The first standalone release of the songs from Giles, Giles & Fripp’s 1968 debut album, now with spoken word sections removed. New 2025 remaster by David Singleton.
While 1967 is rightly remembered for an abundance of classic albums, there were also quieter debut LPs emerging, signalling popular music’s imminent changes to a more rock-oriented, musician-centred approach.
It was also the year that Robert Fripp applied for a ‘singing organist’ role advertised by brothers Peter and Michael Giles, despite having no experience either as a singer or organist.
Experiencing a few challenges and disappointments on the way, the year was an exciting one for the trio, who recorded a series of…
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Originally released in 1960 on the Vee-Jay label, Here’s Lee Morgan is Lee Morgan’s 10th album. A collection of 6 Hard-bop cuts, Morgan is backed on the album by Clifford Jordan (tenor sax), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Art Blakey (drums). This new edition of the album is released as part of the Original Jazz Classics Series on 180-gram vinyl pressed at RTI with all-analog mastering from the original tapes at Cohearent Audio and a Stoughton Tip-On Jacket.
Have you ever heard of Miss Ernestine Morgan?
Well, the next time you hear the name, give a small sigh of gratitude. She is a highly accomplished pianist and organist who was born in Philadelphia. Her father played trom-bone and slide trumpet in his younger days.
It’s a blessing that a band with such a relatively short career (and terribly tragic ending) has an official live album to its catalog of recordings.
…Sourced from an audience recording and mastered by frontman Mark Sandman shortly before his untimely death of a heart attack onstage in 1999, Bootleg Detroit is 12 songs of the best prime-era Morphine had to offer, on tour in early 1994. The band was fresh off its breakthrough album, Cure for Pain, which was released the prior fall, and most of the set here is comprised of songs from that album. Seven of Cure for Pain’s 13 songs are represented here, along with two from the band’s debut, Good, and a couple extras.
The sound quality of these performances, being an audience recording, has been lamented…
Black Antlers comes with less of the mythos that attaches itself to other Coil albums. Where Time Machines, Loves Secret Domain, Horse Rotorvator and so on inspired nerdy obsessions with the eldritch mechanisms used to create them – a determined perpetual state of constant evolution and hedonistic experimentation via narcotics and pharmaceuticals, home studio tech, countercultural mining, occult practice and sundry other alternative states – Coil’s penultimate studio album superficially seems more ordinary. It is, after all, one where they embraced more conventional song structures, including the wonderful take on English folk staple ‘All the Pretty Little Horses’ and the same might have gone for their life outside music. In late-period Coil interviews…
How else could we preface this? Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, John Williams’ acclaimed score to Steven Spielberg’s JAWS is rising up from the depths for its 50th anniversary. And this time, the bites are big. Williams’ longtime archivist Mike Matessino has remixed the original film score for a new release available digitally. These original tracks heard in the film remained unreleased until the early 2000s, but have never been heard with such clarity and precision.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine… an eating machine.” That line of dialogue could just as easily describe Spielberg’s film as its fearsome leviathan. Peter Benchley’s novel about a great white shark wreaking havoc on…
…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…
One of the best-loved British albums of the mid-’70s has been revisited with a fresh new mix and a host of bonus material: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel’s The Best Years of Our Lives.
…Previously released as a 4CD/DVD set, Chrysalis’ new 2CD/DVD, shuffles things around a bit. The original nine-track album, featuring the national chart-topper “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me),” has been newly mixed in stereo by the album’s original co-producer Alan Parsons. Bonus audio material includes the B-side “Another Journey” and 11 demos and outtakes, nine of which premiere on this set. A DVD will include high-resolution audio and video of the group’s April 14, 1975 concert at Hammersmith Odeon (released as a video package under the name…
If every significant artist has an underrated gem in its catalog, then Mirage is that album for Fleetwood Mac. An obvious return to relative simplicity after the dramatic tension of Rumours and experimental ambitions of Tusk, the 1982 album finds the band re-grouping after a brief hiatus and again climbing to the top of the charts. Extremely well-crafted, well-produced, and well-performed, the double-platinum effort distills the group’s hallmark strengths into a filler-free set that never runs short of addictive pop hooks or daft accents.
Sourced from the original analog master tapes, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD presents Mirage in reference sound. The efforts co-producers/engineers Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut went to capture the splintered albeit…
Celebrated Grammy Award winner Ray LaMontagne unveils a special remastered vinyl edition of his seminal debut album, Trouble, commemorating the 20th anniversary of its release. The remaster marks the second full-length release on LaMontagne’s own Liula Records.
LaMontagne reflects, “Today, the 20th-anniversary remaster of Trouble is here. What a journey the past twenty-plus years have been. Forgive me if I wear my heart on my sleeve for a moment. Holding this album in my hands, I cannot help but feel overwhelmingly grateful-grateful to the universal consciousness for sharing these songs with me, and through me, so that I in turn could share them with you. Grateful for those of you who understood and appreciated my musical language…
…The new reissues feature remastered audio.
Wasting no time in the wake of the Gallagher brothers sudden 2009 implosion, Sony released the deluxe Time Flies 1994-2009 retrospective in the summer of 2010, just in time for the 15th anniversary of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
The driving idea behind Time Flies is to collect all 27 of Oasis’ British A-sides, a simple idea that would seem to fit one of the great singles band, but sticking to the singles winds up leaving many great songs behind, including their manifesto “Rock & Roll Star,” “Champagne Supernova,” the lovely “Talk Tonight,” and Noel and Liam’s duet “Acquiesce,” among many tremendous B-sides, “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory” and “Champagne Supernova,” to name a few.
The Pet Shop Boys reissue Discography: The Complete Singles Collection, their 1991 ‘best of’, on 2LP blue vinyl.
The collection was the band’s first greatest hits and was released between 1990’s Behaviour and before 1993’s Very. It features all the band’s UK singles up to that point (in proper seven-inch form) except ‘How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?’ That single was a double A-side with Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You) and only the U2 cover/mash-up is included.
Discography was also home to two new songs in ‘DJ Culture’ and ‘Was It Worth It?’ Both were released as singles (before and after Discography, respectively).
This collection was issued as a 2LP set on black vinyl at the time, but doesn’t appear…
Are you gonna do it without the fez on? 1976’s The Royal Scam, Steely Dan’s fifth album, is returning on June 6 in a variety of formats to conclude the band’s reissue campaign which began in November 2022 with Can’t Buy a Thrill. Like the past titles in this series encompassing the Dan’s ABC/MCA discography, The Royal Scam reissued on 180-gram vinyl from Geffen/UMe while an audiophile-aimed UHQR 45 RPM, 200-gram vinyl edition and a hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players) will arrive from Analogue Productions. All formats have been newly remastered; Bernie Grundman has mastered the UHQR and SACD iterations from the original tapes while Joe Nino-Hernes at Sterling Sound handles the standard 180-gram LP. The latter has been sourced…
“Jazz is my religion,” once declared beatnik poet Ted Joans. “I know and feel the message it brings.” Throughout its expansive and enduring history, jazz has attached itself to countless different styles; it has been torn apart and reinvented in countless different ways. But that message has always remained the same, and it has always resonated with the hearts and souls of audiences across the world. Jazz, at its core, is the music of freedom, and Bill Evans’ 1962 work Interplay is as captivatingly, inventively free as they come.
Recorded in New York City in the summer of 1962, Interplay expertly captures the exciting spirit of that period in the city’s musical progression. Rising from its vibrant concrete streets, a seemingly endless array of inventive jazz…
Moon Beams marked an important moment for Bill Evans. Recorded in 1962, it was his first trio album following the sudden death of bassist Scott LaFaro, whose intuitive style had shaped much of Evans’ earlier sound. Rather than returning with something bold or experimental, Evans chose a softer approach-an album built almost entirely around ballads. It’s reflective and unhurried, showing a pianist more interested in exploring emotion than making a statement. As part of Craft Recordings – Original Jazz Classics series, Moon Beams is being reissued on 180-gram vinyl from lacquers cut from the original stereo tapes (AAA) by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.
From the opening track, “Re: Person I Knew,” you can sense the quiet intimacy Evans was chasing.
Originally founded in 1969 by former Crazy World of Arthur Brown organist Vincent Crane, Atomic Rooster recorded five albums between 1969 & 1973 and enjoyed two hit singles with the tracks ‘Tomorrow Night’ and ‘Devil’s Answer’ in 1970 and 1971 respectively. The band line-up varied from album to album, but it was generally recognised that the “classic” line-up of the band featured Vincent Crane joined by John Du Cann (guitar, vocals) and Paul Hammond (drums) that existed between 1970 – 1971.
Atomic Rooster finally disbanded in 1975, but in 1980 Vincent Crane and John Du Cann reformed the band to record a new album. The sessions featured Preston Heyman on drums and the album Atomic Rooster was released in September 1980.
Between 1973 and 1974 Greenslade recorded a quartet of highly regarded albums and were one of Britain’s most interesting live acts, but they disbanded in 1976 due to issues with their management. It was therefore a pleasant surprise that in 2000 founder members Dave Greenslade (keyboards) and Tony Reeves (bass) teamed up with John Young (keyboards, vocals) and Chris Cozens (drums) to record a new Greenslade album, ‘Large Afternoon’.
The album was well-received by progressive rock fans and prompted the band to undertake live work. For a series of concerts Chris Cozens was replaced on drums by John Trotter. In 2001 the band performed at the Classic Rock Society in Rotherham, England and the recording…
For this reissue of 7Seconds 1986 release New Wind, original producer Ian MacKaye and Inner Ear Studios’ Don Zientara ‘reimagined’ the album, delivering Change in My Head. The effort removes some songs, remixes the full record, plays with the track order and unearths a few unreleased gems from the original recording session.
New Wind, the title alone declared a change was coming, and it is the 7Seconds album that most original fans felt started moving the group too far from their punk/hardcore roots. MacKaye and Zientara worked to perk up the sound a touch, yet this restored effort still clearly displays a band in transition. 7Seconds, Kevin (Seconds) and Steve (Youth) Marvelli, along with drummer Troy Mowat, were moving away from their…
Don Henley essentially sat out his ’90s recording contract, waiting until he could sign to another label that would allow him greater artistic freedom and royalties. He finally signed to Warner and released his fourth solo album, Inside Job, in the spring of 2000.
Considering his long absence from recording, it shouldn’t come as a total surprise that the album sounds as if it could have been cut in 1990 or even 1986 (check out the obnoxious synth solo on the opening track). That is not entirely a bad thing, however. It would have been rather embarrassing if Henley was trying to run with the young boys, and he sounds very comfortable settling into a role that is something less than an old master and something more than a crotchety…
Remastered and expanded, featuring ‘Cry Wolf’ b-side ‘The Mirror Is Gone’ and the 5-track pre-cursor EP ‘Inconsiderate Bitch’.
With 1994’s Geek the Girl, Lisa Germano found the perfect balance of her work’s inherent contrasts. On songs like “My Secret Reason,” soft, intricate arrangements surround her raw, whispery vocals and unflinching lyrics, making it even easier for them to get unsettlingly close to you. A largely autobiographical album about a girl’s emotional and sexual coming of age, each of Geek the Girl‘s songs — particularly the title track — fairly tremble with awkward sadness and self-discovery. Shimmering, hesitant songs like “Trouble” sound like they might float off the album, but Germano’s delivery of lyrics like “Little by little…