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They’re Red Hot: AIDS-Combating Compilations Get Digital Reissues for 30th Anniversary

December 4, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Since 1989, the Red Hot Organization (RHO) has been combatting the scourge of HIV/AIDS. Red Hot has primarily raised money through the creation of music compilations beginning with the 1990 release Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter. Now, that star-studded release and numerous others have come to digital and streaming services to continue raising money for the charity. RHO co-founder John Carlin, an entertainment lawyer spurred into action by the devastating losses suffered by the New York cultural community, envisioned an album of Cole Porter songs performed by world-class…

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 21

February 21, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Hank Williams, Pictures from Life’s Other Side – The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings (BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) BMG salutes late singer-songwriter-legend Hank Williams with the release of Pictures from Life’s Other Side – The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings. This lavish 6-CD collection presents all 144 tracks recorded by Williams for his 1951 radio show sponsored by Mother’s Best Flour Company. The Mother’s Best radio shows have been chronicled on various sets…

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Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bob Crewe, Erasure, Eric Burdon, Fred Rogers, Hank Williams, Harry Nilsson, Miles Davis, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, Nancy Priddy, Neneh Cherry, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Green, Ringo Starr, The Animals, The Staple Singers

Release Round-Up: Week of March 24

March 24, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

McCartney Archive Collection Flowers 2CD

Welcome to this week’s packed Release Round-Up, featuring hotly-anticipated box sets, an extensive campaign from an iconoclastic artist, and much, much more! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Flowers in the Dirt (Capitol/MPL) DELUXE EDITION (3CD/1DVD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) SPECIAL EDITION (2CD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) VINYL (2LP) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Paul McCartney reassesses his 1989 album Flowers in the Dirt in a variety of formats. All boast a remastered version of the original 13-track album (including…

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

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A Flock of Seagulls, Bill Evans, Bobby Darin, Chris Difford, Elvis Costello, Erasure, Frank Zappa, Glen Campbell, Johnny Mercer, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd

A Lot of Respect: Erasure to Issue PledgeMusic Box Set As Wide Release

March 23, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

If you missed out on Erasure’s enormous box set released through PledgeMusic last holiday, it doesn’t have to be–it’s being made available to the general public this week. From Moscow to Mars: An Erasure Anthology is a treasury of riches from the seminal British synthpop duo, covering their first three decades together. This 12CD/1DVD set includes a variety of hits and rarities, including: Three discs of the band’s complete single A-sides Two discs of the group’s personal favorites, one compiled by singer Andy Bell and one by Vince Clarke Two discs of…

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Intervention Reissues Erasure’s Debut “Wonderland” On Deluxe LP

March 6, 2017 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

Intervention Records has continued its (Re)Discover series of pristine vinyl recreations of classic LPs with an album of eighties vintage that just might send you down the rabbit hole. It’s possible to get lost in Erasure’s Wonderland thanks to Intervention’s recent 30th anniversary presentation of songwriter-keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer-songwriter Andy Bell’s collection of crystalline synth-pop. Clarke was known for his work with Depeche Mode and as one-half with Alison Moyet of Yazoo (Yaz in the U.S.) when he found Bell, somewhat unbelievably, by placing a newspaper advertisement. The two men hit…

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