Release Round-Up: Week of October 31

Happy Halloween!  Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window (Columbia/Legacy) 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The beginnings of Bob Dylan’s long and extraordinary career are being revisited by Columbia and Legacy Recordings on the eighteenth installment of the artist’s long-running Bootleg Series.  Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 (1956-1963) arrives on 8 CDs as well as…

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The Weekend Stream: September 27, 2025

Welcome to another relaxing journey down The Weekend Stream featuring a classic anthem from Barry Manilow and the late Peter Allen; a moving farewell for a great cause from Ozzy Osbourne and his friends in Judas Priest; classic pop from The King Family; a host of jazz, R&B, and country reissues; a dash of Christmas cheer from an old friend; and more! Barry Manilow, Once Before I Go (Stiletto) (Apple / Amazon) Fans attending Barry Manilow’s concerts of the last couple years have occasionally heard him pull out a very special encore:…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 9

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! The Kinks, Muswell Hillbillies / Everybody’s in Show-Biz – Everybody’s a Star (BMG) 6LP/4CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Muswell Hillbillies 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Muswell Hillbillies 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Everybody’s in Show-Biz 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Everybody’s in Show-Biz 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Kinks are going super deluxe (again!) with a joint reissue of two of the band’s most significant albums featuring remastered audio and a host of bonus tracks.  BMG’s box set celebrates The…

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As You Walk on By: New Box Celebrates the Music of John Hughes Films

A wise philosopher…or maybe a punk kid…or maybe an astute screenwriter?…once wrote “Life moves pretty fast – if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” A new box set devoted to that iconic filmmaker – the late John Hughes – will help fans enjoy some of that life a little more through a diverse collection of pop songs he helped bring to the masses. Life Moves Pretty Fast. The John Hughes Mixtapes offers four volumes of songs from the writer/director’s popular comedies and teen dramas….

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Review: Kate Bush, “Remastered in Vinyl” Boxes 3 and 4, CD Box 2

When Kate Bush returned to music in 2005 after a 12-year absence, about all that could be expected was the unexpected…and the sonic auteur, naturally, delivered.  Her 21st century work and assorted ephemera has been collected by Parlophone as one box of remastered CDs and two box sets of remastered vinyl LPs. Aerial opens Parlophone’s CD Box 2, and Remastered in Vinyl Box 3.  The record was conceived as two halves, one on each disc.  The first, A Sea of Honey, is a collection of finely-wrought songs with familiar Bush touchstones (romance,…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 22

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up.  Here’s what’s on the way today, March 22! Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings (Rhino/Atlantic Catalog Group) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings presents Aretha Franklin’s iconic concerts at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles during January 1972 in full.  Both the Thursday night and Friday night sets are accounted for, spread across four 180-gram LPs.  For more about the Amazing Grace vinyl reissue, check out our post here! Aretha Franklin, Songs of Faith: Aretha Gospel (Geffen/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Songs…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 8

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Pamela Polland, Pamela Polland/Have You Heard the One About the Gas Station Attendant? (BGO) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) BGO collects the two Columbia albums of singer-songwriter Pamela Polland in one deluxe, slipcased package – her 1972 self-titled LP and 1973 follow-up which was shelved and never released…until now! Pamela Polland and Have You Heard the One About the Gas Station Attendant? are filled with enchanting pop melodies and beguiling lyrics; guest stars include Taj Mahal, Nicky Hopkins, David Briggs, Eddie Hinton, Bruce…

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The Big Sky: Kate Bush’s “The Other Sides” Getting Standalone Release In March

Last year, Kate Bush surprised fans with a series of fully-remastered box sets presenting her entire albums discography plus numerous bonuses on CD and vinyl.  The second CD box (the simply-titled CD Box 2) included four discs of rare bonus material, all of which were also released as the fourth vinyl box (Remastered in Vinyl IV).  Now, those four CDs are being broken out on their own. The Other Sides, due on March 8 from Parlophone, brings together one disc of extended 12-inch mixes, two discs of assorted odds and ends, and…

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Review: Kate Bush, “Remastered in Vinyl” Boxes 1 and 2

Late last year, Parlophone unveiled a series of lavish box sets on both CD and vinyl collecting the complete works (to date) of Kate Bush.  The enigmatic singer-songwriter oversaw the remastering of these sets as well as their visual presentations; indeed, each album has been newly adorned with the logo of her own Fish People label.  Today, we’re taking a look at the first two vinyl box sets! The four LPs of Remastered in Vinyl 1 takes listeners from The Kick Inside (1978), housed in its original U.K. sleeve, through The Dreaming…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 30

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Diamond, 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Capitol/UMe)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Neil Diamond revisits a 50+-year career with a new 6-CD, 115-song retrospective box set featuring hits, rarities, and 15 previously unreleased tracks including the original demos of “America” and “I Am…I Said.”  Everything is packaged within a deluxe hardcover book-style format.  50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition expands upon 2017’s 3-CD 50th Anniversary set and is the first comprehensive Diamond career overview in more than 20 years.  Read the track listing here, and…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 16

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Fleetwood Mac, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (Warner Bros./Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  In celebration of its 50 years, Fleetwood Mac is issuing a new career-spanning collection featuring 50 songs on either 3 CDs or 5 LPs.  These include hits, favorites, and a smattering of rarities such as the CD premiere of 2013’s “Sad Angel” from the digital release Extended Play.  A 1-CD distillation…

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A Deal With God: Kate Bush’s Catalogue Remastered For CD, Vinyl Box Sets

Kate Bush was just nineteen years old when her debut single “Wuthering Heights” topped the U.K. Singles Chart for four weeks in 1978.  Since that time, the singer-songwriter has placed 25 singles within the chart’s top 40 and released ten studio albums.  She became the first British solo female artist to top the country’s album chart and the first female artist, period, to enter the album chart at No. 1.  Yet despite such accolades, Bush has never wavered from her own, truly singular career path.  Her most recent album, 2016’s live Before…

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Release Round-Up: Week of December 2

Welcome to December, and this week’s Release Round-Up! The Rolling Stones, Blue and Lonesome (Interscope) Standard Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Rolling Stones return with their first studio album since 2005’s A Bigger Bang.  Recorded over just three days in London, Blue and Lonesome returns the legendary band to its blues roots.  Available on CD, LP and DD, as well as in an SHM-CD Deluxe Edition with postcards,…

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One Little Spark: New Label Launches With Kate Bush, Ben Folds, Laura Nyro, “The Sound of Music”

With its upcoming roster boasting titles from Kate Bush, Ben Folds Five, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Laura Nyro and Julie Andrews, the new audiophile label Analog Spark is pulling out all the stops for its debut this spring. Yesterday, Razor & Tie announced the launch of Analog Spark, a new imprint which will focus on reissued releases on both 180-gram vinyl and SACD. Razor & Tie co-owners Cliff Chenfeld and Craig Balsam commented, “We’re very excited about the launch of Analog Spark and the reissue of this important historical music. These albums…

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