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Into The Great Wide Open: 'An American Treasure' Collects Unreleased Tom Petty Tracks

July 10, 2018 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Tom Petty An American Treasure

Tom Petty's unexpected passing last October at the age of 66 was cause for reflection on the tenacious and passionate artist's lifetime of thrilling and quintessentially American rock-and-roll music.  There was no doubt that Petty's electric brand of soulful rock would live on, but fans were naturally hungry for more.  He had discussed a possible Wildflowers deluxe edition in the past, but that never materialized.  Yesterday, it was revealed on Sirius XM (home of his Tom Petty's Buried Treasure

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Tom Petty

Release Round-Up: Week of July 6

July 6, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Yellow Submarine Single

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Beatles, Yellow Submarine [7-Inch Single] (Capitol/Apple/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" b/w "Eleanor Rigby" returns to 7-inch vinyl as a picture disc single to mark the 50th anniversary of the animated film classic.  It will be housed in a die-cut card sleeve.  Read more here. Judy Garland, I Can't Give You Anything But Love 1938-1961 (Jasmine) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Barenaked Ladies, Judy Garland, The Beatles, Vince Guaraldi

Made To Be Broken: Expanded Edition

July 3, 2018 By

Soul Asylum Made to Be Broken

Soul Asylum's second Twin/Tone album gets the expanded treatment from Omnivore.  It adds a whopping fifteen bonus tracks to the album's original twelve songs including "Long Way Home" (which had been added to subsequent reissues) and nine previously unissued recordings.  Gina Arnold has penned the new essay for the deluxe booklet.

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

Say What You Will...Everything Can Happen: Expanded Edition

July 3, 2018 By

Soul Asylum Say What You Will

Omnivore is expanding Soul Asylum's 1984 Twin/Tone debut.  The reissue of Say What You Will includes the original album plus fourteen bonuses including outtakes, demos (one previously unreleased), and tracks recorded under the names of Loud Fast Rules and Proud Crass Fools.  The five songs appended to the album for the 1988 reissue entitled Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold the Truck are all included.  The booklet promises to include a new essay by Robert Vodicka plus photos, artwork,

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of June 29

June 29, 2018 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Supremes Sing HDH

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland: Expanded Edition (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Supremes' smash 1967 album featuring "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" gets a must-have 2-CD deluxe treatment, including the original mono and stereo albums, rarities, outtakes, remixes, and a live set from The Copacabana in 1967 featuring one of the last joint performances of Diana Ross, Mary

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Big Country, Buffalo Springfield, Chicago, David Bowie, Graham Nash, Guns N' Roses, John Coltrane, Procol Harum, Ray Davies, Smash Mouth, Social Distortion, The Feeling, The Flaming Lips, The Posies, The Supremes, Yes

You Dreamer: Big Country's 'Long Face' Gets Longer with Cherry Red Box Set

June 28, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Big Country Why the Long Face

A beloved album from Big Country is about to get a lot bigger.  Tomorrow, Cherry Red Records will expand the Scottish band's 1996 album Why the Long Face into a 4-CD edition also including their live album from the same year, Eclectic, and two discs of bonus material. Last year, TSD described Big Country: "The story of Big Country goes like this: the quartet, featuring ex-Skids guitarist Stuart Adamson on vocals and guitar, guitarist Bruce Watson, bassist Tony Butler and drummer Mark

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Big Country

The Exodus Has Begun: Prince Estate Strikes Catalog Deal With Sony Music

June 27, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Prince RRHOF

In what's certainly one of the year's biggest surprises, Sony Music's Legacy Recordings has just announced a comprehensive new deal with the Prince estate that will see Legacy assuming the reins for a considerable portion of Prince's remarkable discography. Sony will hold the worldwide licensing rights to the late superstar's core catalogue recorded from 1995 onward, covering some 19 major albums recorded by the Purple One during this time, as well as relevant singles, B-sides, live material,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Another World, Another Day: Omnivore to Expand Debut Albums by Soul Asylum

June 25, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Soul Asylum Made to Be Broken

Before breaking through to the big leagues with major label albums on A&M and most crucially, Columbia, Minneapolis-based alternative rock band Soul Asylum recorded four albums for the local Twin/Tone Records label.  On July 20, Omnivore Recordings will reissue the first two of those Twin/Tone LPs as deluxe, expanded CDs loaded with rarities and previously unreleased tracks. Say What You Will...Everything Can Happen arrived in 1984 on Twin/Tone, produced by Bob Mould of Husker Du.  Core

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Rock Tags: Bob Mould, Soul Asylum

Release Round-Up: Week of June 22

June 22, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Garbage 2.0

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Cure, Mixed Up: Deluxe Edition (Universal (U.K.)/Elektra/Rhino (U.S.)) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mixed Up 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Torn Down 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Postponed from last week: The Cure revisits its 1990 remix album as a 3-CD deluxe edition.  The first disc of the new set contains the original Mixed Up album,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Chita Rivera, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Garbage, Leonard Bernstein, Miles Davis, The Cure, Tom Fogerty, William Grant Still

Unattended Luggage

June 21, 2018 By

Nick Mason Unattended Luggage

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pink Floyd founding member Nick Mason's three solo albums are rounded up in one CD or vinyl box set as Unattended Luggage.  The 3-LP or 3-CD set includes Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1981), Profiles (1985), and White of the Eye (1987), with the latter making its CD debut.  All three albums will also be available as digital downloads and for streaming.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock, Soundtracks

Ride Into The Sun: Run Out Groove Collects Luna's Covers on "Lunafied"

June 19, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Luna Lunafied

The fans have spoken, and Run Out Groove has announced its newest, audience-voted title: the 2-LP collection Lunafied, from the indie pop band Luna.  This set (expanded from a 2006 digital release) rounds up the band's cover songs recorded during their time at Elektra Records, many of which were originally released on singles outside the U.S. and have never been released previously on vinyl. Singer/guitarist Dean Wareham formed Luna in 1991 following the breakup of Galaxie 500.  Justin

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Luna

Different Drum: Michael Nesmith's First National Band Releases Live Album On 7a Records

June 18, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Michael Nesmith and First National Band Redux Live

Before embarking with Micky Dolenz on the acclaimed, currently-playing The Monkees Present: The Mike & Micky Show, Michael Nesmith staged another remarkable event earlier this year.  For five performances only in January, Nesmith reformed his pioneering country-rock group, The First National Band.  The FNB didn't venture out of California, but the sold-out concerts attracted worldwide attention.  Now, everyone will have a chance to hear what they missed when 7a Records - the label dedicated

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Michael Nesmith, The First National Band, The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of June 15

June 15, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Cure Mixed Up Deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Rolling Stones, The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This massive, limited edition vinyl box set collects the legendary band's 15 studio albums from Sticky Fingers (1971) to Blue and Lonesome (2016) on 20 meticulously-recreated LPs with original art elements, inserts, and more.  Each album, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, has been remastered and cut at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barry White, Gene Clark, Kirsty MacColl, Love Unlimited, The Allman Brothers Band, The Cure, The Killers, The Rolling Stones, The Rose Garden

Endless Party: Cherry Red Collects New York Dolls' Demos and Live Shows on "Personality Crisis"

June 13, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

New York Dolls Personality Crisis

Call them hard rock, call them proto-punk, call them glam-punk or a combination of the three, but when The New York Dolls burst onto the downtown Manhattan scene in 1971, they were unlike any other band in town - or perhaps on the planet.  The Dolls - lead vocalist David Johansen, rhythm guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane, lead guitarist Johnny Thunders and drummer Jerry Nolan (who replaced the late Billy Murcia) - might have emerged as a response to the studied musicianship

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: New York Dolls

In The Pink: Warner to Reissue Nick Mason's Three Solo Albums in New Box Set

June 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Nick Mason Unattended Luggage

Nick Mason, drummer and founding member of Pink Floyd, is the only member of that band to have performed on every one of their albums and all of their live concerts.  But he's still found time over the years to release a handful of solo projects.  On August 31, his three solo albums - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports, Profiles, and White of the Eye - will be reissued in both CD and vinyl boxed sets through Warner Music Group as Unattended Luggage.  These limited edition boxes will arrive just

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Carla Bley, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Rick Fenn

Days (1988-1991)

June 8, 2018 By

Kirsty MacColl Days Box

Edsel remembers the late singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl with the release of a new 4CD/1DVD book-style box set.  Days (1988-1991) collects her Virgin Records period which yielded two albums and various singles.  All told, a generous 33 bonus tracks (non-LP singles, extended mixes, and one-offs) are spread across the two albums.  The fifth disc in the box, a DVD, includes seven promotional videos and the EPK (electronic press kit) for Electric Landlady.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock

Stunt: 20th Anniversary Edition

June 8, 2018 By

Barenaked Ladies Stunt

CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Barenaked Ladies revisit the band's 1998 breakthrough album Stunt in a new CD/DVD edition with three audio bonus tracks (the outtakes "She's On Time" and "Long Way Back Home," first heard as hidden tracks on the limited edition version of the album, plus "Get in Line" from the soundtrack to the animated television series King of the Hill).  The DVD includes The Stunt Tour and Barenaked in

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

Secret Messages [Deluxe 2-LP Edition]

June 8, 2018 By

ELO Secret Messages

35 years after its first appearance, Electric Light Orchestra's Secret Messages returns to vinyl in a new edition moving closer to founder Jeff Lynne's original vision for the album.  Legacy Recordings will reissue Secret Messages on double 150-gram vinyl restoring all but one of the tracks which were cut from the original LP release.  Alas, that outtake - the near-legendary "Beatles Forever" - is still missing in action, but six more tracks have been reinstated in the album's original running

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Piano & A Microphone, 1983

June 8, 2018 By

Prince Piano and a Microphone

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/LP Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Digital: Amazon U.S. The Prince vaults are open!  Piano & A Microphone 1983 - a nine-track, 35-minute album - features a previously unreleased home studio cassette recording of the solo Prince at his piano in that epochal year including renditions of "Purple Rain," Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You," the folk spiritual "Mary, Don't You

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

I Got a Line on You: Cherry Red Collects Albums of Spirit, Sailor, Bram Tchaikovsky In New Box Sets

June 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Spirit It Shall Be

Cherry Red's various imprints have become a go-to destination for compact, affordable complete album packages, and three recent releases are no exception. Esoteric Recordings has gone the extra mile with a new package dedicated to the early recordings of Spirit.  The Los Angeles rock band evolved out of a band called The Red Roosters which included Randy California (real name: Randy Wolfe) on guitars and vocals, Mark Andes on bass, and Jay Ferguson on vocals and percussion.  When California's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bram Tchaikovsky, Sailor, Spirit

Release Round-Up: Week of June 8

June 8, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Johnny Mathis Youve Got a Friend

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Close to You/Love Story: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue their journey through Johnny Mathis' seventies catalogue with this expanded, remastered two-fer of Mathis' 1970 and 1971 albums.  Close to You finds the singer reinterpreting hits by Bacharach and David, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Beatles, and even Santana, while Love Story

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Davy Jones, Dennis Coffey, Eric Clapton, Johnny Mathis, Keely Smith, Mick Ronson, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Violent Femmes

Flaming Lips Treat Fwends To New Warner-Era Compilation

June 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Flaming Lips Greatest Hits Volume 1

Earlier this year, The Flaming Lips announced plans to anthologize their early, pre-Warner Bros. recordings on two collections.  Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of The Flaming Lips, with 19 tracks from the alternative band, arrived in April, while the 6-CD box set Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990 is on the schedule for June 29.  (Read about both releases here.)  Joining that pair of titles is a new compilation out now focusing on the

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One Nite Alone: Unreleased Prince Home Recordings to Be Released in September

June 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Prince Piano and a Microphone

Today would have been Prince's 60th birthday.  Warner Bros. Records and the Prince estate are marking the occasion by swinging the vault doors wide open.  Following such posthumous releases as the "Nothing Compares 2 U" single, the expanded Purple Rain, and the Prince 4Ever collection with one unreleased track, Warner Bros. has just announced an archival album to be released on September 21 in CD, LP, and CD/LP Deluxe formats, as well as digitally. Piano & A Microphone 1983 - a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Rock 'N' Roll Is King: ELO's "Secret Messages" Comes to Double Vinyl in August

June 6, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

ELO Secret Messages

35 years after its first appearance, Electric Light Orchestra's Secret Messages is returning to vinyl in a new edition moving closer to founder Jeff Lynne's original vision for the album.  On August 3, Legacy Recordings will reissue Secret Messages on double 150-gram vinyl restoring all but one of the tracks which were cut from the original LP release.  Alas, that outtake - the near-legendary "Beatles Forever" - is still missing in action. 1983's Secret Messages was originally conceived by

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne

Call and Answer: Rhino Reissues, Expands Barenaked Ladies' "Stunt" For 20th Anniversary

June 5, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Barenaked Ladies Stunt

Between June 1 and July 15, Barenaked Ladies will be taking to the road alongside Better Than Ezra and K.T. Tunstall.  Their Last Summer on Earth tour is one part of a banner year for the band which has also seen their induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.  The celebration continues with the upcoming release of Stunt: 20th Anniversary Edition, an expanded edition of their most successful studio album.  It's due on July 6 digitally, with physical CD/DVD and 2-LP vinyl editions following

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Barenaked Ladies

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