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Release Round-Up: Week of November 15

November 15, 2019 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Welcome to another installment of Release Round-Up! Here’s what’s on the way this week. David Bowie, Conversation Piece [Various Formats] (Parlophone/Rhino) Conversation Piece box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Space Oddity 2019 Mix CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Space Oddity 2019 Mix LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada “Space Oddity” 360 Reality Audio single: Amazon HD / TIDAL / Deezer Links TBD The 5-CD box Conversation Piece traces David Bowie’s development as a songwriter and performer throughout 1968-1969 with home demos, BBC sessions, and studio recordings with his friend and collaborator John “Hutch” Hutchinson and the mime group Feathers. The box also…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Reggae, Rock

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Culture, David Bowie, Ethiopian, Junior Byles, Justin Hinds, Michael Nesmith, Red Rhodes, Ron Wood, Sting, The Band, The Clash, The Gladiators

Calling Rastafari: Omnivore Collects Reggae Gems from the Nighthawk Catalogue on “Send I A Lion”

November 14, 2019 by Sam Stone | No Comments

The ever-eclectic Omnivore Recordings has announced a new reggae retrospective that puts the spotlight on the indie label Nighthawk Records. Send I A Lion: A Nighthawk Reggae Joint is due November 15 as a CD, 2-LP or digital collection. The 20-track compilation was compiled and annotated by Nighthawk founder Leroy Jodie Pierson, who had initially envisioned it as a blues label. In 1979, five years after Nighthawk began, Leroy was instead in Kingston producing local talent. Nighthawk would go on to release albums by Culture, The Gladiators, Ethiopian, Junior Byles, Justin Hinds, Winston…

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News

Formats:

CD, Vinyl

Genres:

Everything Else

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Culture, Ethiopian, Itals, Junior Byles, Justin Hinds, Ronnie Davis, The Gladiators, Winston Jarrett

Omnivore’s Record Store Day Lineup Features Woody Guthrie, Lone Justice, and More

March 5, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

And the hits just keep on comin’! Record Store Day is almost upon us – Saturday, April 13 – and Omnivore Recordings isn’t going to miss out on all the fun. The label has just announced a quartet of titles set to reach your local independent record store. The label’s four new vinyl titles include I Don’t Like the Way This World’s A-Treatin’ Me, a four-song tribute to Woody Guthrie featuring a rare Guthrie demo plus Jeff Tweedy, Ryan Harvey with Ani DiFranco and Tom Morello, and U.S. Elevator; Lone Justice’s previously…

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News

Formats:

Vinyl

Genres:

Country, Folk, Reggae, Rock

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Culture, Dennis Quaid and the Sharks, Jeff Tweedy, Lone Justice, Record Store Day, Woody Guthrie