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One of the most successful albums of Linda Ronstadt's career, "Simple Dreams" spent five successive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart in late 1977, displacing Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" at No. 1 after 29 record-breaking weeks in the pole position. It also knocked Elvis Presley out of No. 1 on Billboard's Country Albums chart after 'The King' held the gridlock for 15 consecutive weeks after his death in August. It won the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package (in addition to several other high profile Grammy nominations).
"Simple Dreams" was Ronstadt's fifth consecutive million-selling platinum album and sold more than 3½ million copies in less than a year in the United States alone — a record for a female artist. Simply put, Ronstadt just couldn't lose. "Simple Dreams" continued a creative streak that found the singer turning out album after album of incredible material at an astonishing one-per-year rate until she finally began to come back down to earth in the early 1980s.
Now hear "Simple Dreams" as never before. Remastered by the late, great Doug Sax at the Mastering Lab, together with Robert Hadley, and pressed on 45 RPM super-silent 200-gram vinyl by Quality Record Pressings, this revered recording truly is a sonic treasure. And it comes in a Stoughton Printing tip-on gatefold jacket with meticulously reproduced original artwork. Stunning.
Featuring an expanded palette of styles and cutting-edge narratives, "Simple Dreams" may go down in history as Ronstadt's greatest work. Considering the achievements: Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female; Five consecutive weeks as the No. 1 record on the Billboard Album Chart, Two Top 10 singles.

The remastered edition of the City Music Tokyo multiple compilation, curated by Cunimondo Takiguchi (Ryusenkei), originally released on CD and digital formats by Nippon Columbia in 2023, is now making its debut on vinyl!! The compilation is a chronicle curated by Cunimondo Takiguchi (Ryusenkei / City Music Tokyo), specializing in curation from the vast catalog owned by Nippon Columbia. It serves as a chronological account of the most exciting and innovative originators and key artists in the genre of City Pop.

Multicolor 2LP Pressed on Clear Red and Clear Blue Vinyl Essential Japanese City Pop Compilation First ever vinyl release Featuring Mariya Takeuchi, Taeko Ohnuki, Minako Yoshida, and more City Pop stars! Artwork by Eizin Suzuki / The ultimate 70s-80s classic city pop compilation now available in vinyl! Includes 14 tracks from the CD version released on March, plus 6 new tracks which add up to 20 tracks in 2 vinyl. Hitoshi Kurimoto, the author of “The Basics Of City Pop Guide Book With 100 Discs” (Seikaisha Shinsho), is the planner, selected songs, and wrote the commentary for the product.

Musician and writer Karl Bartos has long been admirer of Weimar-era culture. During his time in Kraftwerk, he helped create the stunning track "Metropolis", directly inspired by a band viewing of the classic1927 Fritz Lang film of the same name. The original orchestral music composed for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Giuseppe Becce had long been lost and in 2005, after watching the film, Bartos imagined what it would be like to create an entirely new one in the 21st Century in his home studios in Hamburg. Now with crystal clear images, digitally restored by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation, the film is visually the best quality it has ever been, and now, wit...

Foghat formed originally in 1971 in the UK and has achieved eight gold records, one platinum, and one double platinum record. This is all previously unreleased live material recorded over two nights in New Orleans in 1973 (band touring their second Bearsville album) with highlights chosen by Roger Earl. This is the first live release that features the band’s early-era, blues-based material and will appeal to fans of Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers w/Eric Clapton, Cream, The Faces and many more.

2023 will see Billy Bragg and Cooking Vinyl celebrating forty years of music from the singer, songwriter, activist and author, with a selection of releases to appeal to casual admirers and die hard fans alike.Each format has been compiled by Billy beginning with a 1LP 13-song "primer" on LTD Edition orange Colored Vinyl, a 40-song LTD Edition Deluxe 3 LP collection on three shades of green vinyl, and a 40-song 2CD in card digisleeve with 16 page booklet. The vinyl formats contain a download card.

Every seven years, we release an After Dark label sampler, the long awaited third edition is finally here. Produced by Johnny Jewel, ‘After Dark 3’ features label mainstays Desire, Chromatics, Farah and introduces fresh blood from around the globe. A glimpse beyond the curtain, into what the new year sounds like for Italians Do It Better. In the tradition of our spaced out cinema disco, we present After Dark 3…The wallpaper of your dreams & the stardust of the future. With Orion, Johnny Jewel, Double Mixte, Atrip, Love Object, Joon, Glüme, Mothermary, GUy Gerber, Causeway, Club Intl, and Pink GLoveS.

Perpetual Groove continues to conquer the jam scene with its dynamic presence both on and off stage. The group's breakout album, Sweet Oblivious Antidote (released in 2003) has been praised internationally and is widely regarded as one of the most quintessential works in the canon. To commemorate its impending milestone, Perpetual Groove releases a remixed and remastered 20th anniversary run of Sweet Oblivious Antidote. The double LP will be pressed to vinyl for the first time ever, featuring two newly recorded bonus tracks.