TAPSheet: Release Notes – 05/29/2013 (US Report)
With vinyl continuing its upward movement, expect to see more and more labels reaching into their vaults to reproduce some of the classics in remastered, and repackaged form along with…
Release Pieces: Loud Like Love, New Album From Placebo
Placebo, the London band, who received the 2009 MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative Band, last album was released in 2009. That album is Battle For The Sun, which…
TAPSheet: Release News – 05/23/2013 (US Report)
Rise Records will release a collection 3CD, 5LP set from the label that covers Rise Records’s 22 years. The sets, each called Rise 200, the label’s 200th release, are scheduled…
Release Pieces: The Cult Gets Electric Reissued With Original Peace Sessions Attached
On April 6, 1987, The Cult released their multi-million selling LP, Electric. That album, following hot on the heels of the band’s highly successful breakthrough album, Love (1985), would generate…
In Memoriam: Ray Manzarek (The Doors), Trevor Bolder (Bowie/Uriah Heep)
Two important member s of the Rock and Roll elite have left us for loftier plains over these last few days. And while no one member of that same elite…
Release Pieces: The Clash to Get Massive Box Release
The fine folks over at Legacy Recordings have assembled and announced the upcoming issue of Sound System, a 12-disc set (with cool stuff, too) featuring the music of The Clash.…
Blouse Makes Great ’80s-Styled Music
After their rave SXSW show back in 2012, the buzz began to build for the Portland, Oregon dream-pop band simply named Blouse. Headed by Charlie Hilton, who is a modern…
Review: Rainbow Melodies – Mellonta Tauta
Mellonta Tauta is an interesting term to be adopted by a band as its name. It means “things of the future”. It is also a short story by Edgar Allen…
Which Album(s) Have “Filler” Tracks?
Last week, we asked the question (and discussed) whether too many songs on an album encourages the failure of an album, or discourages the inclination for a listener to buy…
Review: Adam Green & Binki Shapiro
Sometimes, an album comes to my attention that you just can’t seem to find all the right words for it. Of course, I mean this in a good way (we…
TAPSheet: Release Pieces – 05/15/2013
There are several important releases that are coming down the road that should be addressed apart from the normal soup of 2 liner notations that we do here. The three…
Protected: Nilsson – The RCA Albums Collection Track-Listing
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