From February 10 to March 17, Capitol Records will release much of the I.R.S. Records catalog digitally for the first time reports Rolling Stone. Records by Stewart Copeland, Dread Zeppelin, Gary Neuman, Over the Rhine and many others will be released, but the big news for the Triangle is that The dB's albums Stands For Decibels, Repurcussion and The Sound of Music is will be available. Currently, the only dB's albums available to download Ride the Wild TomTom and the band's Christmas compilation Christmas Time Again as well as the single "What Became of the Brokenhearted."The albums will go up on iTunes, Amazon MP3 and other download services but it's not clear when during the month plus timespan that the records will be released, but at least they'll be online soon.
[UPDATE: The dB's first two albums Stands For Decibels and Repurcussion were first released by UK label Albion before being re-released by IRS in the late 80's.]
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