40 years after Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols charged into record stores, Virgin and Universal Music Catalogue are bringing a box set version of the set back into print--and they've also recently expanded a collection of interview excerpts for hardcore fans, too. Five years ago, Virgin/Universal expanded Never Mind The Bollocks as a deluxe box set which featured the original remastered album, a disc of studio rarities, a live disc and a DVD of performances and vintage
Stayin' Alive: 'Saturday Night Fever' Soundtrack Gets Super Deluxe Treatment
Get ready to strut into record stores--Saturday Night Fever's immortal soundtrack is being reissued as a super deluxe set alongside the film itself. Based on a New York Magazine article that was later found to be fabricated, Saturday Night Fever ironically solidified the image of disco in popular culture. John Travolta's rough-edged but sympathetic Tony Manero--a Brooklyn bum working in a hardware store by day and tearing up the floor of the 2001 Odyssey by night--established the young TV
Knockin' on Heaven's Door: Bob Dylan's New Bootleg Series Volume "Trouble No More" Explores The Gospel Years
Bob Dylan's acclaimed Bootleg Series is back, and for its newest volume, it's taking aim at one of the most controversial, and misunderstood, periods of the Bard of Hibbing's musical journey. Due from Columbia and Legacy on November 3, Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 focuses on Dylan's so-called "gospel years," during which time he crafted some of his most enduring songs in praise of a higher power. The Deluxe Edition features nine discs - 8 CDs and 1 DVD - and
You'll Be Doin' All Right: New Compilation Features Elvis Presley Christmas Classics with New Orchestral Backing
Even though the fall season has yet to officially begin, kids are back at school and we are already looking ahead to winter. Of course, that also means Christmas and it is time to start kicking off the announcements of Christmas recordings for this year. RCA and Legacy Recordings have just announced a new Elvis Presley project for this yuletide season: Christmas with Elvis and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, due on October 6. As you may have guessed from the title, this new project
Party Is a Groovy Thing: People's Choice Philly Soul and Funk Collected by BBR
Philadelphia International Records, home of The Sound of Philadelphia, wasn't always the most hospitable label for bands. After all, the label's "house band" MFSB featured some of the finest musicians anywhere, so self-contained units such as Instant Funk, Force of Nature, or even the venerable Soul Survivors inevitably played second fiddle to the vocal groups supported so deftly by MFSB. But of all the Philly International bands, one rose above the rest. People's Choice scored an R&B
Review: Liza Minnelli, "Results: Expanded 4-Disc Edition"
The list of Liza Minnelli's musical partners reads like a "Who's Who" of popular culture: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Charles Aznavour, Donna Summer, Joel Grey, Chita Rivera, and of course, her mother Judy Garland, to name a few. Yet one of Minnelli's most cherished collaborations was also one of her most unexpected. 1989's Results was the superstar's first studio album in over a decade, and teamed her with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, a.k.a. the British dance-pop duo Pet Shop Boys.
Release Round-Up: Week of September 8
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Melissa Manchester, Through the Eyes of Love: The Complete Arista 7" Singles (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The timeless songs of Melissa Manchester are collected on a new, comprehensive anthology from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music. Through the Eyes of Love: The Complete Arista 7″ Singles brings together 43 songs and 157 minutes of beautiful music on two CDs, including such all-time hits and
You're About To Get Your Share: Real Gone Announces Desmond Dekker and Meters Vinyl Reissues
After revealing its Halloween slate of titles, Real Gone Music has announced two more vinyl reissues due in late October and early November. The first, due on October 27, is the 3-LP set The Meters - A Message from The Meters: The Complete Josie, Reprise and Warner Brothers Singles 1968-1977. Funk pioneers The Meters are one of those bands who are greatly influential to a great many musicians. They have worked with artists ranging from Dr. John to Paul McCartney, but have not had great
Super Strut: Cherry Red Collects Best of Creed Taylor's CTI Label on "Cool Heat"
Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint is turning up the Cool Heat with a new 2-CD, 25-track collection celebrating The Best of CTI Records and featuring many of the classic jazz label's most renowned artists including instrumentalists George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, and Stanley Turrentine, and vocalists Nina Simone, Patti Austin, and Esther Phillips. Chances are, if you think of a jazz artist, it wouldn't take many degrees of separation to reach Creed Taylor. The esteemed producer
'Cause This Is Thriller Night: Michael Jackson's "Scream" Arrives In October
On Monday evening, an animated teaser featuring black cats, a spider web, and other spooky imagery arrived on Michael Jackson's official social media platforms, teasing the release of a project entitled Scream. Today, the details have been confirmed for this new 14-track collection. Scream, bringing together some of the late King of Pop's darkest songs, will arrive from Epic and Legacy on September 29, giving listeners a month-plus to savor it in the build-up to one of Jackson's favorite
Hokus Pokus: Insane Clown Posse Reissue Classic Joker's Card As Expanded Edition
Detroit duo Insane Clown Posse exist in many minds as a broad-based punchline, which is kind of a shame. Despite the goofy, shlocky nature of their music and image, like something out of a nightmarish, coulrophobic slasher film, the hatchet-wielding, Faygo-spraying antics of Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J have sold millions of records and endeared the group to their loyal blue-collar fanbase of Juggalos. (The controversy they've drummed up still continues, with a protest march on Washington, D.C.
Rhino Serves Bread and Gumbo In New Album Box Sets
Rhino's international arm is boxing up remastered albums by two very different artists of the late '60s and early '70s: New Orleans R&B master Dr. John and definitive soft rock combo Bread. For six decades, Dr. John has been spreading the funky gospel with his singular brand of psychedelic soul. On September 22, many of the good doctor's most acclaimed albums will feature in The Atco Albums Collection. This set brings together the former Mac Rebennack's first seven classic albums,
Oh, Honey: Big Break Celebrates 40 Years of Delegation with Two New Releases
Over the course of just four albums released between 1977 and 1982, Delegation established a reputation and a following that continues to this very day based on the group's sleek brand of soulful, dance-infused R&B. The trio, still active today as led by founding member Ricky Bailey, has long been a mainstay of Cherry Red's Big Break Records label. That association which has recently culminated in a pair of potent releases: the definitive, double-disc anthology In Love's Time: The
Release Round-Up: Week of August 25
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Alex Chilton, A Man Called Destruction: Expanded Edition (Omnivore) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In 1995, the late Big Star and Box Tops frontman Alex Chilton returned to Memphis' Ardent Studios, the site of his classic work with Big Star, to record A Man Called Destruction. Blending original songs with a host of eclectic covers from the likes of Chris Kenner ("Sick and
Back From the Grave and Ready To Party: Real Gone's October Releases Celebrate Halloween with 'Cujo,' Zacherle, 'Return of the Living Dead' and More
Real Gone has already announced one title for October: an expanded edition of Carol Burnett Sings. Now they are going in a completely different direction with titles to get listeners in the Halloween spirit, due on October 6. Things kick off with a limited vinyl reissue of the soundtrack to 1985's The Return of the Living Dead. Return's history and legacy is a little complicated. George A. Romero and John Russo wrote 1968's classic Night of the Living Dead. After its release, the
Hot Fun: Cherry Red's Robinsongs Collects Stanley Clarke's Epic Years
Bassist Stanley Clarke has long been one of jazz's leading lights. The Philadelphia-born musician and composer's career, which flourishes to the present day, has recently been anthologized by Cherry Red's Robinsongs label. The Definitive Collection concentrates on the period of 1975-1990 during which time he was recording for the Nemperor and Epic labels as a solo artist. Philadelphia-born Clarke first rose to prominence showcasing his bass wizardry as part of Chick Corea's fusion jazz
Behind The Chalet: Chris Difford Demos, Memoir Due This Month
Anyone who's gotten really in the weeds with U.K. pop and rock has likely marveled at the work of Chris Difford. The London-born songwriter is best known as one half of the central brain trust of Squeeze, offering reedy countermelodies and biting lyrics alongside his longtime creative partner and co-founder Glenn Tilbrook. Squeeze are set to tour the U.K. and America this fall, with their 15th album, The Knowledge, due in October. But before that, Difford is taking some solo time in the form
SoulMusic Spotlight Part One: New Anthologies Arrive For Esther Phillips, Levert, and Mtume
Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records label has added another quintet of releases to its rapidly-growing Anthology series, and this batch is among the most eclectic yet, blurring the lines of jazz, pop, and R&B with Esther Phillips, Levert, Tom Browne, Kashif, and Mtume. As the premier vocalist on CTI Records' Kudu imprint, Esther Phillips (1935-1984) played a key role in producer Creed Taylor's "Cool Revolution" at CTI. A gifted vocalist, Phillips nonetheless struggled with personal demons
Esoteric Recordings Revisits Anthony Phillips' "Slow Dance" On CD/DVD Deluxe Edition
Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint is happily determined to leave no stone unturned in its reissue series dedicated to the solo recordings of founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips. The latest album to receive its deluxe multi-CD/DVD format is Phillips' 1990 release, Slow Dance. The original LP has been expanded with an entire bonus disc of previously unreleased session material, plus a region-free DVD containing surround and stereo mixes. Slow Dance, a two-part orchestral suite,
Party, Party: Big Break Reissues, Expands "The Best of Eruption"
Following last year's expanded reissues of the group's first two albums, Big Break Records has returned to the catalogue of Eruption with another title from the soulful disco group. The Best of Eruption was originally released on the Hansa label in 1981, but BBR's new iteration has happily upped the track listing from 14 to 19 selections to provide a fuller overview of Eruption's positively volcanic legacy in disco, pop, soul, funk, and R&B. Founded in the United Kingdom in 1969 by
There's No Need To Argue: Real Gone's September Slate Concludes with Expanded DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince and a Two-fer from Ornette Coleman
We've told you about the first batch of Real Gone Music's releases for September, including the Second Disc Records collection of Melissa Manchester's Arista singles. Now, we've got the final two releases on Real Gone's September slate to share. First up, due on September 8, is an expanded edition of 1988's He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper from DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. The group began when Will Smith ("The Fresh Prince") and Jeff Townes ("DJ Jazzy Jeff") met at a party where Townes
Back to the Temple of Love: Sisters of Mercy Plan Vinyl Box of "Some Girls Wander By Mistake"
A quarter century after The Sisters of Mercy chronicled their early singles on the compilation Some Girls Wander By Mistake, an expanded edition will be released in September as a vinyl box set. Some Girls Wander By Mistake originally collected the band's independently-released material from 1980 to 1983. The single material on 1980's "Anaconda," 1982's "Body Electric" and Alice EP and 1983's "Anaconda," "Temple of Love" and The Reptile House EP all feature on this set, released by EastWest
Release Round-Up: Week of July 14
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, A Brand New Me: The Complete Philadelphia Sessions (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Dusty Springfield's 1970 A Brand New Me LP (her follow-up Atlantic effort to the landmark Dusty in Memphis) found Dusty traveling to Sigma Sound in Philadelphia to work with Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell, architects of the orchestrated soul known as "The Philadelphia Sound." Springfield would have a #3 AC
Release Round-Up: Week of July 7
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring our latest Second Disc Records title and much, much more! Laura Nyro, A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to present, for the first time on CD, the ultra-rare, original mono mixes of Laura Nyro's first two albums: More Than a New Discovery (Verve Folkways, 1967) and Eli
The Sun Comes Up, I Think About You: Cherry Red Expands Liza Minnelli and Pet Shop Boys' "Results" to 3 CDs, 1 DVD
Following its recent reissues of Liza Minnelli's Columbia albums The Singer and Tropical Nights, Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment (SFE) imprint is turning its attention to Liza with a Z's 1989 Epic album Results - an epic collaboration, if there ever was one, with The Pet Shop Boys. The SFE edition, due in the U.K. on August 25, promises to be a definitive look at this classic pop album, stacked with 3 CDs and 1 DVD. (Read about those past reissues right here!) When the stage and
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