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February 11, 2025 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Elton John Rainbow Theatre

Universal Music Group's 2025 Record Store Day roster is heavy on British rockers: Elvis Costello, John Lennon, Elton John, Sting, Queen, Mark Knopfler, and The Verve among them!  But there's also some highly-anticipated items from The Killers and Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, and Passengers, a.k.a. U2 and Brian Eno, among the other highlights.  Visit RecordStoreDay.com for the full list of participating retailers you can visit on Saturday, April 12, to join in the festivities. Elvis

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Brian Eno, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Elvis Costello, John Lennon, Mark Knopfler, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Queen, Record Store Day, Sting, Taylor Swift, The Killers, The Verve, Thin Lizzy, U2, Yoko Ono

September 1, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Carole King Tapestry Live at Hyde Park

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Carole King, Tapestry: Live at Hyde Park (CD/DVD) (Legacy/Rockingale) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This new CD/DVD release features Carole King's 45th anniversary performance of her seminal 1971 classic Tapestry, performed live in front of 65,000 fans in London's Hyde Park on July 3, 2016.  The setlist, preserved on both CD and DVD, includes the entire original album plus numerous highlights from King's illustrious songbook both

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Bill Evans, Carole King, Cy Coleman, Grateful Dead, Huey Lewis and The News, Jan and Dean, John Sebastian, Motörhead, Pete Townshend, Sheila E, Steve Winwood, The Verve, Tori Amos

July 18, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Urban Hymns Deluxe

The Verve's third album, 1997's Urban Hymns, may be the band's most famous in any part of the world. It's little surprise, then, that Universal is going big for the album's 20th anniversary with a multi-format deluxe edition due in the fall. Recorded after the band's first breakup and reformation (with the subsequent addition of guitarist/keyboardist Simon Tong), Urban Hymns was an ambitious piece of Britpop and balladry, recorded with producers Youth and Chris Potter. Three of its singles

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Verve

September 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bruce Springsteen Chapter and Verse

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, packed with heavy hitters! David Bowie, Who Can I Be Now (1974-1976) (Parlophone) 12-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), the second in the late artist's series of deluxe albums box sets, will contain the following albums plus a 128-page booklet in the CD edition (or 84 pages in the vinyl edition.  You'll find more details here, and watch

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, My Chemical Romance, Pink Floyd, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, The Searchers, The Verve, Various Artists

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