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Otis Redding – Live at the Whiskey A Go Go: The Complete Recordings (2016)
“We’re hoping that this be one of the greatest albums that ever come out.” Otis Redding says these words just before launching into “Respect” on April 8, 1966, wrapping up the first of seven sets he’d...
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The Alan Parsons Project – Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe...
The 3-CD box set has the original album remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road on one CD, and two additional CDs containing the 1987 remix and over 70 minutes of previously unreleased bonus tracks....
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Adrian Sherwood – Dread Operator: From the On U Sound Archives (2016)
The prolific and prodigious output of the Adrian Sherwood from the late ’70s right up to the dawning of Acid House presents the clearest stating of aims, ideals and sounds of the crossover between Punk...
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Tor Lundvall – Nature Laughs As Time Slips By (2016)
The music that the New Jersey-born ambient composer, painter and visual artist Tor Lundvall has made over the last 20 years reflects the muddled headspaces you find yourself in when you let yourself be...
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Bert Jansch – Living in the Shadows (2017)
Living in the Shadows is an apt title for this four-disc box set from Earth Recordings. Its subject, guitarist Bert Jansch, is a certified legend, world-renowned for his groundbreaking early solo...
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The Band – The Last Waltz [40 Anniversary Deluxe Box Set] (2016)
Four New 40th Anniversary Editions Of The Band’s Historic Final Concert, The Last Waltz, Including Collector’s Edition Boxed Set Featuring Never-Before-Seen Martin Scorsese Shooting Script. On...
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NRBQ – High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective (2016)
NRBQ have frequently been described as “America’s Greatest Bar Band,” but that says a bit more about their draw than the music they play. Active since 1966, NRBQ play music that fuses rock & roll,...
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Martha Argerich & Friends – Live from Lugano 2015 (2016)
The Lugano Festival in Switzerland is documented annually with a box set by Martha Argerich & Friends, containing their performances in various instrumental combinations. The three-CD package...
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Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band – Tensegrity (2016)
During the days leading up to the final concert of his 2014 residency in Krakow, Barry Guy rehearsed his hand-picked band through the score for his ambitious new work The Blue Shroud. But in the...
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Vangelis – Delectus: The Polydor & Vertigo Recordings 1973-1985 (2017)
Delectus features 13 Vangelis albums released between 1973 and 1985 for the Vertigo and Polydor labels. This includes studio creations like Earth (1973), China (1979), See You Later (1980), Soil...
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The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir (2017)
Stephin Merritt has never been afraid to think big, at least as far as his music is concerned, and his ad-hoc group the Magnetic Fields enjoyed their breakthrough with the wildly ambitious 1999 set 69...
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Thomas Dolby – Original Album Series (2016)
5CD set featuring the 1982 debut album ‘The Golden Age of Wireless’, ‘The Flat Earth’ (1984), ‘Aliens Ate My Buick’ (1988), ‘Astronauts & Heretics’ (1992) and the soundtrack to ‘Gothic’ (1987)....
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VA – Strictly Mood II Swing (2016)
The duo Mood II Swing‘s productions in the ’90s helped establish a style of house music — moody, colorful, and rhythmically inventive — that has had a profound impact on several successive generations...
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Lloyd Cole – In New York: Collected Recordings 1988-1996 (2017)
In New York: Collected Recordings 1988 – 1996, the new six-CD Lloyd Cole solo box include all four solo albums Lloyd released on the Polydor and Fontana labels between 1988 and 1996 (Lloyd Cole, Don’t...
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VA – New Order Presents: Be Music (2017)
For the four members of New Order, production and remix work had two benefits. First it allowed them to experiment with sounds and ideas on someone else’s time, stumbling upon innovations and folding...
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Joëlle Léandre – A Woman’s Work (2016)
How do you sum up the career of an improvising artist like Joëlle Léandre? Do you reissue a package of recordings from her 40 years of performance? That is probably not possible, given the multiple...
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Phish – St. Louis ’93 (2017)
…St. Louis ’93 collects official recordings of Phish’s two 1993 stops at the American Theatre in St. Louis. Both the April 14 and August 16 shows are fantastic and previously circulating audience...
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Neil Diamond – The 50th Anniversary Collection (2017)
Designed as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Neil Diamond’s first hit — “Solitary Man,” which made it to 55 in 1966, with “Cherry, Cherry” rocketing to number six not long afterward — the...
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Kitchens of Distinction – Watch Our Planet Circle (2017)
The six-CD set includes remastered versions of the band’s four studio albums (issued in the years between 1989 and 1996) along with discs devoted to B-sides and BBC Sessions. They shot themselves in...
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Philip Glass – The Complete Sony Recordings (2016)
In 1976, composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson executed an ingenious end-run around the cautious classical music establishment of their day. After a short workshop and tour in Europe, the...
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