Real Gone Music has just announced its first release for this September and it should be of substantial interest to jazz aficionados: a collection of Alice Coltrane's studio recordings for Warner Bros. from the mid to late 1970s. The 2-CD set, Spiritual Eternal - The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings, is scheduled to be released on September 7. Coltrane was born Alice McLeod in Alabama in 1937, but grew up in Detroit. She studied music and played a number of instruments, including the
You Dreamer: Big Country's 'Long Face' Gets Longer with Cherry Red Box Set
A beloved album from Big Country is about to get a lot bigger. Tomorrow, Cherry Red Records will expand the Scottish band's 1996 album Why the Long Face into a 4-CD edition also including their live album from the same year, Eclectic, and two discs of bonus material. Last year, TSD described Big Country: "The story of Big Country goes like this: the quartet, featuring ex-Skids guitarist Stuart Adamson on vocals and guitar, guitarist Bruce Watson, bassist Tony Butler and drummer Mark
The Exodus Has Begun: Prince Estate Strikes Catalog Deal With Sony Music
In what's certainly one of the year's biggest surprises, Sony Music's Legacy Recordings has just announced a comprehensive new deal with the Prince estate that will see Legacy assuming the reins for a considerable portion of Prince's remarkable discography. Sony will hold the worldwide licensing rights to the late superstar's core catalogue recorded from 1995 onward, covering some 19 major albums recorded by the Purple One during this time, as well as relevant singles, B-sides, live material,
Hello, I Love You: The Doors' "Waiting for the Sun" Gets 50th Anniversary Box in September
Nearly 50 years ago, in July 1968, The Doors released their third studio album on Elektra Records. Waiting for the Sun yielded the chart-topping hit "Hello, I Love You" and became the band's first album to top the album chart (not to mention a third platinum certification in under two years' time). On September 14, Rhino will reissue Waiting for the Sun in a 2-CD/1-LP book-style box set, including previously unreleased material, following the label's anniversary reissues of The Doors and
Review: "Fab Gear: The British Beat Explosion and Its Aftershocks 1963-1967"
"Yesterday's Gone": the song by folk-pop duo Chad and Jeremy opens the first of the six discs comprising Cherry Red and RPM's new box set Fab Gear: The British Beat Explosion and Its Aftershocks 1963-1967. It's a most appropriate opener, as yesterday really was gone for an entire generation of artists swiftly rendered obsolete by the emergence of The Beatles. As the box eloquently explains, the Fab Four "in name, song, band structure, image, defined this new Beat music...Until 1967, when The
Another World, Another Day: Omnivore to Expand Debut Albums by Soul Asylum
Before breaking through to the big leagues with major label albums on A&M and most crucially, Columbia, Minneapolis-based alternative rock band Soul Asylum recorded four albums for the local Twin/Tone Records label. On July 20, Omnivore Recordings will reissue the first two of those Twin/Tone LPs as deluxe, expanded CDs loaded with rarities and previously unreleased tracks. Say What You Will...Everything Can Happen arrived in 1984 on Twin/Tone, produced by Bob Mould of Husker Du. Core
Universal Pictures, La-La Land Team For New Soundtrack Imprint
On Friday, Universal Pictures announced plans to preserve and restore its classic library of movie music as well as the birth of a new imprint to release those scores on compact disc. The Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection will launch this week as a joint venture with La-La Land Records with the premiere release of Michel Colombier's 1970 score to the sci-fi thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project. In August, Henry Mancini's score to the 1979 Peter Sellers remake of The Prisoner
The Sun in Your Eyes: Real Gone's August Slate to Include Alan Parsons Project, Merry Clayton, Monk Higgins, More
Real Gone Music has just announced its slate for August, and the reissues are in a variety of genres and formats, all due on August 3. First up is a standalone release of the Blu-ray Audio edition of The Alan Parsons Project's 1982 hit album Eye in the Sky. The Project's sixth album (and fifth on Arista Records) employed a variety of musical styles within a radio-friendly soft-rock framework to address typically lofty themes. This Blu-ray reissue boasts a high-resolution stereo version of
Release Round-Up: Week of June 22
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Cure, Mixed Up: Deluxe Edition (Universal (U.K.)/Elektra/Rhino (U.S.)) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mixed Up 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Torn Down 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Postponed from last week: The Cure revisits its 1990 remix album as a 3-CD deluxe edition. The first disc of the new set contains the original Mixed Up album,
Where My Love Lies Asleep: Intervention Reissues Gene Clark's "White Light" on LP, Hybrid SACD
Intervention Records, the eclectic label behind splendid and sonically-pristine reissues for artists ranging from Joe Jackson to Billy Squier, has announced the next title in its (Re)Discover Series: Gene Clark's 1971 A&M Records classic, White Light. A stereo hybrid SACD (playable on all CD players) is due from the label on June 29, while the 180-gram vinyl release is due in September. The singer-songwriter and Byrds co-founder launched his solo career in 1967 on Columbia with Gene
The Song Remains the Same [Various Formats]
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 2CD/4LP/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham took the famous stage at New York's Madison Square Garden on July 27-29, 1973 for the concerts that were captured in the film The Song Remains the Same. Now that film's soundtrack, produced by Page and originally
Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
1-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Impulse! Records has discovered a lost 1963 album from The John Coltrane Quartet. Saxophone titan Coltrane was joined by Jimmy Garrison on double bass, Elvin Jones on drums, and McCoy Tyner on piano - the same group behind the monumental A Love Supreme and other Coltrane classics - for a March 6,
Chicago: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture
And all that jazz: Real Gone Music has the first-ever vinyl reissue of the original soundtrack to 2002's Academy Award-winning musical Chicago, starring Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, and Queen Latifah, and featuring a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb with Danny Elfman. It's pressed on 2 LPs, in black and gold, and is limited to 1,500 units.
Unattended Luggage
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pink Floyd founding member Nick Mason's three solo albums are rounded up in one CD or vinyl box set as Unattended Luggage. The 3-LP or 3-CD set includes Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1981), Profiles (1985), and White of the Eye (1987), with the latter making its CD debut. All three albums will also be available as digital downloads and for streaming.
Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe It If You Need It
The Grateful Dead is heading to the Pacific Northwest. Grateful Dead's online exclusive 19-CD box set Pacific Northwest '73-'74: The Complete Recordings, presenting six previously unreleased shows from two tours, is being cut down for two highlights editions: a 3-CD compilation drawn from the box set, and a 6-LP set of the complete Portland '74 show (May 19, 1974). The 6-LP set, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, is limited to 7,500 copies.
Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections
The new 2-CD set Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections draws on Dylan's previously issued limited edition "copyright extension" collections to offer a sampler of Dylan onstage, from a pair of songs recorded on April 16, 1962 at Gerdes Folk City in New York ("Blowin' in the Wind" and "Corrina, Corrina") to "Ballad of a Thin Man" from May 20, 1966 at Edinburgh's ABC Theatre. Many of his most famous songs are heard here including "Mr. Tambourine Man." "It Ain't Me,
Whole Lotta Love: Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains the Same" Gets Super Deluxe Treatment in September
The next Super Deluxe box set from Led Zeppelin was officially announced early this morning. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham took the famous stage at New York's Madison Square Garden on July 27-29, 1973 for the concerts that were captured in the film The Song Remains the Same. Now that film's soundtrack, produced by Page and originally released on Swan Song in 1976, is getting the lavish reissue treatment on September 7. The Song Remains the Same follows the
Baby Let Me Follow You Down: Rare Live Dylan Coming in July from Legacy
As a result of E.U. public domain laws, so-called "copyright extension" collections have been proliferating for the past number of years for such top-tier artists as The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and the remarkable Motown roster. Bob Dylan has been no exception. Each year since 2012, Sony has released a "copyright collection" for Dylan to assert the label's rights to previously unreleased recordings that would otherwise fall into the public domain. But unlike some of the readily-available
Do You Wanna Dance? Pop and Prog Meet on Cherry Red's Expanded "Deep Feeling"
Last year, Cherry Red's RPM imprint chronicled the early career of British pop singer Guy Darrell on I've Been Hurt: The Complete 1960s Recordings. Now, Cherry Red's Grapefruit Records has picked up the next, fascinating chapter of the Guy Darrell story with Deep Feeling, an anthology of Darrell's next step - as leader of a progressive rock band. The original, cult classic 1971 Deep Feeling album has been supplemented with a generous helping of thirteen bonus tracks. Darrell recorded his
Varese Unveils First CD Club Batch of 40th Anniversary Year with Williams, Goldsmith Expansions
40 years ago, Varese Sarabande Records launched with the soundtrack to writer-director Bruce Kimmel's The First Nudie Musical. Today, the label (recently acquired by Concord Music Group) continues to serve the soundtrack community with an impressive array of releases from both past and present. Its limited edition CD club has recently announced its first four titles marking the company's 40th anniversary. First up is John Williams' 1972 score to director Mark Rydell's The Cowboys. The John
Ride Into The Sun: Run Out Groove Collects Luna's Covers on "Lunafied"
The fans have spoken, and Run Out Groove has announced its newest, audience-voted title: the 2-LP collection Lunafied, from the indie pop band Luna. This set (expanded from a 2006 digital release) rounds up the band's cover songs recorded during their time at Elektra Records, many of which were originally released on singles outside the U.S. and have never been released previously on vinyl. Singer/guitarist Dean Wareham formed Luna in 1991 following the breakup of Galaxie 500. Justin
Different Drum: Michael Nesmith's First National Band Releases Live Album On 7a Records
Before embarking with Micky Dolenz on the acclaimed, currently-playing The Monkees Present: The Mike & Micky Show, Michael Nesmith staged another remarkable event earlier this year. For five performances only in January, Nesmith reformed his pioneering country-rock group, The First National Band. The FNB didn't venture out of California, but the sold-out concerts attracted worldwide attention. Now, everyone will have a chance to hear what they missed when 7a Records - the label dedicated
Songs for the Asking: Paul Simon Previews Rarities Collection "Alternate Tunings" and "In the Blue Light"
Paul Simon may be retiring from the road, but the conclusion of his acclaimed Homeward Bound - The Farewell Tour on September 22 won't be the last we've heard of the legendary musician. On tour, he's currently previewing two upcoming projects: Alternate Tunings, a long-awaited collection of previously unreleased material, and an album entitled In the Blue Light, due in September. In lieu of a traditional tour program, Simon is offering a lavish "Limited Edition Folio" for purchase at each
Love Is All: Cherry Red, Purple Records Reissue Roger Glover's "Butterfly Ball" Featuring Ronnie James Dio
A poem written for children in 1802 would not have been the most obvious subject for Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover for tackle, but that's precisely what he did in 1974 with The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast. Glover wrote, produced, and played on the pop/rock opera concept album which yielded the hit "Love Is All," sung by Ronnie James Dio. Now, that original album has been expanded to 3 CDs for a new box set from Cherry Red's newly-reactivated Purple Records imprint. In
Release Round-Up: Week of June 15
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Rolling Stones, The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This massive, limited edition vinyl box set collects the legendary band's 15 studio albums from Sticky Fingers (1971) to Blue and Lonesome (2016) on 20 meticulously-recreated LPs with original art elements, inserts, and more. Each album, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, has been remastered and cut at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios from
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