Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Beatles, "1964 U.S. Albums in Mono"

By Joe Marchese | December 3, 2024 | 2 Comments

Any Time at All Did The Beatles save rock and roll? If John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr didn't save the still-young form, they certainly gifted it with a reinvigorating, exhilarating jolt of musical euphoria the likes of which hadn't been seen before - and hasn't been duplicated since.  The scene was […]

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Forty Year Ache: Rosanne Cash Collects Favorites for New Compilation

By Mike Duquette | December 3, 2024 | 4 Comments

Rosanne Cash, the oldest child of a country music icon and a superb, genre-hopping performer in her own right, will commemorate a museum exhibit of her life and career with a new career-spanning 2CD retrospective. The Essential Collection brings together 40 of Cash's most treasured recordings - half from her tenure on Columbia Records and […]

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THE SECOND DISC'S 2024 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE!

By The Second Disc | December 2, 2024 | 0 Comments

Well, today is Cyber Monday, which means one thing at Second Disc HQ: it's time to launch our annual Holiday Gift Guide, featuring (more than) a few of our favorite things for the music enthusiast in your life.  Sure, we might not have included raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but we've filled the […]

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Soundtrack Watch: Varese and La-La Land Bow Their Final Score Surprises, from Blade to Bond

By Mike Duquette | December 2, 2024 | 0 Comments

When La-La Land Records announced a bunch of big archival score titles for the beginning of November instead of their usual calendar-closing Black Friday announcement, it was safe to assume there were no more surprises coming from the label this year. Once again, that turned out to be quite untrue: in a reprise of last year's […]

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The Weekend Stream: November 30, 2024

By Mike Duquette | November 30, 2024 | 3 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. The Christmas season means favorites (quite) old and (sort of) new, plus Wang Chung's first album and a rock and hip-hop packed slasher film soundtrack. Band Aid, Do They Know It's Christmas? EP (Band […]

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