The new EP Dolenz Sings R.E.M. arrives from 7a Records. Produced by Christian Nesmith (who also plays guitar, bass, keyboards, and percussion, and sings background vocals) and featuring Christopher Allis, Circe Link, and Coco Dolenz, Dolenz Sings R.E.M. reinvents the Athens, Georgia band's "Shiny Happy People," "Man in the Moon," "Radio Free Europe," and "Leaving New York" as only Micky can. The music video for "Shiny Happy People" is streaming now.
Time Fades Away 50
1973's Time Fades Away, the first live album released by Neil Young, returns in a 50th anniversary vinyl edition. Supported by The Stray Gators and joined by David Crosby and Graham Nash, Young introduced a set of previously unheard songs on the album. The B-side of the title track, "The Last Trip to Tulsa," has been added to this clear vinyl release.
Groovy Party at Jimmy's Magic Pad: Andrew Gold Extends "Greetings from Planet Love"
Greetings from Planet Love! So was titled the one and only album from The Fraternal Order of "The All." Who was The All? It turns out The All was rock-and-roll's favorite one-man band, the late Andrew Gold (1951-2011). In 1997, the singer-songwriter behind "Lonely Boy" and "Thank You for Being a Friend" - also a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger who supported such friends as Linda Ronstadt and Art Garfunkel over the years - released this pseudonymous celebration of the
Equal Strain on All Parts
Jimmy Buffett's 32nd studio album, and first to be released posthumously, features 14 original songs (including "Bubbles Up" and "My Gummie Just Kicked In") and guest appearances by Paul McCartney, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Angelique Kidjo, and Emmylou Harris. Available on CD, LP, and digitally.
Wild Thing: The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Hollywood Bowl 1967" Chronicles Never-Before-Released Gig
On August 23, 1967, Reprise Records would issue The Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut album, Are You Experienced, in North America. U.K. audiences had been hipped to the incendiary group consisting of Hendrix, drummer Mitch Mitchell, and bassist Noel Redding a couple of months earlier, when the album (with a unique track listing) arrived on the Track Records label. Five days before that auspicious U.S. record debut, on August 18, the trio took the stage of the Hollywood Bowl in front of a
Space is Deep: A Classic Hawkwind Live Album Gets a Box Set in September
Cosmic rock doesn't get much more cosmic (or ambitious!) than Hawkwind's live album Space Ritual - and this month, it'll be expanded beyond all imagination in an epic 10CD/Blu-ray box set from Cherry Red and Atomhenge, the label responsible for the group's catalogue. Space Ritual (50th Anniversary Edition) will feature the original, newly remastered 1973 double album as well as new mixes in stereo and surround by Stephen W. Tayler. Additionally, the box will feature Tayler's new mixes of the
Living in the Sunshine: Bruce Hornsby Expands 'Spirit Trail' for 25th Anniversary
Bruce Hornsby has made a career out of defying expectations. This fall, one of his most eclectic albums of a less commercial period - the late '90s - will be expanded and revisited for its 25th anniversary: 1998's Spirit Trail. The lengthy double album will feature four outtakes from a "lost" full-band follow-up to Spirit Trail that was abandoned in favor of 2002's Big Swing Face, a more electronic effort backed by his then-new band The Noisemakers. The CD version of the reissue will feature
Twisting by the Pool: Dire Straits Offer Expanded, Unreleased Material for Live Box Set
When Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits reissued their classic catalogue in a box set in 2020, it only covered studio recordings. Now, a companion box will feature their live material, including 29 unreleased tracks. Live 1978-1992 will offer expansions of two classic Dire Straits concert albums (1984's Alchemy: Dire Straits Live and 1993's On the Night, one of the last releases before their dissolution), the 1993 companion EP Encores, 1995's Live At The BBC compilation and, for the first time
The Weekend Stream: September 16, 2023
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. This week's latest brings you a classic country centennial, remixes from Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson and The Art of Noise, a rare album from a songwriter moonlighting as a singer, hard-to-find Olivia Newton John songs and so much more! Hank Williams, Hank 100: Greatest Radio Hits (BMG Rights
True Faith: New Order's Classic Compilation 'Substance 1987' Gets Expanded
Style over Substance? New Order offered both on their unforgettable 1987 compilation - and it's getting expanded as a 4CD set this fall. The newly-remastered Substance 1987 collects once more a dozen classic sides from the British electronic band, from 1981's ceremony to the then-new "True Faith" as well as exclusive updates of "Temptation" and "Confusion." The double vinyl is pressed on black or retail-exclusive red and blue discs, while the 2CD and double cassette (the latter exclusive to
Release Round-Up: Week of September 15
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! The Who, Who's Next / Life House (Polydor/UMe) 10CD/1BD: The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Album Only, Black Vinyl): The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Half-Speed
I'm a Believer: Micky Dolenz Opens Up His Archive for "I'm Told I Had a Good Time"
It's often been said that if you remember the 1960s, you weren't really there. Well, Micky Dolenz has incontrovertible proof that he was there, and as he says, I'm Told I Had a Good Time. That's the title of the remarkable new tome from Beatland Books which chronicles the singer-drummer-actor's life from 1945-1978 via previously unpublished photographs, artwork, scripts, lyrics, and assorted miscellany. I'm Told I Had a Good Time, now available for pre-order with a December 6 ship date,
Keeping the Faith: Second Billy Joel Vinyl Box Coming Soon
Call it another matter of trust: Legacy Recordings is releasing a second Billy Joel vinyl box. The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 2, releasing November 3, brings newly remastered and repressed LP versions of Joel's final six studio albums - Glass Houses (1980), The Nylon Curtain (1982), An Innocent Man (1983), The Bridge (1986), Storm Front (1989) and River of Dreams (1993) - plus the debut vinyl pressing of Joel's classical compositions set Fantasies & Delusions (2001) and the premiere audio
When They Were Young: Cherry Red Plans Definitive Bucks Fizz Collection
Pop acts of the '80s didn't get much more quintessentially British than Bucks Fizz. Assembled for a memorable winner at the Eurovision Song Contest, the vocal quartet scored 11 Top 20 hits in England throughout the decade - none of which never made a whisper near the U.S. charts. But if you're an anglophile in search of an education, Cherry Red's got you covered with a generous new 5CD collection. The Land of Make Believe: The Definitive Collection lives up to its name, gathering 39 single
They Don't Know: Massive Kirsty MacColl Box, Packed with Hits Unreleased Tracks, Due in October
For just over two decades, Kirsty MacColl was one of England's most uniquely talented female rock singer/songwriters. This fall, nearly a quarter century after her passing, a new box set will examine her career in-depth. See That Girl (1979-2000), coming October 27 from Universal Music Recordings in the U.K., is an 8CD set loaded with 161 singles, rarities, remixes, live cuts and duets - including 47 previously unreleased recordings. Produced in partnership with the singer's estate, the set
Reruns All Become Our History: Breakthrough Goo Goo Dolls Concert Gets Standalone Release
Sometimes fans are lucky enough to receive a document of a band in concert that means something important in the group's history. Rock survivors the Goo Goo Dolls are slated to bring listeners just that, nearly 30 years after that crucial show was first recorded. Live At The Academy, New York, City, 1995 is slated for release from the band through their longtime label Warner Records on October 20. It features two breakthrough sets: a memorable performance for the CMJ Music Conference,
Ageless and Evergreen: New Barbra Streisand Compilation, 'Yentl' Deluxe Reissue Due in October
On November 7, Barbra Streisand will release her long-awaited memoir. My Name Is Barbra shares its name with the superstar's fifth Columbia Records album, originally released in 1967, and promises to trace her life and career from her Brooklyn roots through her triumphs in Broadway, Hollywood, on the concert stage, and beyond. Before that, though, the EGOT winner and 46-time Grammy nominee (and eight-time winner!) is gifting fans with two new releases. On October 27, Streisand will look back on
The Weekend Stream: September 9, 2023
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. From classic Jersey pop and British dance of the '80s to a bright young drummer keeping Detroit soul alive in the present day, our latest offerings pack quite a punch. The Bongos, Numbers with Wings (40th Anniversary Edition) (RCA/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) The New Jersey pop/rock outfit led by
Seeking "Salvation": The Cranberries' 'Faithful Departed' Gets Expanded by UMe
UMe will pay tribute to The Cranberries' third album, 1996's To the Faithful Departed, with a newly remastered deluxe edition hitting record stores October 13. The album will feature a smattering of previously released bonus material beside two discs of almost entirely unreleased studio outtakes and live material. To the Faithful Departed was so named for the loss of two major forces in the band's lives. Denny Cordell, who'd signed the Irish folk-rockers to Island Records at the start of the
Goldsmith's 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Score Boldly Goes Back to Vinyl
Set turntables at 33 1/3 RPM speed! Jerry Goldsmith's score to Star Trek: The Motion Picture - restored last year for a new restoration of the film's "Director's Edition" - is coming out of warp and onto vinyl from Enjoy The Ride Records. The reissue label, specializing in unique pressings of soundtracks on LP, will issue three separate versions of the complete film score on 140-gram double vinyl. A total of 700 copies will be issued with tri-color stripe scheme (red/orange/yellow on one
Release Round-Up: Week of September 8
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Al Stewart, Songs on the Radio: The Complete U.S. Singles 1974-1981 (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) This definitive, first-ever singles collection from singer-songwriter Al Stewart brings together the A- and B-side of every single during the period in which Stewart catapulted from folk clubs to the mainstream. Stewart bridged the gap
Relight My Fire: Edsel's 'Dance Masters' Series Continues with John Luongo Box
Demon/Edsel's Dance Masters series only just released its second volume this summer - but a third one is on the way this fall, spotlighting the work of acclaimed remixer John Luongo. The Arthur Baker-presented series follows generous box sets on Shep Pettibone and Baker himself with a new overview of John "T.C." Luongo, who parlayed working in and around the Boston club scene into more than a decade of 12" remix work, first for some of the greatest R&B artists crossing over into disco,
Is Your Love in Vain? Bob Dylan Expands Budokan Live Album for New Box Set
There was something about Midwestern-born rockers on the CBS Records roster making stops at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Japan. In 1979, Columbia issued not one but two live albums from the Tokyo venue, both simply titled At Budokan. While the one by Cheap Trick essentially made them stars in their home country, a double album of rearranged hits from Bob Dylan sharply polarized fans and critics. Now, on November 17, the Dylan camp is re-examining the artist's time in Japan with a brand-new box
OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc, Real Gone Collect Al Stewart's "Complete U.S. Singles 1974-1981" on "Songs on the Radio"
The Vietnamese Lunar New Year identifies 2023 as The Year of the Cat...and the timing couldn't be better! Tomorrow's the day when Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records unveil a definitive, first-ever singles collection from legendary singer-songwriter Al Stewart. In 1976, Stewart took the beguiling "Year of the Cat" to the top ten of the Pop and AC charts, inaugurating a run of timeless hits still heard on radio today in formats from classic rock to pop and yacht rock. Now, for the very
Duty Now for the Future: Devo Announce Career-Spanning Compilation
Nobody can really prove if society is moving in reverse...except maybe Devo. The finest of their findings over a half century of musical exploration will be assembled in a new compilation from Rhino Records. 50 Years of De-Evolution (1973-2023) will arrive in stores and digitally on October 20. The 50-track set will include hits and album cuts from each of their nine albums released between 1978 and 2010, plus an assortment of rare B-sides, single-only tracks and soundtrack songs. (The 7"
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