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Go All the Way! Omnivore Unearths Raspberries' 2004 Reunion

June 9, 2017 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Raspberries Pop Art Live

The House of Blues picked a hell of a hometown act to open their Cleveland location in the fall of 2004: for the first time in nearly 30 years, the original line-up of power pop heroes the Raspberries reunited on stage. That magical night will now be available for all to enjoy, thanks to a new 2CD set from Omnivore Records due this August! Pop Art Live collects the full set by Eric Carmen (vocals/guitar/piano), Wally Bryson (guitar), Dave Smalley (bass) and Jim Bonfanti (drums) as they played

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Eric Carmen, Raspberries

Good Rockin' Tonight: Legacy Revisits Elvis Presley's "A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings"

June 9, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

A Boy From Tupelo

On July 28, Elvis fans will be saying "That's all right" - and then some - to the box set being released by RCA and Legacy Recordings.  A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete Recordings 1953-1955 journeys back to the birth of rock-and-roll to feature, on three CDs and digitally, every known Elvis Presley Sun Records master and outtake.  In addition, the collection also contains Elvis' four earliest, privately-pressed sides, and vintage radio and concert performances from the period, for a total of 73

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Elvis Presley

Release Round-Up: Week of June 9

June 9, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Glen Campbell Adios

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Glen Campbell, Adios (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Glen Campbell's final recordings, produced by his longtime band member Carl Jackson, comprise this release.  Selections include the lead-off single "Everybody's Talkin'," and four songs by Jimmy Webb (including the touching title track as well as "Postcard from Paris," "Just Like Always" and "It Won't Bring Her Back"), plus compositions from Bob Dylan, Jerry Reed, Dickey Lee,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Christine McVie, Chuck Berry, Del Shannon, Glen Campbell, John Coltrane, Lee Hazlewood, Lindsey Buckingham, Lynn Castle, Paul Simon, Third Eye Blind

Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment: Ramones Remix and Expand "Leave Home" for 40th Anniversary

June 7, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Leave Home

Last year's deluxe 40th anniversary edition of the self-titled debut album by the Ramones looks to be the first in a series! Rhino Records today announced a rarity packed 3CD/1LP edition of the band's second album, 1977's Leave Home, for release this summer. Leave Home was a progression for the Forest Hills punk quartet: more diverse songs written independently by the band instead of devised in the studio; a budget nearly doubled from the sessions for Ramones (plus a big shot producer, Tony

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Ramones

Step Inside, Walk This Way: Def Leppard Expand "Hysteria" to Seven Discs

June 7, 2017 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Hysteria super deluxe

In very many ways, Def Leppard's fourth studio album Hysteria was their biggest--and a new box set due this year looks to prove that en masse. On August 4--exactly 30 years since it was first released--Bludgeon Riffola and UMC will release multiple expanded editions of Hysteria, including a new 3CD deluxe edition, a 5CD/2DVD box set (both boasting material not on the 20th anniversary deluxe edition released in 2007) and vinyl formats. Hysteria was the culmination of more than three years

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Def Leppard

Strung Out: Wendy & Lisa's "Eroica" To Be Expanded by Cherry Red

June 6, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Eroica

Looking for something Prince-related to tide you over before the Purple Rain reissue hits stores? Cherry Pop Records is reissuing Eroica, the third album from Prince's longtime collaborators Wendy & Lisa. Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman were already several years removed from their split with Prince (who disbanded The Revolution in 1986); in 1987, they put their only pop single on the U.S. charts with the criminally underrated pop nugget "Waterfall." By the release of Eroica, the duo's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Wendy & Lisa

Warm Ride: Cherry Red Collects Graham Bonnet, Unreleased Live Humble Pie on New Box Sets

June 5, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Humble Pie Official Bootleg 1

Cherry Red's Hear No Evil imprint has a pair of three-disc box sets aimed at hard rock aficionados collecting rare and previously unreleased material from two longtime rock heroes: Graham Bonnet and the gang in Humble Pie. Graham Bonnet's Anthology follows past reissues from HNE for the full-throated vocalist including a trio of pop/R&B albums predating his tenure with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, and 1981's Line-Up from his post-Rainbow days.  Anthology spans the entirety of Bonnet's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Graham Bonnet, Humble Pie

Review: Robert Lamm, "Time Chill: A Retrospective"

June 2, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Robert Lamm Time Chill

It's not much of a stretch to say that Robert Lamm is the heart and soul of Chicago.  Since founding that seminal horn-rock band with Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, Lee Loughnane, Walter Parazaider, James Pankow, and Danny Seraphine, Lamm has contributed some of the band's most memorable songs including "Saturday in the Park," "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is," "Beginnings," "25 or 6 to 4," and "Another Rainy Day in New York City."  Lamm's work has always been equal parts craft and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Chicago, Robert Lamm

WIN! WIN! WIN! Rhino's Latest Expanded Reissues From Bad Company

June 2, 2017 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Bad Company RWTP BS

Last week, Rhino remastered and expanded two more classic albums Bad Company recorded for the Swan Song label. This week, we've got a copy of both new titles--and we want YOU to win! Run With The Pack (1976) and Burnin' Sky (1977) were the third and fourth albums by the British supergroup (vocalist Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke of Free, guitarist Mick Ralphs of Mott The Hoople and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell), and continued the band's stellar success in the United States, each

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Bad Company

Release Round-Up: Week of June 2

June 2, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Kris and Rita Full Moon

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson, Full Moon: Expanded Edition (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 1973's Grammy-winning, chart-topping Full Moon was the first duet album Rita Coolidge made with her then-husband Kris Kristofferson.  Yet, it has never been released on CD outside of Japan - until now!  Real Gone's new reissue has been expanded with six previously unreleased outtakes: one from the album sessions and five more

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Marley, Chicago, Doris Day, Grateful Dead, Jesse Ed Davis, Kris Kristofferson, Larry Coryell, Merry Clayton, Rita Coolidge, Robert Lamm, Ry Cooder, The Who, U2

A Man Called Destruction: Expanded Edition

June 1, 2017 By

Alex Chilton A Man Called Destruction

In 1995, the late Big Star and Box Tops frontman Alex Chilton returned to Memphis' Ardent Studios, the site of his classic work with Big Star, to record A Man Called Destruction.  Blending original songs with a host of eclectic covers from the likes of Chris Kenner ("Sick and Tired"), Brian Wilson and Jan Berry via Jan & Dean ("The New Girl in School"), and Jimmy Reed ("You Don't Have to Go", the album marked Chilton's return to his signature blue-eyed soul sound with nods to garage rock,

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock

Constant Craving: k.d. lang's Breakthrough Album to Be Expanded

June 1, 2017 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

kd lang ingenue 25th 450

This summer, k.d. lang will celebrate the 25th anniversary of her breakthrough album Ingénue with a newly-expanded deluxe edition pairing the album with previously unreleased performances from her MTV Unplugged special. Ingénue found lang moving away from the country style she had earned acclaim with in the late '80s to a more cabaret-pop sensibility--less Patsy Cline and more Edith Piaf, The Los Angeles Times suggested. Reuniting with producers Greg Perry and Ben Mink from her fourth album,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, Rock Tags: k.d. lang

This is a Song to All of My Friends: Howard Jones Announces New Compilation

May 31, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Howard Jones Best

Don't crack up, bend your brain: a new triple-disc Howard Jones compilation is coming out from U.K. label Cherry Red Records. The blonde keyboardist from Southampton was a staple of early-mid '80s U.K. pop thanks to his catchy synth-driven melodies with often heavy, introspective lyrics. This combination took "New Song," "What is Love," "Things Can Only Get Better," "No One is to Blame" and five more songs into his home country's Top 20. Success in the United States was later but slightly

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In Search of England: Barclay James Harvest's "XII" Gets 2CD, DVD Reissue with New Surround Mix

May 31, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Barclay James Harvest XII

Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has recently continued its campaign dedicated to U.K. prog heroes Barclay James Harvest with the release of the group's 1978 album XII as a 2-CD/1-DVD set.  This reissue follows similarly-formatted editions of the band's Everyone is Everybody Else (1974) and Gone to Earth (1977), both of which were released by the label in 2016. John Lees founded Barclay James Harvest in 1966 with Les Holroyd, Mel Pritchard and Stuart "Wooly" Wolstenholme.  After one

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Barclay James Harvest

Feelin' Groovy: Rhino Plans Vinyl Celebrations for Summer of Love Anniversary

May 30, 2017 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Rhino SOL

Five decades ago, in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, a social movement was growing. Young people, with heads full of progressive ideas and evolving attitudes toward sex, drugs and rock and roll, were converging on the area to celebrate their personal freedom--an extension of that January's "Human Be-In" in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The "Summer of Love," as it was called, was the birth of the modern counterculture, and music played an integral role in the shaping,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Aretha Franklin, Booker T. and the MG's, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Judy Collins, Love, Peter Paul and Mary, The Association, The Beau Brummels, The Everly Brothers, The Four Seasons, The Grateful Dead, The Hollies, The Monkees, Tim Buckley, Van Morrison, Vanilla Fudge

Release Round-Up: Week of May 26

May 26, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sgt Pepper super

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band various editions (Apple/Capitol/UMe) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 4CD/DVD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. The Beatles' seminal 1967 celebrates its 50th anniversary in style with a multitude of new editions featuring Giles Martin's brand-new - and quite frankly,

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Bad Company, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Foreigner, Grateful Dead, Jaco Pastorius, Midnight Oil, The Beatles, The Beau Brummels, The Rolling Stones, Tim Rice

Who Was That Man? Yep Roc Reissues Nick Lowe's Remaining Discography

May 25, 2017 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Nick Lowe Yep Roc

Back in March, it was reported that Yep Roc Records would finally start reissuing part of Nick Lowe's discography on CD for the first time in more than 25 years. While the promised April release dates never materialized, it's now breaking that the two previously cited albums--1982's Nick The Knife and 1983's The Abominable Showman--will bow on CD and vinyl along with an additional four titles (and many with bonus tracks), bringing his entire solo discography from 1978 to 1990 back into print and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Rock Tags: Nick Lowe

UPDATE: Thank You Friends: New Big Star Compilation Coming In May

May 24, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Best of Big Star

UPDATE 5/24/17 TO ORIGINAL POST OF 3/6/17: If you do as Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg says and "never travel far without a little Big Star," some new products related to the legendarily underrated Memphis rockers may find a place on your shelves. Set for release on June 16 from Stax Records and Craft Recordings, the new compilation The Best of Big Star tidily collects (on one CD, digitally, or 2 LPs playable at 45 RPM) 16 tracks from the legendary band's #1 Record, Radio City and

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Alex Chilton, Big Star, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Wilco

Live at The Isle of Wight Festival 2004

May 22, 2017 By

The Who Isle of Wight

2-CD/1-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD/1-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD The Who returned to The Isle of Wight for the first time since 1970 for a remarkable, career-spanning concert in 2004 - part of their first run of shows in their home country since the death of John Entwistle.  The concert is now available in 2-CD/1-DVD and 2-CD/1-BD editions.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Olé Olé Olé! A Trip Across Latin America

May 22, 2017 By

Rolling Stones Ole Ole Ole

Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This film follows The Rolling Stones on their 2016 Latin American tour, and features seven uncut performances from the tour: 1) Out Of Control (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 2) Paint It Black (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 3) Honky Tonk Women (São Paulo, Brazil) 4) Sympathy For The Devil (São Paulo, Brazil) 5) You Got The Silver (Lima, Peru) 6) Midnight Rambler (Lima, Peru) 7) Miss You (Lima, Peru).  Available on DVD and BD.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

The Concert In Hyde Park [Various Formats]

May 22, 2017 By

Paul Simon Concert in Hyde Park

2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Paul Simon's July 15, 2012 Hyde Park concert, closing night of the Hard Rock Calling Festival, is coming on 2CD/1DVD and 2CD/1BD editions. The performance spanned the entirety of Simon's career through his 2011 album So Beautiful or So What.  He welcomed to the stage original Graceland musicians including Hugh Masekela and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, as well as special guests Jimmy Cliff and

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Get a Brand New Walk: Real Gone's July Slate Features Dusty Springfield, Keely Smith, Eddy Arnold, Tim Buckley and Loma Singles

May 22, 2017 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Dusty Springfield Brand New Me Complete

It's not even Memorial Day yet, but we're already looking ahead to the heart of summer for upcoming reissues and now we've got Real Gone's slate due just after Independence Day on July 7.  As is usually the case with this label, it's an eclectic group of releases. You've already heard the news about Second Disc Records and Real Gone's A Little Magic, A Little Kindness from Laura Nyro, with notes by our very own Joe Marchese, but Joe's notes are also featured in two other Real Gone releases in

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Dusty Springfield, Eddy Arnold, Keely Smith, Tim Buckley, Tom Tom Club

Release Round-Up: Week of May 19

May 19, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Cetera

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Jethro Tull, Songs from the Wood: 40th Anniversary Edition - The Country Set (Chrysalis/Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) Jethro Tull's 1977 album returns in a new 3CD/2DVD book-style edition, packed with bonus material. Steven Wilson produced new stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes heard in this set on CD and DVD, featuring not only the album but bonus tracks too.  As per the norm for this series, there's a flat transfer

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Blink-182, Chris Cornell, Chris Price, Helium, Isaac Hayes, Jethro Tull, Little Steven, Los Straitjackets, Nick Lowe, Peter Cetera, The Staple Singers, Wes Montgomery, William Bell, Wynton Kelly

Sundry Notes of Music: Cherry Red Collects Principal Edwards' Magic Theatre's "The Works"

May 15, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Principal Edwards The Works

Last summer, Esoteric Recordings reissued Principal Edwards' 1974 album Round One, produced for the band by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason.  Now the Cherry Red imprint is turning the clock backwards for a 3-CD anthology of precursor group Principal Edwards Magic Theatre.  The Works: Albums, Demos, BBC Sessions and Live Recordings is a comprehensive look at the unusual and large artistic collective (some 17 members over its lifespan) which  indulged in the psychedelic era to create music, mime, theatre,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Principal Edwards Magic Theatre

Release Round-Up: Week of May 12

May 12, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Dion Kickin Child

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Dion, Kickin' Child: The Lost Album 1965 (Norton) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Norton Records has rounded up 15 songs recorded by Dion DiMucci and his group The Wanderers with producer Tom Wilson over sessions between spring and fall of 1965.  It all adds up to a trailblazing folk-rock album featuring original songs and covers of Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, and Mort Shuman.  Also available on vinyl.  Read more here! Brinsley

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bette Midler, Brinsley Schwarz, Dan Fogelberg, Dion, Stephen Sondheim, The Allman Brothers Band, Todd Rundgren

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