Another magnificent CORSAIR reissue, Alpha Centauri , is scheduled for release through Shadow Kingdom Records on July 8th . Quietly arriving onto the scene in 2010, Alpha Centauri is CORSAIR's first EP and constitutes the foundation of what would be in the coming years a classic Progressive Rock / Heavy Metal band. Heavily rooted in the sounds of classic 70's Rock and Metal, the EP has splashes of just about every 70's [...]
It's much easier, nearly four decades later, to separate the music from the moment when it comes to Wings Over America. Back then, this multi-disc concert souvenir from Paul McCartney seemed like a triumphant musical summation. In stark contrast to his modern-day globe-trotting ways, McCartney hadn't at this point toured America in 10 years - and those concerts dated to [...]
Arriving in a period in which Yes wasn't doing studio work, and including contributions from no less than five musicians with ties to the band, the comparisons for Circa came early and often. A new reissue from Cleopatra underscores the differences. "Don't Let Go," despite all of that, has a stuttering complexity, this mathematical portent, that was Circa's own. And [...]
The turn of the millennium was a time of artistic resurgence for UK guitar lord Allan Holdsworth; with its stripped down arrangements and group improvisational freedom, Holdsworth got more from less out of Sixteen Men of Tain (2000). For his follow-up the next year, AH went even angular, crafting an album almost entirely on his own, providing all the instrumentation [...]
Outlaw country three years before RCA named it There may never have been as iconoclastic a country artist as David Allan Coe. Though his rejection of Nashville norms drew parallels with the outlaw movement, he always seemed a notch wilder and less predictable than Waylon, Willie and the boys. Reared largely in reform schools and prisons through his late-20s, his bluesy 1969 debut, Penitentiary Blues , didn't predict his turn to country, but certainly showed off the outspoken songwriting that would sustain his career. At turns, Coe was a [...]
First time released on LP, with seven bonus tracks. The post The Mountain Goats to reissue All Hail West Texas appeared first on Treble: Music news, reviews, interviews and more .
R.E.M.'s major label debut, Green , was released on Election Day in 1988. It was a canny move from a political band, making their mark on the public consciousness on the very day the Reagan administration turned into the first Bush administration. The record also happened to be the band's entry into the big leagues, going from a small-town Southern band with a knack for jangle guitar and art-punk posturing into a world conquering behemoth that would become one of the most popular bands of the 902s. While the album itself is [...]
The 10th anniversary reissue of Four Tet's classic third album shines a needed light on one of the great achievements in recent electronic music history. By 1996, DJ Shadow gave the world a utopia of sampled hip-hop in Endroducing... . By 1998, Boards of Canada had perfected IDM with Music Has the Right to Children , and by 2000, Kid A produced a dystopia of electronic/rock hybridization unparalleled by anything before or since. [...]
The last recordings of an early rock legend had none of the crunchy grit of "Dizzy Miss Lizzy." Instead, Larry Williams reimagined his sound (and with "Bony Moronie," one of his most famous songs) as ass-shaking 1970s funk bombs. The New Orleans-born Williams, who would be dead of a gunshot wound by 1980, had already made a sweeping impact on [...]
This imminently listenable brand of no-frills rock might have sold in any decade. But only in the 1980s, a period marked by a steep swing rightward after the polyester era's excesses, could Huey Lewis and the News have been such big stars. Their sound, a combination of early rock (they even prominently featured a sax!), doo wop and slickster R&B, [...]
If 19872s Document heralded the moment when R.E.M. started to get away from us, the follow up Green confirmed things: This wasn't going to be our little secret anymore. Still, for all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth among the college-radio hipsters (ahem!), Green was really more of a bridge between the two worlds than a destination. Sure, tracks [...]
Tonight Spinal Tap is gonna rock you tonight -- on vinyl! The post This is Spinal Tap to get vinyl reissue appeared first on Treble: Music news, reviews, interviews and more .
Despite the tortured history surrounding this release, something that ultimately mangled its original, rather Lovecraft-ian storyline, Imaginos might just be the best full-length Blue Oyster Cult ever did. Thoughtful, yet very heavy, this major-label swan song - newly polished up by Real Gone Music, with a well-researched essay that tries to sort everything out - ultimately makes almost no sense [...]
Despite the tortured history surrounding this release, something that ultimately mangled its original, rather Lovecraft-ian storyline, Imaginos might just be the best full-length Blue Oyster Cult ever did. Thoughtful, yet very heavy, this major-label swan song - newly polished up by Real Gone Music, with a well-researched essay that tries to sort everything out - ultimately makes almost no sense [...]
First three titles out this month. The post Spacemen 3 catalog to be reissued appeared first on Treble: Music news, reviews, interviews and more .
This is a first-time CD reissue in any form of Sam The Sham’s fine 1971 solo album, originally released on Atlantic Records and produced by the legendary Tom Dowd at Criteria Studios in Miami - plus as a bonus the non-album single, Janis Joplin’s country-flavored "Me and Bobby McGee." Sam actually earned a 1971 Grammy for best liner notes, too. [...]
When last we discussed Superior Viaduct 's excellent series of reissues, we were talking about The Urinals ' "commercial" name changer 100 Flowers LP. Well, for Record Store Day, Superior Viaduct put out a deluxe vinyl bundle of three Urinals 7-inches on sexy colored vinyl (with an optional Sex 7-inch t-shirt). This is a mail-order exclusive, and not available in stores. Here is a track off the 1st 7-inch. Listen. Streamable: Hologram (soundcloud) Track Listing: [...]
At the time, punk was thought of as the fast and rough stuff, with classic rock geezers like Ritchie Blackmore already relegated to the dustbin of history. Hardly. Rainbow's molten Live in Munich, recorded in 1977, zips along at a blinding pace. All these years - and a couple of previous reissues later - Live in Munich 1977 (due in [...]
This is the Almost Hit from Midnight Oil's Diesel and Dust, which is primarily remembered for the Top 20 smash "Beds Are Burning," but in many ways "The Dead Heart" always felt like the better song to me. Both tracks, featured in the forthcoming career-spanning 36-track Essential Oils, share the topic of reparations for native peoples (I still marvel over [...]
Originally only available as a hand-made fan-club item, Captain Beyond's 1973 concert with King Crimson had become something of a legend - a poorly heard, pieced-together legend. But a legend, nevertheless. This forthcoming reissue shows why. Featuring former members of Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly and Johnny Winters' band, the all-star Captain Beyond wasn't around long enough to match those antecedent [...]
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