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Keep That Party Movin': Legacy Announces CD Reissues, Vinyl Debuts of Three '00s Prince Titles

December 10, 2018 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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In June, Legacy Recordings inked a historic deal with The Prince Estate that marked a new home for much of Prince's legendary music.  In August, 23 titles from Prince's catalog were released on streaming platforms, along with a new compilation called Prince Anthology: 1995-2010. Today, The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings have announced the first in a series of Prince album re-releases on CD and vinyl. It's all part of Legacy's ongoing, definitive catalog reissue campaign. The roll-out of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Goin' Back: Bruce Springsteen Announces Latest Live Archive Title, "Roxy '75"

December 10, 2018 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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On the heels of the new Songs of the Road collection that brings together picks from Springsteen's live archive, Nugs.net has announced a new installment in their Live Archive series. Roxy '75 presents the full October 18 early show that Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band performed at the famed L.A. venue. The set captures the group in outstanding form performing a setlist that spotlights the Born To Run album along with a string of covers.  Among them is a version of Carole King's

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

Step Into Christmas: Elton John Unveils New Christmas EP With Rare Track

December 7, 2018 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

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Last month, Elton John ushered in the holiday season when he partnered with retailer John Lewis for an emotional commercial about the gift of music. Now, he's released a Christmas EP called Step Into Christmas. The yuletide gift for his fans puts the spotlight on a certified Christmas classic. The three-track EP includes "Step Into Christmas," the classic track that reached No. 24 in the UK at the end of 1973 and topped the Billboard Christmas singles chart. The original B-side, "Ho! Ho!

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday Tags: Elton John

Release Round-Up: Week of December 7

December 7, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Wings, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Wild Life [Various Formats] (MPL/Capitol) 3CD/DVD Box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP [Remastered Album + Bonus Audio]: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD [Remastered Album + Bonus Audio]: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Wild Life was the first Wings album but third overall by McCartney outside the shadow of his famous band.  Paul and his wife Linda teamed up

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Allan Holdsworth, Angela Lansbury, Aretha Franklin, Carpenters, Cher, Dave Grusin, Dick Van Dyke, John Mellencamp, Marc Shaiman, Morrissey, Paul McCartney, Scott Wittman, Sylvester, Van Morrison, Vanessa Daou, Wings

A Granz Old Time: Verve/UMe Honors 'The Founder' On New Box Set

December 6, 2018 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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On December 7, Verve/UMe will release The Founder, a 4-CD box set in honor of Norman Granz's centennial earlier this year (August 6, 1918).  The collection will also be available as a digital download and on streaming services. The set includes 44 tracks, some appearing on CD for the first time ever. It presents a chronological overview of the first two decades of the jazz impresario's impressive career by way of recordings of the musicians he recorded. The booklet includes new liner notes by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Anita O'Day, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Buddy Rich, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges, Les Paul, Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Mel Tormé, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Paul Desmond, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Lefty Frizzell, "An Article from Life: The Complete Recordings"

December 5, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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The music of William Orville "Lefty" Frizzell (1928-1975), one of the most influential honky-tonk singers of all time, has long been a cornerstone of the Bear Family catalogue.  The German reissue specialists first compiled the Frizzell oeuvre in 1984 as a 14-LP box set, updating that in 1992 on 12 CDs.  Now, more than 25 years later, the Bears have returned to the country-and-western troubadour's career for the most definitive chronicle ever.  An Article from Life: The Complete Recordings has

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country Tags: Lefty Frizzell

Laughing Up Your Sleeve [LP]

December 4, 2018 By

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The unreleased demo recordings on Omnivore's new Unicorn compilation Laughing Up Your Sleeve were produced by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and highlight the band's talent for laid-back folk-rock.  All the tracks were recorded in David Gilmour's home studio in 1973-74, with Gilmour playing his trademark pedal steel guitar on "Sleep Song."  The demos have been restored, mixed, and mastered by Scott Anthony at Storybook Sound in New Jersey with input from Pat Martin from Unicorn for optimum sound

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Formats: Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Laughing Up Your Sleeve [CD]

December 4, 2018 By

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The 20 unreleased demo recordings on Omnivore's new Unicorn compilation Laughing Up Your Sleeve were produced by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and highlight the band's talent for laid-back folk-rock. All the tracks were recorded in David Gilmour's home studio in 1973-74, with Gilmour playing his trademark pedal steel guitar on "Sleep Song." The demos have been restored, mixed, and mastered by Scott Anthony at Storybook Sound in New Jersey with input from Pat Martin from Unicorn for optimum sound

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Eyes On The Prize: John Mellencamp Collects Covers On New Album, "Other People's Stuff"

December 4, 2018 By Sam Stone 5 Comments

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When John Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, Billy Joel remarked that, "People need to hear a voice like yours to echo the discontent that's in the heartland.  They need to hear stories about it.  They need to know that someone out there feels the way they do."  Though Mellencamp has never sought to be the voice of the Small Town, his stories of struggle, loss, perseverance, and love have spoken to the American heartland for more than forty years. For his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Folk, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Jimmie Rodgers, John Mellencamp, Merle Travis, Robert Johnson, Stevie Wonder

The Name's Barry...John Barry: Composer's Early Sides Collected On New 3-CD Box Set

December 4, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Throughout a long, celebrated career, the late John Barry scored roughly 100 films (including eleven James Bond movies), picked up five Academy Awards, penned classic television themes, and wrote five musicals.  But before all of those mighty accomplishments, the Yorkshire native formed his own band, The John Barry Seven.  While leading the septet, he was hired by EMI as an orchestral arranger - which in turn, led to his first film assignments.  The early days of Barry's career have been

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: John Barry

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Neil Diamond, "50th Anniversary Collector's Edition"

December 3, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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I. I Got the Feelin' In his 1966 debut single for Bang Records, Neil Diamond famously declared himself a "Solitary Man."  But the New York singer-songwriter wasn't to be solitary for very long, as he soon gained the worldwide audience that, over 50 years later, still follows each one of his musical endeavors.  Diamond has just looked back on his remarkable career on a handsome new box set from Capitol Records and UMe.  50th Anniversary Collector's Edition expands upon the similarly-titled

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Neil Diamond

Review: Chris Darrow and Max Buda, "Eye of the Storm"

December 3, 2018 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Last month, the L.A.-based label Blixa Sounds unveiled its latest release, the first-ever reissue of Chris Darrow and Max Buda's Eye of the Storm. The 1981 collaboration brought together two psych-rock heavyweights, whose multi-instrumental talents and joyous style are on full display throughout. It's hard to believe, but the album has never received any sort of reissue or re-pressing since its original release on the legendary Takoma label 37 years ago. Now, Blixa Sounds has brought the

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Everything Else, Rock Tags: Chester Crill, Chris Darrow, Max Buda

Action in the Streets: Bruce Springsteen Concert Vault Mined for Digital Album "The Live Series: Songs of the Road"

December 3, 2018 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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In the last few months, Legacy Recordings has launched an extensive digital campaign with the aim of releasing Bruce Springsteen to the streaming age.  This May saw the digital debut of 17 rare singles and EPs, as well as the new compilation, Spare Parts, which collected highlights from those releases.  Now, Legacy has teamed up with Nugs.net on a new compilation, The Live Series:  Songs of the Road that celebrates The Boss's incendiary concert performances and his music's association with the

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The Story So Far: The Best Of...

December 2, 2018 By

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1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP/7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Story So Far will be available in a variety of configurations, including 1-CD, 2-CD, 2-LP with 7" single, as well as digital download and streaming.  The standard 1-CD version collects 17 tracks, including the smash hits "Animal," "Photograph," "Rock of Ages," and "Pour Some Sugar On Me."  It also includes a previously unreleased version of Def

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

Hysteria:  The Singles

December 2, 2018 By

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This limited-edition collection features all of the original singles from their landmark album in picture sleeves that, when presented together, show the original Hysteria album cover.  Two bonus singles -- "Excitable" / "Run Riot" (album version and "Love and Affection" / "Don't Shoot the Shotgun" are exclusive to the set.  Also included is a replica of the Spanish "Animal" single.  All of the discs are housed in a lift-off box which also includes a booklet with a full discography and

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Chris Cornell [Various Formats]

December 2, 2018 By

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1-CD Standard Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4-CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4CD/1DVD/7LP Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The new Chris Cornell box set celebrates the career of one of the greats of modern rock with a 1-CD distillation, 2-LP, 4-CD, and super deluxe 4-CD/1-DVD/7-LP editions that include classics by Soundgarden, Audioslave, and a number of solo tracks. The 1-CD and 2-LP configurations collect

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

Norman Granz: The Founder

December 2, 2018 By

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Verve/UME celebrate the career of a jazz impresario for the ages.  As founder of the Clef, Norgran and Verve labels, Granz helped bring jazz to the masses and launched the careers of many of the genre's brightest stars. The 4-CD set includes 44 tracks, some appearing on CD for the first time ever.  The booklet includes new liner notes by Tad Hershorn, author of Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice.  On the discs, you'll find incendiary performances by the likes of Coleman Hawkins

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Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

Drama (Expanded Edition)

December 2, 2018 By

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At the time of its release, 2005's Drama was Bananarama's first U.K. release in 12 years.  The album's lead single, "Move in My Direction" peaked at #14 and marked their return to the U.K. singles chart.  "Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango" also made a splash on the dancefloor and on the charts, making it to #26 on the charts. SFE's 3-disc comprehensive reissue includes all the original club remixes, dubs, end edits for these two main singles, along with the album proper, plus the original

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Other People's Stuff [CD]

December 2, 2018 By

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Other People's Stuff,  is a new collection of covers that shows Mellencamp applying his knack for storytelling to ten staples from the American music canon.   The material is culled mostly from his own albums, hard-to-find compilations, and documentary soundtracks.  Mellencamp also recorded a brand-new version of "Eyes on the Prize," a standard that he had performed at The White House for the 2010 Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement at the request of President Obama. 

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Other People's Stuff [LP]

December 2, 2018 By

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Other People's Stuff, is a new collection of covers that shows Mellencamp applying his knack for storytelling to ten staples from the American music canon. The material is culled mostly from his own albums, hard-to-find compilations, and documentary soundtracks. Mellencamp also recorded a brand-new version of "Eyes on the Prize," a standard that he had performed at The White House for the 2010 Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement at the request of President Obama.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Country, Folk, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Elvis Presley, "'68 Comeback Special: 50th Anniversary Edition"

November 30, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Elvis had a lot riding on his December 1968 NBC-TV special.  Once the brightest star in the galaxy - and one whose every freeing move caused ripples in American society - he was no longer at the top of the charts.  A string of lightweight movie musicals had rendered the once-"dangerous" entertainer as wholesome as apple pie.  At the time of the broadcast, Elvis' most recent single ("Guitar Man") had failed to crack the top 40 and he hadn't had a chart-topper since "Good Luck Charm" in 1962.  He

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Elvis Presley

Release Round-Up: Week of November 30

November 30, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Neil Diamond, 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Capitol/UMe)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Neil Diamond revisits a 50+-year career with a new 6-CD, 115-song retrospective box set featuring hits, rarities, and 15 previously unreleased tracks including the original demos of "America" and "I Am...I Said."  Everything is packaged within a deluxe hardcover book-style format.  50th Anniversary Collector's Edition expands upon 2017's

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Badfinger, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Creedence Clearwater Revival, David Bowie, Def Leppard, Elvis Presley, Howard Jones, Janis Joplin, John Barry, Kalapana, Kate Bush, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Procol Harum, The Bobby Fuller Four, Toby Keith, Tower of Power

Naturally: Manifesto Collects '70s Soft Rock Sounds of Hawaii's Kalapana

November 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Black Sand: The Best of Kalapana, a 20-track anthology from the Hawaiian band drawn from the years 1975-1983, presents a vivid portrait of the group that, despite various personnel changes, has been playing to sold-out crowds for 45 years now.  Yet one question lingers: how has Kalapana languished in obscurity on the American mainland for so long? Malani Bilyeu, D.J. Pratt, Kirk Thompson, and Mackey Feary came together to make music in 1973. All but Pratt were born in Honolulu; the lead

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop Tags: Kalapana

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Eagles, "Legacy"

November 28, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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Just Find a Place to Make Your Stand On the list of the United States' five best-selling albums of all time, one name stands tall - the only artist to lay claim to two of those five titles.  That artist is, of course, a band: Eagles.  1976's Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) sits atop the list at 38 million copies sold; Hotel California is third with 26 million.  The ten tracks on the former are all modern-day standards, each and every one of them still a radio staple.  Though the original

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Eagles, Glenn Frey

La-La Land's Wondrous World: Soundtrack Giant Plans 'Potter,' 'Bond' and More Archival Releases

November 27, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Hours of unreleased soundtrack music? Oft-requested titles from favorite composers and popular film series? It's definitely Black Friday season at La-La Land Records! The venerable soundtrack label closed the book on 2018 with five brand-new film and television score expansions - a total of 18 discs' worth of material, including three works involving one of the most successful living soundtrack composers and projects related to two world-renowned franchises. First up, La-La Land's successful

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alexander Courage, Annie Lennox, David Arnold, Garbage, John Williams, Scott Walker

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