Clik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Live at Woodstock
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - LIVE AT WOODSTOCK The great American band in 1969Overdrive and relentlessness define the great American band’s 1969 festival appearanceApparently, Creedence Clearwater...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Tunnelvision - Watching the Hydroplanes
TUNNELVISION - WATCHING THE HYDROPLANES Factory Records footnotes get the album they deserveFactory Records footnotes finally get the album they deserveA ghostly voice pronounces “there’s no need to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Slade - Feel The Noize
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: SLADE - FEEL THE NOIZE The great British popsters' singles in a boxThe great British popsters' singles in a boxOriginal UK pressings of Slade’s Seventies mega-hit singles like “Coz...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Caravan
Box set shows that the malleable Canterbury outfit are still valuedLast week in central London, the Covent Garden branch of the book and music chain Fopp was selling CD sets branded as “5 Classic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Beatles - Abbey Road
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: THE BEATLES - ABBEY ROAD Fifty years on, the last album The Fabs recorded is remodelledFifty years on, the last album The Fabs recorded is remodelledAmongst the issues integral to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Daisy Age
Compilation celebrating hip hop’s most magpie-minded chapterIn the lyrics of 1989’s “Doin’ Our Own Dang”, Jungle Brothers’ Mike D noted his combo were “Breaking the beat others wished they broke.”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Hollywood Stars - Sound City
Unreleased 1976 album revealed as unlikely pointer towards hair metalThe Hollywood Stars were not shy.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Dip - Ḣ-Camp Meets Lo-Fi
Collaboration between former Sugarcube and the evolving Jóhann Jóhannsson subverts expectationsThe temptation with the 20th anniversary reissue of Ḣ-Camp Meets Lo-Fi (Explosion Picture Score) is to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British...
THE KINKS - ARTHUR OR THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Definitive 50th anniversary edition of an ever-wonderful albumBox set 50th-anniversary edition is the last word on an ever-wonderful...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Raincoats
Still-vital debut album reaches its 40th anniversaryRough Trade’s first album was Stiff Little Fingers’s Inflammable Material.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Gene Clark - No Other
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: GENE CLARK - NO OTHER Deep-digging revisitation of one of the pre-punk Seventies' best albumsDeep-digging revisitation of one of the pre-punk Seventies' best albumsThree years after...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Yesterday Has Gone - The Songs of Teddy Randazzo
THE SONGS OF TEDDY RANDAZZO Recognition for the bold American musical stylistRecognition for the bold American musical stylist“It's Gonna Take a Miracle” just missed out on a mainstream US Top 40...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Clash - London Calling
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: THE CLASH - LONDON CALLING Legendary third album by the Westway Wonders revived on cassetteThe cassette rematerialises for the 40th anniversary of Strummer and co’s breakthrough...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Mighty Baby - At a Point Between Fate and Destiny
All-encompassing tribute to the freak-era band derailed by its spiritualityIf the prices fetched by original pressings are a guide, Mighty Baby are notable. Their eponymous first album, issued by the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Mercury Rev - All is Dream
Expanded reissue of the 2001 album tells a new storyIn the liner notes to the new reissue of 2001’s All is Dream, Mercury Rev’s Jonathan Donahue says it is “a weird astral album musically, and yes the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Volume 5
After 15 years, the classic compilation series returns“I was just released from the hospital…the doctor told me that the medicine can’t do me no good. They told me what I have is beyond medical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Jim Sullivan
Revealed: what came before and after the belatedly lauded ‘U.F.O.’ albumHugh Hefner established Playboy Records in 1972 as an arm of his male-targeted business empire. Amongst the singles issued in its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Big Front Yard
Lost but marvellous Malvern mid-Seventies band are finally heardIn June 1978, the still-extant independent label Cherry Red issued its first record. The seven-inch featured three slices of terse,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Best of 2019
BEST OF 2019: REISSUE CDS ‘The Daisy Age’, ‘Diggin’ in the Goldmine - Dutch Beat Nuggets’ and ‘Peter Laughner’ set the bar high‘The Daisy Age’, ‘Diggin’ in the Goldmine - Dutch Beat Nuggets’ and ‘Peter...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Jon Savage's 1969-1971 - Rock Dreams on 45
Alienation surfaces as the Sixties make way for the SeventiesAs one decade gives way to the next, the beginning or end of the ten-year cycle rarely yields anything cut and dried. With pop music, a host...
View Article