEWS! Good, Good, Good Vibrations: The Beach Boys' "SMiLE" Arrives November 1

August 27, 2011 By Joe Marchese 18 Comments

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Surf's up. At long last, we can finally announce that SMiLE is coming to a shop near you.  On November 1, Capitol Records will release The Beach Boys' 1967 lost masterwork as The SMiLE Sessions in three editions: a 5-CD/2-LP/2 7-inch single box (yes, 9 discs!), a slimmer 2-CD version and a 2-LP set.  Where to start?  First, I recommend digging that artwork at your left.  Has it settled in that this set is becoming a reality?  Good.  Read on, friends. The saga of SMiLE, 2011, was becoming

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks

Reach Out For Them: New 2-CD Comps Coming In September For Dionne, Chicago

July 29, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Following collections devoted to Foreigner, Christopher Cross, Otis Redding and Yes, the U.K.’s Music Club Deluxe label (a member of the Demon Music Group family) continues its exploration of the Warner Music Group catalogue with new compilations focusing on the long, diverse careers of Dionne Warwick and Chicago.  Either of these esteemed acts would be solid candidates for our Greater Hits feature, in which we compare an artist’s “greatest hits” output.  Both certainly have been the subjects of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Chicago, Dionne Warwick

Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" Turns 40, Gets Deluxe Edition From EMI

June 3, 2011 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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First Quadrophenia, now Aqualung!  Yes, in advance of an official announcement, remix producer Steven Wilson has spilled the beans on an upcoming deluxe reissue of Jethro Tull’s Aqualung!  (Big thanks to our friends at MusicTAP for passing the news on!)  The British band’s fourth album, Aqualung remains Jethro Tull’s all-time biggest seller, not to mention one of the most beloved rock albums of all time.  It’s tentatively scheduled for September release from struggling juggernaut EMI, and like

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

Review: Chicago, "Live in '75"

May 25, 2011 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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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 so immaculately preserved by Rhino on the new Live in ’75 (Rhino Handmade RHM2 526436, 2011), 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

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

Rhino Knows What Time It Is: Chicago "Live in '75" Coming from Handmade (UPDATED 4/11)

April 11, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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UPDATE 4/11: The link just before the jump takes you directly to the order page for this set. Original post: Billboard has certified them as the second-most successful American rock band in music history, only following The Beach Boys. The RIAA places them handily in the Top Ten of all-time album sales from an American group. So it's fair to say that Chicago is still perhaps the most successful American rock band to have been wholly ignored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band has

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

Review: Leon Russell, "The Best of Leon Russell"

April 7, 2011 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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There wasn't a dry eye in the house when Leon Russell, upon accepting his induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, thanked Elton John for rescuing him from "a ditch beside the highway of life."  Thanks to the success of The Union, the collaborative album between John and his early idol, Leon Russell's profile has been considerably high of late.  It's been so high, in fact, that one member of the Steve Hoffman Music Forums even queried of the community, "Is Leon Russell getting too much

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Elton John, Leon Russell

Rhino Resurrects "L.A. Woman" This Fall

April 6, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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It was hard not to worry about Rhino for awhile. Since the new year kicked off, things have been eerily quiet from the venerable label and catalogue arm of Warner Music Group (currently prepping for a major reorganization). Outside of the largesse of the Europe '72 box set from The Grateful Dead and a few soundtrack selections, all was quiet. Now, one of Warner's most enduring catalogue artists looks to be getting another reissue: hot off the presses, Rhino's announced a 40th anniversary

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

Review: Neil Diamond, "The Bang Years 1966-1968"

March 8, 2011 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

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When it comes to Neil Diamond, I'm a believer. There's not a trace of doubt in my mind that Diamond burst onto the scene at the right time - not necessarily the night time, though I, too, thank the lord for it. No, Diamond made a big noise in the corridors of Bang Records in the period between 1966 and 1968, an era when the music business was experiencing change more rapidly than anyone could have predicted. And it was far from predictable that the somber and intense young man pictured on The

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Neil Diamond

Gold Reissues Coming Soon for Collins, Taylor, Wonder

January 4, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Audiophile specialist label Audio Fidelity has announced its initial trio of 24K Gold CD reissues for 2011, and it is comprised of three familiar names, all of whom have previously had titles reissued on the label: Phil Collins, James Taylor and Stevie Wonder. Already having tackled the gold CD of Collins' 1981 solo debut Face Value, Steve Hoffman returns to remaster the artist's 1985 breakthrough, No Jacket Required. Spawning four U.S. Top 10 singles, No Jacket Required was the former

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: James Taylor, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder

Review: Bruce Springsteen, "The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story"

November 29, 2010 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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In 1978, Bruce Springsteen famously mined the darkness on the edge of town, but it was unknown until recently that he considered living in the light of those same New Jersey streets. Flush with the success of Born to Run but drained from a prolonged battle with his former manager, Springsteen considered all avenues in creating the follow-up to the album that changed everything. And much like the eventually-resulting Darkness on the Edge of Town upped the ante from that 1975 landmark, the

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Review: David Bowie, "Station to Station" (2010)

October 11, 2010 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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There are box sets, and then there are box sets. EMI's hulking, monster of a box dedicated to David Bowie's 1976 Station to Station (EMI BOWSTSD2010) is one such box set. It's even more massive than The John Lennon Signature Box, itself a lavish and large affair containing 11 discs. The multi-disc box celebrating a single album isn't a new concept, although in the past such offerings were largely based upon session material. The format has proliferated in recent times as record labels have

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets Genre: Classic Rock Tags: David Bowie

Review: John Fogerty, "Centerfield: 25th Anniversary"

June 29, 2010 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

John Fogerty can be called many things. Prolific, though, isn't one of them. Fogerty's 1985 Centerfield, originally issued on Warner Bros. Records, marked the former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman's return to a prominent place in the rock pantheon after a near decade-long absence. After acrimoniously parting ways with his famous band, Fogerty recorded a collection of rootsy country covers (1973's The Blue Ridge Rangers) for CCR's longtime label, Fantasy Records. Yet Fogerty was locked in

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: John Fogerty

Review: The Rolling Stones, "Exile on Main Street" Deluxe Edition

May 20, 2010 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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Few records hold the mystique of the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. Myths have grown and books have been published in an attempt to explain the sprawling album. The story generally goes that 1972 found the band, literally, as tax exiles, seeking refuge across the English Channel in France. A villa in Villefranche-sur-Mer named Nellcote is rented. Music is made. Sex and drugs abound. Somehow in all this debauchery a record is produced, and that record is Exile on Main St. When Universal Music

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

Review: Chicago - "Chicago Transit Authority" Quadradisc

April 12, 2010 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

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What is Quadio?  That's the question currently being posed by the fine folks over at Rhino.com.  For an answer and some fun interactivity, click here.  But in short, Quadio describes the new series of four-channel audio DVDs (or "Quadradiscs") being introduced by Rhino with the reissue of 1969's Chicago Transit Authority, the first album by the band later known simply as Chicago. This release is a landmark in a number of ways.  For one thing, it signals a new attempt to court the dedicated

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Categories: Reviews Formats: DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Chicago

Back Tracks: Alex Chilton

March 18, 2010 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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A potentially embarassing confession: it took the death of Big Star frontman Alex Chilton for me to realize just what I knew about him. I knew his name was the title of a Replacements song (thanks, Rock Band), I'd known of Big Star thanks to the justifiable hype over last year's box set from Rhino and I'd known a handful of his most famous, very solid compositions that he either wrote or popularized ("Thirteen," "The Letter," "In the Street") through inevitable cultural osmosis (thanks, That

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Alex Chilton, Back Tracks, Big Star, The Box Tops

Reissue Theory x2: Phil Collins - "No Jacket Required" and Peter Gabriel - "So"

March 14, 2010 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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It has been encouraging to see, in light of Genesis' impending induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a number of commenters showing their respect for the Phil Collins-led, pop-savvy incarnation of the band. The group's output was always listenable - one could argue the 1990s was largely an exception - but it always seemed popular opinion was against them around the Invisible Touch era. This is ironic, since the same year Invisible Touch was released, former Genesis frontman Peter

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Reissue Theory

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