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The Weekend Stream: August 9, 2025

August 9, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 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. Jim Reeves isn't the only gentleman on display this week: we've also got Peter Gabriel, Eddy Grant, Ben Folds and a host of film composers - plus many, many more! Peter Gabriel, Live At WOMAD 1982 (Real World) (Apple / Amazon) Loosed from the vault is Gabriel's nine-song headlining set at the first World of Music, Art and Dance

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alexandre Desplat, Bette Midler, Bruce Woolley, Bryan Adams, Don Davis, Eddy Grant, Fania All-Stars, Jane Morgan, Jim Reeves, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Peter Gabriel, Randy Newman, Ronan Keating, The Camera Club

Release Round-Up: Week of August 8

August 8, 2025 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Version 1.0.0

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. America, Hearts: 50th Anniversary Edition (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada /  Omnivore) Omnivore Recordings is reissuing, remastering, and expanding America's Hearts, featuring "Sister Golden Hair," "Daisy Jane," and "Woman Tonight," for its 50th anniversary. This new edition adds six bonus cuts to the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: America, Better Than Ezra, Bill Pitcock IV, Booker T. and the MG's, Carla Thomas, Chicago, Dwight Twilley, Fleetwood Mac, Lou Bond, Odyssey, Rufus Thomas, Traci Lords, William Bell

Release Round-Up: Week of August 1

August 1, 2025 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

Marianne Faithfull Cast Your Fate to the Wind

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores this week.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Dionne Warwick, Make It Easy on Yourself: The Scepter Recordings 1962-1971 (SoulMusic/Second Disc/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) Naturally, we're bursting at the seams that today is finally Release Day (*) for this massive labor of love.  SoulMusic Records and Second Disc Records are proud

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Buddy Guy, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley, Jeffrey Runnings, Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hawley, Roger Waters, Vicki Lawrence

OUT TOMORROW! Dionne Warwick's "Make It Easy on Yourself: The Scepter Recordings 1962-1971" Arrives from SoulMusic, Second Disc

July 31, 2025 By The Second Disc 21 Comments

Dionne Warwick Make It Easy on Yourself

Today's the day when we can finally share Dionne Warwick's Make It Easy on Yourself: The Scepter Recordings 1962-1971 with our readers! Though today is the official release date and copies should be shipping within the U.K., Amazon U.S. currently shows August 15 as the release date stateside.  To our American friends, we hope you will find this set worth the wait!  Here are the full details on this release. "I am so very thrilled about this wonderful collection of my recordings! It is truly

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: BJ Thomas, Burt Bacharach, Chuck Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Hal David, Leslie Uggams, Sacha Distel

The Weekend Stream: July 26, 2025

July 26, 2025 By The Second Disc 7 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. Billy Joel fans have it good this week, with seven hours of hits and rarities from his new documentary. If you've got room after that, there's an anniversary reissue for literally the last five decades in a few different genres, too! Billy Joel, And So It Goes (The Musical Companion to the HBO Documentary Film) (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple /

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 311, Ashley Monroe, Dr. Feelgood, Elliott Smith, Heatmiser, Marina and The Diamonds, Oasis, Paramore, Richard Barone, Ronan Keating, The Bongos

Release Round-Up: Week of July 25

July 25, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Version 1.0.0

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food: Deluxe Edition (Rhino) 3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rough Trade (Red) / D2C Exclusive (2LP/4x7") 4LP: D2C Exclusive (and 4LP/2x7") Rhino is taking Talking Heads fans to the river with a new deluxe

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Alice Cooper, Audra McDonald, Benjamin Velez, Elton John, Green Apple Quick Step, John Lee Hooker, Joy Huerta, Marc Shaiman, Melanie, Nick Drake, Scott Wittman, Talking Heads, The Cars, The Doors

The Weekend Stream: July 19, 2025

July 19, 2025 By The Second Disc

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 a gem from Linda Ronstadt's vault, a new update of a Disney classic and a fascinating sit-down with one of folk's most important matriarchs - plus tributes to artists we lost this week and a potential hint at a very exciting reissue from one of the pivotal duos in '70s rock. Linda Ronstadt, "How Do I Make You" / "Rambler

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Connie Francis, Disneyland, Fleetwood Mac, Kool and the Gang, Linda Ronstadt, Lindsey Buckingham, Lou Reed, Phil Collins, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Stevie Nicks, Strawbs, The Carter Family, The Sherman Brothers, The Velvet Underground

Release Round-Up: Week of July 18

July 18, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Sly and the Family Stone Winchester Cathedral

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters: 20th Anniversary Edition (Republic) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Scissor Sisters' 2004 debut gets a (slightly belated) 20th anniversary expansion offering the album in a digipak alongside two bonus discs of B-sides, remixes,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Beaver and Krause, Bush, Colin Hay, Rod Stewart, Scissor Sisters, Sly and the Family Stone, Styx, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Trisha Yearwood, ZZ Top

Say You Love Me: Fleetwood Mac's 1975 Self-Titled Album Arrives in Dolby Atmos, High Fidelity Vinyl

July 11, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac's self-titled 1975 album which introduced Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to the band has been reissued over the years in various formats.  Now, Rhino is bringing a new dimension to the classic, 9x Platinum-certified LP with its premiere on Blu-ray Audio in the immersive Dolby Atmos format.  Additionally, a remastered edition will be available as part of the label's High Fidelity series of audiophile-quality vinyl reissues.  All formats are due on August 8. TSD went into

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Fleetwood Mac

Release Round-Up: Week of July 11

July 11, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Version 1.0.0

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Jethro Tull, Still Living in the Past (Parlophone/Rhino) 5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Still Living in the Past reinterpret Jethro Tull's original odds-and-ends compilation from 1972 as a 5CD/1 Blu-ray set boasting some 35 unissued mixes and versions alongside

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: America, Backstreet Boys, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Brian Wilson, Bronski Beat, Cyndi Lauper, Gerry Beckley, Jeffrey Foskett, Jethro Tull, Maria Muldaur, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Melanie, Mike Love, Steve Hackett, The Kinks, Vince Guaraldi, Vivabeat

Another Ticket: Eric Clapton, Roxy Music Classics Come to SHM-CD

July 1, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Roxy Music SHM

And the SHMs just keep on coming! Following batches of Japanese pressings of albums by Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones and Sting, two more classic catalogues from Universal Music Group are getting reissued on the format this summer: the first decade-plus of album by Eric Clapton - available this Friday, July 4 - and five titles from Roxy Music, available later in the month on July 25. Clapton's discs - 1970's Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (recorded as part of Derek & The Dominos), his

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, Derek and the Dominos, Eric Clapton, Phil Manzanera

The Weekend Stream: June 28, 2025

June 28, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 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. There's new music from Sarah McLachlan, Public Enemy and Liam Finn, plus a new video to a one-hit wonder, a Record Store Day single gone digital, and tributes to musicians we lost this week. Peter Gabriel, In the Big Room (Real World) (Apple / Amazon) The legendary pop/rock voice has loosed a recording from his vault for larger public

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alexandre Desplat, Camouflage, David Gilmour, Judas Priest, Kool and the Gang, Leo Sayer, Liam Finn, Marcella Detroit, Norman Greenbaum, Peter Gabriel, Public Enemy, Sarah McLachlan

Release Round-Up: Week of June 27

June 27, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Tracks II

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums 1983-2018 (Columbia/Legacy) 7CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Lost and Found: Selections from the Lost Albums (Columbia/Legacy) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Buck Owens, Clifton Chenier, Frank Zappa, Idina Menzel, James Taylor, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Melanie, Motörhead, Paul McCartney, Randy Newman, Robin Trower, Rod Stewart, The Bluebells, The Rolling Stones

Paul is Live (on SHM-CD): Five New McCartney Titles Follow Nearly a Year of Additional Discs

June 24, 2025 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

McCartney SHM splash

What's that he's doing? Paul McCartney has been releasing much of his solo catalogue on SHM-CD since last year - and with a new batch about to be imported to record stores, this seemed like the right time to spotlight them all. Universal Music Group has not only gone in on high-quality SHM-CDs for release in Japan, but have recently been hyping them up for stateside collectors, releasing everything from out-of-print Quincy Jones titles to the first physical editions of a series of digital

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Paul McCartney, Wings

The Weekend Stream: June 21, 2025

June 21, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 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 classic film score gets remixed for a major anniversary; a modern jazz great reunites two-thirds of a classic rock band; and it's funny how time flies for Tears for Fears. All this, plus morsels of news on potential reissues from Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran, and two tributes to singers we lost this week. John Williams, JAWS

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Summers, Bruce Springsteen, Christian McBride, Duran Duran, Evelyn "Champagne" King, John Williams, Lou Christie, Preston Glass, Sting, Tears for Fears, The New Christy Minstrels, The Police, Yarbrough and Peoples

Release Round-Up: Week of June 20

June 20, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Christopher Cross

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Christopher Cross, Christopher Cross: Expanded Edition (Omnivore) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Omnivore will offer an expanded reissue of the self-titled debut album from Christopher Cross, the unforgettable 1979 release that became a commercial juggernaut and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Christopher Cross, Cockney Rebel, Gregg Allman, Jeff Bridges, Joey Molland, John Mellencamp, Melanie, Natural Gas, Steve Harley, The B-52's

This Shark'll Swallow You Whole: New 'JAWS' Soundtrack Reissues Are Surfacing

June 18, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

JAWS 50 Mondo packshot

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 rising up from the depths 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 available digitally this Friday, June 20 through Universal Pictures' Back Lot Music and on a new 180-gram, 45 RPM 2LP vinyl pressing from Mondo (available on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

The Weekend Stream: June 14, 2025

June 14, 2025 By The Second Disc 6 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 we've got it all, from Bakersfield country to Billy Joel on Broadway; actors who sing and singer-songwriters who act in short films; Tony Joe White going disco and Josh Groban's hits going super-size. You'll find something to love - we guarantee it! Wynn Stewart, Songs of Wynn Stewart (Capitol Nashville) (Apple / Amazon) After

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, Chaka Khan, John C. Reilly, Josh Groban, Julian Velard, Kool and the Gang, Lykke Li, Queens of the Stone Age, Suki Waterhouse, The Beach Boys, The dB's, The Jonas Brothers, Tony Joe White, Walter Wanderley, Wynn Stewart

Release Round-Up: Week of June 13

June 13, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Version 1.0.0

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Grateful Dead, Gratest Hits (Grateful Dead/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino assembles a single-CD or single-LP, nine-song Gratest Hits [sic] from Grateful Dead, marking the band's 60th anniversary with the original studio versions of such classics as "Truckin'," "Sugar Magnolia," and "Touch of Grey."  Read

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alice Ripley, Grateful Dead, Metallica, Neil Sedaka, Neil Young, New Kids on the Block, Oasis, Queen, Tom Kitt, Ultravox, Van Morrison

In Memoriam: Brian Wilson (1942-2025)

June 11, 2025 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

Brian Wilson At My Piano Promo Shot

The passing of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson on June 11, 2025 - just two days after the loss of another singular titan of '60s pop/rock, Sly Stone - obviously hits Team Second Disc and all our treasured readers hard. Here's a brief tribute from Mike to a man who could hear (and create) music like no other. There are really two things I want to get out of the way in talking, briefly, about Brian Wilson. I could go on at length about his raw talent: the ways every person on earth who's ever had

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Categories: News Genre: Pop Tags: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

The Weekend Stream: June 7, 2025

June 7, 2025 By The Second Disc 4 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 posthumous recordings by Prince and Donna Summer, a new spin on Star Wars disco, and plenty of cast recordings leading into the Tony Awards this Sunday! And just a quick programming note: our Unplugged series is taking the week off, but will be back with some new and exciting Weekend Stream extra content very soon! Prince,

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Albert King, Belinda Carlisle, Bill Evans, Black Eyed Peas, David Foster, Donna Summer, Frances Faye, Merry Clayton, Nicholas Britell, Pretenders, Prince, Rufus Wainwright, Sheridan Smith, The Doors, The Living Strings, The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of June 6

June 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

WAR Why Can't We Be Friends

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Dusty Springfield, Longing (Real Gone Music) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone Music premieres a lost album from Dusty Springfield: 1974's Longing.  Produced by Brooks Arthur, the album features a number of singer-songwriter-oriented compositions including

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alden Shuman, Cynthia Erivo, Dusty Springfield, Eli Paperboy Reed, Joe Henderson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Megan Hilty, My Chemical Romance, Pulp, Rick James, Seth MacFarlane, Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, War, Woody Shaw

The Weekend Stream: May 31, 2025

May 31, 2025 By The Second Disc 6 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 solo appearances aplenty: Bono, Al Jardine, Grace Potter, John Fogerty, and more new/old music - plus a new subscription service from Crowded House, a Barry Manilow music video, and a tribute to one of the undisputed guitar gods of his generation. Bono, Stories of Surrender EP (Island/Interscope/UMe) (Apple / Amazon) In 2023,

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Air Supply, Al Jardine, Barry Manilow, Bonnie Tyler, Bono, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crowded House, Edgar Winter, Grace Potter, Hank Williams Jr, Jane Child, John Fogerty, Johnny Winter, Mariah Carey, Neil Finn, Nick Mason, Pavement, Pink Floyd, Rick Derringer, Shep Pettibone, Solange, Steely Dan, Teddy Riley, The Beach Boys, U2, UFO, Willie Nile

After the Glitter Fades: Stevie Nicks, Wilco Classics Added to Rhino's High Fidelity Vinyl Series

May 30, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Stevie Nicks Bella Donna

Rhino's High Fidelity series of audiophile vinyl titles continues today with two (relatively) modern classics.  Stevie Nicks' 1981 solo debut Bella Donna and Wilco's 1995 debut A.M. are the two albums in question, with both available now exclusively from Rhino.com and select international Warner Music Group online storefronts.  Both albums are housed in old-style "tip-on" jackets; they've been newly mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal.  They're limited and numbered to

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Don Henley, Jeff Tweedy, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Wilco

Release Round-Up: Week of May 30

May 30, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Grateful Dead The Music Never Stopped

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Grateful Dead, The Music Never Stopped (Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This live 3CD or 6LP compendium (also available digitally) from Grateful Dead to commemorate the band's 60th anniversary includes 27 tracks representing every one of the venues in the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Ferry, Gloria Estefan, Grateful Dead, Hue Park, Melanie, Rain Parade, Sufjan Stevens, They Might Be Giants, Vince Guaraldi, Will Aronson

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