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King of America and Other Realms

September 23, 2024 By

King of America and Other Realms

6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 140-gram Black LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 140-gram Gold Nugget LP: Official Store / uDiscover Music / The Sound of Vinyl Elvis Costello is looking back on his tenth studio album King of America - and its effect on his future live and studio work - on a lavish new box set. The remastered 1986 album is paired with a disc of demos and outtakes (six of them previously unreleased), a

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

Talking Heads '77: Super Deluxe Edition

September 23, 2024 By

Talking Heads 77 box

3CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP/4 7": Rhino.com Rhino's Talking Heads revisitation won't end with Stop Making Sense - they'll release a new deluxe box set of the group's 1977 debut album, featuring rare outtakes and B-sides, a live show and the album remixed in Dolby Atmos and surround, as overseen by the band's keyboardist/guitarist Jerry Harrison.  The super deluxe edition of Talking Heads: 77 will come in hardcover

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban)

September 23, 2024 By

Whitney South Africa

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

The Best of Ronnie Milsap

September 23, 2024 By

Ronnie Milsap The Best Of

The Best of Ronnie Milsap gathers up 12 of the artist's biggest hits from his first tenure at RCA, including "It Was Almost Like a Song," "Any Day Now," and "What a Difference You've Made in My Life." Craft's parent company, Concord Music, acquired the rights to 16 of Milsap's RCA albums from between 1977-2006 in 2019, and this is the first physical product to come from the acquisition (an expanded digital version of this compilation featuring 25 songs was released last June by Craft and is

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop

Rocka Rolla: 50th Anniversary Remix

September 23, 2024 By

Rocka Rolla

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Black LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Red LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The British metal icons will reissue 1974's Rocka Rolla - one of the first truly sanctioned releases of the first album by the group - with a brand-new remix from the original multi-track tapes by producer Tom Allom.  It's available on CD, LP (black and red pressings), and digitally. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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

Living in the Material World: 50th Anniversary

September 23, 2024 By

George Harrison Living in the Material World 50th SDE Cover

2CD/2LP/1BD/1-7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada As the studio follow-up to his landmark triple album All Things Must Pass, George Harrison further explored his spiritual and physical selves on 1973's leaner Living in the Material World.  It's now returning from Dark Horse and BMG in a belated

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Live at Fillmore East, 1969

September 23, 2024 By

CSNY Live at the Fillmore East

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CSNY's September 20, 1969 concert at New York's late, lamented Fillmore East - comprising both acoustic and electric sets - comes to a variety of formats including 1CD, 2LP, and digital/streaming.  It's been sourced and newly mixed from the original multitrack tapes under the supervision of Stills and Young, and the vinyl versions are AAA (all-analog)-cut.

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On the Way Home: CSNY Releases "Live at Fillmore East, 1969"

September 23, 2024 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

CSNY Live at the Fillmore East

On the morning of Monday, August 18, 1969, at 3:30 a.m., David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash took the stage at Max Yasgur's farm.  The threesome's self-titled debut album had been released in May, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and yielding a pair of hit singles, Nash's "Marrakesh Express" and Stills' "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes."  But CSN wasn't done yet.  On August 16, they'd launched a tour in Chicago with a new bandmate, Neil Young.  The Woodstock performance was CSNY's second

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Crosby Stills Nash and Young

Try Some, Buy Some: George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" Gets Expanded For Its 50th

September 19, 2024 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

George Harrison Living in the Material World 50th SDE Cover

As the studio follow-up to his landmark triple album All Things Must Pass, George Harrison further explored his spiritual and physical selves on 1973's leaner Living in the Material World.  On November 15, the album will return from Dark Horse and BMG in a belated 50th anniversary edition comprising 2 CDs, 2 LPs, and a Blu-ray.  It's limited to 5,000 units worldwide.  The original album, newly remixed by Paul Hicks, will also be available in 2LP & 2CD Deluxe Editions, Limited Edition color

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

Dying to Meet You: Judas Priest's Debut Revisited with Definitive Remix

September 19, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Rocka Rolla

It took 50 years, but Judas Priest have finally perfected the way they want their debut to sound. The British metal icons will reissue 1974's Rocka Rolla on November 22 - one of the first truly sanctioned releases of the first album by the group - with a brand-new remix from the original multi-track tapes by producer Tom Allom. "I'm just thrilled," frontman Rob Halford said in a statement. "Tom Allom is giving us a second chance here with the way that a lot of the elements were lost in

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Judas Priest

What a Difference You've Made: Ronnie Milsap's Greatest Hits Come Back to Vinyl

September 19, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

RonnieMilsap BestOf LPVinyl Black

The smooth, blockbuster country sound of Ronnie Milsap is coming back to vinyl. Craft Recordings will issue a wide-release black LP pressing of 2020's The Best of Ronnie Milsap, issued on CD and digitally not long after the label became the home for Milsap's winning streak of RCA Records albums and singles through the '70s, '80s and beyond. (A dark-red vinyl was issued exclusively for Cracker Barrel stores back then; this time around, a "tan smoke" variant will be available to Milsap's top

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Ronnie Milsap

In Memoriam: JD Souther (1945-2024)

September 18, 2024 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

John David Souther

"We always said our motto was 'we're building to last.'  We really spent a lot of time on the songs.  The other motto was, 'no filler.'  You don't make a single and then put a bunch of filler on an album.  You make an album and hope you have a single," JD Souther shared with me earlier this year.  The singer-songwriter's extraordinary body of work, one of the cornerstones of the Southern California rock sound, reflected that ethos: "You're Only Lonely."  "Faithless Love." "Her Town Too."  "Best

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: JD Souther

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

Qu'est-ce que c'est? Talking Heads' Debut Gets Box Set Treatment

September 17, 2024 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Talking Heads 77 box

Rhino's Talking Heads revisitation won't end with Stop Making Sense - they'll release a new deluxe box set of the group's 1977 debut album, featuring rare outtakes and B-sides, a live show and the album remixed in Dolby Atmos and surround, as overseen by the band's keyboardist/guitarist Jerry Harrison. Available November 8, the super deluxe edition of Talking Heads: 77 will come in hardcover book packaging that'll feature 80 pages of rare archival photos and liner notes written by all four

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Talking Heads

I'll Wear It Proudly: Elvis Costello Coronates 'King of America' for New Box Set

September 16, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

King of America and Other Realms packshot

When King of America became Rhino's penultimate Elvis Costello reissue in 2005, a hype sticker cheekily hailed it as "the album that fans, critics and Elvis Costello all agree on." Perhaps that's why it'll be the next of his classic albums to receive a deluxe box set this fall. King of America and Other Realms, available November 1, follows the super deluxe, vinyl-and-digital-only The Complete Armed Forces box; however, this one's primarily available on CD - six of 'em, in total. The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Rock Tags: Allen Toussaint, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash

This Time La Luna: Duran Duran Expand 'Danse Macabre' One Year from Its Original Release

September 16, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Danse Macabre De Luxe vinyl box

As we get closer to the time when there's a chill in the air and a penchant for "spooky season," Duran Duran are getting back into the spirit with an expanded version of their last album, meant to celebrate all things strange and unusual. 2023's Danse Macabre came just two years after the release of Future Past in 2021 - the shortest gap between new LPs from the band since the mid-'90s. The band were certainly riding high: Future Past was a celebration of what made the Birmingham group so

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

Tops of the Pops: Verve Releases New Louis Armstrong Hits Collection

September 13, 2024 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Louis Armstrong Wonderful World

On October 16, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical begins previews at Broadway's Studio 54, starring Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin's Genie) as the titular legend.  Told from the perspective of his four wives, the musical chronicles the life of one of the most significant and enduring figures in the entirety of American popular music.  Today - roughly one month before the show hits New York - Verve and UMe have celebrated Armstrong's legacy with the release of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong

Vive Le Miles! Eighth Volume of 'Bootleg Series' Spotlights Davis' Second Quintet in France

September 13, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Miles Bootleg 8 packshot

Two years after its last entry, Legacy Recordings revives the Miles Davis Bootleg Series with a deep dive into some early '60s live recordings that showcase the birth of his second great quintet. Miles in France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 brings together five sets on six CDs or eight LPs: three performances from the Festival Mondial du Jazz in the summer of 1963 and two performances over a day at the Paris Jazz Festival in October 1964. (The 1964 material - which features the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter

Donna Summer's Classic 'On the Radio' Collection Gets Turned Up

September 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 46 Comments

Donna Summer On the Radio expanded

At the end of the '70s, to cap an incredible run as one of disco's biggest divas, Donna Summer issued On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II, a double album collecting more than a dozen of her biggest singles to date. This fall, Summer's reissue label Driven by the Music will revisit that set in a whole new way, creating a career-spanning, radio-ready overview of her complete career. On the Radio: Greatest Hits (Expanded), due out November 15, is a 2CD set offering 40 of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Donna Summer

Look Out, Ol' Frankie's Back: Sinatra's Final Solo Album Gets Remixed and Expanded for 40th Anniversary

September 12, 2024 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Frank Sinatra LA Is My Lady

Start spreading the news!  Frank Sinatra may have taken John Kander and Fred Ebb's timeless "(Theme From) New York, New York" to the charts, but the Chairman of the Board also had a soft spot for the City of Angels.  In 1984, he teamed with the legendary Quincy Jones, fresh off a little 1982 album called Thriller, to craft what would become the final solo studio album of Sinatra's extraordinary career.  On October 25, Frank Sinatra Enterprises and UMe will reissue L.A. Is My Lady in a remixed

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones

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

Keep Yourself Alive: Queen Announce Deluxe Edition of Debut with Remixes, Outtakes and More

September 11, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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Queen will go back to the beginning of their recording career on a new box set edition of their debut. The Collectors Edition of their 1973 self-titled effort - now retitled Queen I - will be a 6CD/LP set featuring a brand-new remix of the album by engineers Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson; demos and studio outtakes; instrumental versions and live recordings. (A 2CD cut-down will include the new mix and the set's third disc, featuring studio alternates.) The box

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Review: Faces, "Faces at the BBC: Complete BBC Concert and Session Recordings 1970-1973"

September 11, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Faces at the BBC

Between the summer of 1969 and the fall of 1975, a joyful noise emerged whenever Faces took the stage.  Ronnie Lane (bass), Kenney Jones (drums), and Ian McLagan (keyboards) had emerged from the ashes of pop's Small Faces, while Rod Stewart (vocals) and Ronnie Wood (guitar) were blues-rock veterans of the first iteration of The Jeff Beck Group in which Wood played bass.  When they came together, they created a sound unlike either of those earlier groups: rough-and-tumble, raw, ramshackle,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Faces, Rod Stewart

Return of the Acid Queen: Rhino Brings Tina Turner's Early Works Back to CD, Vinyl

September 10, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Tina Turns the Country On half speed

A half-century after her solo career began, the late, great Tina Turner's earliest albums will come back into print this fall - including the premiere CD release of her first solo album. Rhino, who digitally reissued Tina's four solo albums for United Artists last year, will press Tina Turns the Country On! (1974), Acid Queen (1975), Rough (1978) and Love Explosion (1979) on CD and vinyl. It's the first time the latter three have been in print in more than 20 years. The LP of Tina Turns the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Tina Turner

Joy in Repetition: Cherry Red's 'Dearly Beloved' Pays Tribute to Prince, the Songwriter

September 10, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Dearly Beloved Prince Songbook

Between the muted 40th anniversary celebration of Purple Rain and the bizarre drama over an estate-sanctioned Netflix documentary on his life and career, Prince fans could probably use a win lately. A new compilation from Cherry Red looks like it might finally offer one. Dearly Beloved - A Prince Songbook is an unexpectedly robust-looking 3CD set that will pay tribute to the Minneapolis icon as a songwriter - one whose classic hits have become pop standards, with so much talent overflowing

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