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October 12, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Loving the Alien (1983-1988) (Parlophone) 11CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 15LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  The fourth annual volume of Parlophone's ongoing series of box sets dedicated to the late David Bowie, Loving the Alien (1983-1988), arrives on 11 CDs or 15 vinyl LPs.  This lavish set is filled with more exclusive material than any of its predecessors, as only three studio albums are

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alex Chilton, Burt Bacharach, Dave Davies, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Engelbert Humperdinck, Eric Clapton, Michael McDonald, Peter Holsapple, The Monkees, Vince Guaraldi

September 15, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Doors, The Singles (Elektra/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 2CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada  / Amazon U.K.  Vinyl box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. Singles compiles all 20 of the singles from The Doors' official discography. This not only includes every A and B-side from their core studio albums, but several albums recorded and released after the passing of frontman Jim Morrison, including

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Big Star, Carole King, Cat Stevens, Chris Bell, Deep Purple, Kris Kristofferson, Linda Ronstadt, Lou Reed, Michael McDonald, Michael Nesmith, Ringo Starr, Rusty Young, Shawn Colvin, Steve Miller Band, The Doors, Yusuf

August 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Very Best of Nicolette

Today, Varese Vintage releases Lotta Love: The Very Best of Nicolette Larson, celebrating the life and career of the silken-voiced pop singer who died at the tragically young age of 45 in 1997.  This 16-track anthology, culled from her years with Warner Bros. Records and featuring duets with Emmylou Harris, Steve Goodman and Michael McDonald, is a welcome reminder of Larson's versatile gifts in the genres of pop, country and folk - and we would like to give you a chance to WIN ONE OF TEN COPIES

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Andrew Gold, Emmylou Harris, Michael McDonald, Neil Young, Nicolette Larson, Steve Goodman

July 13, 2015 By Randy Fairman 8 Comments

Doobie Brothers Warner Years

Rhino Records is continuing to release complete album box sets of artists in their catalog.  We've recently told you about sets for Chicago, Alice Cooper, and America and the label has just announced another similar box for The Doobie Brothers.  The Warner Bros. Years 1971 -1983 features the band's 10 albums recorded during that period, and it's set to be released in under two weeks on July 24. The core of The Doobie Brothers was formed when drummer John Hartman and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Michael McDonald, The Doobie Brothers

December 18, 2013 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

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The announcement of Real Gone Music's release schedule for February 2014 would be cause for celebration any day of the week. But this particular day is special, as you're about to find out. In addition to an ironclad lineup that includes A Gathering of Flowers, the long out-of-print 1970 collection from The Mamas & The Papas; The Complete Recordings by Brotherhood, an unfairly obscure psych-rock band comprised of Phil Volk, Drake Levin and Mike "Smitty" Smith of Paul Revere & The

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Burt Bacharach, Michael McDonald, Olivia Newton-John, Paul Anka, Paul Revere and The Raiders, The Grateful Dead, The Mamas and The Papas

April 9, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Whether you prefer your “My Way” by Sinatra or Sid (Vicious, that is), you have Paul Anka to thank.  It was Anka who took the melody to the chanson “Comme d’habitude” and crafted the ultimate anthem of survival and tenacity with his English-language lyrics.  When Sinatra recorded the song, a gift to him from Anka, he was just 53 years of age yet could still ring true when singing of that “final curtain.”  Today, Paul Anka is 71, and his new memoir is entitled, what else, My Way.  Thankfully, the

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Categories: Reviews Tags: Leon Russell, Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, Patti Labelle, Paul Anka, Tom Jones

March 5, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Do you remember the times of your life? Paul Anka posed that musical question in 1975, taking Roger Nichols and Bill Lane’s onetime Kodak film jingle all the way to the Top 10 Billboard pop chart and No. 1 Easy Listening.  At that point, Anka could rightfully reflect on the times of his own storied life, nearly two decades in the music business.  But could he have imagined that he would still be going strong almost forty years after “Times of Your Life” hit?  The Canadian-born singer,

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Categories: News Tags: Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, Paul Anka, Tom Jones

September 2, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Are you ready to listen to the music? If you are, you're in for quite a treat.  The U.K.'s Edsel label has just launched a series of expanded Doobie Brothers remasters, encompassing the band's first eight studio albums (1971-1978) as four 2-CD packages.  Doobie Brothers/Toulouse Street and The Captain and Me/What Once Were Vices were just released this past Monday, while Stampede/Takin' It to the Streets and Livin' On The Fault Line/Minute by Minute follow on September 26.  These eight albums

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Michael McDonald, The Doobie Brothers

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