This ain’t your typical Nashville Sound! Everything is Roses anthologizes the career of Music City’s groundbreaking alt-rockers Raging Fire with 22 tracks on one CD recorded between 1985 and 1989. (An 11-track vinyl highlights version will also be available as well as a 26-track lossless digital edition.) Raging Fire opened for such bands as The Replacements, The Cramps and Gun Club with their singular sound incorporating punk, rock, folk, country, and more. With almost all tracks reissued for the first time, the new record unites the band’s 1985 LP A Family Thing with selections from the 1986…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 4
The fall is almost upon us – which means some of the most exciting release weeks of the year are just around the corner! We hope you’ve checked out Ted’s farewell to the sounds of summer, because we’re kicking off September right here with a new release from Second Disc Records – as well as goodies from The Doors, Eydie Gorme, Micky Dolenz, Peter Frampton, Pugwash, and many more! To our U.S. readers, we wish you a safe and happy Labor Day weekend filled with great new (and old) sounds! Wilson Pickett,…
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I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times): Ted’s Big Summer ’15 Wrap-Up!
The summer’s winding down and so Ted Frank, our resident maven of all things eclectic, is looking back on his favorites from the past few months, from reissues to future classics of all genres! We hope you make some new discoveries as you enjoy the Labor Day weekend! As the boys of summer’s mettle is currently being put to the test, here are some favorite releases – new and old – from the past couple of summer months that have staying power and could perfectly score those few remaining summer days…
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Hollywood Vampires
Alice Cooper and a host of his famous friends – among them Joe Perry, Johnny Depp, Dave Grohl, Slash, Zak Starkey, Joe Walsh, Sir Paul McCartney and the late Sir Christopher Lee – pay tribute to friends and fallen comrades with Hollywood Vampires celebrating the rock scene, seventies Hollywood-style. Songs include Harry Nilsson’s “One/Jump Into the Fire,” The Who’s “My Generation,” T Rex’s “Jeepster,” Macca’s Badfinger hit “Come and Get It,” John Lennon’s “Cold Turkey,” Spirit’s “I Got a Line on You” and more. Bob Ezrin produced.
Cass County
Don Henley returns with his fifth studio album – and first in 15 years. Cass County was produced by Henley and Stan Lynch, who also co- wrote 11 of the songs on the album, and primarily recorded in Nashville and Texas. Guests include Martina McBride, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, Miranda Lambert, Vince Gill, Mick Jagger and Alison Krauss. Cass County will be available as a 12- song standard CD and digital album, as well as a 16-track deluxe version, which will be available on CD, digitally, and a double-disc, 180-gram Vinyl LP. Deluxe –…
Crosseyed Heart
One-half of The Glimmer Twins returns with his first solo album in 23 years. Keith Richards fuses blues, soul, reggae and rock on Crosseyed Heart, which features guest appearances by artists including Norah Jones, Ivan Neville and the late Bobby Keys!
A Stroke Of Luck: Garbage Celebrates 20 Years With Deluxe, Expanded Reissues
Alt-rock heroes Garbage are going “20 Years Queer” with a multi-tiered reissue of their 1995 debut album and an accompanying tour. Formed by Scottish vocalist Shirley Manson, guitarists Steve Marker and Duke Erikson and drummer Butch Vig (the latter also a producer best known for Nirvana’s Nevermind), Garbage fused grunge, industrial and electronic influences for a sound that stood out on mid-’90s radio. Manson’s distinctive vocals propelled “Only Happy When It Rains,” “Queer” and “Stupid Girl” towards the top of the U.S. modern rock charts as well as the U.K. charts proper….
Both Sides: Deluxe Edition
Phil Collins’ 1993 album Both Sides is expanded to two CDs as part of his Take a Look at Me Now reissue campaign! Bonus tracks include B-sides, demos and live tracks, with six of the ten bonus cuts previously unreleased on CD. The original album will also be available on vinyl.
Face Value: Deluxe Edition
Phil Collins’ 1981 classic featuring “In the Air Tonight” gets expanded to two CDs with the addition of eight live tracks and four demos (plus a new, modern cover photograph echoing the original). Ten of the twelve bonuses are new to CD. The original album will also be available on vinyl.
Genesis’ Tony Banks Goes “A Chord Too Far” On Career-Spanning Box Set
It’s been a pretty great year for fans of Genesis. This morning, the news broke of upcoming reissues from Phil Collins. Earlier this year, reissues arrived from Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips, and Steve Hackett released his latest solo album. (A reissue of the 1986 album by Hackett’s band GTR is on the way, and a box set of Hackett’s Charisma recordings is due later this year, too.) All has been fairly quiet on the Peter Gabriel front, but even Gabriel has some vinyl remasters on the way in the fall. As…
Take a Look at Them Now: Phil Collins Kicks Off Reissue Series with “Face Value” and “Both Sides”
He titled his most recent album Going Back, and now Phil Collins is going back to his classic discography in a far-ranging reissue campaign, appropriately titled “Take a Look At Me Now.” The British singer/songwriter/drummer has been relatively quiet since 2002’s Testify, his last album of new material. There was a tour with Genesis in 2007 (which coincided with an extensive reissue campaign of its own) and the aforementioned Going Back, 2010’s Motown covers album. But Collins has been relatively quiet since then, battling health problems that kept him from playing his…
Pay Attention! On-U-Sound Reissues, Expands The Mothmen’s Debut
The Second Disc welcomes back our roving musical correspondent Ted Frank! A recent visit to Chicago’s Pitchfork Festival inspired Ted to revisit the debut album of short-lived British band The Mothmen, recently reissued and expanded on CD and vinyl! You’ll want to “Pay Attention!” to this alternative gem. Having recently attended the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago’s Union Park, it was a reminder of that expansive, mercurial sound that comes when the calendar hits June’s solstice! On June 1 of this year, just a few weeks shy of the beginning of summer 2015,…
Review: Chicago, “The Studio Albums” and America, “The Warner Bros. Years”
In 1969, Chicago Transit Authority – a.k.a. Robert Lamm, Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, Danny Seraphine, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow and Walter Parazaider – released its first album on Columbia Records. 46 years and a total of 36 core albums later, the band simply known as Chicago is still intact with Lamm, Loughnane, Pankow and Parazaider. In the waning days of 1971, another band made its first appearance on records. America – the trio of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek – arrived on December 29 of that year with a self-titled…
Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends)
TSD favorites Pugwash return with a new studio album on Omnivore Recordings to follow up last year’s anthology A Rose in a Garden of Weeds! If you’re looking for ELO-style pop (and beyond!), look no further than Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends) – which features guest appearances from some of Pugwash’s famous friends including Ray Davies, Neil Hannon, Andy Partridge, and (lending a shout) Jeff Lynne!
The Essential Van Morrison
Fresh off his RCA Duets album, Van Morrison comes to RCA sister imprint Legacy Recordings for a volume of the label’s Essential series. The Essential Van Morrison features 37 songs from the troubadour including favorites like “Moondance,” “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Jackie Wilson Said,” and many tracks currently out-of-print: CD 1 1. Gloria – Them 2. Here Comes The Night – Them 3. Spanish Rose 4. Brown Eyed Girl 5. Astral Weeks 6. The Way Young Lovers Do 7. Moondance 8. Crazy Love 9. And It Stoned Me 10. Into The Mystic 11. Domino…
Christmas Joy: Real Gone Kicks off the Holidays with Four Seasons and More in October
It may be hard to believe, but the holiday season will be here sooner than we think! To prove that point, Real Gone Music is getting Christmas started early with its October slate of releases featuring five yuletide gems along with three titles good for year-round enjoyment. This batch of Christmas classics kicks off with the 4 Seasons’ The 4 Seasons Greetings, continuing Real Gone’s series of mono Seasons reissues which began in September. Next, you’ve got holiday tunes from crooner and actor John Gary with his lone RCA Christmas LP. Rounding out…
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Release Round-Up: Week of August 14
Welcome to New Release Friday! Lesley Gore, Someplace Else Now (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Someplace Else Now marked Lesley Gore’s first full immersion into the world of the singer-songwriter. She penned every one of the twelve tracks on this 1972 album for MoWest Records, writing solo and with lyricists Ellen Weston and her brother Michael Gore. Joe Porter (Gladys Knight and the Pips, Thelma Houston) supplied the passionate production. Lesley’s lost Motown gem – a stylistic mélange of pop, soul, folk, rock, and gospel – makes its long-awaited…
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Omnivore’s Got The Knack! Three Reissues, Reviewed
“Pop is dead, bring a shovel!” So proclaimed The Knack in the acerbic lyric to the opening track of 1998’s “comeback” album Zoom. Of course, the song proved otherwise, as the years between 1991’s Serious Fun and Zoom had been kind to the band, a.k.a. Doug Fieger (lead vocals/rhythm guitar), Prescott Niles (bass) and Berton Averre (lead guitar/keyboards/vocals). Omnivore Recordings has recently reissued Zoom and its follow-up, Normal as the Next Guy, along with 2001’s Live from the Rock ‘n’ Roll Funhouse. For Zoom (OVCD-124), Fieger, Niles and Averre were joined on drums…
Release Round-Up: Week of July 24
Today’s Release Round-Up features an array of high-resolution music, plus box sets, vintage reissues, live albums and more! Roger Waters, Amused to Death (Remixed Editions) (Columbia/Legacy) Roger Waters revisits his 1992 album Amused to Death, featuring contributions from Don Henley, Rita Coolidge, P.P. Arnold, Andy Fairweather Low and Michael Kamen, in a variety of formats featuring new stereo and 5.1 surround mixes. Read our full coverage here. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. CD / Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Hybrid SACD: Amazon U.S. TBD / Amazon U.K. Digital download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2LP 200…
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Let’s Hang On! Real Gone Has Four Seasons, Texas Tornados, More in September
We’ve already told you about the two September releases from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music – Wilson Pickett’s The Complete RCA Studio Recordings and an expanded edition of Ricci Martin’s all-star California rock classic Beached – but we know that you’re going to be just as excited about the entire action-packed Real Gone slate! For starters, it’s a line-up that’s always in season – with new deluxe mono mini-sleeve editions of The 4 Seasons’ first two albums for the first time ever on CD, with fresh sound courtesy of the…
Release Round-Up: Week of July 17
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring classic rock, soul and jazz box sets and more! Sly and the Family Stone, Live at the Fillmore East: October 4th and 5th, 1968 (Epic/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Dance to the music! On October 4th and 5th, 1968, shortly after the release of the band’s third album Life, Sly & The Family Stone took the stage for a two-night, four-show engagement at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East in New York City. Epic Records recorded all four of the band’s concerts (two shows per night) with…
Riding with the King (Hybrid Stereo SACD)
Audio Fidelity reissues the acclaimed, Grammy-winning collaboration between Eric Clapton and the late B.B. King on stereo SACD. This hybrid SACD is playable on all CD players.
Fare Thee Well [Various Editions]
The final (?) performances of the Grateful Dead, recorded on July 3-5 at Chicago’s Soldier Field, come to CD, DD, DVD and BD in a variety of audio and video formats: FARE THEE WELL – Exclusive Complete Versions (Exclusively for order at dead.net) • 12-CD/7-Blu-ray Complete Version – Full audio and high-definition video from all three shows on CD and Blu-ray plus exclusive bonus disc of behind-the-scenes footage. Individually numbered, limited edition of 20,000. • 12-CD/7-DVD Complete Version – Full audio and video from all three shows on…
A Brilliant Disguise: Springsteen Live Archive Series Spotlights Los Angeles, 1988
The next release in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s live archive series has just been announced: LA Sports Arena, California, 1988. Coming toward the end of the U.S. leg of the Tunnel of Love Express Tour, this concert is from April 23, 1988 – the second night of a five-night stand in Los Angeles. Performances from other nights in this stand have shown up on Springsteen videos over the years. The Tunnel of Love Express Tour marked several changes for Springsteen. Most significantly, musically-speaking, his association with the E Street…
Live From The Rock ‘n’ Roll Fun House
Omnivore’s latest reissue from power-pop heroes The Knack is the band’s first official live album, from 2002. The “soundtrack” to a performance on an imaginary 1960s television special, Live at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Fun House has been remastered and expanded, and also boasts new artwork and liner notes. With the addition of two tracks recorded for the original CD/DVD, but never issued until now (Normal As The Next Guy‘s “It’s Not Me” and “Seven Days Of Heaven),” Fun House now represents material from all of The Knack’s studio releases.
