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April 28, 2022 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Beach Boys Sounds of Summer 2022

On October 1, 1962, The Beach Boys released their album debut Surfin' Safari on Capitol Records, beginning an extraordinary musical odyssey that continues to this day.  Since then, brothers Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Carl Wilson; cousin Mike Love; and friend Al Jardine - along with fellow travelers including Bruce Johnston, David Marks, Blondie Chaplin, and Ricky Fataar, and dozens of key collaborators including Gary Usher, Roger Christian, Tony Asher, Van Dyke Parks, Billy Hinsche,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, The Beach Boys

March 1, 2021 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

California Music Add Some Music

"Add Some Music to Your Day," The Beach Boys' paean to the power of music, anchored the group's 1970 album Sunflower.   The song's imagery conjures music from the seemingly mundane to the undeniably transcendent, expressing the belief that "the world could come together as one/If everybody under the sun" would add some music to their day.  Now, the gentle, uplifting Brian Wilson-Mike Love-Joe Knott anthem is anchoring a new album for a very worthy cause. On April 23, Omnivore Recordings will

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop Tags: Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, California Music, David Marks, Mike Love

November 22, 2019 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Jeffrey Foskett Voices

It's only appropriate that Jeffrey Foskett's new release on the BMG label is entitled Voices. For it's the beauty of the human voice that's the key ingredient here - specifically the artist's rich, supple, and multi-faceted vocal instrument which has lent support over the past four decades to The Beach Boys in their various incarnations. While Foskett has recorded numerous solo albums for the Japanese market, his own works are somewhat less known here in the United States. Happily, Voices

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop Tags: Brian Wilson, Cecilio and Kapono, Jeff Larson, Jeffrey Foskett, Mike Love, The Beach Boys, Valerie Carter

July 19, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

James Taylor The Warner Bros. Albums

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! James Taylor, The Warner Bros. Albums 1970-1976 (Warner/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Rhino has a newly remastered box, supervised by Peter Asher, of James Taylor's six studio albums for the label including Sweet Baby James (1970), Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (1971), One Man Dog (1972), Walking Man (1974), Gorilla (1975); and In the Pocket (1976).  Available on CD,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Grover Washington Jr., James Taylor, Judy Collins, Lesley Duncan, Live, Mike Love, Mike McCartney, Shalamar, Steve Goodman

October 26, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Kinks Village Green Box Set Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Kinks, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society [Various Formats] (BMG) 5CD/3LP/3-7″ Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Kinks are going back to the Village Green - and it's grown quite a bit in size!  The band's legendary fifth album, 1968's The Kinks Are The

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barry White, Chicago, David Crosby, Diana Ross, Gwen Stefani, Mike Love, Pixies, Semisonic, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, William Shatner

November 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

News of the World 40 front

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Queen, News of the World: 40th Anniversary Edition (UMC (U.K.) / Hollywood (U.S.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) Queen's sixth album, 1977's News of the World, is being generously expanded for its 40th anniversary in a new 3CD/1DVD/1LP box set.  The original album is presented on CD and LP.  The first bonus CD, the entirely unreleased Raw Sessions, presents an alternate version of the original album from demos, outtakes and live

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Bob Seger, Carpenters, Chuck Berry, Dan Fogelberg, Diana Ross, Garth Brooks, Green Day, Jimmy Buffett, John Fogerty, Mavis Staples, Micky Dolenz, Mike Love, Paul McCartney, Queen, The Bee Gees, The Doors, The Moody Blues, The Sweet, Whitney Houston

October 6, 2017 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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Mike Love is a lot of things--a charter member of The Beach Boys who owns the band name and continues to tour with it alongside longtime touring member Bruce Johnston (currently in support of Wild Honey and 1967 - Sunshine Tomorrow), a devoted meditator, perhaps the most memorable speaker at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction--but right now, he's a guy with a solo double album coming out. Unleash The Love, due out November 17 on BMG, features 13 new tracks produced by Michael Lloyd and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Mike Love, The Beach Boys

May 23, 2017 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

Beach Boys Sunshine Tomorrow

The Beach Boys are promising a bright forecast for summer 2017 with a new 50th anniversary collection due on June 30 from Capitol/UMe. Sunshine Tomorrow, a new 2-CD and digital collection, not only premieres the first-ever true stereo mix of 1967's Wild Honey, but also premieres a whopping 54 rarities recorded that year including the live album Lei'd in Hawaii, session material from both Wild Honey and Smiley Smile, and further live recordings (spanning 1967-1970).  The new stereo mix of Wild

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Brian Wilson, Mike Love, The Beach Boys

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