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Release Round-Up: Week of March 7

March 7, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Yes, Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition (Rhino/Atlantic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with signed lithograph) Yes’ fifth album, Close to the Edge, returns as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set anchored by new surround (Dolby Atmos and 5.1) and stereo remixes by Steven Wilson. This Super Deluxe box follows in the footsteps of similarly lavish reissues of The Yes Album and Fragile. The original 1972 mix has been remastered by Bernie Grundman on…

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Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Electronic, Pop, Rock

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A.J. Croce, Benmont Tench, Eric Burdon, Fernando Perdomo, Jethro Tull, Kraftwerk, Lady Gaga, Neil Young, The Move, Van Halen, War, Yes

Do Ya, Do Ya Want This Disc? The Move’s Transition to Something Electric Comes Alive from Esoteric

February 21, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

The final works from British rockers The Move were relatively ignored by everyone, including the band themselves – until listeners started to realize how it marked the trio’s transition into a whole new sound. Cherry Red’s Esoteric label will revisit the group’s fourth album Message from the Country in a newly remastered and expanded package, available February 28. The Move started life as a harmony-rich quintet from Birmingham in the late ’60s, enjoying a half dozen Top 10s on the U.K. charts including chart-topper “Blackberry Way,” “Night of Fear” and “Flowers in…

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, The Move

Children of the Revolution: New “Produced by Tony Visconti” Box Features David Bowie, T. Rex, U2, Badfinger, More

July 19, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

In the course of a career spanning seven decades, Tony Visconti has produced seminal albums in the classic rock genre including high profile collaborations with David Bowie, T. Rex, Gentle Giant, Strawbs, and Badfinger. But Visconti’s C.V. runs much deeper, from folk (Ralph McTell, Tom Paxton) to musical theatre (Elaine Paige) and everything in between (Sparks). On October 20, Edsel will release the first large-scale tribute to Visconti’s enormous musical legacy. Produced by Tony Visconti has been curated by its subject. It will be available in a variety of formats including 4…

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Rock

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Argent, Badfinger, David Bowie, Elaine Paige, Gentle Giant, Joe Cocker, Manic Street Preachers, Mary Hopkin, Procol Harum, Strawbs, T Rex, The Damned, The Moody Blues, The Move, Tony Visconti, U2, Various Artists

The First Cuts Are The Deepest: Cherry Red Collects Mike Hurst’s “Recordings, Productions, and Songs” on 4-CD Set

February 9, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

As a songwriter, producer, singer, and musician, Mike Hurst has earned his place in the pop pantheon. A member of The Springfields alongside Dusty Springfield and her brother Tom, Hurst later formed a band with Jimmy Page (The Methods) and produced hits for Cat Stevens, P.P. Arnold, Manfred Mann, The Spencer Davis Group, Fancy, Showaddywaddy, and others. Late in 2021, Cherry Red’s Strawberry imprint celebrated Hurst’s musical legacy with a 4-CD collection, In My Time: Recordings, Productions, and Songs 1962-1985 curated by Hurst himself. Mike Hurst received his big break when his…

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

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Cilla Black, Four Tops, Mike Hurst, Murray Head, P.P. Arnold, Shakin' Stevens, The Move, The Springfields

Memory Lane: Esoteric Collects Baker Gurvitz Army Albums, Celebrates “Underground Sounds of 1968”

May 22, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Today we’re looking at a pair of recent releases from Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint featuring some heavy sounds! With a résumé including Cream, Blind Faith, Blues Incorporated, The Graham Bond Organisation, and Fela Kuti’s group, Peter Edward “Ginger” Baker has long been recognized as one of rock’s greatest – and most volatile – drummers. With a personality as outsize as his talent, Baker brought a powerful touch to all of his projects and various bands. Between 1974 and 1976, Baker led Baker Gurvitz Army with brothers Adrian (guitar/vocals) and Paul (bass/vocals)…

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Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Baker Gurvitz Army, Barclay James Harvest, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Procol Harum, The Gun, The Move, Traffic, Various Artists

On The Frontier: Esoteric Announces Renaissance “Ashes Are Burning,” Byrds’ Self-Titled Reissues, 1968 Box Set, and More

January 15, 2019 by Sam Stone | 2 Comments

February promises to be a packed month for music fans, as Esoteric brings listeners a new, expanded reissue of Renaissance’s 1973 classic, Ashes Are Burning, as well as a reissue of The Byrds, the reunion album by the legendary folk-rock group. Also on the way are reissues of Tear Gas’s self-titled album, an expanded edition of Greenslade’s Time and Tide, and a new 3-CD set called Revolution: Underground Sounds of 1968. Meanwhile, Esoteric’s Reactive imprint will issue a 4-CD set entitled Tangerine Dream: The Blue Years Studio Albums 1985-1987, celebrating their Jive Electro era. All these…

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Box Sets, CD

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Blues, Classic Rock, Rock

What a Groovy Day: Cherry Red’s Grapefruit Records Celebrates “The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1969”

September 26, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Cherry Red’s Grapefruit imprint has recently released the latest volume in its year-by-year chronicle of British psychedelia. Try a Little Sunshine: The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1969 follows Let’s Go Down and Blow Our Minds (1967) and Looking at Pictures in the Sky (1968) with 3 CDs and 73 tracks from another fascinating year in music history. The box explores the various musical strains impacted by psychedelia, such as pop (including bubblegum, baroque, and sunshine/harmony pop), progressive rock, folk, and singer-songwriter. Tracks have been freed from the vaults of the labels like…

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Barclay James Harvest, Procol Harum, Status Quo, The Move, The Pretty Things, The Spencer Davis Group, Various Artists

Message From The Country: Esoteric Collects “Best of The Move” On CD and DVD

February 1, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 8 Comments

Can you hear the grass grow? Continuing its series of reissues dedicated to the Birmingham rockers The Move, Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint has just issued a CD/DVD collection that chronicles the band’s many facets and iterations between 1966 and 1972. Magnetic Waves of Sound: The Best of The Move, featuring 21 tracks on CD and a further 21 live performances and promotional films on DVD, is certainly not the group’s first anthology, but it’s doubtless among the finest. Over the course of just four studio albums – all but one of…

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CD, DVD

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Classic Rock, Pop

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Carl Wayne, Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, The Move

Release Round-Up: Week of January 27

January 27, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Chicago, Chicago II: Steven Wilson Remix (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Chicago’s second album gets a fully remixed edition from producer Steven Wilson, created from the original 16-track multitrack tapes and sure to highlight previously unheard or overlooked elements of this rock classic! Available on CD, with an LP edition to follow later in the year. Read more here! Cream, Fresh Cream: Super Deluxe Edition (Polydor/UMC) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The super deluxe edition of Cream’s debut album Fresh…

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, SACD

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Brewer and Shipley, Carly Simon, Chicago, Cream, Grand Funk Railroad, Joe Cocker, The Move

David Bowie, Moody Blues, Procol Harum, The Move Featured On “Let’s Go Down and Blow Our Minds” Box

November 9, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Cherry Red’s Grapefruit imprint has continued its series of box sets – including Love, Poetry and Revolution and I’m a Freak Baby – with another musical journey through the world of British psych and rock. Let’s Go Down and Blow Our Minds is a more focused collection than either of those past two releases, concentrating solely on the U.K.’s psychedelic sounds of 1967. Of course, you won’t find selections from two of that year’s landmark psych-rock releases, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band or Their Satanic Majesties’ Request, here, but you will…

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Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Pop

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David Bowie, Procol Harum, The Moody Blues, The Move, The Searchers, The Spencer Davis Group, Various Artists

Moving On: Esoteric Expands The Move’s “Something Else” and “Looking On”

June 9, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Esoteric Recordings has recently continued its series of Move reissues with expanded editions of the band’s 1968 EP Something Else from The Move, and its 1970 studio album Looking On. Something Else began life as a 5-track mono EP culled from performances at London’s Marquee Club on February 27 and May 5, 1968. Between those two gigs, bassist Chris “Ace” Kefford had departed the group’s roster, leaving it a four-piece consisting of Carl Wayne on vocals, Roy Wood on guitar/vocals, Trevor Burton on guitar/vocals (and newly, bass) and Bev Bevan on drums. …

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Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, The Move

Hear The Grass Grow: Esoteric Expands Two From The Move

May 11, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

The Move has seen no shortage of reissues over the years, but collectors can now finally embrace the definitive editions of the Birmingham band’s classic self-titled album and follow-up Shazam! from Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint. Esoteric has just reissued The Move in a 3-CD edition and Shazam! in a 2-CD expansion, both of which add copious previously unreleased material. (“Highlights” versions are also available.) These two titles kick off the Move campaign from Esoteric which will also see the May 27 releases of Something Else from The Move (an EP expanded…

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Carl Wayne, Roy Wood, The Move

Release Round-Up: Week of May 6

May 6, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring Second Disc Records’ very first title of 2016, plus more fantastic releases from our partners at Real Gone Music and titles from Brian Wilson, The Cars, and more! Bobby Darin, Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We know that you all know about this one…it’s the ultimate celebration of Bobby Darin’s time at Motown Records on 2 CDs, newly remastered from the original analog tapes by Kevin Reeves and featuring my liner notes based on new interviews…

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CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Bobby Darin, Brian Wilson, Cactus, Cannonball Adderley, Cyndi Lauper, Dan Fogelberg, Grateful Dead, Johnny Paycheck, Ryan Adams, The Beau Brummels, The Cars, The Move, The Rides, The Staple Singers

Open Your Eyes: The Move’s “Live at the Fillmore 1969” Coming From Right Recordings

January 13, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Can you hear the grass grow? An oft-circulated set by Birmingham’s legendary Move is finally receiving an official release courtesy of Right Recordings! Live at the Fillmore 1969 chronicles the band’s stand at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore Auditorium on October 16-19 of that year; The Move joined Joe Cocker and the Grease Band and Little Richard on the bill! The new 2-CD set is being released thanks to the cooperation of Sue Wayne, the widow of late singer Carl Wayne, and arrives in the U.K. on February 13. Although Fillmore 1969 has…

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Roy Wood, The Move