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Up from the Skies: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ Gets Deluxe Box Set, UHQR Reissue (UPDATED 9/16/25)

September 16, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments
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Axis: Bold As Love is getting a little bolder this holiday season. Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings will partner once again to issue a new deluxe edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s seminal second album from 1968 on November 7. Retitled simply Bold As Love and available on four CDs or five LPs and a Blu-ray, the box set will include the original album in its original stereo and mono mixes (as well as newly created Atmos mixes by original engineer Eddie Kramer and Chandler Harrod), along with a wealth of rare outtakes and live…

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The World is My Oyster: Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s ‘Pleasuredome’ Goes Massive for New Box Set

September 16, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments
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Universal Music Recordings are shooting a new box set in the right direction, covering Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s U.K. pop landmark Welcome to the Pleasuredome in exhaustive new detail. Though it’s already been exhaustively been reissued since The Second Disc started operating – once on a 2CD set from Salvo Music, on 2014’s vinyl/cassette/DVD set Inside the Pleasuredome (along with a 2018 Record Store Day box set of 12″ singles and the 2022 RSD comp Altered Reels, which brought a pair of cassette single presentations to vinyl) – another one (part of ZTT’s ongoing…

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Sting Sets Sail with Expanded Reissue of ‘The Last Ship’

September 15, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments
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The ship of Theseus is a classic paradox of thought that asks whether an object is truly the same after all its component pieces have been replaced. That’s not exactly the case for Sting’s musical The Last Ship, but he is once again revisiting the song score he’s tinkered with several times over the last decade in a new expanded edition due this winter. Coming to 2CD, 2LP and digital on December 5 ahead of a new series of worldwide performances, this new edition of the singer/songwriter’s 2013 concept album take on The Last…

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Have a Cigar: Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ Gets 50th Anniversary Edition

September 12, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments
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Following some teases changing just about every Pink Floyd album cover on digital music services to mirror original packaging elements of Wish You Were Here, the band has announced a new expanded edition of its 1975 masterpiece, reissued to mark its 50th anniversary. Coming December 12 from Legacy Recordings, the deluxe Wish You Were Here arrives in a frankly dizzying display of formats: A 2CD or 3LP set pairs the original album with nine bonus tracks: three from the “Immersion Edition” box set released in 2011 and six previously unreleased outtakes and alternate mixes. A…

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Nothing is Real But the Girl: Blondie’s Comeback ‘No Exit’ Gets Expanded

September 11, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
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Last month, New York post-punk survivors Blondie announced the planned release next year of High Noon, a new studio album that reportedly features the final performances of founding drummer Clem Burke, who died of cancer earlier this year. Before that, however, BMG will revisit their first major comeback with an expansion of 1999’s No Exit. Coming to shops October 24, the expanded No Exit will pair the remastered original album with a bonus disc featuring eight remixes and rarities – three of which are previously unreleased. Among the highlights is a new mix of “Hot…

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And I Miss You: Everything But the Girl Plan Career-Spanning Compilation

September 11, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments
The Best of Everything But the Girl

One of U.K. pop’s most beloved duos is looking back with a new compilation that succinctly surveys their many albums over the last 40 years. The Best of Everything But the Girl offers 16 tracks from the pair on one CD or two LPs, spanning their debut single (a cover of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”) all the way up to 2023’s Fuse – their first album in more than two decades. It includes U.K. hits like “I Don’t Want to Talk About It” and “Walking Wounded,” the fan favorite “Driving,” and of course,…

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Paisley Park is in Your Heart: Prince’s ‘Around the World in a Day’ Expanded for 40th Anniversary

September 11, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 30 Comments
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Due credit to the Prince estate: they made good on one of their promises. The late artist’s estate will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Prince and The Revolution’s Around the World in a Day with a deluxe edition gathering all the non-LP material from the original release. Available November 21 in a variety of formats including 2CD and 140-gram 3LP editions, the set will feature the 1985 follow-up to Purple Rain, along with 13 non-LP remixes and B-sides – four of which will make their debut on CD. (The set includes no outtakes…

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Soundtrack Watch: La-La Land Strikes with ‘Thunderball,’ Williams and More

September 10, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
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Barely a week after JAWS emerged from the sea for its 50th anniversary with an expanded soundtrack release from Intrada, La-La Land touched off another tremendous batch of archival scores for the month, including another expanded James Bond title and a deep cut from John Williams. With expanded or remastered presentations of Goldfinger, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, Octopussy, Licence to Kill, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day already certifying LLL as the home of definitive presentations of Bond soundtracks, there’s another one striking hard: 1965’s…

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Up from the Skies: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ Gets Deluxe Box Set

September 10, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments
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Axis: Bold As Love is getting a little bolder this holiday season. Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings will partner once again to issue a new deluxe edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s seminal second album from 1968 on November 7. Retitled simply Bold As Love and available on four CDs or five LPs and a Blu-ray, the box set will include the original album in its original stereo and mono mixes (as well as newly created Atmos mixes by original engineer Eddie Kramer and Chandler Harrod), along with a wealth of rare outtakes…

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Love Them Madly: New Blu-ray Box from The Doors Includes Atmos Mixes of Six Classic Albums

September 9, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments
The Doors Immersed

The Doors are set to alter fans perception once more with a new box set featuring their classic albums remixed in Dolby Atmos. Immersed (1967-1971), available exclusively through Rhino’s or the band’s official web stores, gathers the six classic LPs released during frontman Jim Morrison’s lifetime – The Doors (1967), Strange Days (1967), Waiting for the Sun (1968), The Soft Parade (1969), Morrison Hotel (1970) and L.A. Woman (1971) – on Blu-ray Audio discs, each featuring surround mixes in Atmos as well as 5.1 surround by the group’s longtime engineer Bruce Botnick. (Botnick created 5.1 mixes for the 2006 box set Perception;…

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A Second Disc Interview: Jason Klamm and Dan Schlissel on ‘Presenting…Dick Davy’

September 5, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
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It doesn’t take much for comedy works to pique Jason Klamm‘s interest. As the host of the Comedy on Vinyl podcast and the author of 2023’s We’re Not Worthy: From In Living Color to Mr. Show, How ’90s Sketch TV Changed the Face of Comedy, Klamm is immersed in mirth and laughs for most of his free time. But it was not exactly a laughing matter when he discovered Dick Davy. Davy, a convivial comedian with a soft-spoken Southern drawl, issued two albums on Columbia in the mid-’60s: 1966’s You’re a Long Way from Home, Whitey…

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Elton John Raises Curtains on ‘Captain Fantastic’ with New 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

September 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 11 Comments
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In the 2020s, Elton John started offering 50th anniversary deluxe editions of classic albums in his catalogue that hadn’t been expanded to multi-disc sets yet. After Madman Across the Water and Honky Château, expansions of Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player and Caribou were only made available as vinyl expansions for Record Store Day activations. That changes with a new general retail expansion of Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy arriving this fall with a bonus disc of unreleased material. Due October 24 on CD and purple/white swirl vinyl, the album (remastered in…

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Open All Night: Bruce Springsteen Reissues ‘Nebraska’ with Mythic Electric Recordings and More

September 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments
Nebraska 82 Expanded Edition

It’s no surprise that, as Hollywood prepares to tell the story of Bruce Springsteen’s most striking solo release, a box set is coming to tell the tale of the (literal) tape. On October 17, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Nebraska ’82, a new box set showcasing the start-to-finish journey of Bruce’s most stark collection of songs and the attempts to record them in a way befitting of their haunting qualities. The set – four CDs or four LPs and a Blu-ray – will offer two discs of almost entirely unreleased outtakes,…

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All That You Dream: Rhino Sets Expansion of Little Feat’s ‘Last Record Album’

September 3, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments
Little Feat The Last Record Album Deluxe

Another Little Feat deluxe album is making the rounds from Rhino. 1975’s The Last Record Album, the group’s fifth LP, will be expanded by the label in multiple formats, all available October 24. The 4CD set will pair the remastered album with a bonus disc of studio rarities (half of which are previously unreleased) along with an unissued live set at Boston’s Orpheum Theater recorded on Halloween of 1975. A 2LP set includes all the studio material in the CD box, and an exclusive bundle, available only at Rhino.com, will add a fifth…

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Compilation Watch: New Hits Sets from Devo, Kool & The Gang, Boomtown Rats

September 3, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments
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Three very different bands with venerable catalogues are getting new greatest hits collections added to their discographies. First up is a new set documenting Irish post-punkers The Boomtown Rats. The First Fifty Years: Songs of Boomtown Glory is a non-chronological compilation covering all seven of the Dublin group’s studio albums – the majority released between 1979 and 1984, before frontman Bob Geldof pivoted largely to pop-rooted activist causes including the spearheading of Band Aid and Live Aid. The tracks were jointly selected by the group as well as online fan polling, and include U.K….

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I Went Looking for You: Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ to Be Expanded with Unreleased Material

August 26, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments
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Five decades after it became a landmark of a sea change of ’70s rock, Patti Smith’s debut Horses will be expanded with previously unheard material. Horses (50th Anniversary Edition), available through Legacy Recordings on October 10, will pair the classic LP with a further nine alternate versions and outtakes from the album sessions, including two selections from Smith’s demo tape for RCA Records. (Arista, unaffiliated with RCA at the time, ended up signing her for about a quarter-century.) A demo version of standout “Redondo Beach” was released on a 2002 compilation, but the…

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This Shark’ll Swallow You Whole: New ‘JAWS’ Soundtrack Reissues Rise from the Depths (UPDATED)

August 26, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
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How else could we preface this? Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, John Williams’ acclaimed score to Steven Spielberg’s JAWS is being reissued for its 50th anniversary. And this time, the bites are big. Williams’ longtime archivist Mike Matessino has remixed the original film score for a new release now available digitally through Universal Pictures’ Back Lot Music and on a new 180-gram, 45 RPM 2LP vinyl pressing from Mondo (available on marbled red and blue “blood and water” vinyl). These original tracks heard in the…

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You Don’t Know Dick (Davy): New LP Sheds Light on Intriguing ’60s Stand-Up

August 22, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
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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, progressive-for-the-time observations on race in America. That Whitey was produced by legendary A&R man John Hammond (who played…

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Free As a Bird: The Beatles ‘Anthology’ Gets Remixed and Expanded in New Box Set

August 21, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 31 Comments
Beatles Anthology Collection

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 a new collection, Anthology 4, across a further two CDs or three LPs. Anthology 4 is drawn mostly from…

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Cut to the Feeling: Carly Rae Jepsen Celebrates 10 Years of ‘Emotion’ with Expanded Reissue

August 20, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments
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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 outtakes from the album’s mythic sessions (including new single “More,”…

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Come Spend the Night Inside a Second Sheena Easton Box Set

August 19, 2025 by Mike Duquette
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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 of or beside some originals makes for even more unreleased tracks on this set:…

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The Enz is Near! Split Enz Announce Start of Archival Series

August 19, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments
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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 half-century this year. The 5CD set will feature remasters of Mental Notes…

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Tell Me One More Time: New Vinyl Box Chronicles Austin Blues Haven Antone’s

August 18, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments
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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 Fabulous Thunderbirds to Doyle Bramhall II, ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons…

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The Weekend Stream: August 16, 2025

August 16, 2025 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. 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 decision he explains in the spoken word track that concludes the set –…

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The Saints Are Coming: Edsel Plans Skids CD Box Set, Vinyl Compilation

August 15, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments
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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 & Sky: Skids Singles 1978-1981, offers a dozen of the A-sides featured on the…

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