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Just What I Needed: Rhino Launches Hi-Fi Audiophile Series with The Cars, John Coltrane

May 23, 2023 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

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For years, Rhino has licensed titles from its catalogue to various audiophile labels.  Now, Rhino is jumping into the audiophile vinyl market itself with the Rhino High Fidelity line.  This series of limited, numbered reissues has kicked off with The Cars' 1978 debut album, first released on Elektra, and John Coltrane's 1964 Coltrane's Sound, originally issued on Atlantic.  Both titles are available now.  Two more classic albums will follow each quarter. With the release of The Cars, the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop Tags: John Coltrane, The Cars

My Old School: UMe Reissues Steely Dan's "Countdown to Ecstasy"

May 22, 2023 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy

Following the recent release of Steely Dan's debut album Can't Buy a Thrill in vinyl, audiophile vinyl, and hybrid stereo SACD formats, the jazz-rock heroes' second set will be receiving the same treatment.  This Friday, May 26, Countdown to Ecstasy will be issued by Geffen/UMe on 180-gram black vinyl as remastered by Bernie Grundman at 33-1/3 RPM.  A 200-gram, 45 RPM version on Ultra High-Quality Vinyl (UHQR) is already shipping from Acoustic Sounds with the SACD (playable on all CD players)

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Steely Dan

The Weekend Stream: May 20, 2023

May 20, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend.From Rufus Wainwright to Lana Del Rey, Donna Summer to ZTT, we're bringing you the goods. Rufus Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright (25th Anniversary Edition) (Geffen/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) One of the best-reviewed albums of 1998 was the baroque-pop debut from singer/songwriter Rufus Wainright. With

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Donna Summer, Edgar Winter, James Brown, Lana Del Rey, Robin Thicke, Rufus Wainwright, Samara Joy, Tanya Tucker, The Beach Boys

Like a Moth to a Flame: Janet Jackson's 'janet.' Gets Expanded for 30th Anniversary

May 19, 2023 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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With her fifth album, Janet Jackson took her artistry and popularity into a new gear for a new decade. Now, 30 years after janet. was released, it's coming back into print this summer as an expanded edition featuring rare bonus material. Coming off the back-to-back critical and commercial smashes of Control (1986) and Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989) - the latter of which met big brother Michael's Thriller-era benchmark of seven Top 10 hits off one album, the youngest member of the Jackson family

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

Let My Love Open the Door: Two Pete Townshend Classics Get Half-Speed Mastered Treatment

May 19, 2023 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Pete Townshend Empty Glass Half Speed

Today, Pete Townshend turns 78 years young.  The Who frontman will be touring Europe with Roger Daltrey in June and July as well as keeping busy with other endeavors; his Tony Award-winning musical The Who's Tommy will see a major revival from original director Des McAnuff in Chicago this summer.  On June 23, UMe will revisit two solo chapters of Townshend's career with half-speed mastered reissues of two solo albums, Rough Mix (1977) and Empty Glass (1980).  These are just the first in a series

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane

Release Round-Up: Week of May 19

May 19, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Paul Simon Seven Psalms

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Paul Simon, Seven Psalms (Owl/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Amazon-Exclusive Colored Vinyl: Amazon U.S. Paul Simon is ready to unveil Seven Psalms, his fifteenth studio album: a 33-minute suite of music consisting of seven dreamlike, meditative compositions which are meant to be played as one continuous piece (and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Menken, Def Leppard, Galen Paul, Graham Nash, Howard Ashman, Jeanine Tesori, Marty Stuart, Paul Simon, Paul Simonon

Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker's "Bird in LA" Vinyl Box Gets Wide Release

May 18, 2023 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Charlie Parker Bird in LA

Following its sold-out release for Record Store Day Black Friday in 2021, Charlie Parker's Bird in LA is returning to vinyl in a general release from Verve/UMe tomorrow, May 19.  On the same day, it will be released to streaming and digital services.  This collection of the legendary saxophonist's historic first three trips to Los Angeles remains available in the CD format, as well. Kansas City, Missouri native Parker (1920-1955) was a key player in the development of bop, and while he's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Buddy Rich, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Nat King Cole

Summer Dreaming: Grapefruit Collects Sunshine Pop Sounds of Tony Rivers and the Castaways, Harmony Grass

May 16, 2023 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Tony Rivers Move In a Little Closer

Tony Rivers' name occupies a special place in the heart of sunshine pop aficionados.  The singer born Douglas Anthony Thompson in Shildon, County Durham, England began his career with The Castaways in a beat mode - even supporting The Beatles on a 1963 Piccadilly gig - before discovering The Beach Boys and taking his already-impressive vocal arrangement skills to the next level.  A new 3-CD anthology, Move In a Little Closer: The Complete Recordings 1963-1970 on Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Harmony Grass, Tony Rivers and The Castaways

Two Alice Cooper Classics Get Killer Reissues in June

May 15, 2023 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Alice Cooper School's Out

School's in on June 9 when Rhino revisits two early classics from Alice Cooper in 2-CD or 180-gram 3-LP expanded editions.  Both 1971's Killer and 1972's School's Out will be reissued with bonus studio and live material. Killer, released in November 1971, was the fourth album from the original Alice Cooper band line-up of singer Alice Cooper, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. But it was the group's second

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Alice Cooper

The Weekend Stream: May 13, 2023

May 13, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Two soul legends, a soundtrack from one of Hollywood's greatest composers, and a never-before-heard single from the ZTT vaults are all ready for you to hear! Diana Ross, Last Time I Saw Him (Deluxe Edition) (Motown/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) To commemorate 50 years of Diana Ross' sixth solo album

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Connie Smith, Diana Ross, Edgar Winter, Hubert Laws, J.D. Souther, James Brown, Jimmy Buffett, John Williams, Lyle Lovett

The Line-Up: Stand Up! Records Reissues Three Richard Pryor Classics on Vinyl

May 12, 2023 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Richard Pryor Craps

55 years ago, Richard Pryor (1940-2005) made his debut on records.  His self-titled album was an auspicious introduction for the man who would be recognized as one of the most significant and influential stand-up comedians of all time as well as a genuine film superstar, an accomplished writer, an Emmy Award recipient, Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize honoree, and five-time Grammy Award winner.  In 2021, Omnivore Recordings teamed with the Richard Pryor Estate for CD reissues of Richard Pryor

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Comedy Tags: Richard Pryor

Release Round-Up: Week of May 12

May 12, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Rick Springfield Springfield

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Daft Punk, Random Access Memories: 10th Anniversary Edition (Columbia) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Daft Punk's final album, 2013's disco-flavored, multiple Grammy-winning Random Access Memories, welcomed such all-time luminaries as Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams, Giorgio Moroder, Paul Jackson, Jr., Nathan East, John "J.R."

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: APB, Bryan Adams, Cal Tjader, Celine Dion, Daft Punk, Michael Martin Murphey, Miles Davis, Rick Astley, Rick Springfield, The Kingsnakes, The Moody Blues

Every Fairy Tale Comes Real: Joni Mitchell's "At Newport" Arrives in July

May 11, 2023 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Joni Mitchell At Newport

Less than one year ago, on July 24, 2022, Joni Mitchell took the stage of the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island for her first full concert set in two decades.  Word quickly spread, usually attached to adjectives such as "thrilling," "moving," and "extraordinary."  Since then, the Mitchell renaissance has continued unabated.  Earlier this year, she received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, following in the footsteps of such greats as Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop Tags: Brandi Carlile, Celisse, Joni Mitchell, Marcus Mumford, Wynonna Judd

Sweet Western Sound

May 10, 2023 By

Tanya Tucker Sweet Western Sound

Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings produce Tanya Tucker's first album of new music since 2019.  Sweet Western Sound's ten tracks promise to evoke the sound of classic West Coast country-rock.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

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

Not That Fancy

May 10, 2023 By

Reba McEntire Not That Fancy

Reba McEntire releases a new collection to coincide with the publication of her book, also entitled Not That Fancy.  The 14-song set, available on CD, 2 LPs, and digitally, reprises the Revisited portion of her 2021 triple album Revised, Remixed, Revisited with new recordings made after that album including the new single "Seven Minutes in Heaven" and reworkings of "If You See Him/If You See Her" with Brooks and Dunn, "Till You Love Me," and "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia."

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

Rockstar

May 10, 2023 By

Dolly Parton Rockstar

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Target-Exclusive 4LP: Target.com VMP-Exclusive 4LP: Vinylmeplease.com Indie-Exclusive 4LP: RoughTrade.com Dolly Parton has unveiled the rock album she promised us...and it's no small affair! Rockstar, a whopping 2-CD or 4-LP collection with 30 songs, welcomes Sting, Lizzo, Elton John, Melissa Etheridge, Simon Le Bon, Steven Tyler, Stevie Nicks, Miley Cyrus, Steve Perry, John Fogerty, Peter

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

Legacy Reissues "Whitney Houston," "Whitney" on Vinyl

May 10, 2023 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

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Since its opening in theatres on December 23, 2022, the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody has earned over $56 million internationally, attesting to the ongoing power of its subject and her enduring music.  I Wanna Dance with Somebody is now available on home video and digital formats, and along with the digital-only soundtrack release, her first two albums have recently returned to print in vinyl editions from Legacy Recordings. The 21-year old's debut album arrived on

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Whitney Houston

She Is the Champion: Dolly Parton Unveils "Rockstar," Featuring All-Star Cast Including Elton John, Peter Frampton, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Lizzo, Miley, Many More

May 9, 2023 By Joe Marchese 32 Comments

Dolly Parton Rockstar

"If I'm gonna be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I'm going to have to earn it," Dolly Parton commented upon her 2022 induction into the Cleveland hall.  She promised that a rock and roll album was on the way, and today, she made good on that promise...with what essentially amounts to two such records!  On November 17, Dolly's own Butterfly Records in association with Big Machine will release Rockstar, a whopping 2-CD or 4-LP collection with 30 songs featuring some of the biggest names in the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Ann Wilson, Brandi Carlile, Debbie Harry, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Joan Jett, John Fogerty, Michael McDonald, Mick Fleetwood, Miley Cyrus, Pat Benatar, Paul McCartney, Peter Frampton, Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow, Steve Perry, Stevie Nicks, Sting

The Music Played: Universal Collects Blossom Dearie's 1960s Fontana Years with Over Two Dozen Unreleased Tracks

May 9, 2023 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Blossom Dearie Discover Who I Am

In a career spanning six decades and over 30 albums, singer-pianist-songwriter Blossom Dearie (1924-2009) garnered attention from popular song's finest writers including Michel Legrand, Bob Dorough, and Johnny Mercer and musicians such as Miles Davis and Bill Evans.  A self-described "songwriter's singer" and "jazz musician learning to be a jazz singer," Dearie recorded for the Verve, Capitol, and Fontana labels before striking out with her own Daffodil Records; she also made numerous guest

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Blossom Dearie

Pretty Woman: The Musical

May 9, 2023 By

Bryan Adams Pretty Woman

Bryan Adams performs his score (co-written with Jim Vallance) to the 2018 Broadway musical Pretty Woman which is currently enjoying a run in the West End of London through June 23.  Previously available digitally, the album now makes its CD debut.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Rock

The Weekend Stream: May 6, 2023

May 6, 2023 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Today's might be our biggest and best round-up of the spring: classic rock remixes, classic soul legends, rising rap icons, all kinds of '80s pop, a classic Broadway album making its belated digital debut - plus two urgent social causes we really want you to know about. David Bowie, Golden Years

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Book of Love, Chance The Rapper, Daryl Hall and John Oates, David Bowie, Doris Day, Edgar Winter, James Brown, Les Brown, Oingo Boingo, Robyn Hitchcock, Squeeze, Stephen Sondheim, Tavares, The Hooters, Zero Mostel

Dig My Mood: 25th Anniversary Edition

May 5, 2023 By

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Yep Roc reissues Nick Lowe's tenth studio album and second indie release.  This new reissue of Dig My Mood, available on blue vinyl or digitally, will come with a yellow 10" EP of bonus material from the period. All five tracks - a studio track called "I'll Give You All Night to Stop" and four live recordings from Japan in support of Dig My Mood - come from a Lowe box set and have never been released on vinyl or digitally.  It's limited to just 1,500 copies.

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

Once Upon a Dream: "Disney100" Celebrates the Disney Music Legacy

May 5, 2023 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Disney100

"I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing: that it was all started by a mouse."  Walt Disney was, of course, speaking of his enduring creation, Mickey Mouse.  The character's debut in the 1928 animated short subject Steamboat Willie was indeed the watershed moment from which decades of entertainment in every conceivable medium followed.  But the business that became The Walt Disney Company had been founded five years earlier, in 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy.  That's the anniversary

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alan Menken, Angela Lansbury, Dick Van Dyke, Helen Reddy, Idina Menzel, Julie Andrews, Phil Harris, Randy Newman, Roger Miller, The Sherman Brothers, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of May 5

May 5, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Olivia Newton John Just the Two of Us

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Olivia Newton-John, Just the Two of Us: The Duets Collection Vol. 1 (Primary Wave/Green Hill) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17 favorite duets with Olivia Newton-John are featured on this new collection.  The late artist's duet partners include Dolly Parton ("Jolene"), Michael McDonald ("Act of Faith"), Barry Gibb ("Face to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ben Platt, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Henry Franklin, Jeff Tweedy, Olivia Newton-John, Paul Young, Queen, Rodney Crowell, The Donnas, The Reverend Horton Heat, Unruly Child

Man That He's Become: Yep Roc Expands Nick Lowe's 'Dig My Mood'

May 4, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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Yep Roc Records, custodian of NIck Lowe's noteworthy catalogue, will expand and reissue a late '90s album of his this summer. Dig My Mood, issued in 1998, was the U.K. singer/songwriter's 10th studio album and second independent release. Here, after leaving behind his detached power-pop style on 1994's The Impossible Bird, Lowe once again swung for the fences with his songcraft, while still wrapping it all in his signature rock sound. (Lowe would later bill The Impossible Bird, DIg My Mood

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Nick Lowe

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