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The album was released in July 1971 and followed his successful and influential album Songs for a Tailor. Once again, Jack’s intention was to make a record distinctly diverse from the music he had recorded with Cream, and Harmony Row expanded even further on the musical palate he explored on Songs for a Tailor featuring compositions which drew stylistically on jazz, folk, classical, rock and Eastern musical influences.
Joining the recording sessions at London’s Command Studios were guitarist Chris Spedding and drummer John Marshall, with Jack singing and playing piano, organ, bass guitar and cello. Harmony Row was highly acclaimed upon its release and is now rightly regarded as a masterpiece and one of Jack’s seminal works.

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The antepenultimate date of the Land of Hope and Dreams Tour brought Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to its penultimate stop, concluding the year’s trilogy of shows in Germany with a trip to Gelsenkirchen’s Veltins-Arena.
Slotted in-between that sensational night in San Sebastián and the long anticipated finale shows in Milan’s San Siro, this one may have flown under the radar for many. Add to that the fact Springsteen and the E Street Band were still without Little Steven Van Zandt following his emergency appendectomy, would this be one where everybody in the house had a point to prove?
While the thunderstorm on June 24th made for a much looser performance than we’re used to on the 2023-2025 World Tour, expectations…

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Bruce and the E Street Band perform a 32-song set on night two in San Sebastian.
…Springsteen and the E Street Band had already included the tour debut of “Prove It All Night” when rain overtook San Sebastian, Spain during “House of a Thousand Guitars.”
They ended up waiting 35 minutes for the skies to clear. Then Springsteen and company went on a tear as they played four more songs for the first time on this tour. Included were “Growin’ Up” from 1973’s Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ; and “Darlington County,” “Working on the Highway” and “I’m on Fire” from 1984’s Born in the U.S.A. “Prove It All Night” originally appeared on 1978’s Darkness on the Edge of Town.
The Reale Arena stop on Springsteen’s…

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Reissue of Turtle Rock, the debut release from Sharp Pins, the solo project from Kai Slater of Chicago, IL. The album is full of DIY bedroom pop pearls of the highest order which call to mind the underground sounds of the past from labels like Blackbean and Placenta Tape Club and March Records, and artists such as Kleenex Girl Wonder, GBV, and Big Star. Originally released on limited cassette in March 2023 on Hallogallo.
13 tracks Sharp Pins is the super solid lo-fi noise pop project of talented Chicago musician Kai Slater of Lifeguard and Dwaal Troupe. What does the future sound like? play loudly and see… Sharp Pinstouring with Lifeguard in June and july. Sharp Pins will touring the U.S.A. UK, and SPAIN in 2025. Also it’s Great. Really.

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…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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With a 30-day window to return gear bought with a “borrowed” credit card, young wannabe rock stars Jeff Whalen and Dan Kern were on a mission in 1998 to record the songs they had been kicking around for a few months. Those tunes were a winning mixture of shimmering power pop, strutting glam rock, and non-clichéd alternative rock that eventually became the basis of Tsar’s self-titled debut album. The two guys called in favors from friends for more gear as needed while fighting off a faltering 8-track recorder and racing to the finish line with one goal in mind: scoring a record deal. These tapes have circulated before in less official channels, but Omnivore’s 2025 release of The Drugboy Tapes is their official coming out party, and it’s a blast to hear…

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Japanese legends Boris are celebrating the 20 Year Anniversary of landmark albums Pink and dronevil -example- with special deluxe reissue out on Relapse. The 20th Anniversary Edition presents the original CD track sequence on a 2xLP for the very first time, with an exclusive etching on Side D. In addition, PINK will be released as a deluxe reissue box set: a limited 6xLP collection that includes three full LPs of previously unreleased material. The deluxe box set features the original vinyl version of PINK, expanded “Forbidden Tracks” from the PINK sessions, never-before-released live material on vinyl.
dronevil will also be reissued for the first time since its original release. A work consisting of two different albums—an ambient soundscape and extreme heavy rock—designed to be played simultaneously, dronevil now returns in a brand-new edition. This version is presented as a joint 2xLP mix, under the title dronevil – example –

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September 1971 wasn’t a happy time in Who world, even by their remarkably narky standards. Pete Townshend had lost the battle to turn his abandoned Lifehouse concept album into a movie, and a filmed band meeting to discuss where The Who should go next ended testily. Mercifully, relief suddenly arrived in the form of an invitation to headline a British version of the Concert For Bangladesh, George Harrison’s all-star fundraiser staged at Madison Square Garden the previous month. So the group stopped bickering, moved their new £20,000 PA system into a Wandsworth cinema, and began rehearsing for a September 18 show at the Oval cricket ground, also set to feature the Faces, Atomic Rooster, Mott The Hoople, Lindisfarne and more.

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Previously unreleased in full, this celebrated live performance recorded live in 1977 for WCOZ that originally appeared on “The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads” is available as a 2LP collection. Cut at 45rpm and featuring fourteen tracks (seven are previously unheard from the original two-track tapes) recorded at Northern Studios on November 17, 1977, this blistering performances includes “Psycho Killer”, “Pulled Up”, “Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town”, “A Clean Break (Let’s Work)” and more.
Recorded on November 17, 1977, at Northern Studio near Boston and broadcast on WCOZ, this seminal performance took place just two months after the band released its debut, Talking Heads ’77. At the show, David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, and Tina Weymouth played more…

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Following last year’s release of Miles ’54: The Prestige Recordings, collecting the legendary trumpeter’s 1954 sessions, Craft Recordings is turning the clock forward to Miles Davis’ 1955 with – what else? – Miles ’55. Miles ’55 bring together sixteen recordings cut by Davis at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Hackensack, New Jersey for the Prestige label.
Ashley Kahn (author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece) observes in the new liner notes for this release, “There was a particular sound that had defined the ’50s. It was an approach that balanced a modern, post-bop feel with echoes of a simpler time. And it belonged to one trumpet player in particular.” Though Davis would famously go on to break new ground in jazz…

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Back in 2005, Seattle quintet Minus the Bear were riding the wave of a swift upward trajectory with their blend of ‘90s mathrock fretboard savvy, early ‘00s electro-indie textural depth, and the wistful melodicism of the more mature strain of Midwest emo. So it was an interesting time for the band to undergo a stylistic sea change. Looking beyond their fellow guitar slingers, Minus the Bear instead found inspiration in the more adventurous pop producers of the era and went full steam ahead with a revamped sound of glitchy guitar loops, modern R&B rhythms, and swirling electronic tapestries on their 2005 sophomore album Menos el Oso. The stylistic shift was a gamble in the waning years of indie rock orthodoxy, but the risk paid off and Minus the Bear’s popularity exploded.

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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…

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Irène’s Hot Four represents a significant post- humous release from the legendary Swiss jazz pianist Irène Schweizer, who passed away in 2024. This release captures a rare 1981 concert in Zurich featuring Schweizer alongside her companions Rudiger Carl, Johnny Dyani, and Han Bennink. It is a quartet that existed for only around a year and a half, playing just a handful of performances. The album fills an important gap in Schweizer’s discography, documenting this ephemeral but vital collaboration between four master improvisers. The release highlights the pianist’s bold free jazz style during a vibrant era of European improvised music.
…”The concert with the Irène Schweizer Quartet in Zurich 1981 demonstrates a theatrical performance that remains musically coherent…

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…The Hunt for Red October, the 1984 novel that introduced the quick-thinking CIA analyst, was adapted into a film in 1990 that starred Alec Baldwin as Ryan, working to avoid a confrontation between the U.S. Navy and a rogue Soviet submarine captain portrayed by Sean Connery. One of the highest-grossing films of the year, Red October featured a stirring score by Basil Poledouris (Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop), combining orchestra, chorus and electronics in full measure. Though previously generously expanded by Intrada in 2013, that presentation was sourced from backup masters on analog tape. For this 35th anniversary release, access was granted to the original scoring masters for a new mix, which also revealed a further 16 alternate takes…

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…With an expanded running time almost 30 minutes longer than the original 2002 soundtrack release, this deluxe presentation of ‘The Sum of All Fears’ features previously unreleased score cues as well as bonus tracks and songs – all of it remastered by Doug Schwartz.
After two further Jack Ryan films in the ’90s, both starring Harrison Ford, the series was rebooted to feature a younger (but contemporary) version of the character, this time played by Ben Affleck in a loose adaptation of Clancy’s The Sum of All Fears.
This 2002 film was one of the last major action pictures scored by Jerry Goldsmith, who brings his usual dazzling patriotic flair to the proceedings (along with vocal interpretations of his themes on the Yolanda Adams-sung…

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…The sixth Bond film was John Barry’s fifth score for the series, but the first (and only) performance by Australian model George Lazenby, making his acting debut as Ian Fleming’s literary secret agent. One of the more emotional stories in the series, OHMSS pitted Bond against the villainous Blofeld (played this time by Telly Savalas) and had 007 enter a star-crossed romance with a mysterious countess (Diana Rigg).
Barry’s score was anchored by a new, riveting instrumental title theme that would become part of the Bond canon, and also featured the stirring “We Have All the Time in the World,” a love theme written with lyricist Hal David that offered one of the last vocal performances by legendary jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong.

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