Wake Up: XTC to Release Remixed 'The Big Express'

By Mike Duquette | August 17, 2023 | 2 Comments

Break out your speakers and climb aboard: another remix of an XTC album by Steven Wilson is coming to CD and Blu-ray this fall. Following expanded remixes of Drums and Wires, Black Sea, Skylarking, Oranges & Lemons and Nonsuch as well as the Dukes of Stratosphear collection Psurroundabout Ride, Wilson has worked his stereo and […]

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Not Like We Love Our Freedom: Joni Mitchell's Third "Archives" Revisits 1972-1975 Period

By Joe Marchese | August 17, 2023 | 6 Comments

"The sound of this thing was like, 'We're breaking some new ground here.'" Earlier this year, musician-arranger-bandleader Tom Scott of the L.A. Express reminisced to the U.K.'s MOJO magazine about working with Joni Mitchell on her 1972 album For the Roses. Indeed, Scott realized early on that the merging of folk and jazz sensibilities was […]

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A1 on the Jukebox: 7a Reissues Dave Edmunds and Rockpile's "Tracks on Wax 4" and "Repeat When Necessary"

By Joe Marchese | August 16, 2023 | 12 Comments

Throughout a career spanning six decades, Dave Edmunds never strayed far from the primal power of genuine rock-and-roll.  After stints in various bands - most notably, Love Sculpture - the Welsh singer-guitarist struck out on his own and scored a U.K. Christmas chart-topper in 1970 with a cover of Dave Bartholomew's "I Hear You Knocking." […]

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Cherry Red's El Label Celebrates Burt Bacharach, Leonard Bernstein on New Box Sets

By Joe Marchese | August 15, 2023 | 5 Comments

In recent months, Cherry Red's El imprint has turned its attention to a pair of legendary American composers.  Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) and Burt Bacharach (1928-2023) were born just a decade apart, though Bacharach lived more than three decades longer than Bernstein.  Neither man was born in New York City, but both created much of their […]

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Call Me Up in Dreamland: Rhino Hi-Fi Series Continues with Van Morrison, Jaco Pastorius

By Joe Marchese | August 14, 2023 | 2 Comments

Rhino recently launched its Rhino High Fidelity series of audiophile-quality vinyl titles.  Now, the label has announced the next two titles in that line: Van Morrison's His Band and the Street Choir and the late Jaco Pastorius' Word of Mouth.  Both albums' lacquers have been cut by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180-gram vinyl by […]

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