Release Round-Up: Week of April 7

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today. Various Artists, Love Is the Message: The Sound of Philadelphia Volume 3 (Snapper/United Souls)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) After well over a year since the release of Satisfaction Guaranteed, United Souls’ series of box sets collecting the Philadelphia International label’s complete studio albums resumes with Love Is the Message: The Sound of Philadelphia Vol. 3.  The third installment of the series promised to eventually encompass 15 volumes contains the following eight studio albums: The Ebonys, The Ebonys (Philadelphia International KZ…

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More Good Feelings: Four Mister Rogers Albums Coming From Omnivore In February

Omnivore Recordings follows up two 2019 reissues of music from and inspired by the legendary television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood with another four albums of gentle music for children this month. The label, in partnership with The Fred Rogers Company, will issue new CD pressings of four albums of Mister Rogers music: 1992’s Bedtime, You’re Growing and You Are Special, and 1997’s Coming and Going. All titles will be available February 21, with digital editions already available to stream or download. It’s fair to believe – and hope! – that the teachings…

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 10

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Laura Nyro, More Than a New Discovery [Limited Violet Vinyl Mono Edition] (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Today’s the day!  We’re so proud to reissue, for the first time ever on vinyl (and in homage to the artist’s favorite color), Laura Nyro’s 1967 debut More Than a New Discovery in a violet vinyl limited edition of 1,250 copies.  This edition features the original, long out-of-print (and superior) dedicated mono mix which we premiered on CD in 2017 as…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 4

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! It’s Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Welcome back to the Neighborhood!  This celebration of the music of Mister Rogers collects 23 songs recorded by the host, with accompaniment from longtime sideman Johnny Costa on piano, Carl McViker on bass, and Bobby Rawsthorne on percussion. Complementing the music is an illustrated booklet with photos, an introduction by the Won’t You Be My Neighbor? documentarian Morgan Neville, and an essay by TV critic Robert Bianco….

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