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Clear Sailin': Omnivore Reissues Lost Classics from Chris Hillman, NRBQ, and The Choir

February 2, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

The Choir Artifact

Among its many exciting releases, Omnivore has a trio of albums due soon from three very different rock artists: Chris Hillman, pre-Raspberries band The Choir, and NRBQ. Last year, Chris Hillman (veteran of groups including The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Desert Rose Band, and supergroup The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band) released the acclaimed album Bidin' My Time - only his seventh solo album.  Produced by Tom Petty (one of the late superstar's last projects), the LP reaffirmed

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chris Hillman, Eric Carmen, NRBQ, The Choir, The Raspberries

Back to the Garage: Metallica Re-Revisits Classic EP on Multiple Formats

February 2, 2018 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Metallica EP

While you're waiting for the next exhaustive, extras-packed Metallica album reissue, the legendary metal group is reissuing a classic EP in April. Originally released in 1987, The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited found the quartet in a reflective mood, covering some of their favorite hard rock and punk groups like Diamond Head, Budgie, Killing Joke and the Misfits. The band was also looking forward: Garage Days Re-Revisited featured vocalist/rhythm guitarist James Hetfield, lead guitarist

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Metallica

Release Round-Up: Week of February 2

February 2, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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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

Summon the Heroes: John Williams Box to Celebrate More Than 25 Years of Pops and More

January 31, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

JW Conductor

This past Sunday, John Williams received a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella, for a track on his latest studio album.  It's his 24th Grammy and joins his five Oscars, four Golden Globes, three Emmys and numerous other awards.  At 85, Williams has hardly slowed down.  Of course, aside from his film composing work, he has also been an orchestra conductor for many years.  Sony Classical is celebrating that aspect of Williams' career with the 20-disc John Williams:

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Everything Else, Holiday, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Itzhak Perlman, John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma

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

The "Wait" Is Over: Varese Returns Dave Grusin's "Heaven Can Wait" and "Racing with the Moon" to CD

January 30, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Heaven Can Wait Reissue

For more than fifty years, Robert David Grusin - or Dave Grusin, as he's better known - has been making music to the tune of multiple Grammys and an Oscar, not to mention Golden Globes and various other honors.  Grusin has successfully scored for motion pictures and kept a busy profile in pop, soul and jazz, co-founding GRP Records and encouraging compact disc technology at the dawn of the era.  Back in 2013, Kritzerland delivered the world premiere soundtrack releases of two of the composer's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Billy May, Dave Grusin

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

How the West Was Won [Multiple Formats]

January 28, 2018 By

Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won

3 CDs: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4 Vinyl LPs: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Super Deluxe Edition (3 CD/4 LP/1 DVD):  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Led Zeppelin's 2003 concert album chronicling the band's June 25 and 27, 1972 concerts at the Los Angeles Forum and Long Beach Arena returns in a new, remastered edition available in multiple formats.

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

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

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

Going to California: Led Zeppelin Goes Super Deluxe with "How the West Was Won"

January 24, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won

Fifteen years ago, Led Zeppelin issued How the West Was Won, premiering performances from the band's June 25 and 27, 1972 concerts at the Los Angeles Forum and Long Beach Arena.  Now, those seminal tracks have been newly remastered under the supervision of Jimmy Page for a surprise addition to the band's Super Deluxe library - as well as in a variety of formats, all of which are due from Atlantic/Swan Song on March 23 including the first-ever Blu-ray Audio and vinyl editions.  The remastered How

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Led Zeppelin

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

January 23, 2018 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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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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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri

In the Lap of Luxury: Marillion Detail Expanded Remix Package for 'Brave'

January 22, 2018 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Following the release of last year's remixed expansion of Misplaced Childhood, neo-prog rockers Marillion are jumping ahead to one of their top albums of the 1990s to reissue: 1994's Brave, their seventh album. A 4CD/1Blu-ray box set edition of the album is due March 9. Brave was the third Marillion album with vocalist Steve Hogarth, who replaced Fish as frontman in early 1989. A stark departure from 1991's Holidays In Eden, their most pop-centric album, Brave told the story (based on actual

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Marillion

Concert for George [Various Formats]

January 22, 2018 By

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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

Pure Hysteria: Def Leppard Allow Download, Streaming of Classic Catalogue for the First Time

January 19, 2018 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Step inside, walk this way: British rockers Def Leppard have finally allowed their most popular albums to stream or download for the first time. Ahead of a major co-headlining tour with Journey, fans old and new can finally take the hits of Def Leppard along with them wherever digital music is found, thanks to the band's label, Bludgeon Riffola, and Universal Music Enterprises, who distributes much of the group's catalogue. "Given a bit of time to sit down and think about it and read and do

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Def Leppard

Release Round-Up: Week of January 19

January 19, 2018 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac [Various Formats] (Reprise/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD/DVD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 1975 debut album by the Fleetwood Mac line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood arrives in a variety of deluxe formats, including a 3CD/DVD/LP box with the remastered album on CD

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After, Todd Rundgren, Winfield Parker

BREAKING! Second Disc, Real Gone Celebrate Johnny Mathis with "Raindrops" and "Bacharach and Kaempfert" Expanded Reissues

January 18, 2018 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Johnny Mathis Bacharach and Kaempfert

In a career spanning over 60 years, the music of Johnny Mathis is more vibrant than ever.  The eternally youthful "voice of romance" gained a whole new generation of fans in 2017 with a new album featuring his recordings of future standards by Adele, Bruno Mars, and Pharrell Williams.  At the dawn of the 1970s, Mathis was celebrating the great songwriters of that day, too.  On March 2, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to kick off a new series celebrating the legendary Johnny

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bert Kaempfert, Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mathis

Some Disc! 'Charlotte's Web' Soundtrack Makes CD Debut From Varese

January 18, 2018 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Charlottes Web

In 1973, Hanna-Barbera's animated adaptation of E.B. White's beloved children's novel Charlotte's Web was released; over time, it became a multi-generational classic. 45 years later, a major milestone occurs with the first ever CD release of the film's winning soundtrack, courtesy of Varese Sarabande. Though White professed to not care for the film, condemning it as "a travesty" and admitting "I don't care much for jolly songs," Charlotte's Web has incredibly gained fans with time. The story

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, The Sherman Brothers

Salad Days (Are Here Again): Esoteric Plans Multi-Disc, Audio-Visual Procol Harum Anthology

January 17, 2018 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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"You'll cry out for mercy, but still there'll be more..." So proclaimed English prog rockers Procol Harum on their fourth album, 1970's Home. Three years before, the group burst onto the scene with the baroque-inspired "A Whiter Shade of Pale," an international hit that topped the British charts and reached No. 5 in America. And the group presses on, having released their 12th album, Novum, in April - a month shy of 50 years since "Pale" first landed in U.K. shops. To celebrate this

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Procol Harum

Give Me Peace On Earth: Craft Reissues 'Concert For George' In Various Formats

January 17, 2018 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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George Harrison would have been 75 years old next month, and Craft Recordings is celebrating that milestone with the ultimate tribute to the former Beatle: a multi-format reissue of 2002's Concert For George. Available February 23, two days before Harrison's birthday, Concert For George will bow in five different physical configurations - the most enormous of which is an online-only box set, limited only to 1,000 copies worldwide and featuring the star-studded tribute show on two CDs, two

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Monty Python, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Run Out Groove Round-Up: The Dream Syndicate, The Stooges, Secret Machines and Morphine

January 17, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dream Syndicate Complete Live at Rajis

Today, we're taking a look at four recent titles pressed for audiophile-level vinyl excellence by the Run Out Groove label! Run Out Groove embraces the Paisley Underground with the vinyl premiere of The Dream Syndicate's The Complete Live at Raji's.  Recorded on January 31, 1988 (not 1989, as indicated on the original CD release of the truncated album), the set captured the underground heroes prior to the release of their Ghost Stories album - and a year prior to their breakup.  But the

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Morphine, Secret Machines, The Dream Syndicate, The Stooges

Review: The Monkees, "More of The Monkees: Super Deluxe Edition"

January 16, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Monkees More of The Monkees

January is barely over yet, but 2018 is already shaping up to be another banner year for The Monkees.  Davy, Peter, Michael, and Micky have just met The Archies in a zany time-travelling comic book adventure, and fans have had the perfect soundtrack: the new, 3-CD/1-45 RPM single super deluxe box set edition of sophomore album More of The Monkees (Rhino Handmade R2 560125) - in time to mark 51 years since the LP was first released, in January 1967.  This sixth installment of the long-running

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of January 12

January 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dionne Odds and Ends

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Dionne Warwick, Odds and Ends: Scepter Records Rarities (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) From 1962 to 1971, Dionne Warwick, working primarily with songwriters/producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David, notched over twenty Top 40 hits on the Scepter label and garnered two Grammy Awards.  Yet while there have been numerous reissues of Warwick's work at Scepter, some material has been overlooked.  This new collection

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classical/Opera, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Big Star, Denny Doherty, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Leonard Bernstein, Melissa Manchester, Petula Clark, The Main Ingredient, The Mamas and The Papas, The Remains, The Rising Storm

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