Release Round-Up: Week of September 12

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  With nearly 25 titles, it also just might be the year’s biggest to date!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. David Bowie, I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016) (Parlophone) 18LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada After a period of nearly four years, David Bowie’s series of “Eras” box sets is returning with a new, final volume.  I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016) concludes the career-spanning chronicle of the shape-shifting superstar.  The new 13-CD or 18-LP box…

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Release Round-Up: Week of December 13

It’s Friday the 13th, but it just might be your lucky day for reissues!  Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Luther Vandross, Never Too Much: Greatest Hits (Epic/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In conjunction with a new documentary film, Legacy Recordings issues a new double-disc anthology of the late Luther Vandross’ work, accompanied by several rare and unreleased tracks. Never Too Much: Greatest Hits offers 20 tracks on two CDs that represent the…

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Listen to the Music: Rhino’s New Batch of Quadio Titles Includes Doobie Brothers, Jefferson Starship, J. Geils Band, Foghat

Rhino’s ongoing series of Quadio four-channel surround releases on Blu-ray Audio Discs has already presented a host of classic albums by the eclectic likes of Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler, Bread, Chicago, Seals and Crofts, Spinners, Randy Newman, and many others.  Today, the label announced a new batch with three returning artists (The Doobie Brothers, Jefferson Starship, J. Geils Band) and one band new to Quadio (Foghat).  Each of the four discs, currently available exclusively from Rhino.com, has a quadraphonic mix and a 192/24 stereo mix. British rock band Foghat‘s third album, Energized,…

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Listen to the Music: Rhino’s Rocktober Slate Features Doobie Brothers, Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Monkees, More

Rhino’s annual Rocktober campaign – this year encompassing 43 limited edition colored vinyl reissues of rockers both classic and contemporary – kicked off on October 4 with titles from Black Sabbath, Bush, Deep Purple, Devo, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, The Monkees, Stone Temple Pilots, and more.  Next, on October 18, the collection will grow to include releases from Ramones and The Velvet Underground.  The slate concludes on October 25 with The Cars, Foghat, Iron Butterfly, and more, including a second volume of Yes’ Yessingles.  As usual, Rocktober titles will only be…

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Rhino’s Record Store Day Lineup Features Doors, Talking Heads, Faces, Todd Rundgren, Linda Ronstadt, Four Seasons, Dio, More

It’s that time of year again!  Record Store Day announcements are coming fast and furious in anticipation of the big day, Saturday, April 20.  As usual, Rhino’s slate is a packed one, with a whopping 39 titles including releases from The Doors and Dwight Yoakam on CD as well as vinyl.  Click here for a list of participating independent record stores.  All descriptions below are provided by the label.  (*) denotes worldwide units. AIR – Kelly Watch the Stars Limited Edition of 5,500* copies; 12″ picture disc Captain Beefheart & His Magic…

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Dear Little Buttercup: Rhino’s “Start Your Ear Off Right” Features America, The Doors, Grateful Dead, “Three Amigos,” More

Rhino is once again inaugurating the new year with a Start Your Ear Off Right campaign, launching this Friday in brick-and-mortar independent record stores (and if the past is any indication, at Barnes and Noble locations across the United States).  The vinyl-only slate, which is spread out over the next four release weeks, concentrates on classic rockers (The Doors, Foghat, America, Grateful Dead, Velvet Underground, Black Sabbath, Stevie Nicks, Yes) with a healthy dose of R&B legends (Ray Charles, Curtis Mayfield, Zapp and Roger) and a late country music great (Eddie Rabbitt)…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 15

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Phil Collins, No Jacket Required and Testify: Deluxe Editions (Atlantic/Rhino) No Jacket Required 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada No Jacket Required LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Testify 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Testify LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required, originally released in 1985 and still the artist’s most commercially successful album, is expanded to 2 CDs with the addition of thirteen bonus tracks: ten new-to-CD live performances and three demos.  Phil…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 3

Welcome to the Release Round-Up for the week of March 3! The Staple Singers, Freedom Highway Complete: Recorded Live at Chicago’s New Nazareth Church (Epic/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Staple Singers’ 1965 LP celebrating that year’s historic civil rights marches from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama is generously expanded to complete form on Legacy’s new reissue available on both CD and vinyl.  Watch for a review here soon! The J. Geils Band, Bloodshot (Vinyl Edition) (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The J….

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Souvenirs: Raven Compiles Best of Foghat, Four Albums from John Prine

The Raven Records label closed out its 2014 with a pair of double-CD sets reliving the seventies – one, a retrospective of Foghat’s first decade, and another, a complete collection of John Prine’s first four albums. Foghat’s Drivin’ Wheels: Best of 1972-1982 brings together 32 tracks from the FM radio titans, spanning the period of 1972-1982 and culled from ten studio and live albums.  The blues-rock band was founded in Manchester, England in 1971 by three Savoy Brown expatriates – vocalist/rhythm guitarist “Lonesome” Dave Peverett, bassist Tony Stevens and drummer Roger Earl…

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Real Gone’s March Slate Boasts Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Foghat, J. Geils Band – and Second Disc Records, Too!

We hope that nobody missed yesterday’s big news of The Second Disc’s partnership with Real Gone Music to create Second Disc Records, launching March 10 with a pair of releases from Johnny Mathis and Bob Crewe!  But that’s not all that Real Gone has on tap for March release.   With a total of eight titles ranging from psychedelia to standards, this may be one of the label’s most eclectic release batches yet! Real Gone is kicking off the month on March 3 with two iconic classic rock albums on painstakingly-recreated replica vinyl…

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