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Their Latest Trick: Dire Straits Expands 'Brothers in Arms'

March 21, 2025 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

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Dire Straits' biggest album is getting expanded for its 40th anniversary. 1985's Brothers in Arms will be available in a variety of formats, including a 3CD or 5LP set that pairs the classic album with a live show from the period. The album, which featured two of the band's biggest singles including the American chart-topper "Money for Nothing" and "Walk of Life," will also feature 16 pages of liner notes offering new insight on the album through interviews with the band's frontman/guitarist

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, Sting

Long Distance Love Affair: Sheena Easton Box Set Offers 25 Unreleased Tracks

March 20, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Sheena Easton Modern Girl

Sheena Easton's latest reissue collaboration with Cherry Red covers familiar ground in a slightly new way. Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings, Vol. 1 is a 5CD set that will cover the bulk of the Scottish singer's first five albums - Take My Time (1981), You Could Have Been with Me (1981), Madness, Money and Music (1982), Best Kept Secret (1983) and the Spanish-language hits album Todo Me Recuerda a Ti (1984) - while also premiering more than two dozen unreleased tracks. The set, available

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Al Jarreau, Kenny Rogers, Sheena Easton

They'll Be There for You: 10 Record Store Day Exclusives Getting CD Releases

March 19, 2025 By Mike Duquette 13 Comments

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The Record Store Day round-up marches on! After covering in detail the vinyl offerings from Universal Music Group, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, BMG, Craft Recordings, Real Gone Music, Omnivore and U.K. labels Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, we've still got a few things to highlight...notably, the work of labels who are serving one of Record Store Day's least-served fans. There are plenty of business and financial reasons why some Record Store Day titles are limited solely to vinyl,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Francoise Hardy, Gloria Jones, Jackie DeShannon, Marc Bolan, Pixies, Record Store Day, Robert Hunter, Suede, T Rex, Talking Heads, The Mission, The Rembrandts, Vince Guaraldi

Record Store Day the U.K. Way: British Labels Line Up Vinyl Exclusives

March 18, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Our ongoing Record Store Day 2025 guide has covered the exclusive titles coming on April 12 from Universal Music Group, Sony's Legacy Recordings, Warner Music's Rhino, BMG and Craft Recordings, as well as titles from favorite indie licensors like Real Gone Music and Omnivore. Next up, we're taking a look at international releases from two of our favorite U.K. labels! British label and artist services hub Cooking Vinyl has planned a half-dozen titles for RSD, running the gamut from stalwarts

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Alison Moyet, Camper Van Beethoven, Cowboy Junkies, Dead or Alive, Pixies, Record Store Day, Roger Waters, Status Quo, Suede, T Rex, The Alan Parsons Project, The Mission

The Weekend Stream: March 15, 2025

March 15, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 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. We've got some early classics in Atmos from England's not-so-newest hitmakers, a soundtrack to a classic Tom Petty streaming feature, and new tracks from some of our favorite women in pop and rock! The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones EP / The Rolling Stones (U.K.) / England's Newest Hit Makers / Five by Five EP / 12 X 5 / The Rolling Stones

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Chappell Roan, HAIM, The Doobie Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Attics of My Life: Grateful Dead Mark 60 Years with Massive Box of Unreleased Live Performances

March 12, 2025 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

Grateful Dead Enjoying the Ride

It's little surprise that Rhino is going all-out for the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. The label today announced a 60CD box set due this spring that will premiere material from some 20 shows across a quarter-century of the band's tenure. Enjoying the Ride, available May 30 exclusively from Dead.net, is a comprehensive 450-track set (nearly entirely unreleased, though a full track list has not been made available) limited to 6000 individually numbered copies. Sourced from recordings

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

The Weekend Stream: March 8, 2025

March 8, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 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. This week's offerings are particularly reflective, packed with tributes and goodbyes (both editorial and musical) and a little dust of new Disney magic. Dolly Parton, "If You Hadn't Been There" (Butterfly) (iTunes / Amazon) On her first day in Nashville at the age of 18, a rising country musician named Dolly Parton had a chance encounter

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Badfinger, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, David Johansen, Dolly Parton, Joey Molland, Kenny Rogers, Levert, New York Dolls, Rachel Zegler

Moments of a Visionary: Tangerine Dream Plan 'Phaedra' 50th Anniversary Box

March 6, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Tangerine Dream's breakthrough album will be celebrated in a box set that features a host of audiovisual material taken from a bigger box set. Virgin/UMR will reissue the German group's 1974 hit Phaedra as a 5CD/Blu-ray box set featuring all the relevant album-related material featured in 2019's 16 CD/2BD In Search of Hades (The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979). Beyond the remastered album, extras include two discs of outtakes, the band's first U.K. concert and some 5.1 surround and stereo

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Electronic Tags: Steven Wilson, Tangerine Dream

A New 'View': Celebrated Kenny Burrell Live Set Gets Expanded

March 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Kenny Burrell On View Complete Masters

A celebrated jazz guitarist, cornerstone of the Blue Note roster in the late '50s and early '60s and still-standing link to a thriving era in American jazz, Kenny Burrell will be celebrated this spring with a deluxe revisitation of his first live release. On View At the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters collects the original 1960 album, recorded in New York City with a killer quintet line-up, along with nine additional tracks from the same club dates - six of which are being released for

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell

Hungry for Heaven: Dio's First Seven Albums Get U.K. Vinyl Box Set Release

March 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Dio Complete Albums 1983 1993

One of heavy metal's major icons will be celebrated with a new U.K. vinyl collection. UMR will release Dio's The Complete Albums 1983-1993, chronicling the seven original studio and live releases from the legendary heavy metal vocalist and his band. (Vertigo/Mercury distributed all the albums overseas, while Warner Music continues to handle this portion of the catalogue today.) The box, available March 28, offers new pressings of Holy Diver (1983), The Last in Line (1984), Sacred Heart

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Dio, Ronnie James Dio

Frantic Four x 4: Edsel Remixes Shows That Made Status Quo's 'Live!'

March 4, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Status Quo Live box

A deluxe edition of Status Quo's first concert album will pair the original album - never a favorite of the band's leader - with the full, newly-remixed shows that it was assembled from. 1977's Live! found the Quo's "Frantic Four" - vocalists/guitarists Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, bassist Alan Lancaster and drummer John Coghlan (plus longtime touring keyboardist (and future full-time member) Andy Bown and tour manager Bob Young on harmonica) - wowing crowds over three nights at the Apollo

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Status Quo

Soundtrack Watch: 'Hook,' 'Goofy' and 'Lost' Make Vinyl Appearances in April

March 4, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Hook MOV LP

Fans of soundtrack reissues on vinyl have three very different titles to potentially look forward to in April: a mid-'90s Disney animated flick, a crown jewel in John Williams' discography, an a beloved television work from one of today's most prolific film composers. Walt Disney's major motion picture event of 1995 was Pocahontas, a fairly dramatized tale of Native Americans in the early colonial days - but it was neither their only animated feature of the year nor, retrospectively, the most

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Carter Burwell, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Tevin Campbell

'Reivers' Revival: Pivotal John Williams Score Expanded by La-La Land

March 3, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Less than a year after the premiere release of John Williams' score to 1974's The Sugarland Express, La-La Land Records will expand another pivotal soundtrack essential to the composer's transition into a Hollywood heavyweight: his work for the Mark Rydell film The Reivers. Adapted from the final novel published in William Faulkner's lifetime (which won him a second Pulitzer Prize), The Reivers is a lighthearted, nostalgic turn-of-the-century yarn starring Steve McQueen as a rakish thief in

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

Larger Than Life: Backstreet Boys Reboot 'Millennium' with Bonus Disc

March 3, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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A new reissue from Legacy Recordings - one with an extremely long lead time - will revisit the ascendance of the Backstreet Boys to the top of a crop of late '90s and early '00s boy bands. The quintet's 1999 blockbuster Millennium will be celebrated for its belated 25th anniversary with a new 2CD, 2LP and digital set that pairs the original album with a baker's dozen rare and unreleased tracks, including B-sides, demos, live cuts and the new track "Hey." The album will be out July 11 (yes,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Backstreet Boys

The Weekend Stream: March 1, 2025

March 1, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 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. This week brings new music from Billy Idol and The Chills, cast albums aplenty and some soulful tributes to artists we lost this week. Billy Idol, "Still Dancing" (Dark Horse) (iTunes / Amazon) The recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee is going on tour this year with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, and will release Dream Into It,

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Idol, Chris Jasper, Harold Rome, Jerry Butler, Jesse and Joy, The Chills, The Impressions, The Isley Brothers

Echoes Through the Ruins: Pink Floyd's Pompeii Gig to Be Remixed and Reissued

February 27, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Pink Floyd Pompeii

More than half a century after its release, Pink Floyd's arresting 1972 concert film - recorded in the ancient amphitheater of Pompeii - will be revisited as an audio and video product from Legacy Recordings. Pink Floyd At Pompeii - MCMLXXII restores Adrian Maben's original film in 4K quality from recently located original footage, with new audio mixes by Steven Wilson. All versions - a 2CD, a 2LP, a DVD and a Blu-ray - will be released May 2, shortly after public screenings of the film on April

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

Happiness Is: Vince Guaraldi's First Charlie Brown Album to Be Expanded by Craft Recordings

February 26, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Happiness is many things to many people: good friends, childlike wonder, catchy tunes...and, perhaps, a warm puppy. From Craft Recordings comes a new reissue that includes all four: a newly expanded edition of 1964's Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the first in a series of fateful collaborations between jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi and Charles M. Schulz's lovable Peanuts characters. The 2CD set, available April 4, offers a fresh remaster of Guaraldi's initial nine compositions

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Soundtracks Tags: Vince Guaraldi

With Arms Outstretched: A Reunited Rilo Kiley Plans New Compilation, Reissue of Breakthrough Album

February 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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One of the year's most exciting indie-rock reunions is coming with a few new releases: Rilo Kiley will reissue their sophomore album The Execution of All Things along with a new career-spanning compilation to commemorate their upcoming tour. The acclaimed quartet - singer/keyboardist Jenny Lewis, lead guitarist Blake Sennett, bassist Pierre "Duke" de Reeder and drummer Jason Boesel - will embark on the Sometimes When You're On, You're Really F**king On tour, traversing North America in May

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

Soundtrack Watch: 'Cape Fear' Remake Score Rises from the Depths at Quartet

February 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Cape Fear Quartet

Quartet Records will revisit a special musical approach to a remake of a classic suspense thriller: Martin Scorsese's 1991 adaptation of Cape Fear. The 2CD set, will include a remastered and expanded presentations of Elmer Bernstein's score to the remake, adapted from the original 1962 film's music by Bernard Herrmann. Produced by Neil S. Bulk and Mike Matessino (who also remasters the score from engineer Shawn Murphy's original six-track mixes), the set features both the expanded score

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein

In Memoriam: Roberta Flack (1937-2025)

February 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

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Even Robert Christgau couldn't get it right all the time. The self-professed "dean of American rock critics" sniffed at Roberta Flack's Quiet Fire in 1971 thusly: "Flack is generally regarded as the most significant new black woman singer since Aretha Franklin, and at moments she sounds kind, intelligent, and very likable. But she often exhibits the gratuitous gentility you'd expect of someone who says 'between you and I.'" At this juncture, Flack was three albums into a tenure with Atlantic

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack

Bits of Blue Sky: Godley & Creme's Duo Discography Collected for New Box Set

February 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Between their time as half of the head-turning British rock band 10cc and a whole new career as innovative music video directors, Godley & Creme carved out a unique discography as a duo. It's one that Edsel will revisit in a soon-to-be-released box set called Parts of the Process: The Complete Godley & Creme. Due for release this Friday, February 28, Parts of the Process is an 11CD set that offers the duo's seven studio releases - Consequences (1977), L (1978), Freeze

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: 10cc, Godley and Creme

Let the Guitar Play: Santana's New 'Sentient' Revisits Collabs with Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Michael Jackson and More

February 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Santana Sentient

More than 25 years after a collaboration-heavy album rocketed Carlos Santana back into the spotlight, the guitar legend will release another - albeit one assembled from an assortment of solo tracks and guest spots spanning his last five decades of work. Sentient, hitting stores on March 28, brings together joint tracks with Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of Run-DMC, along with select deep cuts that make for a retrospective distinct from well known

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Paolo Rustichelli, Santana, Smokey Robinson

The Weekend Stream: February 22, 2025

February 22, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 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 great Carly Simon deep cut gets a fresh mix, plus Phil Collins in concert and new music from The Stylistics. Carly Simon, "Share the End" (2025 Remaster) (Elektra/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Though merely billed as a remaster in the metadata, this upbeat, heartbreaking side-two opener to Simon's sophomore album Anticipation has been

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bill Champlin, Billy Gibbons, Carly Simon, Gene Simmons, Larry Coryell, Phil Collins, Ray Parker Jr., Ron Wood, Shania Twain, Steve Lukather, Tatyana Ali, The Stylistics, Tower of Power, Will Smith

CD Alert: Small Disc Breakouts from Box Sets and More Coming from Warner

February 21, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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Rather than update our original posts, we felt this Friday was a good time to inform readers of a trio of modest CD sets that represent some great archival audio from bigger releases by Rhino and Warner Music in the past few years. Last summer, Rhino continued a surprising amount of catalogue from the latter portion of Van Halen's celebrated career - the period in the mid '80s and '90s when former Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar took over for original singer David Lee Roth - with an expansion

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Neil Young, The Replacements, Van Halen

Do Ya, Do Ya Want This Disc? The Move's Transition to Something Electric Comes Alive from Esoteric

February 21, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

The Move Message from the Country

The final works from British rockers The Move were relatively ignored by everyone, including the band themselves - until listeners started to realize how it marked the trio's transition into a whole new sound. Cherry Red's Esoteric label will revisit the group's fourth album Message from the Country in a newly remastered and expanded package, available February 28. The Move started life as a harmony-rich quintet from Birmingham in the late '60s, enjoying a half dozen Top 10s on the U.K.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, The Move

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