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Release Round-Up: Week of October 30

October 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Velvet Underground Loaded Box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  Packed with over 30 titles including highly-anticipated reissues, a slew of box sets, collections and more, it just may be the mightiest of the year!   The Velvet Underground, Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Velvet Underground's 1970 album - and Lou Reed's swansong with the band - gets the deluxe expanded treatment from Rhino in this new box set featuring the original stereo and mono

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alanis Morissette, Amy Winehouse, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, Cilla Black, Doc Watson, Elvis Presley, Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant, Joan Osborne, Lou Reed, Otis Redding, Pete Seeger, Roger McGuinn, Sly and the Family Stone, The Rolling Stones, The Salsoul Orchestra, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Tony Orlando, Van Morrison, XTC

Dawn Of Creation: New Box Collects Early Years of Creation Label, with Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream and More

October 29, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Artifact Creation Box

"Our master plan was destroy manufactured bands," writes Alan McGee in the foreword to Cherry Red Records' recent box set, Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records '83-'85. "We lost," he adds.  "But maybe we won for a while!"  Surely the Creation label founded by McGee could be considered a winner, having given a platform in the 1980s and 1990s to bands including The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and Oasis.  Only the first two of those are represented on this impressive

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Various Artists

Don't Fear the Reaper: "Now!" Series Releases a Halloween Volume

October 26, 2015 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Now Halloween

We've reported on several Christmas reissues being released in the lead-up the yuletide season.  And when it comes to holidays throughout the year, Christmas certainly reigns supreme in terms of the quantity of music devoted to it.  However, some other holidays and occasions throughout the year have music devoted to them.  One of the more popular ones is Halloween which is coming up this weekend.  To provide a soundtrack to your Halloween parties or trick-or-treating, Legacy Recordings, in

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Donovan, Mike Oldfield, Various Artists, Warren Zevon

Oranges and Lemons (CD/Blu-ray Audio)

October 25, 2015 By

XTC Oranges and Lemons

Oranges & Lemons is the third in a series of remixed & expanded XTC Classics. The album has been mixed for 5.1 surround from the original multi-tracks by Steven Wilson with input from Andy Partridge & is fully approved by XTC.  The CD in this CD/BD set features a new stereo album mix by Wilson.  The Blu-ray premieres Wilson's 5.1 surround mix in 96/24 resolution available in LPCM and DTS HD-MA as well as the new stereo mix in 96/24 LPCM Stereo, a flat transfer of the original stereo

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, CD Genre: Pop, Rock

The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! - 40th Anniversary Remastered & Expanded Edition

October 23, 2015 By

Dictators Go Girl Crazy

Real Gone is serving up a newly remastered version of the The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! album plus nine bonus tracks! And among those bonus tracks are four newly discovered, previously unreleased The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! outtakes, two of the outtakes that premiered on the Black Friday Record Store Day-exclusive Next Big Thing EP, two of that release's Andrew W.K. remixes, and the unreleased single mix of "(I Live for) Cars and Girls." Dictators songwriter Andy Shernoff contributes liner

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

The Ties That Bind: The River Collection

October 23, 2015 By

Bruce The Ties That Bind

This 4-CD/3-DVD or 4-CD/2-BD set features a treasure trove of previously unreleased material across its 53 audio tracks plus four hours of never-before-seen video footage. Bruce Springsteen, The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (Columbia 88875 16467-2, 2015) 4-CD/3-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 4-CD/2-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. CDs 1-2: The River (Columbia PC2 36854, 1980) The Ties That Bind Sherry Darling Jackson Cage Two Hearts Independence Day Hungry

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of October 23

October 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Elvis Costello Unfaithful Music

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello, Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his recently-released, utterly engrossing memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink.  Featuring songs that "offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book," Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album non-chronologically spans the onetime Angry Young Man and latter-day

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: a-ha, Charlie Rich, Elvis Costello, Harry Connick Jr., Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jack Bruce, Marvin Hamlisch, Matthew Sweet, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Rod Stewart, Susanna Hoffs, The Kinks

Thank You Friends: Omnivore Offers Big Star, Neil Finn and Paul Kelly For Record Store Day Black Friday

October 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Big Star Jesus Christ

Omnivore Recordings is looking ahead to this year's annual Black Friday Record Store Day event on Friday, November 27, with the announcement of two special vinyl releases. The first continues in the tradition of Omnivore's Big Star releases.  The RSD 10-inch EP of Jesus Christ features the original album version of the song recorded for the band's Third plus the demo version (which first appeared on the acclaimed Keep an Eye on the Sky box set) and five previously unissued tracks, for a total

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Big Star, Neil Finn, Paul Kelly, Record Store Day

Completely Under the Covers

October 18, 2015 By

Completely Under the Covers

This 4-CD box set collects all three Under the Covers albums released by Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs paying tribute, respectively, to the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and adds a fourth disc with 15 bonus tracks, for a total of 60 songs.  This bonus disc rounds up most of the exclusive tracks previously associated with Under the Covers.  The box also includes a 48-page booklet with track annotations by Sweet and Hoffs!

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

Get Up

October 16, 2015 By

Bryan Adams Get Up

Bryan Adams teams with producer Jeff Lynne (ELO, Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty) for his thirteenth studio album, a collection of new songs. Get Up features nine original tracks plus four acoustic versions.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Hungry Heart: Bruce Springsteen Expands "The River" In New Box Set

October 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Bruce The Ties That Bind

Bruce Springsteen is going down to The River on December 4 when Columbia Records releases The Ties That Bind: The River Collection.  This 4-CD/3-DVD or 4-CD/2-BD set promises a treasure trove of previously unreleased material across its 53 audio tracks plus four hours of never-before-seen video footage. Springsteen's fifth album, The River was released on October 17, 1980.  The sprawling double album reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart and No. 2 in the U.K., and yielded the hit single

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Release Round-Up: Week of October 16

October 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Christmas Time Again

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The dB's and Friends, Christmas Time Again! (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Omnivore revisits and revises the classic alt-rock Christmas compilation.  Producer Chris Stamey has added new performances by Yo La Tengo & Jeff Tweedy, Marshall Crenshaw, Robyn Hitchcock, and Big Star's Third (featuring Mike Mills of R.E.M. taking lead vocals on Big Star's "Jesus Christ") to selected tracks from past editions of the album for a total of 22

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, DVD-Audio, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Cole Porter, Earth Wind and Fire, Glen Campbell, Judy Garland, King Crimson, Pat Boone, Ray Parker Jr., Raydio, The dB's

Hear The Bang: Lost Country-Rock Classic By Late Singer-Songwriter Denny Lile Is Rediscovered

October 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Denny Lile Hear the Bang

Singer-songwriter Denny Lile was only 21 years old when a newspaper headline proclaimed "Maybe THIS time it's Denny Lile's turn," but he was already a veteran of the music business and its vagaries.  A couple of singles came and went with his band Elysian Field on Imperial Records; the same fate befell Soul, Inc. and its handful of singles on the Laurie label.  At the time of that headline, Lile was striking out with his own group Otis for the single release of "Hear the Bang."  A self-titled

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Country, Folk, Rock Tags: Denny Lile

Another Country

October 14, 2015 By

Rod Stewart Another Country

Rod Stewart returns with his second consecutive album of original material after a spate of covers-oriented releases.  Target has an exclusive edition of Another Country with two bonus tracks (for a total of 17 songs) also available on the U.K. Deluxe Edition (linked to below)!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Real Gone "Goes Crazy" With December Releases From The Dictators, Nat King Cole, King Curtis, More

October 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dictators Go Girl Crazy

Real Gone Music has just announced its December release slate, and the label is closing out 2015 with as dizzyingly eclectic a line-up as ever - from the proto-punk clamor of The Dictators to the velvet vocals of Nat "King" Cole.  Real Gone previews its December 4 offerings on Record Store Day - Black Friday, November 27, with a special 10" EP from The Dictators featuring previously unreleased tracks unavailable anywhere else!  Then, the following week comes an expanded edition of the band's The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Grateful Dead, Jeremy Spencer, King Curtis, Nat King Cole, The Dictators

Archives Performance Series Vol. 11: Bluenote Café

October 12, 2015 By

Neil Young Bluenote Cafe

Neil Young revisits the This Note's for You era with a new live 2-CD set.  It's drawn from 1987-1988 performances recorded in New York, Hollywood, Toronto, Cleveland, San Francisco and other cities featuring the Bluenote Café band: Rick Rosas (bass), Chad Cromwell (drums), Frank Sampedro (keyboards), Steve Lawrence (lead tenor saxophone), Ben Keith (alto saxophone), Larry Cragg (baritone saxophone), Claude Cailliet (trombone), Tom Bray (trumpet), John Fumo (trumpet), Billy Talbot (bass) and

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Alone in the Universe

October 8, 2015 By

ELO Alone in the Universe

Electric Light Orchestra is back with this all-new studio album from Jeff Lynne's ELO!  Alone in the Universe features ten new Lynne songs (twelve on the U.K. deluxe and U.S. Amazon-exclusive edition) - the first full-length set of ELO originals since 2001's Zoom.  The links below both direct to the 12-track version of the album!

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

Christmas Time Again!

October 6, 2015 By

Christmas Time Again

Omnivore revisits and revises the classic alt-rock Christmas compilation.  Producer Chris Stamey has added new performances by Yo La Tengo & Jeff Tweedy, Marshall Crenshaw, Robyn Hitchcock, and Big Star's Third (featuring Mike Mills of R.E.M. taking lead vocals on Big Star's "Jesus Christ") to selected tracks from past editions of the album.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock

Long Lost Suitcase

October 6, 2015 By

Tom Jones Long Lost Suitcase

To coincide with the release of long-awaited autobiography Over the Top and Back, Sir Tom Jones unpacks his Long Lost Suitcase on an all-new studio album.  Titles on the album reflect chapters in his book including "Elvis Presley Blues," "Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used to Do," "Bring It On Home" and "Factory Girl."  No U.S. release is currently on the schedule, though that may change.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Right Here Now: Marshall Crenshaw Unveils "# 392: The EP Collection"

October 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Marshall Crenshaw EP Collection

When Marshall Crenshaw launched a vinyl EP subscription service in early 2013 as a vehicle for his new music, the veteran singer/songwriter/producer set out to not make a new album.  Yet, as these things happen, he ended up with enough music to make one after all.  # 392: The EP Collection is a new 14-track album with twelve songs drawn from the six EPs released between 2013 and 2015, plus two exclusive bonus tracks.  All songs here make their CD debuts on this release. Each vinyl EP,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Marshall Crenshaw

Release Round-Up: Week of October 2

October 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Paul McCartney Tug of War

Welcome to our new Release Round-Up! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Tug of War (MPL/Concord) The Paul McCartney Archive Collection continues with 1982's Tug of War, featuring "Ebony and Ivory" and "Here Today."  The release is available in various formats: 3-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Special Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-LP Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Check out our full feature for information on what

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bad Company, Carl Wilson, Carole King, Celtic Thunder, Dean Martin, Dick Haymes, Earth Wind and Fire, Garbage, Grateful Dead, Janet Jackson, Joe Jackson, Judy Garland, Paul McCartney, Sarah McLachlan

Paul McCartney Archive Collection "Tug of War" and "Pipes of Peace" ARRIVE TOMORROW!

October 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Paul McCartney Tug of War

REMINDER!  Tomorrow, October 2, will finally see the release of the next two installments in Paul McCartney's Archive Collection: Tug of War and Pipes of Peace! At last, we can say, say, say it's true: the next two volumes of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection are almost here in a variety of formats.  Macca's second and third albums of the 1980s, the platinum sellers Tug of War and Pipes of Peace, will arrive from Concord Records and MPL with the expected array of bonus material,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Paul McCartney

Long Time Comin': Next Bruce Springsteen Live Archive Release Highlights 2005 "Devils & Dust" Tour

September 29, 2015 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Bruce Springsteen Ohio 2005

The next installment in Bruce Springsteen's live archive series has been revealed:  Schottenstein Center, Columbus, Ohio 2005. The show for this release is from July 31, 2005 and falls in the middle of Springsteen's Devils & Dust Tour.  Devils & Dust was released in April of that year, debuting at Number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.  It was his first album following 2002's The Rising which had reunited Springsteen with the E Street Band for the first time on a new studio record in

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

Anton Fig's "Figments" Features Brian Wilson, Blondie Chaplin, Ace Frehley, Al Kooper, More

September 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Anton Fig Figments

Between 1986 and spring 2015, Anton Fig could be found on a nightly basis behind the drum kit of The World's Most Dangerous Band and, then, The CBS Orchestra.  Part of Paul Shaffer's band for David Letterman's NBC and CBS late-night talk shows, Fig would be glowingly acknowledged by the host as "Buddy Rich, Jr." for his ferocity and prowess with his instrument.  In 2002, the South Africa-born music great ventured out on his own to record his first solo album, appropriately entitled Figments. 

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock Tags: Ace Frehley, Al Kooper, Anton Fig, Blondie Chaplin, Brian Wilson, Chip Taylor, Richie Havens

Release Round-Up: Week of September 18

September 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Grateful Dead Definitive Live

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up including a couple of spectacular new box sets, one acclaimed soundtrack, numerous reissues and anthologies, and the return of a few beloved artists! a-ha, Hunting High and Low: 30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (Warner Bros./Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The 1985 debut from a-ha gets super-sized with Rhino's upcoming 4-CD/1-DVD edition.  Disc One has the original, remastered album, while Disc Two boasts 25 demos, Disc Three has 15

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: a-ha, Brian Wilson, Darlene Love, David Gilmour, Dr. John, Elyse Weinberg, Erroll Garner, Grateful Dead, Judy Collins, Keith Richards, Otis Redding, Patti LuPone

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