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Release Round-Up: Week of November 6

November 6, 2020 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Elvis Costello Armed Forces

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Armed Forces: Super Deluxe Edition (UMe) uDiscoverMusic Store: black / color Elvis Costello is revisiting his 1979 album in super-sized format.  Armed Forces arrives today as a deluxe, slipcased 9-disc vinyl set with three 12-inch LPs, three 10-inch LPs, and three 7-inch singles including 23 previously unreleased live tracks and the complete contents of the previous Rhino/Edsel deluxe edition (with many

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Ennio Morricone, Felix Slatkin, Harvey Schmidt, Kylie Minogue, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Petula Clark, Pylon, Shirley Bassey, SVT, The Uptones, Whitesnake, Wilco

No Sign of Weakness: Nickel Creek's Landmark Early-Oughts Albums Get the 45rpm Double Vinyl Treatment

November 5, 2020 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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It's been 20 years since the Grammy Award-winning Americana trio Nickel Creek released their celebrated self-titled album.  To mark the occasion, Craft Recordings are set to reissue that album alongside This Side (2002), and Why Should the Fire Die? (2005). The audiophile-quality albums will be pressed at 45rpm onto 180-gram vinyl and available on black vinyl and artist webstore-exclusive color variants. It's all happening tomorrow, November 6! The Americana trio Nickel Creek formed in 1989

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Nickel Creek

Cherry Red, RPM Get "Right Back Where We Started From" With New '70s Female Pop Collection

November 5, 2020 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Right Back Where We Started From

Cherry Red's long-running RPM imprint announced earlier this year that 2020 would be its final year of operations - but that hasn't kept RPM from going out with a bang.  One of the final titles to arrive from the imprint, Right Back Where We Started From, is a joyous 3-CD celebration of Female Pop and Soul in Seventies Britain.  The title is drawn from Maxine Nightingale's irresistibly bouncy 1975 single, a top ten entry in the United Kingdom and a top five in the States.  Not every track on

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Birds of a Feather, Doris Troy, Dusty Springfield, Lesley Duncan, Madeline Bell, Maxine Nightingale, Petula Clark, Polly Niles, Twinkle

Going, Going, Gone: Kritzerland Premieres John Barry and Alan Jay Lerner's "Lolita, My Love" on CD, Reissues Ben Bagley's "Irving Berlin Revisited"

November 4, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Lolita My Love

Kritzerland has just announced two new titles today! A musical version of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita hardly seemed like typical fare for the Broadway stage.  Yet Alan Jay Lerner - lyricist-librettist of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Paint Your Wagon - envisioned just that.  Lolita had already been adapted by Nabokov himself for director Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film starring Sue Lyon, James Mason, Shelley Winters, and a scene-stealing Peter Sellers, but the author gave his blessing to

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Alan Jay Lerner, Blossom Dearie, Bobby Short, Denise Nickerson, Dorothy Loudon, John Barry, Richard Chamberlain

How Far They've Come: Matchbox Twenty Celebrate Two Decades with Vinyl Box

November 3, 2020 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Matchbox 20 20 Box

Matchbox Twenty is looking back with a new box set.  On November 20, the band will release the simply-titled 20, a new 7-LP vinyl collection containing all five of their studio albums plus Exile on Mainstream Revisited, a "reimagined" version of the 2007 compilation Exile on Mainstream now featuring numerous rare tracks making their first appearance in the vinyl format. The box includes: Yourself or Someone Like You (1996); Mad Season (2000; 2 LPs, new to vinyl); More Than You

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Matchbox Twenty, Rob Thomas

Whatcha Gonna Do for Me: Average White Band Releases "On the Strip: The Sunset Sessions," Reissues "Cupid's in Fashion"

November 3, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Average White Band On the Strip

The opening track of Average White Band's new/old release On the Strip: The Sunset Sessions couldn't have a more apropos title: "Let's Go Round Again."  Following a successful run of albums with producer-arranger Arif Mardin, the funky big band outfit was re-establishing itself.  1979's Feel No Fret was a self-produced affair on which the band was joined by co-producer Gene Paul; it yielded hit singles in "Atlantic Avenue" and a revival of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Walk on By."  For a

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Average White Band, Bill Champlin, David Foster

Kool and the Gang

November 2, 2020 By

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Kool and the Gang's 1970 self-titled debut arrives on cream-colored vinyl from Real Gone Music.  It would be a few years before the band would grace the heights of the Billboard charts with their disco smashes, but with an infectious blend of R&B and funk with plenty of horns and irresistible beats, this sampler's favorite sees Kool and the Gang beginning their ascent as a leading dance music band.  Kool and The Gang will be pressed up in a limited edition of 1,250 copies, so be sure to grab

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul

Sweetheart of the Sun

November 2, 2020 By

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Real Gone will reissue Sweetheart of the Sun, the final album to date by The Bangles, on vinyl. The 2011 album saw Susanna Hoffs and Debbie & Vicki Peterson team up with Matthew Sweet, who produced the effort. (Sweet and Hoffs had previously teamed as Sid & Susie for the Under the Covers series of albums.)  Together, they take a look back at the sound of the Laurel Canyon scene of the '60s and '70s, with the same inspired harmonies and perky arrangements that became The Bangles'

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

The Chinese Album

November 2, 2020 By

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Fresh off the reissue of Spacehog's debut Resident Alien for Record Store Day, Real Gone turns to the follow-up, which sees the band pulling from power-pop and glam influences and features an appearance by Michael Stipe from R.E.M. too.  Though the album may not have been met with the same sales as their first effort, The Chinese Album remains a cult favorite among '90s rock enthusiasts. For its vinyl debut, the album will be pressed on maroon-hued vinyl, complete with a four-page insert

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock

The Complete Decca Studio Albums Collection

November 2, 2020 By

Tom Jones Complete Decca Studio Albums Cover

This long-awaited box from Sir Tom Jones - counting 17 discs, including 15 studio albums and two CDs of non-LP single and EP sides - boasts over 200 tracks and 10+ hours of music from Jones' classic Decca period of 1965-1975.  It includes hits such as "What's New Pussycat?," "It's Not Unusual," "Help Yourself," "Green, Green Grass of Home," "Delilah," "She's a Lady," and many more.  This collection from one of music's most enduring talents is housed in a flip-top box and contains an accompanying

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country, Pop, R&B/Soul

The Ultimate Christmas Collection

November 2, 2020 By

Anne Murray Ultimate Christmas

Canadian pop-country chanteuse Anne Murray has selected 22 of her favorite Christmas songs drawn from her 1981-2008 holiday albums and placed them on The Ultimate Christmas Collection.  With traditional carols and pop tunes alike, the set will be available on 1CD, 2LP, and digital formats.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Holiday, Pop

Short Takes, Holiday Edition: "Beetlejuice" Offers Demos, Anne Murray Collects Christmas Favorites

November 2, 2020 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Anne Murray Ultimate Christmas

Halloween might be over, but the party still continues: Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!  Legend has it that if you say his name three times, the demon - introduced on screen by Michael Keaton and then on Broadway by Alex Brightman - appears before you.  While Beetlejuice: The Musical had its New York run curtailed by COVID-19 after 366 performances, you can't keep a good demon down.  The Ghostlight Records cast recording starring Brightman, Sophia Anne Caruso, Rob McClure, Leslie Kritzer,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Anne Murray, Eddie Perfect

Aretha [Highlights Versions]

November 1, 2020 By

Aretha Franklin Aretha Highlights

4CD:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The new 4-CD box set Aretha collects 81 tracks spanning the Queen of Soul's entire career - from her first single on JBV Records through her years on Columbia, Atlantic, and Arista - via hits, rarities, live tracks, and many previously unreleased cuts. Note that this set also has numerous tracks from or related to Aretha's final five Atlantic studio

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul

Pylon Box

November 1, 2020 By

Pylon

When Rolling Stone named Athens, Georgia's R.E.M. as America's best band in 1987 - the same year they scored their first Top 10 hit and appeared in a documentary about the music of the city they formed in, they were quick to correct that record, giving the honor to Pylon, an alt-rock quartet that had been broken up for four years at that point. New West Records is now honoring the Pylon legacy with Pylon Box, a new 4LP set that collects the group's first two, newly-remastered albums,

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Soundtrack Watch: An October Harvest from Intrada, Varese, La-La Land

October 30, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

The Karate Kid Part II

October is thick with not only great archival horror soundtracks, but favorites from all genres! Let's dive in to eight great film score reissues from this past month. Intrada rolled out titles from three iconic composers. This week sees an expansion of the late James Horner's score to The Land Before Time (1988). The second collaboration between animator Don Bluth and producer Steven Spielberg (this time with George Lucas in tow) told the story of a group of juvenile dinosaurs roaming the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bill Conti, Dave Davies, Diana Ross, Harry Manfredini, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, John Carpenter, John Powell, John Williams

Short Takes: Neil Young and Elton John Prepare 50th Anniversary Editions of Classic Albums

October 30, 2020 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

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Today, two of music's most important figures announced 50th anniversary editions of landmark albums.  Neil Young's After the Gold Rush will be reissued on CD and LP with two bonus tracks, while Elton John has announced a green vinyl edition of Tumbleweed Connection and a special single featuring two unreleased recordings.  We've got all the details below.  First up, Neil Young. Neil Young's After The Gold Rush was a game-changing album for the Canadian singer and songwriter. The multiplatinum

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Elton John, Neil Young

Digital Round-Up: Nelly Furtado, OutKast Celebrate 20 Years with Expanded Albums

October 30, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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A pair of popular albums from 2000 are now available as digital-only expanded editions for their 20th anniversaries. Whoa, Nelly! was the debut album from genre-bending singer Nelly Furtado. Born in Canada to Portuguese parents, Furtado's blend of folk and hip-hop stood out amid the era of teen-friendly pop on TRL. Lead single "I'm Like a Bird" topped the charts in her native country and reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100; follow-up "Turn Off the Light" hit the Top 10 in both countries as

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Nelly Furtado, Outkast

Release Round-Up: Week of October 30

October 30, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Joni Mitchell Archives - Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) (Rhino) 5-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5-CD + Lithograph bundle: Joni Mitchell Online Store The first in a series of box sets, Joni Mitchell Archives - Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) features nearly 6 hours of unreleased material - 119 tracks across 5 CDs - all from the period prior to the commencement of the legendary singer-songwriter's recording career.

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Rock Tags: Elton John, Elvis Costello, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Lady A, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Ron Dante, Stevie Nicks, Suzzy Roche, The Archies, The Style Council, The Who, Thin Lizzy, U2, Van Duren, Yes

American Beauty: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

October 28, 2020 By

Grateful Dead American Beauty

Rhino is marking 50 years of a Grateful Dead classic.  American Beauty: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition features a remastered version of the original album on its first disc, while a previously unreleased concert recorded on February 18, 1971 at Port Chester, New York's Capitol Theatre comprises Discs 2 and 3.  The show has been mixed from the original 16-track analog masters by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir's TRI Studios and mastered by David Glasser.  Also on October 30, Rhino will release an

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

Join the Joyride: Roxette Pull Rarities from 'Bag of Trix'

October 28, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Roxette Bag of Trix

Sorry, Mr. Rabbit - it seems that Trix aren't just for kids! On December 11, Rhino will release Bag of Trix: Music from the Roxette Vaults, a deep dive into the archives of the Swedish pop duo. This four-volume set to be released on 4 LPs, 3 CDs, and digital platforms features a wealth of rare material from Per Gessle and the late Marie Fredriksson. Even better, fans don't have to wait until December to listen; the four volumes will be individually rolled out to digital services between this

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Roxette

Brand New Pair of Shoes: 'Johnny Cash: Forever Words' Collection to Get Four Digital Expansions

October 27, 2020 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Johnny Cash Forever Words

Back in 2018, Legacy Recordings released Forever Words, a collection of new songs featuring previously unheard lyrics by Johnny Cash.  The 16-track set offered new melodies and performances by a "Who's who" of artists including Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, Jewel, John Mellencamp, Brad Paisley, The Jayhawks, Robert Glasper, Cash's daughter Rosanne Cash, and his stepdaughter Carlene Carter.  Now, Legacy is expanding the original album with a further 18 tracks (16 of which

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Rock Tags: Ana Cristina Cash, Brad Paisley, Elvis Costello, Jamey Johnson, Jewel, John Popper, Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart, Ronnie Dunn, Ruston Kelly, Shawn Camp, The Lumineers

Time Outtakes

October 26, 2020 By

The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Outtakes

The family of late jazz great Dave Brubeck has unearthed tapes with alternate versions and outtakes from the sessions for Dave Brubeck Quartet's seminal 1959 album Time Out.  Now, Time Outtakes presents these never-before-heard recordings on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.  Tracks include never-before-heard stabs at "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk," plus the outtake "I'm in a Dancing Mood" and a jam based on "Watusi Drums." Among the eight tracks on the album is one of the group's studio

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019

October 26, 2020 By

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3-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 6-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop Rhino brings Eric Clapton's 2019 Crossroads Guitar Festival to a variety of formats.  The fest features almost four hours of highlights with appearances by Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton,

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock

Fell Down On My Knees: "Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019" Gets CD, LP, Blu-ray, and DVD Release

October 26, 2020 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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In 2019, Eric Clapton brought together some of the world's most astounding guitarists for his fifth Crossroads Guitar Festival.  If you've had the pleasure to see the concert festival in 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, or 2019, you know what it's about: A marathon concert featuring Clapton and friends playing in each other's sets, with once-in-a lifetime collaborations and plenty of jaw-dropping music - all in service of Clapton's Crossroads Centre for rehabilitation and recovery.  It's a ticket you

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, James Bay, James Burton, Jeff Beck, Jimmie Vaughan, John Mayer, Keb' Mo', Lianne La Havas, Los Lobos, Marcus King Band, Peter Frampton, Robert Randolph, Sheryl Crow, Sonny Landreth, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Vince Gill

UPDATED 10/23: Here We Go In The Years: "Neil Young Archives, Volume 2: 1972-1976" Due November 20, Standard Releases to Follow

October 23, 2020 By Sam Stone 13 Comments

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UPDATE 10/23/2020:  It's been a long time since Neil Young released his last Archives box set.  In the intervening 11 years since Neil released Archives, Volume 1: 1963-1972, fans have endlessly speculated what might be on Volume 2 - or if it might happen at all. Well, it's happening.  The 10-CD Neil Young Archives, Volume 2: 1972-1976 box set will be released on November 20. The links to pre-order are live for the limited, deluxe edition set of 3,000 units which is available exclusively

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Crazy Horse, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, The Stills-Young Band

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