Rhino Records Founders Reissue Album Of Their Own Band

December 10, 2025

There’s no shortage of record labels created by musicians, yet only few of those enterprises proved to become what we call majors. And while, in this regard, it’s A&M and Reprise first come to mind, with, respectively, Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra as masterminds, the venerated Rhino came from that stock, too, brought to life by Harold Bronson and Richard Foos. Once upon a time, the two used to be members of the ensemble called MOGAN DAVID AND HIS WINOS, alongside Paul Rappaport, the future fixture at Columbia, and Jonathan Kellerman, a bestselling author on the bloom. The band emerged in 1969 and went to release a series of single and an album, in 1973, titled “Savage Young Winos” and long unavailable, before fizzling out in 1975. Five decades later, they decided to look back, though, and dust off the old platter.

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Entire Output Of IAN GILLAN BAND Gets Boxed Together

December 9, 2025

It might seem like a no-brainer to former DEEP PURPLE members to pursue a hard rock route after they were out of the ensemble’s fold, yet some of them were quite willing to experiment. Of course, those who first spring to mind in this regard are Jon Lord and Ian Paice – before joining David Coverdale in WHITESNAKE, the two had an interesting combo with Tony Ashton – but Ian Gillan found some pleasure in going out of a limb too. The singer would find solid success with GILLAN in the late ’70s, only that collective followed another of his endeavors, IAN GILLAN BAND, a jazz-rock outfit with a legacy of three studio albums and assorted concert and outtakes releases, mostly issued via the now-defunct Angel Air label. All of those records now are to be gathered into a comprehensive box set and see the light of day on February 27th, 2026.

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NEKTAR Expand “Down To Earth” With Concert Documents

December 8, 2025

“There were individual pieces, rather than one long piece, on the album, but the storyline still linked them together. We had a bunch of songs that we wrote, and we liked the idea of the circus. We went to ‘Circus Krone’ in Munich to take some of the pictures”: that’s how NEKTAR bassist Mo Moore outlined the gist of the band’s 1974 album in our interview earlier this year. Indeed, the musicians abandoned their previous space-based ideas for “Down To Earth” and made it appropriately warmer, with the help of such fellow travelers as P. P. Arnold and Robert Calvert. Recorded at Chipping Norton Studios in England, where its predecessor had been laid down too, it lacked the scope of 1973’s "Remember The Future" as a result, and fans didn’t value it as high, so now the time came to reassess the classic.

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NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND Turn Nocturnal For A While

December 7, 2025

NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND have been roaming the land for nigh on six decades now, since 1966, and they’re not hurrying to stop any day soon, with two original members, Jeff Hanna and Jimmie Fadden, still leading the ensemble into the future, and the collective’s “All The Good Times: The Farewell Tour” rolling on and on. Their last release might suggest the veterans ran out of fresh material, but given it was “Dirt Does Dylan” in 2022, that didn’t seem to be the case, and still the group’s followers will be more than happy to listen to the American’s forthcoming EP… even though an LP could bring on more happiness.

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JAZZ SABBATH To Present First Concert Album

December 6, 2025

It may have started as a clever joke with a make-believe backstory, all concocted by Adam Wakeman, but after a hat trick of studio platters JAZZ SABBATH became a rather serious proposition. A series of concert performances proved the successfulness of the ensemble’s formula, taking their improvisatory escapades even further into the alternative universe which lies in the heart of it all. Thus, the collective’s next step would logically be the issue of an onstage recording, and that’s exactly what is going to happen on February 20th, 2026.

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