A while back, The Second Disc reported on a reissue of a power-pop record, Cotton Mather's Kon-Tiki, financed entirely through Kickstarter. It was a considerable success, certainly enough to make one think about the viability of using the project-funding website to eke out a niche in the big-enough world of music reissues. Now, there's another […]
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Twenty-six years ago today, on two different continents, the music world came together for a worthy cause: to raise awareness of famine in Ethiopia. Live Aid, a pair of concerts organized by Bob Geldof in London and Philadelphia on July 13, 1985 and broadcasted live on the BBC, ABC and MTV, was seen in person […]
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Eagle Rock's recent release of Deep Purple's Phoenix Rising documentary, which collected some previously unseen footage of 1975/1976's Mk. IV tour in Japan, is being followed up by no less than seven reissues of the band's early studio and live material. Next Tuesday, the label will release remastered and expanded editions of the band's first three […]
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The fine folks at Big Break Records have got another large batch of new titles for release in the U.K. on July 25, and we figured now was a good time to share not only the track lists and details with you, but look ahead at some of the huge titles they're prepping for next […]
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Call him Pops. Call him Satchmo. Call him Loo-ie. But under any name, Louis (Loo-is) Armstrong was an American original. Miles Davis said, "You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played." Bing Crosby described him as "the beginning and end of music in America" and Leonard Bernstein stated that "every time this […]
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La-La Land's newest title, a three-disc expansion of The Chosen One, is ready to order. By now you already know the story behind this new release (a sort-of fake-out following La-La Land's scheduling shift ahead of Comic-Con), so it's worth noting instead the kind of music we're dealing with on this set. Barry's epic, James […]
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Clive Davis had made his mind up. According to his autobiography, he considered Tony Bennett’s career “in jeopardy” by the late 1960s and felt that “new vitality was needed.” As recently-appointed head of the venerable Columbia Records, Davis brought that new vitality to the label, but at what price? In actuality, Tony Bennett's contributions to the storied […]
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Why should La-La Land and Intrada/Disney have all the fun? We've got five new soundtrack catalogue titles for your perusal from Varese Sarabande, Intrada and BSX Records. The wares range from the golden age of film composition (with two heavyweights of the film score world collaborating on a special score restored as a strictly limited […]
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R.E.M., Lifes Rich Pageant: 25th Anniversary Edition (EMI) The latest R.E.M. deluxe edition set features the original LP remastered alongside a bonus disc of demos, all of which are currently available for your streaming pleasure here. (Official site) Megadeth, Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? 25th Anniversary Edition (EMI) The metal heroes' breakthrough LP, remastered and featuring a live […]
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Peter Murphy may be known to many as the "Godfather of Goth," having fronted one of the earliest bands of the Goth rock genre, Bauhaus, in the early 1980s, but he's still going strong as a solo performer. He just recently released his latest studio album, Ninth (counting a live album […]
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