Daryl Hall and John Oates' 1997 album Marigold Sky marked the duo's first album away from the major label machine. Following tenures on Atlantic, RCA, and Arista, the phenomenally successful pair aligned with BMG-distributed Push Records for their first "indie" release. Seven years had passed since the release of their final Arista album, Change of Season, and the passage of time was reflected on the cover. The reflective image adorning Marigold Sky was a far cry from the bolder, more
The Weekend Stream: March 19, 2022
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 hard-rockin' brothers to non-stop dance vibes, you've got quite a selection this week. Nelson, Imaginator / Silence is Broken / Brother Harmony / Life / Like Father, Like Sons / Before the Rain / Perfect Storm (After the Rain World Tour 1991) / Lightning Strikes Twice (Stone Canyon/UMe) Imaginator: iTunes
Soundtrack Watch: La-La Land Goes 'Top Secret,' Varese Unveils New Titles, John Williams Teams with Anne-Sophie Mutter Again
The last few weeks have seen some fine deluxe soundtrack reissues from two of our favorite film score labels - as well as another album project from the genre's greatest living luminary. La-La Land Records has aimed for the funny bone with a brilliant new expansion of Maurice Jarre's score to Top Secret! The 1984 comedy from the Zucker Brothers and Jim Abrahams - only their second big screen effort as writer-directors after the blockbuster Airplane! four years earlier (plus the brilliant
Release Round-Up: Week of March 18
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Frank Zappa, The Mothers 1971 / Fillmore East - June 1971: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition / Rainbow Theatre - December 10, 1971 (Zappa Records/UMe) The Mothers 1971: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Fillmore East - June 1971: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rainbow Theatre -
If It Makes You Happy: Sheryl Crow to Release Documentary, 2CD Companion Album
Alongside a forthcoming documentary on her 30+ year career, Sheryl Crow and UMe will issue a double-disc companion soundtrack that serves as an in-depth overview and the place to hear her newest material. Sheryl, which premiered at South by Southwest this past weekend and will air on Showtime starting May 6, will chronicle Crow's fascinating rise and the trials she endured through every step of her colorful career. A hardworking session vocalist who spent much of 1988 as Michael Jackson's
Take This Heart: Anthony Phillips Collects Solo Rarities, Genesis Demos, Musical Scores on "Archive Collection" Box Set
Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has had a long relationship with composer and founding Genesis lead guitarist Anthony Phillips encompassing reissues of various solo albums as well as his Private Parts and Pieces compilation series. Earlier this year, Esoteric turned its attention to another collection drawn from Phillips' prodigious vaults: the 5-CD box set Archive Collection Volume 1 & Volume 2. Phillips' Archive Collection had its antecedent in Private Parts and Pieces (which
Trimondo Blondomina: 'The Police Around the World' Set for First Release in 40 Years
It's not every day you see a big piece of catalogue get loosed from the jaws of rights holding or format availability - which is why we're extremely pleased to pass on the news that, four decades after its original release, The Police's first video album is coming back into print. The Police Around the World, a travelogue/live chronicle showcasing Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers on their ascent to the mantle of biggest band in the world, will get its first release on DVD and Blu-ray
Harmony Constant: 7a Records Reissues, Expands Michael Nesmith's "And The Hits Just Keep On Comin'" For Its 50th Anniversary
"I realized early on that Red was the magic carpet," the late Michael Nesmith observed to this author in 2020 of his longtime collaborator Orville "Red" Rhodes. "I began to realize this guy is on another level...He's playing music up at the highest jazz levels, but he's playing all by himself. I thought it was some of the most inspired and celestial pedal steel guitar music -which was like an impossibility, but it really was." Perhaps no release better epitomizes the intuitive, almost
The Weekend Stream: March 12, 2022
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! Georgia Satellites, Lightnin' in a Bottle: The Official Live Album (Cleveland International/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Recorded at Cleveland club Peabody's at the end of 1988 - two years after their only hit, the No. 2 smash "Keep Your Hands to Yourself," had fallen off the charts - this blistering set showcases
Iconoclassic's B.T. Express Reissue to Keep Disco Fans "Satisfied"
B.T. Express is rolling into the station! On May 27, 2022, Iconoclassic Records will board the train to the intersection of R&B, soul, funk, and disco with a definitive reissue of the band's 1974 debut Do It ('Til You're Satisfied). Despite the fact that the album scored mightily on the Billboard charts, reaching No. 1 R&B and the top five of the Pop survey, it's long lacked a proper CD reissue with the original artwork, proper sequence, and full-length audio. That all changes with
I Saw the Light: BMG Collects Hank Williams' Radio Gospel Performances on "I'm Gonna Sing"
I wandered so aimless, life filled with sin/Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night/Praise the Lord, I saw the light... Though Hank Williams is often remembered today as much for his hellraising ways as for his venerable songbook - a remarkable one that crossed genre lines via such stone-cold standards as "Hey, Good Lookin'," "Cold, Cold Heart," "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," and "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You") - he was brought up in the church and its music stayed with
The Mothers 1971 [Various Releases]
The Mothers 1971: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Fillmore East - June 1971: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rainbow Theatre - December 10, 1971: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Zappa Records and UMe have three releases commemorating Frank Zappa and The Mothers' legendary 1971 shows including a June run at New York's late, lamented Fillmore East (featuring a
Forever on My Mind
The Father of the Delta Blues (1902-1988) is back on this new release from Easy Eye Sound which premieres eight tracks from manager Dick Waterman's personal archive of quarter-inch tapes recorded by House in the 1960s as the bluesman was rediscovered by a new generation of fans on the folk circuit. Forever On My Mind represents the earliest full-length House solo performance recorded after his rediscovery, at an appearance on November 23, 1964 at Wabash College, a small men's school in
They Came, They Danced: Legacy Releases Fourth Season Soundtrack to "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
The fourth season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is now underway, with two episodes arriving each Friday on Amazon Prime Video for four weeks. The series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls, Bunheads) chronicles the colorful life of Midge "Mrs." Maisel (portrayed by Emmy Award winner Rachel Brosnahan) as she carves out a career in New York in the rough-and-tumble world of stand-up comedy; the current season finds her in 1960, working at a seedy burlesque house and navigating the
Vinyl Me, Please Releases Lavish "Story of Philadelphia International Records" Anthology
The legacy of Philadelphia International Records is as mighty as the famous three men most associated with the label: co-founders and songwriter-producers Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff and songwriter-producer-conductor-arranger Thom Bell. The three men didn't do it alone, though; the PIR story involves the dozens of talented artists, musicians, songwriters, producers, and arrangers who passed through the doors of engineer Joe Tarsia's Sigma Sound Studios on North 12th Street in Philadelphia,
Eruption: Mobile Fidelity Reissues First Six Van Halen Albums on Hybrid SACD, One-Step Vinyl
Might as well jump: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has announced that Van Halen's first six multi-platinum albums originally released on the Warner Bros. label will be coming to hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players) as well as to audiophile-standard UltraDisc One-Step 180-gram, 45 RPM vinyl. The band's incendiary debut Van Halen (1978) is due for release in the fourth quarter of 2022, with Van Halen II (1979), Women and Children First (1980), Fair Warning (1981), Diver Down (1982), and
Early Day: Rare Songs from the Radio 1939-1950
Real Gone Music celebrates the Doris Day centennial with Early Day: Rare Songs from the Radio 1939-1950, collecting on CD two dozen painstakingly-restored rarities from the first decade of Doris Day's extraordinary career. The collection opens with a moving 1944 rendition of her first signature song, "Sentimental Journey," with The Les Brown Orchestra before journeying back to 1939 and two songs with Barney Rapp's big band performed by 17-year-old Doris on their very first nationwide
UPDATE - Glory of Love: Cherry Pop's Expansive Peter Cetera Box Arrives
UPDATED 3/1/22: As one of the seven members of Chicago as featured on their 1969 debut album Chicago Transit Authority, bassist-singer Peter Cetera's soaring tenor became an integral component of the band's sound on such hits as "25 or 6 to 4," "Feelin' Stronger Every Day," "Just You 'n' Me," and "(I've Been) Searching So Long." When his own composition "If You Leave Me Now" became Chicago's first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 - not to mention in international territories such as Canada,
Sentimental Journeys: Real Gone Music Celebrates Doris Day Centennial with Two New Releases
"That kid is a real hot singer!" Cincinnati bandleader Barney Rapp was quick to recognize young Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff. The leader of the New Englanders urged the young vocalist to change her name, taking his cue from the song with which she left him smitten: "Day After Day." She became Doris Day, and the rest is history. On April 1, Real Gone Music celebrates the centennial year of the timeless artist, actress, and passionate animal rights advocate who died in 2019 at the age of 97 with
Years of the Cat: Madfish Collects Complete Al Stewart on Massive 50-CD Box Set
2022 just might turn out to be the Year of the Cat if Madfish Music has anything to do with it. On June 3, the U.K. label will release a massive, 50-CD box set anthologizing the career of celebrated singer-songwriter Al Stewart. The Admiralty Lights: Complete Studio, Live, and Rare 1964-2009 spans five decades of the artist behind "Year of the Cat," "Time Passages," "Midnight Rocks," "Bedsitter Images," and "Nostradamus" via his complete released live and studio recordings and over 300
Release Round-Up: Week of February 25
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the week's best new titles! The Left Banke, Strangers on a Train (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Omnivore brings The Left Banke's 1978 reunion album - featuring Steve Martin Caro, Tom Finn, and George Cameron - to CD for the first time, and adds a previously unreleased 2001 session from Michael Brown, Caro, and Finn. Scott Schinder provides the liner notes, and Michael Graves has remastered the
Rock On: Demon Music Group's RSD Line-Up Includes Donna Summer, Del Shannon, Pixies, T. Rex, Belinda Carlisle, More
We're counting down to Record Store Day 2022, scheduled for Saturday, April 23. Today, we're sharing the news from Demon Music Group. Demon's 2022 lineup for the fifteenth annual RSD event has an impressive array of classic rock, soul, and pop from such artists as Donna Summer, Belinda Carlisle, T. Rex, Suede, Del Shannon (with a little help from Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne!), Pixies, Ace of Base, and Simple Minds, plus rarities from the archives of the BBC and Chi-Sound Records. Below, you'll
Live Long and Prosper: La-La Land Revisits "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" In New Director's Cut Edition
Later this year, the Paramount+ streaming service will premiere a new 4K Director's Edition of 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The first big-screen voyage of the Starship Enterprise, director Robert Wise's film was first recut as a Director's Edition for the 2001 DVD, but the new version promises to be an upgrade in every way as it utilizes the HDR process for improved color and image. With the film itself getting such a makeover, it's only appropriate that the soundtrack is, too.
Spellbound
Judy Collins releases her 29th studio album, and it's a very personal one: every song on Spellbound is a self-written original composition. Her collaborators on the song cycle include c0-co-producer Alan Silverman, singer-songwriter Ari Hest, multi-instrumentalist Thad DeBrock, bassist Zev Katz, and drummer Doug Yowell. It's packaged in a digipak featuring a 16-page booklet with the artist's own liner notes and lyrics. Available on CD and digital/streaming.
The Weekend Stream: February 19, 2022
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 week we've got Depeche Mode on vinyl...er, digital, Roxette in Spanish and Shel Silverstein in rare form. Depeche Mode, Speak & Spell | The 12" Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Issued in 2018 as the first of nine (and counting) box sets featuring 12" replicas of every Depeche Mode single from a
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