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Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of ELO’s Out of the Blue, Legacy Recordings to Release First-Ever Picture Disc Edition of Classic Double Album

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of ELO’s Out of the Blue, Legacy Recordings to Release First-Ever Picture Disc Edition of Classic Double Album

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of ELO’s top-selling double album, Out of the Blue, Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release the first-time-ever picture disc edition of the ELO classic available everywhere on Friday, September 29. This 2LP collector’s picture disc edition of Out of the Blue was remastered from the original master tapes and includes a […]

SOUNDBREAKING Nominated for News & Documentary Emmy Awards

SOUNDBREAKING Nominated for News & Documentary Emmy Awards

SOUNDBREAKING: STORIES FROM THE CUTTING EDGE OF RECORDED MUSIC, one of the most wide-ranging series on the art of music recording and the last project of renown music producer Sir George Martin, has been nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Music and Sound. SOUNDBREAKING is presented by Higher Ground in association with the late Sir George Martin, and produced […]

SUPERDUPERKYLE, BAYONNE, LESS IS MORE AND HI-KER ADDED TO AUDIOTREE MUSIC FESTIVAL IN KALAMAZOO, MI

SUPERDUPERKYLE, BAYONNE, LESS IS MORE AND HI-KER ADDED TO AUDIOTREE MUSIC FESTIVAL IN KALAMAZOO, MI

 The Audiotree Music Festival returns to scenic Arcadia Creek Festival Place in Kalamazoo, Michigan this fall with a talent-packed lineup. Recently added acts include hip-hop impresario SuperDuperKyle, one-man electro whiz Bayonne, alternative folk duo Less Is More and local indie act hi-ker. They round out the previously announced acts on the bill including indie greats King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, punk act Twin Peaksand buzzed about hip-hop […]

New Radicals’ 1998 Album, “Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too,” Gets First-Ever Vinyl Release

New Radicals’ 1998 Album, “Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too,” Gets First-Ever Vinyl Release

New Radicals were an American alternative band formed by singer-songwriter Gregg Alexander.  Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too, the 1998 MCA Records release – featuring the hit single “You Get What You Give” – is now being reissued by Interscope/UMe on vinyl for the first time as a 2-LP set – with an additional, exclusive color edition in translucent […]

Roy Ayers Ubiquity Throws Out A ‘Lifeline’ Again

Roy Ayers Ubiquity Throws Out A ‘Lifeline’ Again

Lifeline, Roy Ayers Ubiquity’s inimitable, influential 1977 fusion of jazz, pop, funk, and disco, will be reissued on vinyl on August 18 via Polydor/UMe in honor of the album’s 40th anniversary. The LP, pressed on standard weight black vinyl, is available for pre-order now: AMAZON Originally released on Polydor, Lifeline was among the most popular of the prolific vibraphonist-keyboardist-composer-vocalist Ayers’ 20 albums for the label; […]