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Now Available: Phil Collins, No Jacket Required / Testify – Deluxe Editions (Article)
Friday, April 15, 2016
In February, Phil Collins began the process of giving his fans a gift that’s been 35 years in the making: the deluxe reissuing and remastering of his back catalog of solo albums. Inevitably, the first round of reissues kicked off with the album that’s hitting the big 3-5 this year, 1981’s Face Value, but it was released simultaneously with 1993’s Both Sides. Last month brought 1982’s Hello, I Must Be Going! and 1996’s Dance into the Light. Today kicks off round three, and – déjà vu! – the offerings will be just as exciting for fans as the first two bunches have proven to be. No Jacket Required
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Happy Anniversary: David Bowie, Aladdin Sane (Article)
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
43 years ago today, record store shelves were first graced with the sixth full-length effort from David Bowie, a 10-track affair described on Wikipedia as “the first album he wrote and released as a bona fide rock star.” While that’s probably a fair assessment, given that it arrived on the heels of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, it’s probably become better known over the years as the single most parodied album cover in Bowie’s discography, with everyone from Homer Simpson to Harry Potter and even from Rainbow Dash to Walter White getting the red and blue
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Doing a 180: Francois Hardy, Et si je m'en vais avant toi / La question (Article)
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Rhino has made it a point to reissue classic albums on 180-gram vinyl on a regular basis. These are the latest to get that treatment. You're welcome. Francois Hardy is a bona fide superstar in her native France, but in America she’s a bit more of a cult figure, albeit one whose cult has a profoundly devoted membership. In truth, Hardy might actually prefer it if her status was the same way worldwide: she’s long been notoriously shy, and as she said in a 2011 interview with BBC Radio 4 when asked about her classification as a music icon, “I am not comfortable with my professional life, really
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Now Available: Deep Purple, Stormbringer / Come Taste the Band 2-CD Expanded Editions (Article)
Friday, April 8, 2016
During the course of Deep Purple’s long and storied career, the band has explored a variety of different sounds, all of which revealed the diverse musical tastes of the various members. Not all of these sonic explorations captured the interest of the record-buying public, however, which has resulted in some very worthy items in the Deep Purple discography flying under the radar in the years since their initial release. Earlier this week, we delivered unto fans 180-gram vinyl reissues of the first two Deep Purple albums of the Ian Gillan era: In Rock and Fireball. Now it’s time to show a little
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Doing a 180: Deep Purple, In Rock / Fireball (Article)
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Rhino has made it a point to reissue classic albums on 180-gram vinyl on a regular basis. These are the latest to get that treatment. You're welcome. Deep Purple, In Rock: This may have been the fourth studio album released by Deep Purple, but for some of the band’s fans, it might as well be their debut, as it’s the first album to feature the so-called Mark II lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice. The seven-track album is probably best known for the songs “Speed King,” which opens the proceedings, and “Child in Time,” a epic track which lasts more than
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Happy Anniversary: INXS, “New Sensation” (Article)
Friday, April 1, 2016
28 years ago today, INXS released the third single from Kick, which in turn provided them with the third consecutive top-5 single on the Bill board Hot 100. Written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence, “New Sensation” followed in the footsteps of “Need You Tonight” and “Devil Inside” in charming American radio listeners. Indeed, the singles performed an unusual one-two-three punch: “Need You Tonight” hit #1, “Devil Inside” hit #2, and “New Sensation” hit #3. A few years later, one of the song’s lyrics would be repurposed and utilized as the title of the band’s concert album, Live Baby Live
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Happy Anniversary; Little Feat, Representing the Mambo (Article)
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
26 years ago today, Little Feat released their ninth and final studio album for Warner Brothers, wrapping up a 19-year stint on the label which featured some of the band’s most iconic work. Representing the Mambo was the second album by Little Feat 2.0, as it were, which is to say that it was the band’s second album with former Pure Prairie League frontman Craig Fuller serving as the band’s lead singer, but after the success of 1988’s Let It Roll had confirmed that fans of the Feat were comfortable with someone else stepping into Lowell George’s shoes, it was hardly a surprise that the band
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Happy Anniversary: Faith No More, King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime (Article)
Monday, March 28, 2016
21 years ago today, Faith No More released their fifth album, their first since the departure of guitarist Jim Martin from their ranks, and no matter whether it was intentional or incidental, you have to admit that it was a bit of an eyebrow-raising decision for the band to kick off King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime with a song entitled “Get Out.” Martin, who had been with the band since 1983 and had played on We Care a Lot, Introduce Yourself, The Real Thing, and Angel Dust, but after the release of the latter album, he bid the band adieu over a variety of matters – he discussed them in a
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Happy Anniversary: The Hollies, “Jennifer Eccles” (Article)
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
48 years ago today, the Hollies released a single about the romantic highs and heartbreaking lows of playground romance, which sounds really creepy if you don’t realize that both parties are schoolmates. Written during Graham Nash’s final months as a member of the group, “Jennifer Eccles” took its name from Allan Clarke’s wife, Jennifer, and Graham Nash’s wife’s maiden name, Eccles. It was, according to longtime drummer Bobby Elliott, “ knocked off one afternoon” in what was pretty much an unabashed attempt to score a bigger hit than they’d gotten with their previous single, “King Midas in
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Now Available: Born to be Blue (Article)
Friday, March 18, 2016
When word got out that Ethan Hawke would be starring in a new movie about Chet Baker, the reaction about the same as it is whenever anyone gets cast in a film about someone who actually existed: some people were excited, some people were annoyed. Based on the reaction to Born to be Blue when it was screened at South by Southwest, however, it seems like the end result has been better than anyone could’ve hoped: at the end of the film, the audience leapt to their feet and gave Hawke a standing ovation. The critics seem equally enthralled: “Hawke and Ejogo are so exceptional – whether on screen
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