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Turn Back Time: Cher Collects Hits on “Forever,” Adds Rarities to Digital Edition

August 1, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 19 Comments

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 arrives digitally with a couple of true…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock

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Cher, Sonny and Cher

Rhino Ushers In Summer with Frankie Valli, Van Morrison, Linda Ronstadt, Randy Newman, Chicago, Grateful Dead, and More

July 1, 2024 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

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 including descriptions courtesy of TSD. July 5 Genesis, And Then There Were…

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Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock

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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

Grapefruit’s “Heroes and Villains” Collects L.A. Sounds of 1965-1968 From The Beach Boys, Mamas and Papas, Monkees, Zappa, More

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. replaced England as the epicenter of the American pop scene…

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Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Pop

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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

They Say It’s Wonderful: Sonny Stitt Outtakes Arriving From Run Out Groove, Voting Open for Next Title

December 19, 2018 by Sam Stone | No Comments

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 January 8 direct from the label. Sonny Stitt made…

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Vinyl

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Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Cher, Sonny Bono, Sonny Stitt, Sonny and Cher, The Meters

Release Round-Up: Week of November 23

November 23, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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 in the booklet as well as a bonus 12-inch replica single of the original Buddah…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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CHIC, Chicago, David Bowie, Diana Krall, Lone Justice, Sonny and Cher, The Cars, Tina Turner, a-ha

Release Round-Up: Week of July 15

July 15, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

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 notes by Bill Dahl, plus era-specific photos, rounds out the collection. Read more here! Diana Ross, Diana Ross…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Diana Ross, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Little Richard, Marvin Gaye, Maynard Ferguson, Nina Simone, Sonny and Cher, The Hollywood Brats