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Release Round-Up: Week of April 22

April 22, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

T Rex 1972 Signed LP

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles arriving in stores today! T. Rex, 1972 [Various Formats] (Edsel) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5CD Signed by Tony Visconti: Amazon U.K. 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP Signed by Tony Visconti: Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Edsel is looking back on Marc Bolan and T. Rex's prolific 1972 with a new box set available in 5 CD, 6 LP, and 2

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Bonnie Raitt, Brian May, Charles Mingus, Herb Alpert, Lani Hall, Rumer, T Rex

He Shall Be a Good Man: Elton John's 'Madman Across the Water' Gets Deluxe Edition

April 21, 2022 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

Madman 50

Elton John's breathtaking piano pop conjured up powerful images thanks to the lyrics of Bernie Taupin - but the duo were often writing about things before they experienced them. The Americana of 1970's Tumbleweed Connection, for instance, was indeed a fantasy; only within the year would Elton get his first taste of America - and the results powered his next studio album, 1971's appropriately-titled Madman Across the Water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rUarpBrfLI That album will be the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Elton John

New Collection 'Songbird' Shows the Solo Side of Christine McVie

April 20, 2022 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Christine McVie Songbird

Christine McVie's association with Fleetwood Mac began in 1970 when the singer-songwriter born Anne Christine Perfect played and sang on the group's record Kiln House (and even provided its cover artwork).  Though uncredited on Kiln House, McVie joined the band shortly thereafter, penning two songs and contributing to a third on 1971's Future Games.  Her place in the group assured, she went on to write and sing many of the Mac's most cherished hits including "Don't Stop," "Everywhere," and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

I Am Trying to Break Your Bank: Wilco Detail Deluxe 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' Reissues

April 20, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

WILM61 LP 1100x

One of the most beloved albums of the 2000s is getting a lavish series of reissues - with configurations as head-turning as the album itself. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco's fourth album, will get the box set treatment on September 16 in several different formats. The original album will come with up to three CDs worth of alternate takes and mixes, a collection of demos and rough sketches, and two live performances: a live-in-studio, five-song appearance and interview on Chicago's WXRT-FM in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Rock Tags: Jeff Tweedy, Wilco

Strange Animals: BMG Reissues Five Albums from Sparks in New 21st Century Collection

April 19, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sparks Exotic Creatures of the Deep

Director Edgar Wright's 2021 documentary The Sparks Brothers brought much-deserved attention to cult rock heroes Ron and Russell Mael and their prodigious, singular output as Sparks. Now, BMG has announced the 21st Century Sparks collection: a series of deluxe CD and vinyl reissues encompassing Balls (2000), Lil' Beethoven (2002), and Hello Young Lovers (2006) arriving on Friday, April 29; and Exotic Creatures of the Deep (2008) and The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman (2009) following on Friday, May

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Sparks

Older: Deluxe Edition

April 18, 2022 By

Older deluxe

5CD/3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada George Michael's third solo album - and the one he believed to be his finest - returns from Legacy Recordings in a new 5CD/3LP edition and a 2LP set.  This expansion of 1996's Older features both the remastered album and the EP Upper (included with reissues of the album in 1997) on 180-gram vinyl and CD, along with an additional three CDs featuring 27 B-sides, live tracks, edits and remixes. (A

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop

Combat Rock/The People's Hall (Special Edition)

April 18, 2022 By

Combat Rock Peoples Hall

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ranking Roger 7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings will release a 2CD or 3LP expansion of The Clash's Combat Rock for its 40th anniversary. The album comes with a bonus disc of 12 rare and unreleased tracks curated by the band's surviving members.  The People's Hall - the bonus set on this new expansion, comprising a bonus CD or three sides of two bonus LPs - is named for

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Europe '72 [50th Anniversary Editions]

April 18, 2022 By

Grateful Dead Europe 72

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP (black): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP ("Bozo or Bolo" rainbow): Dead.net Lyceum '72 (24LP): Dead.net Grateful Dead's thrilling run of European shows which were immortalized on the triple-album release Europe '72 and then in 2011 on the expansive 73-CD box set Europe '72: The Complete Recordings.  Now, Rhino has announced a host of releases from the final stand of the European tour.  Lyceum 1972: The Complete Recordings,

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Watertown: Expanded Edition

April 18, 2022 By

Frank Sinatra Watertown

UMe and Frank Sinatra Enterprises have remixed and remastered Frank Sinatra's stark, spellbinding 1970 concept album Watertown, penned by Bob Gaudio and Jake Holmes, for this new expanded edition featuring eight bonus tracks: the outtake "Lady Day" and subsequent single re-recording from November 1969 arranged by Don Costa; session alternates of four songs; and two period Reprise radio promo spots.  The booklet includes new liner notes, a track-by-track breakdown from Bob Gaudio, quotes from

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Tantamount to Treason Volume One: 50th Anniversary Edition

April 18, 2022 By

Michael Nesmith Tantamount to Treason 7a

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Deep Discount (U.S.) LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Deep Discount (U.S.) 7a reissues Michael Nesmith and The Second National Band's 1972 album Tantamount to Treason Volume One on both CD and LP in an expanded edition featuring five bonus tracks on CD and four on LP.  7a's remastered Tantamount to Treason Volume One is adorned with a new painting by the original album's cover artist Wilson McLean, depicting an older Nesmith

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country

Licked Again: The Rolling Stones Bring 2003 Madison Square Garden Show to CD, LP, DVD, Blu-ray

April 18, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Rolling Stones Licked Live in NYC

The Rolling Stones may be off the road for now, but until they return to European stages this summer, the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band is serving up more live fare for audiences everywhere.  The Stones will follow up the May 13 release of 1977's Live at the El Mocambo with a live set of more recent vintage.  On June 10, Mercury Studios delivers Licked Live in NYC, presenting the band's January 2003 Madison Square Garden show from the 40th anniversary Licked tour, in multiple formats:

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

The Weekend Stream: April 16, 2022

April 16, 2022 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! Ben Folds, It's the Small Things, Charlie Brown (Apple TV+ Original Soundtrack) (Peanuts Productions) (iTunes) Ben Folds has been sort of quiet lately. While the piano-pounding alt-rocker has been livestreaming and podcasting along with being an advocate for orchestras in recent years, he's only released a

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ben Folds, Boyz II Men, Depeche Mode, Dwight Yoakam, John Williams, Sophie B. Hawkins, Third Eye Blind

I Don't Do Gentle: Cherry Red's 7T's Imprint Reissues Two Albums from Suzi Quatro on New Collection

April 15, 2022 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Suzi Quatro Back to the Spotlight

Since bursting onto the scene in the mid-1960s as a member of Detroit band The Pleasure Seekers, Suzi Quatro has enjoyed one of the most versatile careers in rock and roll.  In addition to selling over 55 million LPs and singles, Quatro has starred on stage and screen and influenced an entire generation of artists including Joan Jett and The Go-Go's.  Suzi's most recent studio LP, The Devil in Me, arrived in early 2021.  Now, Cherry Red's 7T's imprint is looking back to her first two albums of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Suzi Quatro

Release Round-Up: Week of April 15

April 15, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Rush Moving Pictures 40th

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new releases available today! Rush, Moving Pictures: 40th Anniversary [various editions] (Mercury/UMe) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD/5LP/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rush's seminal 1981 Moving Pictures receives a number of belated 40th anniversary reissues today including a 3CD version with the 2015 album remaster (debuting in

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bobby Cole, Dave Brubeck, Edgar Winter, George Thorogood, Rush

Some Velvet Morning: Light in the Attic Reissues, Expands Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's "Nancy and Lee"

April 14, 2022 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Nancy and Lee CD Packshot

The next installment in Light in the Attic's ongoing Nancy Sinatra Archival Series is set for release on May 20: an expanded edition of 1968's Nancy and Lee, the singer's first full-length duet album with maverick singer-songwriter-producer Lee Hazlewood.  Nancy and Lee will be reissued on CD as well as digitally, vinyl (with various color exclusives), cassette, and eight-track. 1965's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," produced and written by Hazlewood, launched Sinatra's musical career

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra

You're My Everything: Craft Recordings Reissues "Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet" On Small Batch Audiophile Vinyl

April 14, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Miles Davis Relaxin

Craft Recordings is continuing its Small Batch audiophile series with a 180-gram vinyl reissue of 1958's Prestige release Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, recorded in 1956 by the legendary trumpeter with John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.  The release - which becomes available tomorrow, Friday, April 15 at 2:00 pm PST / 5:00 pm EST through CraftRecordings.com - is limited to 5,000 copies worldwide.  It follows prior

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Red Garland

You Are My One: 7a Records Reissues Michael Nesmith's "Tantamount to Treason Volume One" in June

April 13, 2022 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Michael Nesmith Tantamount to Treason 7a

Even before the May 13 reissue of Michael Nesmith's And the Hits Just Keep on Comin' arrives from 7a Records, the Monkees-focused label has announced a second 50th anniversary reissue from the late singer-songwriter.  On June 3, 7a will reissue 1972's Tantamount to Treason Volume One on vinyl and in an expanded edition on CD. Tantamount to Treason Volume One was actually Nesmith's first album of 1972, preceding Hits by roughly six months.  The LP was the first and only one credited to Michael

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country Tags: Michael Nesmith, Red Rhodes

So Much Excitement to Be Found: UMe Reissues Frank Sinatra's Concept Album "Watertown"

April 12, 2022 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Frank Sinatra Watertown

Old Watertown/Nothing much happening down on Main, 'cept a little rain... Something's happening in Watertown - on June 3, to be precise.  That's the date when UMe and Frank Sinatra Enterprises (FSE) will release a remixed and expanded edition of Frank Sinatra's 1970 masterwork Watertown on CD and digital/streaming platforms.  In addition, the remixed album only will be reissued on vinyl. Watertown remains an album unlike any other in the Sinatra discography.  The seeds of the two-part

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bob Gaudio, Frank Sinatra, Jake Holmes, The Four Seasons

The Weekend Stream: April 9, 2022

April 9, 2022 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! And after a week away, you better believe we're coming in hot! Billy Joel, 50 Years of the Piano Man (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple Music / Amazon) On the surface, this 50-track digital compilation-cum-playlist looks like a typical algorithmic survey of Joel's five-decade career, with all the great radio hits rising to

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Billy Joel, Burt Bacharach, Damon Albarn, David Ruffin, Depeche Mode, Gerry Beckley, Howard Jones, Jerry Goldsmith, Jim Weatherly, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Format, Trace Adkins

Would You Go All The Way? "Zappa/Erie" Collects Three Pennsylvania Shows and More on 6 CDs

April 8, 2022 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Zappa Erie

On June 3, Zappa Records and UMe are taking a journey to Elsewhere.  Frank Zappa's 1974 live album Roxy and Elsewhere primarily featured performances from Hollywood's Roxy Theatre recorded in December 1973.  The Elsewhere in the album's title referred to "Son of Orange County" and "More Trouble Every Day," both of which were captured in May 1974 at Edinboro State College in Edinboro, Pennsylvania (with parts of "Son of Orange County" drawn from a Chicago show).  Now, the entire Edinboro show

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else Tags: Frank Zappa

Robinsongs Sends a "Message" with Grandmaster Flash Box Set

April 8, 2022 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Grandmaster Sugar Hill Adventures

A box set coming this summer from Cherry Red's Robinsongs label will offer a deep dive into the storied career of one of hip-hop's most important early influences: Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. The South Bronx group came together in the late '70s as bold new types of music were coming out of Black neighborhoods in the boroughs. Turntablist Joseph "Grandmaster Flash" Sadler joined up with lyricists Melvin "Melle Mel" Glover, Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins, Nate "Kidd Creole" Glover, Eddie

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Melle Mel

Release Round-Up: Week of April 8

April 8, 2022 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Aerosmith The Road Starts Hear

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles arriving in stores today! Aerosmith, 1971 (The Road Starts Hear) (UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada One of the highlights of 2021's Record Store Day Black Friday line-up was 1971 (The Road Starts Hear) - a never-before-heard, earliest-known recording from the classic line-up of rock band Aerosmith. Nearly five months after its vinyl debut

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Aerosmith, Bonnie Pointer, Carla Olson, Jack White, Michael Korie, Mick Taylor, Tom Kitt

One More Saturday Night: Grateful Dead's 'Europe '72' Gets a Host of 50th Anniversary Reissues

April 7, 2022 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Grateful Dead Europe 72

50 years ago today, Grateful Dead took the stage at London's Wembley Empire Pool (today known as the OVO Arena Wembley).  The concert inaugurated the Dead's thrilling run of European shows which were immortalized on the triple-album release Europe '72 and then in 2011 on the expansive 73-CD box set Europe '72: The Complete Recordings.  Now, Rhino has announced a host of releases from the final stand of the European tour. Lyceum 1972: The Complete Recordings, due on July 29, will be the Dead's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

It Will Be Double: The Clash Detail Expanded Edition of 'Combat Rock'

April 7, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Combat Rock Peoples Hall

This is a public service announcement...with bonus tracks! Legacy Recordings will release a 2CD or 3LP expansion of The Clash's Combat Rock for its 40th anniversary. The album comes with a bonus disc of 12 rare and unreleased tracks curated by the band's surviving members. As the follow-up to the sprawling triple album Sandinista! (1980), the fifth album from "The Only Band That Matters" found the group at a creative crossroads. Guitarist Mick Jones found himself feeling estranged from his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, The Beat, The Clash, The English Beat

Violin Concerto No. 2 and Selected Film Themes

April 6, 2022 By

Williams Mutter Concerto

Legendary maestro John Williams has teamed once again with renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter for this premiere of his latest concert work.  The four-movement piece was recorded by the Boston Symphony Orchestra; it's supplemented on the CD release by new recordings of violin-led arrangements of three classic Williams themes: a piece from Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye, and the romantic themes for "Han Solo and The Princess" (as debuted in The Empire Strikes Back) and "Marion's Theme"

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classical/Opera, Soundtracks

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