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Release Round-Up: Week of January 27

January 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Release Round-Up: Week of January 27

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

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Brewer and Shipley, Carly Simon, Chicago, Cream, Grand Funk Railroad, Joe Cocker, The Move

Release Round-Up: Week of December 9

December 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Release Round-Up: Week of December 9

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Randy Newman, The Randy Newman Songbook (Nonesuch) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Randy Newman Songbook box set marks the first-ever combined release of all three of the legendary songwriter's piano-and-voice Songbook albums (including the new Vol. 3) recorded in 2003 and 2010 with producers Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker.  All songs have been resequenced as one cohesive, thematically-linked listening experience spread over 4

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Buck Owens, Evanescence, Kylie Minogue, Laura Nyro, Meat Loaf, Neil Young, Paul Desmond, Randy Newman, Social Distortion, The Cretones, The Doors

Release Round-Up: Week of September 30

September 30, 2016 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Release Round-Up: Week of September 30

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones in Mono (ABKCO) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Rolling Stones in Mono captures, on 15 CDs or 16 LPs, the original mono albums released on both sides of the Atlantic between 1964 and 1969 including the exceptionally rare mono editions of Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967), Beggars Banquet (1968) and Let It Bleed (1969).  Exclusive to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Emerson Lake and Palmer, Eric Clapton, Erroll Garner, Graham Parker, Herb Alpert, Jimi Hendrix, John Prine, Lalo Schifrin, Sting, Syreeta, Temple of the Dog, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Yes

Intervention Records Brings "Stealers Wheel" To Hybrid SACD/CD

September 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Intervention Records Brings "Stealers Wheel" To Hybrid SACD/CD

Clowns to the left of me...jokers to the right...It must be Stealers Wheel!  Earlier this year, Intervention Records released exquisite vinyl reissues of the first two albums from the Scottish folk-rock band.  Now, the label has revisited the group's 1972 self-titled debut album (originally released on A&M Records) in the hybrid SACD format, playable on all CD players. Stealers Wheel - featuring lead guitarist Paul Pilnick, bassist Tony Williams and drummer Rod Coombes - boasts some

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Gerry Rafferty, Stealers Wheel

Release Round-Up: Week of September 9

September 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Release Round-Up: Week of September 9

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up...one of the most packed in recent memory! Beatles, Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Apple/Capitol/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four's legendary catalogue.  That changes today with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Faith No More, Herb Alpert, John Phillips, Leon Russell, Linda Ronstadt, Ramones, The Beatles, The Connells

Power of Soul: Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys Revisited On "Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show"

August 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Power of Soul: Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys Revisited On "Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show"

On December 31, 1969 and January 1, 1970, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox and Buddy Miles took New York's Fillmore East by storm with four exhilarating, adventurous performances fusing R&B, soul and hard rock with an improvisatory sensibility.  On September 30, Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix will release the first of the Band of Gypsys' four sets for the very first time as Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69.  Newly mixed from the original one-inch 8-track master tapes by

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Jimi Hendrix

Release Round-Up: Week of July 29

July 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Release Round-Up: Week of July 29

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Archies, Sugar, Sugar: The Complete Albums Collection (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) At long last!  The complete albums of The Archies are being assembled in one 5-CD box set by Cleopatra Records.  You'll find The Archies, Everything's Archie, Jingle Jangle, Sunshine and This Is Love each in a mini-LP replica sleeve, along with a booklet containing new liner notes. Bubblegum never tasted so good as in these top-notch

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Blood Sweat and Tears, David Bowie, Gary Wright, Loggins and Messina, The Archies, The Isley Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of July 8

July 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Release Round-Up: Week of July 8

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! John Coltrane, The Atlantic Years in Mono (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino's new box set, available on both CD and LP, includes original mono mixes of Trane's Giant Steps; Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson); Ole Coltrane; Coltrane Plays The Blues and The Avant Garde (with Don Cherry) plus one disc of outtakes.  All of these remastered albums are housed in replica jackets and a 32-page

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Carly Simon, Charlie Parker, David Bowie, John Coltrane, Sid and Marty Krofft, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, The Rave-Ups

Release Round-Up: Week of June 23

June 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Release Round-Up: Week of June 23

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Bangles, Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles! (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles!, first released digitally in 2014, features all of the band's pre-Columbia studio material, plus four unreleased demos, two live tracks and other odds and ends!  It arrives in stores from Omnivore just before Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson and Debbi Peterson hit the road again!  Read more here! Laura

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Barbara Cook, Henry Mancini, Jeff Wayne, Laura Nyro, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young, Steve Vai, The Bangles

Stoned Soul Picnic: Audio Fidelity Reissues Laura Nyro's "Eli" In Quadraphonic Mix

June 6, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Stoned Soul Picnic: Audio Fidelity Reissues Laura Nyro's "Eli" In Quadraphonic Mix

Audio Fidelity has recently become a home for rare quadraphonic recordings on SACD, and among the label's future offerings is a true classic from Laura Nyro in its immersive quad mix: 1968's Eli and the Thirteenth Confession.  Later this month, on June 24, the label will offer Eli on hybrid SACD (playable on all CD players) with the original stereo mix newly remastered by Steve Hoffman in high-resolution stereo and standard CD formats, and the rare 4.0 quad surround mix in high

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Categories: News Formats: SACD Genre: Pop Tags: Laura Nyro

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