Release Round-Up: Week of April 24

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. Michael Jackson, Michael: Songs from the Motion Picture (Epic/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (Black Vinyl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (Clear Vinyl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (Translucent Black Ice Vinyl): Independent Record Stores Cassette: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Friday, April 24 sees the release in theatres everywhere of Michael, director Antoine Fuqua’s biopic-slash-celebration of the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson.  Epic Records and Legacy Recordings are marking the occasion with…

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Feeling Good: Michael Bublé Celebrates 20 Years of “Caught in the Act” with Expanded Edition

Michael Bublé supported his 2005 multi-platinum album It’s Time with an international tour that saw him make two stops, in August, at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre.  Those concerts formed the basis of his concert album released later that year, Live! Caught in the Act.  The original release consisted of a concert film on DVD and an audio sampler with eight songs on CD.  Now, for its 20th anniversary, Live! Caught in the Act is being reissued as a 2CD set (also available digitally) with the complete concert in audio form.  It’s due…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 10

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. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Power to the People (Capitol/UMR) 9CD/3BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Official Store 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store One of the most incendiary periods of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life together is being explored anew in a new 9CD/3Blu-ray box set. Power to…

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20 Years’ ‘Time’: Michael Bublé’s Breakthrough Comes Home on New Deluxe Edition

Two decades after Canadian crooner Michael Bublé enjoyed his first major chart breakthrough, the album that did so – 2005’s It’s Time – is being reissued for its anniversary. It’s Time will be reissued in a 2CD or 2LP set (the latter pressed on silver vinyl) that’ll feature a dozen studio and live bonus tracks. Having come out at a time of considerable limited editions – some only available at certain American retailers from Target to Starbucks – this edition of It’s Time will offer all of those value-added bonus cuts in one place,…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 27

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Chicago, Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) (Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and digital formats, preserving the band’s show in the U.S. capital.  The concert was recorded just eight days after the opening of the Kennedy Center. …

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It’s a Beautiful Day: Michael Bublé Collects Greatest Hits on “The Best of Bublé”

With nearly one dozen studio albums, three live sets, and numerous EPs, it’s surprising that Michael Bublé is now announcing his first physical greatest hits collection.  With 75 million records sold and four Billboard No. 1 albums, he’s the third best-selling Canadian artist of all time, behind only Celine Dion and Shania Twain. The Best of Bublé arrives tomorrow,  September 27, on CD and digital formats from Reprise Records, while 2LP vinyl editions (standard at all stores, clear at his webstore, olive green at Barnes & Noble, and white at Amazon) are…

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Circle of Love: Dolly Parton’s “Holly Dolly Christmas” Gets Expanded Edition in October

2020’s A Holly Dolly Christmas was Dolly Parton’s 47th solo studio album, but only her third full-length Christmas record following the Kenny Rogers collaboration Once Upon a Christmas (1984) and solo Home for Christmas (1990).  The joyful yuletide set, supported by a prime-time CBS television special, became the superstar’s eighth Billboard Country chart-topper; it also reached the peak of the Holiday Albums chart and the top twenty of the Billboard 200.  On October 14, the Grammy-nominated instant classic will be expanded on CD and vinyl as A Holly Dolly Christmas: Ultimate Deluxe…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 25

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of new titles out today! Daryl Hall and John Oates, Marigold Sky: Expanded Edition (BMG) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada BMG’s reissue of Daryl Hall and John Oates’ 1997 album Marigold Sky – their first away from the major label system – adds three bonus tracks: the radio edit of “Romeo Is Bleeding,” the remix of “Hold on to Yourself,” and the Hot Mix of “The Sky Is Falling.”  Marigold Sky emphasizes the remarkable songwriting, alluring grooves, soulful vocals, impeccable…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 26

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up!  It’s a smaller week than usual owing to the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday as well as to Record Store Day’s slate of Black Friday releases!  To all those who celebrated Thanksgiving, we hope it was a wonderful one! David Bowie, Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) (Parlophone) 11CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Parlophone continues its career-spanning series of box sets for the late David Bowie.  The fifth Era box set, Brilliant Adventure, includes: Five remastered studio albums (Black Tie White Noise (1993), The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Outside (1995), Earthling (1997), ‘hours…’ (1999)); A remastered and expanded…

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Sleigh Bells Ring: Michael Bublé’s “Christmas” Gets Super Deluxe Expansion for 10th Anniversary

Just months after the February 2003 debut of Michael Bublé’s first studio album for Reprise Records, the Canadian crooner released an EP of Christmas music.  Let It Snow! reinforced the young artist’s connection to the great vocalists who had inspired him as it featured such classics as “White Christmas,” “The Christmas Song,” and the Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn-penned title track.  Eight years later, Bublé finally released a full-length seasonal set.  2011’s simply-entitled Christmas, his fifth album for Reprise, shot to No. 1 on the Billboard 200.  Boasting the familiar likes of “It’s Beginning…

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Can’t Help Falling In Love: Elvis Goes Orchestral On “If I Can Dream”

In advance of this Friday’s Legacy Edition reissue of Elvis Presley’s 1975 studio album Today, RCA and Legacy have announced another project to celebrate The King’s 80th birthday.  If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a new, 14-song collection due on October 30 featuring the artist’s iconic vocal performances accompanied by newly-created orchestral backings. Presley performances between 1956 and 1973 have been melded with new orchestral tracks recorded at Abbey Road in London for ballads (“Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling,” “Can’t Help Falling…

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