2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cum On Feel The Hitz: The Best Of Slade collects more than 40 tracks across two discs from the Wolverhampton band, including 16 Top 10 hits released between 1970 and 1984. Six of them - the uniquely-spelled "Coz I Luv You," "Take Me Bak 'Ome," "Mama Weer All Crazee Now," "Cum On Feel The Noize," "Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me" and the holiday perennial "Merry Xmas Everybody" - all topped the chart, becoming
How The Web Was Woven: Elvis Presley's Marathon 1970 Sessions Collected on "From Elvis in Nashville"
On Friday, RCA and Legacy Recordings announced the release of From Elvis in Nashville, a 4-CD box set due on November 20 which promises to be the definitive chronicle of Presley's marathon Music City recording session fifty years ago. In June 1970, Elvis arrived at RCA's Studio B in Nashville to begin what would become a legendary five-night recording session. Along with an additional session on September 22, these tracks would form the core of three celebrated albums: That's the Way It Is,
Bandcamp Bonanza: Top Picks For Indie Music Makers' Sixth Monthly Event
On March 20, as the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic was just starting to be understood, indie music retailer Bandcamp made the bold choice of waiving their share of revenue for artists and labels who were cancelling shows and delaying album releases left and right. The result was more music bought by more fans than any day on the site, a record broken on the first Friday of May. Bandcamp Fridays have since taken place in June and July - plus the first of an annual occurrence when the service
Release Round-Up: Week of August 7
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Neil Diamond, Live Reissues 1972-2018 (Capitol/UMe) Hot August Night (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / uDiscoverMusic.com) Love at the Greek (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic.com) Hot August Night II (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic.com) Hot August Night/NYC (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscovermusic.com) Hot August Night III (Amazon U.S. / Amazon
How Does It Feel? New Order Give 'Power, Corruption & Lies' The Box Set Treatment
One of New Order's most celebrated albums is getting expanded in October. Rhino will issue a "Definitive Edition" of the band's sophomore release, 1983's Power, Corruption & Lies. The box will feature the album on CD and LP with the first-ever mastering from the original analog tapes; a bonus disc of unreleased session outtakes and the band's 1982 live set for John Peel's BBC radio program; and two DVDs offering three complete live shows, a host of additional concert clips and television
Nobody Else: Cherry Red Revisits Nick Kamen Discography on "The Complete Collection"
"Wow, he's got a great face!" That was Madonna's first reaction to then-model, future pop star Nick Kamen. She recollected, "I never knew he could sing. And the next thing I know, Seymour Stein calls me up and says, 'would you be interested in writing a song for his album?' So he sent me a tape and the Levi's commercial and a demo video that he had done, and I said, 'Wow, this guy's got everything.'" Now, fans of Kamen can have everything, too, as Cherry Red has just released The Complete
Sing and Perform "Funny Girl": The Ultimate Edition
Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records debut Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl": The Ultimate Edition, a deluxe 2-CD celebration of the classic 1968 Motown-meets-Broadway gem. Greatly building upon the digital-only Expanded Edition issued in 2014, The Ultimate Edition boasts: The original U.S. stereo mix, The rare U.K. mono mix (with an extended version of Diana's tour de force "People" which composer Styne called "equal in every way to Streisand's or anyone
Don't Rain on Their Parade: Diana Ross and The Supremes' "Funny Girl" Comes to Deluxe CD from Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music
Nobody - no, nobody was gonna rain on Diana Ross and The Supremes' parade. With new member Cindy Birdsong joining Miss Ross and Mary Wilson, the group released no fewer than five albums in 1968, all of which showcased their extraordinary versatility. One of those LPs was to be their only full-length tribute to a classic Broadway score - and what a tribute it was from three of Motown's "greatest stars." Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl" featured the group's dynamic
Feel The Noize: New Slade Collection Due In September
One of England's most successful rock bands is compiling their hits for a new collection this fall. Cum On Feel The Hitz: The Best Of Slade collects more than 40 tracks across two discs from the Wolverhampton band, including 16 Top 10 hits released between 1970 and 1984. Six of them - the uniquely-spelled "Coz I Luv You," "Take Me Bak 'Ome," "Mama Weer All Crazee Now," "Cum On Feel The Noize," "Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me" and the holiday perennial "Merry Xmas Everybody" - all topped the chart,
Stampede: The Doobie Brothers Announce "Quadio," Featuring Rare '70s Surround Sound Mixes
After years of speculation, Rhino has announced a new box set of rare 1970s quadraphonic surround sound mixes from The Doobie Brothers called Quadio. A follow-up to 2016's successful Chicago box set of the same name, the Doobies' Quadio is a limited-edition Blu-ray Audio set featuring the original quadraphonic surround mixes for the band's second, third, fourth, and fifth LPs, all of which were produced by Ted Templeman. These four-channel mixes were available in stores on special surround
Phone Rings, Door Chimes, In Comes Company: Vocalion Releases Quad Mixes of "Company" and "A Chorus Line" on SACD
The U.K.'s Dutton Vocalion label is continuing its ongoing campaign reissuing quadraphonic albums on hybrid SACD (with a stereo layer playable on all CD players) with two classic Broadway cast recordings from the Columbia vaults. Both were choreographed by Michael Bennett, feature the talents of Donna McKechnie, and have orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. Moreover, both merged classic Broadway with a powerful and contemporary sensibility. Much as Rodgers and Hammerstein had done before him,
Fancy: Reba McEntire's "Rumor Has It" Gets 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition
Late last year, Reba McEntire celebrated 25 years of her Read My Mind album with an anniversary expanded edition. Now, she's following that up by revisiting her 3x platinum 1990 smash Rumor Has It in similar fashion. On September 11, Rumor Has It will return from MCA Nashville in a new edition with two bonus versions of its top ten hit "Fancy": a live acoustic take recorded at Music City's famed Ryman Auditorium and a dance remix by Dave Audé (who recently remixed Barbara Mandrell's "Sleeping
What Was It You Wanted? MoFi Announces Deluxe Vinyl Reissues of Bob Dylan's "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid," "Oh Mercy," "'Love and Theft'"
The long-awaited next volumes in Mobile Fidelity's successful series of Bob Dylan albums have been announced: a 2-LP 45rpm edition of Oh Mercy is available now, and a further 2-LP 45rpm configuration of Love and Theft is due later this month. This follows a 33rpm remaster of Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, already available. (All three titles are also available on hybrid stereo SACDs from MoFi.) 1989's Oh Mercy represented something of a return-to-form for Bob Dylan, who, after a few
Review: Paul McCartney, "Archive Collection: Flaming Pie" 2-CD and 5-CD/2-DVD Box Set Editions
Today sees the release of the latest in Paul McCartney's acclaimed Archive Collection series, Flaming Pie. Originally released in 1997, the album marked something of a comeback for McCartney, who was inspired by the spontaneous, more immediate recording techniques of The Beatles. Many heralded it as a sort of return to form upon its release, and now fans can judge for themselves with this illuminating deep dive into the Macca vaults. Like previous Archive Collection entries, Flaming Pie is
Sweet, Sweet Fantasy: Mariah Carey Kicks Off 30th Anniversary Campaign
She famously doesn't count birthdays, but Mariah Carey is taking 2020 to commemorate the birth of her music career with some rare and unreleased material. Earlier this month, the pop icon announced #MC30, a celebration throwing all the way back to her self-titled debut, issued three decades ago this past June. The campaign promises weekly "digital EPs, remixes, bonus cuts, rare tracks, acapella moments and mind-blowing live performances" - and five releases have occurred so far. The first,
In Your Head: Cranberries Expand 'No Need To Argue' With B-Sides and Outtakes
No Need To Argue, the album that gave Irish rockers The Cranberries their biggest hit around the world, is getting expanded this fall. As a tribute to frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan, who passed away unexpectedly in 2018, the surviving members of The Cranberries have remained active despite the band's formal dissolution, expanding their debut Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? later that year and wrapping up final album In The End in 2019. No Need To Argue continues that reissue
Everlasting Love: Cherry Red Expands Howard Jones' 'Cross That Line'
Cherry Red's latest reissue in their ongoing Howard Jones campaign is one of the series' most expansive yet, offering a deeper look at the singer/songwriter/synthsmith's fourth LP, Cross That Line. Released in 1989, Cross That Line found Jones in an introspective, experimental mood. His first mostly self-produced album, it featured meditations on lost relationships ("Last Supper") and extended polemics on power ("Guardians Of The Breath") nestled within its tracks. There were also classic
We're Not In Kansas: Big Country's Early '90s Anthologized In New Cherry Red Box
Cherry Red's longtime association with Scottish rockers Big Country - which manifested in a release of the group's last album The Journey in 2013 and continued with deluxe reissues of latter-day and live bootleg material in 2017 and 2018 - continues with another multi-disc anthology project due this September. Out Beyond The River - The Compulsion Years Anthology showcases the group's journey through the mid-'90s as they released The Buffalo Skinners, their sixth album, in 1993. After seeing
That Old Feeling: UMe and Acoustic Sounds Team Up For New Audiophile Reissues From Verve's Vast Jazz Catalog
Verve Label Group and UMe have announced a new collaboration with the audiophile reissue label Acoustic Sounds that finds the team offering up what's said to be "definitive audiophile grade versions of some of the most historic and best jazz records ever recorded." It's set to launch this Friday, July 31, on August 28 with two classic duets albums: Stan Getz and João Gilberto's landmark Getz/Gilberto (featuring Astrud Gilberto) and the singular Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar
Great Spirit: New Robert Plant Anthology Due in October
Today, Robert Plant begins the third season of his podcast Digging Deep with Robert Plant on which he reflects on his storied career and shares the stories behind the music. To coincide with the season premiere, Plant has announced a new career-spanning 2-CD set. Due on October 2 from his own Es Paranza label, Digging Deep: Subterranea compiles 30 tracks on two CDs (or streaming/digital) from his solo body of work. Digging Deep: Subterranea will be the first 2-CD collection of the Led
In Memoriam: Peter Green (1946-2020)
Earlier today, it was confirmed that Peter Green - the wunderkind guitarist who played with john Mayall's Bluesbreakers and co-founded Fleetwood Mac as well as his own Splinter Group - died at the age of 73. As a singer, songwriter, and electrifying guitar-slinger, Green pushed the boundaries of blues-rock and forged a thrilling, all-encompassing new sound reflected on such classic songs as "Black Magic Woman," "Albatross," "Oh Well," and "Man of the World." Artists the caliber of B.B. King
Release Round-Up: Week of July 24
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul, Men Without Women [CD/DVD] (Wicked Cool/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Little Steven Van Zandt's 1982 debut with The Disciples of Soul, Men Without Women, remains a high watermark in the Jersey shore bar band sound with its fusion of classic rock and soul sounds. Van Zandt was joined by members of The E Street Band, The Asbury Jukes, and The Miami Horns as well as pals like The
What Makes Them Beautiful: One Direction Celebrate 10 Years With Rare Material On Digital EPs
A decade after one of the 21st century's biggest boy bands was first founded, a quartet of rarity-packed digital EPs is now available to commemorate British pop sensations One Direction. To mark the exact 10th anniversary of X Factor contestants Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Liam Payne joining forces as a vocal group (where they ultimately placed third on the singing competition), Sony Music has unearthed and collated some spare tracks from across their career:
Tell Me All The Things You Do: Rhino Boxes Fleetwood Mac's Early Reprise Years
1975's Fleetwood Mac introduced a new sound for the band founded by Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Peter Green, and Jeremy Spencer. The addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to the lineup saw a marked shift towards mainstream pop-rock and earned the group its first No. 1 album. But the Mac had been reinventing itself virtually from the start. Now, its early years are being revisited on a pair of new releases from Rhino due September 4. Fleetwood Mac 1969 to 1974 is a long-anticipated,
UPDATE: The Rolling Stones Unearth Jimmy Page Collaboration "Scarlet" and Announce Another Limited Edition Version of "Goats Head Soup"
It's been a busy and exciting time to be a fan of The Rolling Stones. Sure, we may not have had the opportunity to see them on the road this summer, but fans were treated to the exciting news of a deluxe, expanded reissue campaign for Goats Head Soup. As previously reported, the album has been newly remixed and will arrive in a variety of formats including 1-CD, 2-CD, several vinyl configurations, and an extravagant 3CD/Blu-ray box set featuring an immersive Dolby Atmos mix of the album as its
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