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Meet Me in My Dream: Marc Almond's 'Tenement Symphony' Gets Box Set Edition

August 25, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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Fans of Marc Almond's early '90s solo album Tenement Symphony are in for a real treat this fall, with a new box set coming from the Cherry Red imprint Strike Force Entertainment that will cover the album in exhaustive detail. This 6CD/DVD set includes the original album, B-sides, a trove of released and unheard remixes, demos, live versions and a region-free DVD of music videos and BBC promotional appearances. The set also comes with a 32-page booklet featuring lyrics, listening notes and a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Marc Almond, Soft Cell

This Is It: Sepia Salutes Late, Great Rose Marie on "Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Mercury Recordings and More"

August 24, 2023 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Rose Marie Sings The Complete Mercury Recordings and More

The year was 1929.  At the age of six, Rose Marie Mazzetta headlined a Warner Bros. Vitaphone short film entitled Baby Rose Marie: The Child Wonder.  The star was already a showbiz veteran, having begun performing at the age of three; at five, she was offered a seven-year contract by the NBC radio network.  Though Rose Marie would soon drop the "Baby," she would remain a wonder as, simply, "Rose Marie" for the entirety of her extraordinary career which ultimately spanned ten decades until her

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Rose Marie

'Twas Like Thunder: Prince and The New Power Generation's 'Diamonds and Pearls' Set for Newest Reissue

August 24, 2023 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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"This is it / time 4 U 2 go 2 the wire..." After a lengthy gap between catalog projects, the Prince Estate returns with a vengeance this fall, offering a deluxe box set edition of Diamonds and Pearls - the late icon's first work with a new backing band, The New Power Generation. The expanded Diamonds and Pearls, available October 27, comes two years past the 30th anniversary of the album and features a wide assortment of the bonus audio content that's accompanied expansions of 1999, Purple

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Do the Stanley: Cherry Red, Esoteric Launch Stackridge Reissue Series

August 23, 2023 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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Stackridge may be best-remembered today for the band's third album, 1974's The Man in the Bowler Hat.  Produced by Sir George Martin, it remains their highest-charting LP.  But Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings is aiming to bring all of the Stackridge discography to light with a new reissue campaign.  Both 1971's self-titled debut and 1972's Friendliness are available now, with the band's next three albums all scheduled for reissue later this month and in September. Wrapped in a Hipgnosis

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Stackridge

Learn to Work the Saxophone: Steely Dan's "Aja" Returns to Vinyl, SACD in September

August 22, 2023 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Steely Dan Aja

UMe's Steely Dan reissue campaign - which has so far yielded remastered standard and audiophile vinyl and hybrid stereo SACD reissues of the band's first three albums Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, and Pretzel Logic - has announced an unexpected detour.  On September 29, the series will jump ahead to the sixth Dan album and arguably Donald Fagen and Walter Becker's crowning achievement: 1977's Aja. (No fear: Katy Lied and The Royal Scam will show up later.) Aja sounded - and sounds

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Categories: News Formats: SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop Tags: Steely Dan

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

August 22, 2023 By

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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

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

August 18, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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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

Send Out the Clowns: Real Gone, Second Disc Revisit "Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease" In Time for Halloween

August 18, 2023 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease

Tired of "Monster Mash"? Through with calling "Ghostbusters"? If your Halloween playlist is begging for something different, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records have you covered! On October 6, you can look no further than the frightfully fun Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease. Don't believe us? Take The Bride of Frankenstein's word for it - she's on the cover! One of the most unusual records of all time, this "Symphony for Tape Delay, IBM Instruction Manual, & Ohm

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Everything Else Tags: Rod McKuen

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

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"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

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

August 15, 2023 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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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

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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

Release Round-Up: Week of August 11

August 11, 2023 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Elvis Presley, Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite: 50th Anniversary Edition (RCA/Legacy) 3CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elvis Presley's seminal 1973 returns for its 50th anniversary in a new box set.  This edition takes its cues from the audio contents of last year's 3-CD release from the mail-order Follow That Dream label

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: David Bowie, Elvis Presley, KT Tunstall, Neil Young, Ray Davies, Rose Marie, Suzi Quatro, The Connells, The Donnas

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

August 10, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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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

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

August 9, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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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

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

Produced by Tony Visconti

August 5, 2023 By

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4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP Signed: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In the course of a career spanning seven decades, Tony Visconti has produced seminal albums in the classic rock genre including high profile collaborations with David Bowie, T. Rex, Gentle Giant, Strawbs, and Badfinger.  But Visconti's C.V. runs much deeper, from folk (Ralph McTell, Tom Paxton) to musical theatre (Elaine Paige) and

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Rock

FYFTY

August 5, 2023 By

Lynyrd Skynrd Fyfty

Official Store / uDiscoverMusic.com / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD The most comprehensive Lynyrd Skynyrd overview since 1991's 3-CD The Definitive Lynyrd Skynyrd Collection, the new 4-CD box set FYFTY is housed in 12x12 vinyl-style packaging.  Its gatefold jacket houses a 40-page booklet with photos, opening notes by filmmaker-journalist Cameron Crowe, and track-by-track liner notes from music historian Gary Graff.  The box's track listing draws on 14 studio albums plus

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

Cherry Red Round-Up: SoulMusic Celebrates Randy Crawford, Grapefruit Collects The Complete First Class

August 4, 2023 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Randy Crawford You Might Need Somebody

In today's Cherry Red Round-Up: titles from the SoulMusic, Grapefruit, and Cherry Pop labels! Throughout a recording career spanning, roughly, 1972-2008, Randy Crawford refused to be pigeonholed.  Gifted with a versatile, expressive voice, Randy straddled the worlds of jazz and soul while dipping her toes into funk, pop, dance, and rock; her collaborators include George Benson, Al Jarreau, Steve Hackett, Rick Springfield, David Sanborn, and Joe Sample and The Crusaders.  SoulMusic Records

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Elaine Paige, John Carter, Lesley Duncan, Randy Crawford

Release Round-Up: Week of August 4

August 4, 2023 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Spinners, The Complete Atlantic Singles: The Thom Bell Productions 1972-1979 (Real Gone/Second Disc)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) This definitive 2-CD anthology from upcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Spinners presents every one of the quintet's beloved A- and B-sides helmed by the late, great Thom Bell on Atlantic Records, with each and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: ABC, Bob Marley, Grateful Dead, Luna, Paul Franklin, Rick Springfield, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Spinners, Vince Gill

Review: WHAM!, "The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven" (7" Vinyl Box Set)

August 3, 2023 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

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WHAM! The dance-pop duo's name immediately called to mind the fantastical, onomatopoeic pop art exclamations that would appear on the '60s Batman television show. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley had everything going for them: good looks, great voices, and a knack for pure pop songcraft. In a mere handful of years, WHAM! launched nearly a dozen singles into the Top 10 of the U.K. singles chart. - a lucky seven entries. Their first album was entitled Fantastic; it was.  The second was Make It

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Andrew Ridgeley, George Michael, Wham!

OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc, Real Gone Celebrate Spinners, Thom Bell's "Complete Atlantic Singles 1972-1979"

August 3, 2023 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

Spinners Complete Atlantic Singles

Could it be you're falling in love? Tomorrow, just three months before their long-awaited induction into the 2023 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the world-renowned Spinners will be celebrated by Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records with The Complete Atlantic Singles: The Thom Bell Productions 1972-1979. This definitive 2-CD anthology presents every one of the quintet's beloved A- and B-sides helmed by Thom Bell on Atlantic Records during that halcyon period-with each and every

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: The Spinners, Thom Bell

Down South Jukin': Lynyrd Skynyrd Celebrates "Fyfty" Years on New Box Set

August 2, 2023 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

Lynyrd Skynrd Fyfty

If you looked up "southern rock" in the music dictionary, there's a good chance you might find a photo of Lynyrd Skynyrd next to the definition.  The Jacksonville, Florida band first came together as My Backyard in 1964; five years later, lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarists Gary Rossington and Allen Collins, bassist Larry Junstrom, and drummer Bob Burns took on the unusual, now-familiar moniker.  Skynyrd didn't release their first album until 1973 by which time bassist Leon Wilkeson had come

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Lynyrd Skynyrd

Do It Right: Edsel Reissues, Expands Kiki Dee's "I've Got the Music in Me"

August 1, 2023 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Kiki Dee I've Got the Music in Me Deluxe

Edsel has long been championing the recordings of Kiki Dee, including two definitive box sets chronicling The Fontana and Motown Years and The Rocket Years.  It's the latter chapter to which the label has recently returned on a reissue of the British singer's second album, I've Got the Music in Me.  Originally released on Elton John's Rocket Records in 1974, the LP yielded a top twenty pop hit on both sides of the Atlantic.  What sets this 2-CD expanded edition apart is both the content - it

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Elton John, Kiki Dee

Any Major Dude Will Tell You: Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic" Set for Reissue

July 26, 2023 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Steely Dan Pretzel Logic

The Steely Dan reissue campaign rolls on with the July 28 reissue of the band's third album, 1974's Pretzel Logic.  The release follows the recent reissues of both Can't Buy a Thrill and Countdown to Ecstasy; like those titles, it will be remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog masters and reissued on standard 180-gram black vinyl, Ultra High-Quality (UHQR) premium vinyl cut at 45 RPM, and hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players).  Donald Fagen has overseen the audio for

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop Tags: Steely Dan

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