Short Takes, Holiday Edition: “Beetlejuice” Offers Demos, Anne Murray Collects Christmas Favorites

Halloween might be over, but the party still continues: Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!  Legend has it that if you say his name three times, the demon – introduced on screen by Michael Keaton and then on Broadway by Alex Brightman – appears before you.  While Beetlejuice: The Musical had its New York run curtailed by COVID-19 after 366 performances, you can’t keep a good demon down.  The Ghostlight Records cast recording starring Brightman, Sophia Anne Caruso, Rob McClure, Leslie Kritzer, and Kerry Butler has become a runaway hit, with over 250 million streams…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 7

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up – a packed one, for sure! Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Just in advance of the June 12 debut of director Martin Scorsese’s documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Columbia and Legacy unveil a new 14-CD box set that promises to be the ultimate chronicle of the initial leg of Dylan’s legendary Rolling Thunder Revue from the autumn of 1975.  The box includes five professionally recorded sets…

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