Donna Summer's Classic 'On the Radio' Collection Gets Turned Up

By Mike Duquette | September 12, 2024 | 40 Comments

At the end of the '70s, to cap an incredible run as one of disco's biggest divas, Donna Summer issued On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II, a double album collecting more than a dozen of her biggest singles to date. This fall, Summer's reissue label Driven by the Music will revisit that […]

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Look Out, Ol' Frankie's Back: Sinatra's Final Solo Album Gets Remixed and Expanded for 40th Anniversary

By Joe Marchese | September 12, 2024 | 13 Comments

Start spreading the news!  Frank Sinatra may have taken John Kander and Fred Ebb's timeless "(Theme From) New York, New York" to the charts, but the Chairman of the Board also had a soft spot for the City of Angels.  In 1984, he teamed with the legendary Quincy Jones, fresh off a little 1982 album […]

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All Their Loving: New Mono Vinyl Box Set Celebrates The Beatles' First American Albums

By Mike Duquette | September 12, 2024 | 18 Comments

This year's Beatles catalogue title will showcase the albums that introduced American audiences to the sound of the Fab Four. 1964 U.S. Albums in Mono will include new vinyl remasters of six albums distributed by Capitol Records within the first year of the British band's arrival in New York City. Uniquely drawn from the first […]

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Keep Yourself Alive: Queen Announce Deluxe Edition of Debut with Remixes, Outtakes and More

By Mike Duquette | September 11, 2024 | 4 Comments

Queen will go back to the beginning of their recording career on a new box set edition of their debut. The Collectors Edition of their 1973 self-titled effort - now retitled Queen I - will be a 6CD/LP set featuring a brand-new remix of the album by engineers Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson; […]

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Review: Faces, "Faces at the BBC: Complete BBC Concert and Session Recordings 1970-1973"

By Joe Marchese | September 11, 2024 | 1 Comment

Between the summer of 1969 and the fall of 1975, a joyful noise emerged whenever Faces took the stage.  Ronnie Lane (bass), Kenney Jones (drums), and Ian McLagan (keyboards) had emerged from the ashes of pop's Small Faces, while Rod Stewart (vocals) and Ronnie Wood (guitar) were blues-rock veterans of the first iteration of The […]

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