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Playing with Electric Trains: Squeeze's Chris Difford to Release Solo Box Set

January 27, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Playing with Electric Trains: Squeeze's Chris Difford to Release Solo Box Set

Arguably one of the finest British songwriting duos since Lennon and McCartney, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook have made perfect, powerful pop as leaders of Squeeze since the release of their first material in 1977--all the way up to an out-of-nowhere triumph with 2015's Cradle to the Grave, the band's first album of new material in more than 15 years. Since that initial dissolution of the duo's partnership after 1998's Domino, both Chris and Glenn sought to found their voices as solo

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Chris Difford, Squeeze

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

RPM Records Round-Up, Part Two: Spotlight on The Boots and "Svenska Shakers"

January 26, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

RPM Records Round-Up, Part Two: Spotlight on The Boots and "Svenska Shakers"

Welcome to Part Two of our RPM Records Round-Up!  Part One put a spotlight on the Cherry Red imprint's recent releases from Welsh-born vocalist Maureen Evans and the New Zealand pop-psych band, The Avengers.  Today, we're looking at Germany's The Boots, and a collection of Sweden's finest rockers circa 1964-1968!  Don't miss out on Part One, either.  You can read it right here! RPM's international tour continues with a complete release from Germany's The Boots.  Beat! The Complete Telefunken

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Boots, The Hep Stars, The Lee Kings, Various Artists

Looking Out For Love: Fleetwood Mac's "Tango in the Night" Due as Deluxe Set

January 25, 2017 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Looking Out For Love: Fleetwood Mac's "Tango in the Night" Due as Deluxe Set

Three decades after it was first released--and following similarly expansive editions for three of the group's earlier albums from this period--Warner Bros. Records and Rhino will expand and reissue Fleetwood Mac's 14th studio album, Tango in the Night. The last studio album from the band's modern classic line-up of Lindsey Buckingham (vocals/guitar), Stevie Nicks (vocals), Christine McVie (vocals/keyboards), John McVie (bass) and Mick Fleetwood (drums), Tango in the Night marked the group's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Fleetwood Mac

Forever In Blue Jeans: Neil Diamond Preps 3-CD "50th Anniversary Collection" For March

January 24, 2017 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Forever In Blue Jeans: Neil Diamond Preps 3-CD "50th Anniversary Collection" For March

Neil Diamond's debut single for Bang Records, "Solitary Man," hit shelves in April 1966, launching an internationally successful career that continues to this very day.  On March 31, Diamond (who turns 76 years young today) will look back on his 50+-years as a recording artist with the Capitol Records/UMe release of a new 3-CD collection.  Neil Diamond 50: The 50th Anniversary Collection features 50 songs compiled by Diamond, who has overseen this set for release. The set

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Neil Diamond

Reissue Theory: Danny Wilson

January 24, 2017 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Reissue Theory: Danny Wilson

Reissue Theory, where we focus on great albums and the reissues they could someday see, is back!  Today, we're proud to welcome Mike as he takes a look at two albums from Gary Clark's underrated pop trio Danny Wilson! If you're a Netflix subscriber and you love old fashioned pop music, you really can't do much better than Sing Street, which was recently added to the service. Set in Ireland in the 1980s, it's a delightful coming-of-age story about a boy who escapes his youthful troubles (and

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Categories: Features Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Danny Wilson, Gary Clark

The Way It Was: SoulMusic Reissues and Expands Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole

January 24, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

The Way It Was: SoulMusic Reissues and Expands Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole

We filled you in recently about Cherry Red and SoulMusic Records' recent salute to songstress Vivian Reed, but the label has also offered a pair of titles from two more great ladies of song: Gladys Knight and the late Natalie Cole. Gladys Knight's The Solo Collection collects her first two Pips-less albums, from 1978 and 1979: the Buddah Records release of Miss Gladys Knight, and its Columbia follow-up, Gladys Knight.  The second disc features eight bonus tracks associated with the latter

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole

Do That Conga Beat: Vibe On Expands Miami Sound Machine's "Primitive Love" to 2 CDs

January 23, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Do That Conga Beat: Vibe On Expands Miami Sound Machine's "Primitive Love" to 2 CDs

This March, Vibe On Records will be going Primitive.  The label is following its recent reissue of Cher's I Paralyze with another lavishly expanded Deluxe Edition - this time from Miami Sound Machine featuring the one and only Gloria Estefan.  On March 31, Vibe On will reissue MSM's 1985 breakthrough Primitive Love as a 2-CD edition featuring a full 23 bonus tracks - four of which are previously unreleased, and six of which have never previously appeared on CD. Primitive Love, Miami Sound

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Gloria Estefan, Miami Sound Machine

Release Round-Up: Week of January 20

January 20, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Release Round-Up: Week of January 20

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Grateful Dead, The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Rhino) 2-CD (Original Album and Bonus Disc): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Picture Disc (Original Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition presents the original 1967 album on Disc 1 and an unreleased concert from July 29, 1966 in Vancouver, Canada on Disc 2.  The first disc has been remastered from the original tapes by David

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: George Benson, Grateful Dead, Muhammad Ali, Randy Newman, Various Artists

Another Heart: Ace Collects 1960s Sylvie Vartan In English

January 19, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Another Heart: Ace Collects 1960s Sylvie Vartan In English

With more than fifty albums to her credit between 1962 and the present day, Sylvie Vartan remains one of music's great survivors.  One of France's most popular yé-yé girls, Vartan became one of RCA Victor's most prolific recording artists, said to be second in worldwide sales to only Elvis Presley.  The Bulgarian-born French singer-actress is, of course, best known for her recordings in the French language, but she also recorded a number of sides in English.  Ace's late-2016 compilation En

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Sylvie Vartan

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