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JOHNNY CASH’S MERCURY RECORDS NOW OUT VIA MERCURY/UME
RE-EXAMINED WITH SUITE OF NEWLY REMASTERED RELEASES INCLUDING COMPREHENSIVE SIX ALBUM VINYL AND CD...
FRANK ZAPPA’S CELEBRATED 1970 MOTHERS LINEUP
WITH UNRELEASED 70-SONG COLLECTION OF STUDIO AND LIVE RECORDINGS FOR 50th ANNIVERSARY; THE...
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THE BEATLES REVISIT ABBEY ROAD WITH SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY RELEASES SEPTEMBER 27th
Abbey Road Presented with New Mixes in Stereo, 5.1 Surround, and Dolby Atmos; Expanded with Previously Unreleased Session Recordings and Demos By Harvey Kubernik © 2019 It was 50 years ago today, on August 8, 1969, that the world’s most famous band stepped out from...
The Ramones: New Deluxe It’s Alive Out In September
End of the Century 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition Scheduled BY HARVEY KUBERNIK © 2019 With the new September 2019 deluxe edition of the 1979 Ramones’ tour album, It’s Alive, and the planned last quarter 2019/early 2020 40th anniversary of the original Phil...
LITTLE STEVEN AND THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL WORLD TOUR
FIRST ALBUM OF NEW MATERIAL SUMMER OF SORCERY IN 20 YEARS VIA WICKED COOL/UME Label; BY HARVEY KUBERNIK © 2019 Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul’s Summer Of Sorcery was just released during May on CD, digitally and on vinyl as double LP on 180- gram black...
VERVE, IMPULSE! RECORDS AND UMe LAUNCH VITAL VINYL SERIES TODAY
FEATURING 180-GRAM VINYL REISSUES OF THE ICONIC LABELS’ CLASSIC ALBUMS; DAVID KESSEL ON VERVE RECORDS FOUNDER NORMAN GRANZ By Harvey Kubernik © 2019 In 2019 Verve and Impulse! Records, together with UMe, launched their new series Vital Vinyl, a celebration of...
David Bowie and Space Oddity: 50 Years On
By Harvey Kubernik c 2019 On February 20, 1969, singer/songwriter David Bowie recorded an early studio version of “Space Oddity” for his 1969 promotional film, Love You Till Tuesday. After departing Deram Records, Bowie then signed to Mercury/Phillips Records in...
50TH Anniversary of Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is No Where
By Harvey Kubernik © 2019 In January of 1969 Neil Young began recording his second solo album Everybody Knows This is Nowhere with Danny Whitten on guitar; Billy Talbot, bass; and Ralph Molina, drums at Wally Heider’s recording studio on Cahuenga Boulevard in...
Leonard Cohen: Songs From A Room
By Harvey Kubernik © 2019 April 7, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of Leonard Cohen’s second Columbia Records album, Songs From A Room in 1969. It reached No. 63 on the US Billboard Top LPs and No. 2 on the UK charts. “Initially, Songs From A Room felt like a...
The 2019 Janis Joplin Legacy; 50TH Anniversary of Big Brother & The Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills
Celebrated With New Collection of Recordings By Harvey Kubernik © 2019 Columbia/Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment on November 30, 2018 celebrated the 50th anniversary of Big Brother & The Holding Company’s major label debut with the...
It WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY THAT JOHNNY CASH TAUGHT THE WORLD HOW TO SLAY
Johnny Cash Live At San Quentin Album Johnny Cash “A Boy Named Sue” The Johnny Cash Show Television Series New Book The Man Who Carried Cash: Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash and the Making of an American Icon By Harvey Kubernik © 2018 "A Boy Named Sue," written by...