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World Turning: Fleetwood Mac To Expand Self-Titled 1975 Album

November 16, 2017 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Fleetwood Mac packshot

Over the last few years, Fleetwood Mac and Warner Music have worked together to expand their most "classic rock" era--the albums recorded with the line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood between 1975 and 1987. After deluxe editions of Rumours, Tusk, Mirage and Tango In The Night, the group finally unites the chain with a new expansion of their self-titled 1975 album, the first to feature this line-up, due in January 2018. Before the album

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks

Shine a Little Light: Jeff Lynne's ELO's "Wembley or Bust" Arrives In November

November 15, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

ELO Wembley or Bust

Jeff Lynne's ELO packed London's enormous Wembley Stadium to the rafters this past June with a greatest-hits set featuring many of the band's most classic songs including "Mr. Blue Sky," "Evil Woman," and "All Over the World."  Now, that gig is getting a wide release this Friday, November 17.  Wembley or Bust will arrive on that date from Columbia Records in a variety of formats: 2CD/1DVD; 2CD/1BD; 2 CD; and 3LP. Recorded on June 24, the Wembley concert has been described by recent Rock and

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne

I'm a Believer: 7a Brings Micky Dolenz Concert with Orchestra to CD and Vinyl

November 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Micky Dolenz Out of Nowhere

Micky Dolenz always attracts a crowd whenever he's performing one of his hits-packed shows.  Whether Dolenz is playing a large theatre or an intimate nightclub, the consummate entertainer brings the goods.  Now, the Monkees specialists at 7a Records are unveiling a particularly exciting treat: a brand-new live album from Micky, and his first to be recorded with an orchestra.  Micky Dolenz & The American Metropole Orchestra: Out of Nowhere will hit stores on November 17 in the U.K. (and one

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

Soundtrack Watch: Varese Preps Limited Editions For Goldsmith, Jarre, Stephen King Films

November 13, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stephen King Varese

There's been a flurry of great catalogue activity from our friends at soundtrack label Varese Sarabande! A trio of limited editions, an exciting wide reissue of two soundtracks to a popular film series, and a quirky, cool box set tied to a popular novelist have all been announced by the label in the last few weeks. Varese recently put the latest titles in their long running limited edition CD Club on sale, right around Halloween--so it's fitting that the first is a horror score from the late,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: James Newton Howard, Jerry Goldsmith, Jerry Reed, Maurice Jarre, Tangerine Dream

Hail! Hail! Chuck Berry's 'The Great Twenty-Eight' Becomes Vinyl Box Set

November 13, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

The Great Twenty Eight box

One of the greatest compilations of all time is going deluxe thanks to the team at UMe. A five-disc vinyl version of Chuck Berry's The Great Twenty-Eight (1982) is due in stores in early 2018. The Great Twenty-Eight may have one of the most accurate titles in compilation history: more than two dozen of the Missouri-born rock legend's best-loved singles and B-sides from his most successful period on Chess Records from 1955 to 1965. Ten of the tracks were Top 40 hits on Billboard's Hot 100,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chuck Berry

Release Round-Up: Week of November 10

November 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Elton Diamonds

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elton John, Diamonds [Various Formats] (UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John looks back on his extraordinary career with a new retrospective collection, available in 1-CD, 2-CD, 3-CD, and 2-LP formats.  Get all of the details right here! R.E.M., Automatic for the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alex Chilton, Aretha Franklin, Carmaig de Forest, David Heneker, Elton John, Eric Johnson, Guided by Voices, Metallica, Petula Clark, R.E.M., Ranny Sinclair, Rare Earth, Smokey Robinson, Tears for Fears, The Foundations, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

A Fine Romance: Verve To Release Unheard Ella Fitzgerald Live Gig

November 9, 2017 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Ella At Zardis

A previously unreleased pair of Ella Fitzgerald live sets are coming to CD next month, as part of a celebration of the iconic singer's centennial year! 1956 was a pivotal year for Ella Fitzgerald. She had recently become the first artist on her manager Norman Granz's brand-new label Verve Records. That year, she'd record and release Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book, her first of eight albums over the next decade that would spotlight and celebrate various composers of what we

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Ella Fitzgerald

Feel The Force: Vinyl Box is Disney's First Catalogue Release For 'Star Wars'

November 7, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Star Wars 40 vinyl box shot

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...well, five years ago in California, anyway...The Walt Disney Company purchased Lucasfilm Ltd. for a staggering $4 billion, gaining the rights to George Lucas' space epic Star Wars and beginning a new sequel trilogy (as well as several film and TV spin-offs) in the $42 billion franchise. Only now, however, has Disney Music Group announced its first physical catalogue product: a triple-LP vinyl box set of John Williams' original Oscar-winning score to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

Life Is Right: Omnivore Plans Standalone Release For Classic Big Star Concert

November 7, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Big Star Live At Lafayettes

Omnivore Recordings has long been the destination for all things Big Star--and next year, the label will release one of the band's few official live concerts outside of the box set it debuted in. Live At Lafayette's Music Room, to be released January 12, showcases the legendary power pop band kicking off 1973 at the acclaimed Memphis venue. Co-founder Chris Bell had recently departed the group, leaving singer/guitarist Alex Chilton, bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens to continue as

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Alex Chilton, Big Star

If You Just Believe: Josh Groban Expands Hit Holiday Album for 10th Anniversary

November 7, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Groban Noel 10

The Christmas season is almost upon us, and classical crooner Josh Groban is celebrating with an expanded edition of Noël, his best-selling holiday album. Released in the fall of 2007, a holiday record was something of an inevitability for the lyric baritone, who at the time had spent the better part of the previous decade becoming an adult contemporary sensation. At 19, he stepped in for opera singer Andrea Bocelli during a rehearsal for the Grammy Awards in 1999, where he sang "The Prayer"

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Josh Groban, Tony Bennett

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Vinyl Editions]

November 7, 2017 By

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 2017 Remix LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 2017 Remix Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) Fans fell in love with Sgt. Pepper all over again this year with a stunning new stereo remix overseen by Beatle producer George Martin's son Giles. It was, of course, part of a deluxe 50th anniversary box set packed with unreleased session outtakes and video footage that will

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Extra-Terrific: Inside The Art of La-La Land's 'E.T.' Soundtrack Reissue

November 7, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

ET35 splash

Attendees of this past weekend's Mondo-Con were treated to a special new print from the master pop-culture provider: a striking new poster for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Eagle-eyed fans will recognize the graphic from its debut on La-La Land Records' 35th anniversary double-disc expansion of John Williams' Oscar-winning soundtrack. It's a wondrous image: of the film's protagonist Elliott, seen from behind astride his bicycle as he looks upward into the evening sky, reflecting on the incredible

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Categories: Features, Interviews Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

I'm a Believer: Super Deluxe "More of The Monkees" Coming In December

November 6, 2017 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Monkees More of The Monkees

There's more on the way from The Monkees - More of The Monkees, in fact!  The long-awaited Super Deluxe Edition of the band's classic 1967 sophomore album has been confirmed for arrival from Rhino on December 15, with 91 tracks on three CDs - 55 of which are previously unreleased! This collection lives up to its Super Deluxe description with a plethora of alternate takes, new and vintage mixes, and perhaps most excitingly, newly-discovered live concert material from 1967.  This new edition

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The Pharcyde Take Another 'Bizarre Ride' On Expansion of Their Debut Album

November 6, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Bizarre Ride Pharcyde 25 vinyl

One of '90s hip-hop's most acclaimed albums--as well as one of the most beloved rap debut albums of all time--is being reissued and expanded this month to mark its quarter century. The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ryde II The Pharcyde will get the red carpet treatment by Craft Recordings as either a 2CD expanded edition or a 5LP set that includes the original album and all three of its original 12" singles. Both sets, released November 17, will be remastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: The Pharcyde

Review: Bob Dylan, "Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981"

November 6, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Bob Dylan Trouble No More Cover

I. Gotta Serve Somebody Bob Dylan wasn't mincing words.  On the first track of the first album of what would later be referred to as his "gospel years," the artist laid his message out with striking simplicity.  "It may be the devil, or it may be the Lord," Dylan admonished, "but you're gonna have to serve somebody."  Suddenly, the same singer-songwriter who opined that "the answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" had found the answer - and His name was Jesus Christ. Between 1979 and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel Tags: Bob Dylan

The Boss: Diana Ross Celebrated with New Digital Compilation

November 6, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Diamond Diana

Usually it takes 60 years to get to a diamond anniversary, but what's a few years early to celebrate Diana Ross! The R&B legend will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the American Music Awards on November 19, and a new digital compilation will be released that weekend (Friday, November 17) to get the celebration started. Diamond Diana: The Legacy Collection is a breezy 15-track non-chronological trip through Miss Ross' unprecedented career. Focusing primarily on her solo

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: CHIC, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Nile Rodgers, The Supremes

Release Round-Up: Week of November 3

November 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bob Dylan Trouble No More Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, The Ultimate Merry Christmas (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are joining Motown Records to unwrap a celebration of The Supremes' 1965 perennial Merry Christmas. The Ultimate Merry Christmas features the album in three distinctive versions: the original 1965 mono and stereo mixes, as well as a brand new, never-before-heard 2017 mix premiering

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Ann-Margret, Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Cliff Martinez, Connie Smith, Debbie Gibson, Desmond Dekker, Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, Josh Groban, Lee Hazlewood, Little Richard, Percy Faith, Roy Orbison, Sepultura, The Ames Brothers, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Supremes

Happy Christmas, Beatle People! New Fab Four Holiday Vinyl Box, 'Sgt. Pepper' Remix Hi-Def Audio and Vinyl Announced

November 2, 2017 By Mike Duquette 14 Comments

Beatles Christmas Box 2

The Beatles are planning three special gifts for collectors, just in time for the Christmas season: a vinyl box set of the band's beloved Christmas messages to fans, plus new editions of this year's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band remix and reissue on vinyl and hi-def digital audio. All three titles hit stores December 15! If you were a Beatlemaniac during the band's original heyday, nothing could be better than getting a special present from The Beatles Fan Club. Seven original

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, Rock Tags: The Beatles

Bananarama Bunch Up Remixes On Expanded 'Greatest Hits Collection'

November 1, 2017 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Bananarama GH

Ahead of their upcoming tour--including their first trek to America!--Bananarama will reissue their Greatest Hits Collection (1988) with a bonus disc of original material. Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward were once named the female vocal group with the most chart entries ever by the Guinness Book of World Records, and it's not too outlandish a claim. If you've been near a radio on both sides of the Atlantic since the '80s, you've probably heard at least one of their hits:

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bananarama

Bad As Him: Tom Waits' Anti- Catalogue To Be Remastered, 'Real Gone' Remixed

October 31, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Iconoclastic singer Tom Waits is reissuing the latest part of his catalogue this winter. Waits' website recently announced remastered CD and vinyl editions of his entire Anti- catalogue, issued between 1999 and 2011. Waits and his longtime wife/musical collaborator Kathleen Brennan have personally remastered these six albums, with 2004's Real Gone receiving a new remix by Karl Derfler. The titles will release roughly in reverse chronological order: 2011's Bad As Me streets next Friday,

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A Farewell to Kings: 40th Anniversary Edition

October 31, 2017 By

A Farewell To Kings packshot

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  3CD/Blu-ray/4LP super deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Rush's fifth studio album, originally released in 1977, is reissued in a multitude of formats, all including a full concert from 1978, a sound effects track, and four covers by prog groups of classics from the album.  All this audio material will be available as a 3CD or 4LP set; for the hardcore Rush fans, a super deluxe box

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

One of a Kind: Bruford Brings Box Set

October 30, 2017 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Bruford Box

As the founding drummer of Yes and a prominent member of King Crimson in the 1970s, Bill Bruford was a key figure in the developing prog rock scene. Now, he's preparing a box set devoted to the first band he ever created: the aptly-titled Bruford. Seems Like a Lifetime Ago 1977-1980 will include Bruford's complete output, with some exciting extras as well. The group's first two albums, Feels Good to Me (1978) and One of a Kind (1979), have been newly remixed in both stereo and 5.1 surround by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD-Audio Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Bill Bruford, King Crimson, Yes

Release Round-Up: Week of October 27

October 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Who Maximum As and Bs Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Who, Maximum As and Bs: The Complete Singles (Polydor/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Who's complete singles from 1964-2015 are collected on a new 5-CD box set, which also contains a 48-page booklet featuring track-by-track annotations on each single.  Read more here!   Willie Nelson, Teatro: The Complete Sessions (Modern Classics Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Willie Nelson's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Bread, Carly Simon, Gary Wright, Jeannie C. Riley, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Bernstein, Matt Bianco, Nelson Riddle, Norah Jones, The Meters, The Who, Willie Nelson

Yeh Yeh! Matt Bianco Expands Sophomore Album On Cherry Pop

October 26, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Matt Bianco

Cherry Pop will reissue an expanded edition of Matt Bianco's self-titled sophomore album this week, with a dazzling array of bonus tracks. Released in 1986, Matt Bianco introduced a new line-up of the U.K.-based continental jazz-pop group; vocalist Basia and keyboardist Danny White had both left the group (the duo would collaborate on every Basia solo album afterward); vocalist Mark Reilly subsequently recruited Mark Fisher, who'd played keyboards for Wham!, to share creative responsibilities

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop Tags: Matt Bianco

Lovin' You: Capitol/UMe to Reissue Minnie Riperton's Breakthrough Album

October 23, 2017 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Perfect Angel

No one else could make us feel the colors that Minnie Riperton brings--and this winter, a newly expanded edition of her breakthrough album, 1974's Perfect Angel, will honor the singer for what would have been her 70th birthday. Born on the South Side of Chicago, Minnie Riperton was a musical pro when she released Perfect Angel in 1974. Blessed with a five-octave range and a compelling high soprano, she'd sung background vocals on many Chess Records releases and had joined the label's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Minnie Riperton, Stevie Wonder

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