…“Legendary Edition” of the band’s self-titled debut offers the remastered original album (featuring tracks like “Mama Kin,” “Movin’ Out” and the eventual smash hit “Dream On”) alongside a new remix of the album, overseen in 2024 by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry with producer/engineer Zakk Cervini and producer Steve Berkowitz, plus a further 17 unreleased tracks including studio outtakes and a vintage live performance in the band’s hometown.
…The quintet – singer Steven Tyler, lead guitarist Joe Perry, rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford, bassist Tom Hamilton and drummer Joey Kramer – had been playing together since 1970 – even sharing a home together on Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue – and were famously signed to…
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Zappa Records is rolling out its first archival release of 2026, and in doing so, is belatedly celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of Frank Zappa’s landmark releases. Bongo Fury, The Mothers of Invention’s 1975 collaboration with fellow iconoclast Don Van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart, is notable not only as the final original album to be released by Zappa and The Mothers but also as a transitional album featuring band members George Duke, Tom and Bruce Fowler, and Napoleon Murphy Brock alongside newer recruits such as Terry Bozzio and Denny Walley. Zappa was coming off a purple patch that saw his music reaching a new level of success (including the Gold-certified albums Over-Nite Sensation and apostrophe (‘), the latter of which reached the U.S. top ten)…
…feature the original album remastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios, a new mix by the band’s longtime collaborator Terry Brown, and remixed and expanded edition of the live album and video Grace Under Pressure Tour.
Following the release of Signals in 1982, Rush’s 10th album would find them continuing to experiment with electronic sounds, even incorporating elements of ska in their progressive melange. For the first time since their debut, the Canadian trio elected to work with another producer/engineer than longtime collaborator Terry Brown, though they parted amicably; Peter Henderson, best known for his work on Supertramp’s Breakfast in America, produced Grace alongside the band. The group spent…
Mercury Falling was released in March 1996. It reached number four in Sting’s native UK and number five in the US, becoming his fifth straight studio album to make the top 5 in both countries. The album features the UK top 40 hits ‘Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot’, ‘You Still Touch Me’ and ‘I Was Brought To My Senses’ and was Sting’s last album to feature the production talents of Hugh Padgham, which underlines the feeling that this record was the end of a certain phase in Sting’s solo career. Supporting musicians on the album include frequent collaborators Dominic Miller on guitar, Kenny Kirkland on keyboards, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, and Branford Marsalis on tenor and soprano saxophone.
…Mercury Falling (Expanded Edition) adds 19…
Craft Recordings mark the tenth anniversary of The Record Company’s Grammy®-nominated debut with an expanded deluxe edition of Give It Back to You. The reissue pairs the original 10-track album featuring the chart-topping “Off the Ground,” alongside fan favorites “Rita Mae Young” and “On the Move” with a newly unearthed live document: the band’s legendary Living Room concert, recorded in bassist Alex Stiff’s Los Feliz home in 2013.
Heard today, Give It Back to You still lands with the same immediacy that helped launch the band a decade ago. The songs are built on tight interplay, gritty textures, and a lived-in blues-rock feel that favors momentum over excess polish. There’s a directness to the writing and performance that makes the album easy to return to-hooks…
For a few minutes in 1976 – America’s bicentennial year and the 15th anniversary of California-sun ambassadors The Beach Boys – the hype was right: Brian Wilson was back. On November 27th, the group’s resident, troubled genius was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. And he was solo, his first TV appearance without brothers Dennis and Carl, Mike Love and Al Jardine since a legendary recital of Surf’s Up in the 1967 documentary Inside Pop. Brian’s three SNL songs included an eerie ‘Good Vibrations’ – alone and skittish at a piano in a faux-sandbox set – and ‘Back Home’, a jaunty original from the Beach Boys’ latest LP, 15 Big Ones, with the SNL band even though the former were in town selling out Madison Square Garden.
Brian also performed ‘Love Is a Woman’, a new…
…features a newly remastered version of the original double album; rarities; previously unreleased studio and live recordings; and several new mixes by Steven Wilson.
Tales from Topographic Oceans‘ sprawling concept was dug into by frontman Jon Anderson, who was immersed in Paramahansa Yogananda’s bestselling Autobiography of a Yogi. Drawing from a lengthy footnote that described four shastras (Hindu texts outlining basic precepts of social and religious life), Anderson and guitarist Steve Howe primarily conceived four pieces of music that would each take up one side of a vinyl album. Bassist Chris Squire and new drummer Alan White (replacing Bill Bruford after his exit) went with the flow, agreeably retreating to Morgan Studios…
There’s a live recording on this boxset that seems to perfectly embody the challenges faced by Paul Weller after he split up The Jam. He and his new band, The Style Council, are playing the Goldiggers in Chippenham, Wiltshire, in March 1984, showcasing tracks from the upcoming Cafe Bleu album to an increasingly restless audience.
“I need absolute quiet for this number,” Weller insists, before a bossa nova called “The Whole Point of No Return”. The crowd start wolf-whistling as Dee C Lee comes out to sing “Paris Match” and, as the band perform low-key acoustic songs inspired, variously, by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Michel Legrand and Erik Satie, you can hear sections of the audience lustily chanting a line from the film Quadrophenia: “We are the Mods,…
Sony Music Japan has continued its popular series of 7-inch SACD reissues with a 50th anniversary edition of Bruce Springsteen’s seminal Born to Run. The 3CD set features a new DSD remaster of the original album on stereo hybrid SACD (playable on all CD players) along with The Boss’ Greenvale, New York concert of December 12, 1975 on 2 Blu-spec CDs. The CW Post College Post Dome concert featured most of the songs from Born to Run including “Thunder Road,” “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” “Backstreets,” “She’s the One,” “Jungleland,” and, of course, the title track. (The concert also yielded Springsteen’s now-classic take on “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” which was released as a single nearly a decade later, in 1985.) The concert was issued in 2021 on…
…The expanded digital album includes 11 bonus tracks in total: the three songs from the 2007 ‘End Like This’ EP, four previously unreleased outtakes, and four demos.
Makers is Rocky Votolato’s fourth album, appearing fittingly in line after 2003’s Suicide Medicine, but with a worn resilience all its own. It finds Votolato sounding older and weathered, more content than jaded, and there’s a modest quality to his steady voice that projects words as both sincere and comforting.
Some songs are country-tinged — with touches of harmonica, pedal steel, violin, and piano supporting the focal acoustic guitar — but it’s more that they simply evoke images of rural dirt roads, long walks and quiet autumn nights at home…
‘The Power Station DLX’ includes the remastered album alongside three discs of bonus material, including unreleased “raw instrumental” versions, single mixes and live material, including the band’s performances from the charity concert Live Aid and an unissued full set from nearly a month later at The Spectrum in Philadelphia.
…The Power Station (a supergroup of sorts) came about during Duran Duran’s hiatus (which also saw Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor form Arcadia) and featured Robert Palmer, Tony Thompson (from Chic) and Duran members John Taylor and Andy Taylor. Bernard Edwards produced the album (with “informal assistance” from Nile Rodgers) which features the hit singles “Some Like It Hot” and a cover of T. Rex’s…
Panic! At the Disco is celebrating two decades of their career by giving fans A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out (20th Anniversary Deluxe). The 20th Anniversary Deluxe will feature remastered versions of iconic tracks like “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” and “Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off,” along with unreleased demos and live recordings.
Discovered by Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz when the band members were still in their teens, Panic! At The Disco exploded onto the musical landscape with the release of A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out in the fall of 2005, which reached the upper echelons of the Billboard 200 and garnered multi-platinum success. The release’s breakout single, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” would become…
Streetlife Serenade may be one of the more unusual – and perhaps overlooked – albums in Joel’s celebrated catalogue. His third album (and second for longtime home base Columbia Records), it followed the modest breakthrough of 1973’s Piano Man with a similar formula to its predecessor. Working again with producer Michael Stewart and a team of Los Angeles session musicians, Joel later admitted the difficulty of recording a follow-up album with an admittedly thinner notebook of songs, so occupied had he been touring in support of Piano Man – at one point opening for The Beach Boys. Consequently, the album boasts not one but two instrumentals: the dexterous “Root Beer Rag” and the offbeat closer “The Mexican Connection.” The remaining songs furthered Joel’s…
Red Bull Records and AWOLNATION present the limited edition of Run, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of this album. Remastered for this release, the Anniversary edition includes the original Run album, and a bonus songs of previously unreleased material.
Run is an ambitious and impressive project. AWOLNATION’s sophomore album was written, performed, and produced entirely by lead singer Aaron Bruno. The album features 14 new songs that go in many different directions, offering softer, more acoustic sounds, energetic almost-punk-like sounds, and everything in between. The album starts off strong with “Run,” with its heavy beat and eerie lyrics like the repeated “I am a human being/capable of doing things”…
Kim Wilde released her brilliant and critically acclaimed brand new album Closer on Cherry Red Records at the beginning of 2025. We conclude 2025 with this expanded, deluxe edition featuring the original album along with an exquisite selection of exclusive bonus recorded in relation to Closer throughout 2025.
‘Closer’ was the follow-up to Kim Wilde’s massively successful 1988 album ‘Close’. While it captures the spirit and style of her earlier work, Kim’s new album introduces a modern perspective, blending nostalgic elements with contemporary sounds. Kim Wilde’s signature mix of pop, new wave, and rock-known for its infectious hooks, powerful vocals, and anthemic choruses-remains at the heart of her music, ensuring ‘Closer’ resonates with both…
Few bands come out of the gate sounding as genuinely unique and beholden to little that came before as Camper Van Beethoven did when their debut album, Telephone Free Landslide Victory, first appeared in 1985. They also managed to do so with a loose-limbed amiability suggesting it happened by mistake, or at least without too much conscious effort.
Camper Van Beethoven’s easygoing fusion of folk-rock, ska, indie rock, world music, psychedelia, and punk (the latter more in attitude than attack, though “Club Med Sucks” builds up an impressive head of steam) is smart, but also playful, as if some guys with really good record collections threw all they loved at a wall and it not only stuck, but managed to be funny at the same time.
The Maccabees are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their fourth and final album, Marks To Prove It, with a new reissue.
All but the single vinyl features the addition of B-sides, acoustic tracks, and a new version of the title track recorded during a session for BBC Radio 6 DJ Steve Lamacq. The 3-CD and digital formats also feature The Maccabees’ career-spanning set from Glastonbury 2015, which included a guest appearance from friend and fellow indie rock artist Jamie T on “Marks To Prove It.” The single-vinyl is crafted as a zoetrope disc (designed by Drew Tetz), while artwork for the double-vinyl and 3-CD formats was created by the band’s long-term designer, Matt De Jong, who also designed the original release. The album cover displays…
For The Unutterable, Mark E. Smith settled in with the (mostly) new lineup that debuted on 1999’s The Marshall Suite and recorded yet another gorgeous, rambunctious, only occasionally scrutable masterpiece. Though it’s not overly chocked with new ideas (especially for those already well-versed in the Fall canon), The Unutterable benefits from excellent songwriting and the crisp production of soundman extraordinaire Grant Showbiz, on loan from Billy Bragg.
The far-too-short opener “Cyber Insekt” immediately launches the listener into a dense, chaotic sound world that’s only amplified throughout the album. The heavy rockabilly guitars and pummeling drums heard on The Marshall Suite are practically overwhelmed…
Singer and songwriter Morgan Wade has extended her celebrated recent album ‘The Party Is Over (recovered)’, adding five new tracks for a Deluxe version.
The Party Is Over (recovered) follows Wade’s recent album, “Obsessed”, which was released in August 2024. In a time of self-reflection, Wade revisited her earlier writing sessions to revitalise past songs that still spoke to the person she is today. She has also been playing some of its tracks on the road to sold-out shows across the US, UK and Europe. These songs, which so many fans have gravitated to live, will, for the first time ever, be made available, connecting Wade’s past and present and breathing new life into her earlier songs.
“The Party Is Over (recovered)” sees Wade…
The reissue expands the original 8-track album to 20 tracks in total, including never-before-heard material discovered in White’s personal archives after his death in 2018.
Forty-five years ago, Tony Joe White released an album of what he called “swamp rock” (an amalgam of southern rock, country and blues roots music), and he called it The Real Thang. It was only released on vinyl, it only had eight tracks, and it was not very successful in terms of sales; in fact, it did not gain much attention at all. It was perhaps because White, after some success with well-balanced country blues albums in the ’70s (Homemade Ice Cream, for example), decided to ramp up his songs with a disco beat (that was pretty popular at the time), overlaying…