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Blonder and Blonder

May 25, 2016 By

The Muffs Blonder

The Muffs' 1995 Blonder and Blonder featured 14 Kim Shattuck-penned originals, including the hit single "Sad Tomorrow."  With Shattuck, Ronnie Barnett and new drummer Roy McDonald comprising the line-up, the Rob Cavallo-produced Blonder became the band's biggest selling album. Omnivore adds seven bonus tracks (2 U.K. B-sides, and 5 previously unissued Shattuck demos) on CD and also presents the original LP on vinyl for the first time in over two decades (first pressing on baby blue vinyl, with

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of May 20

May 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

ChangesOneBowie

Welcome to this week's packed Release Round-Up! David Bowie, ChangesOneBowie (Parlophone/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) ChangesOneBowie returns from Parlophone in a 40th anniversary edition available on vinyl, CD and digital formats.  Originally issued on RCA in May 20, 1976, ChangesOneBowie was the first key compilation album from superstar David Bowie.  Collecting songs dating back to 1969, the 11-track album introduced the single "John, I'm Only Dancing" on LP

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Adam & The Ants, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Dave Grusin, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, Marvin Hamlisch, Mudcrutch, The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson

Release Round-Up: Week of May 13

May 13, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Grateful Dead Red Rocks 7 8 78

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Linda Ronstadt, Frenesi (Remastered Edition) (Elektra/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Linda Ronstadt's 1992 Spanish-language album Frenesi returns to CD in a newly-remastered edition with no additional content.  Consider this an appetizer for the upcoming expanded remaster of Trio! Allen Toussaint, The Complete Warner Recordings (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino has a reissue of its 2003

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Allen Toussaint, Grateful Dead, Henry Mancini, Linda Ronstadt, Miles Davis, The Blind Boys of Alabama

Release Round-Up: Week of May 6

May 6, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

The Cars Moving in Stereo

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring Second Disc Records' very first title of 2016, plus more fantastic releases from our partners at Real Gone Music and titles from Brian Wilson, The Cars, and more! Bobby Darin, Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We know that you all know about this one...it's the ultimate celebration of Bobby Darin's time at Motown Records on 2 CDs, newly remastered from the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bobby Darin, Brian Wilson, Cactus, Cannonball Adderley, Cyndi Lauper, Dan Fogelberg, Grateful Dead, Johnny Paycheck, Ryan Adams, The Beau Brummels, The Cars, The Move, The Rides, The Staple Singers

Lumpy Money

April 27, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Lumpy Money

UMe/Zappa Records returns 2008's Lumpy Money "Project/Object" deluxe edition - celebrating Frank Zappa's seminal albums Lumpy Gravy and We're Only In It for the Money - to print in a wide-release edition.  The set features 72 tracks on 3 CDs, as well as liner notes by David Fricke and the late Gail Zappa.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Walk, Don't Run: Cherry Red Expands The Ventures' "Beach Party"

April 26, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Ventures Beach Party

For nearly 60 years, The Ventures have brought the sound of surf music to audiences worldwide.  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band, formed in Tacoma, Washington in 1958, remains the best-selling instrumental group of all time.   Cherry Red's él label has recently travelled back to the band's earliest days for the new release Beach Party.  The original 1962 album of that name is the centerpiece of this reissue, and it's been expanded with tracks from eight more Ventures albums. Beach

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: The Ventures

Stranger to Stranger

April 10, 2016 By

Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger

Paul Simon returns with his 13th solo studio album and first since 2011's So Beautiful or So What.  Stranger has been co-produced by his longtime collaborator Roy Halee and features the first single "Wristband."  Simon says "sound is the theme of this album," and sessions featured dance and flamenco artists as well as inspiration from 20th century composer/theorist Harry Partch (maker of custom instruments in microtonal tunings).  Stranger to Stranger is available in standard and deluxe editions

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

Fallen Angels

April 10, 2016 By

Bob Dylan Fallen Angels

Bob Dylan returns to the standards milieu of Shadows in the Night with this new album featuring his renditions of "All or Nothing at All," "All the Way," "Young at Heart," "That Old Black Magic," and other tunes from The Great American Songbook.  Available on CD, LP and DD.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

The Love Album

April 7, 2016 By

Doris Day The Love Album

The Love Album, first released in 1994, brings together the songs recorded by the luminous Doris Day over three sessions in Hollywood, 1967, including "Are You Lonesome Tonight?," "For All We Know" and "Street of Dreams."  Varese's reissue of this romantic classic arranged by the great Sid Feller features new period photography and three (previously issued) bonus tracks of "Both Sides Now," "It's Magic" and "Sentimental Journey."

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Pure McCartney

April 6, 2016 By

Pure McCartney

Paul tells his own musical story on this new personally-curated, non-chronologically-sequenced collection drawing on his solo and Wings work.  It's available in 4-CD (67 tracks), 4-LP (41 tracks) and 2-CD (39 tracks) formats, and features material spanning between 1970's homemade McCartney through 2014's "Hope for the Future," featured on the Destiny video game.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

All the Way

March 26, 2016 By

Frank Sinatra All the Way

Frank Sinatra's All The Way album, originally released in 1961 by Capitol to round up twelve non-LP singles, arrives on 180-gram vinyl. This Billboard Top 5 album features the Oscar-winning, hit title track by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Release Round-Up: Week of March 25

March 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Dylan Live 1964 Bootleg SACD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall (Audio Fidelity)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall comes to hybrid 5.0 multichannel SACD for the first time. Audio Fidelity's release will boast a full booklet (as on the original standard CD release) and is playable in stereo on all CD players.  Read more here! Various

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Kleeer, Mark Murphy, Sarah Vaughan, Stargard, The Kinks, Various Artists, Winfield Parker

Release Round-Up: Week of March 18

March 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Elvis Album Collection 2

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a host of titles on CD and vinyl! Elvis Presley, The Album Collection (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) To coincide with the 60th anniversary of his signing to RCA, Elvis Presley's The Album Collection is a whopping 60-disc box set containing 57 RCA albums released during Presley's lifetime (many with bonus tracks added) and 3 bonus discs of rarities, one disc each for the '50s, '60s and '70s.  A 300-page

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: a-ha, Elvis Presley, Garry Tallent, Julian Slade, The O'Jays, Todd Rundgren

Release Round-Up: Week of March 11

March 11, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Peter and Micky

This week's Release Round-Up is filled with reissues and anthologies from favorite artists on both CD and vinyl! Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz, An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz (7a Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Today sees the U.S. release of one of the coolest titles so far of 2016!  An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz captures the candid, intimate conversations between the rock legends recorded earlier this year.  The first CD in this

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Brenda Russell, Dave Mason, Herbie Mann, Jeff Buckley, Judy Garland, Maynard Ferguson, Mickey Gilley, Micky Dolenz, Peter Noone, Teddy Pendergrass, The Cars, Whitney Houston

Box O' Todd

March 7, 2016 By

Todd Rundgren Box OTodd

The 3-CD Box O' Todd draws exclusively on radio broadcasts of Rundgren's early years, with live concerts from Philadelphia 1971, Hempstead, NY 1972 and Cincinnati 1973 (the latter featuring Utopia).  Featuring both hits and rarities, Box O' Todd includes a booklet with color photos and liner notes by Dave Thompson, a guitar pick, three pins, and a replica backstage pass.

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

Release Round-Up: Week of March 4

March 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Fleetwood Mac In Concert

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a host of titles on CD and vinyl! Fleetwood Mac, In Concert (Warner Bros./Rhino)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 3-LP concert album features 22 live recordings from Fleetwood Mac's 1979-1980 tour, originally presented in December on the Tusk Deluxe Edition box set, for the very first time on vinyl.  The music heard on In Concert was recorded at four stops (Wembley, Tucson, St. Louis, Omaha) during the band's 111-show

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bing Crosby, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, Lords of the New Church, Loretta Lynn, Margaret Whiting, Mario Lanza, The O'Jays, The Three Degrees, Vic Dana

Good and Rare: Volume 3

March 1, 2016 By

Bing Crosby Good and Rare 3

Sepia Recordings continues its long-running series of Bing Crosby releases with the third volume of Good and Rare.  Here you'll find previously unissued recordings, alternates and rehearsal recordings beginning with an alternate take of his hit Victor recording of "Ol' Man River."  Also featured are three previously unissued recordings Crosby made for the war effort and rehearsal recordings of "It's Easy to Remember" (1934) and "Where is Central Park?" (1938).  This is a public domain release in

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Release Round-Up: Week of February 26

February 26, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bowie at the Beeb Vinyl Box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up filled with deluxe reissues on vinyl and CD, box sets, new releases from veteran artists, and more! Michael Jackson, Off the Wall (Epic/Legacy) CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The King of Pop's 1979 Epic solo debut Off the Wall is revived for 2016 with an additional DVD or BD of Spike Lee's acclaimed new documentary about the making of the album, Michael Jackson's Journey from

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Cobham, Bonnie Raitt, Burt Bacharach, David Bowie, Emmit Rhodes, Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Stephen Sondheim, Todd Rundgren, Willie Nelson

Release Round-Up: Week of February 19

February 19, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Yvonne Elliman Night Flight and Yvonne

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up with titles from legends of pop, jazz, country and more! Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto '76 (Resonance) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In 1976, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto reunited at San Francisco's Keystone Korner alongside pianist Joanne Brackeen, bassist Clint Houston and drummer Billy Hart.  Their never-before-released set arrives in lavish fashion from Resonance Records on CD and vinyl.  The deluxe CD includes a

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bruce Broughton, Buck Owens, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Tammy Wynette, Yvonne Elliman

Release Round-Up: Week of February 12

February 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Barbara Mandrell This Time

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring the lost songs of a country-pop superstar, two more entries into an underrated SoCal songbook, new music from veteran artists, and much more! Barbara Mandrell, This Time I Almost Made It: The Lost Columbia Masters (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We all know Barbara Mandrell did make it...as one of the most successful country crossover superstars of all time.  Now, Real Gone has rescued the legendary

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop Tags: Barbara Mandrell, Charles Bukowski, Dion, J.D. Souther, Marty Balin, Maynard Ferguson, Paul Carrack

Release Round-Up: Week of February 5

February 5, 2016 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Elton Wonderful Crazy Night

Welcome to February's first Release Round-Up! Elton John, Wonderful Crazy Night (Island/UMe) Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Sir Elton returns with his 32nd studio album!  Featuring his longtime band and production by T Bone Burnett, Wonderful Crazy Night returns Elton to his upbeat, piano

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chicago, Doug Sahm, Elton John, Grateful Dead, Ides of March, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Nancy LaMott, Ralph Stanley, The Circle Jerks

The Elektra Years 1978-1987

February 4, 2016 By

The Cars Box

The Elektra Years 1978-1987, a six-disc box set offering all six of The Cars' albums - The Cars (1978), Candy-O (1979), Panorama (1980), Shake It Up (1981), Heartbeat City (1984) and Door to Door (1987) - all newly remastered. (This marks the first time that any album outside of the band's powerhouse debut gets a sonic upgrade!) Vocalist/guitarist Ric Ocasek oversaw the mastering, while drummer David Robinson, who helped create the band's original album covers, served as art director for the

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

Release Round-Up: Week of January 29

January 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Phil Collins Face Value 2015

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a host of deluxe reissues, box sets, and more! Phil Collins, Face Value: Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Phil Collins' 1981 classic featuring "In the Air Tonight" gets expanded to two CDs or DD with the addition of eight live tracks and four demos (plus a new, modern cover photograph echoing the original).  Ten of the twelve bonuses are new

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Bill Evans, Cilla Black, Esther Phillips, Harpers Bizarre, Julia Fordham, Lee Hazlewood, Phil Collins, Sister Sledge, The Hollies, The Miamis, The Paris Sisters

Release Round-Up: Week of January 22

January 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Chicago II SACD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Black Sabbath Deluxe Reissue Series (Warner Bros./Rhino) Black Sabbath: Deluxe Edition - Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Paranoid: Deluxe Edition - Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Master of Reality: Deluxe Edition - Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Past Lives: Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Rhino is reissuing the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: America, Black Sabbath, Carly Simon, Chicago, Loggins and Messina

Release Round-Up: Week of January 15

January 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Alan Price Savaloy Dip

Welcome to our weekly Release Round-Up! Alan Price, Savaloy Dip (Omnivore Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Alan Price's 1974 Warner Bros. album Savaloy Dip came and went in the blink of an eye (on a recalled eight-track!) before disappearing for what might have been forever...but Omnivore Recordings has come to the rescue with the first-ever reissue of this 11-song lost record from the Animals founder/keyboardist! Wes Montgomery, One Night in Indy

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Alan Price, Dorothy Loudon, Wes Montgomery

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