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You Should Be Dancing: Bee Gees Release First Compilation Under New Catalog Deal

April 4, 2017 By Mike Duquette 15 Comments

Bee Gees

The first Bee Gees catalog title under the group's new deal with Capitol is a new compilation due later this month, it was announced today. Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits collects 21 of the Australian trio's greatest hits from 1966 to 1987, all personally selected by Barry Gibb. In his introduction in the package, Barry Gibb (the group's sole surviving member) writes, "These songs, I feel, are the songs that Maurice, Robin, and I would be most proud of." While it's not terribly

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Bee Gees

Live For The Music: Rhino Expands Two Bad Company Classics

April 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Bad Company Run with the Pack

Rhino is continuing its series of Bad Company deluxe editions on May 26 with another pair of double-disc deluxe reissues from the band's Swan Song years.  Run With The Pack (1976) and Burnin' Sky (1977) have been newly remastered from the original production tapes. Each of these two seminal albums has been expanded with rare and unreleased recordings from the original album sessions. The CD versions of these Deluxe Editions include all of the new bonus tracks, while the 180-gram vinyl editions

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bad Company

Here They "A' Go-Go"! Classic Supremes Album To Be Expanded in April

March 31, 2017 By Mike Duquette 11 Comments

Supremes A Go GO

Get ready! A new, rarities-packed edition of The Supremes' chart-topping The Supremes A' Go-Go is headed to stores this spring! Released late in the summer of 1966, the ninth album by Motown's powerhouse vocal trio (Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson) reads like a who's-who of pop and Detroit soul, with a slew of covers (mostly from the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team) given that Supremes treatment. Here, you'll find versions of The Isley Brothers' "This Old Heart of Mine

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Diana Ross, The Supremes

The Art of Noise's "In Visible Silence" Gets More Headroom As Deluxe Edition

March 31, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

In Visible Silence

"Relax. You're quite safe here. Am I dreaming? No..." Indeed, you're not dreaming: In Visible Silence, the second LP by The Art of Noise, is being reissued and expanded this spring. This album found the original Art of Noise collective fragmented. Years after collaborating on megahits for ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Yes (as well as their own landmark efforts, the 1983 EP Into Battle with The Art of Noise and Who's Afraid of The Art of Noise? in 1984), there was an acrimonious split,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Everything Else Tags: Max Headroom, The Art of Noise

Release Round-Up: Week of March 31

March 31, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring some of the most hotly-anticipated sets of the year! Fleetwood Mac, Tango in the Night [Various Editions] (Warner Bros./Rhino) 3CD/1DVD/1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Fleetwood Mac's 1987 album featuring "Little Lies" and "Everywhere" returns in a variety of formats including a 3-CD/1 DVD/1 LP version (with the original

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Big Country, Bob Dylan, Derrick Anderson, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash, Leonard Bernstein, Neil Diamond, The Bangles, The Bee Gees, The Doors, Various Artists, Vera Lynn

Standing In The Sunlight: Legacy Preps Authorized Reissue of Van Morrison's Bang Recordings Including Infamous "Contractual Obligation" Recordings

March 30, 2017 By Randy Fairman 10 Comments

Van Morrison Authorized Bang

Almost exactly 50 years ago today, on March 28, 1967, Van Morrison and Bert Berns went into a studio for a two-day session for Bang Records.  The results of this session gave Morrison a signature song but also led to eventual trouble between the artist and label, unauthorized albums, and legal entanglements.  Morrison's released Bang material has been reissued and his unreleased Bang sessions have been bootlegged many times over the subsequent five decades, but now Legacy Recordings is bringing

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Bert Berns, Van Morrison

Still Happy Together: The Turtles Move To Edsel For Standalone Album Reissues, Special Record Store Day Box

March 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Turtles Happy Together

The Turtles once staged a fictional Battle of the Bands on a remarkable 1968 LP, but were a real such battle to occur, the group founded by Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, Al Nichol, Jim Tucker, Chuck Portz and Don Murray would surely come out on top.  For more than 50 years, The Turtles have provided an unparalleled pop soundtrack via such infectious hits as "Happy Together," "You Baby," "She'd Rather Be with Me," "Let Me Be," "It Ain't Me Babe" and "Elenore."  But those classics are only part of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Flo and Eddie, The Turtles

Ooh Baby: Ace Collects Third Volume of Rare "Manhattan Soul"

March 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Over the first two volumes of Manhattan Soul, Ace Records' Kent imprint has dug up some of the finest - and indeed, rarest - soul tracks to come out of the Big Apple in the 1960s.  For the third installment of the series, the label has again tapped the vaults of Florence Greenberg's Scepter and Wand Records, plus rival label Musicor, for a definitive chronicle of some of the most urbane R&B of the decade.  Though these outfits were based in New York, productions sometimes came from other

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Brenton Wood, Melba Moore, The Esquires, The Shirelles, Tommy Hunt, Various Artists

Only The Beginning: Robert Lamm's "Time Chill: A Retrospective" Coming From Omnivore

March 29, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Robert Lamm Time Chill

If you know "Saturday in the Park," "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is," "Beginnings," and "Get Away" - and who doesn't? - you know the work of Robert Lamm.  Yet what you might not know is that the Brooklyn-born founding member of Chicago and recent inductee of both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters' Hall of Fames has also had a flourishing solo career in which he's been able to explore new sonic avenues free from the shadow of his famous, and still busy, band.  On June 2, Omnivore

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Chicago, Robert Lamm

More Tomorrow: Esoteric Reissues Two From Unicorn, David Gilmour-Produced Band

March 29, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Unicorn Too Many Crooks

What would it have sounded like if Pink Floyd's David Gilmour had produced the Eagles?  One possible answer comes via his work with the British band Unicorn.  Despite the patronage of the psychedelic rocker, Unicorn took many of its cues from the American West Coast.  Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint is remastering and expanding two albums from Unicorn, 1976's Too Many Crooks, and 1977's One More Tomorrow.  Both titles are due this Friday, March 31, in the United Kingdom, and one week

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Unicorn

Years

March 28, 2017 By

Marc Jonson Years

Real Gone is reissuing the debut album from singer-songwriter Marc Jonson.  Years, released on Vanguard in 1972, has never been reissued on CD and features a light psyche/folk baroque sound.  As a songwriter, Jonson has seen his songs covered by such artists as Robert Gordon, The Roches, Shawn Colvin, Steve Forbert, Suzanne Vega and The Smithereens.  He has performed on several Disney albums and released two more solo albums and, in 2015, a collections of songs written over the years with David

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Formats: CD Genre: Folk

The Epic Archive (1975-1979)

March 28, 2017 By

Cheap Trick Epic Archive

Cheap Trick's The Epic Archive (1975-1979) brings together 18 odds and ends from the beginning of the band's career.  The first volume of The Epic Archive brings together demos, alternate versions of songs, outtakes and live tracks, including three from a later concert at Budokan.  Many of the tracks have been previously released on reissues over the years, but this is the first time they have been brought together.  This title was previously available as a digital download, but this new

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Ends With And

March 28, 2017 By

Ends With And

1990s noise-pop group Helium releases Ends With And, a new compilation which collects 19 rare tracks across two LPs, including B-sides, EP and compilation tracks (two of which are by Mary Timony and Ash Bowie's Led Byrd side project) and four unreleased demos, including the unheard song "Golden Bridge."  Available on vinyl and download/streaming.  The compilation will be joined by vinyl reissues of 1995's The Dirt of Luck and 1997's The Magic City (the latter as a 2LP set with the EP No Guitars,

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock

It's All Over Now [CD]

March 28, 2017 By

Its All Over Now

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. More than 40 years after it was recorded, legendary pub rock outfit Brinsley Schwarz's final studio album It's All Over Now is finally hitting record stores!  Recorded in 1974, the album sat unreleased as the band's members went their separate ways.  But now, U.K. label Mega Dodo, which released a live collection from the band in 2015, will release an official version of It's All Over Now with ten

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Gotta Be Cruel to Be Kind: Brinsley Schwarz's Final Album Released This Spring

March 28, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Its All Over Now

More than 40 years after it was recorded, legendary pub rock outfit Brinsley Schwarz's final studio album It's All Over Now is finally hitting record stores in the spring. The venerable London quintet, comprised of Nick Lowe (vocals/bass), Ian Gomm (vocals/guitar), Brinsley Schwarz (guitar), Bob Andrews (keyboards) and Billy Rankin (drums), had endured their share of trials and tribulations throughout the 1970s. A disastrous pre-release publicity campaign in America, ending with a disastrous

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Brinsley Schwarz, Nick Lowe

Got Love If You Want It: More Record Store Day 2017 Essentials

March 28, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

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Record Store Day's 10th anniversary couldn't be anything less than big. And with articles devoted to April 22's RSD releases from David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Omnivore Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Prince, Warner Music Group and Real Gone Music, you might wonder what there's left to say before the big day. But you'd be wrong! We've scoured the list to find another 23 must-have titles hitting the vinyl racks at fine independent music stores next month. Which of these favorites are on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bill Evans, Def Leppard, Dolly Parton, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Frank Zappa, George Carlin, Gilbert O'Sullivan, John Williams, Randy Newman, Record Store Day, Rush, Sting, The Art of Noise, The Kinks, The Zombies, U2, Vinyl, Wes Montgomery

Groovin': Playback Records Reissues Lost Jazz-Soul Classic From Sue Barker

March 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Sue Barker

After an auspicious initial slate of releases including On Broadway: The Songs of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, The Complete Steve and The Board, and I Want, Need, Love You! - Garage Beat Nuggets from the Festival Vaults, Australia's Playback Records has returned with another pair of essential releases.  Both of these feature artists from Down Under, but are universal in their appeal.  Today we spotlight the lone LP release from Sue Barker.  (And don't miss our coverage of those initial releases

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Sue Barker

Review: Pink Floyd, "1970 DEVI/ATION"

March 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Pink Floyd DEVIATION

For some fans, Pink Floyd begins with Dark Side of the Moon, the band's 1973 opus.  But in reality, that classic was the culmination of roughly eight years of musical experimentation.  Last year's massive box set The Early Years traced the evolution of the Floyd up through DSOTM through CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, vinyl singles, and printed memorabilia reproductions.  Now, Pink Floyd Records and Sony have released six of that giant collection's seven components into individual book-style releases (one

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

Helium Discography Rising with New Vinyl Reissues

March 24, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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More than two decades after '90s noise-pop outfit Helium disbanded, Matador Records is celebrating their influence with a pair of vinyl reissues and a new rarities compilation due this spring. Formed in Boston, Helium underwent a variety of lineup shifts before signing to Matador, where the group was comprised of vocalist/guitarist Mary Timony, a singer in the fantastic tradition of Deborah Harry and Kim Gordon; bassist Ash Bowie, and former Dumptruck drummer Shawn King Devlin. Catchy singles

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Helium, Vinyl

Review: Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer, "Two of a Kind: Expanded Edition"

March 24, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer Two of a Kind

Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer were, indeed, two of a kind.  Though Darin is known first and foremost as one of the most dynamic performers of all time, and Mercer as one of the most prodigiously talented songwriters of all time, Bobby was no slouch in the songwriting department, and Mercer was a remarkably engaging vocalist.  Both men were entrepreneurs and keen talent spotters who added immeasurably to the fabric of American music and culture.  They came together on record but once, for a 1961

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer

Release Round-Up: Week of March 24

March 24, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

McCartney Archive Collection Flowers 2CD

Welcome to this week's packed Release Round-Up, featuring hotly-anticipated box sets, an extensive campaign from an iconoclastic artist, and much, much more! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Flowers in the Dirt (Capitol/MPL) DELUXE EDITION (3CD/1DVD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) SPECIAL EDITION (2CD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) VINYL (2LP) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Paul McCartney reassesses his 1989 album

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: A Flock of Seagulls, Bill Evans, Bobby Darin, Chris Difford, Elvis Costello, Erasure, Frank Zappa, Glen Campbell, Johnny Mercer, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd

Feelin' Good: Real Gone's Record Store Day 2017 Offerings Feature Cheap Trick and The Meters

March 23, 2017 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Cheap Trick Epic Archive

We've been taking you through many of the releases to come for this year's 10th anniversary Record Store Day on April 22, and now it is time to turn our attention to the offerings from Real Gone Music who will be releasing two titles for the event.  (Just click on the "Record Store Day" tag below to access all of this year's RSD coverage!)  Both of these are limited edition vinyl versions of previous Real Gone CD favorites - and one has a very special "golden ticket" incentive! Cheap Trick -

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Cheap Trick, Record Store Day, The Meters

A Lot of Respect: Erasure to Issue PledgeMusic Box Set As Wide Release

March 23, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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If you missed out on Erasure's enormous box set released through PledgeMusic last holiday, it doesn't have to be--it's being made available to the general public this week. From Moscow to Mars: An Erasure Anthology is a treasury of riches from the seminal British synthpop duo, covering their first three decades together. This 12CD/1DVD set includes a variety of hits and rarities, including: Three discs of the band's complete single A-sides Two discs of the group's personal favorites,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Erasure

Warner Music Plans Record Store Day Bonanza

March 22, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Space Jam

Record Store Day has been an institution for a decade now, so leave it to this year's 10th anniversary event to be one of the biggest! We've already shone the spotlight on releases by David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Prince, Omnivore Recordings and Legacy Recordings; now, it's time to take a look at Warner Music's incredibly generous lineup. Over 30 titles will be featured from the label group at independent record stores on Saturday, April 22. There's really something for everyone: vintage 12"

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: ABBA, Deee-Lite, Fleetwood Mac, Jane's Addiction, Lou Reed, Madonna, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Prince, Ramones, Record Store Day, Stevie Nicks, Talking Heads, The Cars, The Cure, The Doors, The Goo Goo Dolls, The Grateful Dead, The Notorious B.I.G., The Sex Pistols, The Smiths, The Time, Vangelis, Vinyl, Yes

Hot Thing: Seven Prince Singles Coming for Record Store Day

March 22, 2017 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

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As faithful Prince fans await more detail about this summer's long-anticipated Purple Rain reissue, a group of Prince vinyl titles will arrive in stores for Record Store Day, a year and a day after his passing. Seven singles from The Artist's near-unstoppable run of hits in the '80s will be represented. Six are "RSD-First" titles, to be made available to general retail in the future, while one highly-collectible picture disc from Prince's early chart run is coming back just for the 10th

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Prince, Record Store Day, Vinyl

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