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Sensitive Chaos: Rhino To Release Anthology From Steve Howe of Yes

March 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Get ready to say “Yes” to a new retrospective from progressive-rock great Steve Howe.  The English guitarist has curated a new 33-track retrospective, simply titled Anthology, for release on March 10 via Rhino.  The 2-CD set, also available as a digital download, is primarily drawn from the studio albums he’s recorded between 1975 and 2011.  It arrives just weeks before the May 19 release of Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two, the 14-CD box set preserving Howe and Yes' performances on their

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Steve Howe, Yes

Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two

March 4, 2015 By

Yes Progeny

This 14-CD box captures seven complete concerts from Yes circa 1972 - the same tour leading up to the performances preserved on Yessongs.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

You Know How to Love Me (Expanded Edition)

February 10, 2015 By

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Hyman's fourth album and second for Arista Records, 1979's You Know How to Love Me, gains eight bonus tracks including material related to her albums Phyllis Hyman, Can't We Fall in Love Again and Goddess of Love.

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

That's How Much I Love You: Expanded Edition

February 10, 2015 By

Manhattans Thats How Much

The Manhattans' 1974 album gains two single versions as bonus tracks - "Don't Take Your Love" and "Summertime in the City."

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

Let Them Show You: RPM Highlights 1960s' International Acts with Four New Releases

December 4, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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RPM Records has recently released four CDs charting the history of three acts that might not have gained much international attention outside of their home countries, but are still worthy of attention.  From Sweden, RPM has an anthology for The Shanes and two expanded editions of The Mascots’ only two LPs; from France comes the complete recordings of the chanteuse known as Pussy Cat.  Each of these releases is designed to bring greater attention to these little-known artists. The Shanes

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Mascots, Pussy Cat, The Shanes

Tell Me How You Like It: Harmless Reissues, Expands Philly Disco From John Davis and the Monster Orchestra

August 15, 2014 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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What makes for a Monster Orchestra? For Philadelphia composer-arranger-conductor John Davis, it was an array of the best musicians the city had to offer. Between 1976 and 1979, Davis led his Monster Orchestra for four disco LPs on the SAM Records label, plucking its members from the A-Team of Philadelphia International’s MFSB and Salsoul Records’ Salsoul Orchestra. Guitarists Bobby Eli and Roland Chambers, percussionist/conga player Larry Washington, drummer Charles Collins, bassist Michael

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance Tags: John Davis and The Monster Orchestra

Splish Splash! Bobby Darin's "The Milk Shows" Premieres Two Discs of Never-Before-Heard Recordings

August 5, 2014 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Bobby Darin knew he was in a race with time. If it was a race he would inevitably lose as a result of the heart condition he fought for his 37 years, Darin accomplished more in that short period of time than many artists who lived twice as long. A master of reinvention, Darin successfully transformed himself from teen idol to sophisticated hipster to folk troubadour and back again before his death in 1973. He also left behind a catalogue of impressive size at Atlantic, Capitol, Motown and his

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

How Deep Is Our Love: Robin Gibb's Final Album Set For September Release

July 30, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Earlier this year, Barry Gibb took to the road with his Mythology Tour, in which he looked back on the music of The Bee Gees and his decades-long collaboration with his late brothers Maurice and Robin. Barry's warm onstage tributes to Robin, who died of cancer in May 2012, were among the emotional high points of each concert, with Barry candidly and affectingly acknowledging the friction that sometimes characterized their relationship. Barry’s son Stephen paid homage to his uncle with his lead

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bee Gees, Robin Gibb

A Dream Goes On Forever: Vintage Todd Rundgren and Utopia Show Comes To CD

July 1, 2014 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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Todd Rundgren has been rather generous of late with his archive, treating fans to a number of live concert recordings on various labels including gigs from 2010 (Todd Rundgren's Johnson Live), 1990 (Live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco) and 1975 (Todd Rundgren's Utopia Live at Hammersmith Odeon). Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings label continues its Archive Series with the release of Todd Rundgren and Utopia's 2-CD set Live at the Electric Ballroom: Milwaukee, 23rd October 1978. As

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Now They're Here: Queen Prep Unreleased Shows for "Live At The Rainbow '74"

June 17, 2014 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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After a 40-year wait, a pair of pivotal early shows by Queen will see official release, it was announced yesterday. 1974 saw the British quartet release their second album, Queen II, earn their first U.K. Top 10 single ("Seven Seas of Rhye") and embark on their first headlining tour. While some critics found a headlining slot at The Rainbow a daunting challenge for such a new band, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor sold even the most skeptical observer at their March date

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Queen, Vinyl

Brotherhood's "Complete Recordings" Show Another Side of Former Paul Revere and the Raiders Members

March 4, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rock's back pages are littered with "creative differences."   Such differences split Paul Revere and the Raiders into two warring factions - Paul Revere and Mark Lindsay on one side; Phil "Fang" Volk, Mike "Smitty" Smith and Drake "The Kid" Levin on the other.  The Volk-Smith-Levin triumvirate bristled at the more pop direction that the onetime garage band had been taking, and were none too pleased with the studio musicians being enlisted to beef up the Raiders' recordings.  In early 1967, the

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Paul Revere and The Raiders

In Case You Missed It: INXS' Wembley Show Lives Anew in Digital Reissue

February 26, 2014 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

If you've ever wondered why so much INXS catalogue activity centers solely around 1987's Kick, there's something new and different for you available: a live concert from the early 1990s, instead. The Australian band have recently released Live At Wembley Stadium 1991 to digital retailers. This 22-track album features audio from the band's July 13, 1991 concert at London's famed stadium, which exactly six years prior held a rapt audience for Live Aid. Their Summer XS tour promoted the previous

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From De-Evolution to Revolution: Rare Devo Show to Be Released in Full for Record Store Day

February 19, 2014 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

The rock world was stunned yesterday by the announcement of the sudden passing of Bob Casale, guitarist/keyboardist/engineer for quintessential New Wave outfit Devo. "Bob 2," as he was known to scores of fans ("Bob 1" being guitarist/vocalist Bob Mothersbaugh), was an integral part of one of the quirkiest pop bands of the last century, and his sudden death has left a hole in the hearts of fans everywhere. By sheer coincidence, Devo have been one of the first acts to announce a title for Record

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Categories: News Tags: Record Store Day, Vinyl

How Great Thou Art: Elvis' "Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis" Due for Legacy Edition Reissue (UPDATED)

January 8, 2014 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Today would have been the 79th birthday of Elvis Presley, so it's only fitting that a new Elvis catalogue title would be announced on this day. Legacy Recordings will release an expanded edition of Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis for its 40th anniversary. Recorded on March 20, 1974, the same day RCA released his most recent studio album Good Times, Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis found the rejuvenated King (whose live and studio efforts from that time have been chronicled on the recent box

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Something to Remember: How Alex Chilton (and Jeff Vargon) Generated "Electricity by Candlelight"

November 6, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The recent release of Alex Chilton's Electricity by Candlelight on Bar/None Records turns a "you had to be there" moment into a "you are there moment." The late, great singer/songwriter and Big Star frontman took a major setback - a sudden power outage between two sets at New York City's Knitting Factory in 1997 - and spun it into a most magical listening experience: Chilton picked up an acoustic guitar and regaled a small audience with a clutch of covers, from standards ("My Baby Just Cares for

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Categories: Interviews, News Tags: Big Star, Interviews

Pogues Box Up Complete Albums, Unreleased Live Show for "30 Years"

October 29, 2013 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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Celtic rockers The Pogues are releasing a new box set that collects all of their studio albums - two newly-remixed just for this release - and an unreleased live album with a very special frontman. Led by unforgettable frontman Shane Macgowan, The Pogues deftly combined the raucous traditions of traditional Celtic folk songs and sharp-edged punk rock, gaining a considerable live following when opening for The Clash on one of their last tours. A contract with Stiff Records followed, yielding Red

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: The Clash, The Pogues

Shower The People: "The Essential James Taylor" Blends Best of Columbia, Warner Years

October 17, 2013 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

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If you, like me, immediately think of James Taylor whenever you hear the initials "JT" in the context of a music superstar, then Legacy Recordings has a release just for you!  The Essential James Taylor, due on October 29 like The Essential Boz Scaggs, is the troubadour's first-ever 2-CD career-spanning anthology.  Its 30 studio and live tracks draw on the artist's tenures at Warner Bros., Columbia and Hear Music, from 1970's breakthrough Sweet Baby James through 2007's One Man Band. Following

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Who Do They Think They Are? Two Deep Purple Box Sets, '80s Live Show To Be Released

September 9, 2013 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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Deep Purple fans - particularly fans of the almighty Mk. II lineup of the ever-changing British rock pioneers - brace yourselves (and your wallets): no less than three catalogue/collectible projects are due for 2013. Though Deep Purple enjoyed early stateside success with a trio of psych-prog LPs in the late 1960s, it was the crystallization of the Mk. II lineup - guitarist Richie Blackmore, keyboardist Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice alongside new members Ian Gillan (lead vocals) and Roger

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Chilton Illuminates New York in Unearthed 1997 Show

August 15, 2013 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of that famous blackout that hit New York and parts of the Eastern seaboard for much of the afternoon and evening. How ironic, then, that we turn your attention today toward the impending release of a previously-unreleased live concert from the late Alex Chilton, recorded under similar circumstances. Electricity by Candlelight showcases an unbelievable set by the Big Star frontman on the floor of New York's Knitting Factory on February 13, 1997. Chilton was

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Grateful Dead's "Sunshine Daydream" Offers Sought-After Live Show on CD, DVD, Blu-Ray

August 9, 2013 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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The Dead will rise in September with a new set from Rhino. Sunshine Daydream takes Deadheads back to one of the most sought-after shows in the band's history - a blistering set in Veneta, Oregon in the dead of summer 1972 - on CD and video for the first time. Having just returned from a now-legendary tour of Europe (painstakingly chronicled by Rhino in one of the biggest box sets in recent memory), The Grateful Dead were in top form when they traveled to the Olde Renaissance Fairgrounds in

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Tags: The Grateful Dead, Vinyl

From "Love Lost" to "Found Love": New Digital Compilation Showcases Arthur Lee's Rarities

August 7, 2013 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Here's one for the "in case you missed it" file: Arthur Lee and Love's early '70s recordings for Columbia Records were recently released in full as a digital album. Found Love: The Lost '71 Sessions finds Lee and the then-current Love lineup - bassist Frank Fayad, guitarist Craig Tarwater and drummer Don Poncher - considerably removed from the expansive psychedelia of Da Capo and Forever Changes, embracing a much darker, bluesier, Hendrix-ian sound. The album, provisionally titled Dear You, was

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Categories: News Tags: Love

The Show Must Go On: Queen Plan "Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert" Blu-Ray, Vault Tracks with Michael Jackson

July 29, 2013 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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Queen and Eagle Rock Entertainment will release a newly-expanded edition of their unforgettable Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert this fall, on DVD and, for the first time, Blu-Ray Disc. Five months after the tragic passing of one of rock's greatest frontmen from complications due to AIDS, surviving Queen members Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor gathered dozens of famous collaborators and famous fans at London's Wembley Arena on April 20, 1992. Some 72,000 people were in attendance, and

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Tags: Michael Jackson, Queen

Throw Off Your Mental Chains: Howard Jones Releases Music Video Anthology

June 5, 2013 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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New Wave hitmaker Howard Jones did a fantastic job remastering his catalogue through his own Dtox label with the help of Rhino U.K., releasing three great waves of remastered albums from his years on WEA/Elektra over the past three years. Now, he's got one more package up his sleeve: a new anthology of music videos. The Video Collection will nicely collate not only all of Jones' videos from his MTV years (with all the audio newly remastered), but four recent videos, taken mostly from the

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Rock & Roll Revival: Edsel Plans Massive Box for U.K. Act Showaddywaddy

May 29, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Fans of classic rock and roll revival act Showaddywaddy have got quite the box set coming their way from Edsel in June. The Complete Studio Recordings 1973-1987 collects just about the band's entire output, released or otherwise, in a 10-disc set. The U.K. act rose to almost improbable fame in the mid-to-late '70s by dressing up in 1950s-London fashion (known to the uninitiated as "Teddy Boy" subculture) and covering a host of old-time rock songs, from Buddy Holly ("Heartbeat") and Eddie

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We Rock! "Sacred Heart"-Era Dio Show Remastered for CD, DVD, Blu-Ray

May 2, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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A reissue of Magica isn't all Dio fans have to look forward to this summer on the catalogue front: Eagle Rock is remastering and expanding a 1986 live show from the legendary metal band across multiple formats. Finding the Sacred Heart: Live in Philly 1986 captures Dio's full show from Philadelphia's grand departed arena, The Spectrum, on June 17, 1986. The band's most recent studio album, Sacred Heart, had been out for almost a year, but this leg of the tour featured the first of many lineup

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