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Can You Hear Me Now: Duran Duran's '80s Studio Catalogue Back in Print in July

May 9, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Duran 2024 CDs

Look now, look all around: Duran Duran's five studio albums from the '80s were stunningly out of print physically, but that changes this summer. Warner Music, who acquired Duran Duran's Capitol/EMI catalogue as part of Parlophone Records in 2013 after it was divested in EMI's sale to Universal Music Group, will release new CD and vinyl pressings of Duran Duran (1981), Rio (1982), Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983), Notorious (1986) and Big Thing (1989). They will utilize the same remasters

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Duran Duran

Beautiful Like a Rainbow: Cyndi Lauper's 'Let the Canary Sing' Documentary Gets Companion Vinyl

May 9, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Let the Canary Sing

In a solo career that's stretched past 40 years, Cyndi Lauper has gone from unlikely pop idol to one of the genre's great, enduring voices - not to mention an icon and activist for the LGBTQ+ community. All of those sides of her work are the subject of a forthcoming documentary this summer - and Legacy Recordings, keeper of most of Cyndi's catalogue (and a producer on the film) - will release a companion album to go with it. Let the Canary Sing bows on Paramount+ on June 4. Directed by Alison

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Angel, Cyndi Lauper

Go Insane: Lindsey Buckingham's Early Solo Albums Collected in New Box Set

May 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

20th Century Lindsey

Lindsey Buckingham's earliest solo works are getting a box set from Rhino this summer. True to its name, 20th Century Lindsey will feature remastered versions of the three albums the Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist issued during the 20th century - 1981's Law and Order, 1984's Go Insane and 1992's Out of the Cradle - plus a newly compiled disc of eight rarities. The set showcases Buckingham's restless creative spirit that fueled a good portion of Fleetwood Mac's discography, blossoming into

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks

King of the Monsters: Universal Japan to Reissue More Than 20 Godzilla Film Scores for Franchise's 70th Anniversary

April 26, 2024 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Godzilla 2024 OST

Seven decades ago, the mighty Godzilla first rose from the sea to become one of Japanese film's most legendary characters. This summer, with interest in the character still at an all-time high, Universal Music Group's Japanese arm will reissue nearly two dozen classic soundtracks from the film series. UMG will newly remaster and repress on SHM-CD the scores to the 15 Shōwa-era Godzilla films released between 1954 and 1975, as well as the seven Heisei-era pictures which came out between 1984

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Akira Ifukube

Well Alright: New Johnny Cash Album 'Songwriter' Culled from Unreleased 1993 Recordings

April 26, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Johnny Cash Songwriter

Death can't stop The Man in Black: UMe will release a new Johnny Cash album this summer, drawn from unheard recordings from more than 30 years ago. Available June 28, Songwriter features 11 vocals Cash cut in 1993 at LSI Studios in Nashville, augmented by recently-recorded new backing tracks at the Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee by Cash's son John Carter Cash and co-producer David "Fergie" Ferguson. Every one of the tunes was composed solely by Cash himself, from lead single "Well

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings

For Seiji: John Williams' 2023 Tokyo Concert is Latest Live Album from The Maestro

April 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

John Williams in Tokyo

John Williams' latest overseas trip will form another new album from the celebrated composer. John Williams in Tokyo, recorded in 2023 with the Saito Kinen Orchestra and featuring a very special tribute to one of the country's most beloved conductors, will be released May 10 by Deutsche Grammophon on multiple formats including standard CD and vinyl and a deluxe 2CD/Blu-ray set. An arguable highlight of Williams' continued tenure as film score's elder statesman is his semi-annual trip outside

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams, Seiji Ozawa

The Sound of 'One Hand Clapping': Legendary Paul McCartney & Wings Concert Special Gets Debut Standalone Audio Release

April 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

One Hand Clapping

One of Paul McCartney's oft-bootlegged live performances will finally get an official release this summer: the soundtrack to his 1974 "rockumentary" One Hand Clapping. This acclaimed performance with Wings, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in the wake of the release of Band on the Run, will be available June 14 on two CDs or two LPs, featuring the 15 songs used in the special and another disc of 12 songs recorded during the four-day session that birthed the program. A bonus 7", available

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Paul McCartney, Wings

The Weekend Stream: April 21, 2024

April 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2024

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. This week's super-sized post-Record Store Day lineup includes more: more remixes, more covers, more Mancini and yes, more Taylor Swift. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (Republic) (iTunes / Amazon) Can you really call this a reissue? Pop's most ubiquitous

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Anthony Perkins, Arturo Sandoval, Beck, Chris Stapleton, Dave Matthews, David Byrne, Henry Mancini, Herbie Hancock, INXS, John Williams, Keith Richards, Kris Kristofferson, Lyle Lovett, Madonna, Neil Young, Norah Jones, Paramore, Quincy Jones, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Snoop Dogg, Stephen Stills, Taylor Swift, The Chicks, The Lumineers, Tom Jones, U2, Willie Nelson

Going "Crazay": Jesse Johnson's Solo Albums Back in Print from Robinsongs

April 18, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Jesse Johnson Robinsongs

Minneapolis guitarist Jesse Johnson, best known as a member of The Time, will be celebrated by Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint with a 2CD set that combines three of his solo albums for the A&M label and an assortment of extras. The simply titled Jesse Johnson Revue / Shockadelica / Every Shade of Love + Bonus Tracks brings together Johnson's three post-Time solo efforts issued between 1985 and 1988, featuring the Billboard Hot 100 hits "Be Your Man," "I Want My Girl," "Crazay" (featuring

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Jesse Johnson, Prince, Sly Stone, The Time

A Light Hits the Gloom on the Grey: Seal's Second Album Set for Deluxe Release

April 17, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Seal II deluxe

"There is so much a man can tell you / so much he can say..." Seal will be saying a little more with the help of Rhino, who will issue a new deluxe edition of his second album on June 14. Available as a 2CD/Blu-ray or 2LP set, Seal (known colloquially but unofficially as Seal II, to differentiate from his self-titled debut from three years earlier) will include the newly remastered original album plus a bonus disc of unreleased alternate versions of the album's biggest hits and most treasured

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Jeff Beck, Seal, Trevor Horn

Bounce Right Back: Howard Jones' First Two Albums Receive New Mixes by Cherry Red

April 9, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Humans Lib Blu ray

And what could Cherry Red possibly do further with the sterling synth catalogue of Howard Jones? Some seven years into the label's acquisition of Jones' Warner-era material from 1983 to 1993, the U.K. label has found a way: to celebrate the 40th anniversary of debut album Human's Lib, it and follow-up Dream Into Action will be newly remixed for new CD/Blu-ray editions available May 31. This early portion of Jones' discography - which includes hits and fan favorites like "New Song," "What is

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Howard Jones

The Weekend Stream: April 6, 2024

April 6, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2024

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. This week's lineup includes a rare Prince B-side, classic remixes by U2, a country icon taking on a rock legend and much more!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Prince, "United States of Division" (NPG/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Late March marked the 20th anniversary of 2004's Musicology, Prince's first Top 10 album

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Dolly Parton, Henry Mancini, Jim Weatherly, Modest Mouse, Phoebe Snow, Prince, Tom Petty, U2

The Weekend Stream: March 30, 2024

March 30, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2024

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. This week's lineup includes features a country-pop legend, film soundtrack royalty, and more!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Brenda Lee, The International Brenda Lee (Brenda Lee Sings in German, French and Italian) (UMG Nashville/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) Bear Family's 1992 collection featuring Brenda's songs in

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Parsons, Brenda Lee, Henry Mancini, Madonna, Michael R. Jackson, The Alan Parsons Project

Soundtrack Watch: Intrada Premieres Horner's First Score, BSX Re-Presses American 'Godzilla'

March 26, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

The Lady in Red Intrada

A key premiere from one of the most popular composers in recent memory and a fan favorite score to a divisive blockbuster are among the newest catalogue film score titles released this month. The estate of the late James Horner (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Aliens, Braveheart, Titanic, Avatar) has made a considerable push in recent years to unlock many of his rarer film scores from the studio vaults. Their latest collaboration with Intrada is one of the most notable yet: Horner's short

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: David Arnold, James Horner

Heaven in Black: Black Sabbath's Late Period Albums Collected for 'Anno Domini' Box

March 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Black Sabbath Anno Domini

A lesser-known period in the discography of heavy metal icons Black Sabbath will be spotlighted in a new box set coming from Rhino in May. Anno Domini 1989-1995, available May 31 on four CDs or four LPs, will offer a closer look at albums that essentially featured founding guitarist Tony Iommi restarting the band from scratch, recruiting vocalist Tony Martin and a cast of new and old talent to re-establish Sabbath's place in the metal canon. The albums Headless Cross (1989), Tyr (1990), Cross

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Black Sabbath

Flesh for Fantasy: Billy Idol Expands 'Rebel Yell' with Unreleased Demos and Outtakes

March 11, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Rebel Yell Expanded

Hot off the heels of last year's expansion of Billy Idol's self-titled album, the blonde icon is at it again with a 2CD/2LP edition of 1983's Rebel Yell. Available April 26, the deluxe Rebel Yell will pair the original U.S. Top 10 album - which spawned the hit "Eyes Without a Face" and beloved singles "Rebel Yell," "Flesh for Fantasy" and "Catch My Fall" - with a bonus disc featuring seven unreleased demos and outtakes, a modern remix of one track, and on the CD, an assortment of additional

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Idol

The Need for Speed: La-La Land Debuts Harold Faltermeyer's Score to 'Top Gun'

March 7, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Top Gun LLL

La-La Land Records continues its hot streak with an expanded score and soundtrack release of one of the biggest blockbusters of the '80s: Harold Faltermeyer's score to the 1986 action classic Top Gun. The 2CD set, limited to 5000 copies, features Faltermeyer's complete, electronic-infused score to Tony Scott's film about a squadron of Navy pilots training in an elite program colloquially known as - you guessed it - Top Gun. Tom Cruise stars as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a talented but reckless

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Berlin, Cheap Trick, Giorgio Moroder, Harold Faltermeyer, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kenny Loggins, Loverboy, Miami Sound Machine, Otis Redding, Teena Marie, The Righteous Brothers

Soundtrack Watch: Varese Gives Hell and Fire with Latest CD Club Titles

February 26, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

HTTYD3 Varese

Varese Sarabande's two newest limited edition CD Club titles will set score lovers afire, in more ways than one. First up, the label finishes their expansions of John Powell's beloved scores to the animated How to Train Your Dragon trilogy. Based on the children's books of the same name, the DreamWorks-produced series told the story of a misfit Viking named Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) who learns to lead the island of Berk - like his father before him - with the help of a dragon named

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Danny Elfman, John Powell

The Weekend Stream: February 24, 2024

February 24, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts. A lot of exciting stuff this week: a celebration of a classic '90s pop album, the first in a series of digital archive titles for a British art rock duo, and the streaming debut of one of the biggest hits of the '80s! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Eddy Grant, Killer on the Rampage (Ice Records) (iTunes / Amazon) Possibly the biggest

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Average White Band, Bonnie Bramlett, Eddy Grant, The Alan Parsons Project, The Dells, TLC

Too Late the Hero: Edsel Collects John Entwistle's Solo Work in 'The Ox Box Set'

February 22, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

John Entwistle The Ox

John Entwistle's solo material - between and after his time as founding bassist of The Who - will be compiled into a new box set from Edsel. The Ox, due May 10, collects six of his solo albums - Smash Your Head Against the Wall (1971), Whistle Rymes (1972), Rigor Mortis Sets In (1973), Mad Dog (1975), Too Late the Hero (1981) and The Rock (1996) - along with 29 previously released bonus tracks, including demos, B-sides and other rarities. (The track lists mirror individual reissues of these

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Joe Walsh, John Entwistle, Peter Frampton, The Who, Zak Starkey

Great Design: The Call Reissue Early Albums, Plan 'Lost Tapes' and Unreleased Live Sets

February 22, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

The Call Kickstarter

A bit of quick maneuvering through this story will get you access to some classic and unheard material from one of the more underrated bands of the '80s: The Call. Famously championed by Peter Gabriel as "the future of American music" (and featured with Simple Minds' Jim Kerr on the single "Everywhere I Go"), The Call (chiefly comprised of frontman Michael Been, guitarist Tom Ferrier, keyboardist Jim Goodwin and drummer Scott Musick) were best known for the modern rock favorites "I Still

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Call

Everybody Rejoice: Long-Unavailable Luther Vandross Projects Coming to CD, LP, Digital

February 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Luther LP

Legacy Recordings has announced plans to deepen the legend of Luther Vandross with the first-ever expanded reissue of two long-unavailable albums recorded mononymously as Luther in the mid-'70s. Luther (1976) and This Close to You (1977) were originally issued by the Cotillion label but near impossible to find after Vandross finally found solo success in the 1980s, as he bought the rights to both releases back. With 2024 poised to be a big rediscovery year for the late icon - the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Luther Vandross

Lay Down Your Guns: Emerson, Lake & Powell Collection and Carl Palmer Anthology Due Soon

February 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Carl Palmer Fanfare for the Common Man

Fans of ELP - whether that stands for Emerson, Lake & Palmer or Emerson, Lake & Powell - have some new compilations to look forward to this spring. Cherry Red, in partnership with Spirit of Unicorn Music, will issue Emerson, Lake & Powell's studio and live material as Complete Collection, a 3CD set due April 12. It will include the prog trio's self-titled 1986 album (including two CD-only bonus tracks and a single edit of "The Score") and two self-released titles on ELP's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Asia, Carl Palmer, Cozy Powell, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Emerson Lake and Powell, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, Mike Oldfield

The Weekend Stream: February 17, 2024

February 17, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts. Today, we celebrate Crowded House's return, an unreleased track from the Godfather of Soul, six albums from a female country hitmaker and many more! Crowded House, "Oh Hi" (BMG) (iTunes / Amazon) One of Second Disc HQ's favorite bands, Crowded House, is back with the first single from Gravity Stairs, their first album since 2021's Dreamers Are Waiting. This gentle,

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Holly Dunn, INXS, James Brown, Joe Cocker, Kristen Kelly, Nat King Cole, Peter Noone

Right Between the Eyes: Garbage to Reissue and Expand 'Bleed Like Me'

February 14, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Garbage Frank Ockenfels III (2)

Garbage closed a chapter of their career in 2005 with the release of their fourth album, Bleed Like Me, in 2005. Now, they're reopening that chapter with a new deluxe edition of the album, due out in April. The deluxe Bleed Like Me follows similar expansions of the group's early discography on the Almo/Interscope/Geffen labels, where the post-grunge group - frontwoman Shirley Manson, multi-instrumentalists Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, and drummer Butch Vig - rose to fame in the '90s with

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Garbage

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