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It's a Long Way Back: Rhino Reissues Ramones' "Road to Ruin" In 40th Anniversary Box Set

July 13, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Ramones Road to Ruin

On September 22, 1978, The Ramones unleashed their fourth album on the world: Road to Ruin.  On September 21 of this year, almost forty years to the day, Rhino will reissue Road as part of the label's ongoing series of Ramones box sets.  It will arrive as a 3-CD/1-LP box set and a single-CD remaster of the original album. For Road to Ruin, Dee Dee, Joey, and Johnny were joined for the first time by drummer Marky Ramone (who replaced founder Tommy Ramone, who'd left the ranks to focus on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Ramones

Release Round-Up: Week of July 13

July 13, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Grateful Dead Anthem of the Sun

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  Today might be Friday the 13th, but when it comes to catalogue music, it's a lucky day! Bobby Darin, Go Ahead & Back Up: The Lost Motown Masters (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Naturally, we're most excited about this release - our landmark 25th title on Second Disc Records, and certainly the most rarities-packed!  Go Ahead & Back Up: The Lost Motown Masters premieres a never-before-heard Bobby Darin

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Ben Folds Five, Bobby Darin, Grateful Dead, Jason Isbell, Smokey Robinson, The Rolling Stones, The Statler Brothers, Timi Yuro, Willie Nelson

Holy Moses: Rhino To Compile Aretha Franklin's Early Atlantic Singles In Mono

July 10, 2018 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Aretha Atlantic Singles Collection 1967 1970

"Chain of Fools," "Respect," "A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)," "Think."  Between 1967 and 1970, Aretha Franklin released some of the most scorching soul of all time on the Atlantic label. Now, those seminal 45s from that three-year period (including nine gold records) are being collected on CD, vinyl, download, and streaming from Rhino.  On September 28, the label will release The Atlantic Singles Collection 1967-1970.  The CD and digital iterations boast the 34 singles which Franklin

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin

Thinkin' of a Master Plan: Eric B. & Rakim Discography Compiled In Vinyl/CD Box Set

July 9, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Eric B. and Rakim Complete

UMe is revisiting the catalogue of influential hip-hop act Eric B. and Rakim with the July 13 release of a new box set. The Complete Collection 1987-1992, on 8 LPs and 2 CDs, brings together all four of the duo's classic albums (on the 4th & Broadway, Uni, and MCA labels) on eight vinyl LPs plus two CDs of remixes. Eric B. (Eric Barrier) was the DJ of the duo, and Rakim (William Griffin Jr., later Rakim Allah) the MC.  Eric B.'s love of James Brown inspired a reassessment of The Godfather

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Eric B. & Rakim

Release Round-Up: Week of July 6

July 6, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Yellow Submarine Single

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Beatles, Yellow Submarine [7-Inch Single] (Capitol/Apple/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" b/w "Eleanor Rigby" returns to 7-inch vinyl as a picture disc single to mark the 50th anniversary of the animated film classic.  It will be housed in a die-cut card sleeve.  Read more here. Judy Garland, I Can't Give You Anything But Love 1938-1961 (Jasmine) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Barenaked Ladies, Judy Garland, The Beatles, Vince Guaraldi

Fourth of July Special: Craft Recordings Reissues Tom Fogerty, Doug Clifford Solo LPs

July 4, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Doug Cosmo Clifford

Today, as we celebrate the fourth of July, we're spinning new reissues from two members of the quintessentially American band, Creedence Clearwater Revival! Before Creedence Clearwater Revival split in 1972 amid acrimony, Tom Fogerty had already departed the band which he had co-founded with his younger brother John, Stu Cook, and Doug Clifford.  Fogerty launched his solo career early that same year on the Fantasy label with a self-titled debut, and in October released his sophomore set. 

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Tom Fogerty

Music to Eat

July 3, 2018 By

Hampton Grease Band Music to Eat

Real Gone has a limited vinyl release of the cult classic double LP Music To Eat by Hampton Grease Band.  The group's offbeat mix of Dadaist vocals and jazz/prog/psych instrumentation did not prove a hit with audiences, and the album is apocryphally said to be the second lowest-selling album in Columbia Records' history, after only a yoga-instructional album.  Yet, the one-of-a-kind Music to Eat has gained a healthy following over the years, and Real Gone's edition is the first vinyl reissue of

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else

Merry Clayton

July 3, 2018 By

Merry Clayton LP

Merry Clayton's self-titled 1971 Ode LP was produced by Lou Adler and featured arrangements by Billy Preston and labelmate Carole King.  The album features songs by Neil Young ("Southern Man"), Leon Russell ("A Song for You"), Bill Withers ("Grandma's Hands"), and James Taylor ("Steamroller").  Clayton would be rewarded with her highest R&B album chart placement at No. 36.  Now, Real Gone brings the super-charged voice of Merry Clayton back to vinyl in a limited edition of 1,200 copies

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul

Extra Soul Perception

July 3, 2018 By

Monk Higgins Extra Soul Perception

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone and its Dusty Groove imprint (affiliated with the mighty Chicago retail store) returns saxophone great Monk Higgins' oft-sampled 1968 album Extra Soul Perception to both CD and vinyl.  The CD reissue features liner notes by Skip Heller.  The vinyl version is limited to 1,000 copies and comes on translucent blue vinyl in a replica of the original "Unipak" jacket.  Both of these editions

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Made To Be Broken: Expanded Edition

July 3, 2018 By

Soul Asylum Made to Be Broken

Soul Asylum's second Twin/Tone album gets the expanded treatment from Omnivore.  It adds a whopping fifteen bonus tracks to the album's original twelve songs including "Long Way Home" (which had been added to subsequent reissues) and nine previously unissued recordings.  Gina Arnold has penned the new essay for the deluxe booklet.

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Say What You Will...Everything Can Happen: Expanded Edition

July 3, 2018 By

Soul Asylum Say What You Will

Omnivore is expanding Soul Asylum's 1984 Twin/Tone debut.  The reissue of Say What You Will includes the original album plus fourteen bonuses including outtakes, demos (one previously unreleased), and tracks recorded under the names of Loud Fast Rules and Proud Crass Fools.  The five songs appended to the album for the 1988 reissue entitled Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold the Truck are all included.  The booklet promises to include a new essay by Robert Vodicka plus photos, artwork,

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

Hello, I Love You/Love Street [Single]

July 3, 2018 By

Doors Hello I Love You single

Prior to the September 14 release of the Waiting for the Sun box set, and 50 years to the day that it topped the Billboard pop chart, Rhino will release a 7-inch single of The Doors' "Hello, I Love You" and its original B-side, "Love Street," with the exclusive mono promotional mixes sent out to radio stations.  This version of "Hello, I Love You" was released last year on CD as part of The Singles, while the mix of "Love Street" is being issued on this single commercially for the first time.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Music from Big Pink [Various Formats]

July 3, 2018 By

Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Pink Vinyl: uDiscoverMusic.com Just in time for its 50th anniversary, Capitol/UMe will reissue The Band's seminal exploration of Americana, Music from Big Pink, on CD, 2-LP vinyl, digital, and in a CD/BD/2-LP/1-7 inch single Super Deluxe Edition.  For its 50th, Big Pink has been spruced up by engineer Bob

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

United We Stand: Cherry Red Reissues Reggae-Pop Classics from Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths

July 3, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bob and Marcia Young Gifted and Pied Piper

Nestled in the Motown discography between Diana Ross' "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and The Four Tops' "Still Water" singles in 1970 was a curiosity: the major label debut of the popular Jamaican singing duo Bob and Marcia, a.k.a. Keith Anderson and Marcia Griffiths.  While the 45 with "Young, Gifted and Black" b/w "Peace of Mind" didn't dent the charts in the U.S., the A-side had made it all the way to No. 5 on the U.K. National Charts.  Now, Cherry Red's Doctor Bird imprint has paired the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Reggae Tags: Bob Andy, Marcia Griffiths

Review: Dennis Coffey, "One Night at Morey's: 1968"

July 2, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dennis Coffey One Night at Moreys

For guitarist Dennis Coffey, music was no mere day job.  While plying his trade each day as a member of the Funk Brothers, laying down funky licks on some of Detroit's finest records, Coffey was spending his evenings at Morey Baker's Showplace Lounge as one-third of organist Lyman Woodard's instrumental trio.  With Woodard and drummer Melvin Davis, Coffey treated patrons to sizzling renditions of the day's hits as well as original songs.  One of the trio's 1968 sets was issued last year on

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Dennis Coffey

Release Round-Up: Week of June 29

June 29, 2018 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Supremes Sing HDH

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland: Expanded Edition (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Supremes' smash 1967 album featuring "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" gets a must-have 2-CD deluxe treatment, including the original mono and stereo albums, rarities, outtakes, remixes, and a live set from The Copacabana in 1967 featuring one of the last joint performances of Diana Ross, Mary

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Big Country, Buffalo Springfield, Chicago, David Bowie, Graham Nash, Guns N' Roses, John Coltrane, Procol Harum, Ray Davies, Smash Mouth, Social Distortion, The Feeling, The Flaming Lips, The Posies, The Supremes, Yes

Eternal Transcendence: Real Gone Collects Alice Coltrane's Compete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings

June 28, 2018 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Alice Coltrane Spiritual Eternal

Real Gone Music has just announced its first release for this September and it should be of substantial interest to jazz aficionados: a collection of Alice Coltrane's studio recordings for Warner Bros. from the mid to late 1970s.  The 2-CD set, Spiritual Eternal - The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings, is scheduled to be released on September 7. Coltrane was born Alice McLeod in Alabama in 1937, but grew up in Detroit.  She studied music and played a number of instruments, including the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz Tags: Alice Coltrane

You Dreamer: Big Country's 'Long Face' Gets Longer with Cherry Red Box Set

June 28, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Big Country Why the Long Face

A beloved album from Big Country is about to get a lot bigger.  Tomorrow, Cherry Red Records will expand the Scottish band's 1996 album Why the Long Face into a 4-CD edition also including their live album from the same year, Eclectic, and two discs of bonus material. Last year, TSD described Big Country: "The story of Big Country goes like this: the quartet, featuring ex-Skids guitarist Stuart Adamson on vocals and guitar, guitarist Bruce Watson, bassist Tony Butler and drummer Mark

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Big Country

Universal Pictures, La-La Land Team For New Soundtrack Imprint

June 25, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Colossus The Forbin Project

On Friday, Universal Pictures announced plans to preserve and restore its classic library of movie music as well as the birth of a new imprint to release those scores on compact disc.  The Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection will launch this week as a joint venture with La-La Land Records with the premiere release of Michel Colombier's 1970 score to the sci-fi thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project.  In August, Henry Mancini's score to the 1979 Peter Sellers remake of The Prisoner

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Ennio Morricone, Harold Faltermeyer, Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin, Michel Colombier

Release Round-Up: Week of June 22

June 22, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Garbage 2.0

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Cure, Mixed Up: Deluxe Edition (Universal (U.K.)/Elektra/Rhino (U.S.)) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mixed Up 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Torn Down 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Postponed from last week: The Cure revisits its 1990 remix album as a 3-CD deluxe edition.  The first disc of the new set contains the original Mixed Up album,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Chita Rivera, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Garbage, Leonard Bernstein, Miles Davis, The Cure, Tom Fogerty, William Grant Still

Where My Love Lies Asleep: Intervention Reissues Gene Clark's "White Light" on LP, Hybrid SACD

June 21, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Gene Clark White Light

Intervention Records, the eclectic label behind splendid and sonically-pristine reissues for artists ranging from Joe Jackson to Billy Squier, has announced the next title in its (Re)Discover Series: Gene Clark's 1971 A&M Records classic, White Light.  A stereo hybrid SACD (playable on all CD players) is due from the label on June 29, while the 180-gram vinyl release is due in September. The singer-songwriter and Byrds co-founder launched his solo career in 1967 on Columbia with Gene

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Gene Clark

Unattended Luggage

June 21, 2018 By

Nick Mason Unattended Luggage

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pink Floyd founding member Nick Mason's three solo albums are rounded up in one CD or vinyl box set as Unattended Luggage.  The 3-LP or 3-CD set includes Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1981), Profiles (1985), and White of the Eye (1987), with the latter making its CD debut.  All three albums will also be available as digital downloads and for streaming.

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

Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, 5/19/74

June 21, 2018 By

Grateful Dead Portland

The Grateful Dead is heading to the Pacific Northwest.  Grateful Dead's online-exclusive 19-CD box set Pacific Northwest '73-'74: The Complete Recordings, presenting six previously unreleased shows from two tours, is being cut down for two highlights editions: a 3-CD compilation drawn from the box set, and a 6-LP set of the complete Portland '74 show (May 19, 1974).  The 6-LP set, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, is limited to 7,500 copies.

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Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe It If You Need It

June 21, 2018 By

Grateful Dead Believe It If You Need It

The Grateful Dead is heading to the Pacific Northwest.  Grateful Dead's online exclusive 19-CD box set Pacific Northwest '73-'74: The Complete Recordings, presenting six previously unreleased shows from two tours, is being cut down for two highlights editions: a 3-CD compilation drawn from the box set, and a 6-LP set of the complete Portland '74 show (May 19, 1974).  The 6-LP set, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, is limited to 7,500 copies.

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

Country Singer's Prayer

June 21, 2018 By

Buck Owens Country Singers Prayer

Omnivore has excavated a 1975 album by Buck Owens recorded for Capitol Records and subsequently shelved by the label.  Though the tracks have seen release on compilations such as Owens' Bear Family box set retrospective of the era, this marks the first time the album has been presented and sequenced as Owens intended.  Country Singer's Prayer also includes two bonus single sides.

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

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