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Happy 50th: Sammy Davis Jr., The Sammy Davis Jr. Show (Article)
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
50 years ago this month, the man they called Mr. Show Business released an album in conjunction with his then-new TV series, and to make sure no one missed out on the fact that they were companion pieces, they both bore the same title: The Sammy Davis Jr. Show. There's some great music on the album, make no mistake about that, but the more interesting story belongs to the TV series, owing to the weirdness tied to its premiere. You can read the entire tale over on It's About TV, but here's the story in a nutshell. Sometime in the fall of 1965, Davis made a special for ABC called Sammy and His
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THE MONKEES LET THE GOOD TIMES! ROLL WITH NEW ALBUM AND TOUR FOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY (Article)
Monday, February 8, 2016
Who's ready to have some fun with The Monkees as they celebrate their 50th anniversary? With a tour kicking off in May and the group’s first new album in 20 years, GOOD TIMES!, due June 10th, Monkee-mania will be taking 2016 by storm! GOOD TIMES! features all three surviving band members – Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork. The unmistakable voice of the late Davy Jones is also included with a vintage vocal featured on one song. To produce the new album, the band found the perfect musical co-conspirator in Grammy® and Emmy®-winning songwriter Adam Schlesinger (Fountains Of Wayne
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Happy Anniversary: Neal McCoy, “No Doubt About It” (Article)
Monday, February 8, 2016
22 years ago today, Texas-born country crooner Neal McCoy released his third studio album, which turned out to be the album that would transform him into a chart-topping superstar during the 1990s. Born in Jacksonville, Texas, McCoy got his big break in 1981 after entering a talent contest hosted by Janie Fricke – a country superstar in her own right – and walking away with the sweet taste of victory on his lips, not to mention a highly valuable prize: the opportunity to open for Charley Pride. Up to that point in his career, McCoy was still going by his real name, Neal McGaughey, but as he
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Now Available: The London Suede, Night Thoughts (Article)
Friday, February 5, 2016
Once upon a time, there was a band called Suede…and then all of a sudden there wasn't, at least in America. It's kind of a long story, but…wait, no, it isn't: a cabaret singer who performs under the name “Suede” sued them because she'd copyrighted it first, which resulted in the band that's known everywhere else in the world as Suede suddenly having to change their name to The London Suede. But, hey, the music's what matters most, right? And speaking of music, guess what? The London Suede's new album, Night Thoughts, is actually available in America…and only a week after it was released in the
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Now Available: Phil Collins, Face Value / Both Sides – Remastered and Expanded (Article)
Friday, January 29, 2016
Its imminent arrival was announced some weeks back, but it's finally here: the kickoff of Rhino's reissuing and remastering of Phil Collins' back catalog. Yes, you knew him and loved him as one of the core members of Genesis, you followed him when he opted to step away from the band on occasion and do his own thing, and now he's asking you to “Take A Look At Me Now” with this new campaign which takes his eight solo albums and kicks them up a notch in celebration of the 35th anniversary of his debut album. Appropriately enough, this first wave of reissues features that very album, 1981's Face
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Doing a 180: Van Morrison, Common One / Beautiful Vision / Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (Article)
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
A few months ago, we began the process of reissuing some of Van Morrison's most notable albums on 180-gram vinyl. Today, that process continues, this time with the trio of albums that Van delivered as he entered the 1980s. As this was not an era which necessarily found him scoring huge hits on the pop charts, we thought we'd dole out a bit of background information about each album: Common One (1980): One might argue that this album bears an ironic title, given that it was rather uncommon for a Morrison album up to that point, at least from a musical standpoint, delivering a much freeform jazz
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Now Available: Three Black Sabbath Deluxe Editions, plus a Past Lives reissue, too (Article)
Friday, January 22, 2016
Earlier this week, Black Sabbath kicked off “The End,” a jaunt which will serve as the iconic band's final tour. This is, of course, a highly momentous occasion, one which warrants a celebration, which is why we've released deluxe editions of the band's first three studio albums: Black Sabbath, Paranoid, and Master of Reality. These deluxe editions will contain the 2012 remasters of the original albums, but each will also be fleshed out with a second disc filled with outtakes which are previously unreleased in North America. Yes, it's a caveat that must be made, since we know how you diehard
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Now Available: The Complete Stax/Volt Singles (1959-1968) (Article)
Thursday, January 21, 2016
When it comes to '50s and '60s R&B, there's a lot of competition in terms of which label delivered the best stuff, but there's no question that any and every list of possible contenders would feature Stax Records. But you can't talk about Stax without talking about two other labels: Satellite and Volt. Satellite came first, then the label changed its name to Stax in honor of its two owners (Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton). Volt, meanwhile, was Stax's sister label, but at a certain point the two labels became so synonymous that people started referring to them in the same breath. Okay, that's
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Now Available: The Monkees, Cereal Box Singles (Article)
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Way back yonder in 1970, Post Cereal - the folks who brought you Alpha Bits, Honey Comb, and the late, great Frosted Rice Krinkles - teamed up with the Monkees to release a quartet of singles which were printed onto the outside of the cereals' boxes. As you might well imagine, the sound quality of these singles wasn't exactly up to the standards of most audiophiles, but the group's predominant audience at the time weren't necessarily the most discerning. We'll allow the folks from Colgems.blogspot.com to explain: Incredibly, while the first generation of Monkees fans generally were now
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Depeche Mode: The Vinyl Reissue Train Keeps A’Rollin’ (Article)
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Early last month, Rhino kicked off the first phase of its 180-gram vinyl reissue campaign for Depeche Mode’s back catalog, which put fresh new copies of Some Great Reward, Black Celebration, Music for the Masses, and Songs of Faith and Devotion onto DM fans’ turntables, and if you’re one of the folks who invested in that quartet of classic albums, then you know just how great they sound. In case you haven’t already heard, yesterday marked the kickoff of the second phase of that campaign, which adds the following four albums to the mix: A Broken Frame (1982) – Martin Gore has been captured on
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