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The Minneapolis Sound: Sony Classical Boxes Eugene Ormandy's Early Recordings with Minneapolis Symphony

May 2, 2022 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Eugene Ormandy Minneapolis Symphony

Eugene Ormandy's The Columbia Legacy, released last year, was the second-biggest box set in Sony Classical history.  At a remarkable 120 discs, the box chronicled the early years of Ormandy's affiliation with The Philadelphia Orchestra - one that, all told, would span 44 years and become the longest-ever relationship between conductor and orchestra.  Ormandy first led the Orchestra in 1931 at just 32 years of age, filling in for his inspiration, Arturo Toscanini.  He joined full-time in 1936,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classical/Opera Tags: Eugene Ormandy, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

The Weekend Stream: April 30, 2022

April 30, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream

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's got live favorites from The Boss, a Record Store Day rarity, a '90s tribute album to some rock legends and much more. Bruce Springsteen, The Live Series: Songs of Location (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple Music / Amazon) The Thrill Hill Archives have occasionally made some themed Bruce Springsteen

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Poetry, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Anthrax, Blondie, Bruce Springsteen, Debbie Gibson, Garth Brooks, Hilly Michaels, KISS, Lenny Kravitz, Maria McKee, Marina, Melvin Van Peebles, Nino Rota, Poco, Stevie Wonder

Love Makes the World Go 'Round: Stage Door Reissues, Expands Broadway Cast Recording of "Carnival!"

April 29, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Carnival OBC Reissue

The Grand Imperial Cirque de Paris is coming back to town!  Stage Door Records has announced the latest in its series of Deluxe Edition cast recordings with a 2-CD expanded edition of the original 1961 Broadway Cast Recording of Michael Stewart and Bob Merrill's Carnival!  due on May 27.  The David Merrick production opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre in April 1961, playing for 719 performances including a transfer to the Winter Garden. Carnival! was based on the 1953 MGM film Lili which

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Bob Merrill, Jerry Orbach, Kaye Ballard

Release Round-Up: Week of April 29

April 29, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Neil Young Official Release 4

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of today's new releases! Neil Young, Official Release Series Volume 4 (Reprise) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Greedy Hand Store A new box set brings together three of Neil Young's '80s albums, along with a rare EP making its widest release yet.  Official Release Series Volume 4 runs the gamut of Young's eclectic output in the '80s - likely because it only covers his releases on his longtime home base

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Neil Young, Norah Jones, Sparks, Willie Nelson

Endless 'Summer': 21st Century Beach Boys Compilation Expanded for Group's 60th Anniversary

April 28, 2022 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Beach Boys Sounds of Summer 2022

On October 1, 1962, The Beach Boys released their album debut Surfin' Safari on Capitol Records, beginning an extraordinary musical odyssey that continues to this day.  Since then, brothers Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Carl Wilson; cousin Mike Love; and friend Al Jardine - along with fellow travelers including Bruce Johnston, David Marks, Blondie Chaplin, and Ricky Fataar, and dozens of key collaborators including Gary Usher, Roger Christian, Tony Asher, Van Dyke Parks, Billy Hinsche,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, The Beach Boys

Zappa/Erie

April 27, 2022 By

Zappa Erie Cover

6CD plus poster: Zappa.com 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Zappa Records and UMe are continuing their series of Frank Zappa boxes with Zappa/Erie.  The 6-CD, 71-track box (also available digitally) features three 1974-1976 shows from the Erie, Pennsylvania area (including Edinboro, some eighteen miles outside of Erie) plus a handful of bonus tracks from other locales including Toledo, Ohio; South Bend, Indiana; and most far-flung, Montreal, Canada.  The set boasts over seven

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock

Review: Frank Zappa, "The Mothers 1971"

April 27, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Frank Zappa The Mothers 1971

Sorry, Frank!  Though the title of Zappa and The Mothers' 1971 album was Just Another Band from L.A., listeners knew what the maverick bandleader was alluding to: his latest group was anything but.  Vocalists Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (a.k.a. Flo and Eddie) and bassist Jim Pons - all freshly recruited from The Turtles - were now happy together with Zappa, drummer Aynsley Dunbar, keyboardists Bob Harris and Don Preston, and multi-instrumentalist Ian Underwood in one of the most outrageous and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Flo and Eddie, Frank Zappa, The Turtles

Right Where He Belongs: Brian Wilson's "Long Promised Road" Soundtrack Comes to CD in June

April 26, 2022 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Brian Wilson Long Promised Road OST

Long Promised Road, director Brent Wilson's 2021 documentary film about Beach Boys visionary Brian Wilson (no relation) was described by Variety as "affectionate and satisfying...sentimental at times but often stirringly insightful."  The Hollywood Reporter called it "a portrait of friendship and love as much as it's about music."  American Songwriter noted that it was "flush with pathos and poignancy...a remarkable documentary that is, at once, both heartbreaking and heartwarming."  By

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Brian Wilson

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot [Various Editions]

April 25, 2022 By

WILM61 LP 1100x

All formats: Nonesuch Store 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco's fourth album, will get the box set treatment in several different formats including 11LP/1CD, 8CD, 7LP, 2CD, and 2LP (in black and gold editions). The original album will come with up to three CDs worth of alternate takes and mixes, a collection of demos and rough sketches, and two live performances: a live-in-studio, five-song appearance

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Songbird: A Solo Collection

April 25, 2022 By

Christine McVie Songbird

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada "Sea Foam" Green LP: Rhino.com Christine McVie releases her first-ever solo compendium.  Songbird (A Solo Collection), available in CD, 180-gram vinyl, and digitally, is a lean 10-track anthology remastered by producer Glyn Johns who worked in tandem with McVie on the release.  Songbird is mainly drawn from 2004's In the Meantime with two selections from 1984's Christine McVie: "The Challenge,"

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Madman Across the Water: 50th Anniversary Edition

April 25, 2022 By

Elton John Madman Across the Water

3CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John's 1971 Madman Across the Water receives a new 50th anniversary reissue. Available in three different formats, its most expansive is a 3CD/Blu-ray collection that'll offer the original album (remastered by Bob Ludwig in 2016), five rare bonus tracks, a dozen solo piano demos, an unreleased full version of outtake "Rock Me When He's Gone,"

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

Where the Happy People Go: Cherry Red, Robinsongs Collect The Trammps' Atlantic Albums

April 25, 2022 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

The Trammps Burn Baby Burn

Burn, baby, burn.  The Trammps' "Disco Inferno" blazed its way into history when it was included on the record-breaking Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.  A No. 1 Dance hit and top ten R&B entry, the storming track climbed to No. 11 Pop and became one of the disco era's most significant anthems.  But there's more to The Trammps than just "Disco Inferno."  An 8-CD box set from Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint, Disco Inferno: Albums 1975-1980, collects The Trammps' album discography on Golden

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Baker-Harris-Young, The Trammps

The Weekend Stream: April 23, 2022

April 23, 2022 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream

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! Return from your Record Store Day binge and kick back with some exciting finds, from charity rarities to new mixes of old favorites and even a surprising soundtrack find or two! Various Artists, EarthPercent Earth Day Initiative (Bandcamp) Though Bandcamp Friday is back in two weeks, the beloved digital service

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Brian Eno, Coldplay, David Arnold, Dramarama, Fergie, Hoyt Axton, John Paesano, Kris Kross, Ludwig Göransson, Michael Giacchino, Michael Stipe, Peter Gabriel, Remy Shand, Roxette, The Five Satins, War, Yo La Tengo

Release Round-Up: Week of April 22

April 22, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

T Rex 1972 Signed LP

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles arriving in stores today! T. Rex, 1972 [Various Formats] (Edsel) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5CD Signed by Tony Visconti: Amazon U.K. 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP Signed by Tony Visconti: Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Edsel is looking back on Marc Bolan and T. Rex's prolific 1972 with a new box set available in 5 CD, 6 LP, and 2

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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, Rock Tags: Bonnie Raitt, Brian May, Charles Mingus, Herb Alpert, Lani Hall, Rumer, T Rex

He Shall Be a Good Man: Elton John's 'Madman Across the Water' Gets Deluxe Edition

April 21, 2022 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

Madman 50

Elton John's breathtaking piano pop conjured up powerful images thanks to the lyrics of Bernie Taupin - but the duo were often writing about things before they experienced them. The Americana of 1970's Tumbleweed Connection, for instance, was indeed a fantasy; only within the year would Elton get his first taste of America - and the results powered his next studio album, 1971's appropriately-titled Madman Across the Water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rUarpBrfLI That album will be the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Elton John

New Collection 'Songbird' Shows the Solo Side of Christine McVie

April 20, 2022 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Christine McVie Songbird

Christine McVie's association with Fleetwood Mac began in 1970 when the singer-songwriter born Anne Christine Perfect played and sang on the group's record Kiln House (and even provided its cover artwork).  Though uncredited on Kiln House, McVie joined the band shortly thereafter, penning two songs and contributing to a third on 1971's Future Games.  Her place in the group assured, she went on to write and sing many of the Mac's most cherished hits including "Don't Stop," "Everywhere," and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

I Am Trying to Break Your Bank: Wilco Detail Deluxe 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' Reissues

April 20, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

WILM61 LP 1100x

One of the most beloved albums of the 2000s is getting a lavish series of reissues - with configurations as head-turning as the album itself. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco's fourth album, will get the box set treatment on September 16 in several different formats. The original album will come with up to three CDs worth of alternate takes and mixes, a collection of demos and rough sketches, and two live performances: a live-in-studio, five-song appearance and interview on Chicago's WXRT-FM in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Rock Tags: Jeff Tweedy, Wilco

Strange Animals: BMG Reissues Five Albums from Sparks in New 21st Century Collection

April 19, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sparks Exotic Creatures of the Deep

Director Edgar Wright's 2021 documentary The Sparks Brothers brought much-deserved attention to cult rock heroes Ron and Russell Mael and their prodigious, singular output as Sparks. Now, BMG has announced the 21st Century Sparks collection: a series of deluxe CD and vinyl reissues encompassing Balls (2000), Lil' Beethoven (2002), and Hello Young Lovers (2006) arriving on Friday, April 29; and Exotic Creatures of the Deep (2008) and The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman (2009) following on Friday, May

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Sparks

Come Away with Me: 20th Anniversary Edition [Various Formats]

April 18, 2022 By

Norah Jones Come Away with Me 20

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Norah Jones' chart-topping, eight-time Grammy-winning Blue Note debut LP returns in a variety of formats for its 20th anniversary, including 1CD, 1LP, 3CD, and 4LP sets as well as digitally.  While the standard CD and LP versions will feature the remastered original album only, the 3CD and 4LP iterations

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Older: Deluxe Edition

April 18, 2022 By

Older deluxe

5CD/3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada George Michael's third solo album - and the one he believed to be his finest - returns from Legacy Recordings in a new 5CD/3LP edition and a 2LP set.  This expansion of 1996's Older features both the remastered album and the EP Upper (included with reissues of the album in 1997) on 180-gram vinyl and CD, along with an additional three CDs featuring 27 B-sides, live tracks, edits and remixes. (A

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop

Combat Rock/The People's Hall (Special Edition)

April 18, 2022 By

Combat Rock Peoples Hall

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ranking Roger 7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings will release a 2CD or 3LP expansion of The Clash's Combat Rock for its 40th anniversary. The album comes with a bonus disc of 12 rare and unreleased tracks curated by the band's surviving members.  The People's Hall - the bonus set on this new expansion, comprising a bonus CD or three sides of two bonus LPs - is named for

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Europe '72 [50th Anniversary Editions]

April 18, 2022 By

Grateful Dead Europe 72

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP (black): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP ("Bozo or Bolo" rainbow): Dead.net Lyceum '72 (24LP): Dead.net Grateful Dead's thrilling run of European shows which were immortalized on the triple-album release Europe '72 and then in 2011 on the expansive 73-CD box set Europe '72: The Complete Recordings.  Now, Rhino has announced a host of releases from the final stand of the European tour.  Lyceum 1972: The Complete Recordings,

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

You Must Believe in Spring

April 18, 2022 By

Bill Evans You Must Believe in Spring

2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada SACD: CraftRecordings.com Craft Recordings delivers a remastered reissue of one of jazz piano legend Bill Evans' finest studio albums, the posthumous 1981 release You Must Believe in Spring, in 180-gram vinyl, CD, hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players), and digital formats.  Produced by Tommy LiPuma and Evans' longtime manager Helen Keane and engineered by Al Schmitt, You Must Believe in

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Tantamount to Treason Volume One: 50th Anniversary Edition

April 18, 2022 By

Michael Nesmith Tantamount to Treason 7a

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Deep Discount (U.S.) LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Deep Discount (U.S.) 7a reissues Michael Nesmith and The Second National Band's 1972 album Tantamount to Treason Volume One on both CD and LP in an expanded edition featuring five bonus tracks on CD and four on LP.  7a's remastered Tantamount to Treason Volume One is adorned with a new painting by the original album's cover artist Wilson McLean, depicting an older Nesmith

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country

Licked Live in NYC [Various Formats]

April 18, 2022 By

Rolling Stones Licked Live in NYC

2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/SD-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Licked Live in NYC presents The Rolling Stones' January 2003 Madison Square Garden show from the 40th anniversary Licked tour, in multiple formats including 2CD/DVD; 2CD/SD-BD (Standard Definition Blu-ray); 2CD; and 3LP (180-gram white vinyl).  First released in 2003 as an HBO special and as

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

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