The masterminds at Big Break Records certainly like to keep fans of great soul music on their toes! In addition to the delicious soul-jazz hybrid Reality from Monk Montgomery, the label has recently unveiled another quartet of adventurous soul, dance and R&B reissues. Two of BBR’s latest hail from deep in the Salsoul Records vaults. […]
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The folks at Sundazed are going where they wanna go with two new reissues from the classic catalogue of The Mamas and the Papas. The label is following their mono edition of the group’s 1966 debut If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears with 1967’s self-titled sophomore album in mono and third album The […]
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Acclaimed Brooklyn rockers Grizzly Bear broke a three-year gap between albums with last year's beloved Shields. This fall, they will deepen the experience of that album with a double-disc, demo-packed expanded edition. After a brief band hiatus following the promotion of 2009's Veckatimest, the quartet began sessions for Shields in Marfa, Texas, before ultimately moving back to the […]
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Perhaps no genre is as underrepresented in the catalogue world as modern hip-hop. Remastered and expanded editions are hard to come by, for whatever reason - be it sample clearance, market demand and the like. Universal Music Enterprises is doing their best to change that this year with a new wave of multi-format reissues called […]
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For fans of the legendary composer Henry Mancini, these really are the days of wine and roses. The soundtrack specialists at Intrada have just announced the CD release of Mancini's score to the 1974 adventure film The White Dawn for the very first time in a deluxe edition with bonus material. And the U.K.-based Vocalion […]
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On the opening track of Joanie Sommers' 1966 Columbia LP Come Alive!, the velvet-voiced singer seductively taunted, "You better love me while you may! Tomorrow I may fly away..." True, the Hugh Martin/Timothy Gray tune was originally sung by the late Elvira, a ghost haunting her husband in the musical High Spirits. But it could […]
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To mark their three wild, wonderful decades on the bleeding edge of U.K. pop and rock, ZTT Records will release a new two-disc compilation in October. The Organization of Pop: Music from the First Thirty Years of ZTT Records collects 28 tracks that run the gamut of ZTT's influence, from Frankie Goes to Hollywood to […]
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One of the more notable mainstream rock bands of the 2000s, The Killers, is releasing their first greatest hits compilation. Direct Hits collects 13 of the Las Vegas band's best loved songs and adds two new tracks: "Shot At the Night," produced by French electronic duo M83, and "Just Another Girl," produced by longtime collaborator […]
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When Tony Bennett took the stage at Las Vegas’ Sahara on April 8, 1964 he was riding high. Bennett was in the business of creating standards, after all. During that seminal year, he released three studio albums immortalizing such songs as “When Joanna Loved Me,” “The Rules of the Road,” and “Who Can I Turn […]
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The Band, LIve at the Academy of Music: The Rock of Ages Concerts (Capitol/UMe) This five-disc box set (four CDs and a DVD) features selections from The Band's famed four-night run in New York in 1971. Though these shows would create the live Rock of Ages album, this box instead features highlights from the shows on two discs (including […]
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