It’s been 40 years since Bob Dylan’s “Biograph” became the first CD box set to be released and there’s still gold to be mined ...
Give your favorite music fan a box set for the holidays this year? You had a ton to choose from. Last year, record labels released enough shelf-straining packages of CDs or vinyl to fill a Rock & Roll ...
Thoughtful remastering, well-chosen outtakes and archival material can make familiar albums feel newly essential ...
Writing in his newsletter The Honest Broker, music historian Ted Gioia noted in 2022 that old songs made up 70% of the U.S. music market. Now, each generation, mired in nostalgia, claims to have the ...
This year hasn’t been quite as prolific for box sets and other special deluxe reissues, especially compared to last year’s bounty. But if you’re looking for the perfect holiday gift for that special ...
Special multi-album releases from heavy-hitter recording artists over the decades that are must-haves for a collector.
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. This year hasn’t been quite as prolific for box sets and other special deluxe reissues, especially ...
Box sets are back, baby! Some of us old timers thought they might be gone for good after the CD crash (remember when Joe Henderson's The Milestone Years was going for twenty-bucks at your local mall?) ...
The vast majority of performances included on Enjoying the Ride are previously unreleased. The box set features more than 450 tracks, with a running time exceeding 60 hours. The collection boasts 17 ...
Now that holiday shopping is upon us, the opportunity presents itself to give a gift of music that is as big and boundless as the season itself. To emphasize this, we’ve modified our annual holiday ...
Welcome to Part 5 of Under the Radar’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide. As you might expect from a music website, here we highlight some of the year’s best music reissues, on both vinyl and CD, from the last ...
“Clearly in the Sixties, mono was king. Even in 1967, when the Beatles were at the height of their experimentation in the studio, the mono mix of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was their ...