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Stir It Up: Bob Marley's 'Catch a Fire' Goes Deluxe for Its 50th Anniversary

September 22, 2023 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Bob Marley Catch a Fire 50th

One of reggae's most enduring international releases gets the deluxe treatment this fall, with a new reissue of Bob Marley & The Wailers' Catch a Fire. Available November 3, the 50th anniversary set (available on three CDs or three LPs with a single-sided bonus 12") brings together Marley's first album for Island Records along with an unreleased 1973 concert at London's Paris Theatre, unreleased session versions (similar to material featured on a 2001 deluxe edition of the album) and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul, Reggae Tags: Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers

Weekend Stream Spotlight: Bruce Springsteen's 'Live Series' Comes Home with New Jersey-Focused Installment

September 22, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Springsteen Songs of New Jersey

Ahead of our usual Weekend Stream programming on Saturday, we're taking the time to spotlight a new digital catalog release that's quite near and dear to our hearts - and locations! - at Second Disc HQ. For a half-century, the artistry of Bruce Springsteen has galvanized millions beyond the state lines of his native New Jersey - but there's something about home that makes his work really special. Fans can and will debate which of his many, many live concerts have been the best - there's a

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Party of Three: R.E.M. Goes 'Up' with 25th Anniversary Reissue

September 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

REM Up 25

A quarter century ago, R.E.M. made some surprising steps in their storied career that will be re-examined in a new 25th anniversary reissue of 1998's Up. The remastered album will be reissued on CD, vinyl and digitally, including a deluxe set that includes a previously unreleased live performance undertaken for the TV drama Party of Five. A Blu-ray includes the album's long-unavailable 5.1 surround and hi-res mixes, plus rare footage and music videos from the period. All the releases will be in

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: R.E.M.

Back to 'The Block': New Kids on the Block Revisit Comeback Album with New Bonus Tracks

September 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

New Kids on The Block Revisited

New Kids on the Block are going back to where it all restarted. The Boston boy band, a sensation of the late '80s and early '90s, are reissuing their 2008 reunion album The Block. The Block Revisited, available November 3, will feature the original album and nine bonus tracks on CD or two LPs, including the unreleased fan favorite "Coming Home" and a new remix of the track "Dirty Dancing" recorded with K-pop outfit SEVENTEEN. Digital editions will include a further eight bonus tracks,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: New Kids on the Block

Space is Deep: A Classic Hawkwind Live Album Gets a Box Set in September

September 18, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Hawkwind Space Ritual

Cosmic rock doesn't get much more cosmic (or ambitious!) than Hawkwind's live album Space Ritual - and this month, it'll be expanded beyond all imagination in an epic 10CD/Blu-ray box set from Cherry Red and Atomhenge, the label responsible for the group's catalogue. Space Ritual (50th Anniversary Edition) will feature the original, newly remastered 1973 double album as well as new mixes in stereo and surround by Stephen W. Tayler. Additionally, the box will feature Tayler's new mixes of the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Hawkwind, Lemmy Kilmister, Motörhead

Living in the Sunshine: Bruce Hornsby Expands 'Spirit Trail' for 25th Anniversary

September 18, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Bruce Hornsby Spirit Trail 25

Bruce Hornsby has made a career out of defying expectations. This fall, one of his most eclectic albums of a less commercial period - the late '90s - will be expanded and revisited for its 25th anniversary: 1998's Spirit Trail. The lengthy double album will feature four outtakes from a "lost" full-band follow-up to Spirit Trail that was abandoned in favor of 2002's Big Swing Face, a more electronic effort backed by his then-new band The Noisemakers. The CD version of the reissue will feature

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Bruce Hornsby

Twisting by the Pool: Dire Straits Offer Expanded, Unreleased Material for Live Box Set

September 18, 2023 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Dire Straits Live 1978 1992 vinyl packshot

When Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits reissued their classic catalogue in a box set in 2020, it only covered studio recordings. Now, a companion box will feature their live material, including 29 unreleased tracks. Live 1978-1992 will offer expansions of two classic Dire Straits concert albums (1984's Alchemy: Dire Straits Live and 1993's On the Night, one of the last releases before their dissolution), the 1993 companion EP Encores, 1995's Live At The BBC compilation and, for the first time

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, Thin Lizzy

The Weekend Stream: September 16, 2023

September 16, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. This week's latest brings you a classic country centennial, remixes from Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson and The Art of Noise, a rare album from a songwriter moonlighting as a singer, hard-to-find Olivia Newton John songs and so much more! Hank Williams, Hank 100: Greatest Radio Hits (BMG Rights

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Crystal Waters, Duke Ellington, Hank Williams, Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross, Mark James, Nick Cave, Olivia Newton-John, Pat Boone, Pulp, Seaweed, The Art of Noise, Veruca Salt

True Faith: New Order's Classic Compilation 'Substance 1987' Gets Expanded

September 15, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

New Order Substance 2023

Style over Substance? New Order offered both on their unforgettable 1987 compilation - and it's getting expanded as a 4CD set this fall. The newly-remastered Substance 1987 collects once more a dozen classic sides from the British electronic band, from 1981's ceremony to the then-new "True Faith" as well as exclusive updates of "Temptation" and "Confusion." The double vinyl is pressed on black or retail-exclusive red and blue discs, while the 2CD and double cassette (the latter exclusive to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Rock Tags: New Order

Keeping the Faith: Second Billy Joel Vinyl Box Coming Soon

September 14, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Billy Joel Vinyl Collection 2

Call it another matter of trust: Legacy Recordings is releasing a second Billy Joel vinyl box. The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 2, releasing November 3, brings newly remastered and repressed LP versions of Joel's final six studio albums - Glass Houses (1980), The Nylon Curtain (1982), An Innocent Man (1983), The Bridge (1986), Storm Front (1989) and River of Dreams (1993) - plus the debut vinyl pressing of Joel's classical compositions set Fantasies & Delusions (2001) and the premiere audio

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Joel

When They Were Young: Cherry Red Plans Definitive Bucks Fizz Collection

September 12, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Bucks Fizz Land of Make Believe

Pop acts of the '80s didn't get much more quintessentially British than Bucks Fizz. Assembled for a memorable winner at the Eurovision Song Contest, the vocal quartet scored 11 Top 20 hits in England throughout the decade - none of which never made a whisper near the U.S. charts. But if you're an anglophile in search of an education, Cherry Red's got you covered with a generous new 5CD collection. The Land of Make Believe: The Definitive Collection lives up to its name, gathering 39 single

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Bucks Fizz

They Don't Know: Massive Kirsty MacColl Box, Packed with Hits Unreleased Tracks, Due in October

September 12, 2023 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Kirsty MacColl See That Girl

For just over two decades, Kirsty MacColl was one of England's most uniquely talented female rock singer/songwriters. This fall, nearly a quarter century after her passing, a new box set will examine her career in-depth. See That Girl (1979-2000), coming October 27 from Universal Music Recordings in the U.K., is an 8CD set loaded with 161 singles, rarities, remixes, live cuts and duets - including 47 previously unreleased recordings. Produced in partnership with the singer's estate, the set

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Bragg, David Byrne, Kirsty MacColl, The Pogues

Reruns All Become Our History: Breakthrough Goo Goo Dolls Concert Gets Standalone Release

September 11, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Goo Goo Dolls Academy 1995

Sometimes fans are lucky enough to receive a document of a band in concert that means something important in the group's history. Rock survivors the Goo Goo Dolls are slated to bring listeners just that, nearly 30 years after that crucial show was first recorded. Live At The Academy, New York, City, 1995 is slated for release from the band through their longtime label Warner Records on October 20. It features two breakthrough sets: a memorable performance for the CMJ Music Conference,

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

Then a Hero Comes Along: Mariah Carey's 'Music Box' Goes Deluxe with Unreleased Outtakes, Live Concert

September 11, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Mariah Music Box 30

The third time was the charm when Mariah Carey released Music Box three decades ago. The elusive chanteuse last week announced plans to expand her third album with a wealth of rare and unreleased bonus material. Released as a 3CD or 4LP set on February 24, 2024 but available digitally now, the new expansion of Music Box features the original 10-track album expanded with international bonus track "Everything Fades Away"; a disc of studio material, including the unheard teaser "Workin' Hard,"

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

The Weekend Stream: September 9, 2023

September 9, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. From classic Jersey pop and British dance of the '80s to a bright young drummer keeping Detroit soul alive in the present day, our latest offerings pack quite a punch. The Bongos, Numbers with Wings (40th Anniversary Edition) (RCA/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) The New Jersey pop/rock outfit led by

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Dennis Coffey, Four Tops, MC5, Melvin Davis, Pulp, Richard Barone, Stephen Bishop, The Art of Noise, The Bongos, U2

Seeking "Salvation": The Cranberries' 'Faithful Departed' Gets Expanded by UMe

September 8, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Cranberries Faithful Departed deluxe packshot

UMe will pay tribute to The Cranberries' third album, 1996's To the Faithful Departed, with a newly remastered deluxe edition hitting record stores October 13. The album will feature a smattering of previously released bonus material beside two discs of almost entirely unreleased studio outtakes and live material. To the Faithful Departed was so named for the loss of two major forces in the band's lives. Denny Cordell, who'd signed the Irish folk-rockers to Island Records at the start of the

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Goldsmith's 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Score Boldly Goes Back to Vinyl

September 8, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Star Trek TMP 2022 cover

Set turntables at 33 1/3 RPM speed! Jerry Goldsmith's score to Star Trek: The Motion Picture - restored last year for a new restoration of the film's "Director's Edition" - is coming out of warp and onto vinyl from Enjoy The Ride Records. The reissue label, specializing in unique pressings of soundtracks on LP, will issue three separate versions of the complete film score on 140-gram double vinyl. A total of 700 copies will be issued with tri-color stripe scheme (red/orange/yellow on one

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Jerry Goldsmith

Relight My Fire: Edsel's 'Dance Masters' Series Continues with John Luongo Box

September 7, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Dance Masters John Luongo CD box

Demon/Edsel's Dance Masters series only just released its second volume this summer - but a third one is on the way this fall, spotlighting the work of acclaimed remixer John Luongo. The Arthur Baker-presented series follows generous box sets on Shep Pettibone and Baker himself with a new overview of John "T.C." Luongo, who parlayed working in and around the Boston club scene into more than a decade of 12" remix work, first for some of the greatest R&B artists crossing over into disco,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABC, Bananarama, Billy Idol, Cher, Dan Hartman, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Fine Young Cannibals, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Huey Lewis and The News, John Luongo, John Waite, Johnny Mathis, KC and the Sunshine Band, Level 42, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Marlena Shaw, Melba Moore, Patti Labelle, Peter Schilling, Rick Springfield, Shakin' Stevens, Soft Cell, Tina Turner, Visage, Wang Chung, ZZ Top

Is Your Love in Vain? Bob Dylan Expands Budokan Live Album for New Box Set

September 7, 2023 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

Dylan Budokan packshot

There was something about Midwestern-born rockers on the CBS Records roster making stops at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Japan. In 1979, Columbia issued not one but two live albums from the Tokyo venue, both simply titled At Budokan. While the one by Cheap Trick essentially made them stars in their home country, a double album of rearranged hits from Bob Dylan sharply polarized fans and critics. Now, on November 17, the Dylan camp is re-examining the artist's time in Japan with a brand-new box

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

Duty Now for the Future: Devo Announce Career-Spanning Compilation

September 6, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Devo.jpg

Nobody can really prove if society is moving in reverse...except maybe Devo. The finest of their findings over a half century of musical exploration will be assembled in a new compilation from Rhino Records. 50 Years of De-Evolution (1973-2023) will arrive in stores and digitally on October 20. The 50-track set will include hits and album cuts from each of their nine albums released between 1978 and 2010, plus an assortment of rare B-sides, single-only tracks and soundtrack songs. (The 7"

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Devo

And If I Know You: Mondo Brings 'That Thing You Do!' to Vinyl

September 6, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

That Thing You Do Mondo

Mondo Records brings one of the most beloved soundtracks of the late 20th century to vinyl for the first time today, with a brand-new pressing of the soundtrack to the pop classic That Thing You Do! The original album will be available on 140-gram black or splatter vinyl in a newly-designed jacket that'll also include a 12-page booklet of rare and unseen photos and a replica of the original Playtone single release of the immortal title track, with a label and track order just like in the film.

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Adam Schlesinger, Tom Hanks

The Weekend Stream: September 2, 2023

September 2, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. It's a full '80s revival this week, including a rare Duran Duran track and some live cuts from Squeeze,and - whether you're ready for it or not - a batch of Christmas catalogue titles. Duran Duran, Ball and Chain (Tape Modern/BMG) (iTunes / Amazon) Duran Duran are back in a big way this fall, set

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Art Blakey, Chet Atkins, Duran Duran, George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Madonna, Mickey & Sylvia, Squeeze, Stanley Turrentine, Tamar Braxton, The Art of Noise, Visage

And That's Not Nearly All: Soft Cell's 'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret' Goes Massive for Box Set Season

August 31, 2023 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Non Stop Erotic Cabaret

Marc Almond's Tenement Symphony isn't the only title involving the U.K. synthpop singer going deluxe this year. On October 20, UMR will give you all a boy could give you with a massive deluxe edition of Soft Cell's breakthrough debut album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. The 6CD box set, housed in a 10" x 10" box, presents the beloved New Wave classic alongside a treasure trove of B-sides, remixes, live cuts, demos and other audio curiosities. Of the set's 98 tracks, 40 of them are previously

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop Tags: Marc Almond, Soft Cell

Iconoclassic Update: David Sancious, Duke Jupiter, Vinyl Added to Reissue Label's Release Schedule

August 29, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

David Sancious Dance of the Age of Enlightenment

The fall/winter reissue rush isn't just for the major catalogue labels! Iconoclassic Records is working hard to finish 2023 strong with a quartet of titles in October and November - including a world premiere CD, an expansion of an '80s curio and the label's first-ever vinyl titles. One of the most exciting additions to the Iconoclassic catalogue is Dance of the Age of Enlightenment, a very rare album from David Sancious and Tone. Sancious, a talented keyboardist, first gained prominence as a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: David Sancious, Duke Jupiter, Graham Parker, Steve Marriott

Call Me the Breeze: J.J. Cale Vinyl Box Due in October

August 28, 2023 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

JJ Cale Tulsa Sound

Though not a household name like his contemporaries, J.J. Cale's guitar skills were celebrated by many of his peers - and his country/blues/jazz style helped usher in a whole new subgenre which lends its name to a new Cale vinyl box set: Tulsa Sound. Tulsa Sound features new remastered versions of Cale's eight studio albums released on the Shelter and Mercury labels between 1971 and 1983, along with a ninth bonus disc, The Early Years, collecting six single sides Cale cut for Liberty Records

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: J.J. Cale

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