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Tenement Symphony: Deluxe Edition

August 28, 2023 By

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6CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 6CD/DVD celebration of Marc Almond's 1991 concept album Tenement Symphony includes the original album, B-sides, a trove of released and unheard remixes, demos, live versions, and a region-free DVD of music videos and BBC promotional appearances. The set also comes with a 32-page booklet featuring lyrics, listening notes and a fold-out poster.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop

You Keep On Moving: David Coverdale Pays Tribute to Deep Purple Years with Expanded Whitesnake Set

August 28, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

David Coverdale first entranced the rock world with his vocals as a onetime member of Deep Purple. The latest reissue from his own band, Whitesnake, will join his past and present together with some stirring archival finds for fans. On October 13, Rhino will give 2015's The Purple Album the ongoing remaster/remix treatment it's given many of the other albums with Coverdale in the driver's seat. The remixed "Special Gold Edition" album of Mark III and Mark IV-era Deep Purple covers comes with

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Deep Purple, Whitesnake

The Weekend Stream: August 26, 2023

August 26, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. Today, some Marvin Gaye classics get rediscovered and one of rock's greatest drummers turns his band's classics into a global party - plus rare tracks from Ariana Grande, Doris Day and another collection of rare ZTT remixes! Marvin Gaye, Let's Get It On (Deluxe Edition) / You're the Man (Expanded

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Ariana Grande, Doris Day, Herbie Hancock, Mac Miller, Marvin Gaye, Nasty Rox Inc, Stewart Copeland, System of a Down, The Originals, The Police

Meet Me in My Dream: Marc Almond's 'Tenement Symphony' Gets Box Set Edition

August 25, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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Fans of Marc Almond's early '90s solo album Tenement Symphony are in for a real treat this fall, with a new box set coming from the Cherry Red imprint Strike Force Entertainment that will cover the album in exhaustive detail. This 6CD/DVD set includes the original album, B-sides, a trove of released and unheard remixes, demos, live versions and a region-free DVD of music videos and BBC promotional appearances. The set also comes with a 32-page booklet featuring lyrics, listening notes and a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Marc Almond, Soft Cell

This Is It: Sepia Salutes Late, Great Rose Marie on "Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Mercury Recordings and More"

August 24, 2023 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Rose Marie Sings The Complete Mercury Recordings and More

The year was 1929.  At the age of six, Rose Marie Mazzetta headlined a Warner Bros. Vitaphone short film entitled Baby Rose Marie: The Child Wonder.  The star was already a showbiz veteran, having begun performing at the age of three; at five, she was offered a seven-year contract by the NBC radio network.  Though Rose Marie would soon drop the "Baby," she would remain a wonder as, simply, "Rose Marie" for the entirety of her extraordinary career which ultimately spanned ten decades until her

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Rose Marie

'Twas Like Thunder: Prince and The New Power Generation's 'Diamonds and Pearls' Set for Newest Reissue

August 24, 2023 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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"This is it / time 4 U 2 go 2 the wire..." After a lengthy gap between catalog projects, the Prince Estate returns with a vengeance this fall, offering a deluxe box set edition of Diamonds and Pearls - the late icon's first work with a new backing band, The New Power Generation. The expanded Diamonds and Pearls, available October 27, comes two years past the 30th anniversary of the album and features a wide assortment of the bonus audio content that's accompanied expansions of 1999, Purple

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Do the Stanley: Cherry Red, Esoteric Launch Stackridge Reissue Series

August 23, 2023 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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Stackridge may be best-remembered today for the band's third album, 1974's The Man in the Bowler Hat.  Produced by Sir George Martin, it remains their highest-charting LP.  But Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings is aiming to bring all of the Stackridge discography to light with a new reissue campaign.  Both 1971's self-titled debut and 1972's Friendliness are available now, with the band's next three albums all scheduled for reissue later this month and in September. Wrapped in a Hipgnosis

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

Learn to Work the Saxophone: Steely Dan's "Aja" Returns to Vinyl, SACD in September

August 22, 2023 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

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UMe's Steely Dan reissue campaign - which has so far yielded remastered standard and audiophile vinyl and hybrid stereo SACD reissues of the band's first three albums Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, and Pretzel Logic - has announced an unexpected detour.  On September 29, the series will jump ahead to the sixth Dan album and arguably Donald Fagen and Walter Becker's crowning achievement: 1977's Aja. (No fear: Katy Lied and The Royal Scam will show up later.) Aja sounded - and sounds

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Categories: News Formats: SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop Tags: Steely Dan

Suffer Never: Finn Brothers' Debut Album Set for Expanded Vinyl Package (UPDATED 8/21/2023)

August 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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UPDATE (8/21/2022): More than a year after its release, fans' patience has paid off with a CD version of this title available through Needle Mythology. Orders (including vinyl and t-shirt merch bundles) will be shipped with a free enamel badge of the album's cover art and are expected to ship around October 20. ORIGINAL POST (6/1/2022): Two of the best-loved songwriters of the Antipodes are celebrating their brotherly partnership in a new deluxe vinyl package. Finn, the first album credited

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Crowded House, Neil Finn, The Finn Brothers, Tim Finn

The Weekend Stream: August 19, 2023

August 19, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. This week is packed with rare treasures from Willie Nelson, Was (Not Was), Sergio Mendes and more, plus a new Guns N' Roses track and a whole different way to hear the early hits of Chicago. Willie Nelson, Teatro (Deluxe) (Island/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) Released in 1998, Teatro found Willie Nelson,

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Chicago, Guns N' Roses, Leo Kottke, Madonna, Pat Boone, Propaganda, Pulp, Sara Evans, Sergio Mendes, Special Ed, Urge Overkill, Was (Not Was), Willie Nelson

Welcome to Paradise: Green Day's 'Dookie' Set for 30th Anniversary Box

August 18, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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Those with warm, unsoiled memories of the '90s pop-punk explosion won't have any reason to dump on a newly-announced box set edition of Green Day's breakthrough album Dookie, released ahead of the album's 30th anniversary next year. The 4CD or 6LP edition, coming out September 29, features the original album alongside a collection of unreleased demos and rare outtakes, plus two live sets: the trio's infamous, mud-soaked performance at Woodstock '94 (released on vinyl for the album's 25th

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Green Day

Send Out the Clowns: Real Gone, Second Disc Revisit "Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease" In Time for Halloween

August 18, 2023 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease

Tired of "Monster Mash"? Through with calling "Ghostbusters"? If your Halloween playlist is begging for something different, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records have you covered! On October 6, you can look no further than the frightfully fun Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease. Don't believe us? Take The Bride of Frankenstein's word for it - she's on the cover! One of the most unusual records of all time, this "Symphony for Tape Delay, IBM Instruction Manual, & Ohm

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Everything Else Tags: Rod McKuen

The Mother They Share: CHVRCHES Revisit Debut for 10th Anniversary

August 17, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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CHVRCHES have really had some moments in the last few years. The Scottish electronic trio has toured relentlessly, working up enough presence to secure a new deal away from longtime indie home Glassnote, signing to Island Records in 2022. And the band are celebrating with a well-earned rest: frontwoman Lauren Mayberry is releasing her first solo music and supporting it with a tour this fall. But CHVRCHES proper is all about celebration this season, specifically the 10th anniversary of their

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Pop Tags: CHVRCHES

Not Like We Love Our Freedom: Joni Mitchell's Third "Archives" Revisits 1972-1975 Period

August 17, 2023 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

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"The sound of this thing was like, 'We're breaking some new ground here.'" Earlier this year, musician-arranger-bandleader Tom Scott of the L.A. Express reminisced to the U.K.'s MOJO magazine about working with Joni Mitchell on her 1972 album For the Roses. Indeed, Scott realized early on that the merging of folk and jazz sensibilities was about to take the singer-songwriter's music to the next level. Mitchell's creatively groundbreaking 1972-1975 albums - For the Roses, Court and Spark (1974),

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: David Crosby, Graham Nash, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young

Cherry Red's El Label Celebrates Burt Bacharach, Leonard Bernstein on New Box Sets

August 15, 2023 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Burt Bacharach Dream Big

In recent months, Cherry Red's El imprint has turned its attention to a pair of legendary American composers.  Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) and Burt Bacharach (1928-2023) were born just a decade apart, though Bacharach lived more than three decades longer than Bernstein.  Neither man was born in New York City, but both created much of their remarkable work there.  Both were proud Jewish Americans, and both wrote for the musical theatre.  An American in New York: Leonard Bernstein - The City

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim

Review: Elvis Presley, "Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite: 50th Anniversary Edition"

August 14, 2023 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

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When Elvis Presley said Aloha from Hawaii 50 years ago, the whole world was watching - or close to it.  The King, fashionably late, stepped onstage at Honolulu's International Center (capacity at the time: roughly 6,000) at 1:00 a.m. on January 14, 1973 for a scheduled 12:30 a.m. concert.  Satellites were beaming the program to a reported audience of over one billion.  Another fanciful claim by Colonel Parker?  Perhaps.  But Aloha was a technological achievement.  It was the most expensive

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Elvis Presley

Christmas Time Is Here

August 13, 2023 By

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Johnny Mathis is back with his first album since 2017 and his first yuletide set in a decade.  Christmas Time Is Here boasts ten newly-recorded tracks including those which premiered last year on the digital-only EP A Merry Little Christmas.  It's Mathis' seventh full Christmas LP (not counting 1999's Listen! It's Christmas for Hallmark stores, on which he contributed six new recordings). Produced by longtime Mathis collaborators Jay Landers (Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler) and Fred Mollin

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

The Weekend Stream: August 12, 2023

August 12, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. A short but intriguing selection of digital debuts this week includes rare '00s rock, '80s soul, '30s jazz, a new take on a '60s prog classic and some new surround mixes from one of Broadway's greatest.3 Doors Down, Away from the Sun (Deluxe) (Republic/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) Debut album The Better

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: 3 Doors Down, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Leon Sylvers III, Stephen Sondheim, The Moody Blues

Merry Christmas, Baby: Johnny Mathis Celebrates the Holiday Season with New Studio Album "Christmas Time Is Here"

August 11, 2023 By The Second Disc 10 Comments

Johnny Mathis Christmas Time Is Here

Johnny Mathis is known the world over as The Voice of Romance, but the legendary vocalist deserves another title, as well: The Voice of Christmas.  Mathis' very first holiday album, 1958's Merry Christmas, sold over five million copies and remains one of the biggest-selling Christmas albums of all time.  Now, Mathis is back with his first album since 2017 and his first yuletide set in a decade. Christmas Time Is Here arrives on October 13 in CD and digital formats from Legacy Recordings and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Johnny Mathis, Kristin Chenoweth

Release Round-Up: Week of August 11

August 11, 2023 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Elvis Presley, Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite: 50th Anniversary Edition (RCA/Legacy) 3CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elvis Presley's seminal 1973 returns for its 50th anniversary in a new box set.  This edition takes its cues from the audio contents of last year's 3-CD release from the mail-order Follow That Dream label

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: David Bowie, Elvis Presley, KT Tunstall, Neil Young, Ray Davies, Rose Marie, Suzi Quatro, The Connells, The Donnas

Cover Me Up: Jason Isbell's 'Southeastern' Set for Expansion

August 10, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Already enjoying a burgeoning solo career after his time with the alt-country group Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell established a presence as one of the genre's most intriguing performers with his fourth album Southeastern, released in 2013. Ten years later, he's revisiting the record in a deluxe edition. The remastered and expanded Southeastern will combine the original album with two alternate listens: a disc featuring demo versions of every track on the album and a set

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Folk, Rock Tags: Jason Isbell

I Ain't Gonna Worry: Motown Preps Digital Deluxe for 50th Anniversary of Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On'

August 10, 2023 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

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No need to hold back for so long: Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On will be celebrated this month with a digital deluxe edition packed with unreleased tracks. Following the stirring social consciousness of his last album, 1971's What's Going On, Gaye used the musical canvas to dive deep into matters of the bedroom. Romance, carnal desire and the intersections between the two were explored in sessions split between Motown's Detroit studio - including contributions and their newly constructed

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Marvin Gaye

In Memoriam: Robbie Robertson (1943-2023)

August 10, 2023 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Robbie Robertson Testimony

Storyteller, songwriter, guitarist, musicologist, singer: throughout a career spanning the 1950s through the present day, Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson wore many hats.  The Toronto-born musician joined his first band in 1956 and attracted the attention of Ronnie "The Hawk" Hawkins in 1959.  Hawkins liked what he heard, and recorded two of the teenaged Robertson's songs in 1959.  Before long, he was playing in Hawkins' band alongside fellow Canadians Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson,

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Robbie Robertson, The Band

Soundtrack Watch: 'The Lost World' and 'Body Snatchers,' Expanded, a Double Dose of Horner and More

August 9, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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The last few weekends have seen moviegoers pouring back into theaters thanks to the head-to-head blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer. Their dual openings made for one of the highest-grossing non-holiday weekends ever, and the talents of Greta Gerwig (co-writer/director of the zingy comedy based on the popular doll) and Christopher Nolan (writer/director of the epic biopic about the man who spearheaded America's creation of the atomic bomb) have already netted a cumulative $1 billion at the box

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Carter Burwell, Charles Bernstein, Denny Zeitlin, James Horner, John Williams

Right Now: Van Halen's Second Phase Gets Remastered for New Box Set

August 9, 2023 By Mike Duquette 11 Comments

Van Halen Collection II

Van Halen fans were on pins and needles in the spring of 1986, when the California rockers replaced iconoclastic vocalist David Lee Roth with former Montrose frontman/rhythm guitarist Sammy Hagar. This unexpected partnership will be examined in full on a box set offering the first ever remastered editions of the group's Hagar-led albums on vinyl and CD - plus some bonus material, to boot. The Collection II, released October 6, is a sequel to Warner/Rhino's 2015 box containing new remasters of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Sammy Hagar, Van Halen

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