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You Can't Kill the Boogeyman: John Carpenter's Latter-Day 'Halloween' Scores Get Expanded Box Set

August 7, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Halloween Complete Expanded Collection

"The night HE came home" is about to have a whole new meaning, thanks to a new box set from Sacred Bones Records containing expanded presentations of the scores to the late '10s/early '20s Halloween trilogy of horror films. Halloween: The Complete Expanded Collection will offer, on three CDs or six LPs, a previously-released expanded presentation of the score to the 2018 sequel/reboot, along with new expansions of the music to sequels Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022) - all

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Carpenter

Can't Afford No Shoes: Frank Zappa's "One Size Fits All" Gets Expanded for 50th

July 31, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Zappa One Size Fits All

Following last year's deluxe expansion of 1974's Apostrophe (') and the recent restoration of the same year's concert film Cheaper Than Cheep, Frank Zappa's archival team is turning the page to 1975 and expansively revisiting One Size Fits All in time for its 50th anniversary.  The guitarist-songwriter-bandleader-producer's twentieth album (and fourteenth with The Mothers of Invention), it featured the by-then-familiar lineup of keyboardist George Duke, drummer Chester Thompson, percussionist

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock Tags: Frank Zappa, George Duke

I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016)

July 10, 2025 By

David Bowie I Can't Give Everything Away

18LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada After a period of nearly four years, David Bowie's series of "Eras" box sets is returning with a new, final volume.  I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016) concludes the career-spanning chronicle of the shape-shifting superstar.  The new 13-CD or 18-LP box picks up where 2021's Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) left off, capturing the final years of an artist who never stopped innovating. The

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

Never Get Old: David Bowie's Final Albums Boxed on "I Can't Give Everything Away"

July 9, 2025 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

David Bowie I Can't Give Everything Away

After a period of nearly four years, David Bowie's series of "Eras" box sets is returning with a new, final volume.  I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016) arrives on September 12 from ISO Records and Parlophone, concluding the career-spanning chronicle of the shape-shifting superstar.  The new 13-CD or 18-LP box picks up where 2021's Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) left off, capturing the final years of an artist who never stopped innovating. The set contains new pressings of: Heathen

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

You Can't Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos

June 15, 2025 By

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You Can't Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos collects more than 160 tracks from the late, legendary songwriter, who died in 1991 at the age of 65 and was subsequently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Blues Hall of Fame. Over 120 of these demos are previously unreleased, while still others are making their CD and digital debuts.  Many of these songs are familiar, while others never received an official recording.  What they share in

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

You Can't Sit Down: Craft Offers Rare Memphis Soul in Concert on 'Stax Revue: Live in '65!'

June 12, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stax Revue 65

The Southern soul of Stax Records truly knew no boundaries. This summer, a classic instance of its staying power, recorded live in concert, will be revisited on a new 2CD/2LP set. Stax Revue: Live in '65! expands a pivotal pair of concerts undertaken at the 5-4 Ballroom in Los Angeles 60 summers ago when the Memphis label - newly bolstered by a distribution deal with Atlantic Records - took several of its marquee acts to the West Coast (many for the first time) for a spirited club set packed

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Booker T. & The MG's, Carla Thomas, David Porter, Rufus Thomas, William Bell, Wilson Pickett

All You Can Think About: They Might Be Giants Rarities Set Comes to CD

May 19, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

TMBG Spine Surfs Alone CD

A collection of harder-to-find material from stalwart alt-rock duo They Might Be Giants - released on vinyl last year - gets a wider availability on CD this month. The Spine Surfs Alone: Rarities 1998-2005 is available at general retail on May 30, having been available from the band's official store since earlier this spring. (A vinyl version was surprise released last November, during which the album was made available digitally through Bandcamp as well.) The set includes the balance of two

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Rock, Soundtracks Tags: They Might Be Giants

Why Can't We Be Friends? (50th Anniversary Collector's Edition)

May 14, 2025 By

WAR Why Can't We Be Friends

Following its release on vinyl for Record Store Day, the expanded 50th anniversary edition of WAR's seminal 1975 album Why Can't We Be Friends? (featuring the hit title track and "Low Rider") arrives on 3CD and digital formats.  This expanded edition has been remastered from the original tapes by Bernie Grundman, with the core album presented on CD 1.  The second and third discs, The Making of 'Why Can't We Be Friends?,' comprise outtakes ("Zorro," "Roam and Ramble," "Oatmeal Box"); unedited

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Smile Happy: WAR's "Why Can't We Be Friends?" Deluxe Box Comes to CD

May 12, 2025 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

WAR Why Can't We Be Friends

Following its release last week on vinyl for Record Store Day, the expanded 50th anniversary edition of WAR's seminal 1975 album Why Can't We Be Friends? is coming to CD and digital formats.  On June 6, the 3CD box will arrive in stores via Rhino and Avenue Records. WAR's seventh album, Why Can't We Be Friends? found the large musical collective - Lonnie Jordan, Howard Scott, B.B. Dickerson, Harold Brown, Papa Dee Allen, Charles Miller, and Lee Oskar - continuing on its path blending funk,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: War

Only You Can Free My Mind: Real Gone Music and Omnivore's RSD Lineups Include Better Than Ezra, Francoise Hardy, Jackie DeShannon, Doc Pomus, More

February 18, 2025 By Randy Fairman 6 Comments

Jackie DeShannon Love Forever

Continuing our look through this year's Record Store Day offerings, here's the lineups for Real Gone Music and Omnivore.  You'll find music from the 1960s and the 1990s, and each company has a collection of rare demo recordings by a famed songwriter (Jackie DeShannon and Doc Pomus).  All descriptions are taken directly from Real Gone Music and Omnivore Recordings.  Visit RecordStoreDay.com for the full list of participating retailers you can visit on Saturday, April 12, to join in the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Better Than Ezra, Dada, Deicide, Doc Pomus, Francoise Hardy, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Jackie DeShannon, Record Store Day, The Rembrandts

Premium Rush: Canadian Rock Legends Prep New Career-Spanning Box Set

January 28, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Rush 50

A new career-spanning box set will commemorate the singular discography of Canadian rock trio Rush. Rush 50, due March 21, comprises a generous 50-track overview of the group's output spanning their entire career across four CDs or seven 180-gram LPs, plus a 104-page hardcover book featuring new 50th anniversary artwork by the band's creative director Hugh Syme and liner notes by David Fricke and Philip Wilding. (A super deluxe box set will include both physical formats, the hardcover book,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Rush

Sex Pistols' American Epitaph Chronicled in New Box Set

January 15, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Sex Pistols Live in the USA

The story of the Sex Pistols' final tour - and ultimate undoing - will be told in new releases coming from UMC in March. Live in the U.S.A. 1978 will mark the first complete and official releases of three of the punk quartet's seven American concerts in January 1978. Presented for the first time in sequence are the tour's opener at the South East Music Hall in Atlanta, Georgia on January 5, a particularly raucous performance at Dallas, Texas' Longhorns Ballroom five days later, and the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Sex Pistols

Pour a Little Sugar on It: The Chewy Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum 1966-1971

December 6, 2024 By

Pour a Little Sugar on It

Perhaps the most fun release of the year - and certainly the sweetest - is this entry in Cherry Red's ongoing series of themed compilations.  Pour a Little Sugar on It: The Chewy Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum 1966-1971, on the Grapefruit imprint, brings together 91 tracks from the golden age of bubblegum music.  Naturally, there are plenty of songs with food allusions ("Yummy Yummy Yummy," "Candy Apple Cotton Candy," "Gingersnap," and, of course, "Chewy Chewy" among them)...and artists with

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Can You Dig It? Yes, I Can: Chicago's "Live at 55" Features Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, Chris Daughtry, Judith Hill, More

October 23, 2024 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Chicago Live at 55

Last November 17 and 18, Chicago celebrated the 55th anniversary of debut album Chicago Transit Authority at Atlantic City's Ovation Hall (within the massive Ocean Casino Resort) with two marathon concerts touching on every facet of the band's long career.  Now, the film of those concerts - featuring a number of special guests including Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, and Judith Hill - is coming to a variety of formats almost one year to the day, on November 22, 2024.  Mercury Studios will release

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Chicago, Chris Daughtry, Christone Kingfish Ingram, Judith Hill, Robert Randolph, Robin Thicke, Steve Vai, Voiceplay

Can't Wait Till Tomorrow: Cherry Red Expands Sheena Easton's 'Do You'

October 1, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sheena Easton Do You

With 1984's A Private Heaven, Sheena Easton successfully followed in the footsteps of Olivia Newton-John in shedding her "girl next door" persona - so much so that future U.S. Second Lady Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center "honored" Sheena's Prince-penned "Sugar Walls" with a slot on its "Filthy Fifteen" list.  No wonder Gore and co. were threatened by the success of "Sugar Walls;" A Private Heaven became the singer's most successful album to date.  How to follow it up?  Enter Nile

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Nile Rodgers, Sheena Easton

Love Will Save the Day: Whitney Houston's First South African Concert Set for Release in November

September 18, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Whitney South Africa vinyl

The power of Whitney Houston's live performance - in service of a celebration of international freedom - will be chronicled in a new album and film release from Legacy Recordings. The label, in collaboration with Houston's estate, will release The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban) on November 8, a CD and double vinyl release chronicling Whitney's first of three concerts in South Africa in the fall of 1994 - just a few short months after the first democratic election was held in the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Whitney Houston

All Their Loving: New Mono Vinyl Box Set Celebrates The Beatles' First American Albums

September 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 18 Comments

Beatles 1964 US Albums in Mono box

This year's Beatles catalogue title will showcase the albums that introduced American audiences to the sound of the Fab Four. 1964 U.S. Albums in Mono will include new vinyl remasters of six albums distributed by Capitol Records within the first year of the British band's arrival in New York City. Uniquely drawn from the first four Beatles albums in the U.K. and other single and EP material, these albums will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed in faithful reproductions of their original

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: George Harrison, George Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

American Idiot: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

September 5, 2024 By

American Idiot 20 box

4CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  2LP (red/black splatter): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada American Idiot will come back into print with a new box set spanning four CDs (or eight colored LPs) and two Blu-ray Discs. It'll feature the original album, a disc of B-sides and non-LP live tracks, 15 unreleased demos and a 2004 live set at Irving Plaza in New York City that featured the album front to back. Video extras

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

St. Jimmy, Re-Canonized: Green Day Prep 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of 'American Idiot'

August 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

American Idiot 20 box

With 20 years' hindsight, Green Day probably meant for their seventh studio album to be big. But nobody could have predicted just how big American Idiot got - and this year's latest addition to the year-end music box set line-up will showcase just how big with a package to match. American Idiot will come back into print with a new box set spanning four CDs (or eight colored LPs) and two Blu-ray Discs. It'll feature the original album, a disc of B-sides and non-LP live tracks, 15 unreleased

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

Can't Turn Back the Decks: Phil Collins' 'Both Sides' Gets Deluxe Vinyl Set

July 11, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Both Sides All the Sides packshot

When Phil Collins started his deluxe reissue campaign in 2016, he started from both an obvious place and a less obvious one, first expanding 1981 debut Face Value as well as 1993's Both Sides, his fifth album. Now, that latter release - clearly, one of Collins' own favorites in his catalog - is being celebrated this fall with two vinyl products. Rhino will release Both Sides (All the Sides), a 5LP box set featuring the original album, demos, B-sides and live cuts, on September 20. They'll

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Phil Collins

Can We Be In Love: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Collect Double Exposure's Salsoul Albums on "My Love Is Free"

July 10, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Double Exposure My Love Is Free

For SoulMusic Records and The Second Disc, this is the Year of Salsoul.  The release of The Salsoul Orchestra's 8CD box set It's Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978) and the imminent arrival of sets from Loleatta Holloway and First Choice will be followed on September 20 by our latest co-branded title celebrating Philadelphia disco quartet Double Exposure.  My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) brings together expanded editions of all three of the group's Salsoul

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You Can Call Out My Name: JD Souther's "You're Only Lonely" Returns in Expanded Edition from Omnivore

June 19, 2024 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

JD Souther You're Only Lonely

Michigan-born, Texas-raised John David Souther was one of the first artists signed to David Geffen and Elliot Roberts' groundbreaking Asylum label in 1971.  His two albums for Asylum, John David Souther (1972) and Black Rose (1976), established the singer-songwriter's distinctive voice on such now-classic songs as "Faithless Love," "How Long," and "Simple Man, Simple Dream."  In 1979, Souther moved over to the Columbia label where he scored a chart-topping hit with the title track of You're Only

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Can't Put My Finger on It: Rhino Expands Ween's 'Chocolate and Cheese' on Vinyl, Digital with Unreleased Tracks

June 13, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Chocolate and Cheese 3LP

Chocolate and Cheese, arguably the most famous album from irreverent, eclectic rockers Ween, is getting revisited this year by Rhino for its 30th anniversary. Available August 2 as a triple vinyl or digital set, this new deluxe edition features the original remastered album from 1994 and a collection of 15 unreleased demos and outtakes. The New Hope, PA rockers earned a considerable cult following in the '80s for their lo-fi cassette releases and unique live shows: Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Ween

You Can't Start a Fire Without a Spark: Arthur Baker on the 'Born in the U.S.A.' Dance Remixes

June 4, 2024 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Springsteen banner

On June 4, 1984, Bruce Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A., his seventh studio album, and kicked his career into an unpredictable new gear. Augmenting his well-loved classic rock style and haunted lyricism with polished production and accessible pop melodies, the Jersey icon struck gold, platinum and diamond with Born in the U.S.A.: it was the best-selling album of 1985 (it was certified 17x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2022), spun off seven Top 10 singles on

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Categories: Features, Interviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Arthur Baker, Bruce Springsteen

Let the Canary Sing

May 17, 2024 By

Let the Canary Sing

The Cyndi Lauper documentary Let the Canary Sing bows on Paramount+ on June 4. Directed by Alison Ellwood, who helmed documentaries on The Go-Go's and the Eagles, Canary traces Lauper's life story from her upbringing in the New York borough of Queens, raised by a single mother; to her earliest attempts at a singing career which eventually bore incredible fruit with the multiplatinum She's So Unusual (1983) and eight Top 10 hits across the decade of MTV. Her family life, charity work and forays

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