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Spotlight On: The Zombies' "In the Beginning" from Demon Music Group

March 1, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Zombies In the Beginning

On March 29, The Zombies will take the stage at Brooklyn's Barclays Center to celebrate their long overdue induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  The time has never been better to revisit the band's catalogue, a hugely influential one despite its small size.  Rediscovering The Zombies has been made easier with the recent release of two deluxe 5-LP vinyl box sets.  For the U.S., Varese Vintage has issued The Complete Studio Recordings, while in the group's native U.K., Demon Music Group

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Zombies

Release Round-Up: Week of March 1

March 1, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Tom Petty The Best of Everything

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, The Best of Everything (Geffen/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) On the heels of the release of the acclaimed rarities box set An American Treasure, a new career-spanning anthology arrives from the late Tom Petty.  The Best of Everything is subtitled The Definitive Career-Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016 and features 38 tracks from the soulful rock-and-roller, including two previously unreleased

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chaka Khan, Dennis Coffey, Gordon Lightfoot, John Hartford, The Gun, The Undisputed Truth, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Tommy Hunt

Spotlight On: The Zombies' "Complete Studio Recordings" From Varese Vintage

February 28, 2019 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Zombies Complete Studio Recordings

On March 29, The Zombies will take the stage at Brooklyn's Barclays Center to celebrate their long overdue induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  The time has never been better to revisit the band's catalogue, a hugely influential one despite its small size.  Rediscovering The Zombies has been made easier with the recent release of two deluxe 5-LP vinyl box sets.  For the U.S., Varese Vintage has issued The Complete Studio Recordings, while in the group's native U.K., Demon Music Group

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Zombies

UPDATED WITH ARTWORK AND TRACK LISTING: Grateful Dead Announce New LP Compilation "Sage and Spirit" For Record Store Day

February 28, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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The official Record Store Day list is set to drop any day now, but Grateful Dead has announced one of their RSD 2019 offerings a bit early:  a limited-edition compilation LP called Sage & Spirit, which will be available in independent record shops Saturday, April 13. Sage & Spirit marks the latest chapter in the Grateful Dead's partnership with Dogfish Head Brewery, a company that's been a frequent supporter of Record Store Day.  The album boasts 10 tracks, a mix of live and studio

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Record Store Day, The Grateful Dead

Egypt Station: Traveller's Edition [Box Set]

February 28, 2019 By

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The "Traveller's Edition" of Paul McCartney's most recent LP, Egypt Station is set to leave the station on May 10.   It will be presented in a vintage-style suitcase loaded with music, including different configurations of the album, unreleased songs, a wealth of memorabilia, and "hidden rarities." A full list of the box set's known contents is below. The suitcases are limited to one pressing of only 3,000 copies and are currently only available through Paul McCartney's website at this link on a

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

Live At The Chicago Theatre [Various Formats]

February 28, 2019 By

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2-CD/DVD/Blu-Ray:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Limited-Edition Green Vinyl:  Cleopatra Records Last year, rock's wizard/true star Todd Rundgren reunited prog rockers turned power-pop legends Utopia, joining up with Kasim Sulton, Willie Wilcox, along with featured performer Gil Assayas.  It had been 32 years since the band's last performance, save a brief reunion in 1992.  Utopia trekked across the U.S. in the spring and summer and now one stop on the tour will be released as a

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

Cleveland Rocks [Various Formats]

February 28, 2019 By

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CD:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cleveland's rock scene during the '70s was largely championed by Steve Popovich, a former Cleveland resident who ended up being the head of A&R at Epic.  In mid-1976, he left the corporate rock world and headed back home to Cleveland, where he set up Cleveland International Records, part record label, part management company, part marketing consulting group.  Throughout the '70s, Cleveland

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

The Complete Singles 1970-1980

February 28, 2019 By

Gordon Lightfoot Complete Singles

Real Gone surveys a decade of hits and fan favorites from Gordon Lightfoot, all presented in their original single versions.  This 34-track anthology features "Sundown," "If You Could Read My Mind," "Carefree Highway," "Beautiful," "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," and other certified classics from the Canadian troubadour.  Mike Milchner at SonicVision has remastered all tracks.  Richie Unterberger provides the liner notes in a package beautifully designed by John Sellards.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop

Remember A Day: Mono Mix of Pink Floyd's "Saucerful of Secrets" Arriving for Record Store Day

February 27, 2019 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

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Vinyl aficionados worldwide are gearing up for, or at least saving up for, Record Store Day.  The official list is set to drop any day now, but today Legacy Recordings has announced one highly anticipated release from the early days of Pink Floyd: the original mono mix of their second album, 1968's A Saucerful of Secrets.  The limited-edition LP will be a Record Store exclusive, available  from independent record shops on Saturday, April 13th. Saucerful is the only album to feature the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

Born on the Bayou: Craft Recordings Preps Half-Speed Mastered Editions of First Two CCR Albums

February 26, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Craft Recordings is continuing the 50th anniversary celebration of Creedence Clearwater Revival.  In 1968, John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook released their first album together, providing the perfect soundtrack for a tumultuous period in American history. Over just seven albums issued between 1968 and 1972, the band's rootsy rock-and-roll sensibility yielded such all-time classic hits as "Proud Mary," "Bad Moon Rising," "Green River," "Down on the Corner," "Who'll Stop the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Creedence Clearwater Revival

Clareville Grove Demos

February 23, 2019 By

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Clareville Grove Demos features six 1969 home recordings (four previously unreleased) from the late David Bowie, all performed with singer/guitarist John "Hutch" Hutchinson, his former cohort in the trio Feathers (alongside then-girlfriend Hermione Farthingale). Several of these tracks were heard in final form on Bowie's self-titled 1969 album, including "Space Oddity," "An Occasional Dream" and "Cygnet Committee" (known here as "Lover To The Dawn"). A different demo of "Ching-a-Ling" appeared

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Ultimate Rave

February 23, 2019 By

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Ultimate Rave (2-CD/1-DVD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (Purple Vinyl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic (Purple Vinyl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD This new 2-CD/1-DVD collection brings together two of Prince's albums from the turn of the new millennium:  Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic from 1999 and Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic, a hard-to-find 2001 remix album that was only available to

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Stand Back: 1981-2017 [Multiple Formats]

February 23, 2019 By

Stevie Nicks Stand Back

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 3 CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 6 LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD Rhino looks back on the solo career of 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Stevie Nicks with a new anthology collecting hits and rarities. Stand Back 1981-2017 will be released in a variety of formats beginning on March 29 with a 1-CD release (also available on digital download and streaming).  Then, on April 19, a

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

Beautiful Strange: 'Ultimate Rave' Combines Two Prince Albums and One Live Concert

February 22, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Over the last few months, Legacy Recordings has released a number of exciting Prince reissues on purple vinyl and CD as part of the label's initiative to bring Prince's post-1995 catalogue back in print.  Today, Legacy has announced the April 26 release of a new 2-CD/DVD set called Ultimate Rave.  The collection brings together two of Prince's albums from the turn of the new millennium:  Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic from 1999 and Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic, a hard-to-find 2001 remix album that was

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ani DiFranco, Chuck D, Eve, George Clinton, Gwen Stefani, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, Sheryl Crow, Sly & The Family Stone, The Time

Stand Back: Stevie Nicks Hits and Rarities Collected On New Career Spanning Collections

February 22, 2019 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

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Next month, Stevie Nicks will make music history as the first female artist to receive her second induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, following her 1998 induction with Fleetwood Mac.  Nicks has hardly been resting on her laurels; after wrapping a recent, acclaimed solo tour, she's embarked on a 50th anniversary tour with the newly-reconstituted Mac.  Now, Rhino is celebrating her accomplishments with a new, career-spanning collection.  Stand Back 1981-2017 will arrive in a variety of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac, John Stewart, Kenny Loggins, Lady Antebellum, Lana Del Rey, LeAnn Rimes, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Walter Egan

Release Round-Up: Week of February 22

February 22, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! We kick off with not one, but two, releases from The Zombies! The Zombies, The Complete Studio Recordings (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees are being celebrated this week with two comprehensive vinyl box sets - one for the U.S., and one for the U.K. market.  The 5-LP, 61-track U.S. version, from Varese Vintage, includes the band's two American albums in mono - She's Not

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Curtis Mayfield, Engelbert Humperdinck, Greenslade, Ian Hunter, Judy Garland, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, Ray Charles, Renaissance, REO Speedwagon, Santana, Tangerine Dream, Tear Gas, The Byrds, The Flamin' Groovies, The Zombies, U2

Too Wild To Tame: Meat Loaf, Ian Hunter, Ronnie Spector, and More Collected on "Cleveland Rocks"

February 21, 2019 By Sam Stone 8 Comments

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"Cleveland Rocks" is the name of one of Ian Hunter's best-loved compositions. First released in 1979, it's since became the de-facto anthem of the city, a rock proclamation whose title has always rung true.  Cleveland's rock scene during the '70s was largely championed by Steve Popovich, a former Cleveland resident who ended up being the head of A&R at Epic.  In mid-1976, he left the corporate rock world and headed back home to Cleveland, where he set up Cleveland International Records, part

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Ellen Foley, Essence, Euclid Beach Band, Ian Hunter, Jim Steinman, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, Just Us Girls, Meat Loaf, Mike Berry, Ronnie Spector, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, The Boyzz, The E Street Band, The Rovers

UPDATED WITH MORE INFO: An Occasional Dream: More Bowie Demos Announced For Second Vinyl Box

February 20, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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A second box set of David Bowie demos has been announced by his estate, following the recent announcement of a first box, Spying Through a Keyhole, this spring. Clareville Grove Demos will arrive on May 17 from Parlophone.  The box will feature six additional 1969 home recordings (four previously unreleased), all performed with singer/guitarist John "Hutch" Hutchinson, his former cohort in the trio Feathers (alongside then-girlfriend Hermione Farthingale). Several of these tracks were heard

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Review: "Music from Vanilla Sky" and "Orange County: The Soundtrack" LPs From Real Gone

February 19, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Real Gone Music has recently given soundtrack lovers and vinyl aficionados something to talk about with two new color vinyl reissues of turn-of-the-millennium soundtracks:  Music from Vanilla Sky (on "blue cloud" vinyl) and Orange County: The Soundtrack (on orange vinyl).  The plots of both films are tied to the music within.  The soundtrack for the far-out Vanilla Sky shifts moods and tones while maintaining some sense of cohesion as it takes listeners from classic rock to folk, trance and

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Afrika Bambaataa, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Cake, Crazy Town, Jeff Buckley, Leftfield, Looper, Nancy Wilson, Paul McCartney, Pete Yorn, Peter Gabriel, Phantom Planet, Quarashi, R.E.M., Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Social Distortion, Sugarbomb, The Chemical Brothers, The Foo Fighters, The Monkees, The Offspring, Todd Rundgren

Live at the Rainbow '78 [Blu-ray or DVD]

February 19, 2019 By

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Blu-Ray:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada DVD:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Featuring the classic Foreigner line-up this 1978 concert recorded live at the Rainbow Theatre in London captures the band on film on April 27 1978, after their self-titled debut album had spent a year in the US Top 20. From the opening notes of "Long, Long Way From Home" to the hit singles, "Feels Like The First Time" and "Cold As Ice," Foreigner served up plenty of classic tracks.  Also part

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Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

UPDATED WITH TRACK LIST AND ORDER LINK: Happy With You: Paul McCartney Announces Super Deluxe "Traveller's Edition" of "Egypt Station" With Unreleased Songs and More

February 14, 2019 By Sam Stone 5 Comments

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Paul McCartney has announced the release of a super deluxe "Traveller's Edition" of his most recent LP, Egypt Station. The number-one album was originally released last year and was loosely based around the theme of transportation. Now, McCartney and Capitol Records have used that concept as the basis for the new edition, which is due out on May 10. Egypt Station - Traveller's Edition will be presented in a vintage-style suitcase loaded with music, including different configurations of the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Paul McCartney

An Occasional Dream: More Bowie Demos Announced For Second Vinyl Box

February 13, 2019 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Clareville Grove Demos

Another vinyl box set of David Bowie demos has been announced by his estate, following the recent announcement of a first box, Spying Through a Keyhole, this spring. Clareville Grove Demos will feature six additional 1969 home recordings (four previously unreleased), all performed with singer/guitarist John "Hutch" Hutchinson, his former cohort in the trio Feathers (alongside then-girlfriend Hermione Farthingale). Several of these tracks were heard in final form on Bowie's self-titled 1969

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: David Bowie

Release Round-Up: Week of February 8

February 8, 2019 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Prince, Musicology [Various Formats] (Legacy) 1-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP purple vinyl: Prince Official Store Today, three of Prince's essential 2000s albums arrive on CD and, for the first time ever, LP.  Musicology marked Prince's return to a major label and to the upper heights of the charts.  It reached the Top Five on the Billboard Album Chart in

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alex Chilton, Mavis Staples, Meat Loaf, Prince, Robin Trower, Stephen Schwartz

Nice To Hear From You Again: Eagles' "Hell Freezes Over" Revisited

February 6, 2019 By Sam Stone 5 Comments

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After a fourteen-year separation, California's legendary Eagles put their rivalries on hold for a miraculous 1994 reunion.  The resulting album, Hell Freezes Over, collected eleven songs that were recorded for MTV in April of that year, plus four studio tracks.  The album went 9x Platinum and boasted two Top 40 hits: the Don Henley/Glenn Frey-penned "Get Over It" and "Love Will Keep Us Alive," written by Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack, and Paul Vale. To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Geffen

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Something To Make You Happy: Cherry Red Reissues "Dave Mason and Cass Elliot"

February 5, 2019 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

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Cherry Red has recently re-pressed a gem from two shining talents of the early '70s Laurel Canyon scene: Dave Mason & Cass Elliot, a title that was previously released on their now-dormant Rev-Ola imprint in 2008. Both performers had made names for themselves previously, but when they met up for their one and only collaboration the results were a testament to their considerable musical skills. Dave Mason was no stranger to the music industry when he and Cass Elliot, of The Mamas and The

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Cass Elliot, Dave Mason

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