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Gotta Get In to Get Out: Genesis’ ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’ Set for Deluxe Edition Next Year

November 20, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments

Genesis will revisit one of their most beloved albums – and their final bow with original vocalist Peter Gabriel – in a new box set next year. Announced almost 50 years to the day of its original release in 1974, a new deluxe version of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway will be a multi-disc celebration – four CDs or five LPs, a Blu-ray Audio disc and a download card – of the group’s acclaimed work. Inside the box will be a new remaster of the original mix of the album, done by Miles…

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Genesis, Mike Rutherford, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks

The Weekend Stream: July 29, 2023

July 29, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. Big things happening in this column: two big box sets from a legendary prog-turned-pop outfit, rare mixes from one of pop’s most legendary performers, tons of remixes from a soulful producer/performer and 200(!) classical titles from a legendary British label. Whew! Genesis, Archive #1 (1969 – 1975) / Archive #2 (1976 – 1992) (Atlantic/Rhino/Craft) Archive #1: iTunes / Amazon…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 3

March 3, 2023 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today. Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach, The Songs of Bacharach and Costello (UMe) 4CD/2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / ElvisCostello.com 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP with Lithograph: ElvisCostello.com Elvis Costello is looking back at his 25 years of music with the late Burt Bacharach on this lavish new 4-CD/2-LP box set (also available in smaller formats). The Songs of Bacharach and Costello features four distinctive albums: A newly remastered version of the duo’s acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning 1998…

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Burt Bacharach, Don Cherry, Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa, Genesis, Jay Migliori, John Hartford, Madonna, Saigon Kick, Sheena Easton, The Bottle Rockets, The South Side Movement, Willie Nelson

Deep in the Motherlode: Genesis Detail ‘BBC Broadcasts’ Box

January 12, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Though the exhaustive archival work that accompanied Genesis’ 2007 touring did not extend to the group’s latest (and likely last) outing in 2021 and 2022, this year brings a new box set for fans of the prog-turned-pop/rock icons: a collection of their live material as recorded by the BBC. BBC Broadcasts, curated by founding keyboardist Tony Banks and longtime engineer Nick Davis, offers a trove of concert audio from all the major eras of Genesis from 1970 to 1998. The earliest material, taken from a 1970 appearance on BBC Radio 2 program…

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Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins

Give It Up: Rhino Announces This Year’s “Start Your Ear Off Right” Releases

January 9, 2023 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

We’re into the second week of January, and it wouldn’t be a new year without Rhino’s annual Start Your Ear Off Right campaign. This year’s slate encompasses eighteen vinyl reissues across the rock, soul, and jazz spectrum, the majority of which were released on Friday at independent record stores and most Barnes and Noble locations (and online). The following titles are in stores now: Billy Cobham, Spectrum [Clear Vinyl, remastered by Kevin Gray] John Coltrane, Ole Coltrane [Clear Vinyl] [breakout from The Atlantic Years in Mono] Dire Straits, Money for Nothing [Green…

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Billy Cobham, Chicago, Curtis Mayfield, Dire Straits, Genesis, Gerry Rafferty, Hot Tuna, John Coltrane, Johnny Thunders, Otis Redding, Ramones, The B-52's, The Cure, The Velvet Underground, Warren Zevon, Yes, ZZ Top

Take This Heart: Anthony Phillips Collects Solo Rarities, Genesis Demos, Musical Scores on “Archive Collection” Box Set

March 16, 2022 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Anthony Phillips Archive Collection 1 and 2

Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint has had a long relationship with composer and founding Genesis lead guitarist Anthony Phillips encompassing reissues of various solo albums as well as his Private Parts and Pieces compilation series. Earlier this year, Esoteric turned its attention to another collection drawn from Phillips’ prodigious vaults: the 5-CD box set Archive Collection Volume 1 & Volume 2. Phillips’ Archive Collection had its antecedent in Private Parts and Pieces (which featured both archival and newly-written material) as well as in the prolific artist’s Missing Links series. The original Volume…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 19

November 19, 2021 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts (Columbia/Legacy) 2CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts features newly remixed and restored audio and video footage from Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band’s sets at Madison Square Garden in New York City in late September 1979. The star-studded “No Nukes” concerts were put on by MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy), a coalition of artists and activists (including Jackson Browne,…

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Adele, Billy Paul, Bruce Springsteen, Cat Stevens, Colin Blunstone, Dion, Donna Summer, Genesis, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Hasaan Ibn Ali, Jamie Cullum, KISS, Leo Nocentelli, Lucinda Williams, The Intruders, The O'Jays

Hold On My Heart: Genesis Looks Back On Tour Companion Collection “The Last Domino?”

October 4, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 16 Comments

On November 15, Phil Collins, Tony Banks, and Mike Rutherford are planning to take the stage at Chicago’s United Center as Genesis to launch the band’s first North American tour since 2007. (The European leg kicked off in September.) The tour is entitled The Last Domino? (note the question mark), and four days after its debut, Rhino in the U.S. and Virgin/UMC in the U.K. will release a companion collection. The Last Domino?, the album, is due on November 19 and will offer 27 tracks, including hits and deep cuts, on 2…

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Genesis, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Tony Banks

Shake It Up! Rhino Announces Offering for Start Your Ear Off Right 2021

January 8, 2021 by Sam Stone | 7 Comments

Rhino’s annual resolve to Start Your Ear Off Right continues into 2021 with new and exclusive, limited-edition releases to be released throughout January. The campaign begins today and includes titles by a diverse lineup: Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, Buffalo Springfield, The Cars, Dire Straits, Danny Elfman, Genesis, k.d. lang, Curtis Mayfield, John Prine, Talk Talk, and Talking Heads. You can find all the details about these releases below, and be sure to grab these releases from your favorite independent record shop or their online storefronts as well as select Barnes…

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Classic Rock, Electronic, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks

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Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, Buffalo Springfield, Curtis Mayfield, Danny Elfman, Dire Straits, Genesis, John Prine, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, The Cars, k.d. lang

Bankstatement: Esoteric Collects Genesis Keyboardist Tony Banks’ Solo Albums on “Banks Vaults”

October 22, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Following the release of the career-spanning box set A Chord Too Far and the expanded reissues of the albums A Curious Feeling and The Fugitive, Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint has recently celebrated founding Genesis keyboardist (and guitarist) Tony Banks with a sprawling 7-CD/1-DVD box set. Banks Vaults: The Albums 1979-1995 brings together newly remastered versions of all of Banks’ albums including the soundtrack to The Wicked Lady plus a DVD of music videos. Banks’ solo career began in 1978 when he embarked on the recording of A Curious Feeling, the first…

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Beyond and Before: Cherry Red’s Avant-Pop and Art-Rock Collection Features Yes, Bowie, Zombies, Procol Harum, Mick Ronson

August 14, 2019 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Cherry Red’s Grapefruit imprint has continued its series of clamshell box sets exploring a particular period or genre in rock history with a new set dedicated to one of the U.K.’s most fertile periods. The 3-CD Lullabies for Catatonics: A Journey Through the British Avant-Pop/Art Rock Scene 1967-74 offers 49 nuggets at the intersection of pop and rock, psychedelia and pastoral folk, prog and glam, famous and unknown. Following up previous volumes like I’m a Freak Baby, Dust on the Nettles, and Come Join My Orchestra, this box concentrates (per compiler David…

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10cc, David Bowie, Genesis, Mick Ronson, Procol Harum, Renaissance, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Various Artists, Yes

Release Round-Up: Week of June 7

June 7, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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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Got My Mojo Working: Cherry Red, Grapefruit Collects Alexis Korner and Baroque Pop On Two Box Sets

January 24, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Alexis Korner Every Day I Have the Blues

Periodically this month, we’ll be looking at titles released in the latter part of 2018 that we either didn’t cover, or only covered briefly, the first time around! We hope you enjoy this look at “some nice things we’ve missed”… Cherry Red’s Grapefruit imprint has recently released a pair of 3-CD box sets touching on two very different aspects of the sixties British music scene. One of the fathers of the British blues boom, Alexis Korner (1928-1984) has been celebrated on Every Day I Have the Blues: The Sixties Anthology. This handsome…

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Alexis Korner, Donovan, Genesis, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Procol Harum, The Searchers, The Zombies, Various Artists

On The Frontier: Esoteric Announces Renaissance “Ashes Are Burning,” Byrds’ Self-Titled Reissues, 1968 Box Set, and More

January 15, 2019 by Sam Stone | 2 Comments

February promises to be a packed month for music fans, as Esoteric brings listeners a new, expanded reissue of Renaissance’s 1973 classic, Ashes Are Burning, as well as a reissue of The Byrds, the reunion album by the legendary folk-rock group. Also on the way are reissues of Tear Gas’s self-titled album, an expanded edition of Greenslade’s Time and Tide, and a new 3-CD set called Revolution: Underground Sounds of 1968. Meanwhile, Esoteric’s Reactive imprint will issue a 4-CD set entitled Tangerine Dream: The Blue Years Studio Albums 1985-1987, celebrating their Jive Electro era. All these…

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Final Light: Cherry Red Collects Last Three Volumes of Anthony Phillips’ “Private Parts and Pieces”

May 31, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Anthony Phillips Private Parts and Pieces IX XI

Between 1978 and 2012, founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips released eleven volumes of Private Parts & Pieces. Each volume has collected various odds and ends from the composer/multi-instrumentalist which, for one reason or another, wouldn’t have fit comfortably on any of his proper solo albums. Since 2015, Cherry Red Group’s Esoteric Recordings imprint has been reissuing and expanding these fascinating releases in box set form. The third and final box (to date), Private Parts & Pieces IX-XI, collects the albums originally issued in 1996, 1999, and 2012 plus a bonus disc. Private…

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My Time Has Come: Anthony Phillips’ “Invisible Men” Reissued and Expanded by Cherry Red

January 16, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Anthony Phillips’ album Invisible Men arrived in American stores in fall 1983, following the third volume of the founding Genesis guitarist’s Private Parts and Pieces. Phillips envisioned more of a commercial pop sound for the album, which he crafted in collaboration with co-writer Richard Scott. That album, which featured different track listings in the U.S. and in Phillips’ native U.K. (where it saw release in spring 1984), has been reissued by Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint as a greatly expanded 2-CD set. (Alas, unlike most of the other titles in the label’s…

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Esoteric Recordings Revisits Anthony Phillips’ “Slow Dance” On CD/DVD Deluxe Edition

August 4, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint is happily determined to leave no stone unturned in its reissue series dedicated to the solo recordings of founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips. The latest album to receive its deluxe multi-CD/DVD format is Phillips’ 1990 release, Slow Dance. The original LP has been expanded with an entire bonus disc of previously unreleased session material, plus a region-free DVD containing surround and stereo mixes. Slow Dance, a two-part orchestral suite, was recorded by Phillips in 1988 and 1989. The follow-up to Tarka, his collaborative album with Harry Williamson,…

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The Golden Pathway: Esoteric Continues Anthony Phillips Reissues with “1984” and More “Private Parts”

October 12, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint has continued its definitive Anthony Phillips reissue series with two more deluxe titles by the artist/composer: 1981’s concept album 1984 as a 2-CD/DVD-A edition, and Private Parts and Pieces V-VIII in a 5-CD set. Not counting Phillips’ Private Parts releases, 1984 followed his 1979 album Sides. Whereas Sides was produced by Rupert Hine with the aims of attracting a mainstream audience, 1984 was an instrumental affair containing just four tracks – two short bookends, and the lengthy “1984” Parts One and Two. Phillips played synthesizers, a drumbox,…

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Blue Part of Town: Steve Hackett Revisits, Expands “Blues With A Feeling”

September 20, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Steve Hackett, the lead guitarist of Genesis between 1970 and 1977, has recently revisited his 1994 solo album Blues with a Feeling for an expanded reissue on Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint. This release follows up other Genesis-related releases from Esoteric drawing on the catalogues of Hackett (including a reissue of his 1986 supergroup album GTR with Steve Howe), Tony Banks and Anthony Phillips. Hackett’s first solo album, Voyage of the Acolyte, arrived in 1975 while he was still playing with Genesis. Blues was eleventh in a string of diverse albums touching…

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The Many “Sides” Of Anthony Phillips: Esoteric Expands Genesis Guitarist’s Albums in Stereo, Surround

May 4, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Esoteric Recordings has continued its series of definitive reissues from Genesis members Anthony Phillips, Tony Banks and Steve Hackett with two new mini-box sets dedicated to Phillips’ solo albums Wise After the Event (1978) and Sides (1979). These 3-CD/1-DVD-A releases follow Esoteric’s 2015 box set expansion of his pastoral solo debut The Geese and the Ghost as well as the label’s compendium of his Private Parts and Pieces volumes. Wise After the Event remains Phillips’ only album on which he is sole lead vocalist; on The Geese and the Ghost, vocals were…

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And The Wheels Keep Turning: Esoteric Reissues Two Tony Banks Albums As CD/DVD Sets

March 11, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Last year, Tony Banks went A Chord Too Far with a career-spanning box set; now, the Genesis keyboardist has teamed once more with Esoteric Recordings for a CD/DVD edition of his sophomore solo album, 1983’s The Fugitive. The first disc presents a new stereo mix of the album plus two bonus tracks, while the DVD includes a DTS 5.1 surround mix, a 96/24 PCM stereo mix, and a promotional music video. The Fugitive has recently arrived alongside a new pressing of the similar 2009 CD/DVD reissue of Banks’ first solo release A…

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Anthony Phillips’ “Private Parts and Pieces” Revealed On New Box Set

October 2, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

The Genesis celebration at Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint continues with the release of Anthony Phillips’ Private Parts and Pieces I – IV, a new 5-CD box set collecting and expanding his four albums of the same name released between 1978 and 1984. Private Parts follows Esoteric’s recent deluxe expansion of Phillips’ The Geese and the Ghost as well as a number of other projects from members of his famous band including a reissue of the 1986 album by Steve Hackett’s band GTR and Tony Banks’ career-spanning A Chord Too Far box set….

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Genesis’ Tony Banks Goes “A Chord Too Far” On Career-Spanning Box Set

September 2, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

It’s been a pretty great year for fans of Genesis. This morning, the news broke of upcoming reissues from Phil Collins. Earlier this year, reissues arrived from Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips, and Steve Hackett released his latest solo album. (A reissue of the 1986 album by Hackett’s band GTR is on the way, and a box set of Hackett’s Charisma recordings is due later this year, too.) All has been fairly quiet on the Peter Gabriel front, but even Gabriel has some vinyl remasters on the way in the fall. As…

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Take a Look at Them Now: Phil Collins Kicks Off Reissue Series with “Face Value” and “Both Sides”

September 2, 2015 by Mike Duquette | 8 Comments

He titled his most recent album Going Back, and now Phil Collins is going back to his classic discography in a far-ranging reissue campaign, appropriately titled “Take a Look At Me Now.” The British singer/songwriter/drummer has been relatively quiet since 2002’s Testify, his last album of new material. There was a tour with Genesis in 2007 (which coincided with an extensive reissue campaign of its own) and the aforementioned Going Back, 2010’s Motown covers album. But Collins has been relatively quiet since then, battling health problems that kept him from playing his…

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