A forthcoming release from Stand Up! Records will shed some light on Dick Davy, one of the more unexpected figures of '60s stand-up comedy. Presenting...Dick Davy attempts to fill in the gaps around an unusual comic who recorded some unusual material under unusual circumstances in the mid-to-late '60s. You're a Long Way from Home, Whitey (1966) and Stronger Than Dirt (1967), both released by Columbia Records, capture a witty performer with a folksy Southern drawl offering Will Rogers-esque,
Release Round-Up: Week of August 22
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Who, Live at The Oval 1971 (Polydor/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Initially available as part of the band's revived Wholigan Fan Club, The Who's Live At The Oval 1971 is coming to general release. The album finally canonizes the group's celebrated performance at "Goodbye to Summer," a British benefit
Free As a Bird: The Beatles 'Anthology' Gets Remixed and Expanded in New Box Set
The next archival project from The Beatles is a celebration of their most major archival project, with a newly reissued and (slightly) expanded edition of their Anthology series coming to audio and video formats this fall. Anthology Collection will include remastered editions of the original three collections of rarities and outtakes compiled by George Martin and released through 1995 and 1996, available across six CDs or nine LPs. Martin's son Giles, who remastered those albums, also curates
They Will Dare: The Replacements' 'Let It Be' is Their Latest Deluxe Reissue
Rhino's series of deluxe Replacements reissues is continuing on October 24 with 3CD and 4LP expanded editions of the Minneapolis band's seminal 1984 Twin/Tone album cheekily titled Let It Be. Let It Be takes a different format than the previous reissues of Tim, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Pleased to Meet Me, and Dead Man's Pop (an alternative presentation of Don't Tell a Soul), all of which included both vinyl and CD in one package. This time, the formats are split into
Cut to the Feeling: Carly Rae Jepsen Celebrates 10 Years of 'Emotion' with Expanded Reissue
A bona fide recent pop classic is getting revisited as it passes the decade mark. Carly Rae Jepsen's E•MO•TION will be reissued on vinyl and digitally later this year with a bonus LP featuring a side of rarities and a side of unreleased tracks. The 2LP presentation, pressed on magenta swirl vinyl with an alternate cover, offers all 17 tracks released back in 2015 (on standard, deluxe and Target-exclusive pressings of the CD), 2017's deliriously catchy non-LP single "Cut to the Feeling," four
Come Spend the Night Inside a Second Sheena Easton Box Set
Cherry Red is wasting no time following its first anthology of Sheena Easton's EMI recordings with its follow-up this fall. Strut - The Complete EMI Recordings Vol. II, due from Cherry Pop on October 31, picks up where its predecessor Modern Girl left off, following the same structure: most of the discs offer expanded and slightly altered programs covering the albums A Private Heaven (1984), Do You (1985) and No Sound But a Heart (1987). The inclusions of alternate versions or mixes in place
The Enz is Near! Split Enz Announce Start of Archival Series
Some time after Crowded House frontman Neil Finn indicated potential work being done with the catalogue of Split Enz - the cult-hero pop band co-founded by his older brother Tim - fans finally have some development on that front, with the first in a planned series of archival sets covering the group's early, avant-garde years. Enzyclopedia Volumes One and Two will focus on the group's early years, coalescing around the material leading up to 1975 debut Mental Notes, which celebrates a
This Is Your Death! "Spike Jones In Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound" Returns From Omnivore
Dracula, Vampira, Frankenstein, and Dr. Jekyll walk into a room... When the late, great Spike Jones (1911-1965) set his sights on Halloween, a cult classic album was born. The fiendishly funny musical satirist had been unleashing insanity on unsuspecting record buyers since the early 1940s, turning car horns, belches, sneezes, gurgles, and gunshots into high art. In 1959, both rock-and-roll and the horror movie craze were in full swing, and the fiendishly funny, endlessly inventive purveyor
Tell Me One More Time: New Vinyl Box Chronicles Austin Blues Haven Antone's
New West Records brings some late-summer Texas heat this week, courtesy of a new vinyl box set celebrating the legendary Austin club Antone's. Antone's 50th Allstars: 50 Years of the Blues will feature four 140-gram, translucent color LPs and a 7" single containing three special albums tracing Antone's history on record. The Last Real Texas Blues Album (pressed on purple vinyl) offers new studio recordings from acts with deep roots in the Austin scene, from Jimmie Vaughan, Bobby Rush and The
The Weekend Stream: August 16, 2025
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. A soft-rock legend says farewell on his own terms, a Broadway star channels one of mid-century pop's greatest voices, plus everything from video game music to "jazz-tinged" alt-pop oddities is headed your way this week! Stephen Bishop, THIMK (Life's a Bish) (Apple / Amazon) Stephen Bishop is billing THIMK as his final studio album - a
The Saints Are Coming: Edsel Plans Skids CD Box Set, Vinyl Compilation
The prime work of Scottish punk band Skids will be celebrated by Demon Music Group with a new CD box set and vinyl compilation, out this fall. Boy, Man & Soldier: Skids 1978-1981 will offer, on five CDs, expanded editions of the group's Virgin Records discography: Scared to Dance (1979), two pressings/mixes of Days in Europa (1979), The Absolute Game (1980) and Joy (1981). The discs are packaged in a 7" x 7" box featuring original album and single art. A companion best-of, Land, Sea &
Release Round-Up: Week of August 15
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Doc Pomus, You Can't Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore) You Can't Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos collects more than 160 tracks from the late, legendary songwriter, who died in 1991 at the age of 65 and was subsequently inducted into the
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's New Live Box Set Showcases 'Sometime in New York City' and Elsewhere
One of the most incendiary periods of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's life together is about to be re-explored in a new 9CD/3Blu-ray box set coming on October 10 (one day after what would have been Lennon's 85th birthday) from Capitol Records/UMe. Power to the People features 123 tracks (90 of which are previously unreleased) to tell the full story of Lennon and Ono's political activism, spanning the prolific period between 1969's anthem "Give Peace a Chance" and 1972's controversial live album
What a Box Set, Charlie Brown! Rare 'Peanuts' Soundtracks Join Together in New CD Collection
Even this deep into the age of reissues and audio preservation, discoveries can happen that make you say "AUGH!" (in a good way). A few of those recent examples are about to get put into a box set, available exclusively at independent record stores. Six recently released soundtracks to animated Peanuts television specials - composed, as always, by jazz hero Vince Guaraldi, and not available until the last two years! - are getting compiled in The Peanuts Collection, Vol. 1, available soon at
Always Something There: Naked Eyes' Debut to Be Expanded with Rare Tracks and Demos
One of the strangest phenomena of early '80s pop is that U.K. pop duo Naked Eyes - who stormed the Top 10 in America in the summer of 1983 with a thunderous synth version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Always Something There to Remind Me" - completely missed the chart at home. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that a forthcoming expanded edition of their debut, featuring three unreleased demos and a fistful of non-album tracks, takes its cues from the American version of the
United: Ace Compiles Songs of Gamble and Huff on "Love Train" Collection
Ace Records is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary with special releases as well as concerts and a pop-up shop in London. Over the course of those decades, the label has established a number of long-running series including their Songwriters and Producers lines. A recent release in the Songwriters series celebrates two of the all-time greats in both categories: Philadelphia's Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff. Love Train: The Gamble and Huff Songbook brings together 24 songs from the
A SECOND DISC EXCLUSIVE! "Play On: A Raspberries Tribute" Welcomes Rick Springfield, Lou Gramm, Marshall Crenshaw, John Waite, More
Today would have been Eric Carmen's 76th birthday. To mark the occasion, we're thrilled to be first to break the news about an upcoming collection we know you're not going to want to miss! The Raspberries blazed briefly but brightly. When Eric Carmen and Wally Bryson of Cyrus Eyrie teamed up with Jim Bonfanti and Dave Smalley of The Choir, the result was pure bliss. The Raspberries emerged from the ashes from the two bands, and over the course of four albums originally released between
The Weekend Stream: August 9, 2025
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. Jim Reeves isn't the only gentleman on display this week: we've also got Peter Gabriel, Eddy Grant, Ben Folds and a host of film composers - plus many, many more! Peter Gabriel, Live At WOMAD 1982 (Real World) (Apple / Amazon) Loosed from the vault is Gabriel's nine-song headlining set at the first World of Music, Art and Dance
The Weekend Stream Extra: Jim Reeves' Country Legend Goes 'Singing Down the Lane' on New Expanded Edition
Even as the sound of country music changed in the 1980s - a shift represented by everything from the Urban Cowboy soundrack to Kenny Rogers' romantic crossover singles - some things never changed. Take Jim Reeves, for instance: the baritone crooner spent the late '50s and early '60s helping craft the "countrypolitan" style that helped the genre spread its wings in other listening markets in America beyond the rural South. Into the late '70s and early '80s, he was still a force on the country
Release Round-Up: Week of August 8
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. America, Hearts: 50th Anniversary Edition (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore) Omnivore Recordings is reissuing, remastering, and expanding America's Hearts, featuring "Sister Golden Hair," "Daisy Jane," and "Woman Tonight," for its 50th anniversary. This new edition adds six bonus cuts to the
Poguetry in Motion: 'Rum Sodomy & the Lash' Gets Expanded on CD and Vinyl for 40th Anniversary
The Pogues' sophomore album turned 40 this week, and Rhino will celebrate later this year with a new deluxe edition on CD and LP. Rum Sodomy & the Lash will be reissued as a 2CD and 2LP set (following a similar package for 1984's Red Roses for Me, released last year) that'll feature the original album alongside a baker's dozen tracks of non-album studio and live material. Extras include two non-album B-sides, six live cuts (including a complete live session recorded for Janice Long's BBC
Ain't That Tuff Enuff: The Fabulous Thunderbirds' Early Work Gets the Box Set Treatment
Blues band The Fabulous Thunderbirds - who had perhaps one of the least likely chart hits of the '80s - will release a box set this year chronicling their most mainstream years and showcasing their original and best-known guitarist. The Jimmie Vaughan Years: Complete Studio Recordings presents seven complete albums over four CDs: the Chrysalis releases The Fabulous Thunderbirds (1979), What's the Word (1980), Butt Rockin' (1981) and T-Bird Rhythm (1982), and the CBS Associated albums Tuff
You Can't Kill the Boogeyman: John Carpenter's Latter-Day 'Halloween' Scores Get Expanded Box Set
"The night HE came home" is about to have a whole new meaning, thanks to a new box set from Sacred Bones Records containing expanded presentations of the scores to the late '10s/early '20s Halloween trilogy of horror films. Halloween: The Complete Expanded Collection will offer, on three CDs or six LPs, a previously-released expanded presentation of the score to the 2018 sequel/reboot, along with new expansions of the music to sequels Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022) - all
Sunshine All The Time: Omnivore's "Something There: Remembering Jeffrey Foskett" Is OUT NOW!
Jeffrey Foskett surely embodied the California Dream. The San Jose native his dues gigging around the Golden State with such early bands as Reverie and The Pranks. A knock on Brian Wilson's door in 1976 led to a long friendship with the Beach Boy, while Wilson's cousin Mike Love became a Foskett fan three years later upon hearing Reverie live in a Santa Barbara bar. Love brought Foskett into the Beach Boys fold - first in The Endless Summer Beach Band, then in the Beach Boys themselves.
Life Begins (Again) At the Hop: XTC's 'Drums and Wires' Gets New Atmos Mix on Slightly Expanded Reissue
One of XTC's great early albums is getting another facelift courtesy of remixer Steven Wilson. The Porcupine Tree musician and engineer counts the Swindon cult heroes among his earliest remix work, fashioning new stereo and surround mixes of Drums and Wires, Black Sea, The Big Express, Skylarking, Oranges & Lemons and Nonsuch between 2013 and 2023 (along with a compilation of the group's psychedelic work under the alter ego The Dukes of Stratosphear). With multitrack tapes for additional
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