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Review: Fleetwood Mac, "Mirage: Deluxe Edition"

September 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Mirage

When Fleetwood Mac entered the Château d'Hérouville studio outside Paris at the dawn of the 1980s, the band had one goal in mind: to create a commercial pop success in the mold of their record-breaking Rumours.  Not everyone in the quintet was sold on this goal, necessarily, especially after the quantum leap forward from Rumours into the beautiful madness that was Tusk.  But while Tusk sold four million copies, it couldn't help but be viewed as a disappointment after the world domination of its

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Fleetwood Mac

Release Round-Up: Week of September 23

September 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bruce Springsteen Chapter and Verse

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, packed with heavy hitters! David Bowie, Who Can I Be Now (1974-1976) (Parlophone) 12-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), the second in the late artist's series of deluxe albums box sets, will contain the following albums plus a 128-page booklet in the CD edition (or 84 pages in the vinyl edition.  You'll find more details here, and watch

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, My Chemical Romance, Pink Floyd, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, The Searchers, The Verve, Various Artists

A Summer Song: RPM Collects Chad and Jeremy's Complete Early Years On "Yesterday's Gone"

September 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Chad and Jeremy Yesterdays Gone 1

In the halcyon days of the British Invasion, Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde notched an impressive eleven Hot 100 singles and six Top 100 albums in the United States.  Their appealing blend of folk and pop, with soft, often hushed vocals and tight harmonies, earned them the attention of Columbia Records, where they recorded five albums before disbanding.  Cherry Red's RPM imprint has recently released a 2-CD, 57-track collection bringing together Chad and Jeremy's early recordings for Ember (in the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Chad and Jeremy, John Barry

57th and 9th

September 22, 2016 By

Sting 57th and 9th

Sting returns to the rock/pop world with 57th and 9th, a collection of all-new songs featuring his longtime collaborators Dominic Miller (guitar) and Vinnie Colaiuta (drums) plus drummer Josh Freese (Nine Inch Nails, Guns n Roses), guitarist Lyle Workman and the San Antonio-based Tex-Mex band The Last Bandoleros.  Available on deluxe and standard CD, DD and LP.  Links to the deluxe CD edition can be found below!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Daybreak For Dolenz: Micky's "MGM Singles" Expanded For CD Premiere

September 21, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Micky Dolenz MGM

Last July, the 7a Records label debuted with a limited edition vinyl release of Micky Dolenz's The MGM Singles Collection.  Since that auspicious release, the all-things-Monkees label founded by Iain Lee and Glenn Gretlund has enriched Micky, Peter, Michael and Davy's discography with numerous other releases on both vinyl and compact disc.  On October 7, the label will be going full circle with the first-time CD release of The MGM Singles Collection in a lavishly expanded edition featuring the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Christian Nesmith, Circe Link, Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

Zappatite: Frank Zappa's Tastiest Tracks

September 20, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Zappatite

Zappa Records and UMe offer up a serving of Zappa's "tastiest tracks"  from "Trouble Every Day" off the 1966 Freak Out! album to 1987's "Strictly Genteel" featuring The London Symphony Orchestra.  This sampler platter includes "Valley Girl," "Peaches en Regalia," "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" and more from the late musical iconoclast.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3

September 19, 2016 By

Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3

The new Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3 is another mini-tour through the Newman oeuvre and the songwriter's many sides, with 16 never-before-released tracks including "I Love to See You Smile," "Short People," "Mama Told Me Not to Come," "Love Story," "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear," "You've Got a Friend in Me," and "Real Emotional Girl." Vol. 3 is being released on compact disc and digital download, and also as part of a limited edition 4-LP vinyl box set.  (A CD box edition will follow

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop

The Randy Newman Songbook [Box Set]

September 19, 2016 By

Randy Newman Songbook 1

The Randy Newman Songbook box set marks the first-ever combined release of all three of the legendary songwriter's piano-and-voice Songbook albums (including the new Vol. 3) recorded in 2003 and 2010 with producers Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker.  All songs have been resequenced as one cohesive, thematically-linked listening experience spread over 4 CDs.  Additionally, the box boasts five exclusive, previously unreleased bonus tracks: the now-standard "Feels Like Home," "A Wedding in Cherokee

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Hey Now: Crowded House's Catalogue Expanded for 30th Anniversary

September 19, 2016 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

CH packshots

Ahead of their induction to the Australia Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame this fall--and 30 years after the release of their first of many stellar albums--Crowded House have unveiled a spectacular and thorough reissue campaign that sees the reissue of all of their albums as expanded CDs and heavyweight vinyl titles. The project, which covers every one of their studio albums release between 1986 and 2010 (plus 2000's rarities album Afterglow), sees each album digitally

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Crowded House, Neil Finn

Out of Time: 25th Anniversary Edition

September 18, 2016 By

REM Out of Time

3-CD/1-BD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-CD Remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-LP Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-LP Remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. R.E.M.'s 1991 classic is revisited as a 3 CD/1 Blu-ray set, a 2-CD set, a 3-LP set, a single LP of the original album and as a digital download as part of the band's new deal with Concord Bicycle Music.  The box includes the original album on Disc 1 followed by nineteen demo tracks on Disc 2. 

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

World On A String

September 18, 2016 By

Frank Sinatra World on a String

Featuring performances spanning 1953 to 1982, this new live collection boasts more than four hours' worth of rare audio and video from the legendary Chairman of the Board - over 90 tracks on CD alone including such Sinatra favorites as "I Get a Kick Out of You," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Witchcraft" and "Bewitched" right up through "Strangers in the Night," ""My Way" and "(Theme From) New York, New York."  Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Don Costa, Gordon Jenkins and Quincy

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Stand Up: The Elevated Edition

September 18, 2016 By

Jethro Tull Stand Up Elevated Edition

For the past several years, Jethro Tull has been releasing expanded editions of their albums featuring new remixes by Steven Wilson.  Coming on November 18, just under a year after the release of the last reissue in the series of 1976's Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!, is a 2CD/1DVD version of 1969'sStand Up, entitled Stand Up: The Elevated Edition.  It includes: Original album and bonus tracks (including the previously unreleased "Bouree") remixed in 5.1 surround and stereo by

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

The New Complete Edition

September 18, 2016 By

Mozart Complete

225 years after the composer's passing, W.A. Mozart: The New Complete Edition chronicles every last note of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's many compositions over a staggering 200 discs. Limited to 15,000 copies worldwide, this box features 240 hours of performance, including five hours of new recordings, some done on instruments the composer personally used.  Eighteen labels, including Decca and Deutsch Grammophon, will be represented, and 70% of the recordings are alternate to Philips Classics'

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classical/Opera

The Ultimate Collection

September 18, 2016 By

Roy Orbison Ultimate

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings and Roy's Boys, LLC deliver a newly-remastered, career-spanning anthology for the late Roy Orbison.  The Ultimate Collection has 26 tracks drawn from The Big O's halcyon years at Monument and MGM as well as his final solo recordings and collaborations with The Traveling Wilburys.  Available on CD, DD and vinyl.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Lazarus: Original Cast Recording

September 18, 2016 By

Lazarus OCR

David Bowie and Enda Walsh's 2015 musical Lazarus receives an original cast album!  This deluxe release showcasing an array of Bowie reinterpretations performed by Michael C. Hall, Cristin Milioti, Sophia Anne Caruso and others will feature a bonus disc with the late artist's own recordings of the musical's four new songs: the previously released "Lazarus" (from his final studio LP, Blackstar) as well as the never-before-released "No Plan," "Killing a Little Time" and "When I Met You" - Bowie's

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings

Review: Gerry Beckley, "Carousel"

September 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Gerry Beckley Carousel

Gerry Beckley celebrated his 64th birthday earlier this week, on Monday, September 12.  We're marking the occasion with a look at his new studio album! One hardly expects the first verse of the first song on a new album from America's resident romantic troubadour, Gerry Beckley, to include the lines "Everything's turned to shit/No matter how I look at it/And I am running out of time..." But while Beckley is happily defying convention on "Tokyo" - the taut, rocking opening cut of his new album

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: America, Gerry Beckley

Release Round-Up: Week of September 16

September 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Led Zeppelin Complete BBC Sessions

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Led Zeppelin, The Complete BBC Sessions (Atlantic/Swan Song/Rhino) 3 CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5 LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3 CD/5 LP Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This new collection expands the original double-disc set, from 1997, which was culled from the band's appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. This updated

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bobby Rush, Jim Steinman, Led Zeppelin, Meat Loaf, Pete Townshend, Petula Clark, Shirley Horn, Various Artists, Willie Nelson

Review: The Beatles, "Live at The Hollywood Bowl"

September 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl

And now...here they are...The Beatles! The summers of 1964 and 1965 are now more than fifty years in the rearview mirror, yet the music made by four lads from Liverpool over three evenings at Los Angeles' famous Hollywood Bowl now sounds so fresh and so immediate, you could believe it was recorded yesterday.  Such is the work of the sonic wizards on Capitol/Apple/UMe's first-time-on-CD, retitled, remixed and expanded reissue of The Beatles' Live at the Hollywood Bowl (B0025451-02,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beatles

Release Round-Up: Week of September 9

September 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up...one of the most packed in recent memory! Beatles, Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Apple/Capitol/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four's legendary catalogue.  That changes today with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Faith No More, Herb Alpert, John Phillips, Leon Russell, Linda Ronstadt, Ramones, The Beatles, The Connells

Alice Through the Looking Glass

September 6, 2016 By

Alice Through the Looking Glass

A rare soundtrack is arriving on CD-R and DD from Masterworks Broadway.  The team of Elsie Simmons and Mark "Moose" Charlap (Peter Pan) scored NBC's television adaptation of Alice Through the Looking Glass which featured a starry cast including Agnes Moorehead (Bewitched), Ricardo Montalban (Fantasy Island), Robert Coote (My Fair Lady), Nanette Fabray, Jack Palance, Jimmy Durante and even The Smothers Brothers - as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum!  This loose adaptation of the Lewis Carroll story,

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks

Knock On Wood: Cherry Pop Collects Amii Stewart's "The Hits: Remixed"

September 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Amii Stewart The Hits Remixed

Cherry Pop is knocking on wood with the new reissue of Amii Stewart's 1985 remix collection The Hits: Remixed.  Though often characterized as a one-hit wonder for her storming 1979 disco cover of Eddie Floyd's "Knock on Wood," there was much more to the talented disco chanteuse's career, as this vibrant set so aptly proves. Washington, DC-born Amy Paulette Stewart was performing in a London company of the musical Bubbling Brown Sugar when she was spotted by Hansa Records' Barry Leng.  The

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Amii Stewart

Release Round-Up: Week of September 2

September 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Robert Goulet Definitive

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up highlighted by the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music! The Isley Brothers, Groove with You...Live! (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We're incredibly excited and proud to bring this sizzling, swooning and immersive double-album document of The Isley Brothers at the peak of their powers to CD for the very first time!  Groove with You...Live! features powerful renditions of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Carpenters, Dionne Warwick, Freddie Mercury, Porter Wagoner, Robert Goulet, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Isley Brothers, The Meters

Come Fly with Me: "The World on a String" Box Set Premieres Live Sinatra On CD and DVD

August 31, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Frank Sinatra World on a String

This fall, the Chairman of the Board will be globetrotting once again.  World on a String is the appropriate name of a new 4-CD/1-DVD box set celebrating Frank Sinatra's live performances on the world's stages.  This box, due on October 21 from UMe and Frank Sinatra Enterprises, follows previous live collections dedicated to Sinatra's performances in London, New York and Vegas.  Upping the ante, the new set has concerts from eight countries: Monaco, Australia, Egypt, Dominican Republic,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra

Review: Judy Henske and Jerry Yester, "Farewell Aldebaran"

August 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Judy Henske and Jerry Yester Farewell Aldebaran

Hello, Aldebaran...or more accurately, welcome back! Farewell Aldebaran first arrived in 1969 on Frank Zappa's Straight Records label from the duo of Judy Henske and Jerry Yester.  Henske was the onetime "Queen of the Beatniks" whose distinctive, bluesy and big voice earned her legions of fans on the folk circuit.  In 1963, Henske married Jerry Yester, a member of The Modern Folk Quartet and veteran of The New Christy Minstrels.  When the MFQ broke up, Yester busied himself as a producer,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Jerry Yester, Judy Henske

Warm Ride: HNE Collects Graham Bonnet's Pre-Rainbow Albums Including Lost LP

August 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Graham Bonnet Back Row

Cherry Red's Hear No Evil Recordings imprint has returned to the catalogue of Graham Bonnet with a pair of recent releases.  Before stepping into the role vacated by Ronnie James Dio in Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, the big-voiced Bonnet had cut a number of records in a pop/R&B, rather than a hard rock, vein.  HNE has reissued and expanded the vocalist's never-before-released 1974 DJM album Back Row in the Stalls on one CD, as well as Graham Bonnet (1977) and No Bad Habits (1978) on a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Graham Bonnet

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