Death Warmed Up: Esoteric Collects Proto-Metal Band High Tide's "Complete Liberty Recordings"

By Joe Marchese | January 9, 2024 | 1 Comment

Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has recently celebrated the recordings of prog-rock band High Tide on a lavish new 3-CD box set.  The Complete Liberty Recordings brings together the short-lived group's two albums and adds a bonus disc of demos and studio sessions recorded in 1969-1970. As with so many bands of the era, High […]

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The Morning Lasted All Day: The Dream Academy Get Comprehensive Box Set from Cherry Red

By Mike Duquette | January 8, 2024 | 3 Comments

There was no Top 10 hit in 1985 quite like "Life in a Northern Town," a gentle-then-thundering folk-pop tune by British trio The Dream Academy. The gentle tribute to Nick Drake, counterpointed by an African-inspired, nearly wordless chorus, hit No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 15 in their native U.K. - but there was […]

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Freak Out in a Moonage Daydream: Early Version of Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' Announced for Record Store Day

By Mike Duquette | January 8, 2024 | 12 Comments

On what would have been the 77th birthday of the incomparable David Bowie, his estate has announced a new catalogue title due out for Record Store Day, featuring an early track list for 1972's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars. Waiting in the Sky (Before the Starman Came to Earth) […]

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Find Your Note: Light in the Attic Reissues Lou Reed's Penultimate Studio Album

By The Second Disc | January 5, 2024 | 1 Comment

Following the 2022 debut of The Lou Reed Archive Series with Words and Music - 1965, a collection of the late singer-songwriter-legend's earliest recordings, the Light in the Attic label is looking to one of his final works.  On Friday, January 17, LITA will reissue 2007's Hudson River Wind Meditations, Reed's twentieth and final solo […]

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Dear Little Buttercup: Rhino's "Start Your Ear Off Right" Features America, The Doors, Grateful Dead, "Three Amigos," More

By The Second Disc | January 4, 2024 | 5 Comments

Rhino is once again inaugurating the new year with a Start Your Ear Off Right campaign, launching this Friday in brick-and-mortar independent record stores (and if the past is any indication, at Barnes and Noble locations across the United States).  The vinyl-only slate, which is spread out over the next four release weeks, concentrates on […]

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