Three decades after one of the quirkiest, catchiest rock albums of the '90s, Weezer will celebrate their self-titled debut with a box set packed with unreleased demos, studio and live material. Known the world over as "The Blue Album" - one of six self-titled albums the band has issued with color-coded covers - the debut will be reissued by UMe on November 1 as a 3CD set or vinyl equivalent spanning four LPs, a 10" EP and a 7" single. Both physical (and all digital) formats come with 40 bonus
The Story Behind The Album: The New Christy Minstrels' 'Live at Ledbetter's: The Complete Concert'
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Last week, Legacy Recordings unveiled a special treat for fans of The New Christy Minstrels, the bestselling, Grammy-winning large folk ensemble. The digital release Live from Ledbetter's: The Complete Concert (iTunes / Amazon) was recorded at the Los Angeles venue in 1964 but remained on the shelf until rescued from the vaults in 1999. Now, a quarter of a century later, producer-historian Tom Pickles has returned to the Ledbetter's tapes for a brand-new, expanded presentation premiering three
Shot Right Through with a Bolt of Blue: New Order Outline Definitive Edition of 'Brotherhood'
New Order will release the latest in their Definitive Edition series of album reissues: their fourth album, 1986's Brotherhood. Available November 22, Brotherhood (Definitive Edition) will follow the previous three release formats, offering the remastered album on CD and vinyl along with a bonus disc of material (including nine previously unreleased tracks) and two DVDs of unseen video footage, including live concerts and TV appearances. As with previous releases, the Definitive Edition will
The Ghostman Always Rings Twice: Real Gone Reissues Frankie Stein and His Ghouls and Vincent Price for Halloween
Halloween is just around the corner and Real Gone is getting into the spirt of things with several reissues hitting store shelves tomorrow, September 6. The first and most expansive release is Frankie Stein and His Ghouls: The Complete Ghoul-Lection which collects the five albums from the group released in 1964 and 1965. These albums were aimed at children and were released on Power Records, an imprint of Peter Pan Records. Aside from novelty records like these, Peter Pan and Power released
American Idiot: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
4CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (red/black splatter): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada American Idiot will come back into print with a new box set spanning four CDs (or eight colored LPs) and two Blu-ray Discs. It'll feature the original album, a disc of B-sides and non-LP live tracks, 15 unreleased demos and a 2004 live set at Irving Plaza in New York City that featured the album front to back. Video extras
When All is Said and Done: ABBA Plot New Compilation with All the A-Sides
ABBA are set to release their latest - and as of a few years ago, truly - career-spanning compilation this fall. Available October 25 on two CDs or four LPs, The Singles (The First Fifty Years) updates the concept of 1982's The Singles (The First Ten Years), a double album which collected 23 of the group's A-sides (including new tracks "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack," effectively the final works from the group after members Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad as well as Björn
Step Right Up: SoulMusic Records, TSD Celebrate Blue Magic on "Stop to Start" Box Set
Throughout 2024, SoulMusic Records has teamed with The Second Disc to celebrate the sound of Philadelphia with a number of comprehensive box sets: The Salsoul Orchestra's It's Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978); Double Exposure's My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979); First Choice's Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980); Loleatta Holloway's We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982); and Spinners' Keep on Keepin'
Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)
6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) features six CDs (also available as a "highlights" set on four LPs) chronicling the Canadian icon's trek through the latter half of the '70s, peeling away from her always-eclectic folk-pop sound, venturing into territory inspired by jazz and fusion. Sourced from variously assembled materials, from rare multitrack tapes to radio recordings
Archives Vol. III (1976-1987)
17CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17CD/5BD Deluxe Set: Official Store This week's biggest release is the long-awaited third volume of Neil Young's long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), spans in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and five Blu-rays boasting a broad array of songs and film footage: 15 unreleased songs, 121 unreleased tracks, and 11 full-length films (four of them unreleased). Housed in a box identical to Archives Vol. I (1963-1972) (2009)
Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Craft Recordings will commemorate seven decades since one of Miles Davis' most pivotal early years with a new 2CD or 4LP compilation that brings everything he recorded in that period together. Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings offers 20 tracks from several unforgettable sessions, with luminaries like pianists Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and
Turning Back the Time
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada To celebrate their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year, Foreigner will release a new greatest hits collection, including a previously unreleased track that reunites the group's two most notable members. Turning Back the Time brings together 18 of the group's most notable radio staples, including "Feels Like the First Time," "Cold As Ice," "Hot Blooded," "Urgent," "Waiting
In Session: Deluxe Edition
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada An intergenerational meeting between two late blues guitar gods - Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan - will be revived on CD and vinyl in a new expanded package. Originally recorded in 1983 and first released in 1999, In Session features the six-stringers trading licks on a Canadian television program of the same name, when King was a 60-year-old living legend and Vaughan a young upstart who'd
Christmas Memories
Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Barnes & Noble Barbra Streisand's 2001 Christmas album - only her second, following 1967's A Christmas Album - makes its premiere on vinyl. The album features David Foster and Linda Thompson's "Grown Up Christmas List," Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember," and Frank Loesser's "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve," among other selections in the inimitable Streisand fashion. This release has been newly remastered. Barnes and Noble will carry an
A Christmas Album
Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Barnes & Noble Barbra Streisand's landmark 1967 Christmas album featuring "Jingle Bells?," "White Christmas," and "My Favorite Things" returns to vinyl in a newly remastered edition with one bonus track, the English-language version of "Gounod's Ave Maria" previously available only on a Starbucks compilation CD. Barnes and Noble will carry an exclusive white vinyl pressing. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed At Pickwick Records 1964-1965
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Light in the Attic (Oxblood/Gold Vinyl) Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed At Pickwick Records 1964-1965 serves as the first official anthology (blessed by both Reed's estate and his widow, musician Laurie Anderson) covering Reed's first gig in the music business: as a songwriter and sometime musician for the budget-minded Pickwick label collective. Despite the obscurity of the material - and the
Red Roses For Me: 40th Anniversary Edition
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Red recycled LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada To mark 40 years since their unconventional sound was loosed on the European record buying public, The Pogues' debut album Red Roses for Me is being reissued by Rhino. The package will be available as a red LP on recycled vinyl - featuring a 2013 remix of the album that was first pressed on wax two years later - or a 2CD set that will make the remix available on the format for the first
Long After Dark: Deluxe Edition
2CD/Blu-ray Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/Blu-ray Audio (with Amazon-exclusive stickers): Amazon U.S. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Tom Petty Store (Exclusive) 1LP: Links TBD Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' fifth studio album is getting a deluxe makeover. Geffen/UMe revisit 1982's oft-overlooked Long After Dark, originally released on Backstreet Records, in various formats including 1LP (various color variants), 2LP, and 2CD+Blu-ray. The bonus
Paul Robeson's Glorious Voice Gets Its Due on New Box Set
As an actor, singer, linguist and political thinker, Paul Robeson was one of the most accomplished Black men in America. A newly-released box set will finally give him the attention his work deserves. Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings is a lavish 14CD box set that serves at the definitive account of Robeson on record: a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance whose expressive bass-baritone preserved scores of American spirituals and folk songs, and a
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' 'Long After Dark' Gets Lucky on New Deluxe Edition
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' fifth studio album is getting a deluxe makeover. On October 18, Geffen/UMe will revisit 1982's oft-overlooked Long After Dark, originally released on Backstreet Records, in various formats including 1LP, 2LP, and 2CD+Blu-ray. Petty was joined by Mike Campbell (lead guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Stan Lynch (drums), and new recruit Howie Epstein (bass/backing vocals) as well as co-producer Jimmy Iovine for Long After Dark. The third and final of Petty's
Boys from the County Hell: The Pogues' Debut Goes Deluxe for Its 40th Anniversary
To mark 40 years since their unconventional sound was loosed on the European record buying public, The Pogues' debut album Red Roses for Me will be reissued by Rhino this fall. The package will be available as a red LP on recycled vinyl - featuring a 2013 remix of the album that was first pressed on wax two years later - or a 2CD set that will make the remix available on the format for the first time, along with a bonus disc of six B-sides and a dozen live sessions for the BBC. (Those 12 tracks
Review: John Lennon, "Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection"
It's been quite a while since the last John Lennon "Ultimate" box set. Imagine arrived in 2018, followed by Plastic Ono Band in 2021; the multi-disc solo anthology Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes was released in between, in 2020. Anticipation justly ran high for this year's Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection, a 6CD/2BD set exploring every aspect of the solo Beatle's 1974 fourth album. (The politically-charged Some Time in New York City, a hybrid live/studio LP from John and Yoko, has
Light in the Attic Compiles Lou Reed's Earliest Work for Pickwick Records
For most people - let's say the 30,000 or so people who started a band after buying their debut - The Velvet Underground was the band that introduced the world to the uncompromising rock energy of Lou Reed. As the latest archival title of his released by Light in the Attic Records will illustrate, Reed's talents were first put on record in a possibly more unusual place than with The VU. Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed At Pickwick Records 1964-1965 will serve as the first official anthology
Free: Deluxe Edition
Rick Astley's third studio album, 1991's Free, was his first not produced by the Stock-Atiken-Waterman team. Instead, Astley and Gary Stevenson helmed the album which earned a Gold certification in the U.K. and yielded the top ten hit "Cry for Help" on both the U.S. and U.K. charts. This 2CD reissue has a new Abbey Road remaster of the original album plus a generous 18 bonus tracks including previously unreleased tracks, single versions, B-sides, remixes, and instrumentals.
Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV, and Victor Recordings
This lavish 14-CD box collects all of the late singer-activist's major label recordings, spanning 1925-1947. Voice of Freedom includes the first release of Robeson's groundbreaking Victor recordings on CD (16 recordings reissued for the first time, 5 previously unreleased); the first restoration of Robeson's acclaimed 1944 Othello stage production with Uta Hagen and José Ferrer from the original 33 master disc sides; his complete remastered Columbia albums (Songs of Free Men, Popular Favorites,
David Bowie: Deluxe Edition
Polydor and Deram are revisiting David Bowie's 1967 debut album featuring "Uncle Arthur," "Rubber Band," and "Silly Boy Blue" as a 2CD set. Alas, the 2010 Deluxe Edition remains the gold standard for this title, with 53 tracks on 2 CDs including the original mono and stereo albums plus 25 bonus tracks. This new reissue has the 14-song stereo mix only plus 16 bonus tracks, all but two of which are on the 2010 release. The two "new" bonus tracks are "The Laughing Gnome" (Vocal Take 1 / Mix One)
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