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August 1, 2024 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Cher Forever

On October 19, Cher will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  One month later, on November 19, Cher releases the first volume of her long-awaited autobiography.  The Memoir: Part One will be preceded on September 20 by the superstar's latest hits anthology - her first in nearly two decades.  Forever, featuring 21 newly remastered songs curated by the artist, arrives from Warner Records on 1 CD or 2 LPs (pressed on crystal-clear vinyl).  On the same date, the Forever: Fan Edition

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Cher, Sonny and Cher

July 1, 2024 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Rhino Sounds of the Summer

Today, Rhino announced its new Sounds of the Summer initiative, which will see a total of over two dozen vinyl releases hitting brick-and-mortar stores beginning this Friday, July 5, and continuing throughout the month of July.  These titles encompass various reissues as well as new entries in the label's ongoing Now Playing series of compilations.  As of now, these LPs are all exclusive to independent record stores and Barnes & Noble locations.  You'll find the full list of releases below

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock Tags: Al Stewart, Chicago, Crosby Stills and Nash, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Fleetwood Mac, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, George Benson, Grateful Dead, Jimmy Cliff, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Randy Newman, Rod Stewart, Sonny and Cher, The Doobie Brothers, Utopia, Van Morrison, War, Yes

July 20, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Heroes and Villains The Sound of Los Angeles 1965 68

Though Heroes and Villains is the title of Grapefruit's new 3-CD anthology chronicling The Sound of Los Angeles 1965-68, that famous Beach Boys song isn't among its 90 selections.  Not that Brian Wilson and co. are absent; the compilation instead presents another SMiLE tune, "Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock)" as part of its portrait of a place and time in music history when it truly seemed anything was possible.  U.K.-based compiler David Wells persuasively makes the case here that L.A.

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Buffalo Springfield, Frank Zappa, Lee Hazlewood, Love, Paul Revere and The Raiders, Sonny and Cher, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Grass Roots, The Mamas and The Papas, Tim Buckley, Various Artists

December 19, 2018 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Every month, Run Out Groove Vinyl lets music fans vote on a new high-quality vinyl release selected from the Warner Music vault. Last month, three jazz recordings -- Chick Corea's Tones for Joan's Bones, The George Wallington Quartet's The Prestidigitator , and a set of Sonny Stitt outtakes -- were in the running. Jazz fans selected Sonny Stitt's Lone Wolf: The Roost Alternates to be the next limited-edition, numbered LP release by Run Out Groove. The album is available for pre-order now through

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Cher, Sonny and Cher, Sonny Bono, Sonny Stitt, The Meters

November 23, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

The CHIC Organization 1977 1979

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! CHIC, The CHIC Organization 1977-1979 (Atlantic/Rhino) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new box set, available in 5-CD and 6-LP formats, brings together new Nile Rodgers Signature Edition remasters of CHIC's first three albums plus Sister Sledge's CHIC-produced We Are Family and a bonus disc of period single edits and 12-inch mixes.  The vinyl edition includes additional text

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: a-ha, CHIC, Chicago, David Bowie, Diana Krall, Lone Justice, Sonny and Cher, The Cars, Tina Turner

July 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Little Richard Mono Box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!   Little Richard, Mono Box: The Complete Specialty and Vee-Jay Albums (Concord/Specialty) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This new, 5-LP vinyl box set collects all of the studio albums that Little Richard recorded for both the Specialty and Vee-Jay labels between 1957 and 1965. The mono albums, each replicating the original label and jacket art, have been remastered from analog tapes. A 16-page booklet featuring new liner

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Diana Ross, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Little Richard, Marvin Gaye, Maynard Ferguson, Nina Simone, Sonny and Cher, The Hollywood Brats

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