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. Dwight Twilley, Scuba Divers: Blueprint Edition (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The road to Dwight Twilley’s second album, 1982’s Scuba Divers, was a long one. Now, Iconoclassic Records is expanding that 10-track album with a whopping 15 bonus tracks (11 of which are previously unreleased) chronicling the arduous journey to Scuba Divers that began as the sessions for an album called Blueprint. Vic Anesini has remastered all audio from the master tapes,…
Release Round-Up: Week of April 22
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles arriving in stores today! T. Rex, 1972 [Various Formats] (Edsel) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5CD Signed by Tony Visconti: Amazon U.K. 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP Signed by Tony Visconti: Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Edsel is looking back on Marc Bolan and T. Rex’s prolific 1972 with a new box set available in 5 CD, 6 LP, and 2 LP formats. The all-encompassing 1972 includes The Slider album, Live at Wembley: The Matinee Show (plus two previously unreleased 1972 mixes from The Evening Show), an expanded Born…
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How Deep Is Your Love: Rumer’s Second Volume of “B-Sides and Rarities” Arrives in April
Anyone who’s heard Rumer’s 2015 collection B-Sides and Rarities knows that the artist’s leftovers bear the same hallmarks of quality, beauty, emotion, and elegance as her core releases. Now, seven years later, a second volume is on the way from Cooking Vinyl. B-Sides and Rarities Vol. 2 arrives April 22 on CD and digitally with a vinyl LP edition to follow from the label on October 21. Since that initial collection, the Pakistani-born British artist has released two studio albums, one EP, and a live release. The second volume of B-Sides and…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 17
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985) (Columbia/Legacy) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The latest volume of Bob Dylan’s long-running archival series, Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985) covers the period in which Dylan recorded the albums Shot of Love (the final LP in his so-called “Christian trilogy”), Infidels, and Empire Burlesque. While in a creatively fertile period as a songwriter and performer, Dylan was dealing – like everyone else – with the seismic changes that…
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Release Round-Up: Week of August 14
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo’s Factory [Half-Speed Master] (Craft Recordings) LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP/merch bundle: Craft Recordings Online Shop Craft Recordings reissues Creedence Clearwater Revival’s hit-filled fifth album – featuring “Lookin’ Out My Back Door,” “Run Through the Jungle,” “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” “Travelin’ Band,” and “Up Around the Bend” – on 180-gram half-speed mastered vinyl (from high-resolution transfers of the original analog tapes). Mastering is by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. Read more here! Dolores Gray, Heat Wave: The Decca Singles 1953-1955 (Stage Door Records)…
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Release Round-Up: Week of November 25
Happy Thanksgiving! Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Prince, Prince 4Ever (Warner Bros.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This release actually came out on Tuesday, but it’s worth a reminder here: this first posthumous collection from the late, great artist premieres one previously unreleased track, and includes a number of single versions making their CD debuts. Prince 4Ever is a 40-track summary of The Artist’s major works from his first album, 1978’s For You, to 1992’s The Love Symbol, Prince’s last release before he changed his name to the…
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(Don’t) Walk On By: Rumer’s “This Girl’s in Love” Celebrates Bacharach and David
I hear the music coming out of your radio… Who’s today’s foremost young interpreter of the timeless music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David? Chances are many would answer with one name: Rumer. On October 21, the singer-songwriter will release her first full-length tribute to the songwriting legends with the debut on Rhino/EastWest of her fourth album, the eagerly-anticipated This Girl’s in Love: A Bacharach and David Songbook. In 2010, Rumer released the single Sings Bacharach at Christmas featuring her tender reading of the classic “Alfie” along with the world premiere of…
Release Round-Up: Week of December 11
This week’s Release Round-Up is slimmer than most of late, but still filled with some ideal stocking stuffers… Joe Cocker, The Life of a Man: Ultimate Hits 1968-2013 (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada) UMe celebrates the life and career of the late, great Joe Cocker with this new 3-CD, 36-track anthology with greatest hits and deeper cuts including a live version of “With a Little Help from My Friends” never before released in the United States. This set was previously released in the U.K. by Sony. Miles Davis, The Last Word…
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Warmth of the Sun: Rumer Collects “B-Sides and Rarities” On New Release
Since making her major label debut in 2010 with Seasons of My Soul, the artist known as Rumer (real name: Sarah Joyce) has made the case that elegantly-crafted adult pop can still be viable in the 21st century. Influenced by Burt Bacharach, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Stephen Bishop, Jimmy Webb and Paul Williams, Rumer is possessed of a honeyed voice that’s most frequently been compared to Karen Carpenter on her three studio albums – Seasons, 2012’s Boys Don’t Cry (a collection of 1970s songs by Webb, Bishop, Todd Rundgren, Gilbert…
