Discoveries: Wet – Brooklyn (NYC)
I love stumbling across good talent. The bad thing is that it takes some hours to follow threads, listening to unimaginable junk, all just to look for a track that…
The Black Angels Record Store Day Exclusive, Clear Lake Forest, To Get Re-Released
Record Store Day can be quite a frenzy especially if there is a title that you’re wanting. But if you get there even a minute after the suggested time for…
SACDs From Japan Are Plentiful
I realize that not everyone who reads these pages are interested in specialty products. By those, I usually mean LPs and SACDs. Although, interestingly, many are very interested in BD-Audio.…
50th Anniversary Beatles Set, The Japan Box, Arrives In US In July
Capitol Records have set July 15 as the US release date for The Japan Box, a set containing 5CDs that include Japanese versions of Meet the Beatles, The Beatles’ Second…
TAPSheet: Vinyl Release Notes – 05/30/2014 (US Report)
Some new vinyl LP reissues and releases that have made it to new calendars on labels are as follows: Rhino and Parlophone will reissue Rio (1982) by Duran Duran on…
TAPSheet: Release Notes – 05/29/2014 (US Report)
Rhino Records plan a 3CD collection for Herbie Hancock called The Warner Brothers Years (1969-1972). The set is scheduled for July 22. TRACKS CD 1: 01 Wiggle Waggle 02 Fat…
New West To Release New John Hiatt Album, Terms Of My Surrender, In July
From the strange marketing as a viable alternative to Elvis Costello with MCA’s release of Slug Line (1979), to his most notable song, “Have A Little Faith In Me”, John…
Ace Frehley To Release New Solo Effort, Space Invader
Although the sun has set on Ace Frehley’s active participation in KISS (other than as an immutable founding member of the storied institution), it certainly doesn’t mean that he has…
2CD Marillion Live Set To Arrive In July
What can be said about a band that never quite made the mainstream and yet holds the rapt attention of so many music fans? That’s the legacy of Marillion, a…
There Are But Four Small Faces To Be Reissued In June
The Small Faces, buoyed by the ‘ahead of their time’ manic genius of Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Ian McLagan, formed in 1965. At that point, there was…
Review: Days Of Abandon – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
For the first album by NYC’s fine, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, the band offered a raucous collection of fast moving songs with a dream-pop vocal sound. Released…
Cocteau Twins Classics, Blue Bell Knoll, Heaven Or Las Vegas, To Be Reissued On Remastered 180g Vinyl
Cocteau Twins, a Scottish band from the tail end of the 70s, with their highly original form of music that included the elusive soprano-voice of Elizabeth Fraser, was, in essence,…