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Fleetwood Mac to Return to the Stage
By David Chiu Fleetwood Mac is back, and so is Christine McVie. On Thursday, the band announced that they were returning to the stage for a series of dates in North America this year with Christine...
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Prince and Warner Bros. Announce New Deal; Purple Rain Reissue to Come
by David Chiu It looks like there will be new music to come from Prince as a new partnership was announced Friday between the artist and his old record label Warner Bros. In a press release, the...
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Pink Floyd to Reissue ‘The Division Bell’ as a Box Set
(Reckoning PR) by David Chiu This year marks the 20th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s final studio album, The Division Bell – an occasion that will be celebrated with a box set version of the record due...
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The Beatles to Issue ‘The Beatles in Mono’ on Vinyl
Apple Corps Ltd. by David Chiu The Fab Four’s mono versions of their first 10 studio albums are now going to be available on vinyl as part of a 14-LP set due out September 8, Apple Records and...
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Queen’s ‘Live at the Rainbow ’74′ To Be Released
(amazon.co.uk) by David Chiu After releasing live albums that mostly drew from the early to mid ’80s, Queen will finally release some archival live material from the mid ’70s. On June 16, the band...
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Shania Twain, k.d. lang Among 5 Canadian Country Artists Appearing on Stamps
by David Chiu Five legendary Canadian country music artists are being recognized on postage stamps by their home country on July 31. Canada Post is honoring the following as part of its Canadian...
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Led Zeppelin to Reissue ‘IV’ and ‘Houses of the Holy’
Led Zeppelin (Bob Gruen) by David Chiu Get ready Led Zeppelin fans – more classic/new music is coming your way. Following the re-release of the band’s first three albums earlier this year, Atlantic and...
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Paul McCartney Reveals New Beatles Photos During Final Candlestick Park Show
Paul McCartney at Candlestick (© MJ Kim / MPL Communications) by David Chiu On August 14, Paul McCartney became the last performer to play at the soon-to-be demolished San Francisco’s Candlestick Park...
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David Bowie’s Sound + Vision to Be Re-Released in September
(amazon.com) David Bowie’s superlative 1989 boxed set Sound + Vision is getting the reissue treatment once again. Last month, his website announced that the career-spanning set, which originally...
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Genesis Announces New Compilation
(Genesis Facebook page) Here comes another new Genesis compilation but with a unique twist. On Friday, it was announced via Facebook that the band is releasing R-Kive, a three-disc set containing...
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Bob Dylan’s ‘The Basement Tapes Complete’ to Be Released
(amazon.com) By David Chiu The story behind the making of Bob Dylan and the Band’s The Basement Tapes from the 1967 recording sessions has been the stuff of legend. Now there’s a new wrinkle added to...
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92Y Event to Highlight Lenny Kravitz’s 25-Year Career
(Press Here) It’s hard to imagine that it was 25 years ago that a young musician named Lenny Kravitz released his debut album, Let Love Rule (I actually remember the review of that record in the...
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George Harrison’s Apple Albums Get Remastered
(Universal Music Group) by David Chiu In the last several years, George Harrison’s solo albums have been hard to find in print. Part of that oversight was remedied in 2004 with the reissue of the...
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Bowie to Release New Career Compilation
David Bowie (Jimmy King) By David Chiu David Bowie is marking 50 years in the music business with the release of a new career-spanning 3-CD set, Nothing Has Changed, to be released on November 18,...
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Pink Floyd Reveals Track List, Artwork for ‘The Endless River’
(Facebook-Pink Floyd) Over the summer, fans were surprised upon hearing news that Pink Floyd was working on a new studio album, the first in 20 years since The Division Bell. Now the band is readying...
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Bryan Ferry to Release New Record ‘Avonmore’
(press here publicity) by David Chiu Bryan Ferry returns with a new studio album, Avonmore, due out on November 17 – the Roxy Music founder’s first since 2012’s The Jazz Age. Featured on the new record...
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Blondie Exhibition
Text and photos by David Chiu Last week, the Chelsea Storefront Gallery in New York City hosted an exhibition about the legendary rock band Blondie. It tied in with the release of member Chris Stein’s...
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New Go-Betweens Boxed Set to Be Released
(Motormouth Media) by David Chiu The last time the Go-Betweens’ back catalog was reissued was around 10 years ago or so. Now the acclaimed Australian band’s music is getting another look, this time...
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Miles Davis’ Legacy Discussed at CBGB Festival Event
from l-r: Alan Light, Erin Davis and Vince Wilburn, Jr. (David Chiu) by David Chiu If the recent release of an archival live recording from the ’70s, an imminent biographical film starring Don...
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Madonna Debuts 6 New Songs Off of Forthcoming LP
(BB Gun Press/Liz Rosenberg) by David Chiu Like Beyonce, U2 and D’Angelo before her, Madonna pulled off an unexpected album surprise. On Sunday morning, the Material Girl unveiled six new songs from...
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