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The Weekend Stream: October 19, 2024

October 19, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment
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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 brief week offers some unusual soundtracks, an even more unusual Beach Boys homage – and plenty of Christmas curiosities! Various Artists, Pulp Fiction (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Geffen) (iTunes / Amazon) This weekend, the iconic songs-and-dialogue album for Quentin Tarantino’s classic film Pulp Fiction – featuring favorites like Dick Dale’s rapid-fire, guitar-driven instrumental “Misirlou” and a cover of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” by Urge Overkill…

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Discs for Groovy Children: Hendrix, Whitney Houston, Rage Against the Machine Lead Legacy’s Record Store Day Black Friday Slate

October 18, 2024 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
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Legacy Recordings has prepped an eclectic state of mostly classic rock and hip-hop titles to be released on vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday. The long-running spinoff event to the big April bonanza takes place November 29 at participating independent outlets – and below is an alphabetical look at what Sony Music’s catalog arm will be releasing. More than 50 years after her tragic passing, singer Janis Joplin continues to find new fans – and Legacy’s first Black Friday title highlights her power in concert as the frontwoman of Big Brother…

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The Weekend Stream: October 12, 2024

October 12, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments
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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 creep may continue, but we’ve got plenty more where that came from: a new spin on a John Lennon classic, rare remixes from David Bowie, a live triumph from Céline Dion, some thrills and chills from the Alien universe – and first off, a charitable compilation built for a good cause in the wake of our country’s severest storms of late. Various Artists, Cardinals At the Window (Music’s Promise) (Bandcamp)…

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A “Runaway” Hit: Bon Jovi Prep Physical Deluxe Edition of Debut Album

October 7, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments
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Earlier this year, UMe celebrated the 40th anniversary of Bon Jovi’s debut album with an extras-packed digital deluxe edition. Just in time for Christmas, that set is getting a physical 2CD release. The self-titled effort from the New Jersey rockers sports nine extra tracks, including previously unreleased early versions of debut single “Runaway” and new mixes of previously released live material from the band’s longtime engineer Obie O’Brien. The set is packaged in a standard jewel case and will hit stores November 22. Perth Amboy, NJ-born Jon Bongiovi was a hardworking singer…

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The Weekend Stream: October 5, 2024

October 5, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments
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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 Saturday brings remixes from James Brown, live rarities from Daryl Hall and – yes – a jump on some Christmas catalogue. James Brown, We Got to Change / Soul Power: The Remixes (Republic/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) “We Got to Change” was an exciting find earlier this year: an unreleased 1970 track featuring an early version of The J.B.’s, issued to promote a multi-part documentary on The Godfather of Soul….

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Back to ‘Back to Bedlam’: James Blunt Expands Brilliant Debut

October 3, 2024 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
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Two decades ago, an earnest British singer-songwriter with a distinctive, keening voice had a hit that would, for better or worse, define the arc of his career as a musician. This month, James Blunt is gamely revisiting his debut album, Back to Bedlam, with a new deluxe edition and an outlandish promise of what he’ll do if it’s a chart success at home. Available on October 11, the remastered and expanded Bedlam will come with a bonus disc of demos of the entire album, plus four additional demos and a B-side. (Just less than half…

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Wild and Crazy: Rhino Collects Steve Martin’s Comedy Albums

September 30, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments
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There aren’t many comedians funnier than Steve Martin. Though the gray-haired funnyman only spent the better part of a decade performing as a stand-up before pursuing acting, writing, and even bluegrass originals, Martin’s brilliant blend of highbrow, lowbrow and absurdist humor made him one of the most head-turning entertainers of his generation. Rhino Records will celebrate his funniest sides with a new box set in November. Steve in a Box: The Warner Years (1977-1981) brings together all four of Martin’s albums for Warner Bros. Records, which became some of the best-selling comedy…

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The Weekend Stream: September 28, 2024

September 28, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments
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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. There’s a lot of killer stuff on the list today, including two new singles from rock icons, a digital expansion of one of Sting’s best-loved albums, live David Bowie coming from the vaults, a Stevie Wonder syllabus and much more! The Cure, “Alone” (Polydor) (iTunes / Amazon) For the first time in 16 years, The Cure are set to release a new album. Songs of a Lost World is out November…

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All Around Man: Rory Gallagher’s BBC Recordings Set for Heavy Duty Box

September 27, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments
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The influential guitar work of Rory Gallagher will be celebrated next month in an exhaustive box that collects hours of his live recordings for the BBC. The BBC Collection, available October 11, is an 18CD/2 Blu-ray set that mines both the radio service and the late musician’s personal archives to bring together his in-studio appearances, live concerts, television specials and even a radio documentary. This box, of course, supersedes a 1999 double-disc collection of BBC highlights, offering not only about 75% previously unreleased material but even recordings that never even hit the…

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The Jungle is Your Head: U2 Prep ‘Atomic Bomb’ Box

September 27, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment
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Hello, hello: U2 will revisit their 11th album – and, depending on where you stand, the end of one era and the start of another – with a deluxe box set edition of How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. The set, available November 22 – exactly 20 years to the day of its original release – will feature five CDs or eight LPs of music: the original album, new collections of unreleased demos and vintage remixes, and the debut audio release of Vertigo 2005 – Live from Chicago, released on DVD in 2005 in…

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Hold Me Now: Thompson Twins Go Back ‘Into the Gap’ with Deluxe Reissue of Breakthrough Album

September 25, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments
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Beloved British pop group Thompson Twins will revisit their seminal fourth album, 1984’s Into the Gap, in a new deluxe edition from BMG this fall. Newly remastered by Frank Arkwright, the triple-disc set will include the original album – including U.K. Top 10s “Hold Me Now,” “Doctor! Doctor!” and “You Take Me Up” – alongside 30 bonus tracks, including all the extras from the original British cassette edition of the album, nine B-sides and single edits making their CD/digital debuts, and several unreleased mixes of “Hold Me Now” and fourth single “Sister of…

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Pictures Came and Broke Your Heart: Cherry Red to Release Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club Collection

September 25, 2024 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
Camera Club Definitive Anthology

Everyone knows the story: at the stroke of midnight on August 1, 1981, the new cable station Music Television (MTV) first aired, playing a steady stream of heretofore little-seen “music videos” that redefined pop music for the rest of the decade. Their first, of course, was The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”: a prescient choice, though not even a single from the ’80s (it topped the U.K. charts and dented the U.S. Top 40 in 1979!) – and, as a new collection from Cherry Red underlines, The Buggles didn’t record it…

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The Weekend Stream: September 21, 2024

September 21, 2024 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
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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. Some socially minded rock is on the digital docket, as well as more than a dozen releases from one of England’s best-known frontmen. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, The Live Series: Songs of Conscience (Columbia/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Who but The Boss to offer a selection conscientious tunes with a whole new spin? These tracks are, as on all Live Series releases, sourced from multi-track recordings of shows…

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Dying to Meet You: Judas Priest’s Debut Revisited with Definitive Remix

September 19, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment
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It took 50 years, but Judas Priest have finally perfected the way they want their debut to sound. The British metal icons will reissue 1974’s Rocka Rolla on November 22 – one of the first truly sanctioned releases of the first album by the group – with a brand-new remix from the original multi-track tapes by producer Tom Allom. “I’m just thrilled,” frontman Rob Halford said in a statement. “Tom Allom is giving us a second chance here with the way that a lot of the elements were lost in Rocka Rolla. And it’s…

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What a Difference You’ve Made: Ronnie Milsap’s Greatest Hits Come Back to Vinyl

September 19, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment
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The smooth, blockbuster country sound of Ronnie Milsap is coming back to vinyl. Craft Recordings will issue a wide-release black LP pressing of 2020’s The Best of Ronnie Milsap, issued on CD and digitally not long after the label became the home for Milsap’s winning streak of RCA Records albums and singles through the ’70s, ’80s and beyond. (A dark-red vinyl was issued exclusively for Cracker Barrel stores back then; this time around, a “tan smoke” variant will be available to Milsap’s top listeners on Spotify through their “Fans First” initiative.) As before,…

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Love Will Save the Day: Whitney Houston’s First South African Concert Set for Release in November

September 18, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments
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The power of Whitney Houston’s live performance – in service of a celebration of international freedom – will be chronicled in a new album and film release from Legacy Recordings. The label, in collaboration with Houston’s estate, will release The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban) on November 8, a CD and double vinyl release chronicling Whitney’s first of three concerts in South Africa in the fall of 1994 – just a few short months after the first democratic election was held in the country, marking an official end to the apartheid…

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Qu’est-ce que c’est? Talking Heads’ Debut Gets Box Set Treatment

September 17, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 10 Comments
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Rhino’s Talking Heads revisitation won’t end with Stop Making Sense – they’ll release a new deluxe box set of the group’s 1977 debut album, featuring rare outtakes and B-sides, a live show and the album remixed in Dolby Atmos and surround, as overseen by the band’s keyboardist/guitarist Jerry Harrison. Available November 8, the super deluxe edition of Talking Heads: 77 will come in hardcover book packaging that’ll feature 80 pages of rare archival photos and liner notes written by all four members of the band along with engineer Ed Stasium. Highlights in the bonus…

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I’ll Wear It Proudly: Elvis Costello Coronates ‘King of America’ for New Box Set

September 16, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments
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When King of America became Rhino’s penultimate Elvis Costello reissue in 2005, a hype sticker cheekily hailed it as “the album that fans, critics and Elvis Costello all agree on.” Perhaps that’s why it’ll be the next of his classic albums to receive a deluxe box set this fall. King of America and Other Realms, available November 1, follows the super deluxe, vinyl-and-digital-only The Complete Armed Forces box; however, this one’s primarily available on CD – six of ’em, in total. The remastered 1986 album is paired with a disc of demos and outtakes…

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This Time La Luna: Duran Duran Expand ‘Danse Macabre’ One Year from Its Original Release

September 16, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments
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As we get closer to the time when there’s a chill in the air and a penchant for “spooky season,” Duran Duran are getting back into the spirit with an expanded version of their last album, meant to celebrate all things strange and unusual. 2023’s Danse Macabre came just two years after the release of Future Past in 2021 – the shortest gap between new LPs from the band since the mid-’90s. The band were certainly riding high: Future Past was a celebration of what made the Birmingham group so beloved 40 years on from their…

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The Weekend Stream: September 14, 2024

September 14, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments
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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 brings new songs from two of our ’80s favorites, a reissue from a rock supergroup, the first release from a hard-working film composer and a new stand-up comedy album with a little something extra. Duran Duran, “New Moon (Dark Phase)” (Tapemodern) (iTunes / Amazon) Friday the 13th was a perfect day for this to drop! Duran Duran will reissue last year’s spooky, ethereal Danse Macabre – a…

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Vive Le Miles! Eighth Volume of ‘Bootleg Series’ Spotlights Davis’ Second Quintet in France

September 13, 2024 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
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Two years after its last entry, Legacy Recordings revives the Miles Davis Bootleg Series with a deep dive into some early ’60s live recordings that showcase the birth of his second great quintet. Miles in France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 brings together five sets on six CDs or eight LPs: three performances from the Festival Mondial du Jazz in the summer of 1963 and two performances over a day at the Paris Jazz Festival in October 1964. (The 1964 material – which features the unbeatable line-up of Davis…

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Donna Summer’s Classic ‘On the Radio’ Collection Gets Turned Up

September 12, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 47 Comments
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At the end of the ’70s, to cap an incredible run as one of disco’s biggest divas, Donna Summer issued On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II, a double album collecting more than a dozen of her biggest singles to date. This fall, Summer’s reissue label Driven by the Music will revisit that set in a whole new way, creating a career-spanning, radio-ready overview of her complete career. On the Radio: Greatest Hits (Expanded), due out November 15, is a 2CD set offering 40 of Summer’s biggest singles issued between…

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All Their Loving: New Mono Vinyl Box Set Celebrates The Beatles’ First American Albums

September 12, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 18 Comments
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This year’s Beatles catalogue title will showcase the albums that introduced American audiences to the sound of the Fab Four. 1964 U.S. Albums in Mono will include new vinyl remasters of six albums distributed by Capitol Records within the first year of the British band’s arrival in New York City. Uniquely drawn from the first four Beatles albums in the U.K. and other single and EP material, these albums will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed in faithful reproductions of their original jackets and inner sleeves, with the addition of a…

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Keep Yourself Alive: Queen Announce Deluxe Edition of Debut with Remixes, Outtakes and More

September 11, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments
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Queen will go back to the beginning of their recording career on a new box set edition of their debut. The Collectors Edition of their 1973 self-titled effort – now retitled Queen I – will be a 6CD/LP set featuring a brand-new remix of the album by engineers Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson; demos and studio outtakes; instrumental versions and live recordings. (A 2CD cut-down will include the new mix and the set’s third disc, featuring studio alternates.) The box also includes a fold-out poster, photo prints of the four…

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Return of the Acid Queen: Rhino Brings Tina Turner’s Early Works Back to CD, Vinyl

September 10, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments
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A half-century after her solo career began, the late, great Tina Turner’s earliest albums will come back into print this fall – including the premiere CD release of her first solo album. Rhino, who digitally reissued Tina’s four solo albums for United Artists last year, will press Tina Turns the Country On! (1974), Acid Queen (1975), Rough (1978) and Love Explosion (1979) on CD and vinyl. It’s the first time the latter three have been in print in more than 20 years. The LP of Tina Turns the Country On! – marketed as a 50th…

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