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Mixed Up: Deluxe Edition

June 1, 2018 By

The Cure Mixed Up Deluxe

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mixed Up 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Torn Down 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Cure revisits its 1990 remix album as a 3-CD deluxe edition.  The first disc of the new set contains the original Mixed Up album, as newly remastered by Smith.  The second disc, Remixes 1982-1990: Mixed Up Extras 2018, has eleven remastered period remixes, and the third disc, Torn

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Formats: CD, Vinyl

Magic Moments Filled with Love: Perry Como Celebrated On Public Television, New Box Set and More

June 1, 2018 By The Second Disc 23 Comments

Perry Como Greatest Hits and Magic Moments

May 18, 2018 would have marked Perry Como's 106th birthday.  While the beloved singer didn't make it to 106, he lived a full 88 years which he packed with magic moments on records, film, television, and the world's concert stages.  All told, the proudly Italian-American crooner notched 131 chart hits in the U.S. alone, over 20 gold records, multiple Emmy and Grammy Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, and sales of over 100 million records between 1945 and 1970.  This weekend, fans are invited to

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Perry Como

Release Round-Up: Week of June 1

June 1, 2018 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Michelle Phillips Victim of Romance

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Michelle Phillips, Victim of Romance: Expanded Edition (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) "Mama" Michelle Phillips' 1977 solo album, produced by Jack Nitzsche, returns to CD in a new expanded edition collecting the artist's complete sessions with Nitzsche.  It adds three outtakes from the album sessions, including a Bee Gees cover ("Had a Lot of Love Last Night"), Dennis Lambert and Fil Spina's "Practice What You Preach,"

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Cheap Trick, Cowboy, Def Leppard, Emmylou Harris, Jethro Tull, Keely Smith, Living Colour, Michelle Phillips, Paul Simon, Roger Daltrey, The Mamas and The Papas, The Quick, The Temptations, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, ZZ Top

Heading Somewhere: Real Gone to Premiere Ben Folds Five's "Sessions at West 54th" on CD and Vinyl in July

May 31, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Ben Folds Five Sessions at West 54th

Real Gone Music has just announced another title in its July slate, this one a little more modern than some of their other titles.  Hailing from 1997, Real Gone will release the CD and vinyl debut of The Complete Sessions at West 54th from longtime TSD favorites Ben Folds Five.  It will be released on July 13, just a few weeks after the release of Folds' career-spanning box from Edsel. (And to be clear, the Real Gone Sessions at West 54th material is not in that box). Sessions at West 54th

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five

Run Out Groove Round-Up: Dr. John's "Funknology" and Marshall Crenshaw's Live "Thank You"

May 31, 2018 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Dr. John Professor Bizarres Funknology

Today, we're looking at two of Run Out Groove's most recent releases!  Now is also the time to order the label's next release: Vagabonds: Expanded Edition, from Gary Louris of The Jayhawks!  Pre-orders close on June 7, so don't miss out, and don't forget to vote on ROG's next release.  Will it be Luna's Lunafied, Fred Neil's Bleecker & MacDougal, or Billy Byrd's Lonesome Country Songs?  Vote now! It's not called Funknology for nothing!  Run Out Groove's recent release from Dr. John,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dr. John, Marshall Crenshaw

Final Light: Cherry Red Collects Last Three Volumes of Anthony Phillips' "Private Parts and Pieces"

May 31, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Anthony Phillips Private Parts and Pieces IX XI

Between 1978 and 2012, founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips released eleven volumes of Private Parts & Pieces.  Each volume has collected various odds and ends from the composer/multi-instrumentalist which, for one reason or another, wouldn't have fit comfortably on any of his proper solo albums.  Since 2015, Cherry Red Group's Esoteric Recordings imprint has been reissuing and expanding these fascinating releases in box set form.  The third and final box (to date), Private Parts

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Anthony Phillips, Genesis

I've Waited Hours For This: The Cure Expand 'Mixed Up' With New and Vintage Remixes

May 29, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

The Cure Mixed Up Deluxe

The Cure kicked off the 1990s with the release of Mixed Up, an album collecting the band's rarer 12-inch mixes.  It wasn't just a straightforward anthology, however, as two songs ("A Forest" and "The Walk") weren't just remixed, but re-recorded, and a wholly new track ("Never Enough") was also recorded.  As Robert Smith comments, Brian "Chuck" New's dub style remix of "Pictures Of You" inspired him: "That mix turned the music on its head, but at the same time left the essential heart of the song

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: The Cure

Surround Yourself with Cilla: Cherry Red, SFE Launch Ambitious Cilla Black Reissue Campaign

May 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Cilla Surround Yourself Two Fer

Surprise, surprise...it's Cilla here!  Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment imprint has great news for fans of the late Cilla Black.  On July 27, SFE launches a new reissue campaign dedicated to Cilla's discography with a pair of deluxe, generously expanded 2-CD releases.  These releases coincide with what would have been Cilla's 75th birthday year.  The first set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Burt Bacharach, Cilla Black, Cliff Richard, The Beatles

Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes

May 26, 2018 By

Yes Steven Wilson Remixes

As part of Yes' 50th anniversary celebration, Rhino delivers a new five-album box bringing Steven Wilson's recent, acclaimed remixes of the band's storied catalogue to vinyl.  Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes features Wilson's remixed versions of: The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971), Close To The Edge (1972), the double album Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973), and Relayer (1974). Each remixed album is a vinyl debut, having previously appeared only in deluxe CD/Blu-ray or DVD-Audio packages.

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Chicago II: Collector's Edition

May 26, 2018 By

Chicago II Collectors Edition

Chicago II: Collector's Edition bundles together the band's 2017 Soundstage performance of the 1970 classic Chicago II on CD and DVD as well as the acclaimed 2017 stereo remix of the original album by Steven Wilson on both CD and double vinyl.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Chicago II: Live on Soundstage

May 26, 2018 By

Chicago II Live on Soundstage

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Chicago II: Live on Soundstage captures the band's November 2017 performances at the Grainger Studio in their hometown, performing the classic 1970 album Chicago II.  The concert will be released on a single CD and a CD/DVD set with video of the program and 5.1 audio.  The music will also be available digitally and via streaming services.  Chicago II: Live on Soundstage features original members

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

Back In Love Again: Robinsongs Collects Four Albums From Soul-Funk-Disco Band L.T.D.

May 25, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

LTD Something to Love Four Fer

L.T.D., or Love, Togetherness and Devotion, had carved out a niche in the crowded landscape of seventies funk and soul bands - in large part due to the soaring voice of its lead singer and drummer, Jeffrey Osborne.  Four of the group's albums blending funk, disco, and silky balladry, have just been collected on a new 2-CD set from Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint. The ten-piece band from Greensboro, North Carolina had released two moderately successful albums on Los Angeles-based A&M

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: Jeffrey Osborne, L.T.D.

Release Round-Up: Week of May 25

May 25, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Prince Nothing Compares 2 U

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Prince, Nothing Compares 2 U  (Warner Bros.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Prince's original recording of "Nothing Compares 2 U" arrives on vinyl today for wide release.  The original Prince studio version was recorded at the Flying Cloud Warehouse in Eden Prairie, Minnesota by engineer Susan Rogers and featured background vocals by Susannah Melvoin and Paul "St. Paul" Peterson as well as saxophone by Eric Leeds. Prince composed,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Barclay James Harvest, Bow Wow Wow, Jennifer Warnes, Malo, Marvin Hamlisch, Prince, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Smithereens

Good Times: Real Gone To Reissue Rare Willie Nelson, Statler Brothers In July

May 24, 2018 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Willie Nelson The Pamper Demos

We've recently told you about Go Ahead & Back Up: The Lost Motown Masters, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records' CD of unheard Bobby Darin Motown recordings due in July.  Now we've gotten word of two more Real Gone July releases, both in the country genre: one for Willie Nelson and one for The Statler Brothers. Country legend Willie Nelson hardly needs an introduction.  The 85-year-old is one of the biggest names in country and has been recording for over six decades, including up

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: The Statler Brothers, Willie Nelson

Go Ahead & Back Up: The Lost Motown Masters

May 23, 2018 By

BD Go Ahead Final Cover

Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music's Go Ahead & Back Up: The Lost Motown Masters lifts the curtain on the final years of Bobby Darin's life and career with 24 never-before-released recordings directly from the Motown vaults, their existence largely unknown to even Darin's most ardent collectors and biographers.  This years-in-the-making project (the landmark 25th release for Second Disc Records) premieres a lost album produced by Bobby in the raw, stripped-down style of his stage shows

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

Dark Now My Sky: Cherry Red Expands Barclay James Harvest's Debut Into Box Set

May 23, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Barclay James Harvest

Over the past years, Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has been drawing attention to the albums of prog titans Barclay James Harvest, reissuing the band's albums in 2-CD/1-DVD editions boasting bonus content including outtakes, rarities, and new stereo and surround mixes.  1976's Octoberon got the deluxe treatment last fall, following 1978's XII as well as Everyone is Everybody Else (1974) and Gone to Earth (1977).  Now, Esoteric is turning back the clock to 1970's Barclay James Harvest,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Barclay James Harvest

BREAKING! Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Unearth Never-Before-Heard Bobby Darin on "Go Ahead and Back Up: The Lost Motown Masters"

May 22, 2018 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

BD Go Ahead Final Cover

Bobby Darin joined Motown Records in 1970, inaugurating the final phase in a remarkable career that saw him transform from a rock-and-roll teen idol to a sophisticated swinger to a socially conscious folkie.  Yet before his tragic death at the age of 37 in 1973, Darin only released one album and a handful of singles for Berry Gordy's legendary label.  A few posthumous recordings followed in 1974 and a live album in 1987, but the story stayed the same: that despite the best efforts of all,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Bobby Darin, Smokey Robinson

On Through The Night: Def Leppard Collect Remastered '80s Works In New Box

May 21, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Def Leppard Collection Volume 1

As Def Leppard gears up for its summer tour with Journey, the hard rock heroes have announced a new series of career-spanning box sets.  Volume One of the series will arrive on June 1 from Bludgeon Riffola, Mercury, and UMe.  This first installment of the band's complete recorded output will arrive in both limited edition 180-gram heavyweight vinyl and CD box sets, each featuring Def Leppard's first four studio albums -- along with bonus live and studio tracks --spread across 8 LPs and 7 CDs,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Def Leppard

Spare Parts: Rarities Abound On Nine Springsteen Digital EPs

May 18, 2018 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Bruce Springsteen Lonesome Day

To coincide with today's release of Bruce Springsteen's second Album Collection, Sony/Legacy and Columbia Records are releasing nine rare Springsteen EPs on digital platforms.  These are part of Legacy's ongoing vault series which sees digital release of rare music from artists in a wide variety of eras and genres. The EPs are mostly international releases and span the years from 1987-2012.  Two were originally released in Japan.  The first, Live Collection, rounds up four concert

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Release Round-Up: Week of May 18

May 18, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Springsteen Album Collection 2 Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bruce Springsteen, The Album Collection Vol. 2, 1987-1996 (Columbia/Legacy)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Bruce Springsteen boxes up the second set of his albums in chronological order, remastered by Bob Ludwig and Toby Scott using the Plangent Process.  The collection is only available on vinyl, although a limited edition CD version is being released in Japan only.  The CD version is now available for pre-order at Amazon U.S. /

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Harris, John Wesley Harding, Otis Redding, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Simon and Garfunkel, Stephen Bishop, Steve Miller Band, Supertramp, Various Artists

Review: Love, "Forever Changes: 50th Anniversary Edition"

May 17, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Love Forever Changes 50th

Forever Changes, the third album from the Los Angeles band Love, arrived on Elektra Records in November 1967 - the same month as The Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed, Cream's Disraeli Gears, The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing at Baxter's, The Hollies' Butterfly, and The Monkees' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones.  Psychedelia was in the air, not to mention creativity and experimentation in music at an all-time high that is still largely unrivaled. 

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Love

100% Fun: Intervention Records Launches Matthew Sweet Series On Vinyl and SACD

May 17, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Intervention Matthew Sweet Series

Intervention Records has announced a new Artist-Approved series on both LP and hybrid SACD from singer-songwriter Matthew Sweet covering his albums originally released on the Zoo Entertainment label between 1991 and 1995.  Throughout 2018, the label will issue generous expanded editions of his power-pop trilogy of Girlfriend, Altered Beast, and 100% Fun.  Additionally, Intervention will reissue the Son of Altered Beast seven-song EP for its vinyl debut! Each of the three double-vinyl editions

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Matthew Sweet

Waiting For the Gift of Sound: Parlophone to Release Three David Bowie Reissues including CD Debut of Rare 1978 Concert and Two Vinyl Exclusives

May 16, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

David Bowie Welcome to the Blackout

  Parlophone is continuing its series of David Bowie reissues.  The label has just announced a trio of projects due June 29: the CD and digital debut of Welcome To The Blackout (Live London '78), previously only available on vinyl for this year's Record Store Day, and a pair of vinyl exclusives for brick-and-mortar record shops.  All three titles come from the period covered in last year's Bowie box A New Career in a New Town: 1977-1982, which saw Bowie release two acclaimed albums,

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Out of the Frying Pan: RPM Collects Complete Recordings of Stax-Inspired Wynder K. Frog

May 16, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Wynder K Frog Shook Shimmy and Shake

Once thought of as Britain's answer to Booker T and the MG's, the oddly-named band Wynder K. Frog released three albums of smoking soul-jazz for the Island and United Artists labels between 1966 and 1970, led by Mick Weaver's mod organ with distinguished support from musicians on both sides of the Atlantic.  Now, Cherry Red's RPM imprint has rounded up those original LPs plus bonus singles and previously unreleased tracks for the 3-CD box Shook, Shimmy and Shake: The Complete Recordings

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Wynder K. Frog

Now More Than Ever: Rhino Releases "Chicago II: Live on Soundstage" and "Collector's Edition" Box Set

May 15, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Chicago II Steven Wilson Remix

For the first time in a career that's spanned six decades, Chicago is on the road playing a full album from start to finish.  The album is Chicago II, the 1970 classic that may be the most beloved in the band's impressive catalogue.  This summer, Rhino will be marking the occasion with a pair of multi-format releases.  Chicago II: Live on Soundstage captures the band's November 2017 performances at the Grainger Studio in Chicago's hometown.  It will be available on June 29 as a single CD and a

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

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