… includes three CDs: the original mixes on CD1, the 2026 remix on CD2, and a third disc of completely unreleased studio tracks and outtakes like “Sad Suit” and “Aborted Soliloquy”, alongside live performances from their 2000 tour.
Released in 1999, J-Tull Dot Com was Jethro Tull’s 20th studio album. Anderson and company navigated the 1980s well, but the ’90s proved to have new obstacles, with CDs, the beginning of bands using the internet and a new bass player (Jonathon Noyce). Martin Barre (guitars, backing vocals) and Ian Anderson remained the core of the band with Doane Perry (drums) and Andrew Giddings (keyboards) who had been with the band since 1984 and 1991, respectively, at this point. And yet, make no mistake,…
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…remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road. A 2CD deluxe edition offers an interesting selection of bonus tracks (20 in total) including previously unreleased David Kosten mixes of some album tracks, unheard demos and BBC live sessions and recordings.
Starsailor was already a critic’s darling in the band’s native England during mid-2001, and the group’s painfully melodic debut, Love Is Here, poised the band to rise in the shadows of Doves, Coldplay, and Travis. Starsailor, however, isn’t as polished as its counterparts, but that’s not to say Love Is Here isn’t a beautiful piece of work. It’s less lilting than Coldplay’s Parachutes, and frontman James Walsh’s aching vocals shape his angularity as a singer/songwriter. Starsailor is…
…This deluxe version remasters the original album (or perhaps more accurately, masters it for the first time) and offers a whopping thirteen bonus tracks of never-before-heard songs, alternate versions, and demos.
Boston’s Horse Jumper of Love are a self- proclaimed “slow rock” trio that, despite declaring themselves a band, more strongly resemble a solo project. A few years into their career, the group’s already busted into the top tier of the Boston house show scene — a considerable accomplishment for any young rock band, considering the scene’s predilections towards snoozy folk and hostile hardcore. But while Horse Jumper of Love’s live performances recall the low, slow burn of bands like Silver Jews and Arab Strap,…
It appears that much of Three Dog Night’s catalogue has quietly moved to Primary Wave Music; now comes a new physical release on CD and vinyl of the band’s fifth album, 1971’s Harmony. It features two top ten hits: Paul Williams’ “An Old Fashioned Love Song” and Hoyt Axton’s “Never Been to Spain.” Harmony has been remastered for this release.
The release of Harmony in the fall of 1971 gave Three Dog Night their seventh gold record in less than three years, yielding two Top Ten singles with Paul William’s “Old Fashioned Love Song” (number four) and Hoyt Axton’s “Never Been to Spain” (number five). In addition, William’s “Family of Man” would just fail to crack the top of the charts, rising as high as number 12 by March of 1972.
Before his death in 2012, American singer/songwriter Terry Callier experienced a career resurgence in the U.K. where he was championed by artists ranging from Paul Weller and Beth Orton to Massive Attack and Michael Kiwanuka. BBE’s Live Peace is drawn from two intimate live performances from the period at The Yardbird Suite/The Underground, both in Leeds, in 1998 and 2001, backed by his Family Band: guitarist Jim Mullen, keyboardist Chris Kibble, drummer Nic France, bassist Dave Barnard, Brazilian percussionist Bosco D’Oliveira and saxophonist/flutist Gary Plumley. The shows were taped by Martin Dixon who created desk reference cassettes. They were restored using AI-assisted audio tools and assembled by Greg Boraman of Impressive Collective.
In 1995, amidst the alternative rock-osphere of sincere boys with angst to spare, entered Ben Folds Five. The misnomered trio of Ben Folds on piano and vocals, Robert Sledge on bass, and Darren Jessee on drums, Ben Folds Five interjected a bit of much-needed whimsy into a scene that was rapidly becoming stale. The band’s debut album was an explosion of pop-filled tunefulness, endearing silliness, and musical jubilance that set the band apart from its peers and catapulted them into the limelight.
Now, upon the 30th anniversary of Ben Folds Five’s eponymous release (or the 31st anniversary to be exact), the band’s vaunted debut is being reissued, on double vinyl and CD, with a special bonus. Before the band recorded…
The 20th anniversary of Bob Seger‘s acclaimed 2006 album Face the Promise is being celebrated with a vinyl release. Newly remastered by longtime Seger mastering engineer Robert Vosgien, the Expanded Edition features four bonus tracks—“Time,” “Little Jane,” “Red Eye to Memphis,” and “Let Me Try”
Originally released on September 12, 2006, Face The Promise marked Seger’s 16th studio album and came over a decade after his previous effort, It’s A Mystery. The album includes the hit singles “Wait for Me” and “Wreck This Heart.”
Another highlight is “The Answer’s In The Question,” Seger’s duet with Patty Loveless, who he helped induct into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2023.
The CD features the full concert remixed and remastered from the original multi-track master tapes and restored to its original running order and released for the very first time.
Includes live versions of the hit singles ‘New Song’, ‘What Is Love?’, ‘Hide And Seek’, ‘Pearl In The Shell’ and ‘Like To Get To Know You Well’ plus Howard’s previously unreleased version of the Xmas favourite ‘Ding Dong Merrily On High’, sung to the backbeat of his hit single ‘New Song’.
This ‘restored’ live in concert performance by Howard Jones is being released on DVD for the first time.
Also includes a version of the track ‘Human’s Lib’ featuring Howard’s full spoken introduction entitled ‘The Story Of Ruth, David and Dennis’.
The David Bowie estate is going back toward the beginning of the late singer’s career, focusing on his early days as a blues interpreter with a famous British producer. The Shel Talmy Recordings collects 22 recordings the then-unknown musician recorded with producer Talmy during 1965, when he was a member of bands The Manish Boys and The Lower Third. Only four of these tracks were released at the time as singles, with another seven alternate and outtake versions turning up on compilations over the years; that of course makes 10 tracks debuting here on this package – including lead track “I Want Your Love.”
Still a year from changing his stage name to “Bowie” – “Davy Jones,” of course, would be well spoken for by The Monkees in 1966, and that…
…features previously unreleased tracks, B-sides and remixes from The Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Jagz Kooner, and Two Lone Swordsmen.
Whenever indie music seems lost in its own self-righteous, unchallenging, inoffensive fundament, Primal Scream rides in to try and save it all. So just as Screamadelica tried to encapsulate the importance of ecstasy culture, or Vanishing Point tried to exorcise their own insanity, here XTRMNTR is a nasty, fierce realization of an entire world that has also lost the plot. The album starts with a gloriously vindictive sample of a kid commanding “Kill All Hippies,” and this roughly states the album’s modus operandi. There are songs shouting with furious, feedback-splayed anger (“Blood Money,” “Exterminator”), songs…
Thirty-plus years later, the last two albums by the original Pixies lineup, Bossanova and Trompe le Monde, occupy a strange place in the band’s canon, more highly regarded than their later releases but rarely seen as the equal of their earlier work. These new remasters are available on CD and in a limited-edition vinyl with a bonus 7” of previously unreleased songs and offer an ideal opportunity to reevaluate the albums on their own merits; short version, they stand up pretty well.
Back in 1990, it seemed like the Pixies were on the verge of a commercial breakthrough, but that never really happened. Instead, Bossanova offered a softer, glossier and more conventional take on the Pixies sound at just the point when bass player Kim Deal’s other band the Breeders had…
…Sourced from the original analog tapes and mastered by engineer Rob LoVerde.
It would be tempting to scour No. 4, Scott Weiland’s reunion with Stone Temple Pilots, for insights into his troubles, yet the group consciously avoids this throughout the album. That’s for the best, since it’s their hardest effort since their debut, Core. “Down” and “Heaven & Hot Rods” provide a powerful, brutal opening for No. 4 — it’s as if STP decided to compete directly with the new generation of alt-metal bands who prize aggression over hooks or riffs. With these two songs, the band’s attack is as vicious as that of the new generation, but they retain their gift for gargantuan hooks. Much of the album hits pretty hard — most explicitly on “No Way Out,”…
…completely remastered by acclaimed audio engineer Leon Zervos at Studio 301 and features three early recordings that originally appeared on the band’s rare, self-titled Australian ”JBT’ EP.
Three opens with the distinctive fingerpicked, slide-driven guitar that becomes the canvas for the remainder of the record. Joined by Rory Quirk on bass and Jason McGann on drums, the trio delivers an emotionally charged romp through ten tracks of earthy, bluesy jam band intonations.
Paying homage to his Australian roots, the inclusion of the didgeridoo in the backdrop of several tracks plays nicely against his six-string grooves. The most accessible and shortest song on the record, “Pickapart,” shows off Butler’s picking prowess on an amplified 12-string…
Remastered by Atsushi Izumi.
Regis‘ early music will always loom large in techno. His searing records on Downwards, the label he started with Female, helped define what became known as the Birmingham Sound. As a member of Sandwell District, he’s partly responsible for the sleek and spacey style that prevailed in techno clubs in the ’00s.
Influential as those sounds were, though, his music from the last decade feels closer to his personal essence as an artist. Manbait, a collection of remixes from 2010 to 2015, teased out the lifelong love of post-punk and industrial that had always set him apart. Hidden in This Is the Light That You Missed carries on along the same path, delivering nine cuts of elegantly reduced…
…The album has been newly remastered and cut directly from the analog master tapes.
It starts with a crackle of feedback shooting from speaker to speaker and a voice intoning, “Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, for y’all have knocked her up” and talking about rising “above it all or drown in my own sh*t.” This could only have been utterly bizarre back in 1971 and it’s no less so decades later; though the Mothership was well on its way already, Maggot Brain really helped it take off. The instrumental title track is the key reason to listen, specifically for Eddie Hazel’s lengthy, mind-melting solo. George Clinton famously told Hazel to play “like your momma had just died,” and the resulting evocation of melancholy and sorrow doesn’t merely rival…
…The second disc introduces 3 brand-new studio recordings from the band — their first newly minted studio material in over two decades — including a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on the Wire” and Melissa Etheridge’s “Stronger Than Me”. The bonus collection is rounded out by a selection of live performances dating from both their original 1970s touring era and recent 2025 concerts.
The reason that The Roaring Silence became Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s best-selling album may have been because of both Bruce Springsteen-penned singles, but its instrumental makeup, by way of Mann’s keyboard manipulation coupled with Chris Thompson’s chiseled singing, had just as much of an affect. “Blinded By the Light” and “Spirit in the Night” gave the band hits…
…La-La Land’s latest CD expansion of scores from the long-running film series based on Ian Fleming’s British agent 007 comes not from the ’60s or ’70s, but the last decade. LLL has remastered their first Bond score from the Daniel Craig era in 2015’s Spectre, available as a 2CD edition featuring a generously expanded edition of Thomas Newman’s score for the picture along with some album edits and alternate material. For Craig’s fourth time in the tux, the series continued the surprisingly serial direction it had taken since 2006’s reboot Casino Royale. After the loss of M (Judi Dench) in 2012’s Skyfall, Bond once again confronts dark aspects of his past when he discovers that previous adversaries had all been agents of a larger organization of villainy, run by…
…10th anniversary deluxe remaster features the original 9 tracks (remastered) along with 5 previously unreleased bonus tracks.
Devil Is Fine serves as Manuel Gagneux’s debut release through this one-man project, as he smashes extreme music against African American spirituals alongside a lullaby-inducing electro triptych.
Black metal is perverted through Come On Down’s tremolo-picked fury and shrieking, but then it’s into gorgeous blues croons, classic metal riffing, and back to Satan squeezing Manuel’s knackersack. Whether the genres run in tandem or successively, the blend’s never jarring. Children’s Summon is basically In Flames at their melodeath best channelling Rotting Christ.
