MARCH 17, 2015
JEFF BECK GROUP
“Rough and Ready” (1971 album; 180-gram audiophile vinyl, with gatefold cover; Friday Music)
BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS
“Blood, Sweat & Tears” (1968 album; mastered by Joe Reagoso on 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Friday Music)
BOSTON
“Don’t Look Back” (1978 album; 180-gram audiophile clear vinyl, with gatefold cover; Friday Music)
J. COLE
“2014 Forest Hills Drive” (2014 album; Roc Nation / Columbia)
SAM COOKE
“Sam Cooke” (1961 album, also known as “Swing Low”; includes “Chain Gang”; Doxy / Forced Exposure)
BILL EVANS TRIO
“Waltz for Debby” (1961 album; Doxy)
THE GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA
“Out of the Cool” (1960 album; Doxy)
LOWELL GEORGE
“Thanks I’ll Eat It Here” (1979 album; 180-gram audiophile vinyl, with gatefold cover; Friday Music)
GIN BLOSSOMS
“Live in Concert” (limited-edition colored vinyl pressing; Cleopatra)
GORILLAZ
“Gorillaz” (2001 album; two LPs; Warner / Parlophone)
BILLY JOEL
“Cold Spring Harbor” (1971 album; 180-gram audiophile vinyl, with gatefold cover; Friday Music)
TOM JONES
“Tender Loving Care” (1985 album; JDC)
L7
“Bricks Are Heavy” (1992 album; Plain)
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
“Lynyrd Skynyrd” (six-LP box set; Geffen / UMe)
SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL ’66
“Look Around” (1968 album; 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Music On Vinyl)
CHARLES MINGUS
“The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady” (1963 album), “Mingus Plays Piano” (1963 album; Superior Viaduct)
WES MONTGOMERY
“Boss Guitar” (1963 album; Concord)
RUSH
“2112” (1976 album), “All the World’s a Stage” (1976 album; Mercury / UMe)
CARLY SIMON
“The Best of Carly Simon” (1975 album; 180-gram audiophile vinyl, with gatefold cover; Friday Music)
AL STEWART
“Past, Present and Future” (1974 album; 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Friday Music)
WEATHER REPORT
“Black Market” (1976 album, on 180-gram audiophile vinyl, mastered by Joe Reagoso; Friday Music)
MARCH 24, 2015
BJÖRK
“Vulnicura” (2015 album; One Little Indian, March 23)
JACKSON BROWNE
“Standing in the Breach” (2014 album; Inside Recordings)
JOHNNY CASH
“American Recordings Vinyl Box Set” (seven LPs; American Recordings)
COMMON
“Like Water for Chocolate” (2000 album; on colored vinyl; Interscope / UMe)
ECHOSMITH
“Talking Dreams” (2013 album; splatter colored vinyl; Warner, March 23)
EMINEM
“The Vinyl LPs [Box set]” (10-LP collection includes every album, from 1996’s “Infinite” to 2013’s “The Marshall Mathers LP 2”; Aftermath / Interscope)
BILL EVANS
“Explorations” (1961 album; Concord)
BEN FOLDS FIVE
“Whatever and Ever Amen” (1997 album; Original Recordings Group, March 23)
FREDDIE HUBBARD
“Blue Spirits” (1965 album; Blue Note)
SONNY ROLLINS
“Volume 1” (1957 album; Blue Note)
WAYNE SHORTER
“Night Dreamer” (1964 album; Blue Note)
THE WHO
“My Generation” (1965 album), “A Quick One” (1966 album), “The Who Sell Out” (1967 album), “Who’s Next” (1971 album), “The Who By Numbers” (1975 album), “Who Are You” (1978 album), “Face Dances” (1981 album), “It’s Hard” (1982 album), “Endless Wire” (2006 album), “The Who HITS 50!” (2014 compilation; Geffen / UMe)
MARCH 31, 2015
MILES DAVIS QUINTET
“Harmon Gymnasium, University of California, Berkeley CA, April 7th 1967” (Keyhole)
SIMPLE MINDS
“Sparkle in the Rain” (1984 album; Virgin / UMe)
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS
“Easy Skanking in Boston ’78” (2015 album; Tuff Gong / Island)
ROXY MUSIC
“Complete Studio Albums” (eight-LP box set; Virgin / UMe)
FRANK SINATRA
“Close to You” (1957 album; Capitol / UMe), “Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain” (1961 album; Reprise), “She Shot Me Down” (1981 album; Reprise)
VAN HALEN
“Van Halen” (1978 album), “1984” (1984 album), “Deluxe” (box set contains their debut album, “1984” and “Tokyo Dome Live in Concert”; Read here; Rhino / Warner)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Drive: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (2011 album; score by Cliff Martinez; Lakeshore)
APRIL 7, 2015
LEON REDBONE
“Champagne Charlie” (1978 album; Exhibit)
JOHN SEBASTIAN
“John B. Sebastian” (1970 album; Exhibit)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Clueless” (20th anniversary edition of the 1995 album; Universal Music Enterprises)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Decca Sound: Mono Years – The Birth of High Fidelity” (six-LP box set; Decca)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Songs of Anarchy: Music From Sons of Anarchy Seasons 1-4” (1974 album; 180-gram audiophile clear vinyl, with gatefold cover; two LPs; Friday Music)
THE WHO
“The Brunswick Singles” (7-inch single vinyl box set; Geffen / UMe)
APRIL 21, 2015
BUTTHOLE SURFERS
“Independent Worm Saloon” (1993 album; 180-gram vinyl; Plain Recordings)
RUSH
“A Farewell to Kings” (1977 album; Mercury / UMe)
SCORPIONS
“Virgin Killer” (1976 album; 1980-gram vinyl; Audio Fidelity)
APRIL 28, 2015
TONY BENNETT / BILL EVANS
“The Complete Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Recordings” (four-LP box set; Concord)
ELVIN JONES
“The Ultimate” (1968 album; Blue Note)
QUEEN
“Queen Forever” (four-LP box set with a bonus 12″ single, a William Orbit mix of Freddie Mercury track “Let Me In Your Heart Again”; Hollywood)
STANLEY TURRENTINE WITH THE 3 SOUNDS
“Blue Hour” (1960 album; Music Matters)
MAY 5, 2015
MILES DAVIS
“Blue Moods” (1955 album; Concord)
MAY 12, 2015
COLEMAN HAWKINS
“At Ease With Coleman Hawkins” (1960 album; Concord)
BRUCE HORNSBY AND THE RANGE
“The Way It Is” (1986 album; Exhibit)
MAY 19, 2015
MARVIN GAYE
“Marvin Gaye Volume One, 1961-1965” (seven-LP box set; Motown / UMe)
RUSH
“Hemispheres” (1978 album; Mercury / UMe)
SOUNDGARDEN
“Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path” (six-LP picture disc; 2014 compilation; A&M / UMe)
PAUL WESTERBERG
“Suicaine Gratifaction” (1999 album; Plain)
JUNE 16, 2015
RUSH
“Permanent Waves” (1980 album; Mercury / UMe)
JUNE 30, 2015
FRANK SINATRA
“Watertown” (1969 album; Capitol / UMe)
JULY 21, 2015
RUSH
“Moving Pictures” (1981 album), “Exit … Stage Left” (1981 album; Mercury / UMe)
AUG. 18, 2015
RUSH
“Signals” (1982 album; Mercury / UMe)
SEPT. 8, 2015
TOWNES VAN ZANDT
“Our Mother the Mountain” (1969 album; Snapper Music Group)
SEPT. 15, 2015
RUSH
“Grace Under Pressure” (1984 album; Mercury / UMe)
OCT. 20, 2015
RUSH
“Power Windows” (1985 album; Mercury / UMe)
NOV. 17, 2015
RUSH
“Hold Your Fire” (1987 album; Mercury / UMe)
DEC. 1, 2015
RUSH
“A Show of Hands” (1989 album; Mercury / UMe)