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VIA PRESS RELEASE | UMe/Mercury and Anthem Records label groups continue the comprehensive Rush albums expanded reissue series with the arrival of new Super Deluxe Editions of the band’s 1984 release, Grace Under Pressure, an album that saw the trio shifting gears to construct eight technology-driven tracks that were forward driving compositions from their previous works.

Grace Under Pressure: Super Deluxe Edition will be available in five distinct configurations, including the (1) Super Deluxe Edition 4-CD + Blu-ray, (2) Super Deluxe Edition 5-LP + Blu-ray, (3) Super Deluxe Digital Edition, (4) Dolby Atmos Digital Edition, and (5) Grace Under Pressure Tour: Live in Toronto 1984 at video DSPs. They can all be pre-ordered here.

Grace Under Pressure, Rush’s tenth studio album, was originally released in April 1984, and it features some key sonic-template modifications resulting from the band’s decision to further evolve its sound by enlisting a new producer after a successful decade of working with Terry Brown behind the board.

The eight songs comprising Grace Under Pressure build from where September 1982’s Signals left off by fully embracing the tech and temper of the times while still remaining true to the band’s knack for blending progressive roots with radio-welcome song arrangements.

Grace Under Pressure was co-produced by Rush with Peter Henderson and engineered by Paul Northfield with assistance from Frank Opolko and Robert Di Giola. It was the fourth in a series of Rush recording sessions ultimately held at Le Studio in Morin-Heights, Quebec. Rush’s instinctive recording process at Le Studio had been DNA-infused during sessions held there for the aforementioned Signals, in addition to February 1981’s Moving Pictures and January 1980’s Permanent Waves.

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VIA PRESS RELEASE | “Not just a brilliant lyricist…one of the most interesting writers of the Seventies.” —Rolling Stone

High Moon Records is proud to release David Forman’s Who You Been Talking To on CD and LP. Recorded for Arista Records in Los Angeles in 1977 but never released, Who You Been Talking To is a revelation—a lost masterpiece of blue-eyed soul and literary street poetry produced by the legendary Jack Nitzsche (Neil Young, Rolling Stones, Phil Spector) and featuring an all-star cast of L.A. session players including Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner, David Lindley, Fred Tackett, Tim Drummond, and Flaco Jimenez.

The album is accompanied by deluxe packaging with extensive liner notes by acclaimed journalist Joe Hagan, featuring exclusive interviews with David Forman, Aaron Neville, Jim Keltner, songwriting partner David Levine, and other collaborators. The package includes rare photographs by legendary downtown New York photographer Peter Hujar (whose other subjects included Susan Sontag, William Burroughs, and Candy Darling), along with never-before-seen memorabilia from Forman’s extraordinary life.

In 1976, Rolling Stone declared David Forman a songwriter on the same level as Bruce Springsteen, Warren Zevon, and Tom Waits, comparing his vocals to Curtis Mayfield and Smokey Robinson. His self-titled debut album for Arista Records, produced by Joel Dorn, was hailed as “an artistic success” before Forman seemingly vanished from the music world.

But Forman didn’t vanish—he recorded a second album.

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We’ve closed TVD’s HQ for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. While we’re away, why not fire up our Record Store Locator app and visit one of your local indie record stores?

Perhaps there’s an interview, review, or feature you might have missed? Catch up, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow, 1/20.

VIA PRESS RELEASE | “I first saw Jimmy and the Coral Reefers in 1977 and then moved to Key West shortly thereafter. Having known many of the first Reefers for several years, I felt the band’s origin story needed to be preserved. Once we started the interviews, their collective sentiments about life in the ’70s, their time on the road, in the studio and their feelings about Jimmy, I knew we had captured lightning in a bottle. My goal in making the film was to help preserve the band’s origin story, capture the essence of that era and pay tribute to how Key West had permeated their souls.” —John H. Cunningham, Director

Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers, a feature documentary that traces the origins and evolution of Jimmy Buffett’s original Coral Reefer Band during the 1970s and early 1980s, will premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 9th, with a second screening on February 13th. Narrated by Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges, the documentary features commentary from Kenny Chesney, Mac McAnally, songwriter Keith Sykes as well as many original Coral Reefer band members and touring crew.

The First Coral Reefers were a group of wildly talented, often unruly characters whose creative energy and personal chemistry helped define Buffett’s most iconic early work. Occupational Hazard is directed by John H. Cunningham, who has a deep and close connection to several members of the first Coral Reefers as well as to a lifelong affinity to Jimmy Buffett, as their paths crossed many times, beginning in the Florida Keys in the 1970s.

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VIA PRESS RELEASE | Jack White kicks off what promises to be another eventful new year with the official publication of Jack White Collected Lyrics and Selected Writing Volume 1, available now at Third Man physical storefronts, thirdmanbooks.com, and booksellers in the United States; UK publication follows on February 2.

Edited by Third Man Records co-founder Ben Blackwell, the landmark new anthology features never-before-published poems and writings by White, rare and exclusive photos, and new essays written especially for this book by Blackwell, award-winning, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-nominated poet Adrian Matejka, and award-winning, Detroit-based filmmaker and writer dream hampton. It also compiles lyrics from both White’s solo recordings thus far, as well as his acclaimed work with The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, and other collaborations.

The publication of Jack White Collected Lyrics and Selected Writing Volume 1 follows what proved to be a milestone 2025 for White, including The White Stripes’ induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (streaming now on Disney+; a three-hour primetime special featuring highlights from the ceremony aired New Year’s Day on ABC and is available now on Hulu).

The event saw White accepting the honor with a poignant speech that included an original poem he’d written for Meg White, marking the occasion. November also saw White headline the Detroit Lions’ NFL Thanksgiving Halftime show at Detroit’s Ford Field with a special guest appearance by Eminem for a mashup of “Hello Operator” and “‘Till I Collapse,” before finishing with a searing “Seven Nation Army” for the hometown crowd. “Live at Ford Field,” a new EP capturing the historic performance in its entirety, is available now at all DSPs and streaming services.

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VIA PRESS RELEASE | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy Award-winning guitarist Peter Frampton is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his iconic album Frampton Comes Alive! Upon its original release in 1976, Frampton Comes Alive! became a cultural phenomenon and remains one of the top-selling live albums of all time, with nearly 20 million copies sold worldwide.

As part of the celebration, Frampton will release a Vinylphyle edition of Frampton Comes Alive! on January 22 via A&M/UMe. One of the greatest rock albums of the 1970s can now be heard on vinyl again, presented as it was originally intended to sound. The limited Vinylphyle double LP pressing is sourced from the original 1975 Doug Sax 1/4″ production master, with lacquers cut by Joe Nino-Hernes, and pressed on 180g black vinyl at RTI. The package features a four-panel insert including a new interview with Frampton and Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop; preorder HERE. In addition to the Vinylphyle release, the album is also available to experience in Dolby Atmos, following its 2024 immersive audio debut.

“I can’t believe it’s now been 50 years since Frampton Comes Alive! was released, but that record still feels like a living, breathing moment in my life,” says Frampton. “When we decided to do this Vinylphyle edition, it was important to me that it be done the right way. I personally asked that the audio be sourced from the original 1975 Doug Sax production master because I wanted it to sound exactly as we heard it back then. This album was born onstage, and hearing it presented this way on vinyl feels like bringing that energy back to life for longtime fans and new listeners alike.”

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VIA PRESS RELEASE | Due for release this March on Outer Battery Records, Live 1982 is a newly unearthed and ferocious live album capturing cult anti-heroes Void at the height of their power—raw, chaotic, and utterly uncompromising.

Formed in Columbia, Maryland, just north of Washington, DC, Void emerged from unlikely surroundings to become one of the most confrontational bands of the early DC hardcore scene. Their debut in 1980 at the first-ever Wilson Center show—a legendary 15-band marathon largely organised by the Bad Brains—immediately marked them out as a band apart.

Featuring vocalist John Weiffenbach, guitarist Bubba Dupree, Chris Stover on bass, and drummer Sean Finnegan, Void’s sound defied structure, with songs threatening to fly apart at any moment. Every member played at maximum speed, the resulting discord and controlled chaos elevating the quartet to a more dangerous and extreme plane.

Containing pivotal live recordings, Live 1982 professionally captures two crucial moments in the band’s history. The A-side documents Void’s incendiary April 1982 performance at the Wilson Center, recorded just months before the release of the legendary Faith/Void split LP. Sharing the bill with Minor Threat, The Faith, Iron Cross, and Double O, the band delivered a set packed with hardcore classics such as “Ignorant People” and “Who Are You?”

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VIA PRESS RELEASE | Kishi Bashi has announced a 10th anniversary reissue of his critically acclaimed 2016 album, Sonderlust, which will be released on February 27th, 2026 via Joyful Noise Recordings.

To celebrate, he’s shared the previously unreleased B-side “Harpsi Chords,” a song that captures the balance of melancholy, introspection, and searching optimism that defines his music. “I was always excited about this song, and went as far as to record the strings on it,” Kaoru Dill-Ishibashi, AKA Kishi Bashi, says of the song. “I don’t think it matched the tone of Sonderlust, and so it was a difficult decision to leave it off.”

Now available for pre-order, the Sonderlust (10th Anniversary Edition) features updated artwork from Ssin Kim, the South Korean artist behind the original cover. “The first piece was called End of the Beginning. It was dark, pessimistic; about the end of life,” Dill-Ishibashi explains.

“The new one, made post-COVID, feels more optimistic. It’s interesting that she’s changed, just like I have. When you’re younger, the world can feel overwhelming. As you age, you start to see your place in it, become more pragmatic, less anxious. I think that’s what this new art captures, a sense of perspective, of hope.”

Last fall, Kishi Bashi announced a 2026 headlining tour around Sonderlust’s anniversary, during which he’ll perform the album in full. The run begins in late March with performances at Boise, ID’s Treefort Music Fest and Knoxville, TN’s Big Ears before taking him across the country—including an April 3rd stop at Chicago, IL’s Thalia Hall and an April 11th show at New York, NY’s Irving Plaza.

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VIA PRESS RELEASE | Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MoFi), the renowned leader in high-fidelity audio reissues, is proud to unveil the 40th Anniversary 180g 45RPM 2LP edition of Stevie Nicks’ platinum-certified 1985 album Rock a Little. The vinyl is available for order on January 16 (here), with the SACD to follow at a later date (pre-order here).

Mastered at MoFi’s California studio, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, strictly limited to 4,000 numbered copies, and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, the platinum-certified album was recorded for a reported one million dollars and teems with a head-spinning array of colors, textures, and dreamscapes. Sourced from the original analog tapes (1/4” / 15 IPS Dolby A analog copy to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe), this reference-grade reissue is the first time the music is conveyed with proper balance, dimensionality, and positioning. The degrees of spaciousness, headroom, and dynamics are nothing less than inspiring.

Nicks’ boundless enthusiasm for the project helped cement the album as an essential piece of ‘80s pop lore. The sonic advantages of the reissue extend to the statement-making opener “I Can’t Wait,” shot through with serious drama, and the snapping rhythmic pace and big hooks of “Imperial Hotel,” a standout moment in her solo catalog. The record, crafted by the likes of Benmont Tench and Waddy Wachtel, explores loneliness and the secrets we keep to ourselves. The album features her passionate performance of Chas Sanford’s “Talk to Me,” a Top 5 smash.

Moreover, surrender to the gravitas of the closing “Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You,” a piano ballad composed about the death of Joe Walsh’s three-year-old daughter. As Nicks asserts earlier on the album, she sings for things money can’t buy. So, rock a little, yes, but dare to feel even more.

VIA PRESS RELEASE | After their 1993 release Betti-Cola ruled the campus airwaves for three consecutive months, cub came out with this quirky gem: Come Out Come Out. The purveyors of cuddlecore lit the fire with Betti-Cola, but this one burned the house down and solidified cub and Mint Records in indie record land.

Longtime fans of cub may still have their own copy of the charming triple 7” vinyl that Come Out Come Out was originally released on in 1995, likely picked up during the band’s extensive touring where they shared stages with artists such as They Might Be Giants, Sebadoh, Elliott Smith, Yo La Tengo, Sloan, The Muffs, Magnetic Fields, DOA, Rancid, NOFX, Seam, The Coctails, Sun Ra Arkestra, De La Soul, The Evaporators, and Zumpano.

In 2007, Come Out Come Out was reissued with bonus tracks, and now Mint Records is finally releasing the album on a 12” vinyl, with the track list and original artwork by Fiona Smyth totally reimagined. “I was considering the ways that Come Out Come Out could be reimagined for a special 30th Anniversary edition,” says guitarist Robynn Iwata.

“We wanted to design the release around a single vinyl 12″ in a gatefold sleeve, and that led to the necessity of a remaster specifically tailored to wax. While working through some experiments in my studio for suggestions to the mastering plant on how those remasters might sound best, I also hit upon the idea of a track re-ordering that differed from the original triple vinyl 7″ and CD—one that attempted to make the listening experience a bit more consistent and impactful.”

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VIA PRESS RELEASE | Not many artists record two highly collectible, self-titled albums 10 years apart. But singer-songwriter-keyboardist Leon Ware pulled off that unlikely feat, first with his debut solo record for United Artists in 1972, and then with this one, released by Elektra in 1982.

What he did in between was almost as noteworthy, writing and producing material for Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Minnie Riperton, and Marvin Gaye, for whom he helmed the classic I Want You record. So, the pump was primed for Ware’s 1982 release, which featured Ware’s soaring falsetto (which some compared to Gaye’s) over arrangements by the legendary Marty Paich, with fiery contributions by saxman Gato Barbieri and vocalist Flora Purim (duetting with Ware on the classic “Somewhere”).

As is often the case with cult classics, Leon Ware didn’t sell initially, and in fact got him dropped from Elektra; but it’s emerged as a key early-‘80s R&B release, with “Why I Came to California” a particular latter-day favorite. For its first US vinyl reissue, Real Gone Music is pressing this cult classic on orange crush vinyl.