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Sheena Easton Modern Girl

Release Round-Up: Week of May 23

By The Second Disc | May 23, 2025 | 0 Comments

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Sheena Easton, Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings Volume 1 (Cherry Pop) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Sheena Easton's latest reissue collaboration with Cherry Red covers familiar ground in a slightly new […]

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Springsteen's Country

Somewhere North of Nashville: Ace Takes Listeners to 'Springsteen's Country'

By Mike Duquette | May 22, 2025 | 0 Comments

Ace Records continues its quest to offer variations on a theme by exploring country interpretations of the music of Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen's Country will collect 20 covers of The Boss, some familiar (Johnny Cash's "Johnny 99," Steve Earle's live take on "State Trooper"), some offbeat (a take on Tunnel of Love opener "Ain't Got You" by […]

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Jethro Tull Still Living in the Past

Jethro Tull's 'Living in the Past' Arrives in the Present with New Steven Wilson Remix

By Mike Duquette | May 22, 2025 | 4 Comments

An early, classic compilation by Jethro Tull will be remixed, expanded and wildly reconstructed by engineer Steven Wilson. Still Living in the Past, available July 11 from Rhino, will reinterpret the group's odds-and-ends compilation from 1972 as a 5CD/1 Blu-ray set boasting some 35 unissued mixes and versions alongside just about every one of the 21 […]

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Roger Nichols Treasury

In Memoriam: Roger Nichols (1940-2025)

By Joe Marchese | May 21, 2025 | 4 Comments

If you don't know the name of Roger Nichols, you know the man's songs.  His compositions have been sung by Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Petula Clark, Jackie DeShannon, Bobby Darin, Paul Anka, The Monkees, and Nichols' most frequent lyrical collaborator, Paul Williams - just to name a few.  Many of those songs have become […]

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The Kinks Journey 3

Come Dancing: The Kinks Close 60th Anniversary Celebration with Third and Final Compilation 'The Journey - Part 3'

By Mike Duquette | May 21, 2025 | 5 Comments

Following a pair of compilations in 2023 chronicling earlier parts of their storied career, British rockers The Kinks have one more in the chamber to commemorate their 60th anniversary as a group, focusing on a period of transition and finality in the '70s, '80s and '90s. The Journey - Part 3 will offer, on two […]

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Judas Priest Unfurls "Wings of Destiny" with Repressings of Early Albums

By Mike Duquette | November 11, 2011 | 0 Comments
rocka rolla

Rock legends Judas Priest have long been known for their killer blend of metal on the Columbia label in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. But two albums predating that contract - both of which are once again about to be independently reissued on CD - were fans' real first taste of the Priest. In 1974, […]

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Weekend Wround-Up - Holiday Edition: Dean Martin, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and The Muppets!

By Joe Marchese | November 11, 2011 | 0 Comments
muppets green and red

Dean Martin only recorded two Christmas albums in his career, one for Capitol (1959’s A Winter Romance) and one for Reprise (1966’s The Dean Martin Christmas Album).  Yet every year, Martin’s holiday catalogue from both labels is usually reconfigured for a new release, often with songs added (singles, alternate takes, remixes), dropped or otherwise altered.  […]

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Cherry Pop Laces Up Dancing Shoes with Compilation of Rare '80s, Motown Mixes

By Mike Duquette | November 10, 2011 | 0 Comments
phil harding club mixes of the 80s double cd of 25 remastered club remixes and rarities

Cherry Pop Records has a major treat next week for British club junkies of the '80s: a double-disc set of rare and unreleased remixes by noted engineer Phil Harding. If you're a British pop junkie who came of age in the '80s, you're doubtlessly familiar with three names: Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman. […]

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Universal Europe Offers "Complete Masters" For Armstrong, Fitzgerald, Bechet, Parker, Holiday

By Joe Marchese | November 10, 2011 | 0 Comments
charlie parker complete

If you’ve ever been looking to build a solid jazz library without spending too much coin, look no further.  The European arm of Universal Music Group, through its EmArcy and Decca labels, has announced a series of Complete Masters boxes that offer considerable bang for your buck!  The Complete Masters slate kicks off with five […]

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The Wonderful World of Elvis: Follow That Dream Offers New Releases For Fall and Winter

By Joe Marchese | November 10, 2011 | 0 Comments
elvis christmas world

Since its establishment in 1999, the Follow That Dream label has been a collector’s dream for fans of Elvis Presley.  Taking its name from Presley’s 1962 film of the same name, Follow That Dream has operated as an authorized “bootleg series,” reissuing Elvis titles of varying origins (soundtracks, studio albums, live gigs) in expanded editions […]

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From "Space" to "The Bottom of the Sea" in La-La Land's Penultimate Releases for 2011

By Mike Duquette | November 9, 2011 | 0 Comments
voyage cover

La-La Land Records inched closer to the end of their 2011 reissue slate yesterday with a pair of sci-fi-oriented releases - one a reissue, and one appearing for the first time anywhere. Television fans are going to enjoy the label's newly-released three-disc set of music from the cult classic series Space: Above and Beyond. Though […]

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Dreams Stay With You: Big Country's Debut to Be Expanded With Archival Demos

By Mike Duquette | November 9, 2011 | 0 Comments
the crossing deluxe edition

It looks like we've got the first deluxe edition of 2012 locked down - at least across the pond. Scottish band Big Country today announced the details for a new expansion of their fantastic debut, The Crossing, to coincide with a 30th anniversary tour across the United Kingdom. (The band reunited first in 2007 and […]

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Review: Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here: Immersion Box Set"

By Joe Marchese | November 9, 2011 | 30 Comments
pink floyd wywh immersion cover

Maybe it should have been called Wish You Were Here: Unwrapped. There’s no dark shrinkwrap on the new Immersion Box Set of Pink Floyd’s 1975 Wish You Were Here, the album that followed the landmark Dark Side of the Moon.  The original LP pressing of the album, of course, was wrapped and adorned with a […]

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Tuesday Takes: Rolling Stones Offer "Some Girls" Vinyl Single, Ace Goes to Muscle Shoals with Aretha, Etta and Irma

By Joe Marchese | November 8, 2011 | 0 Comments
rolling stones no spare parts

When a classic soul fan thinks of the "Muscle Shoals" sound, chances are he's referring to the music made at Rick Hall's FAME (that's Florence Alabama Music Enterprises!) Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.   Though the House that Hall Built has been celebrated on past anthologies, none has been quite so comprehensive as the 3-CD set […]

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Hell Yeah: "The Very Best of Neil Diamond" Set For December

By Joe Marchese | November 8, 2011 | 5 Comments
very best of neil diamond

Neil Diamond announced himself to the world in 1966 with the lyrics to his song “Solitary Man."  He sang with both defiance and resignation, “I’ll be what I am, a solitary man…”  At no time, then, was that more evident than Diamond’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2010.  His […]

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