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Smoke On The Water: Career-Spanning Deep Purple Compilation Due From Rhino

August 15, 2017 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Deep Purple A Fire in the Sky

Deep Purple have just kicked off their latest tour in Las Vegas, co-headlining with Alice Cooper.  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and part of the "Holy Trinity of British Hard-Rock" (with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath) are nearing their 50th anniversary and Rhino Records has announced a new anthology, available in several configurations to celebrate the band's legacy.  A Fire in the Sky will be available in single and 3-CD editions on September 8, with a 3-LP edition following on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Deep Purple

Release Round-Up: Week of August 11

August 11, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Jo Stafford It Had to Be You

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Jo Stafford, It Had to Be You: Lost Radio Recordings (Real Gone Music)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Jo Stafford's It Had To Be You: Lost Radio Recordings features 24 performances from the legendary vocalist's stint as co-host (with crooner Tony Martin) of The Carnation Contented Hour on CBS Radio from 1950-1951.  With songs by mainstays of the Great American Songbook like Harold Arlen ("I've Got the World on a String"), Rodgers

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: A.J. Croce, Asia, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, Jim Croce, Jo Stafford, Live, Rosemary Clooney, Steve Howe, The Slits, Yes

All Around The World: New Box Celebrates The Jam's First Year

August 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Jam 1977 Cover

The Jam burst onto the scene in late April 1977 with the single "In the City," following it up just weeks later in May with a blazing debut album of the same name.  Later that year, This is the Modern World arrived from the prolific three-piece featuring Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton, and Rick Buckler.  On October 20 of this year, UMe/Polydor will look back on one incendiary year with 1977, a new 4-CD/1-DVD box set comprising remastered editions of both albums as well as unreleased demos and live

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Jam

Short Takes: Barbara Cook, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones and Marshall Crenshaw

August 8, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Neil Young Hitchhiker

Farewell, Barbara Cook: The legendary original star of Broadway's The Music Man, Candide, and She Loves Me has passed away at the age of 89.  Cook's enchantingly pure soprano made her a favorite ingénue of the Broadway stage, and her indelible performances in the above musicals as well as Flahooley, Plain and Fancy, The Gay Life, The Grass Harp, Follies in Concert, and others - including her final Broadway appearance in 2010's Sondheim on Sondheim - are happily preserved on original cast

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Barbara Cook, Marshall Crenshaw, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones

Rock'n Me: Steve Miller Curates New "Ultimate Hits" Collection

August 8, 2017 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

SteveMiller UltimateHits CVR

Steve Miller recently brought his complete catalogue to Capitol Records and UMe, and now the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee will celebrate it with a newly-created compilation next month. Ultimate Hits, available September 15 as standard (1CD/2LP) or deluxe (2CD/4LP) packages, features the many AOR-oriented hits that made Miller's first compilation, Greatest Hits '74-'78, one of the highest-selling albums in America, including "The Joker," "Rock'n Me," "Fly Like An Eagle" and "Jungle

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Steve Miller Band

Listen To What The Band Is Playing: Bruce Springsteen Releases Two 1977 Concerts Featuring Official Premiere of Unreleased Song

August 7, 2017 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Bruce Springsteen Palace 1977

Bruce Springsteen has just released two new concerts into his ever-growing list of shows available as made-on-demand CD-Rs and digital downloads at nugs.net.  The first is from February 7, 1977 in Albany, New York and the second is from the next night, February 8 in Rochester, New York.  They are significant as no soundboards from this portion of Springsteen's touring career have ever surfaced before, and because they also feature a song which sees its first official release here:  "Action in

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Maximum As & Bs: The Complete Singles

August 2, 2017 By

The Who Maximum As and Bs

The Who's complete singles from 1964-2015 are collected on a new 5-CD box set, which also contains a 48-page booklet featuring track-by-track annotations on each single.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

See For Miles: The Who Compile "Maximum As and Bs: The Complete Singles" on 5-CD Box Set

August 2, 2017 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

The Who Maximum As and Bs

Over the past two years, The Who have compiled their complete singles discography into a four-volume series of vinyl box sets, with each volume dedicated to one particular label and period: Brunswick, Reaction, Track and Polydor.  Now, the band is bringing those volumes to the CD format as a 5-disc box set as part of a year-long campaign of Who-related releases. Maximum As & Bs: The Complete Singles is due from UMe/Polydor on October 27, collecting 86 sides (including EP tracks) from all

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: The Who

Their Satanic Majesties Request - 50th Anniversary Special Edition

July 31, 2017 By

Rolling Stones Satanic Majesties Cover

The Rolling Stones' controversial 1967 immersion into psychedelia, Their Satanic Majesties Request, gets a 50th anniversary box set from ABKCO containing the original album in mono and stereo on both 180-gram vinyl and hybrid SACD (playable on all CD players) as newly remastered by Bob Ludwig, plus restored lenticular artwork and a 20-page booklet with new liner notes by Rob Bowman.

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

She's a Rainbow: ABKCO Preps 50th Anniversary Box Set For The Rolling Stones' "Satanic Majesties Request"

July 31, 2017 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Rolling Stones Satanic Majesties Cover

The Rolling Stones aren't the first band one might think of in connection with the Summer of Love and the blossoming sound of psychedelia.  Yet the Stones spent much of 1967, on and off, recording the album that became Their Satanic Majesties Request.  Wholly unique in the band's catalogue, it fused the band's gritty sensibility with psychedelic effects, more lavish instrumentation, and experimental sounds.  Underscoring its nature as a conceptual work, it was also the first album by the Stones

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

Out of the Blue [Picture Disc]

July 30, 2017 By

ELO Out of the Blue Picture Disc

Electric Light Orchestra's sprawling seventh studio album Out of the Blue landed in 1977 with four sides melding impeccably-crafted, widescreen pop and symphonic rock.  Written and produced by Jeff Lynne, the LP went multi-platinum and introduced some of the band's most enduring songs including "Turn to Stone," "Sweet Talkin' Woman," and most especially, "Mr. Blue Sky."  Legacy Recordings now has the double album in a special picture disc vinyl edition - fully-remastered, and with a digital

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Eye in the Sky: 35th Anniversary Edition

July 30, 2017 By

Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky 35th

The eye in the sky is still looking at you...Legacy Recordings has a 35th anniversary box set celebrating The Alan Parsons Project's 1982 best-seller Eye in the Sky.  The album, which yielded the APP's biggest hit single with its title track as well as the classic instrumental "Sirius," will be enhanced for this lavish and expansive 3-CD/1-BD/2-LP/1-Flexidisc release boasting high-resolution stereo and surround mixes of the original album, rare single mixes, over 30 previously unreleased tracks,

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

Review: Ramones, "Leave Home: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition"

July 28, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Leave Home

The sophomore album from Forest Hills, Queens, New York's Ramones, Leave Home, arrived in January 1977 on Sire Records, just months after the April 1976 release of the band's self-titled debut.  Despite the title, however, Leave Home didn't mark a large stylistic leap or departure for the young punks out of their comfort zone.  On closer inspection, however, it continued the growth of the band.  Forty years later, it's easier to hear that progression than ever, thanks to a new, 3-CD/1-LP set

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Ramones

Review: Elvis Presley, "A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings"

July 28, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Elvis A Boy from Tupelo Cover

It's hard to believe - impossible, even - but Elvis Aron Presley once was just A Boy from Tupelo.  The once and future King's transformation from modest beginnings to international superstar has never been more vividly traced than on the new 3-CD box set from RCA and Legacy.  A Boy from Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings is a trip back in time to the birth of rock-and-roll (destination: Memphis) featuring every one of Elvis' known Sun Records masters and outtakes, as well as his four

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 28

July 28, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Boy From Tupelo LP

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elvis Presley, A Boy From Tupelo - The Complete 1953-55 Recordings (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete Recordings 1953-1955 journeys back to the birth of rock-and-roll to feature, on three CDs and digitally, every known Elvis Presley Sun Records master and outtake.  In addition, the collection also contains Elvis' four earliest, privately-pressed sides, and vintage radio and concert

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: 10cc, Alice Cooper, Arthur Alexander, Elvis Presley, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Herb Alpert, Jessica Molaskey, John Pizzarelli, Pet Shop Boys, Santana, The Cars, The Delfonics, The Isley Brothers

Turn to Stone: Electric Light Orchestra's "Out of the Blue" Returns to Vinyl with Picture Disc

July 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

ELO Out of the Blue Picture Disc

Electric Light Orchestra's sprawling seventh studio album Out of the Blue landed with four sides melding impeccably-crafted, widescreen pop and symphonic rock.  Written and produced by Jeff Lynne, the LP went multi-platinum and introduced some of the band's most enduring songs including "Turn to Stone," "Sweet Talkin' Woman," and most especially, "Mr. Blue Sky."  It's returning to vinyl on September 29 from Legacy Recordings in a new picture disc edition. This 2LP collector's picture disc

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

Sirius-ly Expanded: Legacy Plans 'Eye in the Sky' Box from Alan Parsons Project

July 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky 35th

The eye in the sky is still looking at you... On November 17, Legacy Recordings will issue a 35th anniversary box set celebrating The Alan Parsons Project's 1982 Eye in the Sky.  The album, which yielded the APP's biggest hit single with its title track as well as the classic instrumental "Sirius," will be enhanced for this expansive 3-CD/1-BD/2-LP/1-Flexidisc release with rare and previously unreleased material. Perhaps the pinnacle of the collaboration between Alan Parsons and Eric

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: The Alan Parsons Project

Motörhead Go "Under Cöver" With New Compilation in September

July 26, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Motorhead Under Cover

The spirit of Motörhead lives on with a rockin' collection of the band's various cover songs due in September. Under Cöver compiles 11 of the band's cover songs from the last 25 years of their career--featuring the band's most consistent lineup of late frontman/bassist Lemmy Kilmister, guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee. Only a handful of the covers (including interpretations of Judas Priest, The Rolling Stones, Twisted Sister, Metallica and others) were released on studio albums,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Motörhead

White Punks On Disc: The Tubes' A&M Albums Collected in New Box

July 24, 2017 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

The Tubes AM Years

The U.K. Caroline label will bring together the first five albums by art-punk act The Tubes in one collection next month. The A&M Years features all the long-players recorded by the quirky San Francisco group, founded by vocalist Fee Waybill, guitarists Bill Spooner and Roger Steen, keyboardists Vince Welnick and Michael Cotten, bassist Rick Anderson and drummer Prairie Prince. Known for their off-the-wall stage shows (many directed by future choreographer to the stars/High School

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A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982)

July 21, 2017 By

David Bowie A New Career Cover Only

The third release in Parlophone's series of chronological box sets dedicated to the music of David Bowie, A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) closes the book on the legendary artist's RCA career.  It follows 2015's Five Years (1969-1973) and 2016's Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), offering material from five major studio and live albums: Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Stage (1978), Lodger (1979) and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980). Low, "Heroes" and Lodger are, of course, referred to as

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

Release Round-Up: Week of July 21

July 21, 2017 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Leave Home

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ramones, Leave Home: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Sire/Rhino) 3CD/1LP box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 1CD remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.  A new  3CD/1LP edition of Ramones' 1977 sophomore album boasts the album in original and newly-remixed form, as well as a 33-track disc loaded with previously unreleased session material and a 1977 CBGBs concert recording! In addition to the above material on CD,

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: 10cc, Billy Ocean, Eric Stewart, Johnny Rivers, Marillion, Ramones, The Beach Boys, The Stylistics

Keats and Yeats Are On Your Side: The Smiths' 'The Queen is Dead' to Be Expanded

July 20, 2017 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

The Queen is Dead 2017

The Smiths' The Queen is Dead--a towering album of '80s British rock and arguably the definitive statement by the Manchester band--will be reissued and expanded October 20. Produced by frontman Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr with assistance from engineer Stephen Street, The Queen is Dead has become quintessential Smiths: packed with biting, witty lyrics and catchy, densely layered instrumental hooks (thanks not only to Marr but bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce). While Morrissey

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Johnny Marr, Morrissey, The Smiths

The Thrill of the Hunt: Real Gone's September Slate Begins with "Predator" on Vinyl Plus Duane Eddy RCA Singles and Grateful Dead

July 19, 2017 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Duane Eddy Complete RCA Singles

While we are now in the height of the summer heat, Real Gone is looking ahead to the fall.  The label has announced the first part of its release slate for September of this year and it is another eclectic mix of titles. First up is a title from the artist most people consider to be the greatest rock-instrumentalist of all time: Duane Eddy.  Guitar Star: The Complete RCA Singles A's and B's collects all 22 single sides Eddy recorded for RCA Victor in the early to mid-1960s on CD, and is due

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Duane Eddy, Fifteen, Grateful Dead

Color Us Impressed: 1986 Replacements Set Makes CD Debut from Rhino

July 18, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Replacements For Sale

The Replacements may be done as a band (again), but Rhino is giving fans something exciting to remember, with the release of a vintage live show in October. For Sale: Live At Maxwell's 1986 captures the Minneapolis legends (lead singer Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson and drummer Chris Mars) for a raucous set at the famous Hoboken, New Jersey club in the winter of 1986. The band had signed to Sire Records the previous year and released their fourth album Tim; a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Replacements

Kinda Got Lost: Omnivore Details Chris Bell's 'I Am The Cosmos' Reissue, Vinyl Box Set

July 17, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Complete Chris Bell

Omnivore's Looking Forward: The Roots of Big Star Featuring Chris Bell was the first of several planned releases from the Grammy Award-winning label showcasing the talents of Big Star co-founder Bell, who passed away in 1978. The label recently announced their next two Bell projects: a new expanded edition of the quintessential Bell collection I Am The Cosmos, and a definitive archive of his work as a 6LP box set. Prior to Rykodisc's I Am The Cosmos in 1992, only two of the tracks (the title

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Big Star, Chris Bell

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