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VA – Beyond the Pale Horizon: British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1972 (2021)
Another captivating entry into their year-specific archival series, Grapefruit Records offers up Beyond the Pale Horizon: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1972. Arguing that 1972 was the year that...
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VA – Caught Beneath the Landslide: The Other Side of Britpop and the ’90s (2021)
While working as a photographer for NME during the first half of the ’90s, Kevin Cummins was charged with documenting the Brit-pop scene, and his images helped popularize a wide range of groups. His...
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Lee Morgan – The Complete Live at the Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach California...
Suffice to say that if Blue Note’s original Live at The Lighthouse (1970) lit a fire under you and all the subsequent expanded iterations did nothing to douse said flames, this definitive final word...
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London Boys – Requiem: The London Boys Story (2021)
…5-disc box set, featuring three albums, expanded with a host of extra material. Edem Ephraim and Dennis Fuller, both true Londoners from the east end, were christened The London Boys in 1986....
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Be Bop Deluxe – Live! In the Air Age (2021)
Esoteric Recordings release a new re-mastered super-deluxe expanded boxed set limited edition release of Live! In The Air Age by Be Bop Deluxe. This legendary live album was released in July 1977 and...
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Phyllis Hyman – Old Friend: The Deluxe Collection 1976-1998 (2021)
“Phyllis sat right in my class. I can still see the pigtails.” In an 2016 interview, Thom Bell shared his earliest memories of the late Phyllis Hyman (1949-1995). The...
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Mose Allison – The Complete Atlantic/Elektra Albums 1962-1983 (2021)
Over a career spanning more than 50 years, Mississippi-born pianist-singer-songwriter Mose Allison (1927-2016) was one of the most influential figures in jazz and modern blues. The self-described...
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Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile – Snark Horse (2021)
Snark Horse, the duo of pianist/keyboardist Matt Mitchell and drummer Kate Gentile, releases an epic 6 CD-box set that brims with astoundingly intricate rhythms and textures as well as plenty of freely...
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Metallica – Metallica [Remastered Deluxe Box Set] (2021)
It was the blockbuster breakthrough album that transformed Metallica into the Mount Rushmore of heavy rock, a monumental career peak that the black-clad post-thrash overlords would arguably never...
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Help Yourself – Passing Through: The Complete Studio Recordings (2021)
Help Yourself was formed in London in 1970, originally as a backing band for singer-songwriter Malcolm Morley and took their influences from American West Coast Country and Acid Rock. After Morley...
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Van der Graaf Generator – The Charisma Years 1970–1978 (2021)
English prog rock band Van Der Graaf‘s entire recorded work for Charisma Records is being released in a 17CD+3 x blu-ray box set. This package features remastered albums, bonus tracks, BBC sessions,...
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VA – I’m a Freak Baby 3: A Further Journey Through the British Heavy Psych...
Following the success of the first two volumes of the series I’m A Freak Baby, Grapefruit returns with a third instalment of pioneering hard rock sounds from the nascent British underground. As with...
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Sex Pistols – 76-77 (2021)
76/77 is a new four-CD box set featuring recordings of the Sex Pistols before the release of Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols in 1977. The set features 80 alternate versions of tracks...
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VA – Gary Crowley’s Lost 80s Vol. 2 (2021)
The follow up the successful ‘Gary Crowley’s lost 80s‘ Released in 2019. “I count myself incredibly lucky when I think back to my 1980’s. A lot of those bands and artists that resonated with me during...
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Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir – I Shall Wear a Crown (2021)
Some may know the Chicago pastor only as the source of Kanye’s “Father Stretch My Hands.” Documenting his ’70s fusions of gospel, funk, and soul, Numero Group’s box set captures the full sweep of his...
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Grateful Dead – Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 12/10/71 (2021)
One of the shortest-lived iterations of the Grateful Dead was the band that existed December 1971 through March 1972. Jerry, Bob, Phil, Bill, Pigpen, and Keith formed a formidable version of the Dead...
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Aztec Camera – Backwards and Forwards: The WEA Recordings 1984-1995 (2021)
If one is prone to listening to the rock critic establishment, Aztec Camera released one classic album (1982’s High Land, Hard Rain), then squandered their potential over a course of disappointing...
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VA – Disco 75 (2021)
Before it was sanitized, homogenized, and over-produced for mass consumption, disco simply classified a broad variety of R&B-rooted music spun by DJs at underground clubs hosting predominantly...
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Grateful Dead – Listen to the River: St. Louis ’71 ’72 ’73 (2021)
…Listen to the River: St. Louis ’71 ’72 ’73 brings together a slew of previously unreleased concerts recorded on December 9 & 10, 1971 in St. Louis, Missouri at the Fox Theatre; October 17-19, 1972...
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The Sweet Inspirations – Let It Be Me: The Atlantic Recordings (1967-1970)...
Cissy Houston, Myrna Smith, Sylvia Shemwell, and Estelle Brown had deep separate and shared histories when they became the Sweet Inspirations in 1967. That April, hot off backing Aretha Franklin and...
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