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October 6, 2022 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Honey and the Bees Love

Fall has just begun and Halloween is nearly upon.  Real Gone's slate for this month includes two releases to celebrate that day as well as bit of rare Philly Soul.  The label is also repressing some titles from its considerable back catalogue.  All of these titles are hitting store shelves, tomorrow, October 7. First up is a reissue of the only album from Philly Soul group Honey & The Bees: 1970's Love.  Jean Davis, Gwen Oliver, and Cassandra Wooten were known as The Yum-Yums when they

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 45 Grave, Fastway, Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, Honey and The Bees, L7

April 9, 2021 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Steve Wynn Dekad

We continue our look at the releases for the upcoming Record Store Day events on June 12 and July 17.  This time we're focusing on our friends at Real Gone Music.  The RGM label will offer an eclectic array of releases, focused on music from the 1990s and 2000s, over both RSD Drops.  Visit RecordStoreDay.com for a list of participating retailers and more information on these two Drops. First up are the releases for June 12: Devo's Gerald V. Casale AKA Jihad Jerry and The Evildoers, Mine Is

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Devo, Gruntruck, L7, Love Spit Love, Record Store Day, Steve Wynn, Tad, VAST

June 5, 2020 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

HYB pic

Despite the challenges facing the music business amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some bright spots. On March 20, indie music service Bandcamp waived their share of revenue on all sales for 24 hours, allowing artists and labels to support themselves even more robustly. Thanks to impressive results ($4.3 million spent on music and merch, 15 times an average Friday's revenue), Bandcamp repeated the strategy not once, but thrice: the first Fridays of each month (May 1, which raised $7.1

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Categories: Features, News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Comedy, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Bob Mould, David Lynch, Elliott Smith, Jim Carroll, John Carpenter, L7, Linda Perry, The Modulators

August 8, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Pentangle Sweet Child

Real Gone Music has announced three more reissues hitting shelves on September 7, joining previously-announced titles from Alice Coltrane, The Munsters, and more! First up is a vinyl reissue of Pentangle's 1968 double-album Sweet Child, celebrating its 50th anniversary.  The British folk-jazz group came together in 1967 and consisted of Jacqui McShee (vocals), John Renbourn (guitar and vocals), Bert Jansch (guitar and vocals), Danny Thompson (double bass) and Terry Cox (drums).  Their first

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Rock Tags: Grateful Dead, L7, Pentangle

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