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Kate Bush: Vinyl Boxes 1 & 2, CD Box 1

October 11, 2018 By

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Vinyl Box 1 (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Vinyl Box 2  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) CD Box 1 (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Kate Bush's complete albums discography - plus a smattering of rarities - are coming to CD and vinyl in two waves of releases.  The vinyl albums - comprising all ten of the artist's studio albums - will be released in four separate box sets.  The first two, the 4-LP Vinyl Box 1 and the 3-LP Vinyl Box 2, will be available on

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

New Carols For Christmas: The Rod McKuen Christmas Album

October 11, 2018 By

Rod McKuen Christmas

Real Gone has a newly-remastered reissue of Rod McKuen's New Carols For Christmas - The Rod McKuen Christmas Album from 1971.  Unusual for many Christmas albums, it consists of original songs in the spirit of the season written by McKuen and such collaborators as Anita Kerr, Art Podell of The New Christy Minstrels, and electronic music pioneer Mort Garson.  It was recorded in December, 1970 in London with members of the Westminster Symphony Orchestra.  The album was briefly available on CD in

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Pop

The Best of Everything

October 11, 2018 By

Tom Petty The Best of Everything

On the heels of the release of the acclaimed rarities box set An American Treasure, a new career-spanning anthology arrives from the late Tom Petty.  The Best of Everything is subtitled The Definitive Career-Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016 and features 38 tracks from the soulful rock-and-roller, including two previously unreleased cuts (an alternate of "The Best of Everything" and the outtake "For Real.")  Petty's solo work is heard alongside his recordings with both The Heartbreakers and

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

Glen Campbell Sings For The King

October 11, 2018 By

Glen Campbell Sings for The King

This new release premieres never-before-released recordings made by Campbell for his friend Presley.  These fully-produced demos were recorded by Campbell for the songwriting team of Ben Weisman and Sid Wayne.  The set also includes a posthumous duet with Elvis on "We Call On Him."  Glen Campbell Sings For The King will be released on CD, LP, digitally, and as a limited edition, 180-gram clear vinyl edition available exclusively at the artist's website.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop

Faster Than The Speeding Light: Rhino's Black Friday RSD Slate Features Madonna, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Todd Rundgren and More

October 11, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Madonna Ray of Light

As we continue to look at the offerings for this Black Friday Record Store Day on November 23, here is a peek at the twelve titles Rhino will be releasing.  As always, these will be available exclusively at all finer independent music shops on Black Friday! The B-52's - Cosmic Thing The group's fifth album from 1989, featuring the hits "Love Shack" and "Roam."  Limited edition of 4,500 copies on 140-gram rainbow colored vinyl. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Devo's debut album,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Devo, Duke Ellington, Grateful Dead, Madonna, Ramones, Record Store Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Talking Heads, The B-52's, The Doors, The Flaming Lips, Todd Rundgren, Yes

Big Wheel Keep On Turnin': Creedence Clearwater Revival's Complete Albums Get Half-Speed Mastered For New Box Set

October 11, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

CCR Studio Albums Box Cover

50 years ago, John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook released their first album together as Creedence Clearwater Revival, providing the perfect soundtrack for a tumultuous period in American history.  Over just seven albums issued between 1968 and 1972, the band's rootsy rock-and-roll sensibility yielded such all-time classic hits as "Proud Mary," "Bad Moon Rising," "Green River," "Down on the Corner," "Who'll Stop the Rain," and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain."  To celebrate the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Creedence Clearwater Revival

Anyone Can Play: Capitol Serves Up 18 Unreleased Tracks on "Glen Campbell Sings For The King"

October 10, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Glen Campbell Sings for The King

This morning, Capitol Records and UMe announced a title that unites two late titans of song.  Glen Campbell Sings for The King arrives on November 16, premiering never-before-released recordings made by Campbell for his friend Presley.  It will be released on CD, LP, digitally, and as a limited edition, 180-gram clear vinyl edition available exclusively at the artist's website. Between 1964 and 1968, Glen was engaged by the songwriting team of Ben Weisman and Sid Wayne to record

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell

Record Store Day Black Friday Round-Up: Craft Recordings Unveils Slate of Rock, R&B, Jazz and More

October 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Collective Soul Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid

Craft Recordings is contributing to the annual Record Store Day Black Friday event, to be held this year on Friday, November 23, with six limited edition vinyl releases.  These include the first-ever vinyl pressings of Collective Soul's smash 1993 debut, Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid, and Violent Femmes' 2005 best-of collection, Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes. The label also has a reissue of the self-titled debut from Butch Trucks' pre-Allman Brothers Band group,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Butch Trucks, Collective Soul, Record Store Day, Violent Femmes

Southern Accents: Tom Petty's "The Best of Everything" Retrospective Premieres Two Unheard Tracks

October 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Tom Petty The Best of Everything

On the heels of the release of the acclaimed rarities box set An American Treasure, a new career-spanning anthology will arrive in CD, vinyl, and digital formats on November 16 from the late Tom Petty.  The Best of Everything, on the Geffen/UMe label, is subtitled The Definitive Career-Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016 and features 38 tracks from the soulful rock-and-roller, including two previously unreleased cuts.  Petty's solo work is heard alongside his recordings with both The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Everything Your Heart Desires: Legacy Unleashes Rare Hall & Oates Mixes To Digital Channels

October 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese 31 Comments

Hall and Oates Single Mixes

Whoa-oh, here they come!  On Friday, Legacy Recordings reissued a treasure trove of rare remixes from the enduring rock 'n' soul duo of Daryl Hall and John Oates onto all digital platforms, including two new collections and three EPs. Single Mixes scoops up 16 alternate versions of some of Hall and Oates' greatest hits, including the U.K.-only mix of the 1981 chart-topper "Private Eyes," the seven-inch remixes of "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" (No. 1, 1981) and "One on One" (No. 7, 1983),

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Daryl Hall and John Oates

A Deal With God: Kate Bush's Catalogue Remastered For CD, Vinyl Box Sets

October 5, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Kate Bush Remastered Banner

Kate Bush was just nineteen years old when her debut single "Wuthering Heights" topped the U.K. Singles Chart for four weeks in 1978.  Since that time, the singer-songwriter has placed 25 singles within the chart's top 40 and released ten studio albums.  She became the first British solo female artist to top the country's album chart and the first female artist, period, to enter the album chart at No. 1.  Yet despite such accolades, Bush has never wavered from her own, truly singular career

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Kate Bush

Release Round-Up: Week of October 5

October 5, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face)/Song Sung Blue: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music have paired two 1972 albums from the legendary Johnny Mathis as an expanded 2-CD set.  Both albums were produced by Jerry Fuller and make their standalone CD debuts here.  The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face) had not only Mathis' rendition of the hit

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Four Tops, Grateful Dead, Joe Simon, John Lennon, Johnny Mathis, Lindsey Buckingham, Steve Perry, Sugar Ray

OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc, Real Gone's Johnny Mathis Expanded Series Continues with Two New Titles

October 4, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Johnny Mathis Me and Mrs. Jones

Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to continue the journey through the catalogue of the legendary Johnny Mathis TOMORROW with the two latest additions to our ongoing series. First up is an expanded 2-CD release comprising both of the artist's classic albums originally released in 1972: The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face) and Song Sung Blue.  These teamed Mathis with renowned producer Jerry Fuller (Gary Puckett and The Union Gap, The Knickerbockers, Mark Lindsay) for the first

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

Decade: 1967-1976

October 3, 2018 By

Lulu Decade Cover

This new 5-CD, media book-style box set brings together virtually all of Lulu's recordings for Columbia, Atco, and Chelsea, plus a generous helping of rarities and a handful of new-to-CD tracks.  Decade: 1967-1976 includes the complete albums Love Loves to Love Lulu, Lulu's Album, New Routes, Melody Fair, Lulu, and Heaven and Earth and the Sky, plus over three dozen bonus tracks and new-to-CD rarities in a package with new liner notes by Alan Robinson.  Also available as a single-disc, 14-track

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Glastonbury 2000

October 3, 2018 By

David Bowie Glastonbury 2000

Glastonbury 2000 documents David Bowie's epic festival performance from June 25 of that year, in multiple editions including 2CD, 2CD/DVD, 3LP, and standard and high-resolution digital.  It presents the late superstar's complete 21-song, hits-heavy set in both audio and video formats.  Previously, only 30 minutes of the show had been broadcast on television including "Heroes," which was seen in the recent David Bowie Is... museum exhibition.

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

From Lulu, With Love: Edsel Preps New Box Set "Decade: 1967-1976" For Singing Superstar

October 3, 2018 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Lulu Decade Cover

Lulu (real name: Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) burst onto the scene in 1964 with her earthy, throaty rendition of The Isley Brothers' "Shout!"  The fifteen-year old parlayed that memorable U.K. top ten hit into an international career that remains vibrant and active to this very day.  Lulu remained on Decca Records, the home of "Shout!," for a two-year stint, departing the label in late 1966 to sign with producer Mickie Most for EMI's Columbia Records arm (not to be confused with the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Lulu

Hallo Spaceboy: David Bowie's "Glastonbury 2000" Comes To CD, DVD, LP In November

October 2, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

David Bowie Glastonbury 2000

With anticipation building for the October 12 release of David Bowie's box set Loving the Alien [1983-1988], Parlophone has just pressed "fast forward" and announced another title from the late superstar.  On November 30, the label will release Glastonbury 2000, a document of Bowie's epic June 25 performance of that year, in multiple editions including 2CD, 2CD/DVD, 3LP, and standard and high-resolution digital. Glastonbury 2000 presents Bowie's complete 21-song set from the festival in both

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: David Bowie

Through A Glass Onion: The Second Disc Hears Selections From The Beatles' "White Album" Box

October 1, 2018 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Beatles White Album Four

NEW YORK, NY - "We live in a perfect world of [these] anodyne, Instagrammed, perfect photographs, in-tune music, and everything in time, and The Beatles weren't that.  The Beatles had a heartbeat to them, and the story of 'The White Album' is the story of that heartbeat, if you'd like."  Last Wednesday morning, September 26, Giles Martin was holding court for an audience of about 70 at New York's famed Record Plant.  The subject was, of course, the legendary 1968 double-LP formally named The

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

50 Years: Don't Stop

September 28, 2018 By

Fleetwood Mac Dont Stop

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  In celebration of its 50 years, Fleetwood Mac is issuing a new career-spanning collection featuring 50 songs on either 3 CDs or 5 LPs.  These include hits, favorites, and a smattering of rarities such as the CD premiere of 2013's "Sad Angel" from the digital release Extended Play.

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

Make A List and Check It Twice: Real Gone Announces Christmas Reissues From The McGuire Sisters, John Klein, Rod McKuen

September 28, 2018 By Randy Fairman 5 Comments

Rod McKuen Christmas

Even though Fall has just begun, we are already looking ahead to Christmas as several artists have already announced yuletide albums for this year.  And, continuing their annual tradition, our friends at Real Gone Music are releasing selection of classic Christmas CDs this year, the first three of which they have just announced.  All three of these are due on November 2. First up is Season's Greetings From the McGuire Sisters - The Complete Coral Christmas Recordings.  The singing trio of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: John Klein, Rod McKuen, The McGuire Sisters

Release Round-Up: Week of September 28

September 28, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Tom Petty An American Treasure cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Tom Petty, An American Treasure (Reprise) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.  / Amazon Canada  This career-spanning retrospective of rare and previously unreleased material from the late Tom Petty arrives on Reprise Records.  The aptly-titled An American Treasure will be the first posthumous collection of Petty material, and it should prove a vital

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Aretha Franklin, Cher, Glenn Frey, J.D. Souther, Joe Strummer, Linda Thompson, Loretta Lynn, Phil Collins, Rod Stewart, Skip Spence, The Louvin Brothers, Tom Petty

Big Love: Fleetwood Mac Celebrates 50 Years With New Collection "Don't Stop"

September 27, 2018 By Randy Fairman 5 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Dont Stop

Fleetwood Mac hasn't stopped thinking about tomorrow.  The venerable group takes off in October on a new tour featuring the band debuts of Mike Campbell and Neil Finn, following the shock departure of Lindsey Buckingham earlier in the year.  To coincide with the tour, however, the Mac is taking a look back on 50 years of music with a new 50-song collection on 3 CDs or 5 LPs.  50 Years: Don't Stop arrives from Warner Bros. Records and Rhino on November 16, along with a single-CD distillation. 

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Fleetwood Mac

Review: Electric Light Orchestra, "The U.K. Singles Volume One: 1972-1978"

September 27, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

ELO The UK Singles Volume One

The A-side of Electric Light Orchestra's first 45 had been originally written for The Move, but once it was recorded, it was clear to songwriter-producer Jeff Lynne and his co-producer and bandmate Roy Wood that "10538 Overture" was the sound of a different band altogether.  Wood had overdubbed what he later remembered as a "cheap Chinese cello" onto the driving track which the two singers/multi-instrumentalists had created with the aid of Bill Hunt on French horn and Steve Woolam on violin. 

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne

Greatest Hits Live

September 26, 2018 By

Chicago Greatest Hits Live

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD Greatest Hits Live, coming in CD and CD/DVD iterations, is a companion to the release earlier this year of Chicago II: Live on Soundstage.  At every one of Chicago's recent tour stops, the band played that classic album and then launched into a second, career-spanning set of hits and favorites.  This release captures the second half of the same Soundstage performance of

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

Legacy

September 26, 2018 By

Eagles Legacy Cover

A new box set celebrates the Eagles discography with all of the original studio and live albums by the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers from 1972's Eagles to 2007's Long Road Out Of Eden.  In addition, a bonus disc has been included featuring 10 single edits, B-sides and singles (including the long-unavailable "Get You in the Mood").  The package comes in two editions: a 12 CD/1 DVD/1 BD version or a 15-LP set.  Exclusive to the CD box is a DVD of 1994's concert film Hell Freezes Over and a Blu-ray

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

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