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Release Round-Up: Week of March 29

March 29, 2024 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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. Deep Purple, Machine Head: Super Deluxe Edition (Warner/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com) Deep Purple’s 1972 album Machine Head remains the venerable hard rock band’s most commercially successful album. The third LP from the Mk. II lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice introduced one of rock’s most famous riffs with “Smoke on the Water,” and influenced a generation of rock and metal musicians. …

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Deep Purple, Gentle Giant, Michael Schenker, Nico, Nina Simone, Sheryl Crow, Silver Convention, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

All That is Her Own: Early Nico Albums Due for CD, Vinyl Reissue in March

February 13, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Anyone who thought they had the sound of German actress/singer Nico figured out from her work on 1967’s The Velvet Underground & Nico and Chelsea Girl would not have expected what she did next – chapters in a musical career that will be explored on new reissues by Domino Recording Company. On March 29, the label will issue newly remastered versions of 1969’s The Marble Index and 1970’s Desertshore on CD and vinyl, featuring unseen photos of the artist in the liner notes. The Marble Index includes two bonus tracks included on a 1991 reissue, making…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Everything Else, Rock

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John Cale, Nico

There They Go Again: New Velvet Underground Vinyl Box Features ‘1969’ Compilation

December 21, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

In the spring of 1967, after sitting on it for about a year, Verve Records issued The Velvet Underground & Nico, a strange yet ultimately captivating album by a New York band comprised of singer/guitarist Lou Reed, instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen “Moe” Tucker – with vocal contributions from Nico, a German singer and model introduced to the album at the behest of artist and album producer Andy Warhol. Producer Brian Eno summed the album up better than anyone in in 1982: while sales were modest – only…

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News

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Box Sets, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Jackson Browne, John Cale, Lou Reed, Nico, Velvet Underground