(Press release): Los Angeles, CA (August 27, 2025)—Craft Recordings is rounding out 2025 with seven reissues in the Original Jazz Classics series, which revisits celebrated, seminal, and rare jazz albums. The latest reissues include Hank Mobley’s Jazz Message #2, Wes Montgomery’s Boss Guitar, Art Pepper’s Surf Ride, Sonny Rollins’ Plus 4, Yusef Lateef’s Jazz Mood, and Red Garland Quartet’s Soul Junction and After Hours featuring Thad Jones, Frank Wess, Kenny Burrell... Read More

Los Angeles – August 22, 2025 – Verve Label Group and UMe, the global catalog division of Universal Music Group, are proud to announce Verve Vault, a new audiophile vinyl reissue series highlighting iconic jazz albums as well as overlooked gems from Verve’s vast catalog. The series will offer definitive, all-analog 180-gram vinyl pressings newly-mastered from the original analog master tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed at Optimal in Germany. Each release will combine exceptional audio fidelity with meticulous attention to detail — from mastering to jacket reproduction. The LPs will be packaged in high-quality tip-on gatefold jackets, replicating the original packaging.

The Beatles Anthology 2025", a sprawling effort that includes newly expanded music, book and streaming editions was announced today worldwide.

London – August 21, 2025 – First released three decades ago, The Beatles’ eight-part “Anthology” series reinvented the music documentary. Instead of a standard treatment centered on an outside narrator and talking heads, “The Anthology” featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr candidly telling their own story, with all its complexities and contradictions. It introduced The Beatles to new generations of viewers and listeners and marked the start of a creative and commercial afterlife that continues to this day.

Now, The Beatles Anthology returns in its ultimate form for a comprehensive global release campaign—on screen, on record, and in print.

Four new and recent Blue Note titles worthy of your attention. Two are new releases: one from Charles Lloyd the other from Joshua Redman. The Ike Quebec is a "completist' package ala Mosaic records, but is a Tone Poet release title. The Silver title is a never before released title featuring Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Teddy Smith and Roger Humphries. Blue Note Records has announced the October 24 release of Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse, a... Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—PARAMUS, NJ — Aug.11, 2025 — The sounds of vinyl will once again echo through the halls of the Westfield's Garden State Plaza with the grand opening of The Sharp Notes, a new record store owned and operated by New Jersey-based educator, musician, and music journalist Evan Toth.Located in the heart of Paramus, NJ, The Sharp Notes brings back the golden-era thrill of physical media—reimagined for 21st-century ears. The store specializes in... Read More

THE ZOMBIES, “BRITISH INVASION” PIONEERS, ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF THEIR ALBUM ODESSEY AND ORACLE MONO REMASTERED ON SEPTEMBER 26TH VIA BEECHWOOD PARK RECORDS LISTEN TO THE MONO REMASTERED VERSION OF“THIS WILL BE OUR YEAR” HERE Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees and “British Invasion” pioneers, The Zombies, today announce the release of Odessey & Oracle Mono Remastered on September 26th. The album, the first of four definitive physical reissues from their... Read More

(Press release): Two of the most iconic West Coast jazz recordings return in definitive form: Way Out West by Sonny Rollins and Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section, now available as Ultra High Quality Record (UHQR) editions for pre-order via Analogue Productions. Pressed on 200-gram Clarity Vinyl at Quality Record Pressings and cut at 45 RPM for the highest fidelity possible, these limited editions—each capped at 2,750 numbered copies—are mastered AAA directly from... Read More

Acoustic Sounds announced today a 75th anniversary Chess Records series, with 6 titles to be rolled out 2 monthly starting October 17th, all cut from original master tapes by Matthew Lutthans and pressed at Quality Record Pressing, housed in archival quality gatefold "Tip on" jackets.

Michael Ochs, music journalist, author, record label publicist and the preeminent music photo archivist of all time, died on July 23, 2025, at his home in Venice Beach, Calif. He was 82 and cause of death from Parkinson’s disease, with which Ochs had been diagnosed five years ago, he was also suffering from COPD, kidney and heart related issues. The younger brother of 60s singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, Michael Ochs created a business of collecting images of musicians... Read More

(Press release): The Making Of Five Leaves Left, a project nine years in gestation, will be released this Friday, July 25 via Island/UMe. This Nick Drake Estate authorized edition comprises more than 30 previously unheard outtakes from the sessions which gradually became Nick Drake’s debut album, Five Leaves Left, and will be available as 4CD and 4LP boxed sets. The reason for the lack of any previous typical anniversary-related ‘deluxe’ set, was the Estate’s wish... Read More

The Chadster introduces the final 10 Atlantic 75th Anniversary reissues in the video below and you can read them in the image above. A quartet of Arethas covering the full span of her Atlantic days, a Ray, an Otis, a Billy Cobham solo fusion debut and two Boomer classics: one from Graham Nash and the other Stephen Stills' somewhat overlooked but notable solo debut album previously reissued by Classic Records decades ago. The big surprise, Death Cab For... Read More

12-CD, DIGITAL AND AUDIOPHILE 18-PIECE VINYL BOX SETS INCLUDING: 

HEATHEN, REALITY, A REALITY TOUR, THE NEXT DAY, THE NEXT DAY EXTRA, ★ (BLACKSTAR), PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED 31-TRACK LIVE SET FROM THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL AND RE:CALL 6 FEATURING 41 RARE NON-ALBUM TRACKS NEW KILLER STAR (SESSIONS @ AOL LIVER VERSION, 23/09/03) AVAILABLE NOW AS A DIGITAL SINGLE

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PRE-ORDER DAVID BOWIE 6. I CAN’T GIVE EVERYTHING AWAY (2002 – 2016) PRE-ORDER HERE

RCA RECORDS & LEGACY RECORDINGS ANNOUNCE ‘SUNSET BOULEVARD’ — AN UNPRECEDENTED LOOK INTO ELVIS PRESLEY’S LOS ANGELES STUDIO SESSIONS (1970–1975), OUT AUGUST 1: 89 TRACKS OF RARITIES + NEW AND NEVER-HEARD MIXES TO BE RELEASED IN 5-CD AND DIGITAL FORMATS, ALONGSIDE A 2-LP ‘HIGHLIGHTS’ EDITIONLISTEN TO “BURNING LOVE – TAKE 2” — A RARE GLIMPSE INTO ELVIS’ FINAL TOP TEN HIT: SPECIAL ‘SUNSET BOULEVARD’ LISTENING EVENT SET FOR AUGUST 13 AT GRACELAND, AS PART OF ELVIS... Read More

(July 11, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA) On the 50th anniversary of its original release, the self-titled album has been certified 9x platinum by the RIAA. In celebration, Rhino announces two new premium audio editions of Fleetwood Mac, the 1975 album that ushered in a new era for the band. On August 8, the album will debut in Dolby Atmos and arrive on vinyl as part of the Rhino High Fidelity series of high-end reissues. The Blu-ray Audio edition features a new Dolby ATMOS... Read More

Los Angeles, CA (June 25, 2025) – Craft Recordings announces the latest titles in its acclaimed Original Jazz Classics series, which revisits celebrated, seminal and rare jazz albums. Upcoming reissues include Kenny Burrell’s Kenny Burrell; Kenny Drew’s Kenny Drew Trio; Frank Wess, John Coltrane, Paul Quinichette, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins and Arthur Taylor’s Wheelin’ and Dealin’ and Sonny Criss’ Sonny’s Dream. Lacquers were cut AAA from the original tapes by Kevin... Read More

(press release): Originally released on Decca in 1963 Ansermet’s interpretation is a model of clarity, control, and refined grandeur, emphasising balance and transparency over sheer spectacle, bringing out the symphony’s architectural elegance. The famous organ entries are noble and dignified rather than overwhelming, blending seamlessly into the orchestral texture. Ansermet resists the temptation to rush or overindulge in romantic excess, allowing the thematic... Read More

Press release): (May 30, 2025 – Los Angeles, CA) Rhino High Fidelity (Rhino Hi-Fi) continues its acclaimed series of limited-edition, high-end vinyl reissues with the solo debut from Stevie Nicks and the first album from Wilco. Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna (1981) and Wilco’s A.M. (1995) are available now exclusively at Rhino.com and internationally at select WMG stores. Each release is limited to 5,000 individually numbered copies and priced at $39.98. Available while... Read More

Subscribers to official The Beatles webstore received the announcement that The Beatles mono box set is back and will be shipping July 18th, limited to 4 copies (per person). How long it will remain in production wasn't stated, so for those who use vinyl records as financial instruments (certainly preferable and a more stable investment compared to crypto IMO), here's an opportunity to wade into shallow Beatles investment territory.The set is the same one... Read More

Press release: LP box set featuring five original studio albums from 1965 (AAA) Remastered and cut directly from the original analog mono tapes by Kevin Gray. Manufactured on 180gm vinyl and housed in reverse-board deluxe sleeves. Expansive book with liner notes from GRAMMY® award nominated James Gavin, interviews with Chet Baker, George Coleman, Kirk Lightsey, Herman Wright, Roy Brooks and previously unseen photographs. Housed inside a secure, heavy lift-off lid box... Read More