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Supremes A'Go-Go: Expanded Edition

April 5, 2017 By

Supremes A Go GO

The Supremes' landmark, chart-topping 1966 album (with "You Can't Hurry Love" and "Love is Like an Itching in My Heart") gets lavishly expanded on two remastered CDs.  This release has got it all: mono and stereo mixes of the original album, a whopping 29 bonus tracks (24 of which are heard here for the first time!) and not one, but two booklets, including a replica of the group's souvenir tour program from 1966! Bonus cuts include outtakes of covers of The Miracles ("Mickey's Monkey"), Jackie

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits

April 5, 2017 By

Bee Gees Timeless

The Bee Gees' Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits collects 21 of the Australian trio's greatest hits from 1966 to 1987, all personally selected by Barry Gibb. In his introduction in the package, Barry Gibb (the group's sole surviving member) writes, "These songs, I feel, are the songs that Maurice, Robin, and I would be most proud of."  This set kicks off the band's new relationship with Capitol Records and UMe.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Soundtracks

You Should Be Dancing: Bee Gees Release First Compilation Under New Catalog Deal

April 4, 2017 By Mike Duquette 15 Comments

Bee Gees

The first Bee Gees catalog title under the group's new deal with Capitol is a new compilation due later this month, it was announced today. Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits collects 21 of the Australian trio's greatest hits from 1966 to 1987, all personally selected by Barry Gibb. In his introduction in the package, Barry Gibb (the group's sole surviving member) writes, "These songs, I feel, are the songs that Maurice, Robin, and I would be most proud of." While it's not terribly

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Bee Gees

Here They "A' Go-Go"! Classic Supremes Album To Be Expanded in April

March 31, 2017 By Mike Duquette 11 Comments

Supremes A Go GO

Get ready! A new, rarities-packed edition of The Supremes' chart-topping The Supremes A' Go-Go is headed to stores this spring! Released late in the summer of 1966, the ninth album by Motown's powerhouse vocal trio (Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson) reads like a who's-who of pop and Detroit soul, with a slew of covers (mostly from the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team) given that Supremes treatment. Here, you'll find versions of The Isley Brothers' "This Old Heart of Mine

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Diana Ross, The Supremes

The Art of Noise's "In Visible Silence" Gets More Headroom As Deluxe Edition

March 31, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

In Visible Silence

"Relax. You're quite safe here. Am I dreaming? No..." Indeed, you're not dreaming: In Visible Silence, the second LP by The Art of Noise, is being reissued and expanded this spring. This album found the original Art of Noise collective fragmented. Years after collaborating on megahits for ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Yes (as well as their own landmark efforts, the 1983 EP Into Battle with The Art of Noise and Who's Afraid of The Art of Noise? in 1984), there was an acrimonious split,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Everything Else Tags: Max Headroom, The Art of Noise

Release Round-Up: Week of March 31

March 31, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring some of the most hotly-anticipated sets of the year! Fleetwood Mac, Tango in the Night [Various Editions] (Warner Bros./Rhino) 3CD/1DVD/1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Fleetwood Mac's 1987 album featuring "Little Lies" and "Everywhere" returns in a variety of formats including a 3-CD/1 DVD/1 LP version (with the original

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Big Country, Bob Dylan, Derrick Anderson, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash, Leonard Bernstein, Neil Diamond, The Bangles, The Bee Gees, The Doors, Various Artists, Vera Lynn

Still Happy Together: The Turtles Move To Edsel For Standalone Album Reissues, Special Record Store Day Box

March 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Turtles Happy Together

The Turtles once staged a fictional Battle of the Bands on a remarkable 1968 LP, but were a real such battle to occur, the group founded by Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, Al Nichol, Jim Tucker, Chuck Portz and Don Murray would surely come out on top.  For more than 50 years, The Turtles have provided an unparalleled pop soundtrack via such infectious hits as "Happy Together," "You Baby," "She'd Rather Be with Me," "Let Me Be," "It Ain't Me Babe" and "Elenore."  But those classics are only part of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Flo and Eddie, The Turtles

Ooh Baby: Ace Collects Third Volume of Rare "Manhattan Soul"

March 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Over the first two volumes of Manhattan Soul, Ace Records' Kent imprint has dug up some of the finest - and indeed, rarest - soul tracks to come out of the Big Apple in the 1960s.  For the third installment of the series, the label has again tapped the vaults of Florence Greenberg's Scepter and Wand Records, plus rival label Musicor, for a definitive chronicle of some of the most urbane R&B of the decade.  Though these outfits were based in New York, productions sometimes came from other

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Brenton Wood, Melba Moore, The Esquires, The Shirelles, Tommy Hunt, Various Artists

Chuck

March 29, 2017 By

Chuck Berry Chuck

Before shuffling off this mortal coil earlier this year at the age of 90, the rock-and-roll pioneer Chuck Berry left behind his first new album in almost 40 years, featuring almost all new material written by the legend.  Chuck was recorded around his home base of St. Louis, and features the local group that has backed him on 200+-dates over the past two decades.  The group includes his children Charles Berry Jr. (guitar) and Ingrid Berry (harmonica), plus Jimmy Marsala (Berry's bassist of forty

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

Eidolon: The Allan Holdsworth Collection

March 29, 2017 By

Allan Holdsworth Eidolon

Eidolon distills Manifesto's 12-CD box The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever to 28 key tracks from Allan Holdsworth's solo era, with an unreleased Jack Bruce vocal version of "Road Games" plus "Eidolon," "City Nights," "Sphere of Innocence," "Funnels," "Mental Fatigue," "Tokyo Dream," "Against the Clock" and more favorite selections from his albums, all hand-picked by Allan himself!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock

The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever

March 29, 2017 By

Allan Holdsworth The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever

Manifesto has a 12-CD box set celebrating the influential if underrated guitar hero (Soft Machine, Gong).  Holdsworth has inspired a generation of players of rock, jazz, prog, and even metal; the box has all of his solo albums (including a live set) from 1982-2003 plus a 40-page booklet putting his career in perspective.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock

Americana

March 29, 2017 By

Ray Davies Americana

Legendary Kinks frontman-songwriter Ray Davies returns with his first solo album in a decade, named after his acclaimed 2013.  Davies wrote and arranged Americana, based on themes explored in his memoir, and was joined by co-producers Guy Massey and John Jackson, and The Jayhawks as his backing band.  In addition to new Davies songs, the album also features brief spoken-word passages from the book, to create a musical autobiography of Davies' time in America.  Available on CD, LP, and DD.

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

Only The Beginning: Robert Lamm's "Time Chill: A Retrospective" Coming From Omnivore

March 29, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Robert Lamm Time Chill

If you know "Saturday in the Park," "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is," "Beginnings," and "Get Away" - and who doesn't? - you know the work of Robert Lamm.  Yet what you might not know is that the Brooklyn-born founding member of Chicago and recent inductee of both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters' Hall of Fames has also had a flourishing solo career in which he's been able to explore new sonic avenues free from the shadow of his famous, and still busy, band.  On June 2, Omnivore

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Chicago, Robert Lamm

More Tomorrow: Esoteric Reissues Two From Unicorn, David Gilmour-Produced Band

March 29, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Unicorn Too Many Crooks

What would it have sounded like if Pink Floyd's David Gilmour had produced the Eagles?  One possible answer comes via his work with the British band Unicorn.  Despite the patronage of the psychedelic rocker, Unicorn took many of its cues from the American West Coast.  Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint is remastering and expanding two albums from Unicorn, 1976's Too Many Crooks, and 1977's One More Tomorrow.  Both titles are due this Friday, March 31, in the United Kingdom, and one week

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Unicorn

Years

March 28, 2017 By

Marc Jonson Years

Real Gone is reissuing the debut album from singer-songwriter Marc Jonson.  Years, released on Vanguard in 1972, has never been reissued on CD and features a light psyche/folk baroque sound.  As a songwriter, Jonson has seen his songs covered by such artists as Robert Gordon, The Roches, Shawn Colvin, Steve Forbert, Suzanne Vega and The Smithereens.  He has performed on several Disney albums and released two more solo albums and, in 2015, a collections of songs written over the years with David

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Formats: CD Genre: Folk

Honeybeat: Groovy '60s Girl-Pop

March 28, 2017 By

Honeybeat LP

Honeybeat: Groovy 60s Girl Pop, curated by Sheila Burgel from the Sony archives and released on Real Gone Music, features 19 songs from nine different labels, nearly a third of which have never been released on CD.  While some tracks come from known artists such as Little Eva, Skeeter Davis and even Nichelle Nichols (who had a brief music career during her time on Star Trek), most are definitely of the "hidden treasure" variety.  Burgel's notes feature interviews with many of the artists and the

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

The Epic Archive (1975-1979)

March 28, 2017 By

Cheap Trick Epic Archive

Cheap Trick's The Epic Archive (1975-1979) brings together 18 odds and ends from the beginning of the band's career.  The first volume of The Epic Archive brings together demos, alternate versions of songs, outtakes and live tracks, including three from a later concert at Budokan.  Many of the tracks have been previously released on reissues over the years, but this is the first time they have been brought together.  This title was previously available as a digital download, but this new

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

It's All Over Now [CD]

March 28, 2017 By

Its All Over Now

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. More than 40 years after it was recorded, legendary pub rock outfit Brinsley Schwarz's final studio album It's All Over Now is finally hitting record stores!  Recorded in 1974, the album sat unreleased as the band's members went their separate ways.  But now, U.K. label Mega Dodo, which released a live collection from the band in 2015, will release an official version of It's All Over Now with ten

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

California: Deluxe Edition

March 28, 2017 By

California Deluxe

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Blink-182's 2016 album California gets a quick reissue - but it amounts to a bonus of a complete new album!  California will be expanded with a 12-track bonus disc, including the new single "Parking Lot," a Japanese bonus track ("Hey I'm Sorry") and an acoustic rendition of "Bored to Death."  It's available on CD and vinyl, and color LP variants are available through the band's official store.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Gotta Be Cruel to Be Kind: Brinsley Schwarz's Final Album Released This Spring

March 28, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Its All Over Now

More than 40 years after it was recorded, legendary pub rock outfit Brinsley Schwarz's final studio album It's All Over Now is finally hitting record stores in the spring. The venerable London quintet, comprised of Nick Lowe (vocals/bass), Ian Gomm (vocals/guitar), Brinsley Schwarz (guitar), Bob Andrews (keyboards) and Billy Rankin (drums), had endured their share of trials and tribulations throughout the 1970s. A disastrous pre-release publicity campaign in America, ending with a disastrous

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Brinsley Schwarz, Nick Lowe

Got Love If You Want It: More Record Store Day 2017 Essentials

March 28, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

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Record Store Day's 10th anniversary couldn't be anything less than big. And with articles devoted to April 22's RSD releases from David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Omnivore Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Prince, Warner Music Group and Real Gone Music, you might wonder what there's left to say before the big day. But you'd be wrong! We've scoured the list to find another 23 must-have titles hitting the vinyl racks at fine independent music stores next month. Which of these favorites are on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bill Evans, Def Leppard, Dolly Parton, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Frank Zappa, George Carlin, Gilbert O'Sullivan, John Williams, Randy Newman, Record Store Day, Rush, Sting, The Art of Noise, The Kinks, The Zombies, U2, Vinyl, Wes Montgomery

Groovin': Playback Records Reissues Lost Jazz-Soul Classic From Sue Barker

March 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Sue Barker

After an auspicious initial slate of releases including On Broadway: The Songs of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, The Complete Steve and The Board, and I Want, Need, Love You! - Garage Beat Nuggets from the Festival Vaults, Australia's Playback Records has returned with another pair of essential releases.  Both of these feature artists from Down Under, but are universal in their appeal.  Today we spotlight the lone LP release from Sue Barker.  (And don't miss our coverage of those initial releases

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Sue Barker

Creation Theory

March 27, 2017 By

Creation Creation Theory

This 4-CD/1-DVD collection from 1960s British rockers The Creation includes, on four CDs, include all eight single sides by pre-Creation band The Mark Four (and three live reunion recordings from 1985), all of the core recordings produced by Shel Talmy, in both mono and Talmy's new stereo mixes, the  band's 1987 album and a subsequent reunion album for Creation Records (the label founded by Alan McGee and named after the band), plus Phillips' solo recordings from 1990 and 2011. The DVD features

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

Review: Pink Floyd, "1970 DEVI/ATION"

March 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Pink Floyd DEVIATION

For some fans, Pink Floyd begins with Dark Side of the Moon, the band's 1973 opus.  But in reality, that classic was the culmination of roughly eight years of musical experimentation.  Last year's massive box set The Early Years traced the evolution of the Floyd up through DSOTM through CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, vinyl singles, and printed memorabilia reproductions.  Now, Pink Floyd Records and Sony have released six of that giant collection's seven components into individual book-style releases (one

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

Helium Discography Rising with New Vinyl Reissues

March 24, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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More than two decades after '90s noise-pop outfit Helium disbanded, Matador Records is celebrating their influence with a pair of vinyl reissues and a new rarities compilation due this spring. Formed in Boston, Helium underwent a variety of lineup shifts before signing to Matador, where the group was comprised of vocalist/guitarist Mary Timony, a singer in the fantastic tradition of Deborah Harry and Kim Gordon; bassist Ash Bowie, and former Dumptruck drummer Shawn King Devlin. Catchy singles

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Helium, Vinyl

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