Welcome to Week 2 of Second Discmas! We hope you've got your dancing shoes on, because today's prize is bound to get you right onto the floor! Thanks to our amazing friends at Light in the Attic, two lucky winners will each receive a copy of Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Finest in Funk and Soul 1965-1975! This electrifying CD illuminates another side of the rich musical landscape of Seattle, Washington, long before the dawn of grunge! The new 2011 reissue of the original, acclaimed 2004
Archives for December 19, 2011
Second Discmas, Week One: And The Winners Are...
And the winners are… With our second week of exciting giveaways about to kick off later today, it’s about time to reveal the winners from our first week of Second Discmas! Without further ado, here we go! Congratulations to… Charles K. of Cleveland, OH, and Jose M., winners of Ben Folds’ The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective! Jeffrey R. of Los Angeles, California, Rich D., Jake H., Kenneth R., and Anthony "Anth", winners of Billy Joel’s Piano Man: Legacy Edition! Edward O., Richard
The Second Disc Buyers Guide: The 100 Greatest Reissues of All Time, Part 16 (#25-21)
We're nearing the Top 20 of our 100 Greatest Reissues list, taking Rolling Stone‘s list of the greatest albums of all time and investigating their many pressings and expansions as the catalogue industry has grown. Today, journey to the past with a quintet of California rock heroes, one of rock-and-roll's early pioneers and the once-and-always Mr. Dynamite! Plus: a Beatle and a star of the Motown stable make intensely personal statements on their own! 25. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (Warner Bros.,
Kritzerland Wraps Up 2011: Orson Welles on "Trial", and Les (Baxter) Is More
2011 may be coming to a close, but the Kritzerland label still has a couple of surprises up its sleeve. The label this morning announced its final two releases of the year, and both are offbeat gems: Lex Baxter's scores to two Edgar Allan Poe offerings (Roger Corman's 1963 The Raven and the Vincent Price-starring 1970 television special An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe) and Jean Ledrut's score to Orson Welles' 1962 film The Trial, described by the Citizen Kane director as "the best film I ever