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Release Round-Up: Week of August 8

August 8, 2025 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. America, Hearts: 50th Anniversary Edition (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore) Omnivore Recordings is reissuing, remastering, and expanding America’s Hearts, featuring “Sister Golden Hair,” “Daisy Jane,” and “Woman Tonight,” for its 50th anniversary. This new edition adds six bonus cuts to the original album’s dozen tracks. Five of these are unreleased alternate versions and mixes of songs from Hearts including a unique arrangement of Bunnell’s “People in the Valley,”…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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America, Better Than Ezra, Bill Pitcock IV, Booker T. and the MG's, Carla Thomas, Chicago, Dwight Twilley, Fleetwood Mac, Lou Bond, Odyssey, Rufus Thomas, Traci Lords, William Bell

Only You Can Free My Mind: Real Gone Music and Omnivore’s RSD Lineups Include Better Than Ezra, Francoise Hardy, Jackie DeShannon, Doc Pomus, More

February 18, 2025 by Randy Fairman | 6 Comments

Continuing our look through this year’s Record Store Day offerings, here’s the lineups for Real Gone Music and Omnivore. You’ll find music from the 1960s and the 1990s, and each company has a collection of rare demo recordings by a famed songwriter (Jackie DeShannon and Doc Pomus). All descriptions are taken directly from Real Gone Music and Omnivore Recordings. Visit RecordStoreDay.com for the full list of participating retailers you can visit on Saturday, April 12, to join in the festivities. REAL GONE MUSIC Better Than Ezra, How Does Your Garden Grow? (2-LP Orange Crush…

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News

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Vinyl

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Pop, Rock

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Better Than Ezra, Dada, Deicide, Doc Pomus, Francoise Hardy, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Jackie DeShannon, Record Store Day, The Rembrandts

Dreams Do Come True: Run Out Groove Plans Four New Titles from Ronnie Hawkins, Better Than Ezra, Fred Neil, Incredible String Band

January 16, 2019 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

For the last several years, Run Out Groove, has given music fans the power to vote on new vinyl titles mined from the vaults of Warner Music. Over the years, some stellar titles just didn’t get enough votes to move on to the pressing plants. Today, Run Out Groove announced a new partnership with vinyl micro-pressers QRATES to bring some of these worthy titles onto vinyl. The titles up for pre-order include: Better Than Ezra’sFriction, Baby, Fred Neil’s Bleecker & MacDougal, The Incredible String Band’sThe Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, and Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks’ Mr. Dynamo. All …

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News

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Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Rock

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Better Than Ezra, Fred Neil, Ronnie Hawkins, The Hawks, The Incredible String Band