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UPDATE: Macca Mania: Paul's "McCartney" and "McCartney II" Expanded Editions Coming in June [NOW WITH COMPLETE CD/DVD TRACK LISTS]

April 28, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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“Do you foresee a time when Lennon/McCartney becomes an active songwriting partnership again?” That question was one of many posed on a press release enclosed with advanced copies of Paul McCartney’s 1970 solo debut, McCartney. With the Cute Beatle’s one word response, the world knew that The Beatles were irreparably broken. McCartney’s simple “no” spoke volumes. His other answers didn't help matters. And so while the world’s most beloved band was fracturing, a solo career that flourishes to

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Categories: News Tags: Paul McCartney, The Beatles

Beware! La-La Land Expands "The Blob" Remake Score

April 27, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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It can fill up a room in seconds, gets unexplainably bigger every day and can consume anything it touches. No, not your music collection - The Blob! The ectoplasmic entity - as remade in 1988 - is the latest expanded soundtrack to come from La-La Land Records today. A remake of the classic 1958 sci-fi/horror flick, The Blob finds the titular monster consuming the helpless population of a California town - but rather than some space creature, this blob is a military bio-weapon gone horribly

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks

Review: Roy Orbison, "The Monument Singles Collection (1960-1964)"

April 27, 2011 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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It's frequently been said that image is everything in the music business.  And surely one of the most recognizable images in all of music is that of Roy Orbison, the loner behind dark sunglasses, clad in black.  If one could see his eyes, wouldn't they surely betray his lifetime of heartache?  His wife Claudette (the inspiration behind the song) was killed at his side in a motorcycle accident, his two young sons perished in a fire at his home.  There was more than meets the eye to Roy Orbison,

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Categories: Reviews Tags: Roy Orbison

The Aeroplane Flies Higher: EMI Preps Three Years of Smashing Pumpkins Reissues

April 27, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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For Generation X, fewer names inspire emotions quite like Smashing Pumpkins. The Chicago-based alt-rock outfit, anchored primarily by singer, songwriter and sole remaining original member Billy Corgan, made rock music that was dark, atmospheric and ambitious - and yet somehow maintained commercial as well as critical success - before splintering in 2000 and reforming some six years later. While Corgan continues to lead Smashing Pumpkins through some interesting projects - he's been working on a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Smashing Pumpkins

Release Round-Up: Week of April 26

April 26, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Universal) The 2-CD remastered/expanded 40th Anniversary Edition (previously a Best Buy exclusive) and super deluxe 4-CD/2-LP/1-DVD box set of the seminal album both arrive in stores today.  Read more here.  (2-CD – Amazon, Box Set – Amazon) Bob Dylan, The Other Side of the Mirror: Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 (Columbia/Legacy) Murray Lerner’s film chronicling Dylan’s incendiary performances at Newport is released on

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, Roy Orbison

Review: Don Sebesky, "Giant Box"

April 25, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

giant box

Why can’t jazz be populist and pure, both at the same time?  One imagines Creed Taylor asked that question when he launched CTI (Creed Taylor Incorporated) as a solo label back in 1970.  Three years earlier he had decamped from Verve and christened the CTI name as an imprint of Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss’ A&M Records.  At A&M, Taylor produced nearly 30 albums by such jazz greats as Wes Montgomery, Montgomery's heir apparent George Benson, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Herbie Mann.  Taylor’s

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Friday Feature: "Night Shift"

April 22, 2011 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

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Fate works in mysterious ways.  Dionne Warwick was home one evening, half-asleep while the 1982 film Night Shift played on her television set.  “I didn’t really pay attention to the names that were going up on the credits,” Warwick recounted, “but I knew that was Burt Bacharach’s melody.  There was no way in the world it could be anybody else’s.”  She was speaking of “That’s What Friends Are For,” an all-but-forgotten song written for the 1982 film Night Shift, Ron Howard’s major big screen

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Burt Bacharach, Friday Feature, Marshall Crenshaw, Quarterflash, Rod Stewart, The Pointer Sisters

Now Boarding: Jefferson Airplane Reissues Take Off On BGO and Friday Music

April 22, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Now departing from San Francisco: it's Jefferson Airplane! While the classic band's live reissue series launched by Collector's Choice Music remains in limbo, fans of the classic rock line-up of Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Spencer Dryden don't have to fear! Both BGO Records and Friday Music have a rich slate of Airplane projects to keep the group flying high! Friday Music kicks things off with a 180-gram vinyl LP remastering of the ironically-titled

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Categories: News Tags: Vinyl

LAST CHANCE REMINDER! Contest: Win Bob Dylan's "The Other Side of the Mirror" on Blu-Ray

April 22, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Hey, friends!  Our Bob Dylan contest ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. EST.  Mike and I couldn't be more thrilled to give you the opportunity to win The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 on Blu-Ray!  Don't delay; details are below.  Enter now!  We've got some very exciting stuff for fans of Bob Dylan: a contest to win a reissue of a Dylan documentary on Blu-Ray from Legacy Recordings! We're giving away a copy of The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan

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Heavy Traffic: "The Jim Capaldi Story" Told On Upcoming Box Set

April 21, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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It's time to clear a space on your shelf next to Steve Winwood's 1995 box set The Finer Things or its 2010 counterpart Revolutions. The life and career of Winwood's longtime collaborator Jim Capaldi (1944-2005) is being celebrated by the fine folks at Universal U.K. with a lavish new box set, Dear Mr. Fantasy: The Jim Capaldi Story. Set for release on June 27, Dear Mr. Fantasy is named after one of Traffic's most beloved songs.  It encompasses Capaldi's work with that group as well as early

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Steve Winwood, Traffic

"Peace" Still Sells: Megadeth Album to Receive Deluxe Box Treatment

April 20, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Dave Mustaine was determined not to become a footnote in heavy metal history. The guitarist had spent a mostly uneventful two years in the employ of a Los Angeles band named Metallica, who fired him shortly before recording their debut album, Kill 'Em All, in 1983. (Mustaine did pen four tracks on the record, including favorites "The Four Horsemen" and "Jump in the Fire.") Undeterred, Mustaine formed his own band, Megadeth, in 1985. Their debut, Killing is My Business...and Business is Good!,

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Short Takes: Cars on Friday, INXS Live Show and Howard Jones Tidbits

April 20, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Our friends at Friday Music have found a great way to celebrate the reunion of The Cars: a reissue of one of their albums! A straight reissue of the group's final album for Elektra, 1987's Door to Door, remastered by the label's own Joe Reagoso, will be available May 10, the same day as the band's brand-new studio album, Move Like This. In honor of the impending royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, INXS have released a digital album of their 1985 concert performed in honor of a

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Shirley Bassey Goes Beyond "Goldfinger" On BGO Reissue

April 20, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Dame Shirley Bassey first blazed into the American consciousness in 1964 singing the immortal theme to Goldfinger. Bassey's full-throttle take on the John Barry/Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse song became her first and only American Top 10 single, and helped the film’s soundtrack recording climb all the way to the top spot. Bassey returned to both John Barry and James Bond with the themes to Diamonds are Forever (1971) and Moonraker (1979), but she never again scaled the heights of commercial

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We Got the "Beat" Deluxe Track List

April 20, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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When you think of the canon of rock music, it's largely a man's world, from the most legendary performers to the (theoretically, mostly) male-dominated clique of music geeks. Sure, Elvis and The Beatles wouldn't have gotten anywhere without their screaming female fans, but it took until the early '80s for girls to earn a place in the hierarchy of rock. That glass ceiling was finally shattered with Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine and Gina Schock, better known as

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Categories: News Tags: The Go-Go's

Beach Boys Reunite on Record for Japan Relief

April 20, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Take it from one who knows: the Record Store Day-exclusive 78 RPM release of The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" and "Heroes and Villains" wasn't easy to come by.  You've now got another chance, however, to own a special Beach Boys collectible vinyl single.  At the same time, you can help a great cause.  Among the highlights of Al Jardine's 2010 solo album A Postcard from California was "Don't Fight the Sea," a track reuniting Jardine with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston and even Carl

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Categories: News Tags: The Beach Boys, Vinyl

Robinson Is "Smokin'" On 1978 Live Set Due from Hip-o Select

April 19, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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The Supremes aren't the only Motown act getting a little bit of reissue love today from Hip-o Select! William “Smokey” Robinson has lived up to his nickname in a staggering seven decades now, setting the charts ablaze with particular frequency in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.  So it was with a deep catalogue already behind him – and yet more hits ahead of him – that Robinson recorded the double live album Smokin’, which arrived in stores in October 1978. Back in January, The Second Disc

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Intrada Premieres Scores to "Ravagers," "Stay Tuned"

April 19, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Some small but significant premiere releases have bowed from Intrada this week: a dynamic sci-fi score from the '70s and a comedic action romp from the '90s. Ravagers was a brooding post-apocalyptic film featuring Richard Harris as a vigilante safeguarding against the titular band of marauders hell-bent on killing any survivors they can find. Art Carney and Ernest Borgnine co-starred in this forgotten thriller, and the score was composed by Fred Karlin, a jazz arranger who gained prominence in

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks

"What's New?" Ronstadt and Riddle Classic Revisited on Gold CD

April 18, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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While the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has inexplicably remained immune to her charms, few artists have had the career of Linda Ronstadt.  She's racked up 38 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including ten that went Top Ten. On the album chart, she's placed 36 entries, including ten that reached the Top Ten there too (her magic number!) and three that hit pole position.  And consider this: after playing a vital role in the country-rock scene with the Stone Poneys and their hit recording of Mike

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"Would You Believe" The Complete Hollies 1963-1968 Is Coming From EMI?

April 15, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Fans of the Hollies have lately had plenty of items on their wish lists, thanks to recent releases from the Sundazed and BGO labels. Yes, it’s been quite a year in catalogue terms for the lads from Manchester! EMI’s U.K. arm continues the celebration with the May 9 release of one whopper of a box set. The Clarke, Hicks & Nash Years (what about Bobby Elliott? Just askin’!) is subtitled The Complete Hollies: April 1963 – October 1968, and if this is somewhat of a fallacy, it’s more or less the

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Reissue Theory: Majosha, "Shut Up and Listen to Majosha"

April 14, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we reflect on notable albums and the reissues they could someday see. As a modern-day piano man starts digging through the archives, we take a look at one of his steps on the path to critical acclaim. Exciting news seems to be developing for fans of singer/songwriter/pianist Ben Folds: he recently tweeted a picture taken at his Nashville home of what appears to be the beginning of some research for an archival project. Folds' wife, Fleur,

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A Dozen "Playlist" Sets Due in May

April 14, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Love 'em or hate 'em, the various budget compilations that come from the major labels are quick, easy ways to get catalogue material out to the masses. Universal's ICON and Sony's Playlist series are probably the highest-profile of these series, but the latter is arguably the more beloved of the two, thanks to a concerted effort by some of the producers at Legacy to get rarer tracks on the Playlist discs, whether it's a rare single version or bonus track from a previous reissue. Legacy has 12

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Categories: News Tags: Matthew Sweet, Muddy Waters, Teena Marie, The Psychedelic Furs, The The

Review: Howard Jones, "The 12" Album/Action Replay: Remastered Editions"

April 14, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Less is more, they tell you. If a song like "Yesterday" was done with a full band, would it have retained its emotional impact than its original, heartrending arrangement? Now, that argument often rings true, but sometimes a little more is pretty fun, too. Anyone who enjoys the music of the 1980s can attest to this. Some of the best hits of that decade were flush with production techniques and overdubs that would have been shunned in decades past. The synthesizer and the drum machine became the

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Crossing the Pond: "London American Label 1963" Spotlights Spector and More

April 14, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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It’s 1963. Imagine a label that counted Roy Orbison, Darlene Love, James Brown, The Drifters and Jerry Lee Lewis all among its artists. While such an array of talent never convened under one roof in America, it was a very different story in the United Kingdom. The U.K.’s  Decca Record Company indeed brought all of those artists, and more, under the umbrella of its London American label. London American delivered the best in American pop, R&B and rock and roll to British audiences. Ace is

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Categories: News Tags: Roy Orbison, The Crystals, The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes

In Case You Missed Them: Soundtrack Smashes from La-La Land, FSM

April 13, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Our apologies for not getting these titles to you earlier, but there's been a lot of action on the indie soundtrack label front, with two titles announced by Film Score Monthly late last week and three from La-La Land that went on sale yesterday and are selling briskly. Over at FSM, the label released Friday a short but powerful score to the film Testament, a 1983 drama featuring Jane Alexander as a mother coping with the fallout from a nuclear blast outside their California suburb. The

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Right On: Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" Receives 40th Anniversary Box Set (UPDATED WITH TRACK LIST)

April 13, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Smokey Robinson has called it "the greatest album of all time." Rolling Stone ranked it in the Top Ten in its survey of the Greatest Albums of All Time, at No. 6. Marvin Gaye's What's Going On broke the Motown mold as Gaye delivered one of the most personal albums of all time: impassioned, outraged, haunting, beautiful and altogether unexpected. That seminal LP was released on May 21, 1971 and has remained in print since. Ten years ago, for its thirtieth anniversary, Motown reissued What's Going

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