Category: *editions*


Discover is the breakthrough third album by Gene Loves Jezebel. Originally released in 1986, Discover captures Gene Loves Jezebel at a watershed moment, propelling the band to an international audience. This 40th Anniversary expanded edition has been remastered at Abbey Road and expanded across a double LP with updated artwork. The second LP contains Glad To Be Alive, a live recording from a 1986 Nottingham show, pressed to vinyl here for the first time since it’s original release.
Recorded live at Nottingham’s Rock City on March 17, 1986, Glad To Be Alive was originally issued as a limited edition 8-song bonus album with initial UK vinyl and cassette copies of Gene Loves Jezebel’s 1986 album, Discover.

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…60th anniversary edition of Four Tops Live! offers even more from the two dates at Detroit’s Roostertail club which comprised the original LP. Now expanded with 10 tracks not featured on the original album, the concert features all of the quartet’s most scintillating hits for the label (“Baby I Need Your Loving,” “I Can’t Help Myself,” “It’s the Same Old Song,” “Ask the Lonely,” “Reach Out I’ll Be There”) plus a selection of popular favorites (Tony Bennett’s “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” The Sound of Music‘s “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” The Beatles’ “Michelle,” folk standard “If I Had a Hammer” and Getz/Gilberto/Jobim masterpiece “The Girl from Ipanema”) and even a take on The Supremes’ then-new “You Can’t Hurry Love.” (The single topped the Billboard Hot 100…

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Spyro Gyra’s 2022 concert in Leverkusen takes the viewer along on one of their trademark odysseys that has sustained them as a top attraction in the jazz world for over fifty years. As founder/bandleader Jay Beckenstein explains, “I’ve always spent a lot of effort in contouring the show to maintain audience interest and hopefully takes them on a bit of a rollercoaster ride with ups and downs to a final conclusion.”
This show is notable for another reason. It was shortly after its filming that keyboardist Tom Schuman decided to end his long tenure with the band to move to Spain. So it exists as a final document of an era of the band with its combination of these two musicians. “When I now listen to those recordings…

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With undeniable cultural gravity, the team of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan join luminaries such as Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Randy Newman, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazlewood, Brian Wilson and Laura Nyro in Ace Records’ long-running series of multi-artist compilations celebrating the great American songwriters of the modern era. Hundreds of artists from all walks of music have recorded songs from Waits and Brennan’s matchless catalogue, 19 of the finest of which comprise this hand-picked selection, including many chosen by the songwriters themselves.
Few artists have remapped the terrain of popular music, and culture at large, like Tom Waits. Over the course of five decades…

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…include the remastered album plus two discs of rarities, including previously unreleased tracks, B-sides, demos, acoustic recordings, covers, live performances and BBC sessions.
In the two years that followed the release of their debut album, Keane established themselves as a promising part of the mainstream rock canon. Hit singles like “Somewhere Only We Know,” “Bedshaped,” and “Everybody’s Changing” made Hopes and Fears a transatlantic hit, earning the trio two Brit Awards, a Grammy nomination, and a host of sold-out world tours. Critics deemed them as likeable and as accessible as Coldplay, but Keane’s return isn’t as buoyant as their initial introduction, even if it keeps melody at the forefront. Whereas Hopes and Fears faced…

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…The expanded tracklist appends rare live versions of tracks like “Fat Lip,” “All She’s Got,” “Crazy Amanda Bunkface,” “Machine Gun,” and “What We’re All About”.
It would be a mistake to view Sum 41 as just another second-rate band cashing in on the early-’00s punk-pop boom, even if it did recruit Jerry Finn to produce All Killer No Filler. Just as Finn had done for both blink-182 and Green Day, he charges Sum 41’s punk-pop with a razor-sharp edge, the sort of dynamic in-your-face sound that helps this music cross over to MTV and radio so well. Besides the notable production, a lot of credit should go to the band as well. Its songwriting is obviously more diverse here than it was a year earlier on its debut album,…

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For the new remastered edition, 5 bonus tracks have been added: Spampinato’s “Trouble in the Henhouse,” Donn Adams’ “Dry Up and Blow Away,” and Terry’s “Electric Train” are all derived from the ‘Workshop’ sessions. These are augmented by a lively alternate version of “RC Cola and a Moon Pie” plus an updated take of “Get That Gasoline Blues.”
Originally titled Age of Aquariums, Workshop was the last album from one of the pre-classic lineups of NRBQ. This incarnation incorporated the talents of bandleader Terry Adams (keyboard/coronet/trumpet), Joey Spampinato (bass/guitar/sax/vocals), Al Anderson (guitar/vocals), and, in his final studio appearance with the band, Tom Staley (drums). Although they had been performing with an evolving makeshift horn section…

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Snow Patrol’s Eyes Open album is receiving a special deluxe reissue for its 20th anniversary.
Eyes Open, originally released in April 2006, marks Snow Patrol’s fourth album. It features six singles, including “Hands Open,” “Set the Fire to the Third Bar,” “Open Your Eyes,” “Shut Your Eyes,” as well as the Top 10 hits “You’re All I Have” and “Chasing Cars.” The LP was the best-selling album in the UK at the time of its release, selling over one million copies. It also hit No. 9 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart and is certified 8x Platinum.
“Chasing Cars,” the alternative rock band’s most iconic and biggest single to date, peaked at No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The tune also earned nominations for Best Rock Song at the 2007 Grammy Awards…

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When Emerson, Lake & Palmer conceived the idea of releasing a live album at the end of the ‘70’s it was intended to be, in true prog rock style, a grandiose double LP type affair. However, the band’s dissolution in 1979 meant that Atlantic Records slimmed down the band’s original vision into a single set under the moniker In Concert. When reissued in 1993, that album was restored in all its double disc glory with much of the omitted music included. Titled Works Live, it was more in tune with what the band envisioned, and that vision has finally been realised with this updated version from BMG. Refreshed with upscaled packaging and liner notes, along with a crisper sound, this issue elevates Works Live to its rightful place as a key release in the ELP canon.

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On 23rd December 1977 a unique concert took place at Queens Hall, Barnstaple that has justifiably earned a special place in the history of Hawkwind.
Billed on posters as being an appearance by Dave Brock’s Sonic Assassins, the band featured Hawkwind members Dave Brock and Robert Calvert, along with future members Harvey Bainbridge (bass), Martin Griffin (drums) and keyboard player Paul Hayles.
Intended as a Brock and Calvert side project, the concert was recorded and featured early renditions of tracks such as ‘Freefall’ and ‘Death Trap’, along with a classic improvised piece later titled ‘Over The Top’ which showed Robert Calvert at his improvisational lyrical best. The performance would later be seen as sowing…

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The 21-track expanded edition includes the remastered original album and 10 “Live and Intimate” recordings from a special session captured at Capitol Studios.
Actually, the title of the Goo Goo Dolls’ 8th album can be taken somewhat literally: Let Love In is a welcoming collection of songs that eschews some of the darker currents roiling under the surface of their previous effort, 2002’s Gutterflower. Not that Gutterflower sounded bleak — it was clean and glossy, so much so that it would be easy to listen to it once and assume that there wasn’t much there. Such assumptions also come to mind after the first listen for 2006’s Let Love In, but unlike its predecessor, there isn’t much to dig into here; what you hear upon that first listen is…

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Understanding the universe begins with listening rather than seeing. Listening to the stars as much as to our unconscious mind. This is the idea around which both Jeffrey Zablotny’s film and Jana Irmert‘s soundtrack revolve.
The documentary follows the journey of neutrinos through three subterranean observatories – SNOLAB in Canada, Super-Kamiokande in Japan and IceCube beneath the Antarctic ice. Throughout the film, the narrator repeatedly returns to acts of listening: “We are listening for a whisper.” “Listening through stone, ice and water.” The scientists descend deep beneath the Earth’s surface because, as the film explains, “the surface of the Earth is full of interference.” Only underground, protected from the overwhelming…

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Hot Chip release the reissues of The Warning, Made In The Dark and One Life Stand. The albums are being reissued this year for the first time. The collection is the result of Joe Goddard, Alexis Taylor, Owen Clarke, Al Doyle and Felix Martin’s lifelong friendship and musical chemistry.
Rewind to the year 2006 when British music was enthrall to guitar bands in winklepickers and waistcoats. And then along came Hot Chip’s album The Warning like a kaleidoscopic bolt from the blue and turned a generation of indie fans onto the hedonistic pleasure of repetitive beats. The Warning was a ahead of the zeitgeist, spending 17 weeks in the UK charts and earning a Mercury Prize nomination thanks to tracks like ‘Over & Over’ and ‘Boy From School’.

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Everyone remembers when bands like The All American Rejects began to surface in the rock scene early 2000s. A contagious earworm for the audio senses is an understatement for what they would achieve and create with their music alone. The All American Rejects would become a favorite for many, hooking fans with ultra-magnetic classics such as “Swing Swing,” with their lyrical charm and infectious power-pop instrumental fervor.
Standing out from the crowd of other bands at the time, All American Rejects was not quite pop, not quite punk, but sat pretty within the genre regions of pop-rock where they could test the waters of their craft.
Tyson Ritter and the band are no strangers to writing material that digs deep.

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SYML releases deluxe of live album Paris Unplugged. First captured live at Le Consulat Voltaire in Paris, France, the original 16-track set has been expanded into a 20-track deluxe edition. The newly expanded tracklist features his highly sought-after cover of “Mr. Sandman (Paris Unplugged Live).”
SYML shares: “I want to say that I always knew I would one day record a live album of my songs in Paris, but that’s not true. What a gift it’s been to perform these songs outside of my bedroom when I wrote them years ago, much less in Paris. Some of my favorite albums growing up were live records, and in hindsight I think it was the imperfections, the sound of the room, and the slight variations on familiar music that attracted me.

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Heavy Metal (Live! Nairobi International Casino!) is a landmark Zamrock album by Paul Ngozi and the Ngozi Family Band, originally captured live-in-the-studio style in 1977.
Blending psychedelic rock, heavy fuzz guitar effects, and African rhythms, it stands as a cornerstone of the ’70s Zambian rock movement. The album relies heavily on Ngozi’s signature “Gee Flanger” guitar effects pedal, creating a swirling, psychedelic fuzz texture that drives tracks like “Heavy Metal” and “Dangerous Woman”
…Zamrock was a bona-fide rock scene, with albums released through independent labels based in Zambia. This music scene was complete, encompassing the genres of rock, acid folk, fusion, Afro-beat, South African jazz and…

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