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Joni Mitchell Archives - Volume 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)

August 22, 2023 By

Joni Archives 3

The third volume of Joni Mitchell's remarkable Archives series continues with an exploration of the period that yielded such groundbreaking albums as For the Roses (1972), Court and Spark (1974), the live Miles of Aisles (1974), and The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975).  The new 5CD, 96-track box - also available digitally or in 4LP "highlights" form - chronicles the era via previously unreleased demos, jams, outtakes, and live performances including two full concerts. The CD box set Includes a

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop

Hunter of the Heart: Dio's Last Four Albums Reissued in Box Set

August 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Dio Studio Albums box

For heavy metal fans, the legacy of singer Ronnie James Dio long outlasts his presence on this mortal plane. Next month, a pair of releases will celebrate his final works as the frontman of the band that bore his last name. Niji Entertainment and BMG will release The Studio Albums 1996-2004 on September 22, featuring the final recordings Dio made before the singer's passing in 2010. It'll be available on CD as well as a limited edition vinyl set featuring color variations for each album:

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Dio, Ronnie James Dio

Feel Every Beat: Electronic Add Rarities to 'Get the Message' Collection

August 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Get The Message The Best Of Electronic

Rhino will next month urge fans to "get the message" by reissuing and expanding their collection devoted to British dance-pop supergroup Electronic. Get the Message: The Best of Electronic, originally released in 2006, will be revisited as a new double-vinyl pressing or a 2CD edition pairing the original 15-track compilation alongside another 15 rare remixes and B-sides. The acclaimed sound of the group was almost tailor-made to surprise fans who came across early U.K. hits like "Getting Away

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Rock Tags: Electronic, Johnny Marr, New Order, Pet Shop Boys

Suffer Never: Finn Brothers' Debut Album Set for Expanded Vinyl Package (UPDATED 8/21/2023)

August 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Finn

UPDATE (8/21/2022): More than a year after its release, fans' patience has paid off with a CD version of this title available through Needle Mythology. Orders (including vinyl and t-shirt merch bundles) will be shipped with a free enamel badge of the album's cover art and are expected to ship around October 20. ORIGINAL POST (6/1/2022): Two of the best-loved songwriters of the Antipodes are celebrating their brotherly partnership in a new deluxe vinyl package. Finn, the first album credited

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Crowded House, Neil Finn, The Finn Brothers, Tim Finn

Welcome to Paradise: Green Day's 'Dookie' Set for 30th Anniversary Box

August 18, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Dookie box

Those with warm, unsoiled memories of the '90s pop-punk explosion won't have any reason to dump on a newly-announced box set edition of Green Day's breakthrough album Dookie, released ahead of the album's 30th anniversary next year. The 4CD or 6LP edition, coming out September 29, features the original album alongside a collection of unreleased demos and rare outtakes, plus two live sets: the trio's infamous, mud-soaked performance at Woodstock '94 (released on vinyl for the album's 25th

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

The Mother They Share: CHVRCHES Revisit Debut for 10th Anniversary

August 17, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

CHVRCHES 10

CHVRCHES have really had some moments in the last few years. The Scottish electronic trio has toured relentlessly, working up enough presence to secure a new deal away from longtime indie home Glassnote, signing to Island Records in 2022. And the band are celebrating with a well-earned rest: frontwoman Lauren Mayberry is releasing her first solo music and supporting it with a tour this fall. But CHVRCHES proper is all about celebration this season, specifically the 10th anniversary of their

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Pop Tags: CHVRCHES

Wake Up: XTC to Release Remixed 'The Big Express'

August 17, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

XTC Big Express Surround

Break out your speakers and climb aboard: another remix of an XTC album by Steven Wilson is coming to CD and Blu-ray this fall. Following expanded remixes of Drums and Wires, Black Sea, Skylarking, Oranges & Lemons and Nonsuch as well as the Dukes of Stratosphear collection Psurroundabout Ride, Wilson has worked his stereo and surround magic on one of the two missing releases in that 1980-1992 run: The Big Express. The CD/Blu-ray set, available September 22, features the new mixes of the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD Genre: Rock Tags: XTC

Not Like We Love Our Freedom: Joni Mitchell's Third "Archives" Revisits 1972-1975 Period

August 17, 2023 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Joni Archives 3

"The sound of this thing was like, 'We're breaking some new ground here.'" Earlier this year, musician-arranger-bandleader Tom Scott of the L.A. Express reminisced to the U.K.'s MOJO magazine about working with Joni Mitchell on her 1972 album For the Roses. Indeed, Scott realized early on that the merging of folk and jazz sensibilities was about to take the singer-songwriter's music to the next level. Mitchell's creatively groundbreaking 1972-1975 albums - For the Roses, Court and Spark (1974),

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: David Crosby, Graham Nash, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young

A1 on the Jukebox: 7a Reissues Dave Edmunds and Rockpile's "Tracks on Wax 4" and "Repeat When Necessary"

August 16, 2023 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Dave Edmunds Repeat When Necessary

Throughout a career spanning six decades, Dave Edmunds never strayed far from the primal power of genuine rock-and-roll.  After stints in various bands - most notably, Love Sculpture - the Welsh singer-guitarist struck out on his own and scored a U.K. Christmas chart-topper in 1970 with a cover of Dave Bartholomew's "I Hear You Knocking."   In January 1972, he released his first solo album: Rockpile.  Its title would figure prominently in Edmunds' future as he co-founded a band of that name with

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Rockpile

Cherry Red's El Label Celebrates Burt Bacharach, Leonard Bernstein on New Box Sets

August 15, 2023 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Burt Bacharach Dream Big

In recent months, Cherry Red's El imprint has turned its attention to a pair of legendary American composers.  Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) and Burt Bacharach (1928-2023) were born just a decade apart, though Bacharach lived more than three decades longer than Bernstein.  Neither man was born in New York City, but both created much of their remarkable work there.  Both were proud Jewish Americans, and both wrote for the musical theatre.  An American in New York: Leonard Bernstein - The City

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim

Review: Elvis Presley, "Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite: 50th Anniversary Edition"

August 14, 2023 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Elvis Aloha from Hawaii 2023

When Elvis Presley said Aloha from Hawaii 50 years ago, the whole world was watching - or close to it.  The King, fashionably late, stepped onstage at Honolulu's International Center (capacity at the time: roughly 6,000) at 1:00 a.m. on January 14, 1973 for a scheduled 12:30 a.m. concert.  Satellites were beaming the program to a reported audience of over one billion.  Another fanciful claim by Colonel Parker?  Perhaps.  But Aloha was a technological achievement.  It was the most expensive

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Elvis Presley

Christmas Time Is Here

August 13, 2023 By

Johnny Mathis Christmas Time Is Here

Johnny Mathis is back with his first album since 2017 and his first yuletide set in a decade.  Christmas Time Is Here boasts ten newly-recorded tracks including those which premiered last year on the digital-only EP A Merry Little Christmas.  It's Mathis' seventh full Christmas LP (not counting 1999's Listen! It's Christmas for Hallmark stores, on which he contributed six new recordings). Produced by longtime Mathis collaborators Jay Landers (Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler) and Fred Mollin

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

Merry Christmas, Baby: Johnny Mathis Celebrates the Holiday Season with New Studio Album "Christmas Time Is Here"

August 11, 2023 By The Second Disc 10 Comments

Johnny Mathis Christmas Time Is Here

Johnny Mathis is known the world over as The Voice of Romance, but the legendary vocalist deserves another title, as well: The Voice of Christmas.  Mathis' very first holiday album, 1958's Merry Christmas, sold over five million copies and remains one of the biggest-selling Christmas albums of all time.  Now, Mathis is back with his first album since 2017 and his first yuletide set in a decade. Christmas Time Is Here arrives on October 13 in CD and digital formats from Legacy Recordings and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Johnny Mathis, Kristin Chenoweth

Cover Me Up: Jason Isbell's 'Southeastern' Set for Expansion

August 10, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Jason Isbell Southeastern 10

Already enjoying a burgeoning solo career after his time with the alt-country group Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell established a presence as one of the genre's most intriguing performers with his fourth album Southeastern, released in 2013. Ten years later, he's revisiting the record in a deluxe edition. The remastered and expanded Southeastern will combine the original album with two alternate listens: a disc featuring demo versions of every track on the album and a set

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Folk, Rock Tags: Jason Isbell

I Ain't Gonna Worry: Motown Preps Digital Deluxe for 50th Anniversary of Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On'

August 10, 2023 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Let's Get It On 50

No need to hold back for so long: Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On will be celebrated this month with a digital deluxe edition packed with unreleased tracks. Following the stirring social consciousness of his last album, 1971's What's Going On, Gaye used the musical canvas to dive deep into matters of the bedroom. Romance, carnal desire and the intersections between the two were explored in sessions split between Motown's Detroit studio - including contributions and their newly constructed

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Marvin Gaye

In Memoriam: Robbie Robertson (1943-2023)

August 10, 2023 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Robbie Robertson Testimony

Storyteller, songwriter, guitarist, musicologist, singer: throughout a career spanning the 1950s through the present day, Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson wore many hats.  The Toronto-born musician joined his first band in 1956 and attracted the attention of Ronnie "The Hawk" Hawkins in 1959.  Hawkins liked what he heard, and recorded two of the teenaged Robertson's songs in 1959.  Before long, he was playing in Hawkins' band alongside fellow Canadians Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson,

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Robbie Robertson, The Band

Soundtrack Watch: 'The Lost World' and 'Body Snatchers,' Expanded, a Double Dose of Horner and More

August 9, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

The Lost World LLL

The last few weekends have seen moviegoers pouring back into theaters thanks to the head-to-head blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer. Their dual openings made for one of the highest-grossing non-holiday weekends ever, and the talents of Greta Gerwig (co-writer/director of the zingy comedy based on the popular doll) and Christopher Nolan (writer/director of the epic biopic about the man who spearheaded America's creation of the atomic bomb) have already netted a cumulative $1 billion at the box

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Carter Burwell, Charles Bernstein, Denny Zeitlin, James Horner, John Williams

I'm Yours: Jason Mraz Revisits 'We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.' for New Deluxe Reissue

August 9, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Mraz WSWDWST Deluxe

Jason Mraz's debut album Waiting for My Rocket to Come (2002), released amid a new wave of witty but sensitive acoustic rockers, became a major hit thanks to the irresistible single "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)." But the lead single to follow-up Mr. A-Z (2005), the self-effacing "Wordplay," pretty accurately predicted a sophomore slump. How would he bounce back? The answer, it turns out, was right in front of him. How that turnaround played out is the subject of a new deluxe reissue coming

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Jason Mraz

Right Now: Van Halen's Second Phase Gets Remastered for New Box Set

August 9, 2023 By Mike Duquette 11 Comments

Van Halen Collection II

Van Halen fans were on pins and needles in the spring of 1986, when the California rockers replaced iconoclastic vocalist David Lee Roth with former Montrose frontman/rhythm guitarist Sammy Hagar. This unexpected partnership will be examined in full on a box set offering the first ever remastered editions of the group's Hagar-led albums on vinyl and CD - plus some bonus material, to boot. The Collection II, released October 6, is a sequel to Warner/Rhino's 2015 box containing new remasters of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Sammy Hagar, Van Halen

Winter Wonderland: Craft Reissues "A Dave Brubeck Christmas"

August 8, 2023 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Dave Brubeck Christmas

It's that time of year again, when news turns to all things Christmas!  Craft Recordings has recently announced a new reissue of a beloved yuletide album.  1996's A Dave Brubeck Christmas was the great pianist-composer's only full-length holiday offering; on September 22, it will return to print as a 2-LP set at 45 RPM pressed on 180-gram vinyl, with lacquers cut by Ryan Smith. Brubeck (1920-2012) joined the Telarc label in 1993 and recorded prolifically for the label through 2006 in various

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Jazz Tags: Dave Brubeck

Baby Let's Swing: Rhino Celebrates 45 Years with Limited Edition Reissues from Doors, Aretha, Otis, Todd, Chicago, Ramones, More

August 7, 2023 By The Second Disc 12 Comments

Doors Golden Album

Since its founding 45 years ago by Richard Foos and Harold Bronson, Rhino Records has established itself as the gold standard in catalogue music.  Though much has changed over the decades, the label still maintains a prodigious schedule of releases which has lately encompassed such top-tier titles as Joni Mitchell's Archives series, the Quadio line of reissues, deluxe editions from Little Feat, and a host of Record Store Day releases.  Now, to celebrate its anniversary, Rhino has announced the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Aretha Franklin, Chicago, Foreigner, Love, Otis Redding, Ramones, Starship, The B-52's, The Doobie Brothers, The Doors, Todd Rundgren, Zapp

In the Meantime

August 5, 2023 By

Christine McVie In the Meantime

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Christine McVie's 2004 LP In the Meantime, recorded primarily with her nephew Dan Perfect, George Hawkins, and Steve Ferrone, proved that she still hadn't lost a step - once the secret weapon of Fleetwood Mac, now an assured soloist in her own right.  This new edition adds one bonus track, the previously unreleased "Little Darlin'," on CD and LP.  The vinyl edition is pressed on 2 LPs with a songbird

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Christine McVie

August 5, 2023 By

Christine McVie Christine McVie

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The late, great Christine McVie's 1984 solo album returns on CD and LP from Rhino. Produced by Russ Titelman, McVie led a band comprising guitarist Todd Sharp, bassist George Hawkins, and Average White Band drummer Steve Ferrone; she also welcomed guests including Steve Winwood (who co-wrote "Ask Anybody" and duetted on "One in a Million"), Eric Clapton, and bandmates Buckingham and Fleetwood. Proving

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

Days Are Gone: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

August 5, 2023 By

HAIM Days Are Gone 10

2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.K. Picture Disc: HAIM Store A decade after sister pop/rock trio HAIM became darlings of the music world with a lauded debut album - and not long after they opened a string of high-profile dates for friend Taylor Swift - they're revisiting the record with a newly expanded edition.  Days Are Gone - the sleek first volume from the group, is getting the 10th anniversary treatment with a bonus disc of B-sides and remixes from the

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Broadsword and The Beast: 40th Anniversary Edition

August 5, 2023 By

Jethro Tull Broadsword Monster Edition

5CD/3DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 40th anniversary "Monster Edition"of the Jethro Tull classic will feature Steven Wilson's new mixes of the original album, a slew of rare and previously unreleased recordings, demos, early mixes, and a 1982 live set in Germany - all available in stereo across five CDs and in hi-resolution stereo and surround mixes on three DVDs. (A vinyl edition will include the remixed album, the

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

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