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The Miracle: Collector's Edition

October 13, 2022 By

Queen The Miracle Cover

5CD/BD/DVD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cassette / Picture Disc LP / All Bundles: Queen Online Store Queen's thirteenth studio album, 1989's The Miracle, is getting the super deluxe treatment from EMI/Hollywood as a 5CD/BD/DVD/LP box set adding alternate takes, demos, rough mixes, backing tracks, B-sides, and more to the original album (heard in Bob Ludwig's 2011 remaster).  Previously unreleased songs include the lead single

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

The Hits 1 & 2

October 13, 2022 By

Prince Hits 1 LP

The Hits 1: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Target (color variant) The Hits 2: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Walmart (color variant) Legacy Recordings is bringing Prince's 1993 greatest hits collections back to vinyl.  Though not a complete overview of Prince's chart entries, both sets of The Hits offered a comprehensive review of the artist's core discography. For completists, more than a dozen single edits and mixes were included therein, along with four brand new

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

I Want It All: Queen's "The Miracle" Gets Super-Sized in Upcoming Box Set

October 13, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Queen The Miracle Cover

Queen's thirteenth studio album, The Miracle, is coming back in a big way.  On November 18, EMI (U.K.) and Hollywood Records (U.S.) will expand The Miracle into a 5CD/Blu-ray/DVD/LP box set adding alternate takes, demos, rough mixes, backing tracks, B-sides, and more.  A 2-CD "highlights" edition will also be available as well as cassette and picture disc vinyl versions of the original album only. The marathon recording period commenced in December 1987 with the specter of Freddie Mercury's

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Queen

We'll Take the Night: Roy Orbison's "King of Hearts" Returns for 30th Anniversary

October 12, 2022 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Roy Orbison King of Hearts

When Roy Orbison unexpectedly died of a heart attack on December 6, 1988 at the age of 52, the world mourned the loss of the rock and roll pioneer.  At the time of his death, he'd been enjoying a career revival thanks to his friends George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, and Jeff Lynne - all of whom regarded him as an inspiration and were thrilled to call him their bandmate in the Traveling Wilburys.  1989's Mystery Girl was The Big O's first posthumously released album, having been completed a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Roy Orbison

A Beautiful Noise - The Neil Diamond Musical: Original Broadway Cast Recording

October 11, 2022 By

A Beautiful Noise OBC

Following a sold-out run at Boston's Colonial Theatre, the biographical A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical is coming to Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre.  The cast recording produced by the legendary Bob Gaudio preserves the performances of Will Swenson and Mark Jacoby as Neil in two different stages of his life, supported by a blazing cast including Robyn Hurder as Neil's second wife Marcia Murphey.  The show (featuring a book by Anthony McCarten, screenwriter of Bohemian Rhapsody and the

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

The Weekend Stream: October 7, 2022

October 7, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream

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 including an expanded edition from a superstar, a fun '80s flashback, two expansions from a disco legend, some choice Motown memories, and more! Janet Jackson, The Velvet Rope (25th Anniversary Edition) (Virgin/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) A digital deluxe edition that merited its own press release?

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Edwin Starr, Janet Jackson, Paul Jabara, Phantom Planet, Soul Asylum, Yes

After Midnight: Real Gone's October Line-Up Features Halloween Treats from Frankie Stein and Fastway, Rare Philly Soul from Honey & The Bees

October 6, 2022 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Honey and the Bees Love

Fall has just begun and Halloween is nearly upon.  Real Gone's slate for this month includes two releases to celebrate that day as well as bit of rare Philly Soul.  The label is also repressing some titles from its considerable back catalogue.  All of these titles are hitting store shelves, tomorrow, October 7. First up is a reissue of the only album from Philly Soul group Honey & The Bees: 1970's Love.  Jean Davis, Gwen Oliver, and Cassandra Wooten were known as The Yum-Yums when they

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 45 Grave, Fastway, Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, Honey and The Bees, L7

The Teammates: Twenty Years of Making Music 1965-1985

October 5, 2022 By

Dean Torrence The Teammates

Omnivore has teamed with Jan & Dean's Dean Torrence for this new collection of California gold.  The Teammates: Twenty Years of Making Music 1965-1985 features 23 rare and unreleased tracks featuring Dean with Mike Love, Terry Melcher, Bruce Johnston, Flo and Eddie, Leon Russell, Harry Nilsson, and Jan Berry. The Teammates features new liner notes from Torrence as well as a Q&A between Torrence and Beach Boys historian David Beard as well as a foreword by Winston Simone.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

The Studio Albums 2009-2018

October 5, 2022 By

Mark Knopfler The Studio Albums 2009 2018

6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picking up from where 2021's The Studio Albums 1996-2007 left off, this new box collects Mark Knopfler's four most recent studio albums as well as Back in the Day, a disc of bonus material.  While the CD version of Back in the Day has 18 bonus tracks and the LP only has eight, the remaining ten tracks are included on the album presentations within the vinyl box.  Two previously unreleased songs,

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Mark Knopfler's Late-Period Solo Albums Get Their Time in the Sun on New Box Set

October 5, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Mark Knopfler The Studio Albums 2009 2018

Mark Knopfler released his first full-length solo album in 1996.  Golden Heart began a new chapter for the singer-songwriter-guitarist who had already carved out two distinct paths as leader of Dire Straits and as a film score composer.  The 2021 box set The Studio Albums 1996-2007 collected Knopfler's first five studio albums, from Golden Heart through 2007's Kill to Get Crimson, along with a bonus disc of B-sides.  Now, a follow-up box is bringing Knopfler's studio discography up to date. 

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Mark Knopfler

Pleasure and the Pain: Iconoclassic Expands The Damned's "Strawberries" for 40th Anniversary

October 4, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

The Damned Strawberries

The cover of The Damned's 1982 studio album Strawberries featured a pig with a strawberry on its head.  Lead singer Dave Vanian once revealed that the title was inspired by fans' reaction to the band's new music: "We were playing a lot of new material and we had an audience that didn't want to hear about anything...they just wanted to hear [older singles] 'Neat Neat Neat' and 'New Rose,' nothing else.  And they wanted to just smash everything.  And they weren't interested in hearing music at

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Damned

Summer Storms: Cherry Red, Righteous Collect "Dark Exotica" from Stan Kenton, Others

October 3, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dark Exotica

The word "exotica" typically conjures up breezy, mid-20th century imagery of tikis, palm trees, and tropical drinks.  Indeed, many musicians were all too happy to contribute to the genre named after Martin Denny's 1957 album, the title of which was coined by Liberty Records executive Si Waronker.  Denny's musical island fantasies indeed proved transporting for Americans, as did releases from the likes of Les Baxter, Esquivel, and Arthur Lyman.  Back in 2018, the Numero Group curated an

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Jazz, Latin Tags: Bill Russo, Buddy Collette, John Leslie McFarland, Stan Kenton

Live at The Fillmore 1997

September 29, 2022 By

Tom Petty Fillmore 1997

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP Standard Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP Uber Deluxe Edition (identical audio content to 6LPStandard Edition): Tom Petty Store 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at the Fillmore 1997 captures highlights from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' blazing 20-show run at San Francisco's venerable Fillmore between January 10 and February 7, 1997.  Six full shows

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

Live at the Bon Soir: Greenwich Village, November 1962

September 29, 2022 By

Barbra Streisand Live at the Bon Soir

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Hybrid Stereo SACD / LP: Impex Records Barbra Streisand's 1962 live album recorded at New York's tiny Bon Soir - once intended to be her very first Columbia Records LP release - gets a long-overdue premiere marking the superstar's 60th anniversary with the label.  It arrives in multiple formats including standard CD and digital release from Columbia/Legacy; hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players) from Impex Records; and 180-gram black

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

Christmas In the City [Vinyl]

September 29, 2022 By

Lea Michele Christmas in the City

Real Gone has the vinyl premiere of the first Christmas album from Broadway's new Funny Girl, Lea Michele. Christmas in the City not only placed within the top thirty of the Billboard 200 upon its original release, but reached No. 3 on the Christmas Albums chart.  The album, blending contemporary and retro holiday sounds, was produced by Alex and Adam Anders and features a host of guest singers including Michele's Spring Awakening co-star (and the voice of Kristoff in the Frozen franchise),

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Cast Your Fate to the Wind: Vince Guaraldi's Breakthrough 'Black Orpheus' to Be Expanded

September 29, 2022 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Vince Guaraldi Black Orpheus 2CD

Though he might be best known for the irresistible score to A Charlie Brown Christmas - the music of which is coming back in a big way this holiday season, jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi was first known for an unusual crossover jazz hit, the instrumental "Cast Your Fate to the Wind." The album that featured that unforgettable song (and put Guaraldi on the road to Peanuts perfection) will also get the deluxe treatment this year, in honor of its 60th anniversary. Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Vince Guaraldi

California Saga: The Beach Boys' "Sail On Sailor: 1972" Explores "Carl and the Passions," "Holland"

September 27, 2022 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Beach Boys Sail On Sailor 1972

The cover of The Beach Boys' eighteenth studio album didn't look so different than what fans might have expected, with its shot of the beach, blue sky, and palm trees through a car window.  But once listeners placed the needle on the first track, it was clear this was no ordinary Beach Boys record.  Only one song - the opening "You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone," a twangy rocker with little of the lushness once associated with their sound - bore a production credit for Brian Wilson; only

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beach Boys

The Weekend Stream: September 24, 2022

September 24, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Stream

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 discover - from quarter-century old R&B classics, a Fleetwood Mac heroine covering Buffalo Springfield, and an actor who sang enough to make you go a little mad. Stevie Nicks, For What It's Worth (Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) The celebrated singer has recently been covering this Buffalo Springfield classic on her

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Comedy, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Anthony Perkins, Mariah Carey, Queens of the Stone Age, Sam the Sham and The Pharoahs, Stevie Nicks, Tears for Fears, Usher

Right as the Rain: Barbra Streisand's "Live at the Bon Soir" Arrives in November

September 23, 2022 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Barbra Streisand Live at the Bon Soir

Barbra Streisand first took the stage of New York's tiny Bon Soir on September 9, 1960.  The eighteen-year-old singer appeared third on a bill after house band The Three Flames and comic duo Tony and Eddie, and before closing act Phyllis Diller.  The groundbreaking comedienne later recalled her first encounter with Streisand: "We shared a dressing room at the Bon Soir...It was the size of a peapod and usually you could smell fear in there. But she wasn't a bit nervous - at least not that I

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Categories: News Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Barbra Streisand

What's So Civil About the 'Use Your Illusion' Box, Anyway?

September 21, 2022 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Use Your Illusion box

As post-glam/metal moments of largesse go, Guns N' Roses' simultaneous release of Use Your Illusion I & II was perhaps as big as it gets. So it makes sense that a new box set collecting both albums is about as grandiose - and as messy. On November 11, UMe will collect the band's 1991 studio albums in a new super deluxe box that spans seven CDs or 12 LPs and a Blu-ray. Both boxes include new remasters of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, plus two complete live sets, newly mixed

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Guns N' Roses

There's a Light: Rory Gallagher's "Deuce" Goes Super Deluxe

September 20, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Rory Gallagher Deuce

Over the past couple of years, UMC has been busy revisiting the catalogue of late Irish guitar virtuoso Rory Gallagher.  Following last fall's box set celebrating Gallagher's eponymous 1971 debut, the label is turning its attention to his second album, 1972's Deuce, for another deluxe, expanded edition.  The similarly expansive 4CD release, due on September 30, boasts: A new mix of the original album; 28 previously unreleased alternate takes; A six-song 1972 BBC Radio In Concert

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: Rory Gallagher

Cat's In the Cradle: Real Gone's Black Friday RSD Slate Features Harry Chapin, The Jesus Lizard, Smash Mouth, and Fountains of Wayne

September 19, 2022 By Randy Fairman 8 Comments

Harry Chapin Story of a Life

As we continue our look at the titles coming out on this year's Black Friday Record Store Day, we're turning our attention to Real Gone Music.  The label has a quartet of titles coming to independent stores on November 25.  The lineup includes a compilation from an acclaimed 1970s storyteller, two favorites from the 1990s, and one from the 2000s.  The '90s and '00s releases are all vinyl debuts.  We've got the details below with the descriptions coming directly from the label.  For a list of

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Fountains of Wayne, Harry Chapin, Record Store Day, Smash Mouth, The Jesus Lizard

Diamonds and Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection

September 17, 2022 By

Dolly Parton Diamonds and Rhinestones

Dolly Parton's Diamonds and Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection offers 23 tracks from the country superstar, originally released between 1971 and 2020, on CD, 2LP, and digital formats.  The collection draws on Parton's recordings for RCA Victor, Columbia Records, and her own Dolly Records label, including her biggest crossover hits such as "9 to 5," "Here You Come Again," "Two Doors Down," "Heartbreaker," and the Kenny Rogers duet "Islands in the Stream." The 2020 digital single "When Life

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

The Weekend Stream: September 17, 2022

September 17, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Stream

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 discover! This time out we've got Motown rarities, a couple of albums with comic book roots, early music from future legends, and more! Roger Miller, Roger Miller (RCA/Camden/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Legacy has resuscitated this 1964 compilation of early sides from singer-songwriter Roger Miller (produced in Nashville

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Cooper, Blinky, Bob Gaudio, Hugh Masekela, John Barry, Marvin Gaye, Roger Miller, The Royal Teens, The Spinners, The Temptations, Thomas Dolby

Burning Desire: Legacy Recordings Announces RSD Black Friday Titles from Jimi Hendrix, Willie Nelson, David Bowie, The Script

September 15, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Willie Nelson Live at Budokan

This morning, Legacy Recordings announced its slate of four vinyl releases for Record Store Day's annual Black Friday event taking place on Friday, November 25.  Three celebrate classic artists while one revisits a modern-day triumph.  Below you'll find the descriptions provided by the label for all four releases.  Visit recordstoreday.com for a full list of participating record stores. David Bowie, The Next Day Extra (12" Vinyl EP) The Next Day Extra contains various album outtakes and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Rock Tags: David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Record Store Day, The Script, Willie Nelson

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