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Alex Chilton, Big Star, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Wilco

Live at The Isle of Wight Festival 2004

May 22, 2017 by Joe Marchese

2-CD/1-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD/1-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD The Who returned to The Isle of Wight for the first time since 1970 for a remarkable, career-spanning concert in 2004 – part of their first run of shows in their home country since the death of John Entwistle. The concert is now available in 2-CD/1-DVD and 2-CD/1-BD editions.

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Olé Olé Olé! A Trip Across Latin America

May 22, 2017 by Joe Marchese

Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This film follows The Rolling Stones on their 2016 Latin American tour, and features seven uncut performances from the tour: 1) Out Of Control (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 2) Paint It Black (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 3) Honky Tonk Women (São Paulo, Brazil) 4) Sympathy For The Devil (São Paulo, Brazil) 5) You Got The Silver (Lima, Peru) 6) Midnight Rambler (Lima, Peru) 7) Miss You (Lima, Peru). Available on DVD and BD.

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The Concert In Hyde Park [Various Formats]

May 22, 2017 by Joe Marchese

2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Paul Simon’s July 15, 2012 Hyde Park concert, closing night of the Hard Rock Calling Festival, is coming on 2CD/1DVD and 2CD/1BD editions. The performance spanned the entirety of Simon’s career through his 2011 album So Beautiful or So What. He welcomed to the stage original Graceland musicians including Hugh Masekela and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, as well as special guests Jimmy Cliff and Jerry Douglas. The troubadour’s setlist featured many of his solo classics (“Kodachrome,” “Graceland,” “Me and Julio Down By The…

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Get a Brand New Walk: Real Gone’s July Slate Features Dusty Springfield, Keely Smith, Eddy Arnold, Tim Buckley and Loma Singles

May 22, 2017 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

It’s not even Memorial Day yet, but we’re already looking ahead to the heart of summer for upcoming reissues and now we’ve got Real Gone’s slate due just after Independence Day on July 7. As is usually the case with this label, it’s an eclectic group of releases. You’ve already heard the news about Second Disc Records and Real Gone’s A Little Magic, A Little Kindness from Laura Nyro, with notes by our very own Joe Marchese, but Joe’s notes are also featured in two other Real Gone releases in July. The…

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Dusty Springfield, Eddy Arnold, Keely Smith, Tim Buckley, Tom Tom Club

Release Round-Up: Week of May 19

May 19, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Jethro Tull, Songs from the Wood: 40th Anniversary Edition – The Country Set (Chrysalis/Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) Jethro Tull’s 1977 album returns in a new 3CD/2DVD book-style edition, packed with bonus material. Steven Wilson produced new stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes heard in this set on CD and DVD, featuring not only the album but bonus tracks too. As per the norm for this series, there’s a flat transfer of the original stereo album master on DVD, as well as…

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Blink-182, Chris Cornell, Chris Price, Helium, Isaac Hayes, Jethro Tull, Little Steven, Los Straitjackets, Nick Lowe, Peter Cetera, The Staple Singers, Wes Montgomery, William Bell, Wynton Kelly

Sundry Notes of Music: Cherry Red Collects Principal Edwards’ Magic Theatre’s “The Works”

May 15, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Last summer, Esoteric Recordings reissued Principal Edwards’ 1974 album Round One, produced for the band by Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason. Now the Cherry Red imprint is turning the clock backwards for a 3-CD anthology of precursor group Principal Edwards Magic Theatre. The Works: Albums, Demos, BBC Sessions and Live Recordings is a comprehensive look at the unusual and large artistic collective (some 17 members over its lifespan) which indulged in the psychedelic era to create music, mime, theatre, poetry, dance, and even a light show. Formed at Exeter University and named for…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 12

May 12, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Dion, Kickin’ Child: The Lost Album 1965 (Norton) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Norton Records has rounded up 15 songs recorded by Dion DiMucci and his group The Wanderers with producer Tom Wilson over sessions between spring and fall of 1965. It all adds up to a trailblazing folk-rock album featuring original songs and covers of Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, and Mort Shuman. Also available on vinyl. Read more here! Brinsley Schwarz, It’s All Over Now (Mega Dodo) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada…

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Bette Midler, Brinsley Schwarz, Dan Fogelberg, Dion, Stephen Sondheim, The Allman Brothers Band, Todd Rundgren

Let’s Go! Rhino Revs Up Cars Reissues

May 11, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Just weeks after debuting the previously unissued Live At The Agora, 1978 on vinyl for Record Store Day, Rhino Records is preparing for two expanded editions of classic albums by The Cars this summer. Reissues of their second and third albums, Candy-O and Panorama, will bow in July. With The Cars’ 1978 self-titled debut, the Boston quintet (singer/guitarist Ric Ocasek, singer/bassist Benjamin Orr, lead guitarist Elliott Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson) became one of the first bands in America to fuse traditional rock with the rising trends of synth-based…

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Still Crazy: Paul Simon’s “Concert in Hyde Park” Coming in June

May 11, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

As Paul Simon is launching a summer tour on June 1 in St. Petersburg, Florida, Legacy Recordings is looking back to one of the famed troubadour’s recent performances from across the pond. The Concert in Hyde Park will arrive from the label on Friday, June 9, in 2CD/DVD or Blu-ray packages, as well as via digital audio and video downloads and streaming. Simon’s July 15, 2012 Hyde Park concert, closing night of the Hard Rock Calling Festival, spanned the entirety of Simon’s career through his 2011 album So Beautiful or So What. …

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Vinyl Boxes Coming From Humble Pie, ZZ Top

May 10, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Two blues-rock groups from very different sets of the world are being anthologized on vinyl this summer, with UMe planning an LP box for Humble Pie and Rhino readying a collection of ZZ Top’s early work. Hailing from Essex, England, Humble Pie were one of rock’s first true supergroups, bringing together members of The Small Faces (lead vocalist Steve Marriott), The Herd (lead guitarist Peter Frampton) and Spooky Tooth (bassist Greg Ridley), with a preternaturally talented 17-year-old drummer, Jerry Shirley. Signing to A&M Records in 1970 after a U.K. Top 5 hit,…

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He Is The Cosmos: Omnivore Plans Year of Reissues for Big Star’s Chris Bell

May 9, 2017 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Though Chris Bell’s life and career ended far too soon after a car accident days after Christmas of 1978, the Big Star co-founder is getting his due in a series of projects with Omnivore Recordings, the label that’s released a veritable treasure trove of Big Star archival material over the years. The first, announced today, is Looking Forward: The Roots of Big Star, a 22-track collection gathering Bell’s material from the late ’60s and early ’70s, before recruiting Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel and Jody Stephens to form the criminally overlooked power pop…

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Pictures At An Exhibition: Cherry Red Revisits Keith Emerson’s “Off the Shelf”

May 9, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Though Keith Emerson died in March 2016, the influential body of work left behind by the keyboardist, arranger and composer lives on. A decade before his untimely passing, Emerson compiled a disc’s worth of previously unreleased tracks. He described 2006’s Off the Shelf as “a veritable cornucopia of potpourri within an audio montage!” Now, that collection has been reissued by Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint for those fans of the late artist who missed it the first time. Emerson first rose to fame as a member of The Nice, establishing himself as…

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“Childhood” Found: Classic Marillion Album Expanded and Remixed for July

May 8, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Prog rock fans and Steven Wilson remix enthusiasts have another date to mark on their calendars: July 21, the release date for a greatly expanded edition of Marillion’s classic Misplaced Childhood. Released in June of 1985, Misplaced Childhood became the most successful release in the neo-prog quintet’s ongoing career, topping the U.K. charts and staying in those charts for 41 weeks. Featuring semi-autobiographical lyrics from lead singer Fish that touched on love, loss and acceptance (admittedly aided by a 10-hour acid trip that birthed the concept), Marillion’s mix of personal and familiar…

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Third Eye Blind: 20th Anniversary Edition

May 7, 2017 by Joe Marchese

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada (TBD) / Amazon U.K. 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada (TBD) / Amazon U.K. The 1997 Elektra debut of Third Eye Blind gets the 20th anniversary treatment on 2 CDs or 3 LPs with a host of bonus material. The album is augmented with an extra eight tracks, nearly all of which are unreleased. There are two new tracks (“Alright Caroline” and “Scattered”) based on song ideas from the Third Eye Blind sessions; demos of “Semi-Charmed Life” and a cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Heroin”; and early…

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Exodus 40: The Movement Continues

May 7, 2017 by Joe Marchese

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. Vinyl box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. (TBD) Bob Marley’s international hit album Exodus gets a fresh treatment for its 40th anniversary. All editions feature the original 1977 album plus a “restatement” of the original classic as overseen by Bob’s son, Ziggy Marley. Ziggy has dived deep into the Exodus sessions and constructed new versions of the 10 songs on the album with unused and unheard vocals, overdubs and session takes. Deluxe…

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OKNOTOK 1997 2017

May 6, 2017 by Joe Marchese

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Box Set: Links TBD OKNOTOK 1997-2017 celebrates Radiohead’s first U.K. No. 1 album, cited by many as one of the greatest albums of its era, with an all-new remaster from the original analog tapes and a bonus disc compiling eight remastered B-sides and three previously unreleased tracks from the album sessions: “I Promise,” “Man of War” and “Lift.” The set will be available as a 2CD or 3LP set. A box set version takes the three LPs and adds a C90…

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The Joshua Tree: 30th Anniversary [Various Formats]

May 6, 2017 by Joe Marchese

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) 2CD Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 4CD Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 7LP Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. U2’s landmark 1987 album The Joshua Tree gets a multitude of reissues in time for its 30th anniversary. The centerpiece is the 4-CD or 7-LP Super Deluxe version containing: A previously unreleased live concert, recorded at Madison Square…

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King of the Mountain: Midnight Oil Detail “Tank” Box Sets

May 5, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Sony Music Australia is cooking with gas when it comes to the legacy of Midnight Oil. The Australian rock heroes are about to celebrated with not one, not two, but three box sets: The Vinyl Collection (containing all vinyl LPs and EPs), The Full Tank (all CDs and music videos), and The Overflow Tank (over 14 hours of rare and previously unissued material on 4 CDs and 8 DVDs). These massive sets are due in Australasia on May 12 and May 26 in Europe. The U.S. and Canadian release will happen on…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 5

May 5, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Grateful Dead, Cornell 5/8/77 (Grateful Dead/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino teams with the Grateful Dead for the first authorized release of one of the band’s most famous concert bootlegs: the Cornell 5/8/77 show. The bootleg recording of this show was so significant that it was added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2011. This 3-CD set ties in with a new book about the oft-discussed concert; both the book and CDs were also available as part of a sold-out box set exclusive…

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Diana Krall, Grateful Dead, Julie Andrews, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Patti Labelle, Rare Earth, Seals and Crofts, The Creation, The Turtles

Guaranteed to Raise a Smile: The Second Disc Hears The 50th Anniversary “Sgt. Pepper” Remix

May 3, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

NEW YORK (NY) – Could it really be getting better? That was a fair question on the lips of the crowd assembled last Friday, April 28, at New York City’s World of McIntosh Townhouse. The Second Disc was privileged to be among those members of the press assembled for a “first listen” to the upcoming 50th anniversary stereo remix of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, due for release on May 26 from Capitol, UMe, and Apple Records. Jeff Jones, the chief executive of Apple Corps, and Giles Martin, producer…

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George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

Fitter, Happier: Radiohead Revisit “OK Computer”

May 2, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments

Radiohead are revisiting their third album OK Computer with a 20th anniversary box set this summer. OKNOTOK 1997-2017 celebrates the Oxfordshire quintet’s first U.K. No. 1 album, cited by many as one of the greatest albums of its era, with an all-new remaster from the original analog tapes and a bonus disc compiling eight remastered B-sides and three previously unreleased tracks from the album sessions: “I Promise,” “Man of War” and “Lift.” The set will be available from XL Recordings, Radiohead’s recent label home (as of last year’s A Moon Shaped Pool),…

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Masters of Their Craft: Concord Assembles New Reissue Label

May 2, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Concord Bicycle Music has been an aggressive recent player in catalogue music. The indie giant has succeeded with a variety of jazz, soul and rock titles, controlling such labels as Fantasy, Stax and Wind-Up Records; elsewhere, they’ve brought the Traveling Wilburys discography back into print and signed a bold deal with R.E.M. to distribute their Warner Bros.-era masters, from 1988 to their final bow in 2011. With all this activity, Concord’s latest step was inevitable: they announced last week the founding of Craft Recordings, a label to handle their back catalogue affairs….

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John Coltrane, John Lee Hooker, R.E.M., Thelonious Monk

Purple Rain: Music from the Motion Picture [Various Formats]

April 30, 2017 by Joe Marchese

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 3CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. At long, long last – a deluxe, expanded Purple Rain arrives in various formats, including a 2-CD iteration with 11 previously unreleased outtakes and a 3-CD/1-DVD version adding a third CD of 15 single edits and remixes and a DVD of 1985’s Prince and the Revolution Live! film. All versions, including a standalone LP, utilize the 2015 Paisley Park remaster approved by Prince before his…

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Dearly Beloved: Details on “Purple Rain” Reissue Finally Confirmed

April 28, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 10 Comments

“Hey, look me over / Tell me, do U like what U see?” The patience of Prince fans eager to mourn their fallen hero finally bears some catalogue fruit today, as the long-gestating expanded edition of Purple Rain–the first catalogue reissue of any of the late icon’s works–is confirmed. Fans have been intently waiting for a reissue of Purple Rain for at least the past three years, when Prince finally acquired his original masters from Warner Bros. Records and promised to reissue the landmark 1984 album for its 30th anniversary. That never…

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