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Frank Sinatra – A Voice On Air: 1935-1955 (2015)
Filling in a gap in Frank Sinatra’s history, Legacy’s 2015 box A Voice on Air collects over 100 radio broadcasts recorded between 1935 and 1955. This is the first collection to chronicle this era —...
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Jerry Lee Lewis – At Sun Records: The Collected Works “What the Hell Else Do...
Sam Phillips didn’t record anybody else the way he recorded Jerry Lee Lewis. With other artists, he pushed and prodded, taking his time to discover the qualities that made them uniquely human, but with...
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André Stordeur – Complete Analog and Digital Electronic Music 1978-2000 (2015)
Another installment in Sub Rosa’s Early Electronic series: the complete works, for the most part previously unreleased, by a key composer of Belgian electronic music. André Stordeur‘s musical career...
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VA – Say I’m Your Number One: Stock Aitken Waterman Singles Box Set (2015)
Say I’m Your Number One: Stock Aitken Waterman Singles Box Set is a new 31 CD collection that celebrates the work of late ’80s songwriting and production team Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman....
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The Bolshoi – 5 Albums (2015)
Resplendent in spiky goth mullets and led by unpromisingly-named singer-guitarist Trevor Tanner, the Bolshoi burst out of Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 1984. Their debut single ‘Sob Story’ was an...
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John Williams – Star Wars: The Ultimate Soundtrack Collection (2016)
With the mammoth cultural fanfare surrounding the release of The Force Awakens, the timing for a massive reissue was a good idea. Star Wars: The Ultimate Soundtrack Collection is a monster: 11 discs...
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Tangerine Dream – The Official Bootleg Series Volume One: Reims Cathedral...
Formed in Berlin in September 1967 by Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream are simply one of the most important groups to have emerged on the German music scene of the late 1960s / early 1970s. Always guided...
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Cecil Taylor – The Complete Cecil Taylor in Berlin ’88 (2015)
One of the more famous descriptions of Cecil Taylor’s piano playing compares his sound to someone playing “88 tuned drums,” and it’s true — his all-over-the-instrument dexterity is a physical marvel....
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Otis Redding – Soul Manifesto: 1964-1970 (2015)
Otis Redding’s best-known song is the dreamy, kick-your-shoes-off-and-relax “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” which can conjure up the feel of a lazy afternoon no matter what kind of weather is...
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Gong – The Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy (2015)
For the first time ever, Gong’s quintessential trilogy comprised of the albums ‘Flying Teapot’, ‘Angels Egg’ and ‘You’ are newly remastered from the original tapes and gathered together in a lavish...
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VA – Back to the River: More Southern Soul Stories 1961-1978 (2015)
The heart of black American music beats somewhere in that nation’s southern states. Whether it was Memphis or Alabama’s Muscle Shoals that produced the greatest blend of blues, gospel and the dash of...
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Evan Parker, Eddie Prévost, John Edwards – 3 Nights at Cafe Oto (2015)
When generations meet, wisdom usually gets passed in one direction or the other, and avant-garde musicians are no exception. Ken Vandermark has shared a conversation he had with percussionist Paul...
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Guided By Voices – Suitcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War (2015)
Four-CD box set Captain Kangaroo Won the War features 100 tracks of Robert Pollard-penned demos, alternate takes, B-sides and more, with its reach stretching across 20 years of the songwriter’s career....
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Miles Davis – The Last Word: The Warner Bros. Years (2015)
Perhaps even more so than his ’70s fusion period, trumpeter Miles Davis’ recordings for Warner Bros. from the ’80s sharply divided audiences. If 1970’s Bitches Brew forced jazz fans to take sides in...
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Iggy Pop – Psychosonic Medicine (2015)
There’s a reason why many consider Iggy Pop the godfather of punk: every single punk band of the past and present has either knowingly or unknowingly borrowed a thing or two from Pop and his...
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The Staple Singers – Faith and Grace: A Family Journey 1953-1976 (2015)
Faith & Grace: A Family Journey 1953-1976 isn’t career-spanning, as stated by the Concord label. The proof is right there, in the title. Throughout the latter part of the ’70s and during the...
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Harry Chapin – The Elektra Collection 1971-1978 (2015)
Harry Chapin didn’t spend his entire career on Elektra Records, but the years during which he found his most significant commercial success were most definitely during the Elektra era, starting with...
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VA – Parallelogram (2015)
Three Lobed Recordings operates from the brightly lit basement of a one-floor midcentury home in a quiet subdivision of modest ranches outside of Greensboro, the third largest city in North Carolina....
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Jah Wobble – Redux: Anthology 1978-2015 (2015)
Bass player, singer, composer, and poet, over a 36- year career in music John Wardle AKA Jah Wobble has carved a reputation as “a true maverick” (The Guardian), “wildly eclectic” (Uncut), and one of...
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Skeletal Family – Eternal: Singles, Albums, Rarities, BBC Sessions, Live,...
Fronted by glamorous singer Anne-Marie Hurst, The Skeletal Family were at the forefront of the goth rock movement of the ’80s. Compiled with the full involvement of the band, who have opened up their...
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