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 album followed shortly thereafter…
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)!
Real Gone “Goes Crazy” With December Releases From The Dictators, Nat King Cole, King Curtis, More
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 Dictators Go Girl Crazy! with nine previously unreleased…
Archives Performance Series Vol. 11: Bluenote Café
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 Ralph Molina (drums). Available on CD, vinyl and DD.
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!
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.
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.
Right Here Now: Marshall Crenshaw Unveils “# 392: The 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, beginning with 2013’s I Don’t…
Release Round-Up: Week of October 2
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 you’ll find in each version! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Pipes of Peace (MPL/Concord) Paul…
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Paul McCartney Archive Collection “Tug of War” and “Pipes of Peace” ARRIVE TOMORROW!
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, highlighted by a complete 2015 remix of Tug…
Long Time Comin’: Next Bruce Springsteen Live Archive Release Highlights 2005 “Devils & Dust” Tour
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 nearly 20 years. For Devils & Dust, he returned…
Anton Fig’s “Figments” Features Brian Wilson, Blondie Chaplin, Ace Frehley, Al Kooper, More
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. But it doesn’t just exist in your imagination…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 18
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 singles, B-sides and extended versions, and Disc Four takes in ten previously unreleased alternate mixes. The DVD has…
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Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album
Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his upcoming 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 his entire recorded discography, from 1977’s My Aim is True to 2013’s Wise Up Ghost, his collaboration album with hip-hop group The Roots. In addition, two unreleased tracks premiere here along with three “audio book sketches.” In addition to The Roots, other Costello collaborators featured here include Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Burt Bacharach,…
Review: Pugwash, “Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends)”
One of the happiest pop-rock discoveries of 2014 was undoubtedly Pugwash’s A Rose in a Garden of Weeds, compiling the Irish band’s best music from 1999-2011. Now, the four-piece consisting of Thomas Walsh, Tosh Flood, Shawn McGee and Joe Fitzgerald is back with an all-new set recorded at Konk Studios and released on Omnivore Recordings. Produced by Walsh and Flood, Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends) features the same bright, vibrant spirit and unabashedly melodic sensibility that permeated the anthology, building on the groundwork laid by The Beatles, XTC, The Beach…
Deep Dark Truthful Mirror: Elvis Costello Compiles “Unfaithful Music and Soundtrack Album”
“Every day I write the book,” sang Elvis Costello on his first U.S. Top 40 hit, and this year he is indeed writing one. The iconoclastic British rocker, who’s chased his muse through the most diverse of places, from punk to bluegrass, will let it all out in prose on the hotly anticipated memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. And now, Universal Music Enterprises, the home base for Elvis’ catalogue for nearly a decade (following stints at Rykodisc/Demon in the 1990s and Warner Bros./Rhino in the 1990s and 2000s), will issue a…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 11
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Second Disc Records is going back to the beach with Ricci Martin, but that’s far from all this week! We’re also taking off with ELO, singing street-corner symphonies with The Four Seasons, and much more! Plus: new titles from classic artists! Ricci Martin, Beached: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) What if key members of The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, and Wings had teamed up to create one of the greatest California rock albums you’ve never heard? Well, they actually did! Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author…
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Thrak [CD/DVD Edition]
1995’s Thrak arrives as the tenth release in the King Crimson 40th Anniversary series. The first full album to feature the ‘Double Trio’ incarnation of the group, Thrak will feature a new “21st century stereo reimagining” of the album by Jakko Jakszyk and Robert Fripp, while the DVD-Audio disc has high-resolution 5.1 Surround Sound and stereo mixes by Jakszyk and Fripp, alongside a high-resolution presentation of the original album stereo mix. Like all release in this series, the CD and DVD are housed in a slipcased digipak also containing a booklet with sleeve notes, rare photos…
So There
Ben Folds returns with a new studio album. New York chamber sextet yMusic joins him on eight “chamber-rock” songs, and then it’s off to the (Nashville) Symphony for Folds’ new Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.
Everything Is Roses: 1985-1989
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!
The Dave Clark Five
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