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Shake It Up: Expanded Edition

February 12, 2018 By

Shake It Up

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Cars reissue their 1981 LP featuring the hit title track "Shake It Up" on CD and double vinyl, featuring eight bonus tracks including previously unreleased demos and alternate and early versions.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

VI Decades Live (This Is What We Do)

February 12, 2018 By

Chicago VI Decades Live

Chicago celebrates 50 years on the road with this new box set featuring 4 CDs and 1 DVD of previously unreleased live music recorded between 1969 and 2014.  This set includes two complete concerts - The Isle of Wight, 1970 on CD and a Rockpalast broadcast from Germany in 1977 on DVD - plus two discs of concert highlights.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Take Me Back to Chicago: Band Celebrates 50 Years with "Chicago: VI Decades Live" Box Set

February 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Chicago VI Decades Live

Chicago is turning 50, and the band is celebrating the landmark anniversary with a new box set looking back on its remarkable onstage history.  On April 6, Rhino will release Chicago: VI Decades Live (This is What We Do), featuring 4 CDs and 1 DVD of previously unreleased live music recorded between 1969 and 2014.  This exciting new collection coincides with the group's current tour in which they're playing the complete Chicago II every night before a lengthy encore set of greatest hits. The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Chicago

Review: Fleetwood Mac, 'Fleetwood Mac: Deluxe Edition'

February 12, 2018 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Fleetwood Mac packshot

Take away all the artifice and ephemera of the new deluxe edition of Fleetwood Mac's 1975 self-titled album (Reprise R2 559454) and you're still left with an intriguing and endlessly challenging question: how? How did a British blues band with only fleeting chart success in their home country metamorphose into one of the greatest rock bands of the 20th century's back half, architects of 18 Top 40 hits and eight platinum or multiplatinum records? And how did they do so with their ninth lineup? As

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD-Audio, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks

Release Round-Up: Week of February 9

February 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Stax Singles 4 cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Stax Singles Vol. 4: Rarities and Best of the Rest (Stax/Craft) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Craft Recordings boxes up a fourth volume of rare singles from the Stax vaults.  Volume Four lives up to its subtitle, collecting odds and ends from Stax and its various imprints by artists including not just the label's usual heavy hitters but also Big Star, Billy Eckstine, Delaney and Bonnie, and others.  80 pages of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chris Hillman, Mitch Miller, Nina Simone, Oscar Peterson, Ringo Starr, The Nazz, Todd Rundgren, Toto

Hold It! Intervention Gives Deluxe, Artist-Approved Treatment to Marshall Crenshaw's "Field Day"

February 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Fans of Marshall Crenshaw are bound to have a Field Day with Intervention Records' recent vinyl reissue of the pop hero's sophomore album.  This delightful release in the label's Artist-Approved Series has spruced up the original LP with a bonus 12-inch EP of additional content and new artwork, both of which have been given the thumbs-up by the artist. Producer Steve Lillywhite harnessed the power of Crenshaw (guitar/vocals), his brother Robert (drums/vocals), and Chris Donato (bass/vocals)

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Marshall Crenshaw

Good Rockin' Tonight: Soundtrack to New Elvis Documentary Announced

February 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Elvis The Searcher

A new Elvis Presley documentary is heading to television screens this April, and an accompanying soundtrack album will arrive in a variety of formats that same month from Legacy Recordings and RCA Records.  Elvis Presley: The Searcher, directed by Emmy and Grammy winner Thom Zimny and written by author/journalist Alan Light, traces the artistic evolution of the artist from his R&B and country beginnings through his final Jungle Room recording sessions at Graceland.  The three-hour, two-part

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Elvis Presley, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Cherry Red Bespoke Puts Vinyl Reissues in Fans' Hands

February 6, 2018 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Theatre of Hate LP

It's no secret: sometimes, reissue fans and collectors know what they want better than anyone - market analysis be damned. U.K. label Cherry Red is giving fans the opportunity to forecast some vinyl reissues with their new Cherry Red Bespoke initiative! Similar to Run Out Groove's methodology, Cherry Red Bespoke invites fans to have a look at some possible reissue titles and vote with your funds as to which ones you'd like to have as part of your collection! Track selection and packaging have

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock Tags: Jah Wobble, Spencer Davis Group, Theatre of Hate

NRBQ

February 6, 2018 By

NRBQ NRBQ

The 1969 Columbia Records debut of the New Rhythm and Blues Quartet (NRBQ) finally makes it way to complete CD in this newly remastered edition from Omnivore Recordings.  Featuring an eclectic array of songs by Eddie Cochran, Bruce Channel, Sun Ra, Carla Bley, and others, this reissue of NRBQ has been authorized by the band.  It features new liner notes by Jay Berman as well as rare photos.  Available on CD, DD, and LP.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul

Andmoreagain: Rhino Marks 50th Anniversary of Love's "Forever Changes" with Massive Box Set

February 6, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Love Forever Changes 50th

Released just months after the so-called Summer of Love, Forever Changes was the third studio album by the group simply and boldly called Love.  But more than just that four-letter word was on the mind of bandleader/songwriter Arthur Lee, who saw beyond sunshine and flowers that summer.  Love traded in the punchy electric guitar sound of the group's first two albums (and successful singles like "7 and 7 Is" and a cover of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "My Little Red Book") for a denser, more

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Love

He's Ready: Chess and Universal to Release New Muddy Waters Collection

February 5, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Muddy Waters Cant Be Satisfied

Universal Music Catalogue will issue a new collection celebrating the work of the bluesman born McKinley Morganfield but known the world over as Muddy Waters. Can't Be Satisfied: The Very Best of Muddy Waters 1948-1975 presents 40 classic tracks from across the singer/guitarist's tenure on the Chess label. Waters recorded for Chess for most of his life, after being discovered by Alan Lomax in the early 1940s for his Library of Congress-sanctioned sojourn to discover and record local country

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Muddy Waters

Release Round-Up: Week of February 2

February 2, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Roxy Music packshot

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ron Wood and Ronnie Lane, Mahoney's Last Stand: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Faces' Ronnie Lane and Ron Wood teamed up to pen the score, consisting of country/folk-flavored songs and instrumental tracks, for this 1972 low-budget Canadian film.  Real Gone brings it back to CD with new liner notes by Richie Unterberger.  Read more here! Roxy Music, Roxy Music: Super Deluxe

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Country Joe and The Fish, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, John Oates, John Williams, Randy Edelman, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Roxy Music, The Bee Gees, The Sherman Brothers, Trevor Jones

Roxy and (More Than) Elsewhere: Zappa's Legendary 1973 Shows Collected On New Box Set Released Tomorrow

February 1, 2018 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Zappa Roxy

Fans of the uncompromising rock composer Frank Zappa have a special jewel to add to their collections tomorrow: a definitive set chronicling his 1973 stand at The Roxy in Hollywood. The Roxy Performances is a 7CD box set that offers material from four incredible nights from December 8-12, 1973, as heard on 1974's Roxy & Elsewhere (in overdubbed form), 2014's Roxy By Proxy (which featured alternate performances sans overdubs) and 2015's Blu-ray/CD combo Roxy The Soundtrack. In addition to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Frank Zappa

Check Out Your Mind: Cherry Red, SoulMusic Collect Complete Recordings of Soul-Funk Band Maxayn

February 1, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Maxayn Reloaded

Cherry Red's SoulMusic imprint has recently delivered a heaping helping of rare R&B with a powerful 3-CD box set collecting the albums of Maxayn, the band fronted by vocalist Maxayn Lewis.  Reloaded: The Complete Recordings 1972-1974 presents the three albums recorded by Maxayn for Capricorn Records, all of which pushed the envelope of soul, funk, and rock. The Oklahoma-born, prodigiously gifted singer born Paulette Parker joined the Ike and Tina Turner Revue in 1967.  Upon "graduation"

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: Maxayn

Ace Spotlight, Part One: Label Goes Soul Deep with James Carr and Clarence Carter

January 31, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

James Carr Best Of

Ace Records' Kent imprint keeps fans and collectors on a steady diet of rare and well-done soul, and a quartet of releases that closed out 2017 prove to be no exception. Though held in high esteem by connoisseurs, James Carr never received the recognition of many of his peers.  The 20-track, simply-titled The Best of James Carr (Kent CDKENM472) makes a strong case for the Memphis singer's place in the top of the R&B pantheon.  It begins, naturally, with his stone-cold classic 1967

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Clarence Carter, James Carr

Am I Dreaming? Cherry Red's RPM Label Collects Pop, Soul, Prog, and More on Collector-Aimed Box Sets

January 30, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Am I Dreaming Brit Girl Sounds

Cherry Red's RPM imprint has recently touched on a variety of genres in a trio of 3-CD box sets which are small in size but chock full of rare musical offerings. Am I Dreaming? 80 Brit Girl Sounds of the '60s draws on a diverse range of Brit girl styles including pop, rock, folk, mod, R&B, and psychedelia.  It showcases how Motown and the Brill Building sounds traveled across the Atlantic, as well as uniquely homegrown British sounds.  RPM previously chronicled this era on eight volumes

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Various Artists

Never Can Say Goodbye: Craft Reissues Three Isaac Hayes Classics

January 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Shaft OST

On the heels of last year's acclaimed box set The Spirit of Memphis (1962-1976), Craft Recordings is returning to the catalogue of soul legend Isaac Hayes with three upcoming vinyl reissues.  The seminal trio of Hot Buttered Soul, Shaft, and Black Moses will return to vinyl on February 23 as newly remastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters from the original analog tapes.  All three titles have been pressed on 180-gram vinyl by Memphis Record Pressing and feature authentic tip-on jackets. 

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Isaac Hayes

Release Round-Up: Week of January 26

January 26, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

ABBA The Album Half Speed

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! ABBA: The Album - 40th Anniversary Edition (Polar/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) ABBA revisits its fifth studio album (released in December 1977 in Scandinavia and January 1978 in the U.K.) - a tie-in to ABBA: The Movie - as a deluxe 2-LP, 45 RPM, half-speed mastered set.  Featuring "The Name of the Game," "Take a Chance on Me," and "Thank You for the Music," the chart-topping LP has been a favorite of the band's discography. 

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABBA, Andrew Ridgeley, Luther Russell, Martika, Ohio Players, Wes Montgomery

New Coat of Paint: Anti- to Remaster Tom Waits' Elektra/Asylum Catalogue in 2018

January 25, 2018 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Tom Waits Closing Time

Having remastered his catalogue for Anti- Records spanning from 1999 to 2011 last year for CD and vinyl, iconoclastic singer Tom Waits will next partner with the label by turning his attention to the seven albums he released on the Asylum label during the first portion of his career. Waits and his wife and creative partner Kathleen Brennan have remastered all of Waits' studio and live output between 1973 and 1980 for CD and 180-gram LP, bringing many of the albums back into physical print

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Folk, Rock Tags: Tom Waits

Love...Thy Will Be Done: Cherry Pop Expands Martika, Andrew Ridgeley Titles in January

January 25, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Andrew Ridgeley Son of Albert

Cherry Pop is returning to the early days of the 1990s with expanded editions from the small discographies of two beloved artists: Andrew Ridgeley of Wham!, and Martika. After breaking up Wham! in 1986, George Michael graduated to bona fide solo superstar, while his musical partner Andrew Ridgeley had largely shunned the spotlight to pursue other interests such as acting and motor racing.  By 1990, however, Ridgeley was ready to return to music.  The result was Son of Albert, his only solo

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: George Michael, Martika, Prince, Wham!

Oh, Darling! Cherry Red Reissues Graham Bonnet's 1990s Output On New Box Set

January 25, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Graham Bonnet Flying Not Falling

The Graham Bonnet story has been well-chronicled by Cherry Red's Hear No Evil imprint via expanded editions of the English rocker's classic albums as well as a career-spanning anthology.  Late in 2017, HNE continued its Bonnet series with a new 3-CD compact clamshell box set.  Flying Not Falling: 1991-1999 expands three albums from the versatile vocalist: The Day I Went Mad (1999), Underground (1997), and Here Comes the Night (1991). Bonnet's career has ranged from pop to hard rock over six

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Graham Bonnet

Sugar In My Bowl: Bethlehem, Rhino Plan Singles Collections Honoring Nina Simone

January 24, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Nina Simone Colpix Singles

Few artists have had the impact on pop, soul, rock and jazz as the iconoclastic Nina Simone.  Simone (1933-2003) played by her own rules in life and art, recording some of the most electric and eclectic music imaginable in any genre.  It wasn't uncommon on a Simone album to find politically charged protest music alongside popular Broadway hits and reworkings of contemporary rock songs.  This April, she will enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, though she preferred to call her singular fusion of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Nina Simone

Rhino Collects 25 Years of Trips with Grateful Dead Live Compilation

January 23, 2018 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Best of The Grateful Dead Live

The Grateful Dead played more than 2,300 concerts during their lifespan. Of those, it's estimated that some 2,200 of those shows were taped by the band and their loyal fans. The good-natured California group allowed them to be freely distributed from the beginning, and every Deadhead has a favorite. But where would you start with the live history of such an esteemed band? The Dead and Rhino are offering an answer to that question this spring with The Best of The Grateful Dead Live, a 2CD or 2LP

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Grateful Dead

Intrada's Valiant Effort: A Deluxe 'Roger Rabbit' Soundtrack From Disney!

January 23, 2018 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Roger Rabbit 30

Intrada is set to make Disney fans p-p-p-pleased with a major soundtrack expansion: Alan Silvestri's stirring score to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Gary K. Wolf's quirky novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? - the tale of a hard-boiled private detective named Eddie Valiant solving the murder of a comic strip character - was equal parts Raymond Chandler and Chuck Jones, and perfect film fodder. But nobody could have predicted what Who Framed Roger Rabbit would have become: Jeffrey Price and Peter S.

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Concert for George [Various Formats]

January 22, 2018 By

concertforgeorge blurayy packshot

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2CD/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) The star-studded 2002 concert celebration of the life of George Harrison - featuring Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, and other luminaries - returns in a variety of formats from Craft Recordings.

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

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