Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology With Two Bonus Tracks
Brian Wilson is one of Rock’s most enigmatic personalities. Not only did he energize The Beach Boys, bur he also brought plenty of excitement over to his solo efforts. His…
Focus To Get Career Spanning13CD Box Set, Hocus Pocus Box
Focus was one of those rare progressive bands blending unconventional Rock n Roll styles, and still get an edited Top 10 hit single out of it. While “Hocus Pocus”, with…
Final Two ELP Remasters, Black Moon, and In The Hot Seat, Planned For July
Not long ago, a revitalized BMG label began to reissue remastered and expanded ELP titles. To date, they’ve moved through Love Beach (which released on May 26 along with both…
Def Leppard Classic, Hysteria, To Get 30th Anniversary Sets
The interest surrounding the young band, Def Leppard, was near a fever pitch on radios and written media. The band, which formed in 1977, had a drummer, aged fifteen, and…
Ramones Classic, Leave Home, To Get 40th Anniversary Treatment
Following up a great debut like Ramones, released in 1976, was always going to be a trick. That album generated not only a fourteen track classic running just under 30…
New Alice Cooper Album, Paranormal, Supplies Three Cuts With Original Band – In July
Alice Cooper is a unique part of Rock and Roll. When the original five recorded machine gun style, they recorded some fine material. Not counting their first two, starting with…
Newly Discovered Dan Fogelberg Tape Yields Live At Carnegie Hall
Much of Dan Fogelberg’s releases have come to us via Epic Records (or Full Moon, a subsidiary of Epic). And, of course, everyone will have their all-time favorite Dan Fogelberg…
Massive Kraftwerk Box of Recorded ‘Full Album’ Concerts, 3-D The Catalogue (and More)
Kraftwerk emerged back in the ’70s with their groundbreaking Pop/Synth Top40 song, “Autobahn”. The song captured the evolving times of Rock with an uncanny ability to be able to do…
2001 David Byrne Austin City Limits Performance To Be Issued On CD/DVD, and LP.
From Austin City Limits, New West Records will release a CD/DVD, and separately available 2LP Live set from a 2001 show performed by David Byrne, the estranged leader of Talking…
40th Anniversary 3CD/2DVD SW Remix Of Jethro Tull’s Songs From The Wood In May
One of the great pieces of news to arise at the end of last week were the release date and specs for the Steven Wilson remix of Songs From The…
New Order To Release Live Set, NOMC15, in May
Fans of New Order (previously Joy Division, in case you didn’t know) will be pleased to find that the band will be releasing a new Live set featuring eighteen performance…
Vinyl Turns To CD: Neil Young ORS 5-8, ORS 8.5-12 To Issue In CD Boxes
When it comes to audio perfection, we have no greater stickler in the profession than Neil Young. The digital world has long been a thorn in Young’s side. He held…