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July 29, 2024 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

Hendrix Electric Lady Studios box packshot

Among his final and most enduring acts as a musician, Jimi Hendrix purchased a Greenwich Village nightclub with the intention of transforming it into a recording studio. A new documentary will tell that story of its creation, and an accompanying box set will highlight an unreleased trove of recordings from his few but pivotal sessions there. Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision, available September 13 as a 3CD or 5LP set, offers 39 demos and early takes from Hendrix's summer 1970

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

November 10, 2023 By The Second Disc 13 Comments

The Beatles 1962 1966

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Beatles, 1962-1966 (Apple/Capitol/UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The famous "red" compilation chronicling The Beatles' early years returns in a new, expanded edition featuring extra songs and brand-new stereo mixes by Giles Martin and Sam Okell.  "I Saw Her

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Bush, Danny O'Keefe, Neil Young, New Order, Powerman 5000, R.E.M., Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, The Beatles, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Wes Montgomery

September 19, 2023 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Jimi Hendrix Experience Hollywood Bowl

On August 23, 1967, Reprise Records would issue The Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut album, Are You Experienced, in North America.  U.K. audiences had been hipped to the incendiary group consisting of Hendrix, drummer Mitch Mitchell, and bassist Noel Redding a couple of months earlier, when the album (with a unique track listing) arrived on the Track Records label.  Five days before that auspicious U.S. record debut, on August 18, the trio took the stage of the Hollywood Bowl in front of a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Jimi Hendrix Experience

November 18, 2022 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Thriller 40 real

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles hitting stores today as the countdown to the holidays continues! Michael Jackson, Thriller 40 (MJJ/Epic/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The best-selling album of all time returns in a 2CD edition for its 40th anniversary.  The second disc features 10 bonus tracks including the previously issued outtake "Sunset Driver," "Got the Hots" (making its U.S. release debut), non-LP B-side

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: APB, David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Jimi Hendrix, KISS, Michael Jackson, Nastyfacts, Neil Young, Peggy Lee, Peter Green, Queen, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, Vince Guaraldi, Willie Nelson

September 9, 2022 By The Second Disc 13 Comments

Jimi Hendrix Los Angeles Forum

On April 26, 1969, Jimi Hendrix took the stage at the Los Angeles Forum with the original lineup of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Noel Redding. While songs from the show have been released in the past on Lifelines (1990) and The Jimi Hendrix Concerts (1989), the entire concert has never been officially issued in its entirety.  That changes on November 18 with the Experience Hendrix/Legacy Recordings release of Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969 on CD, 2LP, and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

September 15, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate RSD

It's that time of year again! Record Store Day has released the full list of titles for its annual RSD Black Friday event, happening this year on Friday, November 26 and unofficially kicking off the holiday shopping season.  Legacy Recordings' slate draws on some of the most beloved artists on the label's roster, representing genres including pop, folk, rock, metal, jazz and R&B. Below, we've reprinted the descriptions supplied by the label.  All titles are due in your local

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Carole King, James Taylor, Jimi Hendrix, John Legend, Leonard Cohen, Maxwell, Miles Davis, Ozzy Osbourne, Record Store Day, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

December 24, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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50 years ago, two of American music's greatest talents proved they were still venturing into new territories. Elvis Presley, some decade and a half after he first took the world by storm, was setting up shop in Nashville for a marathon session that saw him pulling from the new popular songbook and many songs written just for him. These sessions delivered several albums' worth of material and are now presented chronologically in a new box set, complete with exciting new mixes on From Elvis In

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Elvis Presley, Holiday Gift Guide, Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

September 10, 2020 By Sam Stone 21 Comments

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Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings have announced a brand-new collection that celebrates The Jimi Hendrix Experience's near-mythic performances on Maui, Hawaii in 1970. Live In Maui brings together audio and video with a new feature-length documentary called Music, Money, Madness: Jimi Hendrix In Maui. The collection will be available in 2-CD/Blu-ray and 3-LP/Blu-ray configurations, all due on November 20. Hendrix's performances on Maui in 1970 caught him at another pivotal point in his

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

September 13, 2018 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Electricl Ladyland 50

Have you ever been to Electric Ladyland?  You'll have another opportunity on November 9, when Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's classic album as a generously expanded 3-CD/1-BD or 6-LP/1-BD box set featuring never-before-released session recordings and a Blu-ray featuring a documentary as well as stereo and surround mixes of the original album. First released in October 1968, was the third and final album of new material

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August 4, 2015 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

Hendrix Freedom

Are you ready to get Experienced, once again?  45 years ago, The Jimi Hendrix Experience played to the largest American audience of its career on the stage of the Atlanta Pop Festival, alongside other artists including The Allman Brothers Band, Mott the Hoople, Procol Harum, Rare Earth, and even a company of Hair!  The now-legendary performance of Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox on July 4, 1970 will be chronicled this fall with a new documentary film and live album.  Legacy Recordings

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