New Release Round-Up 03-21-25
Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco - I Said I Love You First - IGA
Selena Gomez and benny blanco team up to release their first project as a couple, ‘I Said I Love You First’ via SMG Music LLC & Friends Keep Secrets under exclusive license to Interscope Records. The album celebrates the pair's love story, giving fans a unique window into their relationship. This album came together organically as a direct result of the comfort that they both felt when working together creatively, allowing them to produce art that authentically reflects their experiences. It chronicles their entire story – before they met, falling in love, and looking to what the future holds.
Rush - Rush 50 - Mercury
Celebrate 50 years of RUSH with their first-ever complete career anthology. 50 tracks on 4 CDs and 7 180g LPs featuring selections from every studio, live, and deluxe reissue album. Igniting the experience are the very first two singles, “Not Fade Away” and “You Can’t Fight It,” remastered & reissued for the first time ever. The collection showcases 7 unreleased tracks, including five 1974 live selections with the non-album songs “Bad Boy” and “Garden Road,” a Vault Edition of “The Trees” with an alternate guitar solo, and the very last performance with Neil Peart in Los Angeles on August 1, 2015, of “What You’re Doing / Working Man / Garden Road.” The 104-page hardcover book features new Hugh Syme 50th anniversary artwork along with stunning new song illustrations, photos, and liner notes by renowned rock journalists David Fricke and Philip Wilding. Exclusive to this Super Deluxe are 20 lithos illustrating one song from each studio album and a second 100-page hardcover book The Fullness Of Time, a brand-new graphic novel by Fantoons storytelling a conversation by Geddy & Alex reminiscing on the trials, tribulations, and successes recording each studio album and how the band’s sound evolved with contributions from the producers and engineers the band worked with on their studio albums.
Paul McCartney & Wings - Venus & Mars (50th Anniversary) - Capitol
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Venus and Mars, this special vinyl edition was cut at half speed using a high-resolution transfer of the original master tapes from 1975 by Miles Showell at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, London. This meticulous reproduction of the original UK pressing includes recreations of the original "Venus and Mars are alright tonight" circular sticker and "comparative sizes of sun and planets" bookmark sticker as well as two posters with photography by Aubrey Powell and Sylvia de Swaan.
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
Paul McCartney & Wings - Venus & Mars (50th Anniversary) - [Half Speed LP]
Rush - Rush 50 [Super Deluxe Boxset 7LP + 4CD]
Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) [Colored Vinyl]
My Morning Jacket - is [Indie Exclusive Blue Iceberg LP]
The Stylistics - Falling In Love With My Girl [2 Compact disc]
Disturbed - The Sickness (25th Anniversary Edition) - [Deluxe Limited Edition Box Set]
Goya Gumbani - Warlord Of The Weejuns [Cloudy Cognac Vinyl LP]
Phil Cook - Appalachia Borealis
Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge - Wine On Venus - [LP Recycled Rainbow Tie Dye Splatter]
Sophie - Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides Non-Stop Remix [Indie Exclusive 3 LP]
Iyer, Vijay / Smith, Wadada Leo - Defiant Life
Claduio Abbado / Boston Symphony Orchestra - Scriabin: Poeme L'extase; Tschaikowsky: Romeo Und
Bloodywood - Nu Delhi [Opaque White vinyl]
Karl Bohm / Wiener Philharmoniker - Mozart: Requiem (The Original Source Series) [180 Gram]
Cerrone - Disco Symphony [Clear Vinyl]
De La Soul - Grind Date (20th Anniversary) [Splatter Color 2 LP]
Dissocia - To Lift The Veil (Random Eco-Mix)
Lou Donaldson - Say It Loud (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition)
Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco - I Said I Love You First [Candy Cane Red LP]
Ryan Hurd - Midwest Rock & Roll
Herbert Karajan Von / Berliner Philharmoniker - Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (The Original Source Series
Roland Kirk - Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith [180 Gram]
My Morning Jacket - is [Summer Sky LP]