…Ostensibly tied to the ongoing reunion tour, Complete Studio Album Collection is exactly what it says: the band’s seven studio albums issued between 1994 and 2008, plus 1998 B-sides collection The Masterplan.
Available on CD and vinyl, the releases include 1994 breakthrough album ‘Definitely Maybe’, 1995’s ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’, 1997’s ‘Be Here Now’, 2000’s ‘Standing On the Shoulder of Giants’, and 2002’s ‘Heathen Chemistry’. Later releases like 2005’s ‘Don’t Believe the Truth’ and 2008’s ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ are also included, as is the iconic B-sides album ‘The Masterplan’.
With the exception of that rarities collection, which settled for No. 2, all of these releases topped the U.K. album chart and represent…
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Tangerine Dream’s breakthrough album will celebrated in a box set that features a host of audiovisual material taken from a bigger box set.
Virgin/UMR reissue the German group’s 1974 hit Phaedra as a 5CD/Blu-ray box set featuring all the relevant album-related material featured in 2019’s 16 CD/2BD In Search of Hades (The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979). Beyond the remastered album, extras include two discs of outtakes, the band’s first U.K. concert and some 5.1 surround and stereo remixes of the album material by celebrated engineer Steven Wilson. The set also comes with a new illustrated book featuring liner notes by band expert Wouter Bessels. Though Tangerine Dream had been recording for several years by this point – this was their…
Live at the Warfield celebrates the Jerry Garcia Band’s magical three-night run at their beloved Bay Area home on February 28th, March 1st, & March 2nd, 1991. This 6-CD collection, newly mastered from soundboard recordings, features every note from all six complete sets-along with a few the audience likely never heard.
The band always seemed to be having fun on stage, and that energy is felt from the runs opening notes, with a particularly bubbly rendition of “The Way You Do the Things You Do” kicking things off. Highlights from February 28 include a primo “You Never Can Tell,” a dynamite duo of “My Sisters and Brothers” and “Deal” to close the first set, and soulful takes on “Waiting for a Miracle,” “Stop That Train,” and “Midnight Moonlight.”
Doc Pomus was a songwriter’s songwriter, crafting lyrics that have stood the test of time. You Can’t Hip A Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos is a masterclass in songwriting through the lens of Doc Pomus’ career and via previously unheard demos largely sung by his writing partner, Mort Shuman. You Can’t Hip A Square traces Doc and his songwriting partners’ careers across the beloved rock, pop and R&B hits that became 20th century standards. Songs like, “A Teenager In Love,” “Viva Las Vegas,” “Lonely Avenue,” “Save The Last Dance For Me,” “This Magic Moment,” recorded by artists like Elvis Presley, Lou Reed, The Drifters, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beach Boys, Ray Charles, The Coasters, Dionne Warwick, Dion, The Everly Brothers, Linda Ronstadt, and more!
Last year’s Elvis Presley box set was Memphis, devoted to the King’s lengthy history with recording studios in the Tennessee city that became his home. Ahead of another annual Elvis Week at his Graceland estate, the next box set will trace his connections to a recording studio on the West Coast.
Sunset Boulevard is a 5CD set featuring Presley’s work at RCA Records’ Studio C in Hollywood – one of the more important studios he’d record in through his final recording years in the 1970s. Like Memphis before it, the set feature new remixes by acclaimed engineer Matt Ross-Spang that offer fresh remixes of familiar studio masters and rare outtakes. The other half of the set finds Elvis and The TCB Band rehearsing for his…
Nik Kershaw‘s long-awaited The MCA Years offers the most complete look at the British pop/rocker’s career in the ’80s, offering four remastered studio albums, four discs of B-sides and remixes, two discs of mostly unreleased live material, and a DVD of music videos and concert material. Both Human Racing and The Riddle were expanded in the early 2010s by UMC with remixes and live material. The MCA Years includes all of that and more: a dedicated disc of eight non-LP B-sides, a collection of 18 extended 12″ mixes, plus a further nine special single mixes and edits. (A healthy amount of this material is being released on CD for the first time.) The package closes out with the first complete release of a live show recorded by Kershaw at the end of 1984…
A new 4CD clamshell box set by the acclaimed British ‘retro rockers’ Cats in Space. This special collection features the band’s first four albums with original singer Paul Manzi, ‘Too Many Gods’, ‘Scarescrow’, ‘Cats Alive!’ (recorded at The Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff) & ‘Daytrip To Narnia’.
Chapter 1 gathers together these deleted and sold-out albums in this remastered collection which also includes some exclusive bonus tracks, a historical, illustrated booklet with essay and a pull-out colour poster.
Announcing this release Cats in Space said: “Our early albums are no longer available, so it made sense to re-release them with our record label team at Esoteric Recordings and Cherry Red Records orchestrating something extra special…
…features the albums ‘Axe Victim’, ‘Futurama’ and ‘Sunburst Finish’.
Be-Bop Deluxe was the creative vision of Bill Nelson, one of Britain’s most creative and enduring musicians. Thanks to the championing of DJ John Peel (who had been an advocate of Bill Nelson’s work since the release of Bill’s rudimentary self-released solo album Northern Dream in 1971), Be Bop Deluxe signed to EMI Records in 1974 and their debut album Axe Victim was issued in June of that year, featuring fine material such as ‘Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape ‘Jets at Dawn’ and ‘Darkness (L’Immoraliste)’.
The 1975 album Futurama saw a new line-up of the band with the arrival of Charlie Tumahai on bass and Simon Fox on drums.
…featuring the albums ‘Novella’, ‘A Song for All Seasons’, and ‘Azure D’Or’.
Featuring highly gifted vocalist Annie Haslam, Michael Dunford (acoustic guitars), John Tout (keyboards, vocals), Jon Camp (bass, vocals) and Terry Sullivan (drums, percussion), Novella was issued in 1977 and was the band’s first album to be released on the Warner Bros. label in the UK.
Featuring featured the epic ‘Can You Hear Me?’ along with the classic tracks ‘Midas Man’, ‘Touching Once (Is So Hard to Keep)’ and ‘The Sisters’, the album was a top 50 hit album in the USA and assisted in growing the band’s following in Britain.
A Song for All Seasons was issued in March 1978, the album featured the song…
If you’ve ever wanted to search beyond “Just Got Lucky,” the worldwide hit from British New Wave group JoBoxers, a new triple-disc anthology from Cherry Red has you covered.
The aptly-titled Just Got Lucky: The Complete Works 1983-1986 highlights the release of the band’s sole album, 1983’s Like Gangbusters, along with material from two planned follow-up records and a live recording from the band’s commercial peak – some 28 unreleased tracks in all.
The group, recently reunited in the 2020s, is on board with the release: bassist Chris Bostock has overseen and compiled the unreleased studio material, while all five band members participated for interviews for the liner notes, penned by Lois Wilson of MOJO.
In 1967 at the peak of the psychedelic movement Vanilla Fudge bursts through the open gates with a giant battering ram and gave the early beginnings of both hard rock and progressive rock like a stick of dynamite that’s ready to explode. They had released five studio albums from Atlantic’s sub-label ATCO records from 1967 to 1969, mending the sounds of pop, soul, and blues into a powder-keg with a brand of a psychedelic aura, waiting to be unveiled.
This 9-CD set box set released by Esoteric Recordings consists not just the band’s albums from the ATCO label, but a live performance recorded on the first of January in 1969 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, who at the time, were promoting their Renaissance album.
…5CD 83 track box set rounds up all of punk legends Peter & The Test Tube Babies releases throughout the 90s.
Peter and the Test Tube Babies were formed in 1978 by singer Peter Bywaters, guitarist Derek “Strangefish” Greening, bassist Chris “Trapper” Marchant, and drummer Nicholas “Ogs” Loizides.
Known as much for their snarky sense of humor and working-class outlook as for their music, Peter and the Test Tube Babies were one of the early bands to emerge on the Brighton U.K. punk scene. It took the group a while to find their footing, but once they clicked, they became one of the most enduring bands in British punk, still recording and touring four decades after they made their debut.
3CD anthology of recordings from British harmony pop maestro John Carter and friends under their flower-power era guise The Flower Pot Men. Includes Summer of Love hit ‘Let’s Go to San Francisco’, further 45s (some using alternative period aliases), two unreleased-at-the-time concept albums and several tracks now gaining their first-ever issue.
Inspired equally by the Haight-Ashbury scene, the worldwide Summer of Love and Brian Wilson’s recent groundbreaking work, in mid-1967 former Ivy Leaguers John Carter and Ken Lewis pieced together the hugely ambitious, six-minute ‘Let’s Go to San Francisco’.
The result was a UK Top Five hit, a success that encouraged Carter to record more material…
Following his departure from Fairport Convention in 1969, singer and songwriter Iain Matthews formed the folk-rock band Matthews Southern Comfort. They released three albums in 1970: an eponymously titled debut, Second Spring in June, and Later That Same Year in August. Matthews dissolved the band and signed a solo deal with Philips’ brand-new Vertigo label – he was the first artist they signed. Between 1971 and 1974, he recorded three albums for the label: 1971’s If You Saw Thro’ My Eyes, 1972’s Tigers Will Survive, and 1974’s Journeys from Gospel Oak. The five-disc Thro’ My Eyes: The Vertigo Years 1970-1974, contains these records and two discs of unissued studio and live material. In addition to the music, the booklet features rare photos…
After the Madchester scene of the late ’80s merged neo-psychedelic indie pop with acid house, the crossover between club culture and alternative rock reached new heights during the second half of the ’90s, when journalists touted “electronica” as the next big thing. Going Out of My Head: Adventures on the Indie Dancefloor 1995-1999 attempts to anthologize the peak era of big beat, trip-hop, and alternative dance, giving space to DJ/producer acts and dance-influenced rock bands as well as rare remixes previously tucked away on CD singles. Compared to most Cherry Red compilations, this one amusingly seems to contain a higher percentage of songs that were actually hits, including U.K. chart-toppers such as the Prodigy’s “Breathe” and Norman Cook’s remix…
In 2004, Fairport Convention founder member, Judy Dyble emerged from a period of musical inactivity with the album ‘Enchanted Gardens’ which was a delightful collection of songs which were fitting for a new millennium, all with an immersive ambience that defied classification. This album was followed in 2005 by ‘Spindle’, another fine work which included a cover version of Pink Floyd’s ‘See Emily Play’ and featured guest appearances by Robert Fripp and former Hawkwind violinist Simon House.
Further recordings appeared as the album ‘The Whorl’ in 2006, another fine record which saw Robert Fripp and Simon House guest once more and also included an evocative cover version of King Crimson’s ‘I Talk to the Wind’.
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After the explosion of punk rock in the U.K., the underground split off in many directions including synth pop, dance punk, post-punk, new romantic, and many others. Most groups, no matter the style they played, were looking to experiment or make a statement, often political, and generally treated the pop charts like a curse to be avoided. Around the time that the 1970s turned to the ’80s, there were a number of groups and journalists who decided the time was ripe to remake pop music, not ignore it, and to storm the charts, not disdain them. Chief among the writers was Paul Morley in the NME and his thoughts helped direct many bands to set aside the gray abrasiveness of their music in favor of something shiny and technicolor that wasn’t built for student bedsits, but for…
On April 2, 1994, Bruce Springsteen scored his biggest ever UK singles chart hit, when ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ climbed to Number 2. In all, it spent five weeks in the Top 5 and a further two in the Top 10. Written specifically for Jonathan Demme’s landmark Aids movie Philadelphia, this shattering monologue from a dying man also went Top 10 in the US Billboard Hot 100, and proceeded to win four Grammy awards – including Song of the Year. It had already won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
A case can be made for ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ as the song that saved Bruce Springsteen’s career. It certainly returned to him a substantial measure of the critical and commercial status he’d lost with the 1989 break-up of the E Street Band…
…A 3CD box set including Rock Workshop’s self-titled 1970 debut album and 1971 follow up ‘The Very Last Time’ remastered from the master tapes with bonus tracks and including single versions, previously unreleased track, demos and alternate versions.
Rock Workshop’s debut album features legendary singer Alex Harvey as one’s of the band’s two lead vocalists alongside Alan Greed.
Harvey sings lead on ‘Wade in the Water’ and ‘Hole in Her Stocking’ and also on alternate takes of album tracks ‘You to Lose’ and ‘Ice Cold’, single B side ‘Born in the City’ and originally unreleased track ‘Let My Bluebird Sing’.
This box includes several previously unreleased tracks including the instrumentals…
…collects material related to the group’s short-lived American Composers Series project, including remastered and expanded editions of the albums ‘George & James’ and ‘Stars & Hank Forever!’, with additional contemporary studio and live material, and thirteen previously unreleased tracks, including a suite of Sun Ra covers, interpretations of songs by Buddy Holly and Lou Christie, and a never-before-heard Residents original, “Burning with Desire”.
Produced with The Cryptic Corporation, and digging deep into the band’s archive, this set dives into the classic mid-1980s ‘American Composers Series’, featuring material originally recorded by James Brown, George Gershwin, Hank Williams, John Philip Sousa and…