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Predator: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Red and Green Splatter Vinyl]

May 27, 2020 By

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Real Gone re-reissues a cult favorite among soundtrack recordings with a blood-red/neon green vinyl edition of Alan Silvestri's original score to Predator, limited to a run of 1,000.  Previously released on CD by Intrada and on vinyl by Real Gone, the "complete and definitive edition" of the material now returns to the latter format with a front cover design by Rafal Wechterowicz featuring the titular character.  Add to it a deluxe gatefold sleeve, and it's a must for any vinyl-loving soundtrack

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks

Intimate Connection [Red Vinyl]

May 27, 2020 By

kleeer

Long a favorite of electro-funk connoisseurs, New York-based Kleeer recorded half a dozen acclaimed albums for Atlantic.  One of their most enduring LPs is Intimate Connection, which Real Gone Music is reissuing on "red telephone" color vinyl.  With production by famed CTI alum Eumir Deodato, the dancefloor-ready grooves found throughout the album have influenced countless musicians in the last 35 years.  In fact, Tupac Shakur not only sampled the album's title track (find it on 1995's

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

The Cadence Albums

May 27, 2020 By

Andy Williams Cadence Recordings

The Cadence Albums presents on 8 CDs all of Andy Williams' albums for Archie Bleyer's independent label, plus 15 bonus single sides. At Cadence between 1955 and 1961, Andy developed his smooth, relaxed style and established his reputation for vocal excellence. He scored some of his most beloved hits at the label including "Canadian Sunset" (No. 7 U.S., 1956), "Butterfly" (No. 1 U.S. and U.K., 1957), "I Like Your Kind of Love" (No. 8 U.S./No. 16 U.K., 1957), "The Hawaiian Wedding Song" (No. 11

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Review: Jimi Hendrix, "Band of Gypsys [50th Anniversary Edition]"

May 27, 2020 By Sam Stone 8 Comments

During his all-too-brief career, Jimi Hendrix navigated an uncharted course, following his muse and his talents wherever they would take him.  So much has been said about his guitar technique, his songwriting, and his lyrics.  But as I lay listening to the 50th anniversary edition of Band of Gypsys, I realized that Hendrix was also a pioneer of that sometimes-maligned product, the concert recording.  At the time of its release in March of 1970, live albums had something of a bad rap.  Many were

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Jimi Hendrix

She Satisfies: Cherry Red Laces Up Shoes' Elektra Years on Box Set

May 26, 2020 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Shoes Elektrafied

For more than 40 years, Shoes has been celebrating the art of pop with its compact, melodic nuggets worthy of The Beatles, The Raspberries, or Big Star. Hailing from the town of Zion, Ill. on the banks of Lake Michigan, Shoes was formed by Gary Klebe and brothers John and Jeff Murphy, three kids united in their love of music. Between 1979 and 1982, Shoes - still going strong today, by the way - was signed to Elektra Records where they released three acclaimed albums. Cherry Red has recently

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Shoes

Homegrown

May 23, 2020 By

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Indie-exclusive LP + print bundle: Locate your nearest record shop! Neil Young's lost 1975 album finally sees a release, on both CD and vinyl. Homegrown has been all-analog mastered by John Hanlon from the original master tapes. As for visuals, the album will be presented in a replica of the originally planned artwork.  Seven of its twelve songs are previously unreleased, and guests include Levon

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Emotional Rescue: The Rolling Stones Announce Half-Speed Masters of 10 Classic Albums

May 22, 2020 By Sam Stone 14 Comments

In this vacuum that is COVID lockdown, where time seems suspended indefinitely, I was shaken back to reality the other day with the ping of an iPhone notification.  "Starting in 7 minutes," the message read, "The Rolling Stones in Nashville."  That's where I was supposed to be, half-of-the-nation away for my first trip to Music City and (somehow) my first Rolling Stones show.  Well, the oft-repeated lyric felt no more prescient than in that moment: here I was, certainly not getting what I

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

Release Round-Up: Week of May 22

May 22, 2020 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Iron City Houserockers Have a Good Time

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Joe Grushecky, Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive! 40th Anniversary Edition (Cleveland International) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers' bar-band classic is returning to print in a newly expanded edition adding a second disc with 16 previously unreleased tracks including demos and rarities. The 40th anniversary edition of Have a Good Time But Get

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Bing Crosby, Dennis DeYoung, Elizabeth Swados, Franck Pourcel, Jackie Gleason, Jeff Healey, Jim Peterik, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, Phil Ochs, Steve Earle

Boogie Chillen': Ace Collects John Lee Hooker's Early Years, Premieres Unreleased Tracks

May 21, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

John Lee Hooker Documenting the Sensation Recordings

Ace Records is celebrating the late blues legend John Lee Hooker (1912 or 1917 - 2001) with a historic new box set. Due on May 29, Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1949-1952 accomplishes just that feat. When Ace purchased Sensation Records from Bernard Besman, a number of Hooker sides were among the acquisition. Besman had previously sold some of Hooker's recordings to United Artists and Greene Bottle. Until now, Ace hadn't completed research into the total contents of the acquisition. Over

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues Tags: John Lee Hooker

UPDATE: More Ways To Enjoy Bob Dylan's Upcoming "Rough and Rowdy Ways"

May 20, 2020 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

UPDATED 5/20/20: Bob Dylan has been on a roll, getting us through lockdown with new singles that find him as clever and compelling as ever. On Thursday evening, May 7, the Bob Dylan Twitter account posted another cryptic tweet - complete with a pulp book-inspired illustration and a lyric quote - which had fans everywhere wondering if we might get another treat to tide us over. Well, come midnight that evening, we got our answer as "False Prophet" was released on digital streaming services.

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

Outlaw Man: Cherry Red, Morello Collect Four Albums from Singer-Songwriter David Blue

May 20, 2020 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

David Blue Morello 4 Classic Albums

David Blue might be best-known for two things: writing "Outlaw Blues" on Eagles' Desperado album, and being a friend and occasional sidekick of Bob Dylan's. Yet he recorded seven albums (plus a major contribution to an eighth, the 1965 Elektra anthology Singer Songwriter Project) between 1965 and 1976 in addition to making appearances on stage and film before his untimely death in 1982. Cherry Red's Morello imprint has recently celebrated the late folk troubadour with a four-albums-on-two-CDs

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop Tags: Dave Mason, David Blue, Eagles, Graham Nash, Jennifer Warnes

Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin and Kern

May 19, 2020 By

Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin and Kern

Octave/Mack Avenue reissues Erroll Garner's 1976 tribute to two masters of American song, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern; it proved to be his final album released in his lifetime.  The album has been remastered with the Plangent Process, and includes one previously unreleased bonus track.  This marks the final release in Octave/Mack Avenue's 12-title reissue series for the late pianist's 100th birthday.

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

State of Independence: Donna Summer Live Set Comes to CD, DVD, LP in July

May 19, 2020 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Donna Summer Hot Summer Night

Following its career-spanning Encore box set celebrating late superstar Donna Summer, Demon Music Group's Driven by the Music imprint will be bringing one of the diva's classic concerts to multiple formats. A Hot Summer Night will be issued on July 10 in both CD/DVD and 2-LP colored vinyl formats. The concert was recorded on August 6, 1983 as part of Summer's Hard for the Money tour. The She Works Hard for the Money album had just been released a couple of months earlier, in June, but Summer

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Donna Summer

Still Truckin': Vinyl Me Please Plots "The Story of The Grateful Dead" Anthology 14-LP Box Set

May 18, 2020 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

Move over, Herbie Hancock, because the next volume of music subscription service Vinyl Me, Please's celebrated Anthology series will be The Story of The Grateful Dead. The massive 14-LP box set collects four studio albums and four live albums originally released between 1969 and 1990.  Among them is Without A Net, the 1990 live collection that makes its first appearance on vinyl since its original release thirty  years ago. The new pressings in The Story of The Grateful Dead have been

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

UPDATE WITH LINKS: Are You Ready? Neil Young Confirms "Homegrown" Release Date and Track Listing, Plots Further Archive Releases

May 18, 2020 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

For nearly 45 years, Neil Young fans have been clamoring for Homegrown, the lost album that was nearly released in 1975 and most recently slated for the still-yet-to-happen Record Store Day 2020. Now, it's been announced that the album described by Neil as "the missing link between Harvest, Comes A Time, Old Ways and Harvest Moon" will finally reach fans on June 19. "[Homegrown] is all analog! The purest sound," Young wrote in a post on his Neil Young Archives site. "Hear the vinyl. Get a

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I Like Your Kind of Love: Edsel Collects Early Andy Williams on "The Cadence Recordings" Box

May 15, 2020 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Andy Williams Cadence Recordings

By any metric, 2020 has been a challenging year. But fans of Andy Williams have had some rays of sunlight with a number of releases. Demon Music Group's Crimson Productions released the late vocalist's Gold, a 3-CD, career-spanning anthology of many of his finest recordings. Real Gone Music issued Emperor of Easy: The Lost Columbia Masters 1962-72, premiering 20 outtakes and rare singles on CD from Williams' first decade at the label. Now Demon's Edsel label is turning back the clock for a new

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Andy Williams

Baby He's a Star: 'Prince and The Revolution: Live' Comes To Streaming and Download

May 15, 2020 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Prince and The Revolution Live

The Prince Estate made quarantine a little more tolerable this week when they announced that Prince and The Revolution: Live, the 1985 concert film reissued as part of the Purple Rain deluxe package in 2017, was receiving a limited stream on YouTube, to raise money and awareness for the World Health Organization's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. Though the concert will eventually disappear from the video service, the memory will live on thanks to a surprise digital-only premiere of the

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Release Round-Up: Week of May 15

May 15, 2020 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Frank Sinatra Nice n Easy Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Frank Sinatra, Nice 'n' Easy: 60th Anniversary Expanded Edition (Capitol/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP (Remixed Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Capitol Records, Frank Sinatra Enterprises, and UMe have a 60th anniversary edition of Frank Sinatra's classic 1960 album arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.  For the occasion, the album has been completely remixed and features three bonus tracks:

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Charles Strouse, David Bowie, Erroll Garner, Frank Sinatra, Marshall Chapman, Miles Davis, Ruthie Foster, Stephen Schwartz, Willie Nile

LiveandWell: David Bowie Rarity Returns from Parlophone

May 14, 2020 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

David Bowie Liveandwelldotcom

Parlophone Records has announced that three rare David Bowie live releases from the 1990s will all be returning to streaming formats in the months ahead. Tomorrow, May 15, the first of these titles will arrive on digital platforms. Liveandwell.com was made available as a limited edition CD release in 2000 to BowieNet subscribers. It typically fetches high sums secondhand. For this streaming reissue, it has been expanded with two bonus tracks: "Pallas Athena" and "V-2 Schneider," the former

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: David Bowie

Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive! [40th Anniversary Edition]

May 13, 2020 By

Iron City Houserockers Have a Good Time

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers' bar-band classic is returning to print in a newly expanded edition adding a second disc with 16 previously unreleased tracks including demos and rarities. The 40th anniversary edition of Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive! arrives from the reactivated Cleveland International Records label on May 22 digitally, and June 19 for CD and vinyl formats.  Grushecky, who

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

Supertonic: Mixes

May 13, 2020 By

Diana Ross Supertonic

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Crystal Clear Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada For the legendary Diana Ross, it's clear that there truly ain't no mountain high enough. The superstar made chart history earlier this year when "Love Hangover 2020" reached the top position on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart - making it her fourth consecutive No. 1 remix of a song that had previously been No. 1 on the Hot 100 in its original version. Now, that record-setting

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

The Best of Lost Tracks 2: 1936-1937

May 13, 2020 By

Judy Garland Best of Lost Tracks 2

Last year, JSP Records premiered its latest archival release celebrating the life and remarkable artistry of Judy Garland. Lost Tracks 2: 1936-1967 collected 50 rarities on two discs spanning the entirety of the late superstar's career, 40 of which were new to CD. Now, JSP is releasing a single-disc "highlights" edition of that seminal set with 25 tracks, adding one previously unreleased, newly-discovered bonus track: Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields' "You Couldn't Be Cuter" which the duo wrote

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks

Workingman's Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

May 13, 2020 By

Grateful Dead Workingmans Dead

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Often hailed as one of Grateful Dead's most accessible albums along with its follow-up, American Beauty, Workingman's Dead placed its focus on tighter songcraft in a country/folk-oriented vein that would later be described as "Americana." It introduced the group's first chart hit, the timeless "Uncle John's Band," as well as the favorite "Casey Jones" which has received substantial airplay over the

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The Complete Collection

May 13, 2020 By

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Cherry Pop is compiling the works of U.K. model-turned-singer Nick Kamen in a new 6CD box set. The Complete Collection offers remastered versions all four albums Kamen recorded for Warner Music between 1987 and 1992, plus dozens of bonus tracks and remixes, many of them previously unreleased or new to CD. (The label notes that 20 mixes are previously unreleased, though we suspect this number is higher.) Two never-before-heard tracks are also available: covers of The Everly Brothers' "So Sad" and

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Review: The Flying Burrito Bros., "Burrito Deluxe" on Hybrid SACD

May 13, 2020 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

Flying Burrito Brothers Burrito Deluxe

For years now, we've touted Intervention Records' superlative work in the vinyl reissue front.  The team's attention to detail, impeccable artwork, and stellar sonics across genres have given them a reputation in the reissue world as one of the best.  Their established quality in the LP world happily extends to the digital realm, as well. Intervention recently released a stereo-only hybrid SACD of The Flying Burrito Bros.' Burrito Deluxe - one of the formative albums of the country-rock genre

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Categories: News Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Country Tags: The Flying Burrito Brothers

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