It was a fine idea at the time/Now it's a brilliant mistake... Elvis Costello delivered a powerful surprise in 1986 when he shed his backing band, The Attractions, and teamed up with T Bone Burnett for King of America. Originally credited in the U.K. to The Costello Show (Featuring The Attractions and Confederates) and in the U.S. to The Costello Show (Featuring Elvis Costello), the album backtracked from the sleek '80s polish of its two immediate predecessors (Punch the Clock and Goodbye
The Weekend Stream: November 16, 2024
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. Iconic Seattle punk, a new Elton John single and fresh Duran Duran remixes kick things off - plus another round of esoteric Christmas cheer! The Gits, Frenching the Bully / Enter: The Conquering Chicken / Kings & Queens / Seafish Louisville (2024 Remasters) (Sub Pop) Frenching: iTunes / Amazon / Bandcamp Enter: iTunes / Amazon /
Release Round-Up: Week of November 15
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today...and, with the holidays approaching, it just might be the biggest release week of the year! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. George Harrison, Living in the Material World: 50th Anniversary (Dark Horse) 2CD/2LP/1BD/1-7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon
The Weekend Stream: November 9, 2024
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 remixes from Pet Shop Boys, old remixes from INXS, plus rare folk, jazz and alt-rock favorites - plus another bounty of unusual Christmas albums and EPs! Pet Shop Boys, New London boy / All the young dudes EPs (x2/Parlophone) Standard: iTunes / Amazon Remixes: iTunes / Amazon A new double A-side single from Pet Shop
Release Round-Up: Week of November 8
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. Whitney Houston, The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban) (Arista/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings, in collaboration with Whitney Houston's estate, will release the late artist's The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban). The CD and
The Weekend Stream: November 2, 2024
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 all the usual stuff you'd expect - reissues from Usher, rarities from The Alan Parsons Project, and another unique Daryl Hall-related EP - and some stuff you might not, like truly unusual Christmas collections and a new app from one of the best places for music in video games! Nintendo Music app One genre the Second Disc team has
Release Round-Up: Week of November 1
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Elvis Costello, King of America and Other Realms (UMe) 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 140-gram Black LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 140-gram Gold Nugget LP: Official Store / uDiscover Music / The Sound of Vinyl Elvis Costello is looking back on his tenth
The Weekend Stream: October 26, 2024
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're positively packed this Saturday: posthumous tracks from Van Halen, Luther Vandross and DMX; a great deluxe live set from Linda Ronstadt; plus some Halloween and Christmas surprises...and, to top it all off, a call to action to aid one of our favorite power-pop acts of the last 40 years. Edward & Alex Van Halen, "Unfinished (Between
Live at 55
4K UHD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Mercury Studios 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Mercury Studios 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Last November 17 and 18, Chicago celebrated the 55th anniversary of debut album Chicago Transit Authority at Atlantic City's Ovation Hall (within the massive Ocean Casino Resort) with two
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: 20th Anniversary Edition
5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Hello, hello: U2 are revisiting 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 - features five CDs or
Steve in a Box: The Warner Years (1977-1981)
4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Rhino.com Steve in a Box: The Warner Years (1977-1981) brings together all four of Steve Martin's original albums for Warner Bros. Records, which became some of the best-selling comedy albums of all time, as a 4CD set available everywhere and a 4LP set available exclusively at Rhino's web store. Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff writes liner notes for both sets. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Hear My Song: The Collection 1966-1995
Over three years after the release of its 8LP vinyl box set American Dreamer 1967-1978, the Madfish label is returning to the discography of late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro for the 19CD box set Hear My Song: The Collection 1966-1995. This collection includes every one of Nyro's original studio albums, six live albums (two of which are previously unreleased), and a disc of (previously issued) bonus tracks. All albums have been remastered especially for this collection, and all discs (housed in
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Sings Christmas Carols: Expanded Edition
Over the past decade, we here at TSD have happily partnered with Real Gone Music on an array of Christmas releases from such evergreen artists as Johnny Mathis, The Supremes, Chet Atkins, Connie Smith, and Robert Goulet. But our newest yuletide title is from our biggest ever group - bigger than Mitch Miller and His Gang or Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra! Now, we're proud to reissue the very first Christmas album from a group numbering 360 members: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Christmas Once More
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (Gold Vinyl) Curated and remixed by Richard Carpenter, Christmas Once More presents highlights from both of Carpenters' original Christmas albums as well as "Merry Christmas Darling" from the duo's 2018 album Carpenters with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It offers both secular favorites ("Sleigh Ride," "The First Snowfall/Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," "(There's No
The Weekend Stream: October 19, 2024
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
The Weekend Stream: October 12, 2024
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
Release Round-Up: Week of October 11
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. Duran Duran, Danse Macabre: De Luxe (Tapemodern/BMG) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP Box Set: Official Store Duran Duran has reissued their 2023 album on CD and digitally with three new recordings: an original instrumental, "Masque of the Pink Death," that now opens the album; a cover of Electric Light
The Weekend Stream: October 5, 2024
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,
Release Round-Up: Week of October 4
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. Joni Mitchell, Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) (Rhino) 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) features six CDs (also available as a "highlights" set on four LPs) chronicling the Canadian icon's trek
Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision
3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Among his final and most enduring acts as a musician, Jimi Hendrix purchased a Greenwich Village nightclub with the intention of transforming it into a recording studio. A new documentary tells that story of its creation, and the accompanying box set highlights an unreleased trove of recordings from his few but pivotal sessions there. Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision,
The Weekend Stream: September 28, 2024
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
Release Round-Up: Week of September 27
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Chicago, Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) (Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and
The Singles: The First 50 Years
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada ABBA's The Singles (The First Fifty Years) updates the concept of 1982's The Singles (The First Ten Years), a double album which collected 23 of the group's A-sides (including new tracks "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack," effectively the final works from the group after members Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad as well as Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog divorced. The First Fifty
Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings
Let the sideshow begin! SoulMusic Records and TSD are proud to unveil a new 6-CD box set dedicated to the sweet 'n funky soul stylings of Philly quintet Blue Magic ("Sideshow," "Three Ring Circus," "Welcome to the Club," "What's Come Over Me"). Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings brings together expanded editions of the group's five albums for the labels plus all of their released live performances at the Latin Casino with Margie Joseph and Major Harris: Blue Magic (1974) plus
Queen I: Collectors Edition
6CD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (CDs 1 and 3 of box set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP (Album Remix Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Queen are going 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
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