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Stunt: 20th Anniversary Edition

June 8, 2018 By

Barenaked Ladies Stunt

CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Barenaked Ladies revisit the band's 1998 breakthrough album Stunt in a new CD/DVD edition with three audio bonus tracks (the outtakes "She's On Time" and "Long Way Back Home," first heard as hidden tracks on the limited edition version of the album, plus "Get in Line" from the soundtrack to the animated television series King of the Hill).  The DVD includes The Stunt Tour and Barenaked in

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

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

Daydream Believing: 7a Records Celebrates Davy Jones with New Single "Rainbows"

June 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Davy Jones Rainbows

Though it's been over six years since his untimely passing at the age of 66, the music of Davy Jones still endures.  7a Records, the U.K.-based label devoted to all things Monkees-related, has just delivered another treat for longtime fans of the band and its charismatic, perennially boyish singer with the mop top.  "Rainbows" b/w "You Don't Have to Be a Country Boy to Sing a Country Song" is a limited edition (500 units) 7-inch, 45 RPM single pressed on red vinyl. Both sides of the single

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Davy Jones, The Monkees

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

OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Continue Johnny Mathis Series with Two New Titles

June 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Johnny Mathis Close to You and Love Story

Johnny Mathis kicked off the 1970s with a series of albums that found the Voice of Romance reinventing the day's chart hits in inimitably lush fashion.  Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are continuing the journey through the legendary singer's 1970s catalogue with two remastered Expanded Editions due TOMORROW! First up is an expanded two-for-one compact disc release of the classic studio albums Close to You and Love Story.  Johnny teamed with longtime producer Jack Gold and top

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Johnny Mathis

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

Call and Answer: Rhino Reissues, Expands Barenaked Ladies' "Stunt" For 20th Anniversary

June 5, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Barenaked Ladies Stunt

Between June 1 and July 15, Barenaked Ladies will be taking to the road alongside Better Than Ezra and K.T. Tunstall.  Their Last Summer on Earth tour is one part of a banner year for the band which has also seen their induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.  The celebration continues with the upcoming release of Stunt: 20th Anniversary Edition, an expanded edition of their most successful studio album.  It's due on July 6 digitally, with physical CD/DVD and 2-LP vinyl editions following

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Barenaked Ladies

Thank You For The 'Days': Edsel Preps Kirsty MacColl's Virgin Years For New Box

June 5, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Kirsty MacColl Days Box

On June 15, Edsel will remember the late singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl with the release of a new 4CD/1DVD box set.  Days (1988-1991) collects her Virgin Records period which yielded two albums and various singles. MacColl's unique voice was first heard on her single for Stiff Records, the peppy "They Don't Know." Despite strong airplay, the single actually never charted on the U.K. charts, the victim of a distributor's strike keeping the single from experiencing any major sales. (In 1983,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Kirsty MacColl

Anger Is An Energy: New Public Image Ltd. Box Set Forthcoming

June 4, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Public Image Is Rotten

BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COMJohn Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten's post-punk band Public Image Ltd. turns 40 years old in 2018.  The anniversary was anticipated by a cheekily-titled documentary film, The Public Image Is Rotten, which premiered at last year's Tribeca Film Festival.  A 36-date tour is currently underway of Europe and Japan.  Now a box set is due on July 20 from UMC (U.K.) anthologizing the band which has notched five U.K. top 20 hit singles and five top 20 albums.  The Public Image Is

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Public Image Ltd., Sex Pistols

Cilla: All Mixed Up/Beginnings: Revisited [Expanded Edition]

June 1, 2018 By

Cilla All Mixed Up Two Fer

Cherry Red continues its Cilla Black celebration with two CD premieres of digital releases: 2009's remix album Cilla: All Mixed Up, and the same year's Beginnings: Revisited, a remixed and resequenced version of her 2003 album Beginnings. 9 bonus tracks have been spread across the two albums, and all told, 26 of the total 32 tracks are new to CD!

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Surround Yourself with Cilla/It Makes Me Feel Good [Expanded Edition]

June 1, 2018 By

Cilla Surround Yourself Two Fer

Cherry Red celebrates the late, great Cilla Black with a new reissue campaign.   The first 2-CD set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay (Cliff Richard, Blue Mink, The New Seekers).  22 bonus tracks (13 new to CD) are spread across the two discs.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

The Complete Sessions at West 54th

June 1, 2018 By

Ben Folds Five Sessions at West 54th

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone Music has the audio debut of Ben Folds Five's June 9, 1997 performance for PBS' Sessions at West 54th of 15 songs including "Brick," "Kate," and "Battle of Who Could Care Less."  Available on CD and vinyl.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

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

Heading Somewhere: Real Gone to Premiere Ben Folds Five's "Sessions at West 54th" on CD and Vinyl in July

May 31, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Ben Folds Five Sessions at West 54th

Real Gone Music has just announced another title in its July slate, this one a little more modern than some of their other titles.  Hailing from 1997, Real Gone will release the CD and vinyl debut of The Complete Sessions at West 54th from longtime TSD favorites Ben Folds Five.  It will be released on July 13, just a few weeks after the release of Folds' career-spanning box from Edsel. (And to be clear, the Real Gone Sessions at West 54th material is not in that box). Sessions at West 54th

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five

Run Out Groove Round-Up: Dr. John's "Funknology" and Marshall Crenshaw's Live "Thank You"

May 31, 2018 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Dr. John Professor Bizarres Funknology

Today, we're looking at two of Run Out Groove's most recent releases!  Now is also the time to order the label's next release: Vagabonds: Expanded Edition, from Gary Louris of The Jayhawks!  Pre-orders close on June 7, so don't miss out, and don't forget to vote on ROG's next release.  Will it be Luna's Lunafied, Fred Neil's Bleecker & MacDougal, or Billy Byrd's Lonesome Country Songs?  Vote now! It's not called Funknology for nothing!  Run Out Groove's recent release from Dr. John,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dr. John, Marshall Crenshaw

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

Final Light: Cherry Red Collects Last Three Volumes of Anthony Phillips' "Private Parts and Pieces"

May 31, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Anthony Phillips Private Parts and Pieces IX XI

Between 1978 and 2012, founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips released eleven volumes of Private Parts & Pieces.  Each volume has collected various odds and ends from the composer/multi-instrumentalist which, for one reason or another, wouldn't have fit comfortably on any of his proper solo albums.  Since 2015, Cherry Red Group's Esoteric Recordings imprint has been reissuing and expanding these fascinating releases in box set form.  The third and final box (to date), Private Parts

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Anthony Phillips, Genesis

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

I've Waited Hours For This: The Cure Expand 'Mixed Up' With New and Vintage Remixes

May 29, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

The Cure Mixed Up Deluxe

The Cure kicked off the 1990s with the release of Mixed Up, an album collecting the band's rarer 12-inch mixes.  It wasn't just a straightforward anthology, however, as two songs ("A Forest" and "The Walk") weren't just remixed, but re-recorded, and a wholly new track ("Never Enough") was also recorded.  As Robert Smith comments, Brian "Chuck" New's dub style remix of "Pictures Of You" inspired him: "That mix turned the music on its head, but at the same time left the essential heart of the song

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: The Cure

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

Surround Yourself with Cilla: Cherry Red, SFE Launch Ambitious Cilla Black Reissue Campaign

May 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Cilla Surround Yourself Two Fer

Surprise, surprise...it's Cilla here!  Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment imprint has great news for fans of the late Cilla Black.  On July 27, SFE launches a new reissue campaign dedicated to Cilla's discography with a pair of deluxe, generously expanded 2-CD releases.  These releases coincide with what would have been Cilla's 75th birthday year.  The first set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Burt Bacharach, Cilla Black, Cliff Richard, The Beatles

Chicago II: Collector's Edition

May 26, 2018 By

Chicago II Collectors Edition

Chicago II: Collector's Edition bundles together the band's 2017 Soundstage performance of the 1970 classic Chicago II on CD and DVD as well as the acclaimed 2017 stereo remix of the original album by Steven Wilson on both CD and double vinyl.

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

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