PROCOL HARUM 40TH ANNIVERSARY REMASTERS DUE

Salvo are finally starting to release the long promised Procol Harum 40th Anniversary remasters. If the sound is as good as their Move releases, we are in for a treat! The first two are due 6 April. PROCOL HARUM Their music was a particularly majestic hybrid. Keith Reid s expansive, [...]

THE WHO SELL OUT EXPANDED DELUXE CD BUY NOW FOR ONLY £10.98 FROM OUR UK STORE

Originally released in December 1967, The Who Sell Out arrived at the tail end of a remarkable year in popular culture. As well as being forever immortalised as the moment when the counterculture and the Love Generation went global, 1967 produced tremendous musical upheavals as “pop” metamorphosed to “rock”, elevating [...]

SPIRIT’S CLASSIC ROCKPALAST GIG ON DVD

SPIRIT  Rockpalast: West Coast Legends Vol. 3 The decade between 1976 and 1986 was the classic Rockpalast era. Most of our audience remember the Rockpalast nights at the Grugahalle in Essen, which were broadcast live on German TV and via Eurovision all over Europe twice a year. Great occasions for [...]

PETE BROWN REISSUES ON REPERTOIRE

PETE BROWN ROCK’S POET LAUREATE Poet, songwriter, band leader and former anarchist, Pete Brown was one of the great characters of the London hippie scene in the Sixties. He remains a vibrant force today and in 2009 his work is being celebrated by Repertoire with the release of three of [...]

JACK BRUCE AND ROBIN TROWER LIVE DVD DUE

A rather low key series of shows in Holland and Germany by Jack Bruce and Robin Trower caught many fans by surprise. Their last collaboration, the studio album ‘Seven Moons’, was very well received, so some live shows did not seem far fetched.  Sadly, most fans did not even hear [...]

MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD LIVE AT BILL GRAHAM’S FILLMORE WEST 1969

Raven presents for the first time on one CD, the legendary concert by MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD and NICK GRAVENITES recorded at Bill Graham’s Fillmore West in 1969. With bonus track, superb quality audio, color booklet and informative liner notes. The late, great Bloomfield is recognised as one of the finest and [...]

GRATEFUL DEAD ‘TO TERRAPIN’ 3CD LIVE HARTFORD 1977

Hartford Civic Center, May 28, 1977 Celebrate the Dead’s final exclamation point on the legendary Spring ’77 tour, all captured here from start to finish, in pristine HDCD audio. TO TERRAPIN catches the guys at the top of their game, unleashing a slew of new tunes that would “officially” debut [...]

CHARLES MINGUS ‘EPITAPH’ DVD

On 6 April 2009, Eagle Rock Entertainment release the “Epitaph” DVD [EREDV630]. This performance is the only time that this major opus in the Charles Mingus canon has been filmed and is now available here on DVD for the first time. Originally shown on TV on Channel 4 in the [...]

VAN MORRISON ASTRAL WEEKS LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL DVD

Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl: The Concert Film is an in-concert reworking of the musical legend’s historic 1968 gold-certified solo album. Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl: The Concert Film was recorded live over two nights at the Hollywood Bowl in November 2008. Van Morrison first released [...]

ISLAND RECORDS TURN 50

As part of the Island 50th birthday celebrations, today sees the launch of a new website – www.island50.com . The website focuses on 50 classic albums from the Island catalogue and features an original press review from the time of release for every album (bar Free’s “Fire And Water” – [...]