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Harvest: 50th Anniversary Edition

October 20, 2022 By

Neil Young Harvest 50 Cover

3CD/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP/7-inch single/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Harvest, Neil Young's most commercially successful album to date, is turning 50 - and the singer-songwriter is celebrating with new 3CD/2DVD and 2LP/7-inch/2DVD box sets.  The boxes feature the original album on CD 1, with the second disc dedicated to a previously unreleased February 23, 1971 solo performance from the BBC's In Concert series featuring album cuts such as

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

Live at the Whisky 1977

October 20, 2022 By

Cheap Trick Live at the Whisky

This 4CD set compiles a quartet of Cheap Trick's complete, uncut shows recorded at the Whisky-a-Go-Go in Los Angeles in the summer of 1977. It's limited to just 2,000 copies and chronicles when Robin Zander, guitarist/songwriter Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson and drummer Bun E. Carlos spontaneously booked some nights at the historic Sunset Strip nightclub.  KROQ-FM DJ Rodney Bingenheimer served as their master of ceremonies, and the Record Plant's Mobile One truck rolled tape on the songs,

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

Keep On Sailing: Cherry Red Collects Iain Matthews' Plainsong on New Box Set

October 20, 2022 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Plainsong Following Amelia

Cherry Red's Lemon imprint has anthologized the works of singer-songwriter Iain Matthews on previous releases including the 2019 rarities collection Orphans and Outcasts and this year's I Can't Fade Away: The Rockburgh Years 1978-1984.  Now, Lemon is turning back the clock to Matthews' time in the band Plainsong with a new 6-CD box set.  Following Amelia: The 1972 Recordings and More is, in essence, a generous 50th anniversary expanded edition of the original band's one and only album to be

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk Tags: Iain Matthews, Plainsong

Come On Over: Olivia Newton-John's "Greatest Hits" Reissued, Remastered in Various Formats

October 19, 2022 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Olivia Newton John Greatest Hits

Last month, Primary Wave delivered the second title in the label's ongoing Olivia Newton-John reissue program.  The 2-CD edition of the late superstar's debut If Not for You not only presented a remastered version of the original LP but added a plethora of singles, B-sides, international recordings, outtakes, and the best of Olivia's performances with the group Toomorrow.  This Friday, October 21, the series will continue with the first remaster of Newton-John's original 1977 Greatest

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Olivia Newton-John

It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal: Zappa's 1972 Chronicled on New CD/Blu-ray Box "Waka/Wazoo"

October 18, 2022 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Frank Zappa Waka Wazoo

On the evening of December 10, 1971, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention had just encored with a performance of The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at London's Rainbow Theatre when a so-called fan jumped onto the stage and pushed the bandleader some twelve feet into the orchestra pit.  With injuries to his face, head, ribs, arm, and leg, Zappa was lucky to survive.  He was forced into a near-yearlong period of convalescence in a wheelchair and leg brace, but he didn't stop creating or

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz Tags: Frank Zappa, George Duke

A Big Enough Umbrella: 'Ghost in the Machine' Picture Disc Details a "Lost" Police Release

October 17, 2022 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Police Ghost picture disc

For most fans of The Police, the story of their penultimate album, 1981's Ghost in the Machine, is pretty cut and dried. But a forthcoming picture disc release hints at a road not taken for the beloved LP. On November 4, UMC will reissue the record with its "original" expanded track list that was apparently shortened at the last minute. In addition to the inclusion of three non-album tracks - the haunting tracks "I Burn for You" and "Once Upon a Daydream" (released on the soundtrack to

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland, Sting, The Police

Journey Through the Past: Neil Young Expands "Harvest" For 50th Anniversary

October 17, 2022 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Neil Young Harvest 50 Cover

Neil Young's fourth studio album, 1972's Harvest, was a landmark for the artist.  His first and only No. 1 album in the U.S. and U.K. to date, it spun off his only U.S. No. 1 single to date with the ballad "Heart of Gold," and became the best-selling album in the U.S. of 1972 - only to remain the best-selling album in Young's ever-growing catalogue.  The 2015 Grammy Hall of Fame inductee has received numerous reissues including a 2002 DVD-Audio presentation and a 2009 remaster as part of Young's

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Neil Young

Hello There! Real Gone Prep Limited CD Box Set of Cheap Trick's 1977 Whisky Gigs

October 17, 2022 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Cheap Trick Live at the Whisky

As the 1970s drew to a close, the world became well aware of the live concert power of Cheap Trick. The Rockford, Illinois quartet broke through in a big way thanks to their seminal At Budokan, recorded in Japan in 1978 and belatedly released stateside a year later, yielding a Top 10 hit in "I Want You to Want Me." The audience response on the record was undeniable - and still is in many ways - but there were lucky concertgoers who already knew thanks to some seminal American club gigs. As the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Cheap Trick

Release Round-Up: Week of October 14

October 14, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Dolly A Holly Dolly Christmas Deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Frank Zappa, Zappa '75: Zagreb/Ljubljana (Zappa/UMe) (Zappa Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Zappa '75: Zagreb/Ljubljana captures The Mothers' first and only concerts in Yugoslavia.  Zappa referred to the dates as "The Mothers of Invention Yugoslavian Extravaganza," and the performances lived up to that mighty moniker.  The shows were staged in Zagreb and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Brian Eno, Dean Torrence, Dexys Midnight Runners, Dolly Parton, Duran Duran, Frank Zappa, Josh Groban, Kevin Rowland, Leonard Cohen, Linda Ronstadt, Mike Love, Reba McEntire, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Roy Orbison, Todd Rundgren

I Want It All: Queen's "The Miracle" Gets Super-Sized in Upcoming Box Set

October 13, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Queen The Miracle Cover

Queen's thirteenth studio album, The Miracle, is coming back in a big way.  On November 18, EMI (U.K.) and Hollywood Records (U.S.) will expand The Miracle into a 5CD/Blu-ray/DVD/LP box set adding alternate takes, demos, rough mixes, backing tracks, B-sides, and more.  A 2-CD "highlights" edition will also be available as well as cassette and picture disc vinyl versions of the original album only. The marathon recording period commenced in December 1987 with the specter of Freddie Mercury's

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Queen

Don't Be Afraid: Cherry Red, Esoteric Collect Keef Hartley Band's Complete Albums on "Sinnin' for You"

October 13, 2022 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Keef Hartley Band Sinnin for You

Drummer Keith "Keef" Hartley started his professional career rather auspiciously - replacing Ringo Starr in Rory Storm and The Hurricanes when Ringo was enlisted for duty with a certain fab foursome.  Hartley went on to play with The Artwoods as well as with John Mayall before forming his own group.  The Keef Hartley Band played at Woodstock and released six albums - five studio and one live - between 1969 and 1972 on Decca's "progressive" Deram imprint.  Hartley would then release one solo LP

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: Keef Hartley Band

A Beautiful Noise - The Neil Diamond Musical: Original Broadway Cast Recording

October 11, 2022 By

A Beautiful Noise OBC

Following a sold-out run at Boston's Colonial Theatre, the biographical A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical is coming to Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre.  The cast recording produced by the legendary Bob Gaudio preserves the performances of Will Swenson and Mark Jacoby as Neil in two different stages of his life, supported by a blazing cast including Robyn Hurder as Neil's second wife Marcia Murphey.  The show (featuring a book by Anthony McCarten, screenwriter of Bohemian Rhapsody and the

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings

Release Round-Up: Week of October 7

October 7, 2022 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

John Cafferty Greatest Hits

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of new releases arriving in stores today! John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band, Greatest Hits (Iconoclassic)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Iconoclassic offers the first-ever anthology from rock-and-roll revivalists John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band.  Its 16 tracks encompass all nine of the band's chart hits (including "On the Dark Side") as well as fan favorites from the Eddie and the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bing Crosby, Buck Owens, Davy Jones, Fastway, Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, Fred Astaire, Honey and The Bees, Irving Berlin, John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band, Mark Knopfler, Rosemary Clooney, The Damned

Sail On Sailor: 1972

October 4, 2022 By

Beach Boys Sail On Sailor 1972

6CD Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD Highlights (Remastered Albums plus bonus tracks): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP+7" Super Deluxe Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP+7" Super Deluxe Vinyl Edition (Limited Edition): Beach Boys Store 2LP+7" Remastered Albums Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP+7" Remastered Albums Vinyl (Limited Edition): Beach Boys Store Sail On Sailor - 1972 continues the story of The

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

Strawberries: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

October 4, 2022 By

The Damned Strawberries

Iconoclassic reissues The Damned's fifth album, 1982's Strawberries, as a 2-CD deluxe edition.  The top 20 entry on the U.K. albums chart has been expanded with 15 bonus tracks including the non-LP singles "Lovely Money," boasting a cameo from Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's Viv Stanshall, and "Fun Factory," with guest Robert Fripp. It also collects the associated B-sides and non-LP tracks from the era as well as the single edit of "Dozen Girls" and five live tracks recorded the month of Strawberries'

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Pleasure and the Pain: Iconoclassic Expands The Damned's "Strawberries" for 40th Anniversary

October 4, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

The Damned Strawberries

The cover of The Damned's 1982 studio album Strawberries featured a pig with a strawberry on its head.  Lead singer Dave Vanian once revealed that the title was inspired by fans' reaction to the band's new music: "We were playing a lot of new material and we had an audience that didn't want to hear about anything...they just wanted to hear [older singles] 'Neat Neat Neat' and 'New Rose,' nothing else.  And they wanted to just smash everything.  And they weren't interested in hearing music at

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Damned

Just For A Thrill: Peggy Lee's "Norma Deloris Egstrom" Returns to CD for 50th Anniversary

October 3, 2022 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Peggy Lee Norma Deloris Egstrom

The words I have to say may well be simple, but they're true/Until you give your love, there's nothing more that we can do... Those lyrics from Lesley Duncan's "Love Song" opened Peggy Lee's 40th original album and her final one for Capitol Records, the label with whom she had been associated since 1944.  (She left Capitol for Decca in 1952 and re-signed with the label five years later.)  With Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota, both the title (Lee's birth name) and the stark

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Peggy Lee

Summer Storms: Cherry Red, Righteous Collect "Dark Exotica" from Stan Kenton, Others

October 3, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dark Exotica

The word "exotica" typically conjures up breezy, mid-20th century imagery of tikis, palm trees, and tropical drinks.  Indeed, many musicians were all too happy to contribute to the genre named after Martin Denny's 1957 album, the title of which was coined by Liberty Records executive Si Waronker.  Denny's musical island fantasies indeed proved transporting for Americans, as did releases from the likes of Les Baxter, Esquivel, and Arthur Lyman.  Back in 2018, the Numero Group curated an

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Jazz, Latin Tags: Bill Russo, Buddy Collette, John Leslie McFarland, Stan Kenton

Release Round-Up: Week of September 30

September 30, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

George Michael Older SDE

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available in stores today! George Michael, Older: Deluxe Edition (Legacy) 5CD/3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada George Michael's third solo album - and the one he believed to be his finest - returns from Legacy Recordings in a new 5CD/3LP edition and a 2LP set.  This expansion of 1996's Older features both the remastered album and the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Alice Cooper, Brandi Carlile, Burt Bacharach, Daryl Hall and John Oates, George Michael, Glenn Gould, Herb Alpert, Johnny Burke, Richard Marx, Rory Gallagher, The Cowsills, Wilco

Divine Symmetry (An Alternative Journey Through 'Hunky Dory')

September 29, 2022 By

David Bowie Divine Symmetry

4CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 4CD/1BD slipcased box set chronicling the twelve months leading up to the December 1971 release of David Bowie's fourth studio album.  Highlighted by 48 previously unreleased tracks, the box features home demos, BBC radio sessions, live and studio recordings, and new mixes of Hunky Dory material by original co-producer Ken Scott.  Two books round out the package: a 100-page hardcover

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

Live at the Bon Soir: Greenwich Village, November 1962

September 29, 2022 By

Barbra Streisand Live at the Bon Soir

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Hybrid Stereo SACD / LP: Impex Records Barbra Streisand's 1962 live album recorded at New York's tiny Bon Soir - once intended to be her very first Columbia Records LP release - gets a long-overdue premiere marking the superstar's 60th anniversary with the label.  It arrives in multiple formats including standard CD and digital release from Columbia/Legacy; hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players) from Impex Records; and 180-gram black

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

That Holiday Feeling! Expanded Edition

September 29, 2022 By

Steve and Eydie That Holiday Feeling

Real Gone Music presents a newly-remastered and expanded edition of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme's 1964 Christmas classic That Holiday Feeling!  This new edition adds eight bonus tracks including all three of Steve and Eydie's songs from the 1969 RCA album Christmastime in Carol and Song on which they were supported by the orchestra and chorus of renowned conductor Arthur Fiedler (Steve's "Go Tell It on the Mountain," Eydie's "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," and Steve and Eydie's "Hurry Home

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

Use Your Illusion I & II: Super Deluxe Edition

September 29, 2022 By

Use Your Illusion box

7CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 12LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Use Your Illusion I (Deluxe Edition): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Use Your Illusion II (Deluxe Edition): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP colored vinyl with slipmat: Official Store UYI I 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada UYI I 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada UYI II 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada UYI

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Deuce: Deluxe Edition

September 29, 2022 By

Rory Gallagher Deuce

4CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Over the past couple of years, UMC has been busy revisiting the catalogue of late Irish guitar virtuoso Rory Gallagher.  Following last fall's box set celebrating Gallagher's eponymous 1971 debut, the label is turning its attention to his second album, 1972's Deuce, for another deluxe, expanded edition.  The

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock

Lightning Frightening: New Bowie Box Offers 'Hunky Dory'-Era Rarities

September 28, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

David Bowie Divine Symmetry

Hot on the heels of the success of the documentary Moonage Daydream (and its recently released soundtrack, currently streaming and coming soon to physical media), Parlophone has announced a major audio excavation from the David Bowie vault.  On November 25, 2022, the label will release Divine Symmetry (An Alternative Journey Through Hunky Dory), a 4CD/1BD box set chronicling the twelve months leading up to the December 1971 release of Bowie's fourth studio album.  Highlighted by 48 previously

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: David Bowie

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