Disc News

Go behind the scenes of the 63-CD Johnny Cash box set

May 3, 2013 | Susan Sliwicki | 0

The lavishly packaged box represents the sheer power of Johnny Cash’s output with every live and studio album that came out during his lifetime with the label. ►

ZZ Top rolls out 10-album boxed set, new tour dates

May 1, 2013 | Susan Sliwicki | 0

ZZ Top will hit the road this spring and summer, but if you can’t make it a to show, you can take solace in a boxed set featuring the band’s first 10 studio LPs. ►

‘Office,’ Grass Roots’ alum Bratton to release three-volume album on vinyl

April 15, 2013 | Susan Sliwicki | 0

Singer-songwriter, actor and comic Creed Bratton, currently best-known for the quirky former ’60s rock-star character he portrays on the NBC TV series “The Office,” is releasing a new album/audio-biography on vinyl. ►

Moody Blues to release career-spanning box set

April 10, 2013 | Susan Sliwicki | 0

Due out June 4, 2013, the 17-disc “Timeless Flight” set will include digitally remastered CDs, DVDs of rare TV performances, audio discs and a collector’s book. ►

Record Store Day unveils 2013 official poster, ambassador

February 27, 2013 | Susan Sliwicki | 0

Only 5,000 copies will be made of the 24-by-36-inch poster, which is printed on heavy paper and will be gratis at fully participating record stores in the U.S. ►

Deluxe collection chronicles Duane Allman’s career

January 30, 2013 | Susan Sliwicki | 0

“Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective” highlights the guitarist’s work from early bands and session work to The Allman Brothers Band and Derek and The Dominos. ►

Frontiers to release limited-edition, 2-LP version of Journey’s ‘Eclipse’

January 18, 2013 | Susan Sliwicki | 0

This special gatefold double-vinyl edition of the band’s 2011 studio album will have a limited run. ►

Otis Redding ballad collection to be issued on blue vinyl

January 16, 2013 | Susan Sliwicki | 0

With a cover that looks like it came straight from the 1960s, “Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding” puts the spotlight on the soul man’s slow songs. ►

New Jimi Hendrix studio album, mono reissues arrive March 5

January 9, 2013 | Susan Sliwicki | 0

Jimi Hendrix Live At Monterey courtesy Universal Music

‘People, Hell and Angels’ features 12 previously unreleased studio performances; ‘Axis: Bold as Love’ and ‘Are You Experienced’ come back on 200-gram vinyl. ►

Craig Chaquico cuts loose recalling his solo in Jefferson Starship’s ‘Jane’

October 29, 2012 | Chris Junior | 0

“The solo is arranged so it’s really in-your-face guitar,” says Chaquico. “We argued over every second of it at one point.” ►