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Hallelujah & Songs From His Albums

June 8, 2022 By

Cohen Hallelujah

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In conjunction with the new documentary film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, Legacy has offered this new collection from the late troubadour.  Already available digitally, Hallelujah & Songs from His Albums, coming to CD and translucent blue double vinyl on October 14, is exactly what's advertised: a previously unreleased live version of that mystifying standard (recorded at the

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

Against the Odds 1974-1982

June 8, 2022 By

Blondie front cover

10LP/10"/7" Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The long-awaited Blondie box set - a catalogue number was assigned back in 2016! - is finally on the way.  Against the Odds 1974-1982 is coming in a variety of formats including a very limited 10LP/10"/7" Super Deluxe vinyl box, a 4LP cutdown, an 8CD box, and a 3CD set with just the

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock

Born For This Moment

June 8, 2022 By

Chicago Born for This Moment

Chicago releases its latest studio album, Born for This Moment (or Chicago 38, for those who are counting).  Produced by longtime Brian Wilson associate Joe Thomas, it's coming on CD and digital formats with a vinyl release due on October 21, and features the lead singles "If This Is Goodbye" and "Firecracker" plus three collaborations with Chicago rock legend Jim Peterik (The Ides of March, Survivor).

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

Against the Odds, Blondie's Box Sets Finally Coming This Summer

June 8, 2022 By Mike Duquette 15 Comments

Blondie front cover

The wait is over: Blondie's career-spanning box set will finally be released this summer. Actually, make that box sets. Against the Odds 1974-1982 has been in development for years; The Numero Group says in their product description that the catalogue number was assigned in 2016. Several Record Store Day releases tied to the project have been released, but few concrete details about the set - until now. The New York new wavers, who crossed into the pop charts on a wave of disco and post-punk

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Blondie, Deborah Harry

The Minor Fall, The Major Lift: New Leonard Cohen Compilation Out in October

June 6, 2022 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Cohen Hallelujah

As oversimplifying as it may seem, if a songwriter can get one work to bury deep in the public consciousness, then they've done their job and followed the creative muse that drives them. Leonard Cohen had more than a few entries from his songbook take hold of listeners in a career that spanned nearly 50 years - but the one that truly passed through generations was "Hallelujah," now the centerpiece of a new career-spanning collection of Cohen's work. Already available digitally, Hallelujah

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Rock Tags: Leonard Cohen

The Weekend Stream: June 4, 2022

June 4, 2022 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week is packed with a few digital-led campaigns for Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley and Avril Lavigne, plus batches of releases for fans of Gloria Estefan and country singer Gene Watson! Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah & Songs from His Albums (Columbia/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) It's getting to the point where

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Reggae, Rock Tags: Al Cohn, Avril Lavigne, Bill Perkins, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Gene Watson, Gloria Estefan, Kenny Rogers, Leonard Cohen, Maria McKee, MUNA, Paul Anka, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Richie Kamuka

Toast

June 1, 2022 By

Neil Young Toast

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Young and Crazy Horse recorded the album Toast "around the turn of the millennium" at San Francisco's Toast Studios but the prolific and notoriously mercurial artist soon thought better of releasing it.  "Quit" and "Goin' Home" appeared on 2002's Are You Passionate?, the former in a re-recording with a different band (including Booker T. Jones, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Crazy Horse's Frank "Poncho"

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

The Resurrection of Rust

June 1, 2022 By

Rusty The Resurrection of Rust

Elvis Costello has joined his old friend Allan Mayes to reform Rusty, the band in which they played in 1972-1973.  Costello and Mayes were joined by The Imposters and guest keyboardist Bob Andrews of Brinsley Schwarz for this newly-recorded six-song album comprising Rusty originals plus covers of Nick Lowe, Jim Ford, and Neil Young played in the band's original setlists.  The Resurrection of Rust arrives digitally June 10; the U.S. date for the CD release is July 29 (delayed from July 1) while

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

Finn: Deluxe Edition

June 1, 2022 By

Finn

Finn, the first album credited to the Finn Brothers, will debut on vinyl this summer as part of a double LP that also includes Neil and Tim Finn's extraordinary demos from 1989 - which birthed another classic album from the duo. The Needle Mythology label, founded by writer and Finn authority Pete Paphides, will put both Finn and those 1989 demos (including the previously-unreleased "Four-Stepping in 3/4 Time") together in one luxe 2LP package. The sleeve will also include lyrics, new notes by

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

Suffer Never: Finn Brothers' Debut Album Set for Expanded Vinyl Package

June 1, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Finn

Two of the best-loved songwriters of the Antipodes are celebrating their brotherly partnership in a new deluxe vinyl package. Finn, the first album credited to the Finn Brothers, will debut on vinyl this summer as part of a double LP that also includes Neil and Tim Finn's extraordinary demos from 1989 - which birthed another classic album from the duo. At the time Finn was released in 1995, Tim was enjoying some of the biggest success of his solo career with 1993's Before & After and the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Crowded House, Neil Finn, Tim Finn

Surrender to the Rhythm: Elvis Costello Reforms His First Band, Rusty, For "The Resurrection of Rust"

May 31, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Rusty The Resurrection of Rust

In his 2015 memoir Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, Elvis Costello recalled an early gig at the British Legion Hall "on the posh side of Birkenhead Park" in Birkenhead, Merseyside.  "I can't say my set was a triumph," he wrote.  "I went off to a round of feeble applause from a handful of pensioners supping mild beer and a smattering of teenagers in army petticoats drinking cider.  However, once I found a singing partner in Allan Mayes, my performances became a little more controlled and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Allan Mayes, Elvis Costello, Rusty

Feelings Are Good: '90s Supergroup Neurotic Outsiders Revisited in New Reissue

May 31, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Neurotic Outsiders Cover Art

This week, Sex Pistols fans have the chance to check out the first parts of Pistol, the new FX/Hulu docuseries about the groundbreaking U.K. punk band. (There's also a chance to discover - or rediscover - their catalog thanks to a new collection their lead singer apparently hates.) And if you're interested in what happened to one of the members long after the group's infamous flare-out, a new expanded edition of a long-out-of-print album from onetime supergroup Neurotic Outsiders has you

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Rock Tags: Duran Duran, Guns N' Roses, Neurotic Outsiders, Sex Pistols

The Weekend Stream: May 28, 2022

May 28, 2022 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week features digital debuts from a country legend, a new theme from a galaxy far, far away and some 21st century hip-hop for your consideration. Roger Miller, A Trip in the Country / Making a Name for Myself / Roger Miller (Capitol Nashville/UMe) A Trip: iTunes / Amazon Making: iTunes / Amazon Miller:

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Eminem, Hampton Grease Band, John Williams, Kitty Wells, Marvin Gaye, Montell Jordan, Roger Miller, The Moonglows

Goin' Home: Neil Young Releases Lost Album "Toast" In July

May 27, 2022 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Neil Young Toast

For more than 20 years, Neil Young's Toast has sat on the shelf.  Now, Toast is being served.  On July 8, the "lost" album recorded by the singer-songwriter and his longtime compatriots in Crazy Horse will be released on CD, double vinyl, and digital formats. Young and Crazy Horse recorded the album "around the turn of the millennium" at San Francisco's Toast Studios but the prolific and notoriously mercurial artist soon thought better of releasing it.  "Quit" and "Goin' Home" appeared on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of May 27

May 27, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

ABBA CD Album Box Set

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of new titles available in stores and online today! ABBA, Album Box Set (Polar/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc Bundle: Official Store To coincide with the arena show ABBA Voyage setting sail in London on May 27, the band's 2021 studio album Voyage will be canonized in a new career-spanning box set featuring every one of the quartet's nine

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABBA, Anna Maria Alberghetti, B.T. Express, Bob Merrill, Def Leppard, Jerry Orbach, Sex Pistols, Sparks, Steve Ellis, Suzi Quatro, Taking Back Sunday

Mercenary Territory: Rhino Turn Little Feat's 'Waiting for Columbus' Into Multi-Show Box Set

May 26, 2022 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Little Feat Waiting for Columbus

Last year for Black Friday's Record Store Day event, Rhino premiered Little Feat's Electrif Lycanthrope: Live at Ultra-Sonic Studios 1974, a concert album recorded in front of an intimate studio audience in Hempstead, New York.  The band originally fronted by Lowell George always blossomed in a live setting, with that particular brand of electricity best captured on 1978's Waiting for Columbus.  The double album recorded in 1977 at London's Rainbow Theatre and Washington, DC's Lisner Auditorium

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Little Feat

Holy Diver: Super Deluxe Edition

May 23, 2022 By

Dio Holy Diver SDE

Rhino expands Holy Diver, the first album from the band Dio, in time for what would have been late frontman Ronnie James Dio's 80th birthday.  The upcoming Super Deluxe Edition is built around two versions of Holy Diver.  CD 1 presents a brand-new 2022 mix of the album made utilizing the original multitracks by Joe Barresi, while CD 2 features a remastered version of the original 1983 mix.  Two discs of bonus material round out the package.  CD 3, Live at Selland Arena, Fresno, CA, 1983, offers

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

The Weekend Stream: May 21, 2022

May 21, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! Some classic compilations, a Who-related soundtrack and a posthumous Notorious B.I.G. appearance are all part of the experience this week. Various Artists, The Sound of the R&B Hits (Motown) Original: iTunes / Amazon Deluxe: iTunes / Amazon As a new wave of British rockers from The Beatles and The

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bing Crosby, Buck Owens, Christina Aguilera, Dave Mason, Grand Funk Railroad, Jody Miller, John Schneider, Kylie Minogue, Lil Kim, Louis Jordan, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Mya, Pink, Roger Daltrey, The Contours, The Marvelettes, The Miracles, The Notorious B.I.G., The Who

Stand Up and Shout: Dio's 'Holy Diver' Gets Box Set Reissue This Summer

May 20, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dio Holy Diver SDE

Whether performing with Elf, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Heaven and Hell, or his own band, Dio, Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010) thrilled with his powerful voice and indomitable spirit.  One of the most influential hard rock and metal singers of all time, Dio would have turned 80 years old on July 10.  Rhino is remembering him with a 4-CD super deluxe edition of the band Dio's debut, 1983's Holy Diver.  The box arrives in stores on July 8, just two days before Dio's 80th. Holy Diver united Ronnie, on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Dio, Ronnie James Dio

Release Round-Up: Week of May 20

May 20, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Combat Rock Peoples Hall

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of titles arriving everywhere today. The Clash, Combat Rock + The People's Hall: Special Edition (Columbia/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ranking Roger 7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings will release a 2CD or 3LP expansion of The Clash's Combat Rock for its 40th anniversary. The album comes with a bonus disc of 12 rare

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Art Blakey, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, John Coltrane, Kenny Rogers, Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra, The Clash, The Hollywood Stars, The Police, Thelonious Monk

Hooray for Hollywood: New Box Set Celebrates 100 Years of The Hollywood Bowl with Sinatra, Bernstein, Doors, Newman, Dudamel, More

May 17, 2022 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Hollywood Bowl 100

2022 marks 100 years of The Hollywood Bowl.  The famous amphitheater nestled in the Hollywood hills has hosted luminaries of every genre of music from classical to rock in its instantly familiar bandshell (actually two bandshells, as the first one from 1929 was demolished in 2003 and replaced with a larger model).  The Bowl has been featured in movies including the original A Star Is Born, Double Indemnity, Xanadu, and Beaches and cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and The Pink

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Count Basie, Donna Summer, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, Herbie Hancock, James Brown, John Barry, John Williams, L.A. Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, Nat King Cole, Randy Newman, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Doors

No Mere Mortal Can Resist? Speculating on the 40th Anniversary Reissue of 'Thriller'

May 16, 2022 By The Second Disc 14 Comments

Thriller 40 packshot

"Darkness falls across the land / the midnight hour is close at hand..." OK, maybe that's pushing it a little, but today Legacy Recordings did announce a forthcoming 2CD expansion of Michael Jackson's landmark Thriller for its 40th anniversary. The world's best-selling album spun off seven of its nine songs as Top 10 singles in America and helped win the King of Pop a record-setting eight Grammy Awards in one night. (Let's not forget that the eighth was for a storybook album based on E.T. the

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Categories: Features, News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Eddie Van Halen, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Toto

The Weekend Stream: May 14, 2022

May 14, 2022 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! Millennial nostalgia is all over this week's releases - plus some live jazz and pop as well as a real rarity from a disco diva. Linkin Park, Minutes to Midnight (Deluxe Edition) (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) In 2007, nu-metal rockers Linkin Park broadened their sound with the help of producer Rick Rubin and

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Bobby Darin, Buddy Holly, Grace Jones, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Owl City, Peggy Lee, Smash Mouth

Release Round-Up: Week of May 13

May 13, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Rolling Stones El Mocambo

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new releases arriving in stores today! The Rolling Stones, Live at the El Mocambo (UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP Neon Vinyl: Rolling Stones Online Shop The Rolling Stones are bringing their March, 1977 secret shows at Toronto's tiny El Mocambo club to 2-CD, 4-LP black vinyl, 4-LP neon vinyl, and digital formats. Live at the El

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Lyle Lovett, Melissa Errico, Michael Nesmith, The Black Keys, The Muffs, The Rolling Stones

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood: The Animals' Mono Albums Get Individual CD, Vinyl Reissues

May 9, 2022 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

The Animals The Animals LP

Back in 2013, the ABKCO label issued a 5-CD box set from The Animals.  Released via Real Gone Music, The Mickie Most Years and More brought together remastered versions of the British band's first four U.S. albums plus a rare private-press EP recorded in 1963.  Nearly a decade later, ABKCO is bringing The Mickie Most Years and More back into print as a vinyl set, while the four original mono albums will also be reissued as standalone CDs (with bonus tracks) and vinyl (original albums only) on

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Eric Burdon, Mickie Most, The Animals

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