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The Chant Has Just Begun: The Alarm Expand Early Works on CD

February 13, 2018 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Alarm Eponymous

Welsh alt-rock group The Alarm will reissue and expand their earliest recordings from the first four years of their discography next month. Eponymous 1981-1983 and Declaration 1984-1985 will hit stores March 16. Previously released in single-disc form by the group's Twenty First Century label in 2000, these 2CD or 2LP releases paint an even clearer, more definitive picture of this era of Mike Peters and company, including their signing to I.R.S. Records and highest-charting single release

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: The Alarm

Heartbeat City: Expanded Edition

February 12, 2018 By

Heartbeat City

This expanded edition of The Cars' 1984 album featuring the hit ballad "Drive" features a generous seven bonus tracks including a period Arthur Baker 12-inch remix, a B-side, and previously unreleased demos and early versions!

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

Shake It Up: Expanded Edition

February 12, 2018 By

Shake It Up

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Cars reissue their 1981 LP featuring the hit title track "Shake It Up" on CD and double vinyl, featuring eight bonus tracks including previously unreleased demos and alternate and early versions.

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

The Searcher: The Original Soundtrack

February 12, 2018 By

Elvis The Searcher

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD RCA and Legacy have the soundtrack to director Thom Zimny's upcoming documentary on Elvis Presley coming in a variety of formats: an 18-track soundtrack CD, a 2-LP gatefold 12-inch vinyl edition, and a 3-CD collectible deluxe box set with additional music from Presley and those who inspired him.  The film traces the artistic evolution of the

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

An Eye On The Residents' Archival Reissues for 2018

February 12, 2018 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Meet The Residents

For nearly 50 years, the art collective known as The Residents has challenged the sound and structure of Western pop music, a venture which began on record in 1974 with their debut LP, Meet The Residents. Now, the group has partnered with Cherry Red to undertake The Residents pREServed, a series of deluxe reissues of core albums in The Residents' catalogue with scores of rare and unreleased material. Known for their unconventional sound and style as well as their deeply secretive though

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: The Residents

Review: Fleetwood Mac, 'Fleetwood Mac: Deluxe Edition'

February 12, 2018 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Fleetwood Mac packshot

Take away all the artifice and ephemera of the new deluxe edition of Fleetwood Mac's 1975 self-titled album (Reprise R2 559454) and you're still left with an intriguing and endlessly challenging question: how? How did a British blues band with only fleeting chart success in their home country metamorphose into one of the greatest rock bands of the 20th century's back half, architects of 18 Top 40 hits and eight platinum or multiplatinum records? And how did they do so with their ninth lineup? As

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD-Audio, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks

Release Round-Up: Week of February 9

February 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Stax Singles 4 cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Stax Singles Vol. 4: Rarities and Best of the Rest (Stax/Craft) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Craft Recordings boxes up a fourth volume of rare singles from the Stax vaults.  Volume Four lives up to its subtitle, collecting odds and ends from Stax and its various imprints by artists including not just the label's usual heavy hitters but also Big Star, Billy Eckstine, Delaney and Bonnie, and others.  80 pages of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chris Hillman, Mitch Miller, Nina Simone, Oscar Peterson, Ringo Starr, The Nazz, Todd Rundgren, Toto

Hello Again: Rhino to Expand, Reissue Two Albums by The Cars

February 8, 2018 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Shake It Up

Following expansions of The Cars' Candy-O and Panorama, the classic New Wave group (one of this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees) will expand two more in their classic discography in the spring. Rhino Records will release 1981's Shake It Up and 1984's Heartbeat City with rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks on March 30. CD and double LP editions will be available, and will utilize the 2016 remasters overseen by co-lead singer Ric Ocasek as well as art direction overseen by

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: The Cars

Hold It! Intervention Gives Deluxe, Artist-Approved Treatment to Marshall Crenshaw's "Field Day"

February 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Fans of Marshall Crenshaw are bound to have a Field Day with Intervention Records' recent vinyl reissue of the pop hero's sophomore album.  This delightful release in the label's Artist-Approved Series has spruced up the original LP with a bonus 12-inch EP of additional content and new artwork, both of which have been given the thumbs-up by the artist. Producer Steve Lillywhite harnessed the power of Crenshaw (guitar/vocals), his brother Robert (drums/vocals), and Chris Donato (bass/vocals)

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Marshall Crenshaw

Good Rockin' Tonight: Soundtrack to New Elvis Documentary Announced

February 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Elvis The Searcher

A new Elvis Presley documentary is heading to television screens this April, and an accompanying soundtrack album will arrive in a variety of formats that same month from Legacy Recordings and RCA Records.  Elvis Presley: The Searcher, directed by Emmy and Grammy winner Thom Zimny and written by author/journalist Alan Light, traces the artistic evolution of the artist from his R&B and country beginnings through his final Jungle Room recording sessions at Graceland.  The three-hour, two-part

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Elvis Presley, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Cherry Red Bespoke Puts Vinyl Reissues in Fans' Hands

February 6, 2018 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Theatre of Hate LP

It's no secret: sometimes, reissue fans and collectors know what they want better than anyone - market analysis be damned. U.K. label Cherry Red is giving fans the opportunity to forecast some vinyl reissues with their new Cherry Red Bespoke initiative! Similar to Run Out Groove's methodology, Cherry Red Bespoke invites fans to have a look at some possible reissue titles and vote with your funds as to which ones you'd like to have as part of your collection! Track selection and packaging have

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock Tags: Jah Wobble, Spencer Davis Group, Theatre of Hate

All Sides of the Roxy

February 6, 2018 By

Todd All Sides of the Roxy

Cherry Red's Esoteric imprint is going Back to the Bars with this new 3-CD box from Todd Rundgren.  That 1978 live album drew on the artist's concert tour of intimate venues in Cleveland, New York, and Los Angeles; this set greatly expands the L.A. material by presenting, on two discs, the complete final concert from his Roxy residency on May 23, 1978 (as simulcast to a then-record-breaking radio audience).  The third disc reissues the 2011 archival collection Another Side of the Roxy, compiling

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited

February 6, 2018 By

Metallica EP

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Longbox CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cassette: Amazon U.S. Originally released in 1987, The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited found Metallica in a reflective mood, covering some of their favorite hard rock and punk groups like Diamond Head, Budgie, Killing Joke and the Misfits. The band was also looking forward: Garage Days Re-Revisited featured vocalist/rhythm guitarist James

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Formats: Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

He's Ready: Chess and Universal to Release New Muddy Waters Collection

February 5, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Muddy Waters Cant Be Satisfied

Universal Music Catalogue will issue a new collection celebrating the work of the bluesman born McKinley Morganfield but known the world over as Muddy Waters. Can't Be Satisfied: The Very Best of Muddy Waters 1948-1975 presents 40 classic tracks from across the singer/guitarist's tenure on the Chess label. Waters recorded for Chess for most of his life, after being discovered by Alan Lomax in the early 1940s for his Library of Congress-sanctioned sojourn to discover and record local country

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Muddy Waters

Clear Sailin': Omnivore Reissues Lost Classics from Chris Hillman, NRBQ, and The Choir

February 2, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

The Choir Artifact

Among its many exciting releases, Omnivore has a trio of albums due soon from three very different rock artists: Chris Hillman, pre-Raspberries band The Choir, and NRBQ. Last year, Chris Hillman (veteran of groups including The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Desert Rose Band, and supergroup The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band) released the acclaimed album Bidin' My Time - only his seventh solo album.  Produced by Tom Petty (one of the late superstar's last projects), the LP reaffirmed

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chris Hillman, Eric Carmen, NRBQ, The Choir, The Raspberries

Back to the Garage: Metallica Re-Revisits Classic EP on Multiple Formats

February 2, 2018 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Metallica EP

While you're waiting for the next exhaustive, extras-packed Metallica album reissue, the legendary metal group is reissuing a classic EP in April. Originally released in 1987, The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited found the quartet in a reflective mood, covering some of their favorite hard rock and punk groups like Diamond Head, Budgie, Killing Joke and the Misfits. The band was also looking forward: Garage Days Re-Revisited featured vocalist/rhythm guitarist James Hetfield, lead guitarist

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Metallica

Release Round-Up: Week of February 2

February 2, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Roxy Music packshot

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ron Wood and Ronnie Lane, Mahoney's Last Stand: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Faces' Ronnie Lane and Ron Wood teamed up to pen the score, consisting of country/folk-flavored songs and instrumental tracks, for this 1972 low-budget Canadian film.  Real Gone brings it back to CD with new liner notes by Richie Unterberger.  Read more here! Roxy Music, Roxy Music: Super Deluxe

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Country Joe and The Fish, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, John Oates, John Williams, Randy Edelman, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Roxy Music, The Bee Gees, The Sherman Brothers, Trevor Jones

Roxy and (More Than) Elsewhere: Zappa's Legendary 1973 Shows Collected On New Box Set Released Tomorrow

February 1, 2018 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Zappa Roxy

Fans of the uncompromising rock composer Frank Zappa have a special jewel to add to their collections tomorrow: a definitive set chronicling his 1973 stand at The Roxy in Hollywood. The Roxy Performances is a 7CD box set that offers material from four incredible nights from December 8-12, 1973, as heard on 1974's Roxy & Elsewhere (in overdubbed form), 2014's Roxy By Proxy (which featured alternate performances sans overdubs) and 2015's Blu-ray/CD combo Roxy The Soundtrack. In addition to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Frank Zappa

Unmasked: The Platinum Collection

January 28, 2018 By

Andrew Lloyd Webber Platinum Collection

Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates his 70th birthday and his memoir Unmasked with this 4-CD, 71-track box set of the same name.  The career-spanning anthology features many of the composer's most famed songs from Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, School of Rock, and more, performed by artists including Barbra Streisand, Madonna, Elvis Presley, Alice Cooper, Tom Jones, The Everly Brothers, and the stars of his hit shows onstage such as Glenn Close, Donny Osmond, Elaine Paige,

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

Music of the Night: Andrew Lloyd Webber Celebrates His 70th Birthday with a New Box Set

January 26, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Andrew Lloyd Webber Platinum Collection

Since September 25, 1979, there hasn't been a day when an Andrew Lloyd Webber melody hasn't been heard on Broadway.  That was the opening night of Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita.  Before it ended its run in June 1983, Lloyd Webber's musical Cats had opened, launching a record-breaking run through September 2000.  But on January 26, 1988, the show opened which would eclipse them all: Phantom of the Opera.  It today celebrates 30 years (marked with a special gala earlier this week) and is

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Barbra Streisand, Beyoncé, Cliff Richard, Deep Purple, Donny Osmond, Elvis Presley, Lana Del Ray, Madonna, Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, The Everly Brothers, Tim Rice, Yvonne Elliman

Release Round-Up: Week of January 26

January 26, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

ABBA The Album Half Speed

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! ABBA: The Album - 40th Anniversary Edition (Polar/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) ABBA revisits its fifth studio album (released in December 1977 in Scandinavia and January 1978 in the U.K.) - a tie-in to ABBA: The Movie - as a deluxe 2-LP, 45 RPM, half-speed mastered set.  Featuring "The Name of the Game," "Take a Chance on Me," and "Thank You for the Music," the chart-topping LP has been a favorite of the band's discography. 

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABBA, Andrew Ridgeley, Luther Russell, Martika, Ohio Players, Wes Montgomery

New Coat of Paint: Anti- to Remaster Tom Waits' Elektra/Asylum Catalogue in 2018

January 25, 2018 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Tom Waits Closing Time

Having remastered his catalogue for Anti- Records spanning from 1999 to 2011 last year for CD and vinyl, iconoclastic singer Tom Waits will next partner with the label by turning his attention to the seven albums he released on the Asylum label during the first portion of his career. Waits and his wife and creative partner Kathleen Brennan have remastered all of Waits' studio and live output between 1973 and 1980 for CD and 180-gram LP, bringing many of the albums back into physical print

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Folk, Rock Tags: Tom Waits

Oh, Darling! Cherry Red Reissues Graham Bonnet's 1990s Output On New Box Set

January 25, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Graham Bonnet Flying Not Falling

The Graham Bonnet story has been well-chronicled by Cherry Red's Hear No Evil imprint via expanded editions of the English rocker's classic albums as well as a career-spanning anthology.  Late in 2017, HNE continued its Bonnet series with a new 3-CD compact clamshell box set.  Flying Not Falling: 1991-1999 expands three albums from the versatile vocalist: The Day I Went Mad (1999), Underground (1997), and Here Comes the Night (1991). Bonnet's career has ranged from pop to hard rock over six

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Graham Bonnet

Going to California: Led Zeppelin Goes Super Deluxe with "How the West Was Won"

January 24, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won

Fifteen years ago, Led Zeppelin issued How the West Was Won, premiering performances from the band's June 25 and 27, 1972 concerts at the Los Angeles Forum and Long Beach Arena.  Now, those seminal tracks have been newly remastered under the supervision of Jimmy Page for a surprise addition to the band's Super Deluxe library - as well as in a variety of formats, all of which are due from Atlantic/Swan Song on March 23 including the first-ever Blu-ray Audio and vinyl editions.  The remastered How

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Led Zeppelin

Rhino Collects 25 Years of Trips with Grateful Dead Live Compilation

January 23, 2018 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Best of The Grateful Dead Live

The Grateful Dead played more than 2,300 concerts during their lifespan. Of those, it's estimated that some 2,200 of those shows were taped by the band and their loyal fans. The good-natured California group allowed them to be freely distributed from the beginning, and every Deadhead has a favorite. But where would you start with the live history of such an esteemed band? The Dead and Rhino are offering an answer to that question this spring with The Best of The Grateful Dead Live, a 2CD or 2LP

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