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Live at The Isle of Wight Festival

September 26, 2018 By

Chicago Isle of Wight

Live at the Isle of Wight Festival brings to double vinyl Chicago's full August 28, 1970 performance at the legendary festival.  The show was first issued commercially on the box set VI Decades Live: This Is What We Do.  The concert at the Isle of Wight Festival (where the band shared that day's bill with Procol Harum, James Taylor, Melanie, and others) thrust the spotlight upon a group with just two albums under its collective belt.  The sound of Robert Lamm, Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, Danny

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Greatest Hits Live

September 26, 2018 By

Chicago Greatest Hits Live

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD Greatest Hits Live, coming in CD and CD/DVD iterations, is a companion to the release earlier this year of Chicago II: Live on Soundstage.  At every one of Chicago's recent tour stops, the band played that classic album and then launched into a second, career-spanning set of hits and favorites.  This release captures the second half of the same Soundstage performance of

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Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Legacy

September 26, 2018 By

Eagles Legacy Cover

A new box set celebrates the Eagles discography with all of the original studio and live albums by the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers from 1972's Eagles to 2007's Long Road Out Of Eden.  In addition, a bonus disc has been included featuring 10 single edits, B-sides and singles (including the long-unavailable "Get You in the Mood").  The package comes in two editions: a 12 CD/1 DVD/1 BD version or a 15-LP set.  Exclusive to the CD box is a DVD of 1994's concert film Hell Freezes Over and a Blu-ray

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

Life In The Fast Lane: Rhino To Release Eagles Box Set Containing Complete Studio and Live Albums on CD & Vinyl

September 26, 2018 By Randy Fairman 8 Comments

Eagles Legacy Cover

This upcoming October and November are crowded with large box-set releases for classic rock fans with major titles coming from marquee artists like The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, David Bowie, and Bob Dylan.  You can now add another set to that list as Rhino has just announced a new box covering the recorded output of Eagles, entitled Legacy, due November 2. This set contains all of the original studio and live albums by the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers from 1972's Eagles to 2007's

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Eagles

Stronger Every Day: Chicago Releases New Live Album, "Isle of Wight" on Vinyl in October

September 25, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Chicago Live and Isle of Wight

Last evening, September 23, Chicago wrapped up its current tour celebrating the band's landmark sophomore LP Chicago II in Staten Island.  But the music plays on, and on October 26, Rhino will release two live sets from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. Greatest Hits Live, coming in CD and CD/DVD iterations, is a companion to the release earlier this year of Chicago II: Live on Soundstage.  At every one of this tour's stops, the band played the original album and then launched into a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Chicago

The Beatles (The White Album): 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

September 25, 2018 By

Beatles White Album Packshot

6CD/1BD super deluxe box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP new stereo mix: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Beatles are revisiting The White Album in a variety of formats including a 6CD/1BD Super Deluxe box set containing Giles Martin and Sam Okell's new 2018 stereo remix of the album, the complete Esher Demos, and 50 studio outtakes on CD, and the new

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Say It's Your Birthday: The Beatles Mark 50 Years of The White Album with Deluxe Reissue

September 24, 2018 By Joe Marchese 25 Comments

Beatles White Album Packshot

It's officially named for the band that created it, but to listeners around the world, the 1968 double-album will forever be known as The White Album.  Its sprawling, eclectic lineup of 30 tracks showcased every side of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, and cast its musical net wider from the baroque pop majesty of Sgt. Pepper's to a heavier celebration of all things, and all sounds, rock-and-roll.  Just a few of its classic songs include "Back in the USSR," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "While My Guitar

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: George Harrison, George Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

Release Round-Up: Week of September 21

September 21, 2018 By Joe Marchese 18 Comments

Bobbie Gentry Girl from Chickasaw Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bobbie Gentry, The Girl from Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters (UMC U.K.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The career of the enigmatic Bobbie Gentry is celebrated on a remarkable new box set.  The hotly-anticipated 8-CD collection The Girl from Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters collects all seven of Gentry's 1967-1971 Capitol Records studio albums plus more than 75 previously unreleased recordings.  This

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bobbie Gentry, Electric Light Orchestra, Kenny Rogers, Prince, Ramones, The Chipmunks, The Isley Brothers, The MC5, The Soulful Strings

If You See Her, Say Hello: Bob Dylan's Next Bootleg Series Offers "More Blood, More Tracks"

September 20, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

More Blood More Tracks packshot

Fresh off a two-record stint with Asylum, Bob Dylan returned to Columbia Records in 1975 with one of the most acclaimed records of his career.  Blood on the Tracks found Dylan reinvigorating the "confessional" singer-songwriter genre, even as he repeatedly insisted that the album's songs had no relation to his own life and then-recent marital turmoil.  Whatever the truth, Blood on the Tracks was painfully raw, vulnerable, and altogether exquisite, boasting such all-time classic compositions as

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan

Sex, Dope, and Cheap Thrills

September 19, 2018 By

Big Brother Sex Dope and Cheap Thrills

Legacy Recordings has revisited the original sessions of Big Brother and The Holding Company's 1968 classic Cheap Thrills for a new collection entitled Sex, Dope, and Cheap Thrills - the LP's original name which was nixed by Columbia Records 50 years ago.  This 30-track 2-CD or 16-track 2-LP set features demos, outtakes and alternate takes, almost all of which are previously unreleased, illuminating the process by which Janis Joplin and Big Brother created some of the most indelible blues-rock

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

Wish You Were Here: Expanded Edition

September 19, 2018 By

Badfinger Wish You Were Here

Badfinger's second and final Warner Bros. album, Wish You Were Here, marked the end of the classic iteration of the group.  Real Gone expands the underrated 1974 LP with 10 bonus tracks including the unreleased song "Queen of Darkness," and nine new alternate mixes from the featuring some different vocals and arrangements.  Badfinger biographer Dan Matovina has remastered the reissue, and penned new liner notes.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Badfinger: Expanded Edition

September 19, 2018 By

Badfinger WB

Real Gone Music expands the original 1974 release of the band's Warner Bros. debut with 10 bonus tracks, highlighted by the unreleased song "Love My Lady" and featuring an additional nine "Work in Progress" mixes from the original album sessions.   Badfinger biographer Dan Matovina has remastered and written the new liner notes.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Electric Ladyland: 50th Anniversary Edition

September 19, 2018 By

Electricl Ladyland 50

3CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings generously expand Electric Ladyland, the final album from The Jimi Hendrix Experience, for its 50th anniversary in a new edition (available on CD or LP) featuring never-before-released session recordings and a Blu-ray featuring a documentary as well as stereo and surround mixes of the original album.

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

Another Little Piece Of My Heart: Unreleased Big Brother Demos Abound on 'Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills'

September 18, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Big Brother Sex Dope and Cheap Thrills

Adorned with a Robert Crumb cover, Big Brother and The Holding Company's 1968 album Cheap Thrills marked the end of an era for the band.  It was Big Brother's second and final album with lead singer Janis Joplin, whose incendiary talents were simply too big for any one band.  Cheap Thrills, produced by John Simon, remains a touchstone for pulse-pounding blues-rock.  Lead guitarist Sam Andrew, guitarist James Gurley, bassist Peter Albin, and drummer David Getz unleashed one of the most

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin

Release Round-Up: Week of September 14

September 14, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Doors Waiting for the Sun Deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Doors, Waiting for the Sun: 50th Anniversary Edition (Elektra/Rhino) (Amazon U.S./ Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Doors' Waiting for the Sun, featuring the hit "Hello, I Love You," is turning 50 with a new box set.  This 2-CD/1-LP box features Bruce Botnick's remastered version of the original stereo mix on both CD and 180-gram vinyl, plus a disc of 14 previously unreleased tracks including nine rough mixes and five live performances from

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Ann Wilson, Diana Krall, Jorge Santana, Loudon Wainwright III, The Doors, The Guess Who, Tony Bennett, Twisted Sister, Willie Nelson

Come and Get It: Real Gone Expands Badfinger's Two Warner Bros. Albums in November

September 13, 2018 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Badfinger WB

Real Gone Music is taking a bite of the apple, er, Apple, this fall with a special pair of newly remastered and generously expanded reissues from Badfinger.  The band's two underrated Warner Bros. albums are getting the deluxe treatment from the label on November 2. Following five albums for The Beatles' Apple label (including one as The Iveys in 1969), the hitmaking band behind "Come and Get It" and "Day After Day" decamped their fab home for the Warner Bros. label.  The quartet of Pete Ham,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Badfinger

Have You Ever Been: Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" Expanded to Deluxe Box for 50th Anniversary

September 13, 2018 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Electricl Ladyland 50

Have you ever been to Electric Ladyland?  You'll have another opportunity on November 9, when Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's classic album as a generously expanded 3-CD/1-BD or 6-LP/1-BD box set featuring never-before-released session recordings and a Blu-ray featuring a documentary as well as stereo and surround mixes of the original album. First released in October 1968, was the third and final album of new material

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Release Round-Up: Week of September 7

September 7, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same [Various Formats] (Atlantic/Swan Song) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/4LP/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham took the famous stage at New York's Madison Square Garden on July 27-29, 1973 for the concerts

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Coltrane, Ashford and Simpson, Bob Seger, George Gershwin, Grateful Dead, Harold Arlen, Jack Cassidy, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, The Posies

Hold Your Breath: For Its 30th Anniversary, Metallica Reissues "...And Justice For All" in Multiple Formats Including 21-Disc CD/LP/DVD Box

September 6, 2018 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Metallica And Justice for All Cover

Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Metallica's fourth studio album ...And Justice For All.  To commemorate the occasion, the group has announced today the reissue of the album in a variety of formats including a gigantic 11 CD/6 LP/4 DVD deluxe box set, all due on November 2.  This follows on from similar reissues of the band's first three albums over the last several years. ...And Justice For All was the first Metallica album to feature bassist Jason Newsted following the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Metallica

Turn You Inside Out: R.E.M. Collect BBC Recordings for 8CD/1DVD Box

September 6, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

REM at the BBC

R.E.M.'s relationship with the BBC was a long and fruitful one, and on October 19, Craft Recordings will celebrate their joint musical journey with a new retrospective release.  R.E.M. at the BBC will be available as a super deluxe 8CD/1DVD box set as well as in 2-CD and 2-LP formats.  The collections have been curated from the archives of both the band and the BBC, and boast rare and previously unreleased live and studio recordings spanning 1984-2008. The in-studio recordings featured on the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: R.E.M.

Bohemian Rhapsody: The Original Soundtrack

September 5, 2018 By

Bohemian Rhapsody OST

The soundtrack to the upcoming Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody boasts 22 tracks: hits, fan favorites, and 11 previously unreleased cuts including the band's Live Aid set, a movie mix of "We Will Rock You," a previously unreleased live version of "Fat Bottomed Girls" from Paris 1979, a new recording of "Doing All Right" with the original pre-Queen lineup of the band Smile (Roger Taylor, Brian May, and Tim Staffell) and much more.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock, Soundtracks

Killer Queen: 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Soundtrack to Feature Unreleased Live Aid Cuts and More

September 5, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bohemian Rhapsody OST

Today would have marked Freddie Mercury's 72nd birthday.  While the Queen frontman has been gone since 1991, his powerful voice has hardly been silenced.  On October 23, the big-screen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, authorized by his bandmates in Queen, will have its premiere in the United Kingdom - and four days before that, a rarities-packed soundtrack album will arrive from Hollywood Records (U.S.) and Virgin EMI/Universal (U.K.).  Bohemian Rhapsody: The Original Soundtrack features 22

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Queen

This Was: 50th Anniversary Edition

September 4, 2018 By

Jethro Tull This Was

Parlophone/Rhino has a new 3CD/1DVD anniversary edition of Jethro Tull's debut album in the hardcover book format.  It features a new stereo mix of the album by Steven Wilson, who has also mixed it in 4.1 (yes, 4.1, not 5.1) DTS and AC3 Dolby Digital surround for the DVD.  In addition, CD1 also includes new mixes of two non-LP songs "Love Story" and "A Christmas Song" (both remixed into 5.1 surround on the DVD) and four previously unreleased tracks.  CD2 kicks off with nine live performances

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

Imagine: Ultimate Collection [Various Formats]

September 4, 2018 By

john lennon imagine

Imagine: Ultimate Collection Super Deluxe Box (4CD/2BD):  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Imagine: Ultimate Collection Deluxe Edition (2CD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Imagine: Ultimate Mixes Deluxe Vinyl (2LP): 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Imagine: Ultimate Mixes (1CD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada John Lennon's second solo studio album, and arguably his most beloved, is returning from Apple and Capitol in a lavish new 4CD/2BD box

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Keep A-Knockin': New Box Set Collects Mott the Hoople's Island Years, Premieres Unreleased Tracks

September 4, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Mott the Hoople Mental Train

On October 24, Universal U.K. will board the Mental Train for a trip back with some really young dudes.  Mott the Hoople's new 6-CD box set Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-1971 revisits the band's earliest, pre-glam years in deluxe fashion.  The set includes remastered and expanded versions of all four original Island releases; an entire disc of unheard and unreleased material; and a full disc of live and BBC performances. Ian Hunter, Mick Ralphs, Verden Allen, Pete Watts, and Dale

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