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So Sweet, It Makes Your Mouth Water: Cherry Red Plans Bow Wow Wow Box

April 2, 2018 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Bow Wow Wow Pet Set

This May, Cherry Red is looking back to New Wave music of the early 1980s with a collection focused on the band Bow Wow Wow.   The 3-CD Your Box Set Pet: The Complete Recordings 1980-1984, due May 25, rounds up all of the group's recordings for EMI and RCA during their heyday. After the breakup of The Sex Pistols, their manager, the controversial impresario Malcolm McLaren, was approached to manage Adam and the Ants.  He took the job, but soon convinced three of the band members, Matthew

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Adam and The Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Malcolm McLaren

Barry McGuire & The Doctor

March 30, 2018 By

Barry McGuire and the Doctor

Real Gone has a reissue of the rare and unusual 1971 A&M/Ode album from folk-rock pioneer Barry McGuire and guitar hero Eric Hord, a.k.a. "The Doctor." Hord co-wrote four of the bluesy songs on the album with McGuire and played on all six. The album was produced by Lou Adler and two of McGuire's former New Christy Minstrels bandmates, Nick Woods and Art Podell.  Besides Hord, other top-tier musicians on the album include many from the country-rock genre like Chris Hillman (Byrds), "Sneaky"

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Singles and Rarities

March 30, 2018 By

Pat Suzuki Singles and Rarities

As a companion to its Complete Album Series release, Stage Door has collected a full disc of rare singles and tracks from Broadway and screen star Pat Suzuki.  The artist has authorized this release of her non-LP singles for the RCA, Capitol, and PDA labels, plus rare tracks from a never-completed or released LP.  Among the selections here, Pat sings Broadway fare from shows including Whoop-Up!, Sail Away, The Gay Life, Stephen Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle, and Frank Loesser's Greenwillow. 

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Complete Album Series

March 30, 2018 By

Pat Suzuki Complete Album Series

Stage Door Records celebrates Flower Drum Song star Pat Suzuki by bringing together her four albums for RCA/VIK, totaling 50 tracks on two CDs: The Many Sides of Pat Suzuki (1958), Miss Pony Tail (1958), Broadway '59 (1959), and Looking at You (1960). 

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

The Album Collection Vol. 2, 1987-1996

March 30, 2018 By

Springsteen Album Collection Vol 2

Bruce Springsteen boxes up the second set of his albums in chronological order, remastered by Bob Ludwig and Toby Scott.  At this time, the collection is only available on vinyl. LPs 1-2: Tunnel of Love (Columbia OC 40999, 1987) LPs 3-4: Human Touch (Columbia C 53000, 1992) LP 5: Lucky Town (Columbia C 53001, 1992) LPs 6-7: In Concert/MTV Plugged (Columbia CK 68730, 1993) ** LP 8: The Ghost of Tom Joad (Columbia C 67484, 1995) LP 9: Chimes of Freedom (Columbia 4C 44445, 1988) LP 10:

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

Summer: The Original Hits

March 30, 2018 By

Donna Summer Summer The Original Hits

UMe/Island Def Jam has a companion CD to the new Broadway musical Summer, about the life and career of disco superstar Donna Summer.  This CD collection features 17 tracks (in various edits and versions) from the Summer catalogue, including all but three of her U.S. top ten Pop hits with an additional three bonus tracks on the digital and Target-exclusive CD editions.  Tracks are sequenced in the order that they are heard onstage every night on Broadway!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul

Everything's Coming Up Posies: Power Pop Group Work with Omnivore, PledgeMusic on Expanded Reissues (UPDATED 3/30)

March 30, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Posies Amazing Disgrace

UPDATE (3/30): These three previously reported expansions are now available to pre-order directly from Omnivore, with Amazon links coming soon! ORIGINAL POST (1/3/2018): Power pop masterminds The Posies will celebrate their 30th anniversary this year by teaming up with Omnivore Recordings and PledgeMusic for reissues of three albums recorded for DGC Records in the mid-'90s. Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, the core members of the group, released the first Posies album, Failure, in 1988.

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Big Star, The Posies

Release Round-Up: Week of March 30

March 30, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Shake It Up

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Cars, Shake It Up: Expanded Edition (Elektra/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Cars reissue their 1981 LP featuring the hit title track "Shake It Up" on CD and double vinyl, featuring eight bonus tracks including previously unreleased demos and alternate and early versions. The Cars, Heartbeat City: Expanded Edition (Elektra/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bettye LaVette, Eric Andersen, Geoff and Maria Muldaur, Johnny Rivers, Suede, The Cars, The Damnation of Adam Blessing

Dim All The Lights: New Donna Summer Compilation Coming Ahead of Broadway Musical

March 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese 13 Comments

Donna Summer Summer The Original Hits

Last night, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical began previews at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre starring not one, not two, but three actresses as the beloved superstar.  The musical directed and co-written by Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys) chronicles the life of the Boston-born artist from her days touring abroad in Hair to disco stardom to her untimely death in 2012 at the age of 63.  While a cast recording has not yet been announced, UMe and Island/Def Jam are collecting 17 of Summer's classics on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Donna Summer

Living Proof: New Springsteen Vinyl Box Details Life After E Street (UPDATED With CD Details 5/8)

March 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Springsteen Album Collection Vol 2

UPDATE (5/8/18): CDJapan is now taking orders for a CD version of the box. Fans have certainly been vocal in their desire for such a release, but we cannot yet confirm that the box will be released in any other market.  Amazon, however, is currently taking pre-orders for the CD version, as well: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada! ORIGINAL POST (3/29/18): Bruce Springsteen is riding high.  Following a remarkable tour in which he performed some of the longest concerts of his career (4+

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Sounds From Beyond: Cherry Red Collects Psych, Pop, Rock, and the 101 Strings (!) On New Box Set

March 28, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

I Said She Said Ah Cid

I Said, She Said, Ah Cid: With this delightfully offbeat release, Cherry Red's Grapefruit label has turned in one of the year's most intriguing releases.  Ah cid, or acid, is in the air on this trippy 3-CD jaunt through the vaults of Alshire Records, the California-based budget label best known for the long-running 101 Strings series.  As the subtitle - The Exploito Psych World of Alshire Records 1967-1971 - indicates, this set is focused squarely on the brief period in which Al Sherman's

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop Tags: 101 Strings, Various Artists

Like Someone in Love: Ace Collects Complete Charlie Rich at RCA

March 27, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Charlie Rich Too Many Teardrops

Charlie Rich (1932-1995) finally achieved superstardom when his laid-back readings of "Behind Closed Doors" and "The Most Beautiful Girl" ascended in 1973 to the top spot of the Billboard Country chart and crossed over to Pop - the latter to Number One on that chart, too.  Although those songs kicked off a new chapter in the career of the man known by that point as the Silver Fox (for his mane of gray hair and wizened appearance), Rich's repertoire could hardly be defined by their mellow sound. 

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Charlie Rich

Forever Changes: 50th Anniversary Edition

March 24, 2018 By

Love Forever Changes 50th

Love's 1967 psych-rock classic Forever Changes goes super deluxe in a 12 x 12 hardbound book-style format, containing 4 CDs, 1 DVD, and 1 LP.  The original stereo album will be featured on Disc One in a new remaster by original engineer Bruce Botnick, while the original mono mix makes its official CD premiere on Disc Two.  The third disc has the alternate mix of the entire album that premiered on the 40th anniversary reissue in 2008 plus outtake "Wonder People (I Do Wonder)" in the mix first

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

Release Round-Up: Week of March 23

March 23, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Miles Coltrane Bootleg 6

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Miles Davis and John Coltrane, The Final Tour: Bootleg Series Vol. 6 (Columbia/Legacy) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Copenhagen LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This latest volume of Miles Davis' Bootleg Series brings together five performances by Davis and John Coltrane recorded during the Spring 1960 Jazz at the Philharmonic European Tour, Coltrane's final such outing as a sideman: two shows from Paris's

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop Tags: Grateful Dead, John Coltrane, Langley Schools Music Project, Led Zeppelin, Michael Nesmith, Miles Davis, Procol Harum, Steve Gadd, The Claudettes, Tom Waits

Yachts Rock: Cherry Red Collects Complete Recordings of New Wave Band

March 22, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Yachts Complete Collection

Cherry Red Records has set sail with a three-CD retrospective dedicated to Yachts, the British power pop/new wave band that left behind two LPs on Radar Records in 1979 and 1980.  Suffice to Say: The Complete Yachts Collection features both of those albums as well as a disc of 19 singles and rarities originally released on the Radar, Stiff, Demon, and Eric's Records labels.  It's due tomorrow, March 23! Liverpool Art College students J.J. Campbell (lead vocals), Martin Watson (guitar/vocals),

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Yachts

Down By the River: Real Gone Reissues Rare Blues-Rock from Barry McGuire and Roy Buchanan in May

March 21, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Roy Buchanan Live at Town Hall 1974

Even though spring is now here, it doesn't feel like it in some parts of the U.S.!  As the east coast is hit by its fourth major snowstorm of March, let's look ahead to hopefully warmer days of spring and a pair of Real Gone releases coming out May 4 in the blues-rock genre. First up is Live at Town Hall 1974 from Roy Buchanan.  Guitarist Buchanan was famous for playing the Fender Telecaster with an effects-free technique and influencing many other musicians despite never having much solo

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Barry McGuire, Eric Hord, Roy Buchanan

Above the Clouds: The Collection

March 21, 2018 By

Glenn Frey Above the Clouds

The 3-CD/1-DVD Above the Clouds: The Collection celebrates the musical legacy of Eagles' Glenn Frey, presenting key tracks from Frey as a solo artist on 2 CDs as well as the long-awaited, official CD premiere of Longbranch/Pennywhistle, his early collaboration with friend J.D. Souther, and a live concert DVD, Strange Weather/Live in Dublin, previously available only on VHS.

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

Rapture and Redemption: Run Out Groove Announces Judee Sill For Next Release, Opens Voting for New Titles

March 21, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Judee Sill Songs of Rapture and Redemption

Run Out Groove has had one busy winter.  The label just announced two exciting projects for Record Store Day (Saturday, April 21) from The Beau Brummels and Baby Huey, as well as revealing its next limited edition deluxe vinyl release. Judee Sill's Songs of Rapture and Redemption: Rarities & Live is an all-new 2-LP collection celebrating the late artist whose two solo Asylum Records albums - Judee Sill and Heart Food - remain strikingly original works from a singular talent.  ROG's

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Judee Sill

Caught Up In The Action: Universal Plans Career-Spanning Glenn Frey Box

March 19, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Glenn Frey Above the Clouds

Though he passed away at far too young an age in 2016, the late Glenn Frey remains a looming presence as the Eagles embark on a new North American tour that will take the reconstituted band - now featuring Frey's son Deacon as well as country superstar Vince Gill - on the road through October.  Now, even as his music is being sung nightly by his bandmates, Geffen Records is celebrating his career with a new box set.  The 3-CD/1-DVD Above the Clouds: The Collection arrives on May 11, highlighting

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Eagles, Glenn Frey, J.D. Souther

Release Round-Up: Week of March 16

March 16, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Andrew Lloyd Webber Platinum Collection

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Andrew Lloyd Webber: Unmasked - The Platinum Collection (Polydor/UMC) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Let the memory live again!  Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates his 70th birthday and provocative new memoir Unmasked with this 4-CD, 71-track box set of the same name.  The career-spanning anthology features many of the composer's most famed songs from Phantom of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Gospel, Pop Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Muddy Waters, NRBQ, Spirit, The Oak Ridge Boys

Almost Like A Song: Morello Collects Four Ronnie Milsap Albums on 2-CD Set

March 14, 2018 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Ronnie Milsap Almost Like a Song Four Fer

As one of the biggest country music stars of the 1970s and 1980s, Ronnie Milsap has had many compilations devoted to his career.  Recently, Cherry Red imprint Morello records released a 2-CD set featuring four of Milsap's albums from 1977 to 1980: It Was Almost Like A Song, Only One Love In My Life, Images and Milsap Magic.  It was during this period when Milsap began to experience his greatest successes as a crossover artist. By the time of 1977's It Was Almost Like A Song, Ronnie Milsap had

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Ronnie Milsap

Nobody I'd Sooner Love: Cherry Red Collects The Paper Dolls' Girl Group Sounds

March 14, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Paper Dolls Something Here in My Heart

Pauline Bennett, Sue Marshall, and Susie Mathis - a.k.a. The Paper Dolls - worked their way up the showbiz ranks, from taking second billing to strippers all the way to pop stardom.  But despite the success of their debut single "Something Here in My Heart (Keeps A-Tellin' Me No") in 1968, the U.K. girl group had largely faded from view as the 1970s dawned.  Happily, Cherry Red's RPM imprint has collected their complete Pye recordings, along with rare solo tracks from "Tiger Sue" (Mathis) on the

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The Very Best of Andy Gibb

March 14, 2018 By

Andy Gibb Very Best Of

As part of its new agreement with The Bee Gees, Capitol has a 15-track sampler from the late Andy Gibb, including his hits and favorites like "Shadow Dancing," "I Just Want to Be Your Everything," "An Everlasting Love," "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water," and "Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away)."  (Alas, his lost duet with Victoria Principal, "All I Have to Do is Dream," is still absent.)

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

You're Driving Me Crazy

March 13, 2018 By

Van Morrison Youre Driving Me Crazy

The prolific Van Morrison follows up his jazz-oriented Versatile from 2017 with a new studio LP.  You're Driving Me Crazy teams him with Hammond organist Joey DeFrancesco for a set of standards and Morrison favorites such as "Have I Told You Lately," "Magic Time," and "The Way Young Lovers Do."

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Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

Record Store Day 2018: The Best of the Rest

March 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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We've already filled you in on the upcoming Record Store Day releases from Legacy Recordings, Rhino, and Real Gone Music, but there's still much more on offer from many of our other favorite labels!  Here's a selection of "the best of the rest" to be released in brick-and-mortar independent record stores on Saturday, April 21! ABBA, Summer Night City (Polydor) (2000 copies) (Record Store Day UK) (Quantity TBA) Clear/yellow-splatter 7-inch release of ABBA's 1978 non-LP single Baby Huey,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: ABBA, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, David Bowie, Def Leppard, Dr. Dre, Duran Duran, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Evanescence, Frank Zappa, Gloria Gaynor, John Williams, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, Sublime, Tangerine Dream, Taylor Swift, The Beau Brummels, The Police, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tom Waits

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