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The Song Remains the Same [Various Formats]

June 21, 2018 By

Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same Cover

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 Links TBD 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 that were captured in the film The Song Remains the Same.  Now that film's soundtrack, produced by Page and originally

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

Unattended Luggage

June 21, 2018 By

Nick Mason Unattended Luggage

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pink Floyd founding member Nick Mason's three solo albums are rounded up in one CD or vinyl box set as Unattended Luggage.  The 3-LP or 3-CD set includes Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1981), Profiles (1985), and White of the Eye (1987), with the latter making its CD debut.  All three albums will also be available as digital downloads and for streaming.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock, Soundtracks

Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, 5/19/74

June 21, 2018 By

Grateful Dead Portland

The Grateful Dead is heading to the Pacific Northwest.  Grateful Dead's online-exclusive 19-CD box set Pacific Northwest '73-'74: The Complete Recordings, presenting six previously unreleased shows from two tours, is being cut down for two highlights editions: a 3-CD compilation drawn from the box set, and a 6-LP set of the complete Portland '74 show (May 19, 1974).  The 6-LP set, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, is limited to 7,500 copies.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe It If You Need It

June 21, 2018 By

Grateful Dead Believe It If You Need It

The Grateful Dead is heading to the Pacific Northwest.  Grateful Dead's online exclusive 19-CD box set Pacific Northwest '73-'74: The Complete Recordings, presenting six previously unreleased shows from two tours, is being cut down for two highlights editions: a 3-CD compilation drawn from the box set, and a 6-LP set of the complete Portland '74 show (May 19, 1974).  The 6-LP set, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, is limited to 7,500 copies.

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

Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections

June 21, 2018 By

Bob Dylan Live Copyright 1962 1966

The new 2-CD set Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections draws on Dylan's previously issued limited edition "copyright extension" collections to offer a sampler of Dylan onstage, from a pair of songs recorded on April 16, 1962 at Gerdes Folk City in New York ("Blowin' in the Wind" and "Corrina, Corrina") to "Ballad of a Thin Man" from May 20, 1966 at Edinburgh's ABC Theatre.  Many of his most famous songs are heard here including "Mr. Tambourine Man." "It Ain't Me,

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop

Whole Lotta Love: Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains the Same" Gets Super Deluxe Treatment in September

June 21, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same Cover

The next Super Deluxe box set from Led Zeppelin was officially announced early this morning.  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 that were captured in the film The Song Remains the Same.  Now that film's soundtrack, produced by Page and originally released on Swan Song in 1976, is getting the lavish reissue treatment on September 7. The Song Remains the Same follows the

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

Baby Let Me Follow You Down: Rare Live Dylan Coming in July from Legacy

June 20, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bob Dylan Live Copyright 1962 1966

As a result of E.U. public domain laws, so-called "copyright extension" collections have been proliferating for the past number of years for such top-tier artists as The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and the remarkable Motown roster.  Bob Dylan has been no exception.  Each year since 2012, Sony has released a "copyright collection" for Dylan to assert the label's rights to previously unreleased recordings that would otherwise fall into the public domain.  But unlike some of the readily-available

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop Tags: Bob Dylan

Love Is All: Cherry Red, Purple Records Reissue Roger Glover's "Butterfly Ball" Featuring Ronnie James Dio

June 15, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Roger Glover Butterfly Ball

A poem written for children in 1802 would not have been the most obvious subject for Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover for tackle, but that's precisely what he did in 1974 with The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast.  Glover wrote, produced, and played on the pop/rock opera concept album which yielded the hit "Love Is All," sung by Ronnie James Dio.  Now, that original album has been expanded to 3 CDs for a new box set from Cherry Red's newly-reactivated Purple Records imprint. In

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Deep Purple, Roger Glover, Ronnie James Dio

Release Round-Up: Week of June 15

June 15, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Cure Mixed Up Deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Rolling Stones, The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This massive, limited edition vinyl box set collects the legendary band's 15 studio albums from Sticky Fingers (1971) to Blue and Lonesome (2016) on 20 meticulously-recreated LPs with original art elements, inserts, and more.  Each album, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, has been remastered and cut at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barry White, Gene Clark, Kirsty MacColl, Love Unlimited, The Allman Brothers Band, The Cure, The Killers, The Rolling Stones, The Rose Garden

Review: Bear Family's "Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War"

June 14, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Battleground Korea

If there was any doubt that history could be engaging as well as informative, such doubt would be dispelled by a listen to Bear Family's new release, the 4-CD box set Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War.  Make no mistake, the handsomely slipcased collection is as imposing and heavy as a textbook, as its four discs are housed within a lavish, 160-page hardcover tome.  But this immersive journey can't help but thrill in its scope and execution.  It follows previous Bear

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Gospel, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Various Artists

Endless Party: Cherry Red Collects New York Dolls' Demos and Live Shows on "Personality Crisis"

June 13, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

New York Dolls Personality Crisis

Call them hard rock, call them proto-punk, call them glam-punk or a combination of the three, but when The New York Dolls burst onto the downtown Manhattan scene in 1971, they were unlike any other band in town - or perhaps on the planet.  The Dolls - lead vocalist David Johansen, rhythm guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane, lead guitarist Johnny Thunders and drummer Jerry Nolan (who replaced the late Billy Murcia) - might have emerged as a response to the studied musicianship

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: New York Dolls

Playing in the Band: Grateful Dead Issues Massive "Pacific Northwest" Box Set, Highlights Discs, More

June 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Grateful Dead Pacific Northwest

The Grateful Dead is heading to the Pacific Northwest with an upcoming box set.  While the band made frequent visits to cities like Portland and Seattle, and occasional visits to Vancouver, official live recordings from these locations have been infrequent.  Rhino and Dead.net are about to change that with the September 7 release of Pacific Northwest '73-'74: The Complete Recordings, a 19-CD box set boasting six previously unreleased shows from two tours.   Pacific Northwest also marks the first

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

In The Pink: Warner to Reissue Nick Mason's Three Solo Albums in New Box Set

June 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Nick Mason Unattended Luggage

Nick Mason, drummer and founding member of Pink Floyd, is the only member of that band to have performed on every one of their albums and all of their live concerts.  But he's still found time over the years to release a handful of solo projects.  On August 31, his three solo albums - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports, Profiles, and White of the Eye - will be reissued in both CD and vinyl boxed sets through Warner Music Group as Unattended Luggage.  These limited edition boxes will arrive just

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Carla Bley, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Rick Fenn

Secret Messages [Deluxe 2-LP Edition]

June 8, 2018 By

ELO Secret Messages

35 years after its first appearance, Electric Light Orchestra's Secret Messages returns to vinyl in a new edition moving closer to founder Jeff Lynne's original vision for the album.  Legacy Recordings will reissue Secret Messages on double 150-gram vinyl restoring all but one of the tracks which were cut from the original LP release.  Alas, that outtake - the near-legendary "Beatles Forever" - is still missing in action, but six more tracks have been reinstated in the album's original running

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Piano & A Microphone, 1983

June 8, 2018 By

Prince Piano and a Microphone

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/LP Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Digital: Amazon U.S. The Prince vaults are open!  Piano & A Microphone 1983 - a nine-track, 35-minute album - features a previously unreleased home studio cassette recording of the solo Prince at his piano in that epochal year including renditions of "Purple Rain," Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You," the folk spiritual "Mary, Don't You

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

I Got a Line on You: Cherry Red Collects Albums of Spirit, Sailor, Bram Tchaikovsky In New Box Sets

June 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Spirit It Shall Be

Cherry Red's various imprints have become a go-to destination for compact, affordable complete album packages, and three recent releases are no exception. Esoteric Recordings has gone the extra mile with a new package dedicated to the early recordings of Spirit.  The Los Angeles rock band evolved out of a band called The Red Roosters which included Randy California (real name: Randy Wolfe) on guitars and vocals, Mark Andes on bass, and Jay Ferguson on vocals and percussion.  When California's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bram Tchaikovsky, Sailor, Spirit

Release Round-Up: Week of June 8

June 8, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Johnny Mathis Youve Got a Friend

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Close to You/Love Story: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue their journey through Johnny Mathis' seventies catalogue with this expanded, remastered two-fer of Mathis' 1970 and 1971 albums.  Close to You finds the singer reinterpreting hits by Bacharach and David, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Beatles, and even Santana, while Love Story

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Davy Jones, Dennis Coffey, Eric Clapton, Johnny Mathis, Keely Smith, Mick Ronson, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Violent Femmes

One Nite Alone: Unreleased Prince Home Recordings to Be Released in September

June 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Prince Piano and a Microphone

Today would have been Prince's 60th birthday.  Warner Bros. Records and the Prince estate are marking the occasion by swinging the vault doors wide open.  Following such posthumous releases as the "Nothing Compares 2 U" single, the expanded Purple Rain, and the Prince 4Ever collection with one unreleased track, Warner Bros. has just announced an archival album to be released on September 21 in CD, LP, and CD/LP Deluxe formats, as well as digitally. Piano & A Microphone 1983 - a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Rock 'N' Roll Is King: ELO's "Secret Messages" Comes to Double Vinyl in August

June 6, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

ELO Secret Messages

35 years after its first appearance, Electric Light Orchestra's Secret Messages is returning to vinyl in a new edition moving closer to founder Jeff Lynne's original vision for the album.  On August 3, Legacy Recordings will reissue Secret Messages on double 150-gram vinyl restoring all but one of the tracks which were cut from the original LP release.  Alas, that outtake - the near-legendary "Beatles Forever" - is still missing in action. 1983's Secret Messages was originally conceived by

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne

Release Round-Up: Week of June 1

June 1, 2018 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Michelle Phillips Victim of Romance

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Michelle Phillips, Victim of Romance: Expanded Edition (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) "Mama" Michelle Phillips' 1977 solo album, produced by Jack Nitzsche, returns to CD in a new expanded edition collecting the artist's complete sessions with Nitzsche.  It adds three outtakes from the album sessions, including a Bee Gees cover ("Had a Lot of Love Last Night"), Dennis Lambert and Fil Spina's "Practice What You Preach,"

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Cheap Trick, Cowboy, Def Leppard, Emmylou Harris, Jethro Tull, Keely Smith, Living Colour, Michelle Phillips, Paul Simon, Roger Daltrey, The Mamas and The Papas, The Quick, The Temptations, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, ZZ Top

Yellow Submarine [7-Inch Single]

May 31, 2018 By

Yellow Submarine Single

The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" b/w "Eleanor Rigby" returns to 7-inch vinyl as a picture disc single to mark the 50th anniversary of the animated film classic.  It will be housed in a die-cut card sleeve.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

And The Band Begins To Play: The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" Celebrates 50 With New Single Release

May 30, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Yellow Submarine Single

On July 6, The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" will be reissued as a 7-inch picture disc vinyl single to mark the 50th anniversary of the beloved animated film of the same name which was originally released on July 17, 1968. The Capitol/UMe single release will coincide with new theatrical screenings of the movie, featuring a 4K restoration by Paul Rutan Jr., Triage Motion Picture Services, and Eque Inc;, and a 5.1 surround remix by Peter Cobbin at Abbey Road. The vinyl single will be housed

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beatles

Short Takes: Reissues Due from Janis Ian, CCR's Tom Fogerty and Doug Clifford, Social Distortion

May 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Janis Ian Between the Lines

Five classic albums from singer-songwriter Janis Ian have just been reissued on CD and vinyl from Sony Legacy's U.K. arm.  Stars (1974), Between the Lines (1975), Aftertones (1976), Miracle Row (1977), and Night Rains (1979), all originally released on Columbia Records, represent the peak of Ian's commercial success.  Between the Lines yielded Ian's most successful single, the touching "At Seventeen," a No. 3 Pop/No. 1 AC hit.  The song netted the artist a Grammy Award and was performed by her

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Janis Ian, Social Distortion, Tom Fogerty

Appetite For Destruction

May 26, 2018 By

appetite for destruction2

Guns N' Roses' 1987 classic returns in a variety of formats from a single-disc remaster to a super deluxe box set containing 4 CDs and 1 Blu-ray, and for those with truly extravagant tastes, a website-exclusive set with 4 CDs, 1 BD, 7 LPs, and 6 vinyl 7-inch singles!  See our full article for links to all versions!

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

Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes

May 26, 2018 By

Yes Steven Wilson Remixes

As part of Yes' 50th anniversary celebration, Rhino delivers a new five-album box bringing Steven Wilson's recent, acclaimed remixes of the band's storied catalogue to vinyl.  Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes features Wilson's remixed versions of: The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971), Close To The Edge (1972), the double album Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973), and Relayer (1974). Each remixed album is a vinyl debut, having previously appeared only in deluxe CD/Blu-ray or DVD-Audio packages.

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

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