Among the most beloved purveyors of the "Canterbury Sound" - that particular strand of psychedelic British rock - is the boundary-pushing ensemble, Caravan. The band was formed in Canterbury in 1968 (from the remnants of the soul group The Wilde Flowers) and at various times included Pye Hastings on guitar and vocals, Richard Sinclair on bass guitar and vocals, Dave Sinclair on keyboards, and Richard Coughlan on drums. By the following year, the band had secured a contract with Decca and were
In the Heat of the Morning: New 5-CD Box Set Collects David Bowie's 1968-1969 Recordings
David Bowie fans have been waiting with bated breath to discover what would comprise the next in the series of annual box sets dedicated to the late superstar's remarkable career. Yet rather than directly follow up last year's Loving the Alien (1983-1988), Parlophone has announced a trip back in time to the late 1960s. Conversation Piece, a 5-CD box set (also available digitally), will be released on November 15. The collection traces Bowie's development as a songwriter and performer
What's the Frequency, Kenneth? Craft Recordings Preps 25th Anniversary Box of R.E.M.'s "Monster"
Craft Recordings has announced a Monster of a celebration for the 25th anniversary of R.E.M.'s ninth album. November 1 will see the arrival of Monster in various physical and digital formats, all newly remastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound. Monster found the band branching out to explore new sonic avenues, with bolder, louder guitars, minimal overdubs, and spare arrangements supporting lyrics frequently sung from the POV of different characters. Bolstered by the success of the lead
Open My Eyes: Purple Pyramid Collects "The Complete Nazz"
Todd Rundgren has struck up a fertile relationship with Cleopatra Records in recent years, with the label issuing a number of audio and video titles (including Utopia's Live at the Chicago Theatre and the Box O' Todd) as well as the artist's memoir The Individualist. Now, Cleopatra's Purple Pyramid imprint has issued The Complete Nazz, a 3-CD survey of Rundgren's early band, with all three of Nazz's albums plus 30 previously issued bonus tracks. Todd Rundgren and bassist Carson Van Osten
New Beginnings: Esoteric Reissues, Expands Strawbs' "Deadlines"
Strawbs' Deadlines, by the numbers: It was the band's first album on Clive Davis' Arista label, last album of the 1970s, third album produced or co-produced by Jeffrey Lesser (Rupert Holmes, Loudon Wainwright III, Barbra Streisand), and only album to feature the four-piece line-up of Dave Cousins, Dave Lambert, Chas Cronk, and Tony Fernandez. It's recently been expanded by Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings arm as a 2-CD/1-DVD clamshell box set featuring numerous bonus tracks and a complete
Review: Craft Latino Invites You To Take A Far-Out Trip With "Fania Goes Psychedelic"
Get ready for a freak-out, because Craft Recordings has announced a new 15-song compilation of experimental and far-out treasures from the legendary Latin music label Fania! Entitled Fania Goes Psychedelic, this crate-digger's fantasy is part of Craft Latino's ongoing celebration of the influential imprint that became a home to the Latin-soul fusion "boogaloo" tunes that were coming out of the barrios. Originally founded by musician Johnny Pacheco and lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964, the label
The Later Years: 1987-2019
5CD/5DVD/6BD/2 Vinyl Single Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (Bundles: Pink Floyd Online Store) 1CD Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Bundles: Pink Floyd Online Store Pink Floyd's The Later Years: 1987-2019 celebrates the band's David Gilmour-led years which yielded the albums A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987), The Division Bell (1994), and The Endless River (2014) and the live efforts
The Complete Stax Singles Vol. 1 (1962-1967)
1-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP on blue vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone Music's new 1-CD or 2-LP set brings together 29 of the incendiary 49 singles that Booker T. and the MG's recorded for Stax. (Presumably, the other 20 will make up a second volume.) Each track on the Gordon Anderson-produced The Complete Stax Singles, Vol. 1 has been carefully vetted to make sure the correct, original mono single mixes were used. The music has been mastered
What's Going On Live
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD 2LP (Turquoise): The Sound of Vinyl What's Going On Live features one of Marvin Gaye's only performances in the wake of his immortal 1971 album, recorded at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. in the spring of 1972 after a four-year absence from the stage. This release marks the first standalone release of the concert (originally issued in 2001 on the What's Going On 30th anniversary
Sugar Man, Won't You Hurry: Classic Rodriguez Albums Return to Vinyl, CD, and Digital
Sixto Rodriguez, known professionally by his last name alone, was something of an enigma before Malik Bendjelloul's Academy Award-winning documentary Searching For Sugarman presented Rodriguez to the mainstream once again. Rodriguez's two Sussex Records releases - 1970's Cold Fact and 1971's Coming From Reality - became cult classics once more in the wake of the film's release. Last Friday, August 30, after years out of print, the two titles returned to vinyl, alongside CD and digital
Only Love Can Conquer Hate: Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On Live' Gets Standalone Release With New Mix
A classic live performance by Motown legend Marvin Gaye is being released for the first time on its own this fall. What's Going On Live features one of Gaye's only performances in the wake of the immortal 1971 album, recorded at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. in the spring of 1972. At the time, Gaye had not performed live in four years, and, before recording What's Going On, had struggled with depression after the passing of his close friend and duet partner, Tammi Terrell. "I
UPDATE WITH NEW RELEASE DATE: Lost For Words: Pink Floyd Looks Back on Gilmour Era In 'The Later Years: 1987-2019'
EDIT: Due to production and logistical delays, the deluxe box set of 'Pink Floyd The Later Years' and the digital equvalent will be released on December 13, 2019. The highlights 2-LP / 1 CD package and the digital equivalent will keep the release date of November 29, 2019. In a move that's sure to please fans of latter-day Pink Floyd, the band has announced a new, 18-disc multimedia box set due on December 13. The Later Years: 1987-2019, which celebrates the band's David Gilmour-led
Mo' Onions: Real Gone Collects '60s Sides of Booker T. and The MG's on "Complete Stax Singles, Vol. 1"
Few instrumental groups have had as profound an impact on the popular music landscape as Booker T. and the MG's, whose Stax sides from the '60s defined the sound of the label. From Booker T. Jones' inimitable Hammond organ sound and Steve Cropper's masterful Telecaster work, to Al Jackson's solid and steady beats and the always-in-the-pocket bass lines of Lewie Steinberg (replaced in 1965 by the talented Donald "Duck" Dunn), the band's influence continues to be felt in every slice of visceral
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y! Cherry Red, 7Ts Collect Bay City Rollers on "The Singles Collection"
The A-side of the first Bay City Rollers single was, appropriately enough, "Keep On Dancing." The Scottish band's cover of the Gentrys oldie became a top ten hit on the U.K.'s Bell Records, and earned the Rollers a slot on Top of the Pops. The best was still yet to come, however, and the band would keep listeners dancing for roughly a decade. The Rollers' ascent to superstardom is chronicled on a recent 3-CD clamshell box set from Cherry Red's 7Ts imprint. The Singles Collection is a tour
Sinatra Sings Alan and Marilyn Bergman
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A new collection celebrates Frank Sinatra's enduring recordings from the songbook of Oscar-winning lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman, from 1960 to 1988. The LP edition has 10 previously released tracks while the CD and digital iterations add three bonus tracks including the non-LP single "Christmas Memories" and two previously unreleased tracks: "Leave It All to Me" and "How Do You Keep the
My Way: 50th Anniversary Edition
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Green Vinyl: uDiscover Store Capitol/UMe/Frank Sinatra Enterprises reissues the Chairman's 1969 contemporary pop LP My Way with four bonus tracks, all of the famous title anthem: live versions from 1971 and 1987, and duets with Willie Nelson and Luciano Pavarotti. David Ritz has penned the new liner notes. Available on CD, LP, and digital platforms.
Blue World
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A lost John Coltrane recording has been unearthed with this never-before-heard five-song session from 1964, as recorded in Rudy Van Gelder's studio in June of that year and featuring reworkings of Trane classics like "Naima" and "Village Blues" in multiple takes plus "Blue World," "Like Sonny," and "Traneing In." Blue World has been mastered from its original analog tapes by Kevin Reeves at Universal
You're Breaking My Heart [Expanded Edition]
Real Gone Music reissues and expands Keely Smith's You're Breaking My Heart, the late chanteuse's hard-to-find, U.K.-only album from 1965. Among its 12 songs are interpretations of Neal Hefti's "Sunday Mornin'", the Willie Nelson standard "Crazy," Jimmie Hodges' "Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)," and her original composition "I'll Always Be in Love With You." A previously unreleased demo of Tony Hatch's "Call Me" is the bonus track, and the whole set has been remastered by Mike Milchner
Different Kinda Different [Expanded Edition]
Johnny Mathis' first album of the 1980s, Different Kinda Different, arrives in an expanded edition. Mathis ushered in the decade with one of the most romantic and sensual albums in his extensive discography. Different Kinda Different teamed him once more with Jack Gold and Gene Page for a set that lived up to its title as it spotlighted numerous new songs. Two sizzling pop-soul duets with Paulette McWilliams, "Different Kinda Different" and "I'd Do It All for You," are at the heart of an
I Only Have Eyes for You/Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me [Expanded Edition]
Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue celebrating the oeuvre of Johnny Mathis with this two-for-one collection featuring The Voice of Romance's 1976 and 1977 albums with producer Jack Gold and arranger Gene Page. On these albums, Mathis saluted songwriters including Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield ("The Hungry Years"), Alan O'Day ("Do Me Wrong, But Do Me"), Stephen Sondheim ("Send in the Clowns"), Marvin Hamlisch and Ed Kleban ("One"), and the team of Michael Masser and Gerry
Leave It All to Me: Sinatra's "My Way" Gets 50th Anniversary Reissue, "Sings Alan and Marilyn Bergman" Arrives in October
Get ready to celebrate the eternal Chairman of the Board with a pair of releases due October 11 from Capitol Records/UMe and Frank Sinatra Enterprises. Last week, the labels announced a 50th anniversary edition of Sinatra's 1969 LP My Way, available on CD, digital, and LP; and an all-new compilation entitled Sinatra Sings Alan & Marilyn Bergman, also on all three formats. Originally issued on the Reprise label in March 1969, My Way was Sinatra's second consecutive foray into the world of
Omnivore Recordings Round-Up: Big Star's "In Space" Reissue and A Pair of Mister Rogers Albums On the Way
Omnivore Recordings has a reputation for being one of the most diverse reissue labels around. What other label could be home to Big Star and Mister Rogers? Well, omnivorous listeners have reason to delight, as Omnivore has announced new reissues from both legendary talents due for release in October! It's been more than fifty years since the celebrated children's show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood first aired, yet Fred Rogers' name remains in the public eye thanks in no small part to the
Review: Expanded Reissues of Renaissance's "Live at Carnegie Hall" and "Novella"
Esoteric Recordings, the progressive rock arm of Cherry Red, has built a reputation for excellent reissues of prog classics, some once-overlooked and others legendary favorites. Among those landmark recordings that have received the Esoteric treatment is Renaissance's Live at Carnegie Hall. The 1976 release became one of the defining live albums of the decade and has recently been newly remastered and expanded to a 3-CD set as part of the label's ongoing Renaissance reissue series. Live at
All Aboard! Ozzy Osbourne's Solo Works Collected In Massive Box Set
The one and only Ozzy Osbourne has announced a brand-new, career-spanning vinyl box set entitled See You On the Other Side, and it's the wildest celebration of the madman of rock and roll yet. The 24-LP box set, due on November 29, features 16 albums on 150-gram multicolored vinyl. Every Ozzy Osbourne studio album is accounted for, from Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman to the more recent Black Rain, Down to Earth, and Scream. Those last three are making their U.S vinyl debut on the box
Turn Around, Look At Me: Real Gone Continues Keely Smith Reissue Series With "You're Breaking My Heart"
Once upon a time, Keely Smith was one-half of Las Vegas' royal couple, alongside her then-husband Louis Prima. But she soared in a career of her own, and following tenures at Capitol and Dot Records, she signed with Frank Sinatra's Reprise label with the promise of retaining rights to her master tapes. In 2016, Real Gone Music began bringing her Reprise titles on CD to the first time ever. Following reissues of The Intimate Keely Smith, Little Girl Blue/Little Girl New, and Sings the John
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