Just a quick note to our dear readers out there: from Sunday, August 15 to Thursday, August 26 I shall be taking a leave from my post at The Second Disc to go on vacation. However, I realize that reissues never sleep - so with that in mind you'll be in the capable hands of Joe Marchese for the next two weeks or so. He'll be providing you with daily news as well as his usual top-notch features (and there's at least one big, previously-announced title that's going to have some more information
Archives for August 14, 2010
News Round-Up: Release Date Changes, Hip-o Select Releases and More
A quick note that both Queensryche's 20th anniversary reissue of Empire and Morrissey's 20th anniversary reissue of Bona Drag - both from EMI - have been moved on the calendar. The latter will now street October 5 (the reissue of the "Everyday is Like Sunday" single will still street September 28) and the former will be released on September 28. MusicTAP tweeted this intriguing article from Billboard and Reuters: the Pink Floyd catalogue is now digitally out of print. There was talk for awhile
Friday Feature: The Rocky Story
Today saw the release of the widely-hyped The Expendables, in which Sylvester Stallone gathered as many action movie heroes, past and present, and shoved them all into a film. By all accounts, it doesn't seem to have worked as well as it could have. And that's more or less latter-day Stallone for you. (Seriously, have you seen Rambo?) With that in mind, this week's Friday Feature takes you to a simpler time. A time where Stallone was a young actor with a dream, which he turned into a