Though it's been over six years since his untimely passing at the age of 66, the music of Davy Jones still endures. 7a Records, the U.K.-based label devoted to all things Monkees-related, has just delivered another treat for longtime fans of the band and its charismatic, perennially boyish singer with the mop top. "Rainbows" b/w "You Don't Have to Be a Country Boy to Sing a Country Song" is a limited edition (500 units) 7-inch, 45 RPM single pressed on red vinyl. Both sides of the single
I Got a Line on You: Cherry Red Collects Albums of Spirit, Sailor, Bram Tchaikovsky In New Box Sets
Cherry Red's various imprints have become a go-to destination for compact, affordable complete album packages, and three recent releases are no exception. Esoteric Recordings has gone the extra mile with a new package dedicated to the early recordings of Spirit. The Los Angeles rock band evolved out of a band called The Red Roosters which included Randy California (real name: Randy Wolfe) on guitars and vocals, Mark Andes on bass, and Jay Ferguson on vocals and percussion. When California's
Release Round-Up: Week of June 8
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Close to You/Love Story: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue their journey through Johnny Mathis' seventies catalogue with this expanded, remastered two-fer of Mathis' 1970 and 1971 albums. Close to You finds the singer reinterpreting hits by Bacharach and David, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Beatles, and even Santana, while Love Story
Flaming Lips Treat Fwends To New Warner-Era Compilation
Earlier this year, The Flaming Lips announced plans to anthologize their early, pre-Warner Bros. recordings on two collections. Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of The Flaming Lips, with 19 tracks from the alternative band, arrived in April, while the 6-CD box set Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990 is on the schedule for June 29. (Read about both releases here.) Joining that pair of titles is a new compilation out now focusing on the
OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Continue Johnny Mathis Series with Two New Titles
Johnny Mathis kicked off the 1970s with a series of albums that found the Voice of Romance reinventing the day's chart hits in inimitably lush fashion. Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are continuing the journey through the legendary singer's 1970s catalogue with two remastered Expanded Editions due TOMORROW! First up is an expanded two-for-one compact disc release of the classic studio albums Close to You and Love Story. Johnny teamed with longtime producer Jack Gold and top
One Nite Alone: Unreleased Prince Home Recordings to Be Released in September
Today would have been Prince's 60th birthday. Warner Bros. Records and the Prince estate are marking the occasion by swinging the vault doors wide open. Following such posthumous releases as the "Nothing Compares 2 U" single, the expanded Purple Rain, and the Prince 4Ever collection with one unreleased track, Warner Bros. has just announced an archival album to be released on September 21 in CD, LP, and CD/LP Deluxe formats, as well as digitally. Piano & A Microphone 1983 - a
Rock 'N' Roll Is King: ELO's "Secret Messages" Comes to Double Vinyl in August
35 years after its first appearance, Electric Light Orchestra's Secret Messages is returning to vinyl in a new edition moving closer to founder Jeff Lynne's original vision for the album. On August 3, Legacy Recordings will reissue Secret Messages on double 150-gram vinyl restoring all but one of the tracks which were cut from the original LP release. Alas, that outtake - the near-legendary "Beatles Forever" - is still missing in action. 1983's Secret Messages was originally conceived by
Fairytale: Cherry Red, SoulMusic Reissue, Expand The Pointer Sisters' First Two Albums
BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COMLong before they wanted a man with a "Slow Hand" or found that "He's So Shy," The Pointer Sisters were spellbinding listeners with an unusual blend of retro rhythm and blues, jazz, funk, soul and even country. Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint has recently brought together their first two LPs for Blue Thumb Records on a 2-CD set. The Pointer Sisters and That's a Plenty established Anita, Ruth, June, and Bonnie Pointer as one of the first families of American music.
Call and Answer: Rhino Reissues, Expands Barenaked Ladies' "Stunt" For 20th Anniversary
Between June 1 and July 15, Barenaked Ladies will be taking to the road alongside Better Than Ezra and K.T. Tunstall. Their Last Summer on Earth tour is one part of a banner year for the band which has also seen their induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. The celebration continues with the upcoming release of Stunt: 20th Anniversary Edition, an expanded edition of their most successful studio album. It's due on July 6 digitally, with physical CD/DVD and 2-LP vinyl editions following
Thank You For The 'Days': Edsel Preps Kirsty MacColl's Virgin Years For New Box
On June 15, Edsel will remember the late singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl with the release of a new 4CD/1DVD box set. Days (1988-1991) collects her Virgin Records period which yielded two albums and various singles. MacColl's unique voice was first heard on her single for Stiff Records, the peppy "They Don't Know." Despite strong airplay, the single actually never charted on the U.K. charts, the victim of a distributor's strike keeping the single from experiencing any major sales. (In 1983,
Anger Is An Energy: New Public Image Ltd. Box Set Forthcoming
BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COMJohn Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten's post-punk band Public Image Ltd. turns 40 years old in 2018. The anniversary was anticipated by a cheekily-titled documentary film, The Public Image Is Rotten, which premiered at last year's Tribeca Film Festival. A 36-date tour is currently underway of Europe and Japan. Now a box set is due on July 20 from UMC (U.K.) anthologizing the band which has notched five U.K. top 20 hit singles and five top 20 albums. The Public Image Is
Magic Moments Filled with Love: Perry Como Celebrated On Public Television, New Box Set and More
May 18, 2018 would have marked Perry Como's 106th birthday. While the beloved singer didn't make it to 106, he lived a full 88 years which he packed with magic moments on records, film, television, and the world's concert stages. All told, the proudly Italian-American crooner notched 131 chart hits in the U.S. alone, over 20 gold records, multiple Emmy and Grammy Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, and sales of over 100 million records between 1945 and 1970. This weekend, fans are invited to
Release Round-Up: Week of June 1
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Michelle Phillips, Victim of Romance: Expanded Edition (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) "Mama" Michelle Phillips' 1977 solo album, produced by Jack Nitzsche, returns to CD in a new expanded edition collecting the artist's complete sessions with Nitzsche. It adds three outtakes from the album sessions, including a Bee Gees cover ("Had a Lot of Love Last Night"), Dennis Lambert and Fil Spina's "Practice What You Preach,"
Heading Somewhere: Real Gone to Premiere Ben Folds Five's "Sessions at West 54th" on CD and Vinyl in July
Real Gone Music has just announced another title in its July slate, this one a little more modern than some of their other titles. Hailing from 1997, Real Gone will release the CD and vinyl debut of The Complete Sessions at West 54th from longtime TSD favorites Ben Folds Five. It will be released on July 13, just a few weeks after the release of Folds' career-spanning box from Edsel. (And to be clear, the Real Gone Sessions at West 54th material is not in that box). Sessions at West 54th
Run Out Groove Round-Up: Dr. John's "Funknology" and Marshall Crenshaw's Live "Thank You"
Today, we're looking at two of Run Out Groove's most recent releases! Now is also the time to order the label's next release: Vagabonds: Expanded Edition, from Gary Louris of The Jayhawks! Pre-orders close on June 7, so don't miss out, and don't forget to vote on ROG's next release. Will it be Luna's Lunafied, Fred Neil's Bleecker & MacDougal, or Billy Byrd's Lonesome Country Songs? Vote now! It's not called Funknology for nothing! Run Out Groove's recent release from Dr. John,
Final Light: Cherry Red Collects Last Three Volumes of Anthony Phillips' "Private Parts and Pieces"
Between 1978 and 2012, founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips released eleven volumes of Private Parts & Pieces. Each volume has collected various odds and ends from the composer/multi-instrumentalist which, for one reason or another, wouldn't have fit comfortably on any of his proper solo albums. Since 2015, Cherry Red Group's Esoteric Recordings imprint has been reissuing and expanding these fascinating releases in box set form. The third and final box (to date), Private Parts
And The Band Begins To Play: The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" Celebrates 50 With New Single Release
On July 6, The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" will be reissued as a 7-inch picture disc vinyl single to mark the 50th anniversary of the beloved animated film of the same name which was originally released on July 17, 1968. The Capitol/UMe single release will coincide with new theatrical screenings of the movie, featuring a 4K restoration by Paul Rutan Jr., Triage Motion Picture Services, and Eque Inc;, and a 5.1 surround remix by Peter Cobbin at Abbey Road. The vinyl single will be housed
I've Waited Hours For This: The Cure Expand 'Mixed Up' With New and Vintage Remixes
The Cure kicked off the 1990s with the release of Mixed Up, an album collecting the band's rarer 12-inch mixes. It wasn't just a straightforward anthology, however, as two songs ("A Forest" and "The Walk") weren't just remixed, but re-recorded, and a wholly new track ("Never Enough") was also recorded. As Robert Smith comments, Brian "Chuck" New's dub style remix of "Pictures Of You" inspired him: "That mix turned the music on its head, but at the same time left the essential heart of the song
Short Takes: Reissues Due from Janis Ian, CCR's Tom Fogerty and Doug Clifford, Social Distortion
Five classic albums from singer-songwriter Janis Ian have just been reissued on CD and vinyl from Sony Legacy's U.K. arm. Stars (1974), Between the Lines (1975), Aftertones (1976), Miracle Row (1977), and Night Rains (1979), all originally released on Columbia Records, represent the peak of Ian's commercial success. Between the Lines yielded Ian's most successful single, the touching "At Seventeen," a No. 3 Pop/No. 1 AC hit. The song netted the artist a Grammy Award and was performed by her
Surround Yourself with Cilla: Cherry Red, SFE Launch Ambitious Cilla Black Reissue Campaign
Surprise, surprise...it's Cilla here! Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment imprint has great news for fans of the late Cilla Black. On July 27, SFE launches a new reissue campaign dedicated to Cilla's discography with a pair of deluxe, generously expanded 2-CD releases. These releases coincide with what would have been Cilla's 75th birthday year. The first set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay
Back In Love Again: Robinsongs Collects Four Albums From Soul-Funk-Disco Band L.T.D.
L.T.D., or Love, Togetherness and Devotion, had carved out a niche in the crowded landscape of seventies funk and soul bands - in large part due to the soaring voice of its lead singer and drummer, Jeffrey Osborne. Four of the group's albums blending funk, disco, and silky balladry, have just been collected on a new 2-CD set from Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint. The ten-piece band from Greensboro, North Carolina had released two moderately successful albums on Los Angeles-based A&M
Release Round-Up: Week of May 25
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Prince, Nothing Compares 2 U (Warner Bros.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Prince's original recording of "Nothing Compares 2 U" arrives on vinyl today for wide release. The original Prince studio version was recorded at the Flying Cloud Warehouse in Eden Prairie, Minnesota by engineer Susan Rogers and featured background vocals by Susannah Melvoin and Paul "St. Paul" Peterson as well as saxophone by Eric Leeds. Prince composed,
Good Times: Real Gone To Reissue Rare Willie Nelson, Statler Brothers In July
We've recently told you about Go Ahead & Back Up: The Lost Motown Masters, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records' CD of unheard Bobby Darin Motown recordings due in July. Now we've gotten word of two more Real Gone July releases, both in the country genre: one for Willie Nelson and one for The Statler Brothers. Country legend Willie Nelson hardly needs an introduction. The 85-year-old is one of the biggest names in country and has been recording for over six decades, including up
Magic Voodoo Moon: Numero Group Collects Ultra-Rare Exotica On New Box Set
Tomorrow, May 25, Numero Group is conjuring up a world of tikis, palm trees, and colorful drinks - in other words, a Technicolor Paradise. After years of successfully excavating the rarest soul, jazz, R&B, New Age, and more, the label has turned its attention to the realm of exotica. The genre's blend of lounge, jazz, pop and all sounds beyond inspired a number of artists who didn't receive the same attention as, say, Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, Arthur Lyman, and Esquivel. An alternate
Dark Now My Sky: Cherry Red Expands Barclay James Harvest's Debut Into Box Set
Over the past years, Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has been drawing attention to the albums of prog titans Barclay James Harvest, reissuing the band's albums in 2-CD/1-DVD editions boasting bonus content including outtakes, rarities, and new stereo and surround mixes. 1976's Octoberon got the deluxe treatment last fall, following 1978's XII as well as Everyone is Everybody Else (1974) and Gone to Earth (1977). Now, Esoteric is turning back the clock to 1970's Barclay James Harvest,
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