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March 6, 2020 By Sam Stone 6 Comments

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Rhino, the label that manages the catalogue of the Warner family of labels, has announced its upcoming Record Store Day releases.  A mouth-watering 29 titles will hit shops on April 18, available exclusively at brick-and-mortar locations.  These include the previously announced David Bowie titles; a rare live set from Alice Cooper; rarities from Jethro Tull; a box of John Prine's early albums; a set of core Notorious BIG records; BBC sessions from The Pogues, New Order, and Hawkwind; a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Cooper, Alphaville, David Bowie, Dexter Gordon, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Hootie and The Blowfish, Jethro Tull, John Cale, John Prine, Lou Reed, New Order, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Pretenders, Ramones, Record Store Day, The Cure, The Doors, The Notorious B.I.G., The Pogues, The Replacements, Warren Zevon

October 7, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Back in February, we reported on Blue Note Records' Tone Poet Reissue Series, a new initiative by label president Don Was and audiophile jazz expert Joe Harley that presents detailed vinyl reissues of Blue Note classics and overlooked titles from the label's 80-year history.  Each title is an all-analog affair, mastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray and pressed onto 180-gram vinyl at RTI, then housed in deluxe gatefold packaging. The first titles - Wayne Shorter's Etcetera and

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Andrew Hill, Dexter Gordon, Donald Byrd, Gil Evans, Grant Green, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson, Stanley Turrentine

April 22, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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The LP subscription club Vinyl Me, Please and legendary jazz label Blue Note Records recently announced a new collaboration called The Story of Blue Note Records, the centerpiece of which is a 7-LP box set. While its strictly limited 1,000 units sold out almost immediately upon release - sadly before our coverage could go to print - we thought it'd be best to let readers know about the release, should it be pressed again or made available elsewhere. The first "VMP Anthology" endeavor, The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Horace Silver, Sabu

December 6, 2018 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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On December 7, Verve/UMe will release The Founder, a 4-CD box set in honor of Norman Granz's centennial earlier this year (August 6, 1918).  The collection will also be available as a digital download and on streaming services. The set includes 44 tracks, some appearing on CD for the first time ever. It presents a chronological overview of the first two decades of the jazz impresario's impressive career by way of recordings of the musicians he recorded. The booklet includes new liner notes by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Anita O'Day, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Buddy Rich, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges, Les Paul, Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Mel Tormé, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Paul Desmond, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz

October 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Today is the final day for pre-orders of Run Out Groove's next title: an expanded vinyl edition of Secret Machines' Ten Silver Drops.  Similarly, polls close today for voting on the label's next release.  Will it be an expanded edition of the eponymous album from sixties prog-rockers Ars Nova, the vinyl premiere of Victoria Williams' Water to Drink, or a brand-new rarities collection from Devo?  The choice is yours!  Visit Run Out Groove's website today to place those orders and make those

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Rock Tags: Dexter Gordon, Record Store Day, Type O Negative

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