Varese Sarabande made headlines last month when it was revealed that the venerable label had been acquired by Concord Music. Today, Varese has announced the opening of a new online vinyl store on March 30. The Varese Vinyl shop will inaugurate its sales with three limited, numbered, exclusive soundtrack LPs: John Carpenter and Alan Howarth's Christine on "Fury Red" vinyl; Bob Crewe and Charles Fox's Barbarella on 180-gram vinyl; and Dave Grusin's The Goonies on a 2-LP "Willy's Gold" colored
Forever Changes: 50th Anniversary Edition
Love's 1967 psych-rock classic Forever Changes goes super deluxe in a 12 x 12 hardbound book-style format, containing 4 CDs, 1 DVD, and 1 LP. The original stereo album will be featured on Disc One in a new remaster by original engineer Bruce Botnick, while the original mono mix makes its official CD premiere on Disc Two. The third disc has the alternate mix of the entire album that premiered on the 40th anniversary reissue in 2008 plus outtake "Wonder People (I Do Wonder)" in the mix first
Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass? Omnivore Collects Volume 2 of Buck Owens' Complete Capitol Singles
Omnivore Recordings is headed back to Bakersfield with a new collection from the late, great Buck Owens due on May 11 in both CD and digital formats. The Complete Capitol Singles: 1967-1970 picks up where Omnivore's last volume (1957-1966), released in late 2016, left off. This 2-CD, 36-track set chronologically features every A- and B-side released by the Bakersfield, CA singer-songwriter at Capitol between 1967 and 1970, including fourteen top ten hits. In his lifetime, Buck Owens accrued
Release Round-Up: Week of March 23
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Miles Davis and John Coltrane, The Final Tour: Bootleg Series Vol. 6 (Columbia/Legacy) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Copenhagen LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This latest volume of Miles Davis' Bootleg Series brings together five performances by Davis and John Coltrane recorded during the Spring 1960 Jazz at the Philharmonic European Tour, Coltrane's final such outing as a sideman: two shows from Paris's
Review: Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, "Motel Shot" [Expanded Edition]
The story of Delaney and Bonnie is by now a famous one. The husband-and-wife team of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett got their first recording contract in the soulful environs of Stax Records in 1969. The pair then briefly moved to Elektra (and were offered and accepted a contract at The Beatles' Apple Records before their prior association with Elektra negated it) before arriving at Atco in 1970 for their longest sustained recording contract. Though Delaney and Bonnie never achieved much in the
Yachts Rock: Cherry Red Collects Complete Recordings of New Wave Band
Cherry Red Records has set sail with a three-CD retrospective dedicated to Yachts, the British power pop/new wave band that left behind two LPs on Radar Records in 1979 and 1980. Suffice to Say: The Complete Yachts Collection features both of those albums as well as a disc of 19 singles and rarities originally released on the Radar, Stiff, Demon, and Eric's Records labels. It's due tomorrow, March 23! Liverpool Art College students J.J. Campbell (lead vocals), Martin Watson (guitar/vocals),
Standing Room Only
This new 3-CD, book-style box set features rare or previously unreleased live concerts from three decades of Frank Sinatra's storied career, including the January 28. 1966 second show with The Count Basie Orchestra and conductor Quincy Jones at The Sands in Las Vegas, making its CD debut; and two previously unreleased shows: October 7, 1974 at Philadelphia's Spectrum, and October 24, 1987 at Dallas' Reunion Arena.
Rapture and Redemption: Run Out Groove Announces Judee Sill For Next Release, Opens Voting for New Titles
Run Out Groove has had one busy winter. The label just announced two exciting projects for Record Store Day (Saturday, April 21) from The Beau Brummels and Baby Huey, as well as revealing its next limited edition deluxe vinyl release. Judee Sill's Songs of Rapture and Redemption: Rarities & Live is an all-new 2-LP collection celebrating the late artist whose two solo Asylum Records albums - Judee Sill and Heart Food - remain strikingly original works from a singular talent. ROG's
Return To 'Guyville': Liz Phair Packs Unreleased Demos Into New Box Set
Singer-songwriter Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville is about to turn 25, and Matador Records is making sure that anniversary doesn't go unnoticed. On May 4, the label will issue Girly-Sound to Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Boxset, a 7-LP or 3-CD (or digital) collection tracing her artistic evolution from her three pre-Matador demo cassettes (originally released under the name of Girly-Sound) to her acclaimed debut album. Girly-Sound to Guyville kicks off with each of the three privately-pressed
Luck Be a Lady: Unreleased Sinatra Concerts Arrive on "Standing Room Only"
Spring's about to get a lot more swingin', thanks to an upcoming release from the one and only Chairman of the Board. On May 4, Capitol Records and UMe will drop Frank Sinatra: Standing Room Only, a new 3-CD collection of rare or previously unreleased live concerts from three decades of the great man's storied career. This set begins with the January 28. 1966 second show with The Count Basie Orchestra and conductor Quincy Jones at The Sands in Las Vegas. This concert is making its CD debut,
Release Round-Up: Week of March 16
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Andrew Lloyd Webber: Unmasked - The Platinum Collection (Polydor/UMC) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Let the memory live again! Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates his 70th birthday and provocative new memoir Unmasked with this 4-CD, 71-track box set of the same name. The career-spanning anthology features many of the composer's most famed songs from Phantom of
Almost Like A Song: Morello Collects Four Ronnie Milsap Albums on 2-CD Set
As one of the biggest country music stars of the 1970s and 1980s, Ronnie Milsap has had many compilations devoted to his career. Recently, Cherry Red imprint Morello records released a 2-CD set featuring four of Milsap's albums from 1977 to 1980: It Was Almost Like A Song, Only One Love In My Life, Images and Milsap Magic. It was during this period when Milsap began to experience his greatest successes as a crossover artist. By the time of 1977's It Was Almost Like A Song, Ronnie Milsap had
Review: Isaac Hayes, "Hot Buttered Soul," "Shaft" and "Black Moses" Reissues
As a songwriter, producer, arranger, and session pianist, Isaac Hayes was a key architect in creating the sound of Memphis-based Stax Records. But few could have foreseen his dramatic ascendance to superstardom - a rise that began with his 1969 solo album Hot Buttered Soul. Now, that seminal record has returned to vinyl along with 1971's pair of Shaft and Black Moses from Craft Recordings. All three of these landmark LPs have been given the deluxe treatment in both packaging and
You're Driving Me Crazy
The prolific Van Morrison follows up his jazz-oriented Versatile from 2017 with a new studio LP. You're Driving Me Crazy teams him with Hammond organist Joey DeFrancesco for a set of standards and Morrison favorites such as "Have I Told You Lately," "Magic Time," and "The Way Young Lovers Do."
Blues and Haikus [Starburst Vinyl Edition]
Jack Kerouac's sophomore LP teamed the famed beat poet with jazz saxophonists Zoot Sims and Al Cohn, both veterans of Woody Herman's band. Kerouac's poetry focused on his interest in eastern religion and philosophy as expressed in his novel The Dharma Bums from 1958. Real Gone's new vinyl edition comes in blue and yellow "Starburst" vinyl and is limited to 1,000 copies.
Scientist and Jammy Strike Back! [Lightsaber Vinyl]
The 1982 sci-fi-themed dub album from Scientist and Jammy, originally released on Trojan Records, returns to vinyl from Real Gone in a yellow-green "lightsaber vinyl" pressing limited to 700 units! Tracks include "Storming the Death Star," "The Death of Mr. Spock," "Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker," and "The Son of Darth Vader."
God Bless Tiny Tim [Pink Vinyl]
Real Gone celebrates the 50th anniversary of Tiny Tim's debut album, produced by Richard Perry and featuring the hit "Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips," with its first-ever U.S. vinyl reissue, pressed on pink vinyl and strictly limited to 900 copies!
Suede: 25th Anniversary Silver Edition
This 4-CD/1-DVD set is the ultimate presentation of the group's chart-topping, Mercury Prize-winning, best-selling 1993 debut. It features the original album, a disc of B-sides, an assortment of demos and outtakes (including material not included on Edsel's initial deluxe edition of the album from 2011), unreleased BBC sessions, a live show from Sheffield recorded a month before the album's release and a DVD of rare TV performances (including the band's first appearances on British airwaves) and
Love Has No Reason/Savin' It Up
Debby Boone's fourth and fifth Warner/Curb albums, both from 1980, are expanded with rare bonus tracks for their CD debuts from Real Gone Music. These albums found the versatile artist teaming with superstar producer Larry Butler for Nashville sessions which yielded a Country chart-topper, "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again," and other hits. TSD's Joe Marchese has penned the liner notes, drawing on a fresh interview with Debby!
Midstream/Debby Boone
Real Gone Music reissues Debby Boone's second and third Warner Bros./Curb releases, from 1978 and 1979, on CD for the very first time. Produced by Brooks Arthur, this two-fer features Boone's silky treatments of songs by the pop cream of the crop including Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager, Bruce Roberts, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, Jimmy Webb, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. TSD's own Joe Marchese has written the liner notes based on a new interview with
Release Round-Up: Week of March 9
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Jimi Hendrix, Both Sides of the Sky (Legacy/Experience Hendrix) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The latest collection of posthumously-released material from Jimi Hendrix arrives in CD, vinyl, and digital formats, featuring 13 songs recorded between January 1968 and February 1970 - ten of which are previously unreleased, including performances with Stephen Stills of Joni Mitchell's
RPM Round-Up, Part One: Label Reissues James Royal, Shel Talmy Productions from Jon-Mark and Wild Silk
Cherry Red's RPM label continues to trawl the deepest vaults for truly rare gems in the realms of pop, rock, and R&B. Part One of this two-part RPM Round-Up focuses on three rarities-packed collections from the mid-to-late 1960s! Despite releasing eighteen singles and one album between 1965 and 1972 in his home of the U.K., James Royal never achieved stardom while he was recording. But the blue-eyed soul man's stellar body of work began attracting fans on the northern soul and mod
Keep It Thoro: Legacy Announces Record Store Day Slate with Dylan, Cash, Mathis, Elvis, Pink Floyd, More
Record Store Day is a little over a month away - Saturday, April 21 - and record labels large and small are celebrating in high style. Legacy Recordings is looking to make this the biggest and best RSD yet, with a line-up of nearly 30 titles in genres including classic rock, pop, jazz, R&B, hip-hop, comedy, and beyond. Many of the label's heavy hitters are represented, including Johnny Cash (an expanded vinyl box set of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition), Jimi Hendrix (a new
UPDATE: Massive Toto Box Set "All In" to Also Include All Albums on CD
Are you ready to go All In with Toto? The band has just announced a limited edition 17-LP/13-CD/1-BD box set due on October 12 from Legacy Recordings. This one-of-a-kind collection, exclusively available through the band's website now through April 10 only (for fall delivery), will offer a complete portrait of the band's Columbia Records years, plus some previously unreleased extras. All In features the following albums on seventeen LPs and thirteen CDs: Toto (1978) Hydra (1979)
Free Ride: Edgar Winter's Solo and Band Albums Collected on Two New Box Sets
With his long mane of white hair, Edgar Winter has long cut one of the most striking profiles in rock. Like his older brother Johnny, Texas-born Edgar was steeped in the blues. Emerging onto the scene with the 1970 Epic album Entrance, Winter fused blues with many of the styles with which he would become known, including rock, pop, soul, and jazz. Funk and even disco would come later, but one thing remained constant in whatever genre Edgar Winter was recording: virtuosic musicianship. A
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