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Release Round-Up: Week of June 16

June 16, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Cracked Actor: Live in Los Angeles 1974 (Parlophone/Rhino) (Amazon U.S./ Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cracked Actor: Live in Los Angeles 1974 is the first authorized release of Bowie’s Philly Dogs Tour show at Los Angeles’ Universal Amphitheatre, from September 1974. First released earlier this year on vinyl only, some of this performance was featured in Alan Yentob’s BBC documentary also known as Cracked Actor. The original tapes for this show were finally brought together last November, and they have been newly mixed by Tony Visconti. Note that…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl

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

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Big Star, Blue Cheer, Cheap Trick, David Bowie, Randy Newman, Rosebud, Spirit, The Commodores, The Dustbowl Revival, The Rolling Stones

Ten Years Strong: The Second Disc’s 2017 Record Store Day Must-Haves

April 21, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments

Welcome to our annual rundown of Must-Haves for this year’s Record Store Day event! Once you’re through reading, let us know what you’re most looking forward to picking up tomorrow at your favorite local independent retailer! Our list features just a sampling of our favorites from our friends at Legacy Recordings, Varese Sarabande, Rhino Records, Walt Disney Records, Real Gone Music, Omnivore Recordings, and many more! Mike’s kicking things off… This year’s Record Store Day offerings include some excellent archival live releases and a couple cool looking packages I wouldn’t mind adding…

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Features

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Box Sets, Cassette, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

Feelin’ Good: Real Gone’s Record Store Day 2017 Offerings Feature Cheap Trick and The Meters

March 23, 2017 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

We’ve been taking you through many of the releases to come for this year’s 10th anniversary Record Store Day on April 22, and now it is time to turn our attention to the offerings from Real Gone Music who will be releasing two titles for the event. (Just click on the “Record Store Day” tag below to access all of this year’s RSD coverage!) Both of these are limited edition vinyl versions of previous Real Gone CD favorites – and one has a very special “golden ticket” incentive! Cheap Trick – The Epic…

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News

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Vinyl

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

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Cheap Trick, Record Store Day, The Meters

This Is All Right: Real Gone’s Late April Slate Includes Cheap Trick, Girl Groups and Marc Jonson

March 15, 2017 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

We recently told you about Real Gone Music’s April line-up. Typically, the label only has one round of releases in a month, but in April, you’ll getting more as the label just announced some more titles to come out later in the month following the April 7 releases from B.J. Thomas, David Allan Coe, Jack Kerouac, and others. (Read all about those here!) First up is a collection of rarities from one of the biggest bands of the 1970s and 1980s and recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Cheap Trick. The…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Folk, Pop

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Cheap Trick, Marc Jonson

Smash Hits: Elvis, Miles, Jimi, Johnny Cash, Big Star Headline Legacy’s Record Store Day Slate

March 8, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Record Store Day is coming up in a little more than a month, on Saturday, April 16, and the titles are starting to pour in for the annual celebration of brick-and-mortar record stores. Today, Legacy Recordings has just announced its slate! It’s a typically eclectic line-up of vinyl releases from some of the label’s heaviest hitters from rock-and-roll, country, jazz, and beyond, including Elvis Presley, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Big Star and many more! Big Star – Complete Columbia: Live At University of Missouri 4/25/93 2LP reissue of the newly…

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Big Star, Cheap Trick, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Strummer, Johnny Cash, Manic Street Preachers, Matthew Sweet, Miles Davis, Outkast, Record Store Day