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Decades Volume 3: Cornucopia

February 22, 2024 By

Belinda Carlisle Decades Cornucopia

Edsel continues its chronological collections of Belinda Carlisle's albums with this Cornucopia. The 4-CD book-style box starts off with two discs of mostly "orphaned" tracks released largely between 1987 and 2021: B-sides, non-album and greatest hits-exclusive cuts, covers of John Lennon ("Jealous Guy"), Carpenters ("Bless the Beasts and the Children"), and the Sex Pistols ("Submission"), and even an octet of recordings Carlisle and producer Gabe Lopez have put together for various projects

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Paris: 30th Anniversary Edition

February 22, 2024 By

The Cure Paris

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Cure's 1993 double live album Paris is getting a slightly belated 30th anniversary edition courtesy of Rhino.  The 2LP and 1CD expanded editions premiere two bonus tracks, and all audio has been newly remastered by frontman Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. The black vinyl edition has been cut by Showell.  Paris arrived in stores in October 1993 - the group's third live

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

Precious Memories

February 22, 2024 By

Barbara Mandrell Precious Memories

Gaither Music Group and Capitol Christian reissue country queen Barbara Mandrell's 1989 album Precious Memories: 20 Hymns and Gospel Classics on CD and digital formats.  The double-record set was originally issued by the mail-order Heartland Music label, and heavily promoted on radio and television at the time.  It was produced by Barbara's longtime collaborator Tom Collins who had helmed 19 albums and such hits for her as "Standing Room Only," "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed," "Years," and "I

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Gospel

Bleed Like Me: Deluxe Edition

February 22, 2024 By

Garbage Bleed Like Me

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Garbage closed a chapter of their career in 2005 with the release of their fourth album, Bleed Like Me, in 2005. Now, they're reopening that chapter with a new deluxe edition of the album, due out in April.  The deluxe Bleed Like Me follows similar expansions of the group's early discography on the Almo/Interscope/Geffen labels, where the post-grunge

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

What's Love Got to Do with It (30th Anniversary Edition)

February 22, 2024 By

What's Love Got to Do with It box

4CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Just months after the career-spanning compilation The Queen of Rock and Roll, Parlophone and Rhino will reissue another one of the late Queen's classic albums in several deluxe formats: 1993's What's Love Got to Do with It.  The companion album to the biopic of the same name, the 4CD/1DVD set will include the remastered original album - including

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Complete Collection

February 22, 2024 By

Emerson Lake & Powell Complete Collection

Cherry Red, in partnership with Spirit of Unicorn Music, will issue Emerson, Lake & Powell's studio and live material as Complete Collection, a 3CD set. It will include the prog trio's self-titled 1986 album (including two CD-only bonus tracks and a single edit of "The Score") and two self-released titles on ELP's Manticore label: Live in Concert (recorded during the group's U.S. tour) and The Sprocket Sessions, a collection of live-in-studio rehearsals for said tour. Andy Pearce has

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

This Close to You: Expanded Edition

February 22, 2024 By

Luther This Close to You

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Everybody rejoice! Legacy and Primary Wave restore both albums by Luther - the legendary Vandross' quintet featuring Anthony Hinton and Diane Sumler (both from the group Shades of Jade), Theresa V. Reed and Christine Wiltshire (of disco outfits Class Action and Phreek) - to print in CD, LP, and digital editions.  Luther (1976) and This Close to You (1977) were originally issued by the Cotillion label

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

Luther: Expanded Edition

February 22, 2024 By

Luther LP

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Everybody rejoice! Legacy and Primary Wave restore both albums by Luther - the legendary Vandross' quintet featuring Anthony Hinton and Diane Sumler (both from the group Shades of Jade), Theresa V. Reed and Christine Wiltshire (of disco outfits Class Action and Phreek) - to print in CD, LP, and digital editions.  Luther (1976) and This Close to You (1977) were originally issued by the Cotillion label

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

Too Late the Hero: Edsel Collects John Entwistle's Solo Work in 'The Ox Box Set'

February 22, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

John Entwistle The Ox

John Entwistle's solo material - between and after his time as founding bassist of The Who - will be compiled into a new box set from Edsel. The Ox, due May 10, collects six of his solo albums - Smash Your Head Against the Wall (1971), Whistle Rymes (1972), Rigor Mortis Sets In (1973), Mad Dog (1975), Too Late the Hero (1981) and The Rock (1996) - along with 29 previously released bonus tracks, including demos, B-sides and other rarities. (The track lists mirror individual reissues of these

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Joe Walsh, John Entwistle, Peter Frampton, The Who, Zak Starkey

Great Design: The Call Reissue Early Albums, Plan 'Lost Tapes' and Unreleased Live Sets

February 22, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

The Call Kickstarter

A bit of quick maneuvering through this story will get you access to some classic and unheard material from one of the more underrated bands of the '80s: The Call. Famously championed by Peter Gabriel as "the future of American music" (and featured with Simple Minds' Jim Kerr on the single "Everywhere I Go"), The Call (chiefly comprised of frontman Michael Been, guitarist Tom Ferrier, keyboardist Jim Goodwin and drummer Scott Musick) were best known for the modern rock favorites "I Still

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Call

Everybody Rejoice: Long-Unavailable Luther Vandross Projects Coming to CD, LP, Digital

February 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Luther LP

Legacy Recordings has announced plans to deepen the legend of Luther Vandross with the first-ever expanded reissue of two long-unavailable albums recorded mononymously as Luther in the mid-'70s. Luther (1976) and This Close to You (1977) were originally issued by the Cotillion label but near impossible to find after Vandross finally found solo success in the 1980s, as he bought the rights to both releases back. With 2024 poised to be a big rediscovery year for the late icon - the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Luther Vandross

Feel a Whole Lot Better: Liberation Hall's RSD Slate Includes Gene Clark, Flying Burrito Brothers, "Los Nuggetz"

February 21, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Flying Burrito Brothers Live in Amsterdam

Continuing our ongoing look at this year's massive Record Store Day list, here is a glance at all three releases from Liberation Hall.  All descriptions are taken directly from the label.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca.  CD fans, rejoice:

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country Tags: Gene Clark, Record Store Day, The Flying Burrito Brothers

Lay Down Your Guns: Emerson, Lake & Powell Collection and Carl Palmer Anthology Due Soon

February 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Carl Palmer Fanfare for the Common Man

Fans of ELP - whether that stands for Emerson, Lake & Palmer or Emerson, Lake & Powell - have some new compilations to look forward to this spring. Cherry Red, in partnership with Spirit of Unicorn Music, will issue Emerson, Lake & Powell's studio and live material as Complete Collection, a 3CD set due April 12. It will include the prog trio's self-titled 1986 album (including two CD-only bonus tracks and a single edit of "The Score") and two self-released titles on ELP's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Asia, Carl Palmer, Cozy Powell, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Emerson Lake and Powell, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, Mike Oldfield

(Can't You) Trip Like I Do: Craft Recordings' RSD Slate Includes Collective Soul, Bill Evans, "Reel Cult" Soundtrack Series Launch, More

February 20, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Ennio Morricone Orca

Today, we continue our ongoing look at this year's massive Record Store Day list with a spotlight on the releases coming from Craft Recordings.  All descriptions are taken directly from the label.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca.  Craft

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: At The Drive-In, Bill Evans, Collective Soul, Dalai Lama, Ennio Morricone, Filter, Record Store Day

Many States of Independence: Demon Unveils RSD List with Donna Summer, Yardbirds, Lulu, Average White Band, More

February 20, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lulu Man with the Golden Gun

As the week unfolds, we'll be continuing our ongoing look at this year's massive Record Store Day list.  Here is a glance at all of the releases coming from Demon Music Group.  All descriptions are taken directly from the label.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Average White Band, Dead or Alive, Donna Summer, Lamont Dozier, Lulu, Parliament, Pixies, Record Store Day, Steps, T Rex, The Yardbirds, Travis Biggs

RE:VIEW

February 17, 2024 By

Melissa Manchester REVIEW

Melissa Manchester celebrates 50 years since her 1973 album debut Home to Myself with this new studio album, her first since 2017's The Fellas.  RE:VIEW looks back on that extraordinary career with new arrangements and renditions of her classic songs, including "Midnight Blue" with Dolly Parton and "Whenever I Call You Friend" with her co-writer Kenny Loggins and saxophonist Dave Koz.  Melissa also debuts her own recording of "Confide in Me," originally recorded by Diana Ross.  Gerald Albright

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

Dawned on Me: Legacy's Record Store Day Lineup Features Wilco, Willie Nelson, Nas, G. Love and Special Sauce, "Spawn," More

February 16, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Spawn The Album

Continuing our ongoing look at this year's massive Record Store Day list, here is a glance at all six releases from Sony Music's Legacy Recordings label.  All descriptions are taken directly from Legacy.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bare Jr., G. Love and Special Sauce, Nas, Wilco, Willie Nelson

Mind Games: Universal's Record Store Day Lineup Includes Beatles, Elton, The Who, John Lennon, Charlie Parker, U2, Ringo Starr, "Wicked", Frank Zappa, More

February 16, 2024 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Elton John Caribou

Continuing our look through this year's Record Store Day list, here is a glance at twenty-one releases from the Universal family of labels.  All descriptions are taken from the labels.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca. The Beatles, "I Saw

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Charlie Parker, Def Leppard, Elton John, Everything But the Girl, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Marianne Faithfull, Pearl Jam, Record Store Day, Ringo Starr, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Soft Cell, Sonic Youth, The Beatles, The Cranberries, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Thin Lizzy, U2

Rhino's Record Store Day Lineup Features Doors, Talking Heads, Faces, Todd Rundgren, Linda Ronstadt, Four Seasons, Dio, More

February 15, 2024 By The Second Disc 10 Comments

Linda Ronstadt Asylum Years

It's that time of year again!  Record Store Day announcements are coming fast and furious in anticipation of the big day, Saturday, April 20.  As usual, Rhino's slate is a packed one, with a whopping 39 titles including releases from The Doors and Dwight Yoakam on CD as well as vinyl.  Click here for a list of participating independent record stores.  All descriptions below are provided by the label.  (*) denotes worldwide units. AIR - Kelly Watch the Stars Limited Edition of 5,500* copies;

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, David Bowie, Dio, Dwight Yoakam, Faces, Fleetwood Mac, Foghat, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Grateful Dead, Jimmy Cliff, Linda Ronstadt, Lowell George, Ramones, Record Store Day, Talking Heads, The Cure, The Doors, The English Beat, The Notorious B.I.G., The Replacements, Todd Rundgren, Willie Nelson, Yes

Save Some for Thee: Cherry Red, Esoteric Reissue Family's "Fearless"

February 15, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Family Fearless

During its relatively short existence, British rock band Family went through a number of personnel and stylistic changes.  Cherry Red's Esoteric label has been expanding the Family catalogue, with the band's fifth album, Fearless, having arrived in a 3CD edition late last year.  A re-press of the 2CD expanded edition of their third album, A Song for Me, is due on March 1. Family had its origins in Leicester, largely putting the East Midlands city on the British rock map.  Vocalist Roger

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Family

Right Between the Eyes: Garbage to Reissue and Expand 'Bleed Like Me'

February 14, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Garbage Frank Ockenfels III (2)

Garbage closed a chapter of their career in 2005 with the release of their fourth album, Bleed Like Me, in 2005. Now, they're reopening that chapter with a new deluxe edition of the album, due out in April. The deluxe Bleed Like Me follows similar expansions of the group's early discography on the Almo/Interscope/Geffen labels, where the post-grunge group - frontwoman Shirley Manson, multi-instrumentalists Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, and drummer Butch Vig - rose to fame in the '90s with

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Garbage

The Kind You Make Your Wishes On: Tina Turner's 'What's Love Got to Do with It' Gets Box Set from Rhino

February 14, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

What's Love Got to Do with It box

Rhino's celebration of Tina Turner knows no limits! Just months after the career-spanning compilation The Queen of Rock and Roll, the label will reissue another one of her classic albums in several deluxe formats: 1993's What's Love Got to Do with It. The companion album to the biopic of the same name, the 4CD/1DVD set (available April 26) will include the remastered original album - including two tracks left off U.S. pressings - along with a bonus disc of remixes and rarities, including an

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Tina Turner

Soundtrack Watch: Intrada's 'Inchon' Re-Introduction, La-La Land's Next 'Trek'

February 13, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Inchon Intrada 2024

La-La Land and Intrada are reaching into their archives for a pair of new releases out this month. Coming from La-La Land is the fourth entry of Star Trek: The Original Series - The 1701 Collection, a series of six volumes drawn from 2012's box set of music from the iconic television show. This 2CD set features music from seven episodes released in 1968 and 1969, as scored by original series theme composer Alexander Courage, along with music by Jerry Fielding, Gerald Fried and Ivan Ditmars.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alexander Courage, Jerry Fielding, Jerry Goldsmith

All That is Her Own: Early Nico Albums Due for CD, Vinyl Reissue in March

February 13, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Nico The Marble Index

Anyone who thought they had the sound of German actress/singer Nico figured out from her work on 1967's The Velvet Underground & Nico and Chelsea Girl would not have expected what she did next - chapters in a musical career that will be explored on new reissues by Domino Recording Company. On March 29, the label will issue newly remastered versions of 1969's The Marble Index and 1970's Desertshore on CD and vinyl, featuring unseen photos of the artist in the liner notes. The Marble Index

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: John Cale, Nico

Peace in the Valley: Barbara Mandrell's "Precious Memories" Returns to CD

February 12, 2024 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Barbara Mandrell Precious Memories

Though Barbara Mandrell retired from performing and recording in 1997, the country superstar remains beloved.  In 2022, she made a rare public appearance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her induction into the Grand Ole Opry; an all-female lineup of artists including Carrie Underwood, Suzy Bogguss, Linda Davis, Connie Smith, Mandy Barnett, and CeCe Winans paid tribute.  Mandrell offered her warm appreciation but did not sing; for the past 25 years, she's restricted any singing activities to

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Gospel Tags: Barbara Mandrell

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