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VA – Halloween Nuggets: Monster Sixties a Go-Go (2014)
The folks at Rockbeat Records have gone deep, culling together nearly 100 ultra-rare, delightfully campy Halloween nuggets from the ’60s on this well-curated three-disc set. Don’t murder your next...
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Spooky Tooth – The Island Years (An Antology) 1967-1974 (2015)
The Island Years is a new comprehensive anthology featuring the work British rock band Spooky Tooth who released seven studio albums between 1968 and 1974. This new box set features all of those long...
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Unwound – Empire (2015)
Washington state post-hardcore outfit Unwound have been remembered with string of box set reissues from the Numero Group, and now the fourth and final collection in the campaign has been unveiled. This...
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The Danish Radio Big Band – A Good Time Was Had By All (2014)
To paraphrase Shakespeare, there is something rockin’ in the state of Denmark. It’s the Danish Radio Big Band, best of its kind in Europe, indeed — depending on who is conducting and the mood of the...
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The Legendary Pink Dots – The Maria Dimension: Complete Recordings (2015)
Formed in London in 1980, the Legendary Pink Dots moved to Amsterdam in the middle of the decade. Members throughout the band’s career have been Edward Ka-Spel (vocals, keyboards) and Phil Knight...
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Rüdiger Lorenz – The Syntape-Years 1981-83 (2015)
Rüdiger Lorenz is a german electronic Synthesist and inventor of several modular synthesizer systems. In the likes and manner of Conrad Schnitzler, Edgar Froese, Dieter Moebius and Hans Joachim...
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Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – See the Fire: Albums, Singles and BBC Recordings...
A band that mixed the stark, stern pulse of Joy Division with a Stranglers-styled gut punch, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry’s discography has experienced an embarrassment of riches since about 2002, with one...
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Yes – Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two (2015)
If ever there were too much of a good thing, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two by Yes is likely it. These seven complete shows on as many double-disc sets were recorded in Canada and the U.S....
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Eyeless in Gaza – Original Albums Collection (2014)
The two masterminds behind Eyeless in Gaza, Martyn Bates and Peter Becker, have made a career of releasing idiosyncratic music that is at times intriguing and frustrating; beguiling in its wistfulness....
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Robin Gibb – Saved By the Bell: The Collected Works of Robin Gibb 1968-1970...
A little known phase of the Bee Gees’ history is the late ’60s, when Robin Gibb left the band in a pique following the decision to banish his song “Lamplight” to the B-side of a single. Gibb pursued a...
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Phish – Amsterdam (2015)
On June 16, Phish release Amsterdam, a brand new eight-CD box set featuring three complete shows (February 17, July 1-2) recorded live at Paradiso in the Netherlands in 1997. On February 17, 1997 Phish...
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Slim Harpo – Buzzin’ the Blues: The Complete Slim Harpo (2015)
Slim Harpo had his first hit in 1961, the same year Jimmy Reed had his last. This isn’t entirely a coincidence. Harpo played a laconic blues shuffle seemingly influenced by Reed, but as M. Hawkins...
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Grace Jones – Disco (2015)
Three album collection Disco is the very beginning of her move from modelling to music, and whilst it doesn’t scale the heights she achieved later in her career, they do give a fascinating glimpse...
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Fotheringay – Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay (2015)
While Fairport Convention toiled, Fotheringay idled. While the band Sandy Denny left in the wake of 1969’s folk-rock landmark Liege and Lief gigged relentlessly, the group she put together with her...
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Judy Garland – The Garland Variations: Songs She Recorded More Than Once (2014)
Like so many of the great vocalists of her day, Judy Garland frequently revisited repertoire over the years. An arrangement might vary, in great or small ways, and so, of course, would the...
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Alan Gilbert & New York Philharmonic – Carl Nielsen: The Symphonies &...
Alan Gilbert’s super audio recordings of Carl Nielsen‘s symphonies and concertos with the New York Philharmonic are a major achievement, and DaCapo’s 2015 box set brings these exceptional live...
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Ministry – Trax! Box (2015)
Released by Cleopatra Records, the Ministry Trax! Box collects 12 inch singles, remixes, rarities, and previously unreleased material from Wax Trax!-era Ministry and Al Jourgensen-related side projects...
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Chuck Berry – Rock and Roll Music: Any Old Way You Choose It (2014)
There have been countless Chuck Berry compilations but never one like Bear Family’s Rock and Roll Music: Any Old Way You Choose It, a mammoth 16-disc box containing his complete recorded works for...
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Surgeon – Tresor 97-99 (2015)
Elegant functionality; slab weaving; the hidden hand; cleaving staves of measured detonation; exercises in fractal manipulation that hypnotise and move without a trace of bloat; music that comes in...
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Alien Sex Fiend – Classic Albums and BBC Sessions Collection (2015)
Alien Sex Fiend reared out of anarchic Soho hothouse The Batcave, the fabulously depraved early ’80s club night started by The Specimen and credited with kick-starting the movement that became diluted...
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