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Twisted Sister's 'You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll' Goes Under The Blade As Deluxe Edition

August 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Twisted Sister You Cant Stop Rock n Roll

You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll: Twisted Sister proved the adage with their second studio album, originally released in May 1983 as their debut on the Atlantic label.  On September 14, the gold-certified hair metal classic will return in a new 2-CD, digital, or streaming expanded edition. Dee Snider, Jay Jay French, Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda, Mark "The Animal" Mendoza, and A.J. Pero, along with producer Stuart Epps, reached a turning point with You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll.  The album catapulted the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Twisted Sister

Joe Strummer 001

August 8, 2018 By

Joe Strummer 001

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/4LP/7″/Cassette Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new collection shines a deserved light on the late Clash frontman's work outside of his famous band - solo, with former bandmate Mick Jones, and with his 101ers and The Mescaleros.  001 will be available in a variety of formats, including 2CD, 2CD Deluxe, 4LP,

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

You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll [Deluxe Edition]

August 8, 2018 By

Twisted Sister You Cant Stop Rock n Roll

Twisted Sister's 1983 sophomore album gets a 2-CD expansion. The newly remastered original album is joined by three bonus tracks from a 1983 EP ("One Man Woman," "Four Barrel Heart of Love," and "Feel the Power") as well as an entire concert from London's Marquee Club, recorded in March 1983.  Live at the Marquee was previously released in 2011 as a limited edition on the Rhino Handmade imprint, and features most of the songs from the band's debut Under the Blade plus Twisted-style covers of The

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

Dipped in Moonlight: Real Gone Reissues Grateful Dead, L7 and Pentangle in September

August 8, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Pentangle Sweet Child

Real Gone Music has announced three more reissues hitting shelves on September 7, joining previously-announced titles from Alice Coltrane, The Munsters, and more! First up is a vinyl reissue of Pentangle's 1968 double-album Sweet Child, celebrating its 50th anniversary.  The British folk-jazz group came together in 1967 and consisted of Jacqui McShee (vocals), John Renbourn (guitar and vocals), Bert Jansch (guitar and vocals), Danny Thompson (double bass) and Terry Cox (drums).  Their first

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Rock Tags: Grateful Dead, L7, Pentangle

A Party Tonight in London: Bruce Springsteen Releases 1981 "The River" Tour Concert with Tributes to Elvis Presley

August 6, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Bruce Springsteen Wembley 1981

BUY NOW FROM NUGS.NETBruce Springsteen is continuing his ongoing Archive series.  Last month, he released a concert from 1978 that was promoting the Darkness on the Edge of Town album.  This month, he jumps forward three years to a gig to promote The River album: June 5, 1981 at Wembley Arena in London, England. The River was released on October 17, 1980.  Springsteen and the E Street Band spent nearly a year on tour to promote the double album which had been their first to top the charts.  The

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

Release Round-Up: Week of August 3

August 3, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Ben Folds Brick Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ben Folds, Brick: The Songs of Ben Folds 1996-2012 (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 13-CD box Brick: The Songs of Ben Folds 1996-2012 brings together nearly all of Folds' core studio albums together with a live album and various other odds and ends.  It traces his career from the first Ben Five Folds record through his solo recordings to the Five's reunion album in 2012, for a total of 194 tracks!  And yes - it's shaped

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Electric Light Orchestra, Hampton Grease Band, Merry Clayton, Monk Higgins, The Alan Parsons Project, The Doors

Just Can't Get Enough: Depeche Mode Initiate 12" Singles Box Set Series

August 2, 2018 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Depeche Mode Speak and Spell Singles

Later this month, Depeche Mode will launch a series of box sets collecting the band's 12-inch singles.  On August 31, the first two boxes, Speak & Spell and A Broken Frame, will be released.  All audio in this series has been newly remastered from the original tapes and cut at Abbey Road Studios. The first box, Speak & Spell: The 12" Singles, collects all of the singles around the era of the British electronic band's 1981 debut Speak & Spell.  It kicks off with a replica of the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Depeche Mode

Fill My Little World: Cherry Red Reissues The Feeling's "Twelve Stops and Home" In Deluxe Box

August 1, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Feeling 12 Stops

The Feeling burst onto the scene from Horsham, West Sussex, England in early 2006 when their single "Sewn" became a top ten hit in their native United Kingdom.  Across the pond, the song was featured on television's Medium and One Tree Hill, and worldwide, it was heard as part of the soundtrack to the football (or soccer)-themed video game FIFA 07.  The melodic rock piano ballad had both a current radio-friendly sheen and a retro vibe reminiscent of pop's halcyon days.  It was included in June

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: The Feeling

Love Kills: Joe Strummer's Solo Material Highlighted In New Collection

July 30, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Joe Strummer 001

When it comes to Joe Strummer, 001 is the number to watch.  That's the name of the upcoming box set that shines a deserved light on the late Clash frontman's work outside of his famous band - solo, with former bandmate Mick Jones, and with his 101ers and The Mescaleros.  001 arrives on September 28 from Ignition Records in an array of formats, including 2CD, 2CD Deluxe, 4LP, and a 2CD/4LP/7"/Cassette Super Deluxe edition. The first CD of 001 compiles 20 eclectic, previously released sides

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, The Clash

Release Round-Up: Week of July 27

July 27, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Bob Dylan Live Copyright 1962 1966

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections (Columbia/Legacy)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The new 2-CD set Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections draws on Dylan's previously issued limited edition "copyright extension" collections to offer a sampler of Dylan onstage, from a pair of songs recorded on April 16, 1962 at Gerdes Folk City in New York ("Blowin' in the Wind" and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Boz Scaggs, Michael Nesmith, Thomas Dolby, Various Artists

A Million Miles of Fun: Real Gone Celebrates "Dazed and Confused," "True Romance," "Go" and "The Munsters" in September

July 24, 2018 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

The Munsters

We've told you about one of Real Gone's September releases: the first-ever collection of Alice Coltrane's complete Warner Bros. recordings.  Now we've got the news on a quartet of soundtrack releases also slated for the month. The first release actually hits one day before September, on August 31.  It is a vinyl reissue of Even More Dazed and Confused, the second soundtrack album from Richard Linklater's 1993 film Dazed and Confused.  The high school coming-of-age film takes place primarily

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: The Munsters, Various Artists

Thomas Dolby Goes 'Hyperactive' On New Compilation, Upcoming Tour

July 23, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Thomas Dolby Hyperactive

Thomas Dolby chronicled his singular life in the 2016 memoir The Speed of Sound.  He detailed his career trajectory from "one hit wonder" new wave singer-songwriter (who, in fact, charted sixteen songs in the U.K. and three in the U.S.) to Silicon Valley entrepreneur.  He's lately been spending his days as a university professor (decades after turning his back on the "family business" of academia), but this summer he's taking a break from the classroom to headline a short U.S. tour.  To coincide

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Thomas Dolby

Loving the Alien [1983-1988]

July 20, 2018 By

David Bowie Loving the Alien Cover

11CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 15LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  The fourth annual volume of Parlophone's ongoing series of box sets dedicated to the late David Bowie, Loving the Alien (1983-1988), arrives on 11 CDs or 15 vinyl LPs.  This lavish set is filled with more exclusive material than any of its predecessors, as only three studio albums are included, all in newly remastered editions: Let's Dance (1983), Tonight (1984), and Never Let Me Down (1987). 

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

Plays Well with Others

July 20, 2018 By

Phil Collins Plays Well with Others

Phil Collins has always been a collaborative artist - and now 59 of his favorite tracks recorded with other artists are being collected on a new 4-CD or digital box set!  These discs represent a "Who's Who" of talent, with Collins' friends including Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, The Bee Gees, Four Tops, Collins' Genesis bandmate Peter Gabriel, and many more.

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 20

July 20, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Soul Asylum Made to Be Broken

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Cilla Black, Surround Yourself with Cilla/It Makes Me Feel Good [Expanded Edition] (Cherry Red/SFE) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cherry Red celebrates the late, great Cilla Black with a new reissue campaign.   The first 2-CD set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay (Cliff Richard, Blue Mink, The New Seekers).  22 bonus tracks (13 new to CD) are

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Cilla Black, John Fogerty, Lalomie Washburn, Marianne Faithfull, Public Image Ltd., Soul Asylum

Modern Love: Bowie's 'Loving The Alien' Box Chronicles His Wild '80s

July 19, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bowie 83

  For David Bowie, the 1980s were years of tremendous ch-ch-changes, in which the stylistic chameleon went mainstream to great success, experienced some artistic disappointments, and solidified his place in the pantheon as a legend of rock.  Now, this era is being looked back upon in the fourth annual volume of Parlophone's ongoing series of box sets dedicated to the late superstar. Loving the Alien (1983-1988) will arrive on October 12 in 11CD and 15LP vinyl configurations. This

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: David Bowie

In the Air Tonite: Phil Collins' New Box Set "Plays Well with Others" Features McCartney, Clapton, Plant, Bennett

July 18, 2018 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Phil Collins Plays Well with Others

Throughout his career, Phil Collins has always been willing to share his talents - whether at the microphone or the drum kit, as a songwriter, or in the producer's chair - with his fellow musicians.  On September 28, the superstar will collect 59 of his favorite collaborations on a new 4-CD box set.  Rhino/Atlantic will release Plays Well with Others just one week before Collins launches his Not Dead Yet, Live! tour on October 5 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Collins states in the press

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Philip Bailey, Stephen Bishop, Tony Bennett, Various Artists

Graham Bonnet Gets "Real" On New 3-CD Archival Release from Cherry Red

July 17, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Graham Bonnet Reel to Real

Cherry Red's Hear No Evil (HNE) imprint has been revisiting the career of English rocker Graham Bonnet in an extensive program encompassing studio, live and vault material.  The recent release of Flying Not Falling: 1991-1999, expanding three albums from that period, has just been followed up with another 3-CD clamshell box set, Reel to Real: The Archives 1987-1992. The first disc of Reel to Real premieres 12 previously unreleased studio tracks.  The first three tracks were recorded in 1987

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An American Treasure

July 16, 2018 By

Tom Petty An American Treasure cover

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada  This career-spanning retrospective of rare and previously unreleased material from the late Tom Petty arrives on Reprise Records.  The aptly-titled An American Treasure will be the first posthumous collection of Petty material, and it should prove a vital reminder of the power of Petty's art.  The box set, assembled by Petty's wife Dana,

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

In the Blue Light

July 16, 2018 By

Paul Simon In the Blue Light

Legacy releases an album of reimagined music from the Paul Simon songbook.  Co-produced by Simon and longtime associate Roy Halee, In the Blue Light features new recordings of ten lesser-known selections drawn from There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973), Still Crazy After All These Years (1975), One-Trick Pony (1980), Hearts and Bones (1983), The Rhythm of The Saints (1990), You're The One (2000) and So Beautiful Or So What (2011).  Jazz luminaries such as Wynton Marsalis, Bill Frisell, Jack

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Road to Ruin: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

July 16, 2018 By

Ramones Road to Ruin

Rhino continues its series of deluxe Ramones reissues with this 12x12, hardcover book-style 40th anniversary set for 1978's Road to Ruin including 3 CDs and 1 LP.  Disc One of the box set has the remastered version of the original album mix along with a 2018 stripped-down "Road Revisited" remix crafted by original producer Ed Stasium.  This remix is also included in the set on a 180-gram vinyl LP.  CD 2 boasts period rough mixes of every album track as well as bonus material such as single

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

Live at The Troubadour

July 16, 2018 By

Michael Nesmith and First National Band Redux Live

Mike Nesmith reformed his pioneering country-rock outfit The First National Band for five performances only at L.A.'s fabled Troubadour in January 2018; now, everybody who couldn't squeeze into the club will get a chance to hear what they missed.  Michael Nesmith and The First National Band Redux Live at the Troubadour is available on both single CD and double vinyl, with the vinyl edition boasting one bonus track ("Rio").  It's drawn from the band's performance at that Hollywood nightspot on

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, Rock

Don't Say You Don't, Please Say You Do: Morrissey Releases New Compilation

July 16, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

This is Morrissey

While Morrissey has recently cancelled another round of live shows originally scheduled for the U.K. and Europe, the English singer has released This is Morrissey, a new,  budget-priced 12-track collection of studio and live tracks.  The compilation will arrive on August 31 on vinyl with one additional bonus track. This is Morrissey, sporting a retro-style jacket, goes back to the artist's 1988 solo debut Viva Hate for "Everyday is Like Sunday" and continues with selections from 1991's Kill

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It's a Long Way Back: Rhino Reissues Ramones' "Road to Ruin" In 40th Anniversary Box Set

July 13, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Ramones Road to Ruin

On September 22, 1978, The Ramones unleashed their fourth album on the world: Road to Ruin.  On September 21 of this year, almost forty years to the day, Rhino will reissue Road as part of the label's ongoing series of Ramones box sets.  It will arrive as a 3-CD/1-LP box set and a single-CD remaster of the original album. For Road to Ruin, Dee Dee, Joey, and Johnny were joined for the first time by drummer Marky Ramone (who replaced founder Tommy Ramone, who'd left the ranks to focus on

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

Songs for the Asking: Paul Simon Announces "In The Blue Light," Previews Rarities Collection "Alternate Tunings" (UPDATED 7/12)

July 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Paul Simon In the Blue Light

ORIGINAL POST (6/18/2018) - UPDATES IN BOLD: Paul Simon may be retiring from the road, but the conclusion of his acclaimed Homeward Bound - The Farewell Tour on September 22 won't be the last we've heard of the legendary musician.  On tour, he's currently previewing two upcoming projects: Alternate Tunings, a long-awaited collection of previously unreleased material (date TBA), and an album entitled In the Blue Light, due on September 7 on CD and vinyl. In lieu of a traditional tour program,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Paul Simon

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